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I've been thinking (yeah, yeah-I know :AH-HA_wink: ) Anyways, I've been thinking about what I could replace the wagon with. I've seen quite a few 98-01 Blazers around here for sale, with most running between 3-6 grand, and many with 4x4 power... A cheap Suv beater would be nice, so I could take it camping, haul stuff (and dogs) and take bunches of people with me... Good stuff: Cheap, the 4.3 (most I've seen are around 100k) which should last a while...good for winter here... Bad: Lots of little issues... I saw a 01/02 trailbalzer (fancy blazer) with 101k for 4600...didn't sound too bad.... THoughts? I know BV wants to get in on this one... :AH-HA_wink: …

A maroon sedan - alloys, etc. Obviously very new, but with far too many barcodes. Yup. It was a rental. I attempted a picture with my cell phone camera that didn't come out well, but it was definitely a rental. My evidence: Four barcodes (two windshield, one on each quarter window) Hotel parking pass Hats and beach gear on the rear parcel shelf An Enterprise rental contract on the dash Just thought it was interesting.

Lets do something related to the Memorial Day. List your ONE favorite piece of military equipment (doesn't matter which, starting from trucks/cars to battleships) from each major armed conflict listed below: 1. First World War 2. Second World War 3. Korean War 4. Vietnam War 5. Gulf War (First ) 6. Iraq/Afghanistan War

I have another challenging Dream car garage to post or two...but for today the easiest one yet. Only limitation for all ten is that you must be able to walk into your state/province DMV and register it legally. First 3-New 2017 cars you would buy, less than 50 grand... Next 3-New 2017 cars you would buy, 50 grand to 125 grand... Next 3-used cars you would buy, any market any era, just must be street legal. that is it-although i would like to see different cars than we usually post up. Challenger and Raptor ahve had a lot of exposure in dream car garage, looking for whatever else you all can come up with. Last car-#10-Anything street legal on the …

wisdom teeth extracted ~1230. it's ~330 now. starting to get sore a little, but not feeling to bad... could be the pain killers still in me?

I had never heard of this car, the 1986 Buick LeSabre Grand National: http://www.lesabret-type.com/LeSabreGN.html Exactly What is a LeSabre Grand National? Many do not even know that Buick Division of General Motors produced the Grand National on a platform other than on the Regal but there was a very unique Grand National built in late1985 – the 1986 LeSabre Grand National. 117 (or 112) copies were built to qualify the new, first year 1986 LeSabre FWD Coupe body for NASCAR competition. The main reason for building the 1986 LeSabre Grand National was to get the new body with modified rear quarter windows sanctioned for Winston Cup racing that year. The modified …

... own a GM Performance dealership. GM performance cars past and present. Restoration parts Performance parts Quality shop and bodyshop Might be a cool way for GM to market cars that fit the description. I'd never leave work...

Going up north where the remaining members of my family live...the once-every-3-month ritual...but will take a day for myself to go up to Canada, or somewhere, to clear my head. Well, I know it will be salmon on Friday night (Good Friday) and a brunch I don't have to pay for on Sunday morning, so not all is lost. Any plans for Easter?

I finally took the time to sort through all the pictures I've taken thus far this year. Click to enlarge the thumbnails. -From a light display in Altoona, Pa. -The last two pictures of my Jetta, taken a week before the accident. -Taken in Dubois H.S., Dubois, Pa. -Millenia. -Random shots from around Ramsaytown. -Aftermath of a fire that destroyed the Perkins restaurant in Dubois, Pa a few weeks ago. -Sunset from around Dubois, Pa.

Camino, your Ute appears to be ready. Its a little overcooked, though. Ouch.

No one ahead of me on the road, but a person waits until I'm "right there" to pull out from a side road in front of me, then drives 5-10 mph under the limit on a clear day, causing traffic to bunch up behind me. And it only happens when I need to be somewhere. Sigh.

I've mentioned before my mother recently has gotten a "thing" for new Camaro's, calling me about ones she sees, pointing them out when out, asking me questions about them, etc. Yesterday I was actually home for once and while she was cooking dinner, 5pm rolled around and I clicked on Motorweek in the kitchen. This week's first test, the Camaro SS. Typically I'd be the only one interested in this show at all, but from the second "Camaro" was uttered a certain someone ordered "quiet!", turned up the volume, and intently stopped what she was doing to watch every second of the review. "Oooh, look at that" when they were doing the acceleration, and then more importantly t…

