Sixty8panther

Since I've never told the whole story of my beloved S10 Blazer I thought it was about time I do so. Esp. with all the S10 hatin' going on around here as of late. :P It was a cool truck... gunmetal gray metallic, 4.3 liter V6, 2dr, loaded, 4x4 on the floor with 104,000 miles when I got it. If it had been an automatic I never would have looked twice at it. I was in the market for a truck, but I wanted a BEATER truck. I wanted someones scummy throwaway beater S10, the ONLY requirement was that it would be a 5-speed. My buddy John Morris was going to sell me his 280,000 mile 88 S-10 P/U. It was a 4-cylinder (iron duke) extra-cab longbed with a manual transmission. It had freekin gloss black Ladder racks on it, the whole truck was done up in primer gray with Camaro IROC-Z Rims that had chewed up a few curbstones over the years. $200. for the whole kit and caboodle. According to John the valvecover had never even been off the freeking truck. A testimate to Chevy/GM durrability. Anyway A few days after I talked John into selling the S10 to me he trades in this gray Blazer in from a customer who buys a used 2000/1/2 Monte Carlo. He drives it up to me and says: screw it, you buy my truck and I'll buy this bad boy! I'm like "eh, its nice but I have to have a 5-speed in my next vehicle so I'd rahter have your pickup." John pints to the shifter knob sticking out of the trany tunnel and I'm like WHAAAAAT??? All of a sudden I WANT this thing bad... John's like I knew you'd be all hot and horny over this pile so have at it. $600 dollars and a few days later I gassed that bitch up with Sunoco 94 and having JUST bought it drove it throught the biggest mud puddle in town. I drove that truck for like 24,000 miles, beat the crap out of it every day, installed those amber fog lights I'm so smitten with and sold it for $1000 off my front lawn the first day I put it out for sale. Asking price $1300, the guy offered $900 and I was like NO way am Igoing less than $1000 and my CD player is not a pert of the deal unless you pay $1100. Sold. I miss that little guy. Of all the off roading I did in it and all the dumb crap I pulled behind the wheel of that truck my best memory of it was cleaning about 7" of snow off of it at Emerson Hospital on the morning of January 12, 2004. The day my little Sofia came into the world.

Actaully all those look great... GM1s Olds, Grand Am and the Cobalt all look awsome! Good photography people! :)

Just thogught I'd share some funny Simpsons pics. I got this Sticker for Marcia a couple years back. :)

Flanders: <pointing at jiggsaw puzzle> "Well Hello there Neighbor-eenos, looks liek you're missing a piece" Homer: "Har-har-HAR Flanders, looks like you're missing a WIFE!" Flanders: <Laughs uncomfortably> "Well, I walked right into that one..."

hmmm....

If O.J. can slash up two people so bad with a knife that their heads are prectically severed from their bodies but get off because he's a rich football player then I'm not too concerned about DeLeran getting off scott free for some stupid nose candy.

YEAH! Right on Dude. According to this new 15mph regulation the 18 foot long Hummer H2 wil grow to 23.7 feet but the wheelbase will remain unchanged.

Wow. Frozen in time indeed. This wins the "Thread of the Month" award right here. I say leave the cars as they sit. That's where they belong undisturbed. It would almost be disrespectuful to disturb aht place, I kind of like just knowing that it's there. Kewl.

Josh: Good Luck... Hopefully you'll be driving in Style in a Kappa Ragtop in a week. :) Ocnblu: Holly Cow! That's cool. So WTF is the deal with the Rodeo? :huh:

Anyone ever see taht episode of Matlock where Don Knots (his neighbor) buys a Deloran and it turns out to be a Lemon? That show was so funny... (what can I say I was a latch-key kid in the 80s & early 90s)

Things like this work in theory and have all the best intent but you must tread lightly... the focus has to remain that an American car is good enough to buy for all the right reasons... Quality, Value, Durability, Safety, Longevity & of course: Performance.

