cletus8269

here are 2 write ups to look at... if not with your head tilted sideways the first is a 62 impala 409 2x4bbl. follow the link to the twilight zone. (even 68 would want this) the other is a link to a buyers guide for 1976 laguna s-3's

i would venture to say that it was hemmings muscle machines or maybe muscle car review that would have had that in there because i remember reading about that very same car that nasa used with the U2's and all. white 63 pontiac with a 421. at any rate here is a photo with a write up of the car from nasa

hehe buddy of mine has a 65 ranchero. was is car in high school. he has a family now and all, usually when we see him we ask how his el camino is doing. it kills him.

thats right johnny, tell him what he's won. well we have a 1967 yenko stinger corvair and a 1981 Turbo Z

screams ford maverick to me hehe edit... is this a sign of the future partnership?

the almost new for 72 chevelle takes a few tweaks and can give you

there are several guys running around my area like that. they say its so that when they get in deep mud and crap the exhaust is up out of it... funny cause said trucks never seem to have signs of mud on them.

haha saw this on streetfire last night. can i haz tow hooks? seriously with the front axle turned so that the wheel becomes a snow plow, how did you think that you could pull it up the hill? my favorite part was the end. "dude i dont want him to mess his truck up"

i'd punch someones mom for that beast. i almost almost bought a black 97 tahoe 2dr sport with garnet interior for 7800 when i was looking for somethin in 2004. it had 65K miles. prolly better i went with the colorado tho considering the past 3 yrs.

entire existence you say? Reliability and quality. The Lexus LS has won the J.D. Power award for "Best High-end Luxury Sedan" 13 years in a row, the most for any manufacturer, in the long-term Vehicle Dependability Study.[7][68] The Lexus LS has also been the highest-ranked luxury sedan in J.D. Power's Initial Quality Survey for 10 consecutive years.[69] In 2006, Consumer Reports awarded the Lexus LS with a repeat ranking as the most reliable vehicle in the luxury car class, and for vehicles overall.[8][70] http://www.mywikibiz.com/Lexus_LS#Awards i wont argue with you on reliability. it can be proven but then again it also can be an opinion. for instance my grandparents 3800 II bonneville never gave them any trouble, even after 130K miles they traded it in. thats reliable. did it win awards? no. have others been as fortunate? no. but the other part of my statement was simplicity. fewer moving parts means less to go wrong. thats fine that everyone uses them. sure GM needs to get mainstream and use them too. but not for everything. i have no interest in 6 of the manufacturers you mentioned in that sentence. the only vehicles that gm makes that interest me enough to go for are trucks, camaro, and G8. i dont care about the others. i dont buy a car to be practical per say, i buy a car because thats what i want. bread and butter sedans are for people in their 30s and up. but just because its pushrod doesnt make it useless. which chevy do you want me to drive? the one from the 70's that could double as a martini shaker or the one like in my dads silverado that is smooth as silk? the one that was so quiet he turned the key again to make sure the truck started. i dont want a high winding strung out motor. the smaller displacement you got the tighter wound that motor gets. as for honda you mentioned earlier? nope i prefer my power to kick in around 3000 thanks.

i would rather have that pushrod reliabilty and simplicity than worry about dohc any day. i watched the guys on hot rod ste up the timing on a mustang cobra motor with dohc and was like screw that. they didnt evern do it they let a guy from rousch do it for them. by the way, that LS9 still seems to be making waves. its little brother the LSX series is devistatingly bullet proof. from feb issue of chevy rumble GM helped build four project cars to test this performance and reliability. The first was an ’02 Trans-Am fitted with a naturally aspirated 454-inch LSX Bowtie block and factory-style fuel injection. That package produced over 600 hp, yet also produced 24 mpg in more than 2,000 miles of driving this car on the street. Next, GM teamed with Thomson Automotive to build a 428-inch LSX engine mated to an Eaton 2300 supercharger. This build was good for over 900 hp, and the engine went in a tiny Solstice convertible. Another project was Robin Lawrence’s NMCA Nostalgia Pro Street Nova. Engine parts included a Bowtie block, LSX heads, sheetmetal intake, twin Dominator carburetors and a heavy dose of nitrous. The 9,000-rpm engine makes 930 hp as an all-motor application, and a whopping 1,400 hp with the nitrous engaged—good for 7.79 at 179 mph in the quarter-mile. Finally, the baddest of all the LSX mules was a 400cid-LSX-equipped ’96 Impala SS. The engine was fitted with all forged internals and twin 88mm Turbonetics turbochargers that produced 27 psi of boost. The engine was subjected to more than 80 dyno passes, which indicated more than 2,050 hp from this twin-turbo LSX engine combination! full story. like it or not pushrods are gonna be here for a long time. i will never understand how they are unrefined. P.S. i forgot to mention 8sp transmissions are just overkill unless you are towing or something. its like hunting squirrels with a m16, yeah you can do it but do you really need to?

i had this beast of a water canon. the Super Soaker 300. used to go outside with it and pretend i was a flame thrower in the army.

hehe did it play la cucaracha when the horn blew? i saw a 73 roadrunner purple with white stripes at ingles, a 65 convertible corvette this weekend, theres a hybrid tahoe on the local chevy lot along with 2 g8 gt's 3 gxp solstices, and 3 aveo 5's in yellow red and blue.

