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Well, if this doesn't solidify the fact that the GT500 is a porky, underperforming "performance" car, I don't know what does: http://www.ls1gto.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83159 4130lbs (and it's not even the convert!), 56/44 weight distribution, 1/4 mile in 13.1 and $47k+ does not seem to appealing to me. A 2006 GTO with a good driver and a couple simple bolt-ons will beat the GT500 for $15k less, and that's before dealer markups. And what's the point of having 500HP if it's made at redline? Unless the fuel cut-off is well above redline, the 500HP is only available for a very short time.

You guys might want to check out the lastest tune from JoCaine.....c'mon just give it an open, honestly look and have an open mind. http://www.myspace.com/jocaineand75north

So... I've been interviewing for a teaching position starting next year since when I graduated, budgets failed and there were no permanent Italian positions available on the Island. I was fortunate and got several interviews relatively quickly, and one district has been working fast (not common for schools on Long Island), and the procedure has been quick. I have my 5th interview tomorrow (yes, on Long Island, this is normal), with this one district. You have to first interview with a committee, then do a demo lesson, then interview with the chairperson of the department, then an assistant principal, then interview with a principal, then with the superintendent, an…

All right, currently I have a 2001 Chevrolet Impala LS 9C1 sedan. 3.8L 231cid 90* Buick V6, 4T65E transmission. 115,720 miles on the odometer. Oil changed every 3500 miles (give or take 20miles), transmission fluid changed at 100,000 along with coolant flush and refill. Full tune-up (plugs, wires, oil, trans fluid, coolant, hoses, pcv valve, etc) performed at 105,000 miles. Brakes replaced all the way around by 80,000 miles, front rotors turned at that time. Replaced front wheel hub assemblies at 109,000 miles (although I have to yank the driver's one out again due to a bad ABS wheel speed sensor). Front end aligned at 85,000. Struts never replaced, although that'…

These vehicles are at the epitome of ugliness. Why do they look so similar?! Ew.

Faceoff: Nissan Xterra vs. Toyota FJ Cruiser The Nissan Xterra is a two-time winner of Motor Trend's SUV of the year award. The Toyota FJ is a new retro-insipired product poised to go head-to-head with the Xterra. Edmunds is an automotive website featuring car news, reviews and comparisons such as the one between these two machines. Read "2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser vs. 2006 Nissan Xterra Off-Road" @ Edmunds

looking on the AutoTrader website I happened to come across a 2005 Cobalt SS SC lease takeover for only $234 per month. I was astonished as I didn't expect a car this nice for anything less than $350 per month, even when leased. I am not worried about the requirement for 91+ octane because I found out that instead of creating a price war by selling cheaper gas, some stations sell 90, 92 and 94 for the prices of 87, 89 and 91 respectively. My budget is pretty tight right now, so I will need a part-time job to pay for it. However, I do have quite a bit of free time. I have one simple question for you guys: Should I go for it?

The new devices section of General MOtors actually cares about what I think... they sent me a cool form letter saying I need to re-submit my ideas for the 5th gen. Camaro. My biggest & most important "hot-button" is that they keep the hardtop greenhouse for production. Check out the letter they sent: http://i3.tinypic.com/117qtug.jpg http://i3.tinypic.com/117ra76.jpg ------

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So I was home for graduation parties like a week and a half ago. On Saturday night while I was out at a bonfire in the country, my pager went off. It was a medical call for a man that was choking ( at least that is what the dispatcher picked out of the cell phone call that was broken up) The dipatcher pretty much only knew where it was based off the GPS signal that the cell phone sent. So I hopped in the burban and took off, I was only about 3 miles away (luckily, considering that everyone else on the squad would have been in town which was 7 miles away). So I'm first on the scene. As I get there, I notice that it is not a man choking but rather a 10-11 year old boy…

In our backyard sits an 86 oldsmobile delta 88, for some reason a few years ago the motor went kaput. The car is pretty good condition, even the interior. Im gonna end up getting another 3.0 V6 for it, heard horrible things about the 3.8's reliability. Probably gonna get a motor from a junkyard and clean it up, even run some engine cleaner through it, but does anyone on here have some ideas on things i can do to enhance the performance?

