Blake Noble

Ah, so you found the shifter DF. Sweet. You aren't the only one. Finding parts for the Monte around here is a dismal experience. They're all great if you own a newer car ...

Well, Mr. Hairy Man from Texas, bid yer dollar and take er home.

It's all slowly coming together. Nice upgrade DF. (I really want a set of Torq-Thrust IIs for the Monte, or at least a set of S10 ZQ8 16s to hold me over ...)

Like SAmadei said, there isn't an idiot light for an alternator failure, like generators used to have. If you are having problems with your charging system, always have your alternator bench tested first. If it isn't the alternator, there is an issue with your battery cables (corrosion, mainly) or another component of the system. Also, PCS raises another possibility: a problem with the RAP circuit, if the GTO was equipped with one.

Ah we all get our turn to spar with PCS. I'll even go so far as to say that it's become something of an institution around here. The list of contenders runs a mile long. I'm on that list. Camino, even. Now you join the ranks, good sir. As Camino said, Pontiac was ultimately left to rot and wither on the vine, was campaigned against and shot down by a large majority when it was a part of GM. The proof is there with every action GM made concerning Pontiac. It even runs so far as to after the cancellation of the Pontiac brand. Witness the back-and-forth debacle concerning what GM should do with Zeta/the G8 in North America. He was telling us the Old GM was going down, and that it did. I don't want to speak for PCS (he'll do that himself should he feel the need to) but I would venture a guess that he considers the Old GM and the new General Motors Company two different entities. And he is ultimately right, although they seem to think quite similarly as far as I'm concerned.

A new feud has sparked.

Sounds like it could be an issue with your alternator ...

Can we have some hate for the K-Car in here? Sure, it saved Chrysler, but it more than answered the question that goes, "How many times can we market the same POS over and over again?" Badge engineering at its best.

I see what you did there. And I don't like it one bit.

It already has bitten GM in the ass: http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/11/nissan-...alent-for-leaf/

You know what? I really need to get back into writing stuff like this again. If I can yank 4 pages worth of responses -- both positive and negative -- out of people, then I think I'm doing my job here. And I'm going to bash the L-Bodies, like I intended to.

Not 80s, but hilarious. "Both [Tina Turner and the Plymouth Laser] have great lives ..." :rotflmao: Yeah, I guess the life of Tina Turner and the life of a Plymouth Laser had one thing in common: both were given savage beatings by their owners.

lard asses

I get it well-done, make sure it hasn't hardened into a rock, and savor the flame-licked flavor.

Yes, if you can, buy a used Acadia rather than one of the U-Vans. I'm surprised that no one mentioned how narrow these vans are.

I have never seen a cloud drop so low in such a peculiar formation like that before. It makes me think of a tornado running horizontally as opposed to vertically with a touchdown point. You should have seen the radar images of the storm that hit around here back in May, which brought an F3 tornado to the Kirksville area just a few miles north of me. It made me think of a scaled-down version of one of the on-land hurricanes from The Day After Tomorrow. The storm system even had something of an "eye" to it.

I love the car's design and personality and still do. But once I began to see where GM went wrong with the car, I realized I didn't like what was beneath the car's wrapper. I'm looking forward to the F6 model. That will be the generation of Camaro that will bring it all home.

True. But as far as the F5 Camaro's size and weight goes, it's dimensions are much more suited to a "personal luxury (and performance, in the case of an SS model) coupe." And the old G-Body Monte Carlo was one of the better selling generations of the car. I think with the correct support, the Monte Carlo could have had a much improved image and would have proved that it could sustain sells better than the F5 Camaro. I can see maybe the 2011 or 2012 model outselling the 2010 Camaro because, by that time, the convertible will have debuted and that will help to sustain sales. But after the convertible debuts and the dust settles the year after, everyone who wanted an F5 Camaro will have one and sales will drop off sharply. That's the cost of having an image car. Maybe someday GM will return a personal luxury coupe to flank its flagship sedan ...

Am I the only one that thinks that GM should have held off on an F5 Camaro and instead put a new Monte Carlo on Zeta that would return the car back to it's "personal luxury coupe" intentions?

Run! Angry sewing machine on the loose!

Good gawd. It just hit me just how much of a man-purse on steroids that stupid thing is.

I never carried a backpack and I never used a locker. I would always use the spare textbooks in the class room and turned the ones assigned to me back in at the end of the year. As for homework in the textbook, I would either do what I could the last ten minutes of class and the first ten minutes of class the next day, copy it if I didn't feel like giving a f@#k, or just not do it at all. Honor student this.

What can I say? Sobriety helps.

I believe the "front-wheel drive is better, more fuel-efficient, and lighter" bandwagon is rolling along on two flat tires. Now, what's it gonna take to make the other two go flat? If the next-generation SRX can bring back the lighter, more dynamic rear-drive layout of the old SRX with the style and substance of the new SRX, we'd have a winner.

Your friend is a waffle.