A Horse With No Name

regular patron at a restaurant I eat at has a Focus that has trash literally spilling out of the windows as she drives...it's piled so high inside the car that it almost blocks the view out the rear window.... ocnblu, let me state on the flip side of the coin, not all body shops are great to work with either. Take my '96 Fleetwood, for example. The body shop I took it to for repairs told me up and down there would be no problem getting the car fixed in two days after it was hit when parked Dec 22, 2009 (right after an unexpected early Christmas heavy snowstorm). The first issue I had with them was they took an extra day (all parts were ordered in advance - so they said - and no surprises were found requiring additional parts location). Why an issue? They saw a cash cow due to the volume of accidents from the snowstorm and overbooked way too many repairs (my car was taken into the shop two weeks after the accident). Issue #2 was that they never gave the car any quality control, again due to the volume of cars they had to repair. The front chrome bumper was misaligned, the left front cornering light (brand new) was never checked to make sure it lit up, and the new headlight was aimed way too high. For a repair shop that had plenty of "awards and trophies" on display, I didn't feel I got the "friendly and professional" customer service they advertised! But on topic, I agree that people treat their vehciles like an extension of their garage (for those that do not use them to store their vehicles in) or their basement - in addition to a landfill. I always remark to my wife after sitting in someone's dirty/filthy car that these are the people that will complain about the trade-in value they're offered when trying to buy a new vehicle after ignoring their own cleanliness for years. I see lots of cars with really crappy repair work...LOTS....

Ready for winter...I make money fixing peoples heat also....

sweet...two more from me.... ...and yes I am into the union jack thing...

So dropped by my fav. body shop to check on a truck our company owns, that is getting some mechanical work done. They were doing a cleanup on a car a customer had brought in...a Cadillac with a very dirty interior. Everyone thought the interior of the car was black....owner of the shop actually found a few pieces from a car with a black interior in a local yard... They start cleaning...car has a saddle/Tan leather interior..car is a Cadillac...after three hours of running a shop vac, an industrial strength steam cleaner, and dumping aquarium levels of water on the carpets, they are still pulling stuff out that looks like a chocolate milk shake.... They have a whole crew cleaning the car for a whole day....and I was there when the woman picks up her car....she complains that it smells slightly of detergent, and says that she's not totally satisfied.... Seriously...they had to dye a few places darker brown to match the cruddy leather...whole interior is about the color of coffee with a little bit of cream in it... Car is only about 4 years old or so...how the heck they got the inside THAT dirty is a mystery to me....but...wow....

Does anyone have a rational idea of when car prices will start to fall?

Happy Birthday!

Come to Columbus, and we'll go to the pick and pull together...and then to a couple of other cool yards and places. I'll gladly buy lunch... It is a decent place for parts...but we have a couple of other yards that are much better.

yeah..it was nicer than the pics would indicate..wish I could have driven it out of there!

Keep us posted, dude!

El Camino is fantastic, the Buick is just to die for wonderful...thank you both!

Thinking a closed car like that is in my future...my friend just got 33.7 on a 2003 Focus SVT over the road on a trip, which is better than the Miata gets. Since Ford may be soon out of the question, I really am looking more at a Cruze.

Old Triumph Stag... But we'd better get back to the 38 Dodge before we hijack your thread...

Just random stuff from the interweb....

Tocay at the pic and pull

Taken at SCCA runoffs by someone on another forum...

Cool old fire truck!

When ever I get interested in buying a British car, I will usually have a British car guy say something like...."If your not already addicted, stay far, far away." I was around British sports cars as a kid, and miss them. But I don't miss the way they break down...or the massive self ignited roman candle that my friend Chip's MGB became in his driveway...

Worst cvar foire I ever saw was a Daytona prototype burn up ad Mid Ohio....they forgot to kill the electrical switch after it caught fire in an accident...so the fuel pump kept going....and dumped sixty gallons of high octane racing fuel between turns one and three. The largest part of what was left of that car rode home in the front seat of my Astro van....it wasn't a real big piece...

Nice looking car....too bad you can't add it to your fleet....

Sorry, wouldn't post, posted three times, and then wouldn't delete... Corvair needing love made me think of OCNBLU... Rolls just rolling out from a resto.... Sad older BMW six series in need of some love...actually a parts car... The stalled 911 project next to the BMW.... Older Benz in for some service... My car from the rear...it was within $100 of being a total, but the frame was unbent and the car is still as straight actually as the day it left Hiroshima... ...and yes the top needs some love...getting that fixed with everything else... 64 Cadillac ragtop in the front left hand corner....a blue 59 two door hardtop and a couple of other sixties caddies are hanging around on site...the crew that just got done with the rolls is getting ready to give the Monte Carlo SS some real love and TLC, should be fantastic when its done... Both have small block Ford power...and a separate continent of origin... E type Jag in final states of paint prep.... Dune buggy project and a Benz 190 project car....can you see where I love this place? Dark Green GTO awaits a little re clothing before he meets the jury... One last one of the Miata...it's in good hands, I think./..I'll post more pics later. Car I really wanted to show everyone was the 70 1/2 LT1 Red Z28 camaro that is undergoing a nut and bolt concourse resto....but my camera ate the pics some how.

In for a little cleanup and detailing... This Malibu got smacked right after the bu came out...been sitting there awhile...sad to see a brand new car wrecked and just decaying... Cadillac Ragtop in for a full repspray...will be a neat car when its done... Nice older 5 series BMW getting some love...

Agree on how fe people check air pressure... And I saw a blue Solstice GXP coupe/Targa this ayem....drove by too quickly for me to get a snapshot...but...awesome. ...and as afar as future GM iron, I actually like the idea of a Cobalt SS Turbocharged better....

I keep lusting after British cars, but am spoiled by "modern" reliability. I'd love to own a triumph TR3...or and MGB...