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I like this guys setup: http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e127/andyk1500/DSC00397.jpg That said it is hard to beat lsc wheels and vogues http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1979-Lincoln-Mark-V-Coll-navy-a.jpg

No. Just no. I dig old luxury tugboats too but there is no market for four doors, esp rusty ones. 2 doors are where it is at. Also, old convertible tops are a bit like erector sets in their simplicity. Seriously it's nothing to even remotely be worried about. Your beemer's top is like a piece of the freakin space shuttle compared to the top on my buddy's 1967 firebird. If I could redo the top on my old E30 you can handle a 60's American car top.

Don't take the money. At least don't take it without understanding why they want to do this. It maybe that you oversold your excitement about the car to them and they think they are giving you a gift by buying the car so you can keep it, where as you may just be excited at the prospect of the flip whereby taking their money does you no good. If you take the money you may have to keep the car for a long time to avoid hurting their feelings. Something tells me that while everyone is having fun right now nobody is going to really enjoy being married into that car for the next 5 years minimum, and didn't you want a convertible land yacht anyway? I don't think you are hurting for money so this doesn't seem like they are making you a loan and taking the Lincoln as collateral to help you out of a bind. It would be a much clearer situation if that was the case. Here is how I would approach it with them: tell them that although the Lincoln is a great car, you would really like to put the money made off its sale into something a convertible 60's Impala or suicide door Lincoln and when the time came if the wanted to help out with that then you can have the discussion. Tread lightly because even though they are family, questioning their motives even a little may hurt their feelings and you don't seem to want to be trying to extract more money either - just decline and leave the door open for them to do something nice at a future date.

How much different is the L18 from previous gen big blocks? Aside from the 496 ci I hear there is a lot of interchange with gen III 454s. Only thing I know about early avalanches was the body cladding went to shit really quickly. GM re coated some under warranty but not every truck got the fix.

Clay, I have a big can of por 15 and metal ready I was going to use on the jeep. I'm not going to use the whole can so if you want let's set up a day and we can do both cars at once.

I don't really think this is a thing clay, I think the guy may have been trying to correct you in the politest way possible. The fact nobody got offended is probably because neither of you is an asshole.

Its not PC to wish someone happy holidays, it's just being a considerate citizen of the world and not a presumptious bigot. Also if people are genuinely getting offended by your fretting then they have too much time on their hands. If you are so concerned that you are being oppressed and put upon because not everybody conforms to your religion then you have too much time on your hands.

The two other hosts will still make them and the German will just roll her eyes and give a playful smile to indicate "oh you guys". I mean it's British TV so its kind of progressive, just not THAT progressive. Ah the magic of telly. As I no longer have TV service outside of netflix, I will watch once all the Clarson/hammond/may fanboi's have made their nasty comments on the internet and gone away.

Here is a budget idea I have been thinking of as a handling "toy": A first generation bradley GT: http://i1172.photobucket.com/albums/r573/Charlie0687/Facebook/Bradley%20GT%20Kit%20Car%20My%20Restoration%20Project/403117_297685110289105_127958572_n.jpg Good solid runners can be had for about $2500. They use a VW beetle pan/chassis which means if you found one built on a super beetle chassis you have a McPherson front suspension instead of the solid axle, similar to a Porsche 356 or a 912 but without the monocoque. The fiberglass body means they are lighter than the beetle they are built upon, especially if you strip off all the street gear like bumpers, doors, carpet, and headlights. Basically you end up with a large fiberglass bodied go-kart. I think of them as poor man's lotus but without all the cache attached to the lotus name plate. I don't think there is a competitive class for auto-x they fit into if you want to chase SCCA points, but for a car that can teach you the basics of chassis setup and balance and then take to a track day or a parking lot cone bashing session you can't really get much more analog or simpler. I figure you can probably do the whole setup plus car for $5K which means you don't need to sell the z4M. The old VW tuning world is huge with great aftermarket support and knowledge base. a 1600cc motor with webers would probably get you in the 100hp ballpark which in a car that weighs 1200-1500lbs is significant. a 356 replica would deliver the same thing but most good running driving bashers start at $10K and you are really only paying for a body shape at that point. Sure a Bradley is not the most...ahem...pleasing looking car (it's kind of garish even by 60's/70's standards) but you aren't buying it for how cool it looks, you are buying it for all the fun and learning experience you can have making a low powered car embarrass other much more complex cars around a cone course. Avoid the Bradley GT II as those cars use much more proprietary parts and are much heavier. don't expect super build quality either, these were budget kits on an economy car chassis, but again you are looking for something to abuse so it is ok to be a little rough. I can pretty much guarantee you that it would be unique, you don't even see these things are car shows anymore, let alone chasing time. here is a really nice starting place: http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/5357518730.html it's a little pricy for a Bradley but the seller is negotiable.

liking more and more what I hear (except the not liking xj6 part - the early series II cars are really very nice for a 70's car). there really are some interesting things out there: http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/cto/5362847915.html http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/5311256316.html I'm pretty sure these both belong to craig: http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/5335269330.html http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/5346867357.html

not cool dude. you are just making all sorts of friends today aren't you?

