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Ha. "It's faster than you AND I can haul a load of firewood for the after party!" I'm thrilled you're back in the El Camino in a way only OG's can understand.

I have so many stories like yours from when I was doing the Grand Prix stuff. I can't count the times I was laughed at in the staging lanes by muscle drivers only to dust them by, in many cases, whole seconds. One I remember in particular was an LS1 Corvette in the lane next to mine, three cars back, at Norwalk. Driver walked up to me with several of his buddies in tow, asked if I borrowed the car from my Mom, laughed in my face, and said I should get a hold of something fast like his Corvette. "You'in need a real fast car like my Vette!" was about what he said. When I got to the strip, I had the official hold me so I could get lined up with him. He just laughed and shook his head. I beat him with a 11.7x to his 12.3x and three miles an hour. We were both on DR's. He didn't look at me at the end of the track, and I gave him plenty of opportunity. I saw him and his buddies in the staging lanes two more times and none of them would look me in the eye.

It looked like it included all weights in both EP and regular. I bought all they had of the 5w30 EP and filled in the rest with regular.

Bought 4 oil changes worth today, thanks for the heads up.

Congrats, dude! Looks like a nice place!

I'm really excited. They've been playing pretty well.

Sweet.

Foot race? Anthony, if you're going to the shop on Saturday, you should bring me home. I'm at this point probably taking the bus.

I definitely will because I'll be drunk in Chicago and eating pizza.

I make more than her, but she is better educated. With or without your "retirement" pay?

No, I'd rather compare net worth.

Because when I'm driving it's usually being fast.

*doing a happy dance* :marc:

Hey wait, it's out, does this mean it's time to work on the SVO?

That car spends more time looking fast than being fast.

Sam, I can restrict your view to just those forums if you want. lolzzz

Case in point?

Joe, I'd consider consulting a real estate attorney. We have friends who recently bought a foreclosed sheriff house and several months later, the old mortgage owner came knocking threatening to throw them out and claiming they still had the deed. Long story short, a few thousand dollars later, they were clear. A couple-hundred dollar pre-purchase consultation would have saved them the agony and they still would have got the house.

I started running whatever "synthetic" is cheapest. By running *any* synthetic, I'm doing much more than the average vehicle owner - and the average vehicle owner running conventional oil and changing regularly should get well over 200k miles. Anymore, I only care about guarding against 99% - you can spend a fortune on trying to guard against 99.999999999999999999% - and perhaps see no difference in performance or wear. Oil over $6/quart is ridiculous. Maybe I'm losing my edge, but I seriously don't think I'll ever see the ROI on expensive oil. Anyone else feel like this?

I thought the 21st century Hooverville's were FEMA trailers.

We heard you pulling what sounded like bikes or four cylinders at 11p last night, though it was the civil siren at first.

Bonneville, false. The Grand Prix GXP uses a 5.3.

There is nearly no aftermarket for them. Poor gas mileage. Poor horsepower. Many of the N* engines have a cylinder head bolt issue - they pull the threads in the block out. The engine has to be torn down to the block and reinforcements installed, which is not an easy task on that engine - book pays several days IIRC. But the car looks cool.

No kidding. It's like watching a herd of cattle get spooked in every direction they turn and run another direction. RUN RUN OBAMA IS TAKING YOUR GUNS! NO WAIT RUN RUN THE BANKS ARE FAILING! NO WAIT NOW YOUR CREDIT CARDS ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY! HOW ARE YOU GONNA BUY NEW GUNS? RUN! WITHOUT NEW GUNS HOW ARE WE GOING TO STOP THE APOCALYPSE? WAIT WE DON'T HAVE GUNS? RUN RUN RUN! OBAMA IS TAKING OUR GUNS! RUN RUN!

I get to work out with the Belgian weight lifting team this morning at the Y downtown.