Satty

People who spend all their time bitching about other people.

Its just too bad a 1LT 4x4 with no options is $40,000. Throw in a sunroof and the convenience package, you're looking at $45k before rebates. For the same money you can get a Silverado Crew Cab LTZ 4x4 with 403hp.

Weird, I figured that your disdain for 4-doors extended to trucks.

Yeah, figured that with someone else footing the bill, I'd pick the 2 Chevys that I'd really like to see in my driveway. Forgot about the SS Panel being canned. A local roofing company has a couple of them.

Mine, but I wouldn't be completely shocked if the Corvette was one of yours. I'd guess your picks were some combination of Camaro, Corvette, Silverado and HHR, since I really doubt even you could turn down the possibility of a free HHR SS Panel.

Avalanche and Corvette

I have a friend who had one of those Cutlass Cieras (I think, the same as a Century) with the 3.3. Her parents bought it for her when she turned 16, she got 6 years (lord only know how many of the cars 250,000 miles were hers) out of it before she had the money for a better car. I owed her for something so I did a tune-up, threw on new shocks and did the brakes, all together it cost maybe $250 to get it street legal (including 2 new tires) and she sold it for $900. Without all the work I did, she may have gotten $400-500 for it. You may not like it, but the market for those things is large, and will probably keep growing because they'll run forever without any maintenance and get pretty good mileage.

BTW, this=win if you're talking about saving a rare b-body wagon.

The make decent beaters with gas at $1.50/gallon, but with gas pushing $3, FWD A, W, J and N bodies will be the GM beaters that people will put their nickels and dimes into to keep on the road.

I also had the luxury of time, money and a big-ass empty garage in which to play with it, not something most people have. Realistically this car is either going into a demo derby or a junkyard. Would it be cool if it were saved? Yep, probably closer to being roadworthy than my Buick was, but the way the world is right now, it probably wont happen.

I spent nearly two grand (even taking into account what I got for selling the rebuilt 307) and did much of the work myself to keep the Buick running. And the thing was still impossible to keep legal. The fuel system, the electronics and the complete lack of parts availability (especially interior bits) pretty much sealed its fate. C4C came along at just the right time, allowing me to get ahead on what seemed like a bottomless pit of cash. Now tell me, how many people cruising Craigslist looking for a sub-$1000 car have the time or money to keep something like this on the road? The car in the ad is obviously an oil burner (2 pics show it smoking) and having the gaskets done professionally is a $1200+ job, to do it in your own garage would be much cheaper, but damn near impossible without pulling the engine.

Not cheaply remedied, and with a 350 (or rebuilt 307) its still a good day when gas mileage hits double digits, not something appealing to a person who only has $500 to get a car.

Looks like the body is in good shape, but with the 307, the thing is an automatic money pit.

Thought this would be a thread about a new-to-you Ford Ranger. I've dumped a beer on my unsuspecting wife's head once or twice, but I've never done the classic splash in the face to anyone.

siht fcuk cnut WEEHR ARE YUOR FRLETIS NOW????

Sometimes even "fact based" would be a little inaccurate.

Has anyone else seen the Lion King? Things were running smoothly under Mufasa, then Mufasa died and Simba ran off, Scar took over and let the hyenas use up all the resources, to the point where there was no food or water for anyone. What does this have to do with climate change? Its a metaphor because I love metaphors, with Scar representing the modern age and the hyenas gluttony representing mankind's burning of fossil fuels. The hyenas didn't do anything that wasn't already occurring, they just rapidly increased the scale at which it was done. So yes, there was "natural" pollution for billions of years but I cannot see how man's addition to what was already going on hasn't had any effect.

Bill O'Reilly keeps asking if I want him to rub me down with a falafel in the shower.

LIES!

$h! damn f@#k ass Cincinnati hell #### ####=the c-bomb...well, the other c-bomb, since the big one is obviously not edited

$h! $h! $h! Did it all lowercase, all capitalized and first letter capitalized. All three edited automatically. That $h!ty.

Something that looked a lot like a Morgan, I couldn't get close enough to get a definitive identification.

And since they haven't announced anything along those lines, its all just wild speculation at this point.

It was purchased by the federal government during the Clinton administration, maybe Janet Reno was doing some kinky $h! in it.