OK... this weather is nuts. I just moved into this place so I don't have A/C yet. It's 82F right now, and its bloody MIDNIGHT. It was 99F this afternoon. I just checked Miami weather, and it's cooler there than it is here in Toronto right now. WTF??? ...anybody else in this heat wave?

has been taken over by a crack addicted koala. Thanks Fly!

So, apparently, the Finger Lakes Region here has a "wine country" I love wine and am up for trying some new things and there is this tour company that will take you out for 6 hours for 300 bucks in get this.... a restored 1985 Cadillac Seville with a fake convertable top! My mom had an 85 and it would bring back some good memories. The back seat did have lots of room. Hummm.... what do you think?

What do you really hate about people's cars that you've been in? I'll start with my neighbors 2000 Ford Focus.... Everytime there is a bump/turn/road disturbance...I bang my head on the C-pillar in the backseat..It is SOOOO annoying! The inside of the car is too narrow and compact for me. The Springs in the wheel wells and the doors creek when they are opened/disturbed

WHY? http://storm.tocmp.com/oldsmobile1964.htm There's a small chance I might be rollin' in a 1964 Super 88 soon. So for the past 5 nights I stay up at night with images of metallic stitching, the chrome AM radio, Ultra High Performance 394, four door hardtop roofline and the soon to be eBay listing for my 1968 Camaro. By the 4th of July I might be driving around in a classic Oldsmobile and the Camaro wil have a new owner. Any member of C&G can come by and take my Camaro off my hands right now for $3500 motor and all!

This guy lives down the block from me, and I have never heard the truck on the road, so I don't know if he put a 350 in it, but here's a blurry pic of a ~1988 Chevy S10 Dualy. I'm sure it is more of a "just because" conversion than for any real hauling purpose, but it still looks cool.

I'm prepping this car for paint....and having difficulty deciding what color to go with, I asked the car, it does not know either. It's not the coolest or fastest, but I really like it. Dark gray interior... I only know it can't be white. I'm interested to know what others think. If it was your car, what color(s) would you choose and why? What is the best color~

For me it's a no-brainer. Mavericks all the way.

I had the chance to go about 6 years in Northern California. I declined. Girls that had NEVER done it before went. I'm sorry, that's too stupid of a thrill to risk bodily harm. Heck, you could even get messed up when you land.

Yeah... have fun without me, bitches! Never again will I come back here! Or I will... IDK. I won't be around for much of this upcoming week. I'll be at my grandparent's camping out in their camper while trying to sell my 300EX over there. Hopefully I'll sell it, being along a major highway (Rt 322). That and it'll be listed in the trade book. It better sell... but I have a feeling my back luck will continue. Either way, camping out will be refreshing. I've wanting to do it lately... even if it is in the backyard of my grandparent's house. Plus, my grandpa has some work for me to do, and I'm money hungry... Alright, tonight I'll be going over and having my 300 haul…

So me and the wife are 5 miles from our exit to get to our apartment on I-75, when we noticed a pickup on the side of a large bridge. As we pass him my wife gasps and says, "Oh my God, he's gonna jump!" I turned around and sure enough he was standing on the concrete wall on the edge of the bridge, wrapping a jacket around his head. As we pulled off and my wife is dialing 911, I turned around and I watched him fall off the bridge. Police finally showed up, took our information, and informed us someone from Lexington Metro Police would be in touch for a statement. We just got the call from a homicide detective who took our story. We actually found out we got the bett…

So I came home from chilling with a few of my friends earlier tonight going my usual route. No big deal, I could drive home from work in my sleep if I had to (and practically have, many times; same route I take to work, practically). So I'm about two blocks or so away from my neighborhood, it's not quite as dense as the center of town is, but it isn't quite residential. Not so many cars on the road seeing as its about ten or so. I'm doing about forty-five, give or take (probably give). A little farther down the road, on the other side there's this large black dog just trotting down the street, probably not paying any mind to where he's going. Suddenly he just darts out…

You're a crazy bitch But you fu*k so good I'm on top of it When I dream I'm doin' you all night Scratches all down my back, keepa right on...

