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Oh, Cmon, CMG. We had a 1994 with the 3.8L and it got 42MPG consistently as it plowed across Alberta's flatland, even with 100K miles on it. It got like 36-37MPG in the Mountain passes. They were good vans and we still regret selling ours, Nine Years Later. They weren't that bad (Well, Ours Wasn't) It looked just like this one:

I found you a Dustbuster... But it's 2000$ and in N.J. 1995 Pontiac Trans Sport 3.8L The ad says it has a 3-Spd, but it has 4 Spd. (They're wrong) http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?rdpa...&cardist=93 1991 Buick Century V6 Estate - 1500$ http://longisland.craigslist.org/car/607363496.html

Happy Birthday, 'blu!

"Eleanor Rigby" - Aretha Franklin

Yeah, I'm with Dodgefan 100% on this one.

A Purple One with GXP Decals? :AH-HA_wink:

I can attest to this personally. God I miss that van. Ciera and Century on the 2nd Generation A-Body (1989-1996) (That was the good one) The 1st Generation (-1988) A-Body included Pontiac 6000 and Chevrolet Celebrity (Significantly Less Good). V6 would be the 3300 (Predecessor to 3400), no 3800. 21MPG City.

6-Pass Split Bench, with a 4Spd, and it appears to be an SL so it prolly has the V6, but the L4 ain't bad.

No. The Ciera is the A-Body (Old Faithful, The Bismarck, The Sherman Tank), the same type that Paolino has except his is a Century. They typically go till 250K-300K Miles.

1995 Camaro V6, 130K- 2000$ Negotiable http://longisland.craigslist.org/car/626592926.html 1989 Cutlass Ciera, 78K Miles, One Owner, Garaged All Its Life - 975$ http://longisland.craigslist.org/car/606963540.html

W-Bod Cutlass Supreme Coupe.

Zero Percent financing on Cobalt, HHR, G5, Aveo etc... is going on up in Canada already, they'll even throw in a free sunroof

Wow. Sexy. I like the DTS better because it's a Caddy with really aggressive lines, but I'd kill for either one.

I can under cut that easy. Cavalier. Package of Juicy Fruit

Yeah, I'm with YJ. That electric steering is the PITS. I would not own a 2004-07 Malibu or G6 for that sole reason. Maybe okay on a smaller car like a Cobalt or G5 but it is waaay too loose.

You really think It's rotting underneath? You know, that was my absolute first thought months ago... but my dad was like BLAH BLAH, I was undercoated when it was still new, it's still good now (). I didn't buy it. An Undercoat lasting 12 Years? I doubt it. He caught me rinsing the salt out from underneath a few months ago like a conscientious car owner and told me it wasn't necessary, . When I told my mom what he said, she laughed her ass off because she agrees with your diagnosis 100% (I showed it to her). Apparently my dad hasn't lived on the east coast like my mom has. But you've got me thinking. I'm going to rinse it out underneath at one of those coin op joints and get some pics of the under body (if I ever get it back), it's being towed to the dealer tomorrow. Dave, btw, there are other rust spots. Lots of rust bubbling underneath the gas filler door, behind the front passenger door handle, and a small spot on the roof. There is also a rather severe ring of rust around the plastic fuel filler socket thingy (whatever it's actually called escapes me momentarily). One thing's for sure, that Impala is getting undercoated every three years. Full underbody wash every three weeks during the winter, and when I turn 25 and my insurance goes down, it will So be garaged in the winter while an off lease Invicta, Aura or Malibu does the dirty work.

