A Horse With No Name

The 'Slade is one of those cars like the Jeep Wrangler that never seems to bottom out/loose all its value. Chris

Nice job, and glad to see the best car won! Chris

Congradualations and good luck! Chris

Expensive, yes.... You can build a wannabe much cheaper. There is a kit that uses a donor Miata thats about 14k through fly'n Miata. There is also a kit called the Brunton Super Stalker that uses a GM drivetrain and all US-made parts. The Brunton is built around the Supercharged V6 of say a wrecked Park Avenue Ultra. Lots O fun in any case. Or just build a Factory 5 Roadster, they seem to be rather popular. Sadly, here in Cleveland a few years ago they tried to build a kit using a tube frame and a replica (a good replica IIRC) of a C2 Vette to build a Corvette Grand Sport Replica. I like the idea of a purpose built race car, even for Auto-X and low level road racing. Much lighter, easier to service... But the Caterham was sweet. It beat the 05 GTO's times by about 7 Seconds on a similar Auto-X setup, and was about 2-3 seconds faster than a modified AWD 911 Turbo. Chris

Assuming he's elected. Democrats are VERY good at clenching defeat from the jaws of victory... Chris

With apologies to Satty and Paulino, who have a Prius in the house.... http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/vol...icle_2508.shtml

We don't value work, esp. blue collar work in this country. Hence, we outsource it. I don't understand this thinking either. I'm 43, and IMHO my generation needs to hang their head in shame at what we've done with this nation we've been given. Chris

This is just silly. Whoever gets elected has got 8 years just trying to undo the disaster of the last eight. Milk and Honey will have to wait 30 years...we've had 30 years shiping jobs overseas, the decline of the middle class,no real energy policy, etc. Obama is our best chance of succes but we have so much facing us right now no one man or group of men can bail us out. It is going to take a major change in our society for things to get better, and it ain't gonna happen over night. Chris

Smart plan, I think.... Chris

You seem like a pretty tough animal, I reckon you'll survive. The question is how bad will it be for either McCain or Obama over the next four years? With the number of dumbass rednecks in this country who would like to kill Obama because he is black and McCains health, neither of them have that good of a shot in one sense of lasting four more years. And while I like the down to earth Soccar mom nature of Palin and the Experience of Biden, I'm not sure either one is really equiped to run the nation. Chris

I don't either. Where can I get actual hard information about this? Chris

Wow! Chris

Quite a nice upgrade! I'll bet he's happy. Chris

A friend of mine has the same truck, slightly lifted with some sweet aftermarket rims and a little added chrome. Nice truck! Chris

That and look at how really happy people are with the new Chevy/GMC trucks. I work on construction sites and guys just LOVE these trucks. GM has got them really, really, right. Hell, I'm a Micro car and oldies kinda guy and even I'm in lust over them. Chris

Kinda cool working on yhour own car, isn't it? This is another advantage to me in having a teenaged son, someone I love to do it with. I can guarantee that you and Sixty-Eight and Dave87RS, etc with young children will find out one thing-no matter how much you think you love them now, that love will grow one hundred fold by the time they turn 15- As will their ability to break your heart when they do something stupid. Chris

I can say this, having started autocrossing I really like how RWD cars feel at the limit, and I don't like the understeer of FWD cars. I just wish there were more sub-30k RWD cars than Mustang, Miata, Camaro, S2000, Solstice, Sky. etc. But sliding around in a late model GTO has really made me like the whole RWD thing...plus if you live up North like we do they are lots O fun in the snow! Chris

A whole lot of us have the same idea...wish I had the same ability that you and Oldsmoboi have to carry it out. Things are going to get very ugly in this country, and they are going to stay very ugly for awhile. Chris

...and something else we agree on. Also, while we disagree about politics, I do see you as very concerned about the future of our nation, and I'm glad you are as passionate about that as you are GM. Now, let's see if we can keep GM going! Chris

Maybe they will ahve the good sense to burn the car in sacrafice while it is on the alter. Chris

Oh, and quit it with the F body's in the emoticons, I'm trying (without success) to fend oiff the idea of building a 3rd or 4th gen F body car... Joel and I are going to go look at a couple of project candidates. Chris

getting back to the positive...how is your wagon doing, Satty? Chris

+1 Chris

The revised (current) MINI is even better, as the center stack in the car is narrower and there is more knee room. Although the speedo is now larger than the rims on a drug dealers Escalade.... Chris

I'm still thinking a new MINI may well be my next car, if it isn't a GTI, TDI Jetta or Cobalt SS. But yes, drive a good classic mini. Chris