are you adverse to old junk? Wanting to do a forced induction inline 6 that is not a bmw or BMW prices pretty much leaves you with 1970's-80's Z cars, older supras, mercedes diesels, Jaguars, whatever Japanese cars the 1jz/2jz engines came in, and 1960's pontiac OHC inline 6's. Personally I would go find an early 1970's jaguar (preferably an XJ6C) and swap in a 1994+ AJ16 4.0L supercharged six out of an XJR. 400 hp in a 3000lbs car with no ABS, traction control, or stability control should make for some epic hoonage. old jaguar chassis are pretty good with independent front and rear and 4 wheel disc brakes (inboard on the early ones) so it should make of a way better ride than a lot of other old junk that is out there. if you don't want old junk then I don't know what to tell you.

a buddy of mine might be getting rid of the wheels he had on his ZL1. I thought they looked amazing and were a similar style to what you are looking at. I will see if I can find a pic and a price. his instagram is ink361.com but I can't dig through it at work...sorry.

that's some good tin foil clay. Seriously though, who cares? I thought it had died after Trump bought it and then went on TV and said all those racist/classist/sexist/(insert your offended group here) things. Just another train wreck youtube clip like a puppy playing with a kitten or a kardashian sex tape. At least with kardashian sex tape I get to see things go into things which is my favorite kind of thing to watch on the internet.

can you get a black center with a chrome lip or silver detailing? What about charcoal gray? I feel like straight black wheels make any camaro look like a base model since the base model has black steelies with trim rings that everyone seems to damage. Or at the very least they tend to wipe out the wheel detail in certain light like this: http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/BestWheelDeals_photos/aa4ead2e-4e33-4d06-9087-26cf44eb97b1_zps7rswnji5.jpg I happen to love these wheels but they are hella expensive: http://www.slponline.com/mm5/i/parts/81070A_3.jpg http://www.slponline.com/product/81070A--2010-2013-Camaro-20-Five-Spoke-Red-Line-Wheels-Gray-with-Machined-Face-and-Chrome-Like-Windows.html even painting the stock wheels anthracite keeps some of the detailing while tie-ing in well with the black: http://www.snailmotorsports.com/uploads/images/Gallery/Powder-Coating/Customer-Cars/Chevrolet/camaro_anthracite_wheels.jpg

At least it had a happy ending. I still think these two songs are the saddest Xmas songs: http://youtu.be/w_PfwVNmckc

Actually I was joking about how nobody here wants to call it rape. Subtle difference.

Yeah rape is a hard topic to troll or make funny. Harder when you kind of Believe the whole thing was scummy and vile to begin with.

Been getting a wild hair to fool with a 1970's kit car. Something like a Fiberfab, Bradley, Kelmark, etc....Either VW or brit based or tube chassis (would love a Fiberfab Jamaican or Avenger). What local resources are there in cbus for kit cars? Clubs? parts suppliers? meets? Also anybody here have an old kit car they would be willing to let me sit in? I'm kind of tall (6'5") and I know there are some I can fit, some I can modify, and some I might as well forget about but I don't know till I see them.

Someone reads jalopnik and all the side articles...lol... It used to be you had to be a multi-millionare and a celebrity to get away with rape, now they are letting any old nobody "millionaire" get away with it. I'm just kidding, they let anybody get away with rape regardless of social status (except white college athletes because if 1980's movies have taught us anything they are the real bad guys) because this country hates women. Shouldn't this topic be in the kitchen?

IROC was an option package on top of the Z/28 package. From Wikipedia: "...the Camaro IROC-Z featured an upgraded suspension, lowered ride height, specially valved Delco-Bilstein shocks, larger diameter sway bars, a steering/frame brace known as the "wonder bar", a special decal package, and an optional Tuned Port Injection system taken from the Corvette. It also shared the Corvette's Goodyear "Gatorback" unidirectional tires in a 245/50/VR16 size vs. the Corvette's 255/50/VR16 size, and received unique new aluminum 5-spoke 16 by 8 inch wheels. The new wheels were designed with different offsets front and rear..." NADA is compiled from the average of last years sales reported from a variety of sources but mostly from DMV records so they are only as accurate as people reporting info into the DMV. If a car takes a major jump in one year NADA won't really show that. It's good for a rough ballpark. In this case NADA has a value for the IROC ($12,200 top value): http://www.nadaguides.com/Classic-Cars/1986/Chevrolet/Camaro/IROC-Z-2-Door-Sport-Coupe/Values and the regular Z/28 ($7,250): http://www.nadaguides.com/Classic-Cars/1986/Chevrolet/Camaro-Z28/2-Door-Sport-Coupe/Values Honestly, I would cross this with sold listings on ebay, and active listings on Autotrader and craigslist. Third Gen camaro's have their own following and Thirdgen.org's classifieds might show you a little better as to what cars are pulling: http://www.thirdgen.org/forums/camaros-sale/ As someone who bought a 1984 Z28 for $500 and a 1986 Formula 305 for $600 in the early 2000s, I have a hard time looking at one of these and thinking they are worth more than a grand, but that's just me.

I haven't used KBB in a while, wasn't aware they had changed their cutoff. anyway: http://www.nadaguides.com/Classic-Cars so what make and model 1986 car are you looking for a value on?

NADA.com and KBB.com are pretty reliable. However it depends on the car. Something collectible where there is an enthusiasts group or forum is better because there may be options, color combos, and mods that bring a slightly higher or lower price. If you are looking for a price on something like a 1986 toyota tercel then who knows.

wow, I can't remember the last time I saw a running driving cloud car, these things were everywhere in the late 1990's. post some pics of it clean.

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/000/681/what-you-did-there-i-see-it.thumbnail.jpg What about the MAF? could there be a piece of gunk in there that causes a slight misfire as the map hunts for the correction?