A Horse With No Name

...and who knows, maybe Tony Stewart will be racing a Toyota again... Chris

I'm not anti Nascar, a lot of people who aren't white trash like it. I think Satty is bashing it because he doesn't understand it or want to understand it, and because bashing it gives him a feeling of superiority for no reason at all. Just like people bashing Satty's Prius gives them a feeling of superiority for no rational reason. For what it's worth, NO ONE on our board could drive fast enough or well enough to compete well in even the late model series at Columbus Motor Speedway. (here in Columbus we call it Columbus Monkey speedway) At 1/3 mile Columbus motor is the shortest sanctioned Nascar track in the nation. No way in hell...could the best drivers from that track compete at the next level very well...and no way in hell could the best drivers at that level step up to Nationwide series driving, much less Nextel Cup Driving. A few years ago, David Brown, a VW GTI SCCA driver who raced in showroom stock let Bryan Herta, a CART driver at the time, take his car out for a few laps. Dave was fast by SCCA standards, and Bryan took a good 3 or 4 Seconds off of Daves lap times right away. As SCCA racecar driver Randy Pobst said....there are two things every man thinks he can do, and one of them is drive a car fast in competition. Satty...perhaps you could put your money where your mouth is and drive in some form of competition, be it karting, autocross, drag racing, road rally, rallycross, road racing, or whatever...before you open your mouth and make god's own original ass out of yourself? Not trying to be mean, but I usually enjoy what you write. In this thread you really have sounded profoundly stupid. Chris

I could see you with a new Camaro, Sixty Eight. Not sure where I am going to head next with my interest. Chris

Ohio

Pick a few new cars that just make you say...what on earth were they thinking? Here are my pics. VW Routan-who thought VW buyers would want a rebadged Chryco minivan? Apparently VW has an 18 month + supply of them. Nissan Cube-not even going there BMW X6-Cpying the Aztec? Pontiac Vibe/Toyota Matrix-bigger, uglier, heavier, less fun to drive than the previous model and less fuel efficient also. The Routan is by far the worst, imho. Chris

This one is pricy...but looks damned nice in the blue with the redlines... http://www.oldride.com/classic_cars/977154.html Chris

Check out this Firebird-not everyones cup of tea, but the exact car I would have loved to have bought from Pontiac http://www.oldride.com/classic_cars/933670.html Chris

That would be very correct sir. The problem is that there are very specific things you need to do to get a rotary to run right and keep it running...things most owners won't do. I've got some friends in the SCCA who run RX-7's, fast light cars (Ken runs a first gen rX-7, another friend runs a second gen RX-7) but easy and low maint they are not. Best idea is an LS1 motor in a RX-7 Chasis. Lots of power, lots of handling.... Rotaries are an amazing motor. They will run at 9,000 RPM's for a whole 12 hour enduro without thinking a thing about it. Low wieght of components helps, I think perhaps. Chris

I know you don't like Yellow but to me the modern GTO looks damned good in it. Chris

BMW seems to be going less cutting edge and more mainstream. The new Z4 is decent, but its more of a hair dressers car and less of a sports car. The 3 series is allright but nothing to write home about. BMW IMHO needs to steal a page from the VW/Audi playbook and learn how to be creative and cutting edge again. And then we need to find a time machine and send that playbook page back to Oldsmobile...back in 86 or 97 or 78 or something... Chris

The best things about the LSX is the exhaust note. With the right aftermaket setup that thing just makes my spine tingle and the hairs on my arms stand up on end. Chris

Exactly. Somehow the current M3 just doesn't quite get it. Chris

Glad to hear you got a car, Mustang84. The 4th gen cars are starting to grow on me a little bit...actually. Having driven an RX-8...and waiting on power...lack of tourque...it's sort of like knowing the school dance is three more hours and it's going to be at least three and a half hours before she is going to want to get it on. That LS1 wants it NOW! Chris

Classic car sales are WAYYYY down.... Now would be a good time to buy, if anyone in our nation still had a job... Chris

We're about to get it and it's coming from the hand called 'reality' Chris

Yes, it would... Chris

It would beat the hell out of fixing other peoples Camry's for a living, now wouldn't it? Chris

I think your like me gm4life...having a few practical family cars when your in the process of raising kids. Wife and I talked about both a MINI Cooper and a Camaro as a future car today...we'll have more cool cars in the future. Chris

Which brings us back to about eleventy billion other discussions we've had here...as a nation we've seemingly given up on ourselves. Chris

Delorean

Personally, I think you've got the big diesel truck, the blazer, the wagon, and the Camino which you will someday sell. Think maybe you might find one car you really want to keep and start putting your energies there? Chris

The 1 series is hot IMHO, even though a lot of my friends don't like it. Current M3 is a little large and a little too much like a grand touring car than a sports car. E-30M3 was a much better "drivers car", as was the E36M3. But as for me' I'll take a clown shoe coupe, please. Coolest little BMW made, IMHO. Chris

Given how good the underhood looked on Camino's wagon, I think just the opposite...we can all go work as apprentices under Camino and learn the art of resto. Then we can restore our own cars, and Camino can play with Zora and Arkus. Chris

Glad to hear the yellow hardtop was found... Also...too bad they can't build a very close replica of the original Corvette based Nomad on a larger scale, and at lower cost, like Factory Five does with it's Cobra.

The idiot students at Ohio State do the same thing when Ohio State beats Michigan... Chris