I had a '77 in high school. Loved the way it floated.

yup. in the immortal words of some guy whose '67 Galaxie coupe was featured here on Jalopnik, "B-pillars are for suckers."

"How you gonna get us outta this, Billy Badass?"

"Man, Kip, you gonna use a brick, we might as well call prison and make reservations..."

I had my '65 Impala repainted in the original Artesian Turquoise, which is pretty close to what I guess your Falcon looked like originally. Makes me giggle that in '65, Chevrolet also had a Tahitian Turquoise, which was kind of a medium-dark teal.

Google Chrysler Norseman.

And by "selecting," I'm sure you mean, er, "selecting." Wink wink nudge nudge.

Anybody besides me remember the Phaedra Palomino? That's the first thing I thought when I saw this car...

Jeez, where do I start? Kenner's U-Drive It... Tomy's Digital Derby... the Fat Wheels radio control Jeep (with inflatable tires!) and then later the Tamiya Rough-Rider based F-150... countless Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Playart, Tomica, and other diecast... AMT, MPC, Revell, Monogram models that met untimely deaths by…

Ditto. Got it on DVD down in the man cave/hobby dungeon/slot car room/basement. Definitely time to fire it up again...

I gotta be totally honest... I'm pretty sure I read that in a car magazine when I was a kid. Think it was in reference to a huge old Mercedes from the '30s. Hell if it didn't fit that Cougar, though...

I absolutely LOVE this era of Thunderbird, Cougar, Mark V, Elite, LTD II, whatever. I know they're sinfully ugly. I don't care. I had a '77 Cougar in high school that earned me the nickname "Guido." The dog-tired 302 was molasses-slow, the brakes were useless, the thing wallowed and bounced over the slightest dip…

w00t! Made the list! Here's a pic of the Impala I used the lighter trick in.

It was a '65... those were the days before electronic ignition. Dunno if it'd work on a post-'74 HEI car, but I suppose there's lots of more sophisticated ways you could achieve the same thing by hiding circuitry behind the lighter...

For a while, I had an interesting hidden kill switch on my old Impala...

Tangentially related: if you have any kind of feelings for Detroit and you like reading fiction, pick up any title from the Amos Walker Detective series or the Detroit Crime series by author Loren D. Estleman. The guy was a writer for the Freep (I think) before becoming a novelist, and the way he brings the city to…

For some reason, the pic of the Lexus made me flash on this. (Yes, I flipped the picture so they'd be facing the same direction.) Funny, there's not even much similarity except the color and the angle of the C-pillar. Ford Cougar II, 1964 concept car, for anyone not familiar...

I've seen a few of the new Caprices recently in Maryland State Police livery... and as a side note, at Carlisle GM Nationals a few weeks ago, I saw two unmarked ones that had apparently fallen into the hands of civilians. One had even been blinged out with Cadillac wheels and a couple of odd emblems (Holden, maybe?).

American Beauty reference FTW. Lester Burnham is my hero.

OH MY GOD. Not one, but TWO 1965 Impala 2-door hardtops with the 396 engine... one with 10 miles on it and one with 12. I am crying on my keyboard.