Topic: A Ride For The Ladies I Like (Read 147 times)

Necrophiliac · « **on:** June 19, 2005, 09:21:00 PM »

This is the vehicle I drive to work in every day. It's a 1973 Cadillaic Miller Meteor Hearse. It's as solid as a tank. I bought it with 24,000 original miles on it. Anybody else here with older cars? Anybody else do restorations?

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Hercules Q Einstein · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2005, 09:57:00 AM »

I was going to buy one of these for the fun of owning it awhile back, but i drove it and found out the gas milage was maybe 0 city 1 highway.

Northcarolina ReDn3k · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2005, 10:17:00 AM »

dont you feel creepy riding in that thing, damn dead people were in it.

kevinlekiller · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2005, 11:15:00 AM »

I saw the pitcure of the car and I was like : Wow thats freaky. Then I saw the pitcure in the signature and I was like. WTF!

Necrophiliac · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2005, 11:24:00 AM »

QUOTE(Northcarolina ReDn3k @ Jun 21 2005, 12:28 PM)

dont you feel creepy riding in that thing, damn dead people were in it.

Rylinkus · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2005, 06:05:00 PM »

My buds dad used to run a funeral home. In HS we'd go on body pickups sometimes. Generally we took the van not the Hearse. It was more for show @ funerals then transport. I don't really care for them myself as Im more into perfomance which that doesnt really have. But I know people who have them and like them. Ive heard that they are hard to acquire as most funeral homes scrap them rather then sell them and let the public drive them. The Hearse that my buds dad DID have, we drove a few times. It was a HORRIBLE ride. Just abusive over bumps. They got a newer one now. Ive yet to ride in it.

ubernewb · « **Reply #6 on:** June 22, 2005, 01:37:00 AM »

lol.. i just sold my caddy not too long ago.. not a hearse, but it was the same year. 73 cadillac coupe de ville.. that thing was a tank. totally humiliated all the little ricers in town as well when i'd light up the tires at the stoplight next to them. 472ci pwns them all

and mileage wasn't horrible either.. i got about 13mpg when i wasn't getting retarded on the gas pedal.

Necrophiliac · « **Reply #7 on:** June 22, 2005, 08:10:00 AM »

QUOTE(Rylinkus @ Jun 21 2005, 08:16 PM)

The Hearse that my buds dad DID have, we drove a few times. It was a HORRIBLE ride. Just abusive over bumps. They got a newer one now. Ive yet to ride in it.

iLLNESS · « **Reply #8 on:** June 24, 2005, 02:13:00 AM »

heh 13mpg and u owned ricers

if u even did own them.. in the end they owned you

a 2litre engine, more then half the size of your 472ci engine can drop as much power to the wheels and burn half as much gas

you were proly racing some really twisted ricers.... people with body kits and shit...

race someone whos dropped shit into the engine

Hercules Q Einstein · « **Reply #9 on:** June 24, 2005, 09:31:00 AM »

QUOTE(Necrophiliac @ Jun 21 2005, 07:35 PM)

I cant think of anything safer to drive than a 3 ton 23 foot beheamoth made entirely of metal and not some crappy plastic.

thewickedjester · « **Reply #10 on:** June 24, 2005, 01:07:00 PM »

QUOTE(Hercules Q Einstein @ Jun 24 2005, 11:42 AM)

Why do you think they make cars like they do? Crash test havent gotten more relaxed since 73'. Hell did they even have safety regulations in 73?

jesterrace777 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 24, 2005, 01:31:00 PM »

QUOTE(Necrophiliac @ Jun 22 2005, 04:21 PM)

Generally hearses, especially Cadillacs, have really good suspension systems. The last thing you want is for a 1,000 lb casket bouncing around with a corpse inside. I get as smooth a ride from my '73 caddi hearse as when I ride in my girlfriends '93 Sedan deville.

Necrophiliac · « **Reply #12 on:** June 24, 2005, 02:06:00 PM »

QUOTE(jesterrace777 @ Jun 24 2005, 03:42 PM)

I think you are taking your I-net userid way too seriously? Sorry to ask this but is your girlfriend dead or alive?

Hercules Q Einstein · « **Reply #13 on:** June 24, 2005, 05:40:00 PM »

QUOTE(thewickedjester @ Jun 24 2005, 09:18 PM)

Yes they did, around the '60's there was a large 'assault' on the car companies to make safer cars, i dont remember exactly but i think it was Ralph Nader led it. Back in the '50s and before, they didnt have seat belts, because people thought that a car that needed seat belts must be so unsafe that in a crash you would need them, where-as in other cars you dont. And yes, the 3 ton behemoth would absorb most of the impact and is quite better than the plastic peices of shit you see today. Why? Because the 3 ton behemoth costs probably a lot of money, while a peice of plastic is usually under/around 10 grand. See the difference? They dont make them like that because they are so much safer, they do it because its cost effective, then they work in safety.

Rylinkus · « **Reply #14 on:** June 25, 2005, 08:14:00 AM »

The safest carsin the world are the ones with solid steel construction. Read Volvos and Mercedes. My moms 84 Mercedes 300 SDL got rear ended by a conversion van doing something like 30mph (Guess). The van was totalled. And I do mean TOTALLED. The Mercedes had some damage to the rear bumper. Got totalled out, but they bought it back and still drive it today. It took only cosmetic damages.

The DRIVER of the Van broke his ankle, a rib, and had a few bruises. My mom and 2 sisters in the car got minor whiplash. In another car (Such as their former pastic built Taurus)< I'm sure it would have been far worse. I've seen Volvos absorb the same types of blows with similar results. I'd put an old Caddi Hearse up against most modern cars. The size alone makes it formidable.

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