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If the starter's case is cracked, you probably have a shimming problem. Double check the clearance between the pinion and the flywheel teeth. Harmonic balancer is supposedly a bear on some H-bodies. There where threads on the Bonneville forums. Apparently, its hard to get to, and the standard puller will not work. You have to track down some particular length bolts with a particular thread. Anything else will break and cause disaster. Still, $200 cars are my favorites. My '86 Electra Estate Wagon was $200 back in 1995. Put a lot of miles on it. My '81 Bonne coupe also was $200... just needed a bumper and some interior parts... but it only lasted about two years before the problems crept in enough to park it until it could get the proper attention. Its getting hard to find $200 cars, running or not, with the price of steel lately. Most are worth double that or more at the shredder... unfortunately.

New England also used to have a ton of AMC Eagles driving around... but I think the attrition has finally made them fairly uncommon, like the rest of the country.

Well, considering New England is under a foot of snow 8 months a year, they take their driving tests in a plow truck. So, yeah, they got a lot of 'em. JK.

Interesting the custom plates on the car... CH 333 VY and SP 888 RK. I wonder if they shopped that or if GM really has those plates and is willing to break the law having two different plates on the front and back of the car.

The Syclone and Typhoon has rediculously low cargo ratings... something like 400-500 pounds. So two of your larger friends in the back may help you break a driveshaft.

Yeah, get out of Wells Fargo. They will make Wachovia look like heaven. Without going into details, WF helped drive my father into the grave. They ignored bankruptcy proceeding, lost payments, documentation and nearly foreclosed on his house. They mucked up his bankruptcy to the point where the discharge was delayed nearly a year... he got it three days after passing away. Then when we tried to sort out the problem, they put us at square one and screwed us over for a lot of money. This was before Wells Fargo Wells Fargo, not Wachovia Wells Fargo. Merging WF and Wachovia is only pure evil, and you want out. Trust me.

I figured the interior was gone for that price... but most parts are available. If it is a TA, it should have a VIN that starts 2FW87. I could see the state mislabelling it a Firebird, as they officially are "Firebird Trans Am"s. A 'K' would denote the 403. I didn't see anyhing in the Standard Catalog that power windows were standard on the TA. Of course, in this case, I would say this car might have had a door swap, rather than being converted to manual windows. Shame. Probably still a deal, but a lot of work.

RAID isn't too bad, just get a good controller. I've been real happy with the Dell server level stuff. If your going for pure speed with a RAID 0, you are always running the risk of data loss, as drives fail too often. I usually will do a RAID 10 (1+0) or 50 (5+0), but then you are adding a lot of drives.

Not only that, but it seems to me that PA has lots of credit unions. We don't have many in South Jersey, yet its where I got my last auto loan (The CU was actually up north, but still good to deal with).

Whole article is here.

At $1800, I think it needs interior everything. Still, it looks like a great deal... take a magnet with you.

Somebody would have posted it. ;-)

Been humming "And I'm Evil" by Beatallica all day. The backing singer sounds like Glen Danzig, but there is nothing in the liner notes.

Jim Wangers is still around. ;-)

I'm pretty sure, as well. Lead was used as a pigment, due to its whiteness and opaqueness. Its not really the 'base' of the paint, as in 'water-based', as I understand it.

Lead paint is banned for toys and house paint. I'm not so sure about industrial uses or automotive paint use. Its not that lead is so bad, its that it has a sweet taste and children like to eat it. We used to make 'lead sugar' and eat it. We just don't want it in massive quantities in the body and environment. Leaded gas and latex paint chips tend to put lead in harm's way. I don't think automotive paint would be a huge source of contamination in the environment. Of course, I don't think there is reason to put lead in auto paint... and GM's PR people would not want it anymore than asbestos seat covers. Its simply that its the other definition of the word 'lead'... as in 'to lead somewhere'. A better phrase would been: the Volt's featured paint color.

Making me glad that all the cars are paid off. Oh, and that I never sell anything. ;-)

IIRC, for a while she was spotted around my work neighborhood in Manhattan on a nearly daily basis... but she would not be my first choice. Used to see Kelly Ripa in the neighborhood, as well... she did Commerce Bank (now TD Bank) commercials with Regis in the bank at the bottom of our building. Also, not my first choice. My first choice would be one of my ex-coworkers was tall and one of those perky gals who make sweaters look good.

I'm not convinced this is whats going on. I feel there is a pent up demand for cars and the slowly returning economy is unleashing those sales. IMHO, GM would be doing much better if they still had their 3rd best selling division. Not only that, but there are several cars (Malibu, Equinox, Camaro, LaCrosse, CTS Wagon) that suddenly are desirable. GM should be doing MUCH better, IMHO.

I thought the same thing. I was looking forward to finding out the name of the color as I was opening the thread... whoops. Viridian... wow, thats obscure.

Is this where PCS announces his new CEO-ship and resurrects Pontiac? Look under your seats everybody! Its the keys to your new 2011 Zeta-Coupe-60 based Pontiac GTO!

Did I miss something? Why is there a legal agreement beyond the scope of signing the back of the title?

This should be interesting. Well, Elaine is working with Healthy Choice. Yeah, yeah, I know, not the same Michael Richards.

Compared to the old fullsizers, yeah. Compared to the current "fullsizers", The OZ cars are generally wider than our cars. G8/Statesman is 74.8 inches. Impala is 72.9, Lucerne is 73.8. Wider is better. ;-)

Just go on marketplace and download one of the volume widgets, then there will be a volume right on your desktop. My sister has the Droid... I'm slightly jealous. Its really nice. But I'll stick with my G1 (Now on 1.6 Donut ) and Storm (on 5.0). I'd recommend marketplace software to download, but I don't know where to start.