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Originally Posted by Bimmer32' post='482961' date='Oct 17 2007, 09:51 PM
My first car and first V8 was an Oldsmobile Delta 88. Just loved the way that thing drink gasoline. 
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Originally Posted by Roleez' post='482972' date='Oct 17 2007, 10:49 PM
No way!!! I first learned to drive in a '72 Delta 88 sedan! "Rocket 350" V8 ... 160 hp; 325 lb-ft; weak at the top end, but sure can spin those rear tires! And don't you just love how you can steer with one finger?
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Originally Posted by Roleez' post='482972' date='Oct 18 2007, 12:49 AM
No way!!! I first learned to drive in a '72 Delta 88 sedan! "Rocket 350" V8 ... 160 hp; 325 lb-ft; weak at the top end, but sure can spin those rear tires! And don't you just love how you can steer with one finger?
Man, I had a 81' or was it a 78'; I learned how to parallel park in it
, haul ass, but you're right, top speed was a drag. My tires would spin easily probably because it was worn out. Back then, I wasn't into the technical numbers of engine power; I just knew that a tank of gas (18+ gals or so), only gave me barely 200 miles 
and that was all highway driving too. I still see some on the streets. It like first love . . . been there, done that, don't want to do it again.
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The closest I ever got to a religious experience, with my clothes on, was driving a Ferrari F355. That car?s V8 was a rumbling mechanical symphony at idle, and with a mash to the go pedal resulted in a thunderous cascading crescendo of harmonically wonderful, screaming engine notes. It was a tragedy that the wife had selective tone deafness to the great composer Enzo, and Ferrari does not provide marriage counseling with every vehicle. 
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If you can afford an E60 the price of fuel probably isn't much of a factor. So get the 8, feel the torque, Ride thoses horses and see how far into the seat you can go!!! 
Having said that it could stand to be a liitle louder.
Having said that it could stand to be a liitle louder.
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Originally Posted by Roleez' post='482972' date='Oct 17 2007, 10:49 PM
No way!!! I first learned to drive in a '72 Delta 88 sedan! "Rocket 350" V8 ... 160 hp; 325 lb-ft; weak at the top end, but sure can spin those rear tires! And don't you just love how you can steer with one finger?
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Originally Posted by alpinewhite' post='483725' date='Oct 20 2007, 05:31 AM
you could always put the eisenmann m5 race quads on to make it louder! will sound like a v10