Lol. Three Chevrolets now, and it's been like that since 1999 when our last Pontiac went back. Before 1997 we were all Pontiac for a while. I know that my dad only strayed from GM Twice: A 1965 Chrysler Newport 2-Door Hardtop in Copper, and a Yellow 1973 Datsun 240. The Newport, because it was free, and the Datsun because, well, I don't know why he bought it and he can't give me a good answer either. He's owned a 1965 Impala SS 283 that he bought on Long Island in 1968 for 900$. Sold when he returned to Canada from Brooklyn when he joined the RCMP- he needed a car with a hard top for the winter, so he traded it for my Grandfather's Newport (he's a Mopar Guy) it was Candy Apple Red, Black Convertible Top, Black Interior, 1967 Delta 88 Hardtop Coupe with a 425 (Black) bought after the Newport was W/O by some drunk lady on main street in my dad's first posting in Cranbrook, BC. He then bought the Datsun, when it was one year old. He was shortly after transferred to the armpit of B.C., Kaslo, where he quickly found out that unreliable Japanese cars do not do well in a town of 500. The only mechanics in town could really only work on the Big three. Parts were expensive to order... and well, he ditched it for a mint 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass-S in Black. He kept that Olds for a while, well into his stint in Surrey B.C., when it crapped out he bought my grandmother's 1969 Pontiac Acadian and drove that for a while. Before he was transferred to Airdrie, Alberta and the Calgary Airport Special Squad in 1979, he bought a Baby Blue 1975 Pontiac LeMans Sport Coupe. He kept this car the longest of all of his cars and it lasted until 1989 when he finally realized it was a beater (People were afraid to park next to it and near the end, it looked like he was a serial killer. Once a lady rammed into his car and just left 500$ under the wiper and drove away) He replaced "Old Blue" with a new 1989 Pontiac Grand Am LE Coupe (Gray/Silver Two Tone) with the Quad4. He drove it until 1994 and then gave it to my mom when he retired from the RCMP and bought his 1994 Trans Sport 3.8L. He Kept that until 1999, then leased a new 1999 Venture LS EXT (Fernmist Green on Neutral Cloth) because the Private Investigation company he had just started could write off a new car, followed by a leased 2002 Venture LS EXT (Bronzemist on Medium Gray Cloth) followed by a 2005 Venture LS EXT (Dark Blue on Gray Cloth with 16s) that we just returned. He now drives a 2007 Impala LS, loaded, in Dark Silver Metallic on Ebony Cloth, which he has pledged to me after three years of ownership at half the trade-in value, when he can write another car off for business purposes as per the tax code. My mom on the other had is a mixed bag of car purchases. Grandpa MacDonald was an eccentric Presbyterian Minister on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada who apparently I am alot like, and he was a Dodge man. He owned a 1947 Wood-Paneled Dodge when my Mom was born in 1955. My Grandma, however often dictated the car purchases. She was born in Mull, Scotland and emigrated to Canada in 1916, and thought the "imperial homeland" made the best cars. An old Vauxhall Station Wagon (1956 I believe), a 1961 or 1962 Vauxhall Cresta, an Old Sunbeam Rapier... The list of Imported British cars they owned is longer but I forgot the others. She had a late 1960s Vauxhall and I think maybe another Britmobile before she died in 1979. After that, My Grandfather had American cars again. I don't know what ones exactly, but I think a couple of Dodge Station wagons before he ended up with his last car, a 1985 Caprice Estate (He died in 1990 when I was six weeks old, only two weeks after baptizing me on his deathbed). He always had station wagons because he had alot of "Crap" that he carried around with him everywhere, and thought it was "undignified" for a minister to drive a pick-up. He often carried logs and other materials behind him and grew to dislike law enforcement because he was always being pulled over by highway patrol for driving either two close to the shoulder or centerline. My Mom's first car was a Brown 1974 Morris/Austin Marina (Jeremy Clarkson's Worst Car Ever). When she left Nova Scotia for the West in 1978, the Morris made it, barely, and she sold it for another Euro-Car of sorts. In 1979 She bought a brand-new, German made, Ford Fiesta Mk. I, back when lots of British and Euro cars were imported to Canada, and Nova Scotia in particular due to its large UK Ex. Pat and Immigrant Population, there was demand. She drove that Silver German Ford until 1994 when she started driving my Dad's Grand Am. In 1997 She got my current headache, a Dahlia Blue Cavalier. She Drove that until January 2007 Before getting a Sport Red Malibu Maxx LT V6. So that's the whole story.

Awesome, I can't wait to see them.

One Word, Ocn, Bondo. Well, at least for two of the mentioned

That may yet happen, my parents have to be convinced though. I went to my dealer's website yesterday though. I Could have a 2007 Cobalt LT Sedan in Ultra Silver, with 7500Km for 11995$ if we got rid of it. The one thing that surprised me was that V6 G6s were going for 12995 with decent mileage. The Cobalt with 7500Km is going for 1000 more than the higher mileage ones, so I'd be hard to sway my parents to believe it's a good idea for them and me (they need a car for my brother in a few years so they said they'd almost completely cover the payments, lucky me- I don't deserve them) to spend another thousand for a bigger V6 car with electric steering (although the Cobalt has that too). I'd have to drive both of them though.

Mariners FTW

God, that's terrible. I really empathize.

My friend had this exact thing happen to his 88 a while back before the engine seized.

Not one in all of Montana?

With or without a rocket that's a Sexy Ford!