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dont forget wanted hehe

because in my mind from 68 to 78 was about the best it ever got. im 26 btw. look at how much that era of rock influenced things. jack-holes like kid (doesnt) rock are even going back and pulling music from there for his songs now (sweet home alabama/werewolves of london). i loathe ihs very being because of such... he is the Rock equivalent of p-diddy. but bands like aerosmith roling stones pink floyd moody blues chicago the who i mean come on the list goes on.

you mean something along the lines of this nonsense?

stairway to heaven anything foreigner too hehe

the whole top part of my closet is full of em. i really need to get them on photobucket and show em off. they wont win any shows but they look good on my shelf. off the top of my head i got 2 1962 belairs one stock one super stock 61 impala 64 impala 70 impala 94 impala 1/12 scale 69 z28 66 nova 1990 ss 454 1500 1987 buick gn 1986 ss monte carlo aerocoupe 70 boss 420 70 mach 1 70 hemi cuda 70 challenger t/a 70 trans am 69 ss chevelle 69 super bee 70 road runner 70 daytona 68 charger 04 gto 66 gto 60 pontiac bonneville 69 yenko camaro 69 ss nova 66 rivierra and i am prety sure i got 3 or 4 missing from that list. i know i have built several and given them away as gifts. a 2000 s10 extreme with an ls1 conversion courtesy of a botched model 72 chevelle and i built a 1/12 scale 57 belair to the options and color of my grandparents they used to own. pink and white with grey interior.

theres a guy that goes to the local car shows at atlanta dragway he has a gutted camper from the 70's that he uses as a mobile model store. stacks from floor to ceiling 3 deep or more. and the best part? most if not all can be had for $10

hmmm one more chance to to something really stupid before the new year starts. heheh

buddy of mine found some old model cars sealed on ebay. looky even one for you too camino prolly the cheapest one you could get hehe

im going to go out on a limb and say that last sentence is prolly going to get some flame thrown at it in a later point in time. just because one company has a "reputation" or something of that ilk, doesnt mean the ones behind it are struggling with that same problem.

im suprised you didnt post the tunnel of obsenities oldsmoboi

Doh, did that Sunday

even stan agrees. holiday PC (crappy quaility)

actually the reason gibbs left chevy and went toyo is because his race teams were 4th in line for everything the factory handed out. hendricks, RCR, and DEI got first dibs, when Mikie failed out miserably toyota offered Joe an deal he couldnt refuse, he got first everything. looks like it paid off for him but you know the drivers had no choice but drive or buy out the contract. on another note whats the deal with spamming a thread you dont care anything about? its like playing last clap in a high school assembly

Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret WASHINGTON (AP) - It's something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where's the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation's largest banks say they can't track exactly how they're spending the money or they simply refuse to discuss it. "We've lent some of it. We've not lent some of it. We've not given any accounting of, 'Here's how we're doing it,'" said Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for JPMorgan Chase, which received $25 billion in emergency bailout money. "We have not disclosed that to the public. We're declining to." The Associated Press contacted 21 banks that received at least $1 billion in government money and asked four questions: How much has been spent? What was it spent on? How much is being held in savings, and what's the plan for the rest? None of the banks provided specific answers. "We're not providing dollar-in, dollar-out tracking," said Barry Koling, a spokesman for Atlanta, Ga.-based SunTrust Banks Inc., which got $3.5 billion in taxpayer dollars. Some banks said they simply didn't know where the money was going. "We manage our capital in its aggregate," said Regions Financial Corp. (RF) spokesman Tim Deighton, who said the Birmingham, Ala.-based company is not tracking how it is spending the $3.5 billion it received as part of the financial bailout. The answers highlight the secrecy surrounding the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which earmarked $700 billion - about the size of the Netherlands' economy - to help rescue the financial industry. The Treasury Department has been using the money to buy stock in U.S. banks, hoping that the sudden inflow of cash will get banks to start lending money. There has been no accounting of how banks spend that money. Lawmakers summoned bank executives to Capitol Hill last month and implored them to lend the money - not to hoard it or spend it on corporate bonuses, junkets or to buy other banks. But there is no process in place to make sure that's happening and there are no consequences for banks who don't comply. "It is entirely appropriate for the American people to know how their taxpayer dollars are being spent in private industry," said Elizabeth Warren, the top congressional watchdog overseeing the financial bailout. But, at least for now, there's no way for taxpayers to find that out. Pressured by the Bush administration to approve the money quickly, Congress attached nearly no strings on the $700 billion bailout in October. And the Treasury Department, which doles out the money, never asked banks how it would be spent. "Those are legitimate questions that should have been asked on Day One," said Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., a House Financial Services Committee member who opposed the bailout as it was rushed through Congress. "Where is the money going to go to? How is it going to be spent? When are we going to get a record on it?" Nearly every bank AP questioned - including Citibank and Bank of America, two of the largest recipients of bailout money - responded with generic public relations statements explaining that the money was being used to strengthen balance sheets and continue making loans to ease the credit crisis. A few banks described company-specific programs, such as JPMorgan Chase's plan to lend $5 billion to nonprofit and health care companies next year. Richard Becker, senior vice president of Wisconsin-based Marshall & Ilsley Corp. (MI) (MI), said the $1.75 billion in bailout money allowed the bank to temporarily stop foreclosing on homes. But no bank provided even the most basic accounting for the federal money. "We're choosing not to disclose that," said Kevin Heine, spokesman for Bank of New York Mellon, which received about $3 billion. Others said the money couldn't be tracked. Bob Denham, a spokesman for North Carolina-based BB&T Corp., said the bailout money "doesn't have its own bucket." But he said taxpayer money wasn't used in the bank's recent purchase of a Florida insurance company. Asked how he could be sure, since the money wasn't being tracked, Denham said the bank would have made that deal regardless. Others, such as Morgan Stanley (MS) spokeswoman Carissa Ramirez, offered to discuss the matter with reporters on condition of anonymity. When AP refused, Ramirez sent an e-mail saying: "We are going to decline to comment on your story." Most banks wouldn't say why they were keeping the details secret. "We're not sharing any other details. We're just not at this time," said Wendy Walker, a spokeswoman for Dallas-based Comerica Inc., which received $2.25 billion from the government. Heine, the New York Mellon Corp. spokesman who said he wouldn't share spending specifics, added: "I just would prefer if you wouldn't say that we're not going to discuss those details." The banks which came closest to answering the questions were those, such as U.S. Bancorp and Huntington Bancshares Inc., that only recently received the money and have yet to spend it. But neither provided anything more than a generic summary of how the money would be spent. Lawmakers say they want to tighten restrictions on the remaining, yet-to-be-released $350 billion block of bailout money before more cash is handed out. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the department is trying to step up its monitoring of bank spending. "What we've been doing here is moving, I think, with lightning speed to put necessary programs in place, to develop them, implement them, and then we need to monitor them while we're doing this," Paulson said at a recent forum in New York. "So we're building this organization as we're going." Warren, the congressional watchdog appointed by Democrats, said her oversight panel will try to force the banks to say where they've spent the money. "It would take a lot of nerve not to give answers," she said. But Warren said she's surprised she even has to ask. "If the appropriate restrictions were put on the money to begin with, if the appropriate transparency was in place, then we wouldn't be in a position where you're trying to call every recipient and get the basic information that should already be in public documents," she said. Garrett, the New Jersey congressman, said the nation might never get a clear answer on where hundreds of billions of dollars went. "A year or two ago, when we talked about spending $100 million for a bridge to nowhere, that was considered a scandal," he said. By MATT APUZZO --- Associated Press writers Stevenson Jacobs in New York and Christopher S. Rugaber and Daniel Wagner in Washington contributed to this report. (This version CORRECTS SUBS 9th graf to correct program name to Troubled Asset, sted Assets. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081222/D957QL7O0.html

thats because its much less embarrasing to be seen in those than a modded civic hehe

that a model seven remington?

hmmm that ricy spoiler will be out just in time for fast and furious 4...

where boredom and cars cross paths

i would kill for the 510 impy no really just give me a name and an address...

hehe i thought that HiLux was pretty rugged top gear tried to destroy... i dont miss those old toyota comercials at all. btw i wonder what that cat was getting ready to say in the next comercial. retrojunk.com has a lot of great old comercials to browse through. hehe toyota pickup, international truck of terrorism since 1982!

ty-a i said ti-a... the mothers rebuttal was "de dash be not silent." thats right ti dasha... wow...

These days, cylinder deactivation, or variable displacement, is relatively common — the 2008 Honda Accord V6 has it, for instance. And it's a beautiful idea. When the engine is running at light loads, it's logical to shut down unneeded cylinders to save fuel, like turning off lights in unused rooms. But in 1981, when semiconductors and on-board computers were still in their infancy, variable displacement was a huge technical challenge. GM deserves credit for trying, but the V-8-6-4 was the Titanic of engine programs. The cars jerked, bucked, stalled, made rude noises and generally misbehaved until wild-eyed owners took the cars to have the system disconnected. For some it was the last time they ever saw the inside of a Cadillac dealership. someone please correct me if i am wrong but didnt the 5.3's sport active fuel management in 05? in monte carlo's no less? praise be to Honda the seers of techno... what do you mean chevy and dodge have been successfully doing it since 2006?

50 worst cars ever according to time

Is This Detroit's Last Winter? This is the thanks you get for creating the middle class, Henry. In the throes of the biggest auto swoon since 1931, the headmen of Detroit go hat in hand to Washington to try to keep their once mighty industry upright for a couple of months and are treated as if they had invented the four-wheel-drive subprime mortgage. AIG torpedoes the entire economy and gets a $150 billion handout; Citigroup takes risks no sane manufacturing company would even contemplate and is rewarded with a $20 billion federal bailout. And the car guys? full article here

it was also getting out of hand in new zealand. people naming kids kitchen and bathroom and retarded stuff like that. we just recently had a patient come in to the hospital. the name was ty-a. anyone care to write out the pronunciation? i'll spell it out later on this evening.