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The only drawback to leasing is that they might get you if the car needs some substantial work to bring it to sellable condition. A ding here and there is probably OK, but anything more is probably gonna cost you. Of course, if you do the smartbuy option, you get the chance to buy the car outright after the lease is up if you like it enough where you want to keep it.

Happy Birthday loki!

Wow, those are the mos impressive pics of the Aura yet. It doesn't look to have the saddle interior option, and I think that helps a lot.

And all this time I've wasted trying to find a classic Camaro or Corvette to call my own....

After a nasty incident inolving Rosie ODonnell and a Sea World resuce truck, San Diego county officials decide that some changes are in order. The Chinese infatuation with the American automobile is well documented on this site. Here we see two men react to seeing the redesigned Chinese Regal for the first time.

Great news, Josh. Say hi to Catherine for me :AH-HA_wink:

I ued to get it a lot when I was younger, but not much anymore. The last time I almost threw up on a plane a couple of years ago, they gave me yogurt and OJ for breakfast. I would try bringing some of your own food, and make sure it's nothing that'll be too harsh on your stomach to begin with. Stick with breads and fruits and vegetables with low or no acid in them.

Well, as I alluded to in this thread, I had some pretty big plans this past weekend. My father and I drove 5.5 hours to Cortland NY for an estate auction. The reason for this journey: a 1969 Corvette convertible...yellow/black, 350/300 engine, auto, factory a/c. The body was a little rough and it needed some interior bits, but everything was there and the frame was good (C3 frames tend to rot around the door sills and in front of the rear wheels). For the right price, it would have made a worthwhile project, along with accomplishing my goal of owning a Corvette before I die. Now here's where it gets interesting. We had with us the Corvette Black Book, which had the engine, carburetor, and trim codes for the car. According to the book, the car didn't have the right engine OR the right carburetor. Now, I didn't care (I'd have probably gone LS1 or RamJet 350), but to a collector it makes all the difference in the world. Without the original 350/300 engine, it was barely worth 10K in fair condition. I told a couple of on-lookers that the car wasn't original, and they walked away in disgust. To make a long story short, the auctioneers advertised it as original. I ended up getting outbid by a phone bidder for $16K. So close...so close. On the way back to the hotel, we notice this green '67 coupe sitting on someone's lawn. I call the number in the window and ask how much he wants for it. He tells me $200K. He tells me it's an L88. Already deflated, I didn't bother arguing with him as to why it wasn't the original color and why he removed the bumper if the car was really an L88. Besides, it would've been a tough enough task to talk someone down from $200K to 10% of that. I have pics of the yellow Corvette that I'll post in a bit. On the plus side, the Cobalt averaged 35.6MPG on the trip.

Um, guys...Fly's a pilot. If he says it won't fly, it won't fly

Oldsmoboi...check my edited post

The real question is: does the thrust generated by the engines somehow increase the speed of the air moving over the wings? Tire speed really means zilch. The engines take in air and throw it out the back at a much higher speed. However, this has no effect on the air that traveling over the wing, and if it's on a treadmill the plane's speed relative to the air around it is still zero, so I'm saying that nothing happens to the plane other than getting a good workout.

1984 Pontiac Fiero Oh wait, only the name was Italian. If there was a point to this post, it's that I can't wait to see BV's reaction to this

Yyyyou could say that. Put it this way, you're close, but way off :AH-HA_wink: All right. I better shut up. I don't wanna jinx it.

I'm going upstate, NY this weekend, perhaps bringing home a biiiiiiiiig surprise :AH-HA_wink:

Wasn't me Actually, Dreamhost had experienced some DNS-related problems last night. They're continually patching and updating their servers, and, well, sometimes things just don't go as planned. The actual message from them follows: We had notified them of the problem with C&G at 10PM last night (once it was clear there was nothing on our end wrong), and they replied around 12AM saying it would be fixed the next time they made their DNS changes "official" (usually in 2-4 hour cycles). We apologize for the inconvenience.

We've used either Castrol or Quaker State forever, and not a single problem has arisen because of it. I might consider going synthetic. It's supposed to last longer and give better protection, but it might cause leakage depending on the car. One caveat with synthetic, though...once you switch, don't switch back.

No, you just cut it in half and count the number of rings from the center to the edge.....no, wait, that's a tree.

Bob, before you know it he'll be in the junkyard writing estimates for all the wrecks.

Hummer H2 with the 1.8L VVT-i 4cyl from Toyota and a six-speed. Center mountd gauge pods from the Ion.

Right now I'm in the middle of "All Corvettes are Red". I also try to read the Bible at least semi-regularly.

Oh, well in that case it could be just semantics. Sometimes you have to get clever with the wording. I've seen multiple items listed in the same eBay auction all the time. Try something like "Lot of collectible Firehawk memorabilia" or "Assorted Firehawk memorabilia".

So tell me why you haven't yet posted in this thread? j/k. I'm happy for you. I hope someone there likes Chili's

I feel for you, friend. Don't settle for anything less than you deserve for this collection. Have you tried Barrett-Jackson or (shot in the dark) the GM heritage center? If I had that kind of scratch, and a couple of inches on my legs.....

Freudian slip??? Great pics Vipes! My legs are like jello right now.

I hear that. Generally I feel things could be a lot worse and I'm happy and thankful for that, but there's something (someone) missing.