A Horse With No Name

Nice looking car! Chris

Sad. Sorry to see the plant go.

Yes, we do. But I would cross the Pacific Ocean in a leaky rowboat with smk as company to give siegen a ration of crap. Chris

Bingo, 'blu. If they don't have an honest car for honest cash, better off to pass.

You are assuming that she's thinking with any form of logic... Chris

Not suprising that Ohio asked for $38 million so far. Lots around here are packed solid with vehicles about to be crushed. As fast as they can haul the cars away, the lots seem to fill back up with cars in the program. I'll keep everyone posted about what I see going into the program around here... Chris

Very well put, 'blu. Chris

Either would work. Put it in Second manually when the car gets rolling and let her rip... Passat might handle better. We have guys in the TDI club who autocross automatic Passats, so it has been done. Chris

We have a GTO that comes out to run, bring the Cutlass. Believe it or not, we have a lot of GM fans in our Miata club and the SCCA. We would LOVE to see that thing run... Chris

Wilber Wright, as in orville and Wilber and kitty hawk...

Actually this would be a good time to upgrade, although replacing the tranny might not be a bad idea. A fuel efficient good handling small car might be just the thing when gas prices go back to $4.25 a gallon. Chris

...and NOS-NICE looking car. LOVE the suspension on the Neon. They got that part of the car dead right. If your ever in Ohio come dance around some cones with us. We'll loan you a helmet if you don't have one. Chris

A bunch of us from Miatanet and North American Motoring (the MINI site) are planning to take over next. Pretty soon the GM owners will be in the minority on the GM site. How strange will that be? BTW, how much are you asking for the used SS Cobalt? I may know a guy who is interested. Chris

Oh my God in heaven yes! Sweet car... Chris

If you really want a good deal on repo's go to an auction where you can look at the car. I live down the road from the Ohio auto auction and every so often they ahve auctions that are open to the public and not just dealers. Also, my boss buys cars online from a place in Chicago I think. He just picked up a new Beetle for his girlfriend for $3500, needed some minor repair but ran great. But my two cents is to do what gm4life did. Find a car where you know the history and know how its been taken care of. I'd rather pay $500 too much and get a really good, well cared for car than spend $500 too little and get a car with problems. That thinking has always served me well. Chris

And if you wish to visit Ohio for a few days to clear your head, I could find a good place for Zora and Arkus. I have a friend who has some rural land if you just want to go quad and four wheel (he has a CJ-7 as well.) Maybe you just need to load up the wagon and do a C and G road trip? Too bad you can't sell the mothertruck and do the route 66 thing with knightfan. Chris

Kind of like what one of my friends who grew up on a farm said about life. "Life is like a big pile of cow$h!, and you are an ant. You get out from under one pile and another pile falls down on top of you. The important thing is to keep moving."

I love this way of thinking. Chris

Why do you think I love having a convertible so much? A good drive out of the city is wonderful...it helps clear my head. Chris

Change is actually good and healthy. Go for it! Chris

Good luck! Chris

I don't know about off of the grid but I am simplifying. Working on paying off the house... Get books from the library rather than buy them...I love to read. I shop for clothes at the thirft store and don't care about having much. I like the idea. I plan to travel as I get older. In your case, I would sell the mother truck, the Jag the wagon perhaps and the Camino. You need the big truck for work, and you could make the other truck run forever. Get one car you really want, build it and hold onto it. Build a clone of the 71 GMC Spring big block perhaps. Or build a clone of a 50's Pontiac Delivery. Whatever floats your boat. But as for me I have 5 children, so life can only get so simple. Chris

People in the country are SO-f@#kING-STUPID. I got rear ended by an 88 year old woman, only minor damage. Cop is leaning over my car writing his report. "...It shows on your registration that your car is silver. What actual color is your car?" "Silver. Why do you ask?" "I just have to verify the color." This as he's leaning on my car writing the report! Oh, and one of our customers was in an accident...she T-boned an F150 with a Cavalier convertible...she was going about 45 miles per hour. She was little stiff and had a few bruises (the F150 ran a light). When I asked them why they were getting a Corolla raher than a GM product to replace the Cavi, they said they needed something nice and safe for the family and wouldn't be buying GM. Amazing. Chris

True to a point, Sigen. But most of the cars that qualified as trade ins were domestic. One would see plenty of old Camcords and Civics traded in the government wanted everyone to drive a body on frame car for safety or something. That being said, the domestics have a LONG way to go in terms of small cars. It's just too bad the crop of current small Japanese cars (Civic, Corolla, the ungodly ugly new 3, the amazingly ugly Mitsu products, the trash from Suziki) is so progoundly unattractive. To think that one could trade a rusted F150 in on a new car and actually get somehing that looked worse... Chris

I disagree 100%. I mean, look at the current Acura lineup. Nothing the Americans or Euros have built in 110 years of car building is remotely that butt ugly. Chris