It's the first actual "date" in a long while.. I'm hoping to make the best of it. We're going to see a movie then it'll be dark when the movie gets out, so we're going to take a walk down some pathways behind the one school (it's really nice back there) and it's a long enough walk to get to know her a lot better. I'm so excited, guys; wish me luck! (omg I feel like Nick lol )

A few of my summer job alternatives have recently fallen through, so I'm back to exploring my options. Coincidentally, I'm looking to pursue a job similar to what Northie posted earlier this week. I'm extremely interested in detailing or "prepping" new or pre-owned cars at a local dealership (or another dealership-related job, for that matter), I'm just not entirely sure how I should pursue this. I haven't found anything in the paper advertising such a position, and I'm not sure if dealerships would be interested in hiring a 17-year-old. I'd like to contact a few local dealerships, but I'm not sure exactly what I should say. What positions would a dealership li…

So, its 12:30am and I'm driving home from the beach. I decide to do something rare, crazy, and irrational, a thing the majority of drivers here don't do - I stop at a crosswalk. I wonder why the couple walk so slowly across while starting behind me under I feel a *THUNK!* And that's what it feels to have a 2006 Solara hit you. Damage is minimal though, as you can see. Thing is the car was a demo and the guy driving works at a Toyota dealership in the paint/body shop. He was very kind, very nice, and very apologetic. He gave me everything - license, reg, insurance - and asked if I could go through him instead of calling the police. I get his insurance info just in cas…

Happy 13th Birthday to Charger4U! Have a good one (but you'll always be Chicken to me.)

Here's a Monte Carlo I bet you've never heard of. :wink: http://www.fortunecity.com/silverstone/fer...213/rally00.htm

Well, I sold my Mustang Cobra on Monday, and picked up my new 81 Malibu today :-) Because of rain (And going to dinner with my girlfriend and her family), I wasn't able to start detailing it today, but I'm waking up REAL early tomorrow to get as much done as possible before going with Silvester to look at a car he might be buying :-P Just thought I'd share pics.... its a 229 v6 with 71,000 origional miles, painted a year or so ago, body is SOLID, no rot or any real rust ANYWHERE, and the thing runs and drives like a champ! Plans for now are to freshen up the interior, clean up the engine bay, and pretty much leave it stock until a year or two from now when I'd love to d…

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The Camaro's back!

Well... I thought I'd post pics of all the other toys in my household... The Nighthawk 750: Don't mind the the sissy-bar. Yes, it's ugly, but my dad uses to to tie cargo down onto and it makes my mom more comfortable on it. Personally, I'd like to atleast get one that matches the bike. The "Piece of $h!": Love my letter decals? Yeah... it's $h!ty... I know... obvious, huh? The GT80: It's old... Amazingly, it was my dad's when he was a kid. We found it a few years ago and had to buy. Sometime between then, they swapped the frame and the fenders and stuff. The originals are in that box, as you can see. I have …

Happy Birthday Nick!!

Well today I got my 2006 GTO tail lights in the mail and installed them. It took about 5 or so minutes to take the old ones out and put the new ones in. Anyways, here's before: One black light and one red light: And after:

Bobo hasn't gotten the chance to post a picture of his new car, so I'll do it for him...

Someone's selling them on eBay... http://cgi.ebay.ca/NEW-GM-Mark-Of-Excellen...1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm not even going to pretend the car is salvagable. I was going about 50ish in a 55 into a left curve, the car got away from me (not entirely sure how) and I went off the road, cartwheeled through an embankment, the car ended up on the passenger side in a field. I shut the car off and crawled out through the sunroof, then ran around looking for my phone. The woman who was in front of me turned around, when I saw her up on the road (a good 20 feet above my head) I could see her jaw had just dropped. She called 911, I found my phone in the grass and called work (I was on a delivery) my girlfriend and my insurance agent. A doctor happened to be driving by and she let m…

Leave for So. Fla. tomorrow at 6:00 am + (all day going West to East). 4 days in So. Fla. incl. Memorial Day 3 days in the Panhandle 3 days in Atlanta (lived there for 2 years - retracing some steps, seeing some friends) Will try to stay off C&G (need a break from Chargerino et. al.). J/K. Just some chill time...not even any books. Any plans for Memorial Day or any of the summer holidays? Y'all be cool.

i like them both. in different ways. both at about 50 and change. damn...if i HAD to choose.......