In my twisted mind that's the most important thing I look for in a Car purchase. RWD. :) Inline Sixes are great, a V8 is even better... I strongly prefer Manual tranies but most important of all is RWD.

As far as cheap econoboxes go this thing was cool. I think we all know where I stand when it comes to RWD Japanese cars with manual tranies. And I love cheesy Ubber-80s rims... typical child of the 80s. I'd love to pick up a Beater RWD Impulse for Ice Racing & Drifting. :)

I'm too much of a cheap prick to pay for Radio.... esp. when I have a few hundred dollars invested in a CD collection that I barely use in the car... Between 92.5, 100.7, 101.7 & 104.1 I've got enough variety in FM.

Another reason why the Japanese have yet to make a true "Classic" car with the exception of the Datsun 240Z and Toyota 2000GT... and the Skyline too I guess but all in all some of their taste is horrific. Now as far as these Fieros.... Sho' does seem like 'em Texans like then there Fire-Ohs. :)

Sweeet! :) Thanks for easing my mind.

Ha-Harrrr!!!

Isn't that body shell waht will be the Saturn Aura for this market? I don;t pay attentinon much to the new stuff... another example where it all looks alike. :rolleyes:

first gen C _____ second gen CX _____ ? Is that it? :huh:

Hubcap Cafe I've been familiar with for a while but R.O.A. I just fond out about a few months ago from my buddy with a '96 Riviera. It's white diamond pearl with chrome turbines & homelink but no sunroof... go figure. He calls it the "Egg". :P (and he's obsessed with 71 & 72 Boat Tails, no surprise) we're currently in kind of a Gentleman's Pissing contest to see who gets his dream car first. In my case it's any '59 Buick hardtop.... in his it's a 71/72 Riviera. If I can sell my Camaro on eBay in the spring for like $3,000 with no motor then I'm in business!!! '59 Buick here I come.

Jeeezus. Getting stuck in WOT is NOT fun. Quick story: Cadillacs from the 1980s had a recall for their vaccum operated cruise control modules. Unbenounced to me my 1986 Fleetwood Brougham never had it done... one day I'm flying down the highway at like 75 mph in a 55. I come over a hill and traffic tensed up quite a bit... I applied the brakes and the pedal tightened up while the car started to accelerate. F$%king scary. By the time I slowed the car down and shut her off it was already dieseling. You see when the throttle pin is in WOT on those cars the vaccum for the power brakes is not functioning. If you want WOT, the cars like 'screw braking'... Needless to say I had quite the fright. Can you imagine how many people could have ended up dead... I probably would have been okay in my Brougham but the people in little Corollas and Sonatas would have not fared so well. Needless to say when I sold the car this past October I made sure the new owner understod the box in the trunk wiht the old greasy C.C. unit was NOT to be reinstalled back on the car unless he wants to kill himself. I even cut the throttle pin for the cruise unit with bolt cutters as an extra precaution. As far as messing around in the Datsun, I didn't have any close calls but there was only like 4 light poles in a huge parking lot, I kept my distance. I did swing around one in a 270* in true Rally Car fashion though. There you go. Your obsession with monster cubes can be traced all the way back your first car. Those Giant 61.5 cubic inch 3 cylinder monsters have bags of torque!!! That's allright a 572 makes up for any amount of lame cars. :)

Hmmmm.... interesting. Well there you have it. Caprice: I was trying ot make a joke, as if Ford Motors Truck Corp of DMC for Dodge... it was just a retarded annalogy. No hate of rhe Delorean.

Pontiac = more substantial, thicker sheetmetal & more mass.... therefore in a t-bone: better than equivelant Accord. I've driven a few '96/'98 Accords (forget the year of your car) and I'll tell you they're pretty light weight. Mass is the biggest enemy of performance but it's your best friend in a collision. Ask an engineer and they'll tell you Mass is the constant in any crash test.

screw that... I want to be a Red Corvette owned by a pair of Lipstick Lesbians. Always a fine ass in my seat. :)

not bad..... for a Suzuki.