Life isn't fair, is it? Re: smashed Echo, etc...

My, God, but you are not having a good run of luck with your machines, are youy?

So, how did Craig like the xA?

Am I the only one who thinks the Sunfires are ugly as crap?

No, they're ugly as crap.

If I had to drive a Pontiac, it'd be something like the one my dad had, a '69 Firebird w/454 V8 in it.....

-LMB

They never put a 454 in a Firebird. And I wouldnt brag about driving a sunchicken.

They sure did, after a goodly amount of beer and some time fabricating mounts.. :P

(It certainly wasn't a factory 'bird)

-LMB

Check the blog - the fun just keeps on leaving...

I'll let you know whenever he gets back from his girlfriend's house LOL

Natalie

Nope - I agree, but it was what they gave me LOL

Natalie

Uh-Oh....

They didn't put a Caddy 502 in a Jeep Grand Cherokee, either - but I've seen it done. Took Joe two /big/ shoehorns and a lot of cussing, not to mention a custom five-row three-pass baffled radiator to cool the beast.

The factory did put a 460 in a Bonneville Convertible, 67 IIRC. ;-) That car would jump sideways from the torque when you opened up the secondaries on that QuadraJet, then you got a big from under the hood, and "Houston, We Have Liftoff"...

But I had a freshly minted license, and I KNEW that car would get me in a world of trouble if I drove it too much - and the insurance agent said the bill would be double - so I let Mom keep driving it. (It was offered.) Took the Corvair for my daily driver instead.

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Nah, he wraps that rascal...

Natalie

Probably exquisite torture though Natalie!!!

Speaking of conversions (above) I knew a fellow that took a 1963 tempest, reworked rearend and stuffed a 421 Pontiac HO in it. He called it his "prototype" GTO (was in about 64 or so he did this). It would literally trash factory GTO's of same era, really a sleeper.

Anyhow with 4 speed, going down hill he could light the tires up to about 100 mph. It was a rocket but scary as crap to ride in cause brakes weren't too hot

One of our local northern California toys. I just had to live with my

Ah the memories us old turkeys have Ron

He'll live

English, please?

:-)

Natalie

I can't imagine anything with a 454 (or ~454) in it being ugly (unless it's in your enemy's car)

Hmm a Scion or a Sunfire... I would pick the Scion any day, Rice burns in my vein's. No domestic! That and a Sunfire's are based of the Cavalier, A crappy car and discontinued for the Cobalt. On a side note which Scion?

CelicaGT00

Cars went way too fast, couldn't stop for crap = scary assed ride (assuming one was sober enough to be scared).

Well, I don;t think they're UGLY, but they sure as hell aren't PRETTY!

But...but...that's what Delorean did!!! (well, it wasn't a 421, but the original concept was built using the '63 Tempest, which a lot of us will remember, was about the size of a Nova (Chevy II) back then...) It was only in '64 that the Tempest grew to the same size as the GTO (or was it '65? Hey, I was 7!!!)

Another interesting....a guy I met about 5 years ago had just purchaes a '66 El Camino with a 6-pack! Needed paint, but other than that it was clean as a whistle! No rust at all!

Small car. Huge engine. Brown stains on the seats...

Whaddaya, nutz?!?!?! ;)

Corvair was a cool car, though. I had a '66 with Fred Flintstone floorboards in the rear ("Uh, guys, don't put your feet flat on the floor...all there is is carpet...")