of my malibu SS sedan. I absolutley love it. The graphite colored cloth/leather interior with the faux aluminum trim, 3 spoke wheel and other SS trim bits is really sharp. the 3.9 is deffinetly fast in this lighter malibu than it is in teh g6 gtp and the gtp was getting very respectable mid to low 0-60 times and good quarter mile times to begin with. The sport suspension and hurdallic steering are very well balllanced and calibrated and I like the tossability and handling of the shorter wheelbase epsilon though it makes for noticably more tourqe steer than the long wheelbase cars. My car is black with a sunroof. Only option it doesnt have is the 6 disk changer an…

David Hasslehof was in the American Idol audience. Macia called me over so I'd watch the last 0.25 min of the finale of the show and I see Hasslehof in the audience. Shouldn't he be at home getting ready to make Knight Rider the big screen motion picture.

I thought this would create a good conversation. What cool/interesting/or special cars do your neighbours own. The one's that make you watch in awe as they drive by your house. For me, my new neighbour just moved in across the street. He drives a 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle SS in gold and the people beside him drive a 1970 GTO. It just sits in their garage under a pile of toys, etc.

this topic is for talking hair bands! new or old, let's revive this great music!

I am right now listening to their new (cover) album YEAH! Why is a band like they once were, doing COVER records? and to make things worse, covering one of my all time favorite songs, by one of my all time favorite bands HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE by BLONDIE. WTF? Why is Joe Elliot singing FRICKING BLONDIE TUNES? You're covering DEBBIE, you're seriously messin with me. i supported the bad when they were getting dumped on during the ADRENALIZE and X days.....defended their right to do SLANG. I will give them this. Its not a bad 'sounding record'. At least its reasonably heavy. BUT CAN'T YOU MAKE YOUR OWN NEW RECORD? and not have it suck and have it at leas…

Deeeeeeeeeeeeetroit Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasketball's game 2 game?? I am going :AH-HA_wink: My boy Paul from the Vigilante Sidekicks has season tickets 5th row from the court, his seats are right next to Ben Wallaces wife....oh boy.

Happy birthday, guys!!!! Mustang - must be nice to celebrate your birthday AFTER the semester is over. Hope life is treating you right as you summer in DSM. (With a mid Dec. b-day, I typically sat in a final on my birthday so I made it a point to get an A since it ruined my special day) Cremazie - spring weather in Canada? (AB or SK, don't remember). Enjoy! Chevnov99 and Cutlassdude 96 - have a good one!

Well, yesterday I went up to the "worlds largest outdoor car museum" (From a thread a while back) with XP (Sixty8 was gonna join us but had to stay home and watch his kid just kiddin Sly, there will be pleanty of other times that we'll go up this summer). I took a crapload of pics, it was my first time there that I really got to see some of the stuff they had (The other time I went up we were in a real hurry cause they closed very soon) Just thought you guys might want to see some more pics from this place.... http://community.webshots.com/album/550670613hQXaqC The pics at the end are just weird stuff that we saw on our drive back through Manchester

I was cruising through the local PBG and Lincoln-Mercury dealer today when I spotted this 63 Impala, so I took some pics: And two with the GTO in the pic:

The local Chevy-Cadillac-MB-Volvo dealership posted an ad in the paper for 2 people to detail cars. It says it's full time, so I'll have to investigate that (I would rather work 4 days a week and have 2 days off - something like Mon, Tues, Thurs, Sat) but I think it might be a pretty good job for the summer. I think I'd get to clean up the new vehicles and take them to the gas station to fuel them up, which might be fun. It's certainly better than a burger-flipping job, and I think I'm going to get really bored if I don't get a job for the summer, but I don't want to work full time either. What does everyone think about this as a possible summer job?

Ok, so I'm bored and thought this would be a fun thread. If you haven't figured it out already, in this thread you are to post the mods you would do to your car if you had the money. I'm going to do what I would do for $5k and then for $10k, I suppose you can do whatever you want, but it would be more fun if you put a couple price limits on your mods, IMO. Anyways, here goes: First, performance: Kooks 1 3/4" x 3" w/ 3" Metallic Catted Connection Pipes Headers. $849 on PFYC Borla dual exhuast: $859.95 on eBay. K&N CAI: $195.95 on eBay And finally, a tune. Approx $500. For appearance: SAP grill inserts: $194.99 SAP front fascia extension: $284.90 Banshe…

Check out this custom one-off. 1929 Ford with an early 90s 1st gen. Q45 motor transplant. It predated the Lexus hot rod by a few years but I never heard of it until just now when I found it on some random Infiniti forum. Later on as shown here it was obviouslt deemed cool enough by the powers that be at Nissan & Infiniti to dipslay at the show next to a 2nd gen. Q45 in the 97-01 era. Actaully that looks like a 99-01 Touring edition in the back ground.

