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Variety is the spice of life. What better way to spice up your life than a trip to the Sin city Las Vegas? And to make it even more spicy and scintillating, why not drive there in style in an exotic luxury car? Oh, you do not have to buy one to ride one!

You can make your choice from a wide array of the world's most exotic cars and rent the car of your dreams from one of the classic car rental companies in Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas has some of the hottest luxury and exotic car rental services available with up-to-date, new, exotic and luxury cars. Choose from Ferrari, Land Rover, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Corvette, Lamborghini and many more.

If you are a BMW fan, get in on the action and rent a BMW from one of the classic car rental companies in Las Vegas and drive around to make a great impression on everyone! Read ahead to learn a little about the history of BMW to make it even more fascinating.

Established on March 7, 1916, BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH) is now one of the major automobile manufacturers

in the International market. The company is a world wide manufacturer of high performance premium automobiles and motorcycles. It is the parent company of both the MINI and Rolls-Royce car brands.

After World War I, BMW (and Germany) were forced to cease aircraft (engine) production. The company later shifted to motorcycle production in 1923 once the restrictions of the treaty were lifted, followed by automobiles in 1928.

The circular blue and white BMW logo or roundel is often alleged to portray the movement of an airplane propeller, an interpretation that BMW adopted for convenience in 1929, which was actually twelve years after the roundel was created. In fact, the emblem evolved from the circular Rapp Motorenwerke company logo, from which the BMW company grew. The Rapp logo was combined with the blue and white colors of the flag of Bavaria to produce the familiar BMW roundel of today.

I am sure you cannot wait to drive a BMW now. So how about renting one of these BMW classics from a large selection of upscale, exotic vehicles available with the car rental companies for your pleasure? Anything and everything is possible in the dream city Las Vegas. Make your trip to the hottest city in the world in a hot car!

Las Vegas Exotic Car Rentals - From 1928 to 2008 we have the LARGEST selection of Exotic, Classic and Luxury Rental Cars on the Strip! From Auburns to Packards, Voyager Classics Car Rentals has the largest selection of classics available for rent anywhere in Las Vegas.

What Happened to the Black Panther?

In 1954, Ford Motor Company introduced the Mustang, which had been designed to compete with the Chevrolet Corvair and Chevy II. The Mustang was a phenomenal success and immediately prompted GM to begin work on a counter competitor. The result was Project XP-836. The XP-836 was targeted to the new youth market that had taken to the Mustang.

Named the Panther, this project was released to the automotive press and promoted as GM's Mustang equivalent. In fact, it was often called Chevy's Mustang and GM had adopted much of the marketing formula used to promote the Mustang.

The Panther script was accompanied by leaping cat emblems that resembled those used by Jaguar. At this time, the image of the XP-836 was the jungle cat overtaking the Mustang.

But in early 1966, Ralph Nader launched an attack on the Corvair. This worried GM management and they were afraid that the Panther name together with the emblems would suggest aggression and attract the attention of the safety crusaders.

Consequently, the marketing department began to search for a new name. Currently all models such as the Corvair, Chevelle, Corvette, and Chevy II started with the letter C. Searching for another C name, the marketers perused both French and Spanish dictionaries. The result was the Camaro which means warm friend.

This would continue the C line and change the image of the new car. As the new name replaced the various project names inside the company, outside the company some controversy had started concerning the meaning of the Camaro name.

Frightened of an image problem before the new car had come off the assembly line, GM staged a national press conference to which over 200 journalists were invited. During the conference, GM released the name to the public and was successful in maintaining a positive image for the car.

Then, in 1967 Chevrolet delivered 212,000 Camaros to dealer showrooms. Like the Mustang, the Camaro was available with a variety of options allowing buyers to customize their purchases. The Camaro attracted some buyers who wanted high performance options. Canadians in Toronto were perhaps the most fortunate of this group. The Gorries Chevrolet/Oldsmobile dealership in Toronto put their race knowledge to use and practically rebuilt some of the Camaros into Black Panthers.

Gorries added heavy-duty front coils, rear leaf stiffeners, tubular shocks, front disc brakes together with power assist brakes, and steering. They also equipped the Camaros with 500 magnum wheels and low profile Uniroyal tires.

The body was modified by painting it black with a gold band around the nose. A gold stripe was painted along the bodyline above the rocker panel area. Just below the upper side bodyline, a gold pinstripe was added. A Black Panther nameplate was mounted on the forefront of each fender and on the rear deck lid. The Panther's featured a gold interior and were available with whatever options a buyer might wish to order.

Buyers also had a choice of a 327 or 427 V-8 engine.

It is believed that about fifty black panthers were originally produced by Gorries. Only one is known of today. This is owned by Bob and Lorraine Simonen in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.

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I'm trying to figure out what car my 327 came out of. Here is the partial vin from the motor: 18s100826?

This is what I came up with while looking up the block casting number.
3914678
Passenger/Chevelle/Chevy II/Camaro/Corvette
350 HP Large Journal 2 bolt main
Here are the numbers off the front of the motor: V0807HC
Then there was a second right under it.
18S100826

This is the number off the rear of the motor where the tranny hooks up:

3914678

I own a shop, and if you will look at the front of the engine, on the passenger side, just below the cylinder head, on a tab on the block, you should find some numbers followed by some letters. These are what you go by to tell the major information about the engine. What you have is a casting number that came from the upper part of the back of the block just above the bell-housing (I think?) and it doesn't tell you a lot, except what the block is. The numbers on the front will tell you the build information, and you can use this to go to:
http://www.mortec.com
and look it up to see what it is. The most important of all; is the letters that follow the numbers on the front. I have code books, and if you can't find it at motec, then post what you find on this question, and I will look it up, and add to my answer for you.
Part 2:
Ok, from what I can tell, here is what the motor is:
The engine was built in Flint Michigan, on the 7th of August 1968, and is a L-30, 275 horsepower 327 cubic inch, that was originally put into an Impala with a Powerglide 2 speed automatic transmission behind it. It had one four barrel carburetor, with an "H" series cam.
According to your codes, its for sure a 1968 or 1969 engine, so this narrows it down quite a bit. You can go to the library, and pull an old copy of Chilton's Repair Manual, and de-code everything else in the engine section. Hope this helps.
Glad to help out, Good Luck!!!

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