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"Although the miles seem high there is very little wrong, the work has been done by a DSM driver of who’s dsm still runs, which speaks volumes more than some silly ASE certification." That had me in stitches!
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san_dingo posted:I need to sell this car for $$$ to get to TX so I can have some help watching my son so he doesn't pee on the keyboard anymore... Is the bottom-right pic a burnout?
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T1g4h posted:
My brother owns a 1985 Renault "Mini-Winnie" LeSharo Winnebago. It's a 4-cylinder, 5-speed and ugly as all hell. I love it. It looks pretty much like this: http://www.walrathfamily.com/info/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/0011.JPG http://www.motorhoming.com/1986%20Winnebago%20Le%20Sharo.jpg I'm driving to Ohio in a couple of weeks and taking the Buckeye Beer Bus (as we call it) camping for a few days. Nocheez fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jun 5, 2010 |
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You're almost making me miss my 90 Gutlass Supreme. It was a granny car, ugly, and unreliable. But I really liked having the 60/40 bench seat up front with a console shifter.
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Lowclock posted:My favorite part is its prestigious "award winner in the 2009 Food Lion Auto Fair". The Food Lion Auto Fair is a gigantic car show at Lowes Motor Speedway twice a year. While this was likely a trophy winner in his local car club (they provide trophies for showing your cars with a club), the show itself is a pretty awesome place.
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mutt2jeff posted:280Z with a 350 swap that I was looking at buying a couple months ago has come back up on craigslist. Looks like the new owner has run into money troubles, this car is a steal for 3k.
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Sep 30, 2011 20:58
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BrokenKnucklez posted:
Not a good deal at all. He shimmed the wastegate to get more boost, and blew the motor by not keeping up with the fluids and/or blowing the headgasket. If you could get it for $1000 and could source a good motor for a reasonable amount, it might be worth it.
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Dec 14, 2011 21:00
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MarsellusWallace posted:
Assuming it's a 4-cylinder, they are dead easy to work on and the parts are plentiful and reasonably priced. I have a 1999 with 190k miles and it's been the best car I've ever owned. Talk him down to $750 
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May 25, 2012 17:53
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davebo posted:An old friend of mine once told other people that I have a Ferrari. It's just like the Supra community. You can spent a ridiculous amount of money on a MK4 with all the trimmings and it'll always be a dong magnet. Girls really don't care about cars, unless it's a convertible.
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May 25, 2012 18:48
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Motronic posted:I'm so sorry. I hope that you understand what I believe most people posting here inherently do one day. I don't understand what you mean. I've had fast cars, I've had big cars, little cars, imports, domestics. What I want now is a reliable, reasonably comfy people-mover with good MPG and a decent sized trunk. It's been all that and more. When I was younger my dream car was a MK3 Supra. I bought a creampuff 1992 turbo and modded it until it was real quick (low 13-second quick). It was fun while I had it, but that much speed was being wasted by sitting in the garage. I still keep my eyes on CL for something new (Miata, maybe?) but for right now I can honestly say that the 80k I've put on my Camry have been the best hassle-free, get-in-and-drive miles I've driven. It's also old and showing it's age on the outside, so I don't give a poo poo if a rock dings my hood or I get a dent in a parking lot.
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May 26, 2012 02:53
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I spent the first 22 years of my life in that area. I can't say that truck surprises me. Most people who live in that area of Ohio somehow consider themselves a roughneck, even though they all live in the burbs.
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nitrogen posted:What kind of scam is this exactly? MK4 Supras are still ridiculously priced. They basically have not depreciated in the past decade.
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Rear Admiral BOOYA posted:
I don't see this as an either/or proposition. Do both! 
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Drunken Lullabies posted:All the nostalgia of an old cruiser with none of the effort involved in restoring one (if you're stupid) I had the "pleasure" of judging the PT Cruiser group at the Auto Fair at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The horror! Easily 50 cars were in this group, and pretty much all were terrible. I had an annoying owner following me around and trying to tell me why each car that wasn't his was a complete piece of poo poo (he was right) but then I got to his which was in the "Stock" category. He had stuck on those diamond-shaped plastic fake "vents", had aftermarket wheels, had painted a lot of his interior pieces a terrible yellow to match the exterior. I actually took some pleasure in asking him about the fake vents, which he reluctantly admitted were not stock. In the end, he didn't win. Neither did I, because I spent a good hour looking at PT Cruisers.
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Aug 2, 2013 13:13
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fps_bill posted:http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/cto/3986860536.html Man, that car is tempting! What kind of mileage do you see out of it (I guess you probably don't know since the odometer doesn't work). Also, what's with the Chevy bowtie on the headlight?
