Attention Vette Lovers

chilipeppermaniac said:
Cador, I am sorry to hear of your failure issues. I hope you kept that nice engine, but I suspect you didn't. I hate rust, Rusted brake lines, rusted fasteners, rusted bodies and frames, I HATE RUST.

Oh and Robert, my F250 diid not lead a babied life of numerous highway miles, but rather led a hauling, working life from an electrician for 135K miles until I got it, then another 200K of Lumber, trailer, tools, masonry hauling that I put it through for 20 more years. Like Cador,,,,,,,, Mine needs brake lines, and if I ever get lucky enough for a garage, a total rebuild to make beautiful and maybe enough time to get over 400k out of it before I die.
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You need the stainless lines...
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
True story, John. One night, way back around 1988 I was attending a wedding of a buddy and his bride and the reception was held in Annapolis. As I was saying goodbye to the bride's dad, he wished me a safe ride home on my motorcycle. I had a 1+ hour ride home on my 1985 Honda 700 Nighthawk S. I told him, it was no biggie, a short hop.

The rest of the story was a spine tingling memory for me. About 15 minutes away on I 97 Northbound, I was switching lanes and abruptly found myself jolted and suddenly lifted up off my seat so high that only my hands were on the bike. Sort of shaken, I soldiered on till I arrived home to my dad's house. I parked the bike and saw that not only had my tail light come out from the housing ( unbolted somehow from the jolt) the one turn signal also had popped off and was hanging down. Disgusted and amazed I had stayed upright, I went to bed. The next morning, I found even more damage I was unaware of during my trip. The impact had been so abrupt, it bent both back and front rims out of round.

All I can think of was there was a pothole, crack in the pavement between the 2 lanes that somehow I changed lanes at precisely the wrong time to encounter and thus damage my ride. I echo Adrian's sentiment about Hi Perf, low slung cars and our crappy Maryland roads.
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Wow!!!!!

Down here, the 60 freeway westbound from the 15 through Chino is concrete and large sections have dropped maybe 8 to 10 inches. You get used to their presence and drive in the left 3 lanes to avoid them, but you will see unlucky cars and trucks literally launched into the air over those collapsed sections...
 
eSGEe said:
nice to see the FUEL MILEAGE HASNT INCREASED!!! lol
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Robert Herndon said:
Wow!!!!!

Down here, the 60 freeway westbound from the 15 through Chino is concrete and large sections have dropped maybe 8 to 10 inches. You get used to their presence and drive in the left 3 lanes to avoid them, but you will see unlucky cars and trucks literally launched into the air over those collapsed sections...
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Sounds unbelievably DANGEROUS and LAWSUIT worthy.
 
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Session 5 said:
Nope you would have to pull over to change the coil!
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well it IS A DODGE ...ods are you would BE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD ANYWAY .............

DONT GIVE ME ANY GUFF Ive owned 4 Dodges --- 1 (the cuirrent Dakota Pickup) has been the ONLY One that wasnt a a complete P.O.S. -- and IT EVEN BROKE DOWN ON ME the 3rd day we OWNED IT ! -- but has been decent since---and its "Her Truck" and she loves HER truck ....so .......
anyway --Ive earned my right to prejudice toward the Chrysler Motor Company
 
eSGEe said:
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Hmmm....don't know what to make of that. Ol' Jim sounds like a bit of a luddite, and because it partially negates some of his own hard work, not too happy about changing the chassis configuration. So, Chevy has had 66 years to incrementally refine a front engine/rear drive platform but he wants to crap on the out-of-the-box performance of a clean-sheet mid-engine redesign. OK. But I think the smart money is on the mid-engine car destroying the performance of the front-engine in very short order.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
HAHA Robert, to hear one of these little engines again would be music to my ears.


That is crazy, G. I can't ever remember driving an A/T 928, only Manual ones. Yeah the other horrible thing is I know Porsche likely hated this, but their Factory rep was out of Utah as he always had a P with Utah tags. He had to come and evaluate things, had the mechanics tear down the engine, look things over and gave the word, New motor on their nickel.
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I remember reading somewhere that for the US they shipped something like only 1 out of 10 with a manual gearbox, since it was marketed as a "Luxury GT" here instead of a true sports car. In high school I worked for a while at Metzler's Nursery in Columbia and I'll never forget how many times a 928 or 944 would pull up and we'd toss bags of mulch in the back, like the cat was cruising around in a Vista Cruiser or something...broke my damn heart.
 
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