A Horse With No Name

Actually I would like the VR6 in an R32 and a proper V6 fiero, please....

Love the VW GTI interior... And actually, the interior on the new Mustang is a huge improvement as well. Chris

Pretty sure I saw the same units at the Norfolk Southern Yard off of 104 on the south end of Columubus a few days ago....

Glad to hear your enjoying the wagon...and the deckscool thing sounds legit...

Didn't Flybrian say that Lincoln was like...

I keep thinking a GTI is in my future...esp with the HPFP issues the TDI's are having.... The GTI is one of the coolest cars built today, methinks...

That guy drives like I do....

I want the Mustang fastback parked next to THAT, GMCTG74!

News flash for ya... Save your money, drive the Camaro into the ground, and buy an LS1 powered Z28 in really good shape....in the future....you will be a happy boy...

now THAT GTO was unmolested completely, original hub caps, 78 series bias ply tires that were not repops...driven by a very old African American gentleman....just out for a Wendy's burger on a Saturday afternoon.... 66-Full size 2 + 2 ragtop, originally blue on blue with a white top, now white on blue with a white top...at a local car show....guy had PHS documentation showing it was a "real" 2 + 2 ragtop...I've learned not to use the term rare with balthazar, but that has to be an uncommon car to say the least... 67-GTO ragtop and three or four really nice hardtops...another hardtop made into a funky but cool custom...and a donked 67 goat. Also a couple of really nice 66 hardtops, including a really nice 3 x blue tri power car. Also a very high optioned 66 maroon on black car I almost forgot about....and a post car, which also wasn't terribly common, although i believe several thousand of those were built in 66... 68-full size Bonneville in a bad neighborhood, still being used as a driver...very rusty wagon in an alley...a GTO without the hideaway headlights or Endura bumper...blue...a very nice Verdero green GTO hardtop...and a Firebird doing the two lane boogie at the strip... 69-unrestored, preserved somwhat but showing age GTO, blue, at a local car show...I kind of like them that way. Full size Gold Bonneville two door...decent but not nice... 70-GTO Judge ragtop, real GTO but the judge part was cloned, red with a white interior... 71-red (now faded orange) Lemans Sport Ragtop sitting outside of a body shop down off of Leonard Avenue...nice 66-67 aqua blue Chevy II sitting there with it... 71 Full size donkmobile with what had to be 28" wheels going down 5th avenue by United Refrigeration Sales Wednesday afternoon... 72-full size two door down south on US 23....again, kind pf a funky don't look at me gold with a gold vinyl top...driven by a very large, older woman.... 74-Trans Am in a junkyard, now crushed...was mostly a rusty shell with nothing left... 78ish-blue on blue trans am, sitting behind a trailer on an old dirt road, looked like it had been parked a long time... Blue G8 that showed up at the Porsche club/Mercedes Benz club auto cross... Maroon 2005ish GTO that has been showing up at a few local SCCA events... In pics only, but a neat 74 GTO that had been made into a neat little bracket/drag car, think that would be a cool alternative to a Nova as a drag car... Neat discussion at Jegs with a guy who was restoring a 67 GTO... (continued) Nice 58 Chevy, Balthazar.... Sorry to be in so much of a Pontiac state of mind...but I just am right now...those were my sightings over the last month or two....

I've seen a bunch of Old Pontiacs lately, including a whole bunch of ragtops... 57 ragtop, silver, white interior and top, flawless... 58 ragtop, green on green, funky two toneish green interior, black top, needed some resto work but looked solid... 59-Black with white top and a black interior, red with red interior and white top, and a four door 59 Pontiac, funky shade of blue, the more door was kind of a running parts car...all there...and going down Ohio rt 315 60-Maroon ragtop up at the car show north of Kroger's on Hoover road, black interior, nice...good chrome on that one. 62-Another full size ragtop, 3x white, and another Grand Prix in maroon... 63-really cool pictures of a vintage Pontiac drag car from one of the websites I visited, kind of a cool year...got to love full size GM cars from that era as drag cars...also...a Pontiac magazine ran an article about a guy who built a "Bubble top" one of none phantom that was cool also... 64-Two door hardtop and a four door post car....four door post car was black and indecent shape... 65 Grand Prix-haven't seen these around forever....black one lives over near my friend Doug...another one in a garage in grove city here...another one lives down ehind the community market in Chilicothe...yet another one in black primer has started coming to local shows... 65 GTO-Nice triple black tri power car at a local show, very clean gold car with a black vynal top...and a silverish car...right in the drive through right across the street from where I bought my 66 Mustang fastback back in 93... (Continued next post...)

Nice looking vee dub, Vipes...

One more excellent reason not to live in that Islamic crap hole...

Aren't you glad you didn't buy that trashed red 79 "redbird" Firebird and dump sixty grand into it and still have a pile of dog crap?

Um...GTI, Prelude...Cooper S...Cobalt SS...Focus SVT...Acura Integra GSR or Type R...RSX..Neon SRT-4...Neon ACR...Older Civic SI...Lots of good driving, good handling FWD cars. Just sayin...because I graduated from high school...

I', with Blue and SA. this should be an easy fix and part of owning the car...

I've noticed my night vision going away with age a little bit also... Now that I think about it, Dwight is making some sense...

Looks like I may need to take a trip to Massachusetts, Df! And Balthazar...if I ever make it to Jersey...we know where to go...

So this week I've been hauling a lot of junk into my favorite scrap metal yard, Ace Iron and scrap. Weird group of cars there... A group of Alfa Sedans...a bunch of older Benzes, from the 80's and 90's, some odd stuff... A Suburban with 24" expensive wheels that was in decent shape, expensive wheels left on the thing when it went to the crusher for some odd reason... A really clean 944 Porsche, that had a claw put through it's roof... Several clean FWD Cadillacs. a few with low mileage and nice... Several Jags... A WRX (2004ish) that had been built into a rally car of sorts....was crushed, so I couldn't get a good look at the cage...but somebody had a bad day racing... a 64ish Pontiac, think it was a Catalina, that had been made into a circle track car a long time ago...like back in the 70's. Went into the crusher before I could get a good look at it to tell anything about it...but a cool old car... Anyone else see anything interesting in Junkyards lately? Chris

Once you've done it a few times, it is pretty easy...I've done it. You might try to buy a heavy duty clutch, one from a company that sells racing products. Not every heavy duty clutch is super stiff. Considering I can fix darn near anything, I would agree.

Interested Idea, but not something that makes me want to drive a Buick... but then I'm more of a Lotus, Mazda and Porsche guy than a Buick guy.

Vipes and I might be getting the same ride, as I love the MK IV GTI. Thought of both Vipes and DF today...was at the scrap yard, scraping out a bunch of copper and aluminium, and they brought in a nearly undamaged Intrepid, and a mildly damaged but amazingly clean Hardbody Nissan like Vipes originally wanted. This is a scrap metal Yard, not a salvage yard, got to watch as sadly both were lifted up and dumped into the crusher...what a waste!

Andrew, you are giving me the inspiration to give the Mazda Miata some much needed TLC... Thanks for posting this!

Malibu would be a great choice...and let me pipe up and say Fusion would be an excellent choice as well.

Enjoy!