sweet i like it

thanks but i have a lot more left to do to it i have just started.
-Alex

Ooh it's a former police car? Nice!

yeah its an old cop car but i love it. it's fast

Ooo is that an Impala? I loved my '60 Impala.

I love that slab o' iron look that came with the few full-size sedans produced in the nineties.

its actually not an impala, its a caprice but they are the same thing really. i bought this car because it tough and i want to do some drag racing with it.
-alex

Very tough. At the time that and the Ford Crown Victoria were the only RWD body-on-frame cars in the country. Now Chrysler's gone crazy with the body-on-frame models, which is nifty 'cause now you see them being used as police cruisers.

well i am a big Chevy guy so i don't really like ford. but i think that if Chevy wouldn't had stopped making the caprice cop car the crown vic wouldn't be as popular as it is now.
-alex

G.M. man, eh? I'm a big Volvo guy if anyone has to pick sides. Say, why is all the automotive fussing over G.M. and Ford? None of the other manufactuers get into the mix. No one has a bumper sticker of Calvin peeing on the British Leyland logo.

i don't really know but now i think Toyota had been throw into this fight now.
-alex

What with those enormous pickup trucks they're making now. People seem shocked I used to drive a sedan that was nineteen feet long, but then they hop in a pickup truck the size of a yacht and act like that's normal.

well the huge truck thing this year was started by Toyota when the came out with their huge truck and then every other car company tried to do the same thing. yeah people have said that my car is to big, but i like it i can throw all my friends and stuff in my car and go do something
-alex

It's a double standard. My Impala was just a big ol' gas guzzler but everyone signed off on S.U.V.s. Sides, I had the "Hi-Thrift" straight-six model, it got 28 miles per gallon.

I once squeezed eight people in that Impala.

well y car has the huge V-8 which i use because i race it and don't use it to hall kinds to soccer practice like a soccer mom. i have fit 6 in my car which is how many seat belts it has. i can't do any t6hing illegal or i will get my temps taken away.
-alex

Wait, what'd you say about my straight-six?

i didn't say anything about your 6 cylinder its a great engine
-alex

Sorry, I realize now you were ragging on those who have V8s and don't use them for anything.

Anyway, I'm done with big cars for now. I like them, but a year ago I bought a 1958 Volvo Amazon, which is a good four feet shorter than your car, and I haven't looked back. It's got a 140 sixteen-valve straight-four pulled from a 1985 Volvo 142, which gets 150 horsepower and 45 miles per gallon in the city and nearly 60 on the highway.

I can still squeeze six people in there but it's a tight fit in the front.

And I've been thinking about a 1960 Studebaker Lark as a second car, there's one for sale at the gas station. That one has a V8.

well smaller cars to get great gas milage my car get 26 miles per gallon on the highway which isn't ban but i only get about 18 in the city. my car had 275 horse for now. if you want to buy another car and you can afford it i say go for it.
-alex

26 miles per gallon ain't bad for 275 horsepower. You know, I've been wondering. Is it just me or have we made like no advancements in gas mileage in the last fifty or sixty years? I mean, my 1960 Impala got just about the same mileage as your 1995 Caprice. I was getting 28 highway and 25 city, it probably got got more when it was in better condition. Not a lot of improvement for 45 years. Hell, even econoboxes never showed much improvement. The Porsche VDK got 75 miles per gallon in 1939, appreciably that's with a 70 horsepower engine, but still. My friend Mama Chroma has a 1939 Ford Deluxe eight-passenger sedan, thing's bigger than a modern Lincoln Navigator and it gets 22 miles per gallon highway. And that's with a flathead. And Mama Chroma weighs a ton.

yeah i now what you mean and i really don't now how much more mpg we can get out of a gas engine, have you seen the hydrogen power cars i think that is going to be the next big thing and of course there are hybrid cars but they just are not as user friendly. but i think it will take a while to get people to drive hybrid 4 cylinders but i don't know.
-alex

Frankly, I want an electric car. Me uncle used to do electric conversions, his masterpiece was a 1961 Lincoln Continental in which he installed two pairs of 40 horsepower electric engines, which was 160 horsepower altogether. Its top speed was 90 miles per hour, it could go 200 miles before it needed a recharge, and the battery wouldn't need to be replaced for three years. No transmission required, no clutch necessary, four wheel drive with no differentials, started instantly, and it didn't vibrate.

Unfortunately, the efficiency of an electric car depends on where you charge it. Here the electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, but some places still burn coal.

yeah i think the main problem with electirc cars is the battery range and battery life.
-alex

Something we really should have been working on for the last hundred years. Did you know Studebaker started out making electric cars in the nineteen-teens?

yeah i have see a few of those cars in a museum before

The only reason they didn't catch on is viturally no one had electricity in the nineteen-aughts. This is another case in which I wonder why we haven't improved on things. Batteries don't last any longer now than they did seventy years ago. The electric motor has become ten times as efficient in that time.

Here's a random piece of sales literature.
http://www.tocmp.com/pix/D/images/1.....itElectric.jpg

But for the time being I have my Volvo. Say, I wonder how far I'd get in a race with you. I've got half the horsepower you do but my car's also half the weight. I've never drag raced before, though.

i know what you mean about how batteries haven't improved any. i use to build robots and stuff like that and finding a good enough battery was always the problem.

well i now that your car would get me of the line but i think it would be really close. today i gained 8 more horse power in my car so its getting faster. i don't know how you have never dragged raced before i have never done drag race at like a drag strip but i have done it on the street and i am hooked.
-alex

I don't think there's much of street racing scene around here, in fact I've seen neither hide nor hair of one. My car ain't built for it, anyway. Even if it's got the speed for it if I made a habit of drag racing it'd fall apart. I think it'd take a bit of work to turn a half-century-old Swedish car with a quarter-century-old Swedish engine into a real street machine.

well the whole street racing scene is not vary big were i live either. i don't think that i would take much to get your car ready to race just some time and about 2000 dollars