Intrepidation

Yep, somehow I manage this, a floor mat mod, washing and detailing the cars, and working 6 days this past week.

Well one way to look at it would be your GC, which has been pretty reliable besides the seat thing. The Prizm is coming up to 197,000 miles on it and runs like a top. Yes we had to replace the transmission and master/slave cylinders four years ago, but really its been without any major issue since then...even after being "totaled". I drive it every day and would trust it to take me anywhere. As an aside, that check engine and non working speedo issue I had a couple months ago was my fault...I didn't ground the wires going to the battery securely enough when I replaced the terminal connectors.

Finally got all of the parts I got from All You Can Carry Day (this past Halloween) out and lined up. Here they be: I'm two door panels and a speaker grill short of a complete taupe interior. Nice thing is that the center console has the second AUX power port which I plan to hook up. So much better than the hard to get to one next to the ash tray. I' got a newer style auto dimming mirror, the AutoStick shifter mechanism, a clock, and an OTIC or whatever we seem to call them. I'm calling them that because that's what the manual calls them but I digress. I'm kinda disappointed with the interior color. I thought taupe would be closer to tan than gray. It isn't. Yes I know earlier Intrepids had tan interiors but they looked nasty, more yellow than tan. I'm still planning to use them, but I'm considering finding interior paint and painting all of the panels creme s I can get the color scheme I really want: I just don't know how durable paint is. Although I noticed that Chrysler just painted taupe over the Dark Slate shifter bezel...so maybe it would work. Anyway, I need at least two door panels to complete my interior, although the passenger front panel I got has a small tear in it...so I may need 3. If nothing else I can use it to test.

You don't even need a car to be new to be reliable. You just have to research what used cars and powertrains are known to be reliable. Often times that means more Japanese than American but I know there's a selection of reliable American cars as well.

The smart thing to do would be to ditch the regal, or keep it if you really want it but you haven't even finished teh Cutlass yet, and get a cheap, economical, reliable, small car as a daily driver.

Holy awesome Batman! Not only is the pump in plain site, there's no hoses attached to it either, just a few bolts and its off!

Sucks man, I know how you feel, although you have a family to worry about so that makes it worse. I did manage to get a job but its still only enough to start catching up on bills and things. It isn't enough to live off of I think, especially being seasonal.

Chat room is up and running, come one, come all!

In all seriousness though, that sucks man, good luck with it. hopefully you'll be able to get it sorted out. However a knock of any sort is never a good sign.

Btter late than never as they say. :wink: Click Live Chat up on the menu.

I do love New England, I would just prefer to live in NH...and I do hate the rust that comes with the region.

I would say no to that Firebird based on your 2 in a row duds dude. Maybe get a nice Cobalt LS . Or if you wanted something that was actually fun, an SS or an SRT4.

Yes it would be defeated by parallel parking. However te beauty of living on a hill is that I can pull the car into the driveway, which is its own hill, let it coast out and then face uphill, and be on my way. Likewise, there's just enough of a grade that I can put it in neutral (or reverse if I felt like pretending) and it will go backwards

Not really, just pull forward in the parking spots.

1993 Yeah, it was registered but I guess it would need to be re-registered(?). Since it would become my car I'd need to get teh car signed over to me, take my car off insurance when I store it, then put this on.

She won that discussion.

A quick browse through any junkyard will net you plenty of Panthers with mileage well over a quarter of a million miles.

If you could get a used 2nd gen Avalanche with the 6-speed I would go for that.

Well for starters the Mercury has never broken down. Waterpump is $55 from Napa. I can replace it myself. Have extra tires $400 + $200 (assuming that's the price) means $655 car. Intrepid will not be repainted in the spring. I don't have $3,000 or so to get it done properly, and there's no way I'm going to half ass the paint job. Therefore it must make due with the paint its got on it for now. Driving through the winter = rust. After all I've done to it, that would be a stupid thing to willfully do. A used Cobalt is what, five grand for strippers? $5,000 VS $655. That's a tough one

I come to find out today that my mom plans on clearing out the driveway. So that means both van are being junked (a pity, the very first car I ever drove was the `86 Caravan), but she also seems to plan to junk the Grand Marquis. She pulled it off the road to save money a couple months ago. Has a flat, and although I (and only I) made the effort to start it up, battery probably is too weak to start it. Does still have power through. To get it back on the road it needs a battery if this one is no good, and a tire. Have a spare tire, no biggie. Waterpump is starting to go, but that should be an easy fix. Looks much easier to do than the Shadow was. Then there's the transmission which has no reverse. I can live without it, however I can get a transmission for $200 and get it installed for $200. So $400 isn't bad. This wouldn't need to be done right away either, so I can do it whenever. Oh and a headlight lens. Tape is so redneck. I offered to pay her what whichever yard she planned to have them take it away for would pay. My only questions is what's the average price they pay for a car like this? I'm hoping like $200 If it is cheap like that I'll keep it. The GF and I have a soft spot for it, and even with its issues it has never broken down and left us stranded in the 15,000 miles we put on it since last June. Plus, it has new snow tires on back, new brake lines. Plus I know all of its foibles. Then I can put my car in storage so it doesn't have to suffer through winter.

I'm so exhausted from spending 8 hours at the junkyard. Got some good stuff though so it was worth it. Put up a few tombstones and a jack-o-lantern last minute. Handed out candy with my black cat. He probably had more fun than I did.

If they sell the Commodore and Coupe ^0 they can call themselves whatever they want.

Funny, I remember Honda taking a swing at the Domestics during the bankruptcy stuff in at least one of their ads. Something along the lines of "You do what you're doing, we'll keep building cars" Of course I'm sure siegen will find a way to spin it. As for GM's ad. I thought it was clever. I got a chuckle out of it and I'll remember it. That's what matters in adverting.

Indeed, you will learn all too quickly how much bills and student loans will f*** in the @$$.