Blake Noble

is they ok?

in spirit. I would execute it a little differently, but the 1977 - 1981 Trans Am was the Trans Am that defined the whole franchise, for better or for worse, and a new car should draw from those historic Firebirds. Seeing specific era-inspired front and rear clips chopped onto images of the F5 Camaro bores me right into a f@#king coma. (When dreaming ...)

I believe my eyes are melting.

Thanks, knightfan. Brief update: I called the dealership today as opposed to driving there to save gas, and I talked to the salesman who first showed me the car. He told me that as soon as the first-gear synchro was fixed, he would give me a call ASAP. He seems pretty serious about trading straight-up, so all I have to do is wait for a phone call. As for the '69 Camaro, it wasn't for sale.

ENTJ Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Judging Strength of the preferences % 56 75 12 78 I'm not at all surprised.

Yeah, the guy didn't even make an offer. It's going this weekend, one way or another. And the powers that be threw a big wrench in the machine today; I found a 1969 Camaro on the way home in great condition. Like the 1998 Camaro I want, it has a downside: it's powered by an inline-six. I'm going to get a price on the '69 tomorrow and make a decision Friday afternoon.

I don't find working the clutch annoying, I find it arousing.

Translation: get me the price, YJ.

You just reminded me BV, there's a Subaru SVX for sale about two miles away from me. Want me to grab a price?

Yep, that's gonna buff right out.

In this thread: it has to buff right out.

Tip: for even better winter traction and overall control, add a manual transmission to your rear-wheel drive car. I wonder how many Americans have just laid a Babe Ruth in their BVDs at the thought of driving a rear-wheel drive car with a stick in the snow? What a bunch of butt-pillagers.

$h!: GM's full of it.

I'm not going to mention anything about the cat to the dealership. If they spot something, I'll explain it. What they can't see from a "sitting pretty" view, they'll just have to find out later on their own. However, I did get a phone call tonight. Someone had seen my Craigslist posting and wants to look at the truck tomorrow afternoon. All bets are on that I'm going to walk away disappointed because the guy pitched me a low-ball offer and I'll again be stuck with my truck.

So Friday I'm going to try to negotiate with a dealer in LaFollette, Tennessee on a 1998 Camaro V6 5-speed with a little over 176,000 miles. The dealer hasn't set an asking price yet as they haven't completely "prepped it for the lot yet" (it needs a brake booster installed and first-gear tightened up). Thus far, all of my research from the KBB website shows that there is about a two-hundred dollar or so average between their car and my truck with my truck actually being the more expensive vehicle. If anyone has any negotiation tips for me so that I will not come out of this deal losing anything, I'd really appreciate it. The Sonoma has got to go ASAP. All of the little things just keep breaking on it. It's overall tolerable mechanically, but driving down the Interstate today, the driver's side mirror just broke off for no reason and without provocation. And that's just for this month. All throughout January and February, the truck's check engine light would come on, flashing, and I just couldn't manage to gain any speed whatsoever. (It hasn't done it in about two weeks, though.) I've cleared the code for the check engine light several times now; it usually stays on because I had to remove the catalytic converter last year.

Why keep on hoping, pleading, and praying when our words only fall on deaf ears? Now I can understand atheism just a little bit better.

Nice choice, 68.

Alive and kicking? Yeah, sure. I believe it, uh-huh. I'm not going to even bother suggesting what cars Pontiac should carry it in the future; it won't matter. All we're going to get is a slew of Chevrolets wearing Porky Pig masks.

Don't worry gentlemen. The nurse will be here soon to give you your sponge baths, change your Depends, and spoon feed you your green beans and red Jell-o.

The Sonoma is a five-speed.

The Cadillac badge would add a few thousand dollars difference, reg. You know that.

Oh snap. Break out the beer, break out the Baccardi, we're gonna par-tayyyyy!

You can make a fourth-gen Firebird with a V8 run not-to-sixty times in under 5 seconds with just a few simple and inexpensive modifications. Stock it still runs in the mid to low 5 second range. For the record, some drivers of the post-1998 LS1 Trans Ams have seen stock zero-to-sixty times of 4.9 seconds. And, really, you and I both know the kind of people that tool around in Eldorados. So who are you going to come across driving an Eldorado that would fully utilize that potential?

They're probably going to be doing it in Wisconsin soon too, don't you worry.

Ohhhh where's the tower, where's the gun, where's the tower, where's the gun ... ?