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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #25 on: December 28, 2010, 04:32:42 PM »
Quote from: true_blood on December 28, 2010, 12:49:32 PM
I like power and torque. :wink:

Oh me too!!!  :naughty:
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #26 on: December 28, 2010, 04:54:48 PM »
Quote from: true_blood on December 28, 2010, 12:49:32 PM
Exactly to the parts in red. Well said.
And,......I don't want to drive a Jetta. That's  :gay2: :gay: I like power and torque. :wink:

Always wanted to drive one of those open pit mining rock trucks... 700+ tons loaded and over 3,000 horse power....run over a Prius and make it look like a flattened beer can.... :lmao:

You might not want to read this...gonna sound racist.

35 years ago they were building I-77 near here and I worked on it for a little while. Company was running some 641B-C scrapers hauling dirt and A$$ across a major road. Scrapers wieghed about 100 to 120 tons loaded. Big black fellow in a new Benz ignored the flagman and went right on by. One of the boys caught the Benz right behind the front seat with his right front tire. Stopped the new Benz dead in its track and smashed the back half flat. The black fellow wasn't hurt much but we got a big laugh out of the incident....you see, when the Benz stopped instantly, the black fellow had kissed the windshield leaving a perfect print of his wide nose and big thick lips.....

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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2010, 05:33:06 PM »
My husband's going through his midlife crisis and this is what he wants and is actively searching for:


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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #28 on: December 28, 2010, 06:52:43 PM »
Quote from: Traveshamockery on December 28, 2010, 05:33:06 PM
My husband's going through his midlife crisis and this is what he wants and is actively searching for:
 ::)
You're husband is alright in my book. :cheersmate: I already have a Camaro, that I don't drive and I have my 4x4 Dodge Ram as my daily driver. Both well over 300 horsepower each.
(I want to build a '69 Camaro pro-touring beast. If I don't do a '69 Camaro, it will be a '70 Chevelle pro-tour beast. "Hopefully", I can keep the Camaro I have now and still "afford" to do my build. :( The pro-tour build will be at least 600 horses and gobs of torque. :-) :wink:)
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #29 on: December 28, 2010, 08:28:10 PM »
This Trans Am will be a car that sits in the garage and is hardly ever driven, and probably never driven by me.   :whistling: 

I really do love classic cars.  If money and space weren't an issue, I would love to get an old Rambler.  I have had two Olds Cutlasses in my life and I loved both of those cars. 
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #30 on: December 28, 2010, 08:33:42 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on December 28, 2010, 09:03:18 AM
However, $5 gas WILL make a (Highly-subsidized) Volt purchase look like a semi-good idea, since the vast majority of the recharging current comes from coal plants.   

Not really.

What happens when your energy rates "necessarily" skyrocket?
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #31 on: December 28, 2010, 08:34:58 PM »
Quote from: Traveshamockery on December 28, 2010, 08:28:10 PM
This Trans Am will be a car that sits in the garage and is hardly ever driven, and probably never driven by me.   :whistling: 

I really do love classic cars.  If money and space weren't an issue, I would love to get an old Rambler.  I have had two Olds Cutlasses in my life and I loved both of those cars. 
:II:

I saw a couple Ramblers on sale around here.  It's relatively dry in the south but I bet the interiors are shot.
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #32 on: December 28, 2010, 08:37:53 PM »
The awesomest used car site on the internets ---> bringatrailer.com
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #33 on: December 28, 2010, 09:14:24 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on December 28, 2010, 08:37:53 PM
The awesomest used car site on the internets ---> bringatrailer.com

Meh...  I think the truck in your avatar is way cooler!

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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #34 on: December 28, 2010, 09:20:05 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on December 28, 2010, 08:37:53 PM
The awesomest used car site on the internets ---> http://bringatrailer.com/


What a cool website!  I want all of them!

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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #35 on: December 28, 2010, 09:59:32 PM »
My last truck was a 1959 Chevrolet Apache.  I swapped the drums on the front for disc brakes but I had to sell it in 2001 because I ended up moving back to Nashville and couldn't pay the freight to get it shipped back here.