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My brother is selling a similar little RV near Akron, OH: http://akroncanton.craigslist.org/rvs/4125341221.html I'm at work, so no pics, but it's a 22ft RV with a 4-cylinder, 5-speed drivetrain. It gets great gas mileage for an RV, but is still spacious enough for family road trips.
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Oct 21, 2013 21:06
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leica posted:That is freakin' awesome, a 4cyl with a 5 speed? It's got to be a dog though, as in good luck on the on ramp. It's definitely not fast, but once you are on the freeway you can pretty much just put your foot on the floor and let it go.
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Oct 22, 2013 19:02
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KozmoNaut posted:Now I want to find out if there's a stupid-rear end modified Dodge somewhere out there called the RAM ROD. I saw one driving around Charlotte with that on the back window.
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Dec 6, 2013 19:50
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Pham Nuwen posted:I used to drive an old fire department water tanker around the farm, spreading water on the dirt roads to keep dust down. It was a 10 speed which was a lot of fun to drive. It also had a "cannon" we mounted that could spray water about 100 feet out to the side. Old firetrucks are cool. I am most certainly not doing this "life" thing properly.
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Tai-Pan posted:"Drove it to key west Florida this past summer". He drove it on a flatbed, most likely.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Key West is an island, isn't it? You should jump on that, I don't know if there's any other submarine TVRs still left out there. I can't tell if you're being serious or not, but they have these things called "bridges" that are used to cross water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Highway
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A Sebring on a Blazer frame? Was he trying to merge two of the most unreliable vehicles in recent memory?
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That seems like it would be worthwhile to do an escrow account.
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Jan 17, 2014 21:33
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ratbert90 posted:
Someone took the time to set up that picture, but couldn't be arsed to hang the license plate properly and clean the rear bumper?
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Putting labels and badges on cars is just a silly practice, and even sillier when you are misrepresenting what you really have. I have a neighbor with an "M3" 328i BMW. The M3 badge doesn't fool anyone who knows what they are, and someone who doesn't know what they are doesn't give a poo poo in the first place. So what's the point?
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Citycop posted:You know that's really not a bad deal when you consider the cost of a 1 ton duallie with a trailer and comparable setup. It also reminds me of why I can't afford racing as a hobby. Do you know how to make a small fortune in auto racing? Start with a large one.
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He probably was using the number pad, thus the typo. It really runs 16.9 in the quarter.
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"My truck has no problem racing against any highend sportscar on the track." Neither does my Camry, but it's still going to lose in a hilarious fashion.
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Noeland posted:He didn't die from the bike wreck. He lost his right arm and got a settlement, then proceeded to buy a manual Corvette. He died from an infection related to the lost arm. The link says he bought a Lamborghini.
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Noeland posted:His payout was something like $160k, doubt he bought a Lambo. The link says it was $900,000. You should check it out, so we don't have to keep replying back and forth
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Surely you could flip that for parts and make a decent profit, right? That seems insanely low. If people can't afford gas for them and they're unreliable pieces of crap, then the market for parts is probably pretty low.
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The Quad 4 was a POS motor and everything made by GM in that era sucks balls. Trust me, I owned enough of that garbage in my younger days.
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KakerMix posted:Not exactly but sort of? They share suspensions and engines, specifically the SC300 shares the exact same engine as the NA Supra. The turbo Supra is the same engine as well but has some stuff with the pistons and head plus those twin turbos. Probably some other stuff too but that's all my surface searches pulled up. The non-turbo 2JZ motor has a distributor, if you can believe that.
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Darchangel posted:If you just want a nifty digital dash like that, w-body Olds Cutlass Supremes had them as an option, and should be cheaper than a Reatta. I had the Olds Cutlass with the base digital dash, and found a guide on w-body about how to switch the connection pins and upgrade it to the better digital cluster. It ruled! I did have to run a wire from the OBD plug to get the tachometer working. That was my favorite part. edit: here's a video of it working. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN9OFO_4VUw
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hedgegnome posted:Ive recently become obsessed with toyota cressidas and the only cure may be Extremely reliable, and shares tons of parts with its Supra brethren.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:In high school I wanted nothing more than a drop top 3000GT turbo. Same. I was thiiiis close to getting one once, but decided to get a beautiful MK3 Supra instead. No ragrets.
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They were always a ripoff, FWD version of the Supra 
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Take it to PMs because your pissing match is ruining a good thread.
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wesleywillis posted:I always thought of "LE and LX" models of cars to stand for Least EXpensive. That would be the VL = Value Leader. At least on my similar era Cavalier it was, and it came with no passenger side mirror from the factory. . . . . . . I know, right?
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NumbersMatching320 posted:This was a pretty common thing in the 70s and 80s It's been 20 years since I owned it, but it was definitely a 1991 or 1992 car. It was shocking how barebones that car was.
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