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Old Jan 28, 2006 | 09:58 AM
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Old Jan 28, 2006 | 10:01 AM
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LOL robocop...isnt that a thunderbird?
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Old Jan 28, 2006 | 01:24 PM
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What is that??
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Old Jan 28, 2006 | 02:14 PM
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I think it was built off of a '76 Oldsmobile Cutlass sedan. Funny that when "Robocop" was released, sister division Pontiac had introduced the "6000". The marketing people at Pontiac were probably not amused . . .
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Old Jan 28, 2006 | 11:58 PM
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I'd buy that for a dollar!!!
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Old Jan 29, 2006 | 12:45 AM
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I love the whopping 8.2 MPG!! Was that highway only??
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Old Jan 29, 2006 | 02:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Richie
What is that??
Hard to tell from that fuzzy picture.

From the headlights, grille, roof, and doors, it looks like it was built off of an early-mid-80's vintage Dodge 400 / 600, Chrysler Lebaron / E-Class, or Plymouth Caravelle chassis. ( They were corporate triplets).

If not that, then the early-mid-80's vintage Pontiac 6000 or 6000 STE.
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Old Jan 29, 2006 | 02:11 PM
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I remember Robocop,great ultra violent sci fi movie. The car was supposed to be some utra luxury powerful car that everyone wanted in the future in the movie Robocop and it was highly modified for the movie. It is funny because in the scene where Clarence gets one and his gang are shooting up the city with those cannons when he shuts the door of the car you can see the interior mirror fall off. The movie was kind of a satire on American coorporate greed and big business so that is why you saw the comercial for the car that got such poor gas in the television commerical. I thought those black Taurus cop cars with the raming bars were pretty cool too at the time.
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Old Jan 29, 2006 | 02:49 PM
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Hey looky, it's "sux"!
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