Hey all, been a while since I posted but since i am off for summer and usually have some downtime at work i will be posting more. My alero recently suffered damage to its steering rack and several other parts of the power stearing do to injested road debris from the crappy roads of new rochelle. the repairs are expensive, more than half the value of the car so I am cosidering getting out of it and into a new car yet again but thistime, more serioursly as it only has a few more months of usablitily before it needs to be reparied or replaced. While getting the car diagnosed at the chevy dealer I bought it from I sat in, and then test drove a malibu SS. It was black o…

im about to upload some images but wnated to use photobucket since you can upload like 10 at once and now that i recall last time i tyed i put them in the img tags and it said no dynamic image sin the img tags? is thee a way to fix this? -Austin

i saw one just like thise outside my work yesterday..i have no idea why ive never seen one before??is there something special about it?

Well, it's now summer.. or at least damn close to it, and I can feel the rays of sunlight bringing my body's sweet perspiration through my pores. Ew. Okay, first off, it's raining.. No sunshine, sunshines. That's not what this thread is about, though. It's just to let you all know that I'm secretly excited to be "me" again! First, my car will (should) be back on the road this Wednesday (as long as it starts after a month of down-time). This excites the living hell out of me (who would want hell in them anyway?). Then, all day (read: week) I've been regular ol' me.. just how I was last summer: I can bring a smile to anybody's face in any circumstance. Well, usually. lo…

I want to do this sometime in the next few years. It seems like so much fun... almost as much retarded stupidity as the Demolition derby. I've been interested in the Flugtag for a while but a commercial the otehr day piqued my interest and I finaly checked ot the website. http://www.redbullflugtagusa.com/ Also check out the game they have on the website, my personal best so far is 99.743. I keep getting 80s and 70s now and can NOT seem to break the 3-digit mark. http://www.redbullflugtagusa.com/Game/

Gas prices get so high,people stop buying SUV's and we see more and more cars on the road again? My reason for asking this is because my fiancee love Denali's and says gas is not an issue for her....and I think she's nuts!

alright well i came across this picture online... and could not stop laughing for a couple of minutes... what makes it funnier is that the owner of this car is completely convinced that this looks good... its really one of the most ridiculous things ive ever seen in my life... how... freakin ridiculous... oh man... it looks like he wanted to turn his monte into a 4x4... i cant... wow...

Edit: There is some embedded audio and a bit of NWS material, but just scroll down a bit... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Wine-me-din...1QQcmdZViewItem

I dunno if this is bad karma from the rain or if it's just hit that point in its life where everything just wants to go wrong. As many of you know, there was a huge rainstorm last weekend in the New England area. We had driven around in my car to take pics of the river and stuff, and later my friend came over. That night when I was taking him home...(I think this was Sunday)...I noticed my blinkers weren't working at all...not even the inside flasher arrows. Of course, when I put the hazard lights on...everything works fine. I have tried replacing the flasher relay with no luck. Now, if there is one thing that this car has had major problems with...it's electrical. Unt…

http://autos.yahoo.com/newcars/future_cars...fr=FP-tab-img-t Interesting to see they already have the Challenger and Camaro marked for production. The TT looks pretty good in that picture.. is that the real thing or just a rendering?

I was driving through the Nissan-Saturn dealer today to see if they had any SKYs (they didn't) and I notice this orange 350Z convert sitting there with a sticker in the window. It read "MSRP: $39,xxx Reduced: $38,xxx" and I had to do a double take to make sure it was actually $39k. I don't know what anyone else thinks, but I think that's pretty rediculous. I'd take a SKY Redline over that any day and pocket the extra $10k. Hell, that's almost as much as a base Corvette! (granted not a convert - but still).

