Kuruma

Is this still available? I have a friend coming into town who needs to buy a car this weekend.

Your point? Wait, I don't care if you have one or not.

So it's a tranny, who gives a fuck? You ain't hittin it. The singing wasn't that good though, and would only go over in a drag club or some such place. I think the judges were fair and objective.

Well, you're welcome to that opinion. Personally I just don't believe in any sort of "food chain" off the track. Especially not one based on how much money you have, or what kind of car you spent your money on. Big fucking deal. My family makes $250k a year, lives in an expensive home in California and they still drive a set of Toyota Camrys and act respectful to everyone, regardless of where they live or what they drive. (And normally, I don't get to really benefit from their money anyway, so I'm not saying that as a way to show off. It's their money, not mine, they get to use it, and not me. It just makes the holidays really nice for me.) If you've got the know how, and you've got a fast car, great. I'll probably ask a question from time to time to increase my knowledge. Get snotty with me about it, and expect to get the same attitude back that you put out there. If Keiichi Tsuchiya showed his ass up to a meet and went drifting around my car, I'd be just as pissed off about it as you would be if I brought my AE86 to the meet and did it myself, even though everyone knows the man knows what he's doing. Reckless behavior and shitty attitude is not something you earn the right to display. Now I will agree that if some little kid comes in acting like hot shit to people who have a lot more experience, yeah, they should back the fuck off, and check their attitude at the door. Maybe my attitude on the matter is different, but hey, half my family grew up under communist rule. We don't really give a shit about who has more money or faster toys when it comes to how we treat people. You want our respect? Show respect to us and it's yours. Got more experience? Great. Then we won't have to lecture you on the shit that you already know, and maybe we learn something from you, no?

Should a Corvette "rip out of the parking lot"? Fuck no! It's a Corvette, so it can, but it doesn't matter what it is, that's driving like a cunt, whether your car is a Corvette or a Civic. You want to drive like a cunt, there's plenty of road courses and tracks that will take your money and let you drive as fast as you want, drift all you want, do all the burnouts you want on the drag strip and all that shit. If you must do it on the street and own a Corvette, please make sure to fuck up and cause a wreck with one of my cars. I'll make sure to rape your insurance company for a nicer car and a good chunk of cash, since you must have good insurance with a car like that. IMHO there is no "food chain" when it comes to *car enthusiasts*, which is what a public meet should be about. I'll admit there is on the track, but last time I checked, Main St is a public road. You have to share it with everyone, and follow the law, or it's a ticket if you get caught. Either way, if you wanna talk racing only, then fine. $50K cars can race against other $50K cars all day and have a good time, but $5k cars can have their fun too against other similar cars. Want to fuck with a normally slow car? There's a right and a wrong way to do it. Case in point: Take a Geo Metro LSi vert, 5-speed, swap in the MK3 Suzuki Swift bumpers, side skirts, and Swift GT seats, and maybe some glass composite headlights (again, suzuki part from the UK swift) that can accomidate a set of "eyelids" without needing to cut a notch in them. Just use the stock LSi spoiler if you don't already have it like the one I just picked up has. Pick up some Swift tail lights with the clear bit on the top, and if you shopped smart, you paid less then that e-bay special crap for civics that makes it look like you have a catfish face stretched across the bumper. and can afford to go buy the turbocharged G10 engine from Canada. Swap it in, take a hood scoop, cut a hole in the hood where the top mounted intercooler for that engine sits. (Wow, a functional hood scoop on an economy car! ) Upgrade the suspension so the car drives better, and you have a decent looking, yet different from the norm daily driver that costs less then a Hybrid, can keep up with traffic even at higher speeds, is a convertible (I don't even know of any hybrids that are), and still gets 50MPG if you leave the boost at 7.5psi and don't drive like a douchebag. The only thing you missed by doing that instead of buying a hybrid is a tax credit, but you spent far less (If you shopped around and did the work yourself) and can wrench on the car yourself. You'll probably get a nod from a couple people who know their shit about cars too, for pulling off a project like that. Even more amusing is that every single part involved in the process other then the eyelids and maybe a nicer head unit so you can listen to MP3 CDs while enjoying your car is made by the people who make the fucking car! (most of this is based on a real car I've seen with a few differences based on how I would have done it a bit differently. I can get pics on request if someone wants to see how it turned out.) And when it comes to other cars in it's class, if you want to take it on the track, you'll have a good time, and probably smack down some other FWDs with larger 4-cyls. Will you beat a 'vette? Probably not. But who cares? That's not the kind of car you gun for with a car like that. That, in my opinion is not "rice". It's not "fast", but it's a well thought out project done with factory parts that belong on the car (just in different countries sometimes), that runs and drives like a properly designed machine should. Some people would say the guy wasted his money on it, but it's his money. and he was happy with it. You take a Civic, put a catfish face on it, and a fart can, 10 pounds of bondo, a cheap paper APC filter, sticker the fuck out of the car, cut the springs all fucked up, and try to fly, and you're just going to make people like me get the windshield all sticky when we spit our faygo out laughing at your dumb ass, not to mention attract traffic tickets like flies on shit. Just my $.02 on ricers of all tax brackets.

Personally, I'd recommend Rolla for any body work you need. He knows his shit, his prices are very fair, and the results speak for themselves.

*bump for price change*

Is this thing street legal, or off road only?

Makes me wish I had 4,500 right now. Anyone want a kidney?

Sending you a PM

Open to trades?

Cash only, or open to trades?

Yeah, like the bump earlier, it's still available for either cash, or trade for something like an old Prelude, Civic, CRX, 240sx, that sort of thing.

*Bump* Still available for sale or for trade.

Damn. I prefer 5-speed, but I have a friend who needs a car too, so I'm letting him know about this. Edit: Let him know and he's interested, because he wanted my own Probe but can't drive stick.

No, it's an auto, you replied in the earlier thread about it.

I'll trade you my Metro for it. I used to have one of these.

Oh yeah, automatic or 5-speed?

Do the pop-up motors work? How much for the Probe only? Interior/underside pics?

What trim level is this Probe? GL or LX?

Honestly I haven't gotten any messages from you...

But doesn't your car already have the same rear end on it, with it being a GT-S? Or did you get one of the non LSD rear ends in yours? If your old one is still good, what do you plan to do with it?

http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21245 3-cyl, auto, so it'll be easy for him to drive. Taken a few long trips in it myself without incident, and it's been a good car for pizza deliveries too, I just want to get the engine swap on my AE86 done

Nice find. Someone buy this man a beer.

Hahahaha. Yeah, you're right. The body's pretty chewed up, but the engine *runs* and all the parts are there that I need to get it swapped. My 4A-C engine hasn't run well enough to be driveable for about 10 months now, so even if the engine is high miles, it's still laying the groundwork to pull it again later and either rebuild, or replace it, or swap in a 4A-GZE How's the rear end you got been treating ya? I don't mind not having it, since I don't really intend to drive my AE86 in a way that's going to make LSD or rear discs a must until all my own body work is done, and I have an engine in that runs like it just came outta the factory. (I'm tired of breaking my car!)