I don't see the problem... -- -- -- -- -- >>A jury has convicted an 80-year-old Wilmington, Del. woman of abusing her 82-year-old husband by forcing him to live at the family junkyard with a pot for bathing and couch to sleep on. Shirley M. Wilson told jurors she pulled her husband, who was a stroke victim, out of nursing home and set him up in a backroom of their office at the junkyard so he could "come home and get to work," according to The News Journal. Wilson represented herself. Last week's trial lasted three days and then jurors convicted Wilson of elderly abuse. Don Wilson was found lying on the couch in a soiled diaper and pajama top in late March…

My advice, stop licking pigs !!! Seriously, H1N1 is no joke, I hope you feel better soon.

lol funny title. Anyway, the Camaro's gas gauge has its head up its ass. Went out of town, filled it up to a half-tank. It was about a 100 mile trip there and back. My car will go for 400 miles on a full-tank, which a full Camaro gas tank holds 15.5 gallons. That equals up to around 25 mpg in mixed conditions. That's about average gas mileage for a V6 Camaro with a 5-speed. So if this is true, my car could have made this trip on about 1/4 of a tank, right? I've done it before, so it did it again, right? No. Apparently, it took the whole damn half-tank to do it. It also somehow managed to go about 50 miles reading flat empty. So today, I put five bucks in it. It obvi…

For those of you who don't know, CWW churns out some of the most impressive photoshop renderings on the 'net. This one really impressed me so I've decided to post it here. I'm amazed by how well this turned out. :o CWW Car Design: Honda Accord Four Door Coupe

OK Vipes, dont say I never did anything for ya: http://www.howardroffman.com/tales_html/TA04.html http://www.howardroffman.com/other_html/OW02.html

...when you can have this in a 4th Gen Grand Am??

I just had my first ortho consultation. I decided that, with the flex spending plan at work, I would pop for braces this year. My uppers are right on. My lowers are crowded. I got this consult because only some dentists can do the Invisalign. He said it would take 12 months + up to 2 or 3 more months. The cost is $ 5600 for conventional ones (which he recommends for me) and $ 6300 for the Invisalign which will take 18 months. YIKES. I definitely need the remaining 2 consults. Two girls who work in my office went to the same, but different, ortho for quite a bit less money. Any of you gotten braces PAST your teenage years? Costly? Was it painful?…

Fascinating-check this out! http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/#post-sergey_larenkov-809

Love that H.O. This car speaks to me... I love it. Even for 1937 it's very unique. 1937 Bizzare but very interesting.... I'd love to own this Caddy! NOt as much as I'd love a V16 though. 1938 Another rare classic.... that grille is so unconformist, I love it! 1939

Check out this find: 1971 CHEVROLET CHEVELLE 300 DELUXE NOMAD Blacktie Classics or this one: 1968 CHEVROLET EL CAMINO Blacktie Classics

Heh... found these on google. Also, I checked Pontiac again, and appearantly they do offer a spoiler.... G6 Gallery

It's me! Cory! I'm back! For the time that I was away I really got to realize a few things. First of all, I'd like to apologize to everyone. Since being on medication I've been... like my old self in ways that I'm not proud. It's like I... de-matured with this stuff. I had worked hard to change myself a while ago and it seems after all that, I'm going back to how I was before. So... I've realized this and am going to try to get back to where I worked to get myself. I've also realized I love Chris... what would I ever do without him and the book he gave me? Also that I'm in love, get C&G-sick instead of home-sick, and that I lust for so many things... I really want …

I just found out Mormons wear Magic Underpants that non-Mormons aren't even supposed to know about.

All right, I threw this idea at Fly this morning as to whether or not there should be a "how-to" sub-forum in the Tech Section thread for all of us who do our own repair work, or those of us that would like to get started, but are unsure of what to do. Its just an idea, but I'd like to get some real feedback on this one because I would love to be able to post repair proceedures and pictures and stuff like that so's I can help out my fellow C&G'ers when it comes to repairs and in general fixin' stuff.

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That's right. I've moved. Over the past few weeks, we moved from Lexington, Kentucky to a small town about thirty minutes away, Berea. We basically moved here room by room and got every box and bit of furniture here in a week's time. The computer was the last thing to go (along with the living room furniture) and it gave me the chance to be here without going away for a long period of time. We just got everything in place on Friday and finshed mowing the lawn yesterday, so we're all set and I'm ready to shoot the $h! about it. The house we moved to is located a mile from a junkyard, A&A Salvage. I know they've probably got over ten acres of cars…