Well spring has finally started for me..weve had snow on the ground into may...and its green...its proabbly a little more suprising to me than you because of the ugly yellow color the garss is most of the year...and the trees are a little darker green now too. East coast people arent a sprobably surprised seeing a they get alot of moisture there anyway...heres the pics.. i went fly fishing this week for school in Spearfish Canyon (a few miles south) and its really pretty out there too...maybe this weekend well head out there and ill get some pics..

I think we might head over to Yellowstone park this summer...(like my aunt or soemthin (idk) was a partener in microsoft an dis loaded and i geuss she owns a home somehwere near yellowstone , and theyve invited us and thats where will stay) anyways...Here are the things i/we planned to do after i read this guide to national parks by the Sierra Club Mammoth Hot Springs Specimen Ridge Theres a few petrified trees up there i hear Yellowstone Falls Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Possibly hiking and id figured wed drive the roads too including the Grand Loop road...basically i was wondering if anyone knows soem neat places to visit there..other that the o…

Toyota's 4th-Quarter Profit Rises 39% on U.S. Sales May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp., the world's largest automaker by market value, said fourth-quarter profit climbed 39 percent to a record, buoyed by a stronger dollar and rising U.S. sales of Avalon sedans and Scion compact cars. Net income rose to 404 billion yen ($3.6 billion) in the three months ended March 31, compared with 291 billion yen a year earlier, Toyota said in a statement today. The company predicted profit of 1.31 trillion yen this fiscal year, down 4.1 percent from last year when it had a gain from the rising value of its stake in Japan's biggest bank. Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe, 64…

I saw this on another site, and i think it would be great if chevy did produce the estate. What do you guys think. http://www.autoblog.com/2006/05/18/looking...te-cww-designs/

hey all you younger guys that have this and maybe some of the older guys remember this . . . you think those SADD demos actually make a difference in driving? they put out a car that was all messed up from a drunk driver crashing and dying . . . the artery clamp and hat was still on the seat . . . think it makes a dif? i keep thinking someones gonna wake up with a hangover in that thing and be like OMG MY CAR!?!?!? cuz their buddies put them there . . . yah i keep thinking that . . . nevre happened to me

It appears the weather will be cooperating (for the most part) for this year's massive Spring Cruise at Ocean City, MD. Thousands of hot cars of every description will descend on the ocean resort town starting today and running through the weekend. I'll be heading down Saturday morning to join some family members and probably spending the night. At a time like this I wish I had a digital camera so I could post a hugh jass picture thread when I get back. Is anyone else from here heading to Ocean City for this awesome event?

You really are... especially when I you find out what this thread is going to be about. It's something that's been argued about, questioned, and casually talked about it... many, many times. It has been close to the point where it would be solved, yet after 6 car-sick months... It is again time for me to talk about what to get. Yes, even after I argued that I didn't want advice on what to get when I didn't ask for it. Well, I'm not really asking about it... I just want to talk about it again, and look all the wonderful choices I still have. *looking into my Favorites* Miata Focus Prelude Cougar Del Sol 3000GT 3000GT Eclipse Eclipse 240SX Grand Am SC2 325i …

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...NEWS99/60517015 I say he's *IN* the proving grounds.

The dedication of GM's Design Center was 50 years ago... I think it's cool: http://www.carofthecentury.com/versaille_of_industry.htm

Dr. Joe's Philosophy i loved this it told me exactly what i needed to hear

Now this guy really is beginning to bug me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWomqEroBn8...porsche%20crash I'd love an old 70s Porsche 911 for a winter beater/SCCA car. Why would you destroy a car this cool? What's his fu$%ing problem? As far as the bitching about the layout of the dash I think this guy forgot he's English. Show me one British car from the 1970s that has a logical interior/layout. Nevermind that unlike a Jaguar that can't even start if the barometric presssure shifts 3% from when the car rolled off the assembly line at the factory, or an MG that rusts to death in about 8 months the Porsche 911 was an innovative car with one of the most su…

Remember Lauren? She came onto the site a few months ago, posted like hell, had an "interesting" Av and Signature (they were consistent, at least) and then disappeared. What happened or what do you hypothesize happened?

I was looking into getting a very good fuel economy car whats a really good car out there that won't be chuggin the gas but won't be holding the power out that I want. My riviera is unbareable with these high gas prices.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Mexico said Tuesday that it would file lawsuits in U.S. courts if National Guard troops on the border become directly involved in detaining migrants. Mexican border officials also said they worried that sending troops to heavily trafficked regions would push illegal migrants into more perilous areas of the U.S.-Mexican border to avoid detection. Can you tell me how just how you can sue over that?

