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Make it stop: Bad landau tops
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Silly landau tops - Click above image for high-res image gallery
Landau tops. Frankly, some are fine. Show us, say, a mid-to-late '70s Olds Cutlass or Lincoln Town Coupe gussied up accordingly from the factory, and we're liable to nod in approval and make one of those, "Ehh, not bad at all!" facial expressions in appreciation of the old barge. That said, most modern landau roof applications are dealer-installed, and commensurately disastrous and stupid.
My friend Scott had been telling me about two particularly egregious examples he regularly sees in his Brooklyn neighborhood. "Show me," I told him. So he remembered to tote his camera with him this week and sent me these. The Buick LeSabre isn't all that surprising, gauche though it may be. But the Ford Escort? Yeah, that's a good one. Gotta love those opera lights and the fading "Ghia" lettering, too. Will anything ever stop these people?
Your turn: What's the most terrible landau top application you've personally witnessed? We know you have stories. Share.
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Re: Make it stop: Bad landau tops
This is the worst one I have ever seen... because it's on MY car.
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Re: Make it stop: Bad landau tops
My Riv is worse. I put a window in mine after I bought because the original was broken out.
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Re: Make it stop: Bad landau tops
Pics, or it didn't happen.
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95 DCM Buick RMS 13.52 at 99.12 Buffman's car, Cracked Piston at 180k
RAISS, Tri-Y's, Pypes X pipe, Spintech Prostreets, 3000 Edge, 3.73's, Eaton Posi, and the rest of the Bolt-ons. Fried #7 Ring. *1/4 mile time was Buffmans best*
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Re: Make it stop: Bad landau tops
I've seen a few trucks with them tops on them, ghetto.
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Re: Make it stop: Bad landau tops
Can we beg for a stop to ugly @$$ wheel covers too?
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Re: Make it stop: Bad landau tops
How about a "Stop the lime green engine parts".... 
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95 DCM Buick RMS 13.52 at 99.12 Buffman's car, Cracked Piston at 180k
RAISS, Tri-Y's, Pypes X pipe, Spintech Prostreets, 3000 Edge, 3.73's, Eaton Posi, and the rest of the Bolt-ons. Fried #7 Ring. *1/4 mile time was Buffmans best*
And 7 other LT1 B-body's... Is there Rehab for this Sh*t?
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Re: Make it stop: Bad landau tops
Landau top on a escort...FAIL!!!
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Re: Make it stop: Bad landau tops
hey thats my escort.......naw that is just plain wrong
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