* THIS is your official "fair warning" ... my "big heart" is NO MORE. Literally, It was replaced with a cow valve, 11/11/2011. Figuratively, the jury is still out.... I'm the opposite of the Grinch. Instead of my heart growing bigger, it is now smaller. Perhaps the following vignettes will provide proof...or not. ENERGY BOOST It's amazing how people's words/actions affect how you feel, bad & good. After my Christmas Eve radio broadcast, I had rather low energy. But, seeing all of the posts & Emails about my radio show ... & talking to people at the Christmas Eve service, along with a short drive to see Holiday decorations ... really re-energized me. …

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I'm glad I stumbled upon this site, you guys pretty much have all the latest General Motors news. I'll introduce myself. I'm 21, I just finished college and am now working as a temp at the GM parma stamping plant. The plant had to hire temps because about half of the workers took the buyout and they needed people to replace some of them. We don't make as much as the regular employees ($18.75 an hour plus cost of living, so a total of about 21 an hour) but get no benefits, but its still a damn good wage and its enough that I can afford to pay monthly for my own health insurance. I have quite a few gm workers in my family. My dad is a supervisor at the plant, my grand…

I attended the very last car show of 2012, as far as the shows I'm aware of at least. It was the BOP-APALOOZA (Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac) show held at the Atco Raceway in Atco, NJ last Saturday, November 5. Prior years this was a Pontiac-only show, this year it was opened to Buick and Oldsmobiles (however, a majority of the cars in the show were Pontiacs with an almost even split between BOP on the drag strip). I present approximately 60 pictures that I took:

Some friends and I took a trip to the fine country of Canada this weekend. We hit up Winnipeg and a few towns in between and a had a great time while doing it. On the way home we took the long way, through a lot of small towns in Southern Manitoba. One thing I happened to notice is that in a lot of these small towns close to the border, there are a lot of nice, new homes (and quite a few being built) and what looks to be a lot of successful small businesses. A ton different compared to the small towns of the same size just across the border in North Dakota. People on average don't build new homes on the North Dakota side of the border unless it is in a town of at lea…

My dad's new work truck. Had his Silverado turned in for a... Yep, a Ford F250. It's big, it's red, and it's tough (according to Ford, right? ). Also, this thing has some meaty tires... Damn.

I went to the Coronado Speed Festival this past weekend, at Coronado Island/North Island NAS in San Diego. Had a great weekend, saw a bunch of neat vintage race cars, some racing, and a variety of interesting street cars on show. A little of bit of everything--lots of Porsches since the 911 was featured marque, '70s Datsun race cars, some vintage Trans Am cars, NASCAR cars, Can Am cars, open wheel race cars. Got to meet Tony Adamowicz, great guy to chat with. here's a few pics.. More pics at my Fotki album here http://public.fotki....ado-speed-fest/

What's your favorite motor sport? F1 for me. I like the completely unusual design cars have, I like the fact that they compete in teams, and man, do they sound awesome. I've tried getting into bike races as well but I don't seem to care for them very much for some reason.

Well boyz I'm off to Detroit tomorrow, I have something on my plate the rest of this week and next. Also NAIAS is almost here too. Where did the year go, it just seems like yesterday that we were looking at the stunning Cadillac CTS at last year's NAIAS. Oh well, 3 weeks in Detroit, I wonder how much havoc I can create there? My whereabouts after that are anyone's guess. I will try to check in from time to time and give y'all some Börger Lovin! :AH-HA_wink:

Toronto Star article Is "Canadian" the new black? Perhaps – that is if you're a racist speaking in code. Recent revelations that the term "Canadian" is being used to replace racist names for black people have got a Texas assistant district attorney into trouble and have left others wondering what exactly it means to be labelled a Canadian in the American south. Long derogated as weak-kneed liberals with lax laws and funny monopoly money, Canadians have carried a negative connotation in certain regions of America – but not as a replacement for the N-word. Earlier this week a columnist with the Houston Chronicle uncovered an email from Harris County assistant distri…

okay, well before i yell endlessly at my wife, for being... stupid... how do others couples and married folks in here handle this sort of situation. recently married, 2 days away from first anaverisary. I came into the realtionship with 30k on credit card dept. she came in with about 10k. so obviously im the one who doenst have much room to talk, but due to my situation, i have leared a valueable lesson about money. but, before i left for kuwait, we had discussed our plans to both be dept free, by the end of 2008. and we both had the income and or the means, if spending was under control. well, spending has become out of control, at least for her, although her c…

I know you have an ongoing mower interest/hobby. I picked up a vintage mower ; a circa '55 Jacobsen Model 77 Rotary Disc. 2-stroke, aluminum deck, front corner discharge, 1.8HP. I'd like to sell it, any interest?

Here's some pictures I took this weekend at the GM Nationals in Carlisle, PA. Enjoy. CLICK HERE By the way, I took First in my class with the El Camino

I was looking at a Chevrolet HHR recently and it hit me what a neat little pickup it would make. GM are you game? Some of you talented guys should do a chop of it.

