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AnalogRocks Forum Moderator
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Link Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject: A Cadillac of a TV |
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Sometimes you just don't have a truck handy...
Here's what I did today:
61" Toshiba CRT RPTV in a 1987 Cadillac
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dturco
Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 3779 Location: Eastern Shore Maryland
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Link Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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So what do you call a Canadian Redneck again?
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-Pjackso
Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 791 Location: Oklahoma
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Link Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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For other creative "should-of-had-a-truck" moments, check out this website:
http://safetycenter.navy.mil/PHOTO/index.asp
BTW, I submitted #374!
(It's not my car)
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AnalogRocks Forum Moderator
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Link Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:34 am Post subject: |
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No picture's but we did a second run today in the same car. This time it was an RCA 53" RPTV, a Panasonic 13" CRT TV and a 17" IBM CRT monitor.
The TV in the first picture is a 61" ! very red neck. Then again the guy that owns the car IS a red neck.
By the way, they both work! So does the 13" Panasonic. I haven't tested the CRT monitor yet.
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Sparky015
Joined: 12 May 2009 Posts: 1185 Location: Cleveland / Akron, OH
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Link Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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That link is classic. I spent my whole lunch clicking through the photos and laughing with our saftey director here at work.
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perisoft
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Link Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:58 am Post subject: |
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Good lord - it must be terrible to try to get that heavy, awkward, out-of-date oversized relic around a corner!
...The TV's probably tough to move too.
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AnalogRocks Forum Moderator
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Link Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:20 am Post subject: |
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perisoft wrote: | Good lord - it must be terrible to try to get that heavy, awkward, out-of-date oversized relic around a corner!
...The TV's probably tough to move too. |
Actually that car has the heavy duty suspension package with the big sway bars. I was doing on rams at 65mph. It's a typical underpowered boat of a car. Plus the guy that owns it never take it out for a "drive" to blow the stuff out of it. I got all the kick down linkage working and it goes better now.
It's a fun car to drive. 8 foot of hood in front of ya, 8 foot of hood behind ya and when you get going real fast stuff starts to fall off like Honda's, Toyota's, Nissan's and SAAB's
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WanMan
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Link Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:29 am Post subject: |
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I like that Caddy. But, unlike the 1969-17 versions, I bet that one had only a baby motor in it.
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Link Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:32 am Post subject: |
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WanMan wrote: | I like that Caddy. But, unlike the 1969-17 versions, I bet that one had only a baby motor in it. |
Teeny tiny 307 Oldsmobile with a 4bbl carb
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cmjohnson
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Link Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:56 am Post subject: |
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I like the car. I had a '78 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham and I kept it up. For a long time it was the nicest condition car of its type in the area. Sometimes I still miss it, until I remember current gas prices.
Your '87 is pretty much the same chassis with a few sheet metal changes. And the '78 had a 425 CID Cadillac motor in it, not a Chevy
350, and frankly I prefer the 425. SMOOTH POWER.
Those Cadillacs do have issues with the reliability of their electronics (Basically, they're not reliable after they get to be 10 years old)
but it's one car that will always get you home and you are in the best possible place to be if you must get into a wreck. You are well
protected but Dog help the guy who runs into that freight train!
Actually, the bumper shock absorption systems are designed exactly like the bumper systems on freight trains. Very stout shock
absorber systems are welded right into the ends of the very heavy gauge massive box tubing frame.
I'm not opposed to buying another Caddy of that kind. But it'd have to be a very nice example and I'd need to have a garage to store it in. Which I don't, not at this time.
It would be a weekend pleasure car, not a daily driver.
Though I disapprove of destroying Caddys, I will say that a Cadillac like that is a surefire winner in a demolition derby, that is, once
you move the battery into the trunk. There's no tougher car to kill. That frame is massive and massively strong.
CJ
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Curt Palme CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 24301 Location: Langley, BC
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Link Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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dturco wrote: | So what do you call a Canadian Redneck again? |
I call him a pimp mack daddy, eh?
You should call him : 'sir'
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cmjohnson
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Link Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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A stock Cadillac like that doesn't warrant any such "pimp" or "mack daddy" comments. You have to move the car well away from a stock appearance before you can use those terms.
I personally find that type of Cadillac to be a very elegant and dignified looking car, when it's in good condition and in factory trim.
CJ
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