4,711 miles... Just 287 miles...

Ok, so my best friend and I have been locked in a (rather pointless) debate on whether or not icecream cake is actually cake, or just icecream. He believe that it's a lie, and is nothing more than icecream. I believe that, because it is designed and shaped like a cake, it qualifies as one. To put an automotive twist on this debate, I came up with the floowing analogy: Icecream Cake is like a crossover SUV. It looks like a traditional body-on-frame SUV, with high ground clearance and available FWD. However, underneath it's based off a car or minvian. It also under most cercumstances go offroad or tow like a "real" SUV. Yet it is still considered an SUV. Please vot…

Talking about my trip to China in the other thread: Buick bucks the trend reminded me of a question I had for Josh, or rather a kind of challenge. Now, I don't pick up regularly by any stretch of the imagination, but I was just wondering if I had one thing up on Josh: Have you ever picked up a girl who doesn't speak English? It's fun, you can't talk about anything, you just have to do it and hope she likes it.

Okay, doesn't look like going with a new small GM car lease will put the wife and I where we want to be financially (damn insurance premiums in NJ). We can continue to keep the '04 Malibu and find a way to afford the three NEW car payments + insurance costs... or we can get rid of the Malibu and find a decent used car for under $7k to hold us for a few years (not getting rid of the SKY, that's for darn sure ). So cruising local dealer's online inventories and autoshopper.com, I've found some interesting cars: 1994 Pontiac Bonneville SSEi - 115k, loaded, $3995 1999 Buick Century Custom - 65K, $6995 1998 Buick LeSabre - 60K, $5888 So what do you think of these cars?…

So I live in Lawrence, MA uphill from teh Merrimack.I drove to various places today. There was already some flooding starting...the bridge by the damn and anywhere by the river was drawing crowds like I'd never seen drawn to a river before. I have somepics I'll post shortly. So what's the situation like where other New England residents live?

So I'm graduating on Friday, and I don't really know what I want for graduation. I really don't have many ideas, so maybe you guys have some good ones. But, one idea I have is the black taillamps from the 06 GTOs. What does everyone think and what would be some other good gifts to ask for instead?

Well, for the most part at least. Today was the last real day of high school for me. I still have to finish up some Calculus (Final Exam, take home test, and 3 HWs - the teacher always piles stuff on at the end) but other than that I'm home free. I'm not going tomorrow as I have until Thursday to finish up the Calc. Who else is out of school or close?

Just wanted to let everyone know that as of Friday, the better half informed me that I'm going to be a dad. I know it might not seem like all that huge of news to y'all, but it is to me.

Today I was informed that my parents have purchased a new car. It is a forest green 2004 Grand Prix. Hopefully it serves them well.

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Just another of CWW's creations. I figured some of you would appreciate this. Camaro Concept-Based Caprice Estate

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I think previous topics about old C&G have been about old old C&G. This site has a kind of interactive snapshot of new old C&G (the one that died around this time last year). Some of the topics work; some don't. Relive the memories: http://web.archive.org/web/20050331054009/...rsandgears.com/

Most of you wouldn't be caught dead in it. That said it's NOT a Toyota.

Just browsing nfscars.net for some add-on cars to install with "Need For Speed: High Stakes" and I felt like posting pics of a few cars I'm downloading or I think are 100 per-cent bad ass to just plain old neat. If you have a few, please feel free to add to this thread.

Post your favorite chuck norris jokes here.....1 at a time please... When the boogeyman goes to sleep evry night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris. ------------------------------------------------- I made this one up.... Chuck Norris doesnt fart, air escapes through his butthole and runs...

To all you mothas out there. Ha. Hey though, what are you guys doing for your mothers today? You'd best not forget her, or she'll "accidentally" put something red in the washer with your tighty whities so they come out pink! For the last few years, I've been taking my mom to Baltimore's Inner Harbor for lunch at Legal Seafood, then a stroll around the harbor attractions. This year it's cool and cloudy with the threat of rain, so we're sticking close to home. I just hope we can find a restaurant that's not packed.