I can't believe this slipped under the radar... http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/08/06/peta-mclean.html

So, who has NYE plans? I haven't gone out and enjoyed myself on NYE for ages, and I have no clue what I'll be doing. Anyone else got plans?

Who's on it?

I may be buying a Solstice targa coupe for my 4 car garage, before heading back to Germany. I only have three vehicles in there at present. I like the Sky better, but doesn't come in a coupe ... I'm going down this week to look at it close up ...

so life has taken a surprise turn, and i'm no longer in the car business (aren't you surprised that it's impossible to make a living in the car business anymore!?!? LOL) how is everyone on here? i've wondered from time to time how everyone is doing...

Check out this 2WD Colorado Z71 going up a steep hill in deep sand. YEEE HAAAA! :

Hmm....this is interesting. My wife wants to keep her Cavalier. (people want to keep cavaliers? ) The current plan was to upgrade her car, aka the "family" car, to a nice used Liberty or Nox, and delegate her 03 to my beater 4dr, thus allowing me to have fun with the next new car. (cruze, focui, Aveo, Mazda 3, etc...) Two reasons for her logic: 1. A real vacation. Italy, Europe, someplace far and cool.... 2. To see if we decide to expand the family. There's a good chance of that, so she might want to wait until we need it to save a few bucks..... I have a slight issue with this, but not much. I guess the fact that the car is almost 7 years old might be why. T…

OK these two phrases are messing with my head... where are they from? ..."from Lake Geneva to the Freeland Station..." and ..."I get my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine..."

Well, I guess they have trained killer whales perform all over the world, but handling them or training them is something that gets a "no thanks." I will say the same about sky-diving..."no thanks." What happened today at Sea World was very sad. Even sadder was the fact that spectators had to watch it. This whale was a problem, having done this sort of thing many years ago...they should have put him on a ship and sent him back to the waters of Puget Sound or the Inside Package. Story here Did this stun you as well? Do you think they should stop having these exhibits? Not having a killer whale show wouldn't be a deal breaker. Most famous world aquariums don't hav…

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...to go to a dragstrip.

The Ferrari that Steve McQueen drove in the movie, 'The Thomas Crown Affair', just sold at auction for 2,220,000 pounds or in American dollars, $4,089,459.67. A new world record. http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/59617/mc...ction_high.html

OK, some strange situation arose for my G6. I talked to my dad, and since we wanted to lose the dependency on the co-lessee, my dad is now financing me instead, and we are going to cash purchase it. Something to do with the insurance stuff. However, I called the dealer today in order to deal the price of the car again, and all of a sudden I was told that the saleslady I was dealing with is no longer with the dealership, and now I find myself dealing directly with the sales manager. Things were wierd. I sent her numerous e-mails in the past week, none of them got replied. About 2 days ago, when I got worried about my deposit, I went in to confirm the status of my car, sh…

I haven't been driving the thing for over 2 years anyway, but it's still upsetting. Apparently the alternator did something wrong while the car was in my sister's possession and it started a fire. This is what the engine compartment looks like now... The worst part? I'll probably never own or even get to drive an Oldsmobile again. :( 1997 Oldsmobile Achieva SL Sedan... 1996 - 2005

Well im basically doing a project and this basically sums up what I have to do: "Choose someone you know that has lived through an interesting period in American history before 1970 and interview him/her. Possible topics for the interview could be your interviewee's experiences in the great depression, ww2, the 1950s, civil rights movement, the 1960's, or the Vietnam War. Create a list of at least 8 questions to ask them. Your project will consist of the questions you have created and your written version of your interviewee's responses to each question. Remember you will need to have follow-up questions ready to encourage your subject to elaborate on im…

Basically, more things that resulted from boredom. As I was having a photo shoot of myself, haha, I played around with a few colored plastic film-things for my strobe light as well as a lense for my LED flashlight. Took some images of things in my room and of my Grand Am. Yes, I still have it, obviously. *sigh* I also played around in Photo Impression with a few. Also... here's a Grand Prix GXP I played around with.

Yup... as you might have already figured out I'm not on my way to NAIAS. Money, family, timing & frineds, but mostly MONEY were not in my favor this week. Of all the roadtrips I did not want to miss this is a big one. I'm pretty bummed right now. Good thing there's a car show at Adesa auction to take my mind off of things. When is the Penn. Auto show....?