heheh when my dad was lookin for his 94 z28 (would have waited if he had known about the ss's 2 yrs down the road) the dealer went out on a back road and stomped it at 25mph, wound it up to 115 before letting off. my mom was in the back seat too. the funny thing is my dad said when the guy got it slowed back down he was all breathing hard and jittery like he'd never seen 100mph before. dad said if he'd been driving he could have made the salesman change his pants... i believe that cause he's made me pale as a sheet many a times.

hehe sorry my reading comprehension skills significantly decrease after midnight

those sytys are awesome. i have looked and looked at this only to keep backing out. its only 2 hours away. http://www.erepairables.com/my_pages/1029/...yclone.html#top the miles are what bothers me the most. kinda high for the condition too.

only guns i played with in 5th grade were the sega menacer, super scope 6, and super soaker 50 i did get my firs bb gun when i was 6 though. a daisy lever action. moved up to the daisy 880 powerline at 8. a .410 shotgun at 10. my first .22 at 12 and then i got my .243 deer rifle at 13. being raised with guns and being instilled with gun safety is one thing. some retard thats never held one goofing off with it is another.

on the subject of gun control laws, from reading other things about it there are several european countries looking to tighten theirs after this. for instance, the article i read said they will look into raising the age of purchase from 15... in my opinion there is no reason a 15 yr old shold be able to buy anything more than a bb or paintball gun. I play airsoft a good bit. in europe and and especially canada and japan, they are considered firearms and have pretty strict regulations. i dont feel someone under the age of 18 fully grasps the responsibility of their actions. at least 18 is tried as an adult if they do something stupid. Here in south carolina i thought it was so dumb that at 18 you could buy rifles and shotguns but no hand guns until 21. a gun is a gun and i promise there is so much more damage that can be done with a shotgun or .300 wm. its stupid to the point of i went to walmart to buy .22 ammo to go squirrel hunting but the guy wouldnt sell me them because i was 20 and they could be used in a handgun... i asked him how about a box of .30-06 he asked me which sized grain to which i replied i didnt want any really but though how humorous it was to sell me 180 grain ballistic tip rifle ammo but no .22s

thanks capriceman, i stumbled upon that lookin through photo collections on photobucket. thought what the heck its pretty good. thanks too PCS

i learned the other day that if you are really hungry its okay to try and pass people in the turning lane that ends in a traffic light pole nearly causing a 4 car pile up because your highschool self with friends are retards. applebee's isnt that good... really.

Sorry, those are the only ones that turn my head towards an Olds... those and a scant few years of full sizers from 60-64.

ah, thanks for clearing that up for me. here since september of last year i had it in my head that it was poor planning on more than one companies part. i was thinking that somehow it was the culmination of a heavy dependence on foreign oil, people encouraging buying things that was far out of their means by way of financing themselves into debt so they live paycheck to paycheck and therefore resulting in the defaulting of home business and auto loans when gas was hitting $3.50+ a gallon. see even though i didnt buy that house by financing for 110% of the cost because i didnt qualify for it to begin with but did anyway cause it was "fair" i am now paying on that house because the bank owns and no one will buy. the government steps in and rewards those banks for sticking their necks out there with the bailouts and when the auto industry everyone says foul why should we save them? "poor products" aside, when the home team doesnt have the advantages as the visiting side due to loopholes and other free passes the government allows, to me it doesnt seem fair. Japan would laugh if we demanded the same perks as their companies get here if we wanted to manufacture cars over there. there is not one single "ah-ha" answer to what has befallen this country except for plain and simple greed . everyone is guilty of it. me, you, the government, corporations, the whole shibang. when people finally realize that 3500sq/ft homes with 10 50"tv's 5 Bedrooms 4 baths, and a 3 car garage with 2 brand new cars and a boat in em arent necessary to have "made it" in life, this country can get back on its feet and shine like it did when the "greatest generation" were running the show.

dont get me wrong, i hate to skip from 1924 all the way to 1988 but i think there is were the road forks between the best and the wannabees. we have had all kinds of chevy trucks in my family. 1950 3100 my dad restored from the ground up over 7 yrs. 1969 chevy c10 fleetside with a 327 3 sp on the tree (my dad's old show truck. would start up on one turn, standing outside the truck) 1971 c10 stepside dad had a 78 chevy 4x4 (before i was born) 1986 scottsdale v6 4bbl (my grandpas 230,000 miles before it was wrecked and only a transmission rebuild up to that point.) 1990 ss454 mine 1996 gmc sierra (150,000 miles and counting replaced the 86 scottsdale) 1997 1500 dads traded at 147K miles with only the headgasket being replace for insurance that it wouldnt go out. 2004 colorado mine (nothing special though) 2004 silverado Z85 what dad traded his 97 in on. i'll post a pic of that beast. its killer.

it could be the fact that they are being lumped into the same boat as CITI. by not seeking more money they could distance themselves from the appearance of being a black hole of financial dispair. theres also that tiny little insignificant rumor about citi and other establishments being "nationalized". if i recall correctly that little rumor turned into a huge scare that sent the stocks running south.