Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron

2005-09-12 Thread John M McIntosh
Ya, we owned caddies from the mid 50 onwards, mind the last one, which I inherited btw, was an 85, the "gutless wonder" we named it, amazing an engine so big could produce so little HP. The last straw was when the rear bumper fell off in traffic one afternoon. Seems the mounts were aluminum

Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron

2005-09-12 Thread JabbaHursty
no doubt. the new jaguar At 12:48 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote: People are going to be saying that very same thing about M-B, DC in a few years... Rick Knoble 1985 300 CD - Original Message - From: JabbaHursty it is amazing to me how the world's biggest corporati

Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron

2005-09-12 Thread Rick Knoble
People are going to be saying that very same thing about M-B, DC in a few years... Rick Knoble 1985 300 CD - Original Message - From: JabbaHursty it is amazing to me how the world's biggest corporation that had every imaginable resource could have done this to itself. GM's mark

Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron

2005-09-12 Thread JabbaHursty
not sure about ross, but it is obviously just a dressed up cavalier. to some large extent, the original seville was basically a dressed up Nova, but this was ridiculous At 10:40 AM 9/12/2005, you wrote: > someone claiming to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i knew this guy back in new york who

Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron

2005-09-12 Thread Steve MacSween
Simple human folly on a grand scale to match GM's size: give the people crap for decades and you think you can get away with giving them more and more... until you finally push it past the limit of all logic. Look at them now: sellling Suzukis and Daewoos as Chevrolets (some may say: FINALLY), whi

Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron

2005-09-12 Thread Steve MacSween
> someone claiming to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i knew this guy back in new york who was old school and used to get a new > cadillac every 2 years. he was so proud and would show everyone within > earshot his new cadillac. He was a nice fella and we all went "ooh and ah" > with every new c

Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron

2005-09-12 Thread JabbaHursty
it is amazing to me how the world's biggest corporation that had every imaginable resource could have done this to itself. I was just a kid in the 70s, but it seems it was the age where the nation went mad. GM's market share is still eroding. At 09:50 AM 9/12/2005, you wrote: content-class:

Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron

2005-09-12 Thread JabbaHursty
ed for the junkyard long before European or Japanese models. Mike - Original Message - From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Donald Snook To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 9:50 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron Kev

Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Canfield
- From: Donald Snook To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 9:50 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron Kevin wrote: The later sunbirds along with the Simmeron and Cavalier were FWD, and those in the late 70's were rwd models. I know that the

Re: [MBZ] Iron Duke -- Cadillac Cimarron

2005-09-12 Thread Donald Snook
Kevin wrote: The later sunbirds along with the Simmeron and Cavalier were FWD, and those in the late 70's were rwd models. I know that they put v6's in the early Sunbirds, Monzas and Skyhawks, but I don't know what 4 cyl engine was available. Kevin The Cadillac Cimarron debuted