The weirdest thing... While I was at work today, a reporter from wall street journal called me to ask about the Tahoe sales and how I felt the other GMT900 were going to sell. weirdest thing... Well... The things she asked... How were sales going Was traffic up with the launch of the Tahoe? Were people asking about the tahoe? What is the general perception of the Tahoe? Looking at the traffic the Tahoe has broght are you looking forward to the upcoming vehicles like the Suburban? Would you say sales are up even over January?

The only one I've dated or cared for is causing me all sorts of grief and B.S. with a friend of mine. Now I know why I dont date or keep them around long enough to care for them.

Today there was a light jade (faded, but otherwise fully intact) '81 Cutlass Supreme coupe at the park. Old School Detroit will always stand out. What have you guys seen lately?

Here's the lowdown: This fall, chances that I'll finally find something to drive are looking good. I'm hoping to God I'll manage to be driving a classic first-generation Pontiac Firebird, but I'm not going to bet the bank on it. I've considered some other options that fit my criteria (it has to be rear-drive) so I can have a backup plan just in case things don't turn out the way I have planned them to. I've considered more modern cars, too, and Cadillac's Catera has made it's way onto my list. The car is okay as is. But a thought crossed my mind: if I do end up driving one of these, could I graft the nose of the GTO onto a Catera? And with a little bit of fabrication a…

I ask because I saw yet another one today - white, with chrome wheels - just cruising down to the beach. I pass it and just observe it as I do and I could shake the feeling I had that this was likely the single ugliest automobile I have ever seen on the road. Seriously. The rear is too tapered and contorted. The car is too tall and way too narrow for being so tall. And the headlamps are so small they look just plain stupid. I would say this looks like one of those cheesy Zimmer kitcars but some Zimmers look damn nice. Is something wrong with me? Shouldn't I be appreciating this rolling hunk of what's left of stout British pride? I like pretty much every other Roll…

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Why you sneaky little devil. You almost got away with it. But I got you. Hope your day's been a good one, sir!

Hey. How's your Focus running? Had any warranty issues? Any issues with user friendliness? How's the fuel mileage? General observations? Dealer in town I work in has quite a few SE hatches with manual transmission available for perusal.

I've been thinking lately - I can't wait for Ford to fold. The sooner they do, the less likely it is that GM will do the same. The UAW will have to make some kind of concession if Ford folds. Maybe then GM could compete. Would this work? Will it come to this? What do you think?

It's a Robin. Oh... Fun. More random pictures... That's the view of my house from the top of my tree, my crowded driveway earlier today, my Grand Am complete with hanging exhaust, and my eyes. Don't ask. Also, I went dealer hopping tonight. Looked at the new Acadia up close for the first time. It's quite nice. The interior design looks better than it does in pics, and it looked pretty good in pics. I like it. Got to look a Solstice GXP for the first time as well. Sad that it took this long, but hey, I live in the middle of nowhere. While I like the Solstice, I never really loved it. Being a GXP and bright yellow and being able to see it in person certainly ma…

Nothing was wrong with my 4 1/2 year old MDG (Canadian brand) desk top. It has a DVD burner that I added 2 years ago, 256 graphics card, operates at 1.7 ghz, has 768 mb RAM, operates on XP, but I was working on putting all my MPEG-4 movies from my trips to Brazil onto a DVD, interspersed with my digital pics , maybe even a soundtrack, but this proved to be impossible with the old system. Roxio and I had a falling out about 3 weeks ago, resulting in my smashing the original program discs into a million pieces (while my horrified partner and our dog watched), then uninstalled anything to do with Roxio. Nero is far more intuitive and user friendly, but I knew I was …

My friend teaches a Gifted and Talented program in her school... her student is a 5th grader (approximately 10 years old). He wants to know more about engines. I told her that's a very open-ended question, as there's a HUGE amount of information to know for each thing. What my question is, are there any good websites that might explain engines (starting with basic information, like OHV vs. OHC), but isn't too complicated to understand? Any websites that might have some animation to show the student about engines in motion, for example, pistons and their firing order, valves opening and closing, etc.? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

So, given how much fun we seem to have had with the other ultimate dream garage threads, I am going to start another one. Your Crazy uncle is offering to give you a Cadillac ATS brand new free and clear, but it must be the only performance car that you own. This will be a three part question. Part #1, Spec out your ATS and tell us about it! Part #two, you must pick 2 (only two) GM cars built between and including 1975 to 2004. The rub is, no performance vehicles allowed. Corvette is off the table, even if ti is the 305 cubic inch California emissions model. V8 Camaros and Firebirds are off the list with one exception. Fiero is excluded, as is say a Turbo…

HAHAHAHAhahahhah! My check is in the mail. http://water4gas.com/2books.htm?hop=hbono