Interesting '83 Olds Custom Cruiser on E-bay..

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  1. Krash Kadillak

    Krash Kadillak Well-Known Member

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    Krash Kadillak, Jul 5, 2010
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    ISH! Thats nasty, from the color, to the wheels and stance, it just reeks of FUGLY! That red does not go with that interior at all.
     
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    Krash Kadillak Well-Known Member

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    Yeah...was being nice when I said "interesting".
     
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    Oh Yeah, that interiour is stunning, I like the brown. BUT, the rest os if was'nt done with taste IMO...re-sale red, bling bling wheels...makes me wonder just how well the slam was done.
     
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    The interior is AWESOME! but the rest is BLAH!
     
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    Well, some people should not be allowed to touch a car. Who would even pay to make something look like that? The only reason the interior is so nice is because it was not touched. I will give them a micro-amount of credit though because they did not cut up the dash to mount the stereo.
     
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  7. Krash Kadillak

    Krash Kadillak Well-Known Member

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    Had that brown cloth in a '83 Pontiac 6000 company car once. Loved the upholstery.
     
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    I have no idea what those wheels/tires might be worth, I've never been interested in that look. BUT if you could trade them for four steel wheels with economy rubber and a repaint... I think maybe you've still done pretty well.

    Plus, you'll be rescuing the car from the future molestations by the sort of prospective buyer who thinks this looks GOOD.

    Shame about the roof rack, though.
     
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    The wheels are not cheap when new, thats for sure. My truck had "bling blings" on it when I bout it, they were nearly new and the seller did'nt bother to keep the stock rims. It took me a month+ to find stock rims that would fit over the front drm brakes and almost half a year to sell the bling blings, I basicly gave them away just to get rid of them:rofl2:
     
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    I'm not as disgusted as some of you guys are. I've always been a fan of bright RED. Although, I would like it a little higher. :floor_jack:

    An interesting note is that GM didn't offer that red on passenger cars in 83. They had a much more subdued red, kinda like a copper/pinkish/rust. :huh:
     
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    This one is definitely not my taste. I'm sure the owner loves it and is proud as can be of it, but I wouldn't be caught dead in it. A head turner, I'll grant you that, but imo, for all the wrong reasons.
     
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    I will console myself with the though tthat this car has probably consumed a majority of the owners free money, and the rest of the cars in the world are safe from his/her butchering hands.
     
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    Funny reminds me of my car just brighter. I will say that car is on it's bumpstops. My car was almost as low and was on them.
     
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    LOL......:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:

    Let's hope.......

    I prefer this type of 'personalization' to the typical 18 yr-old male's method of "Let's use every custom cliche' known to man and pop-rivet on to my car!!!!" approach
     
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    Customized to the extent that AutoZone allows is the term I use for those cars.

    In my opinion the GM box wagons from the 80's are difficult to make look good (when customized) and this guy clearly missed the mark.
     
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