I miss it. :(

There was a WWII-era Chevy pickup in the neighborhood that I would see a few times a month.  It had been re-painted in olive drab (probably from a spray can) but it sure was pretty.
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #36 on: December 28, 2010, 10:15:30 PM »
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #37 on: December 28, 2010, 10:19:12 PM »
Groovy... I think I'm gong to save that one. :rofl:



Mine was cobalt blue.  And it wasn't lowered and gay like that one (didn't have the sun visor either).
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #38 on: December 28, 2010, 10:22:16 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on December 28, 2010, 10:19:12 PM
Groovy... I think I'm gong to save that one. :rofl:



Mine was cobalt blue.  And it wasn't lowered and gay like that one (didn't have the sun visor either).


Awesome!  I love it! 
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #39 on: December 28, 2010, 10:28:24 PM »
Quote from: Traveshamockery on December 28, 2010, 08:28:10 PM
This Trans Am will be a car that sits in the garage and is hardly ever driven, and probably never driven by me.   :whistling: 

I really do love classic cars.  If money and space weren't an issue, I would love to get an old Rambler.  I have had two Olds Cutlasses in my life and I loved both of those cars. 

I bought a '77 Cutlass right after I got out of the Navy. Took over the payments from a cousin who was having his license revoked after one too many DUIs,  so it was a good deal. Man, that was a sweet ride. Power everything and so comfortable and roomy. You couldn't wear out an Oldsmobile, you could just get tired of them. :-)
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #40 on: December 28, 2010, 10:54:57 PM »
I had a 1972 and a 1974 - both powerful cars.  But I was a teenage girl when I had them and didn't know what a powerful car was.  Stupid girls.

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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #41 on: December 29, 2010, 12:48:39 PM »
Quote from: Traveshamockery on December 28, 2010, 08:28:10 PM
This Trans Am will be a car that sits in the garage and is hardly ever driven, and probably never driven by me.   :whistling: 
I really do love classic cars.  If money and space weren't an issue, I would love to get an old Rambler.  I have had two Olds Cutlasses in my life and I loved both of those cars. 
Very cool. If I have the money to build the pro-tour Camaro/Chevelle, it would sit and go to shows and the occasional auto-x show. The suspension alone is about 12k. That includes all new sub frame and rear suspension with coil overs. All top-notch.
(The car would look like these. My friend Todd's car, on the right, but without the stickers on the side. He was promoting them at the auto-x and the stickers are just peel-offs.)  :-) :cheersmate:
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #42 on: December 29, 2010, 12:50:55 PM »
It's $3.60 for plus in NY and rising. I have a Civic, drive very little, but the pain is still the pain.

Son of a bitch and his gulf drilling moratorium--AND defying a federal judicial order to END the moratorium.
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #43 on: December 29, 2010, 12:52:39 PM »
Quote from: Godot showed up on December 29, 2010, 12:50:55 PM
It's $3.60 for plus in NY and rising. I have a Civic, drive very little, but the pain is still the pain.
Son of a bitch and his gulf drilling moratorium--AND defying a federal judicial order to END the moratorium.
That's what happens when an incompetent community organizer occupies the White Mosque. :hammer:
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #44 on: December 29, 2010, 02:11:23 PM »
You know, I'd say the average auto gas/fuel tank in America is half full at any given time. If this were a republican administration in office right now, I bet the liberal MSM would announce an impending fuel shortage, causing everyone to rush out and fill up every car/truck/tractor/tank in the country. This would create a shortage overnight where one didn't really exist and cause the price to skyrocket.......and then blame it all on Bush and the oil companies..... :-) 
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Re: Get ready for more pain.. Gas going back to $5 a gallon
« Reply #45 on: December 29, 2010, 02:39:05 PM »
Quote from: true_blood on December 29, 2010, 12:48:39 PM
Very cool. If I have the money to build the pro-tour Camaro/Chevelle, it would sit and go to shows and the occasional auto-x show. The suspension alone is about 12k. That includes all new sub frame and rear suspension with coil overs. All top-notch.
(The car would look like these. My friend Todd's car, on the right, but without the stickers on the side. He was promoting them at the auto-x and the stickers are just peel-offs.)  :-) :cheersmate:


Sweeeeeet!  I love those old Camaros and Corvairs.  I love watching those Mecum auto auctions they show on TV. 
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