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hehe if you talk to some of our older members, they will tell you get the disease instead of the vaccine instead. back in the 70's when it hit everyone remembered the 1918 outbreak and a vaccine was conjured up. a preservative or somethin in the vaccine had more detrimental effects/fatalities than the virus itself.

yeah... 52 is odd unless "friends" made a request for a few. the announcement preceded GM's about pontiac so i think thats the biggest problem.

interesting... my dad had a 68 ss396 with the 325. i guess in stock form they werent the greatest but my dad said he could catch all the way up to 3rd and chirp 4th in his. course he was running a tunnel ram setup on his and he had some head work done. they engine shop that rebuilt the motor's bottom end was going to put a cam in it but the shop owner told my grandpa that the cam would make the motor eat parts constantly so they didnt do it. still the street race challenges everywhere dad went day or night got so bad he sold the chevelle and got a truck.

i could see a lot of pranks going wrong, terribly terribly wrong. could get rid of a neighbor that way too. be like the salem witch trials or the mcarthy trials hehe

supposedly the guy is in the process of enclosing it. the thing is built from scratch... i envy the skills of others sometimes...

well, the van was rockin... so i didnt go knockin...

... those BBC's must have been severely neutered...

while not a "rat rod" i think i wouldnt mind this monster mouse (mice?)

the elky is a 68 it was marina blue with white yenko stripes, now is silver with black yenko stripes. i thought the the van was just funny, a kyle petty look a like got in it and drove away. the ss camaro is a raffle that the local hejaz shriners are giving away. and just for fun it looks like our local subway has hit hard times and has started a side business...

actually i was tipped off reading through this months issue of Muscle Car Review. since the press release date is from june i would assume things are probably being kept quiet about it, especially since there is nothing more on hurst's website. i am sure there are more than enough G8 GT's languishing away on lots to throw 50 special editions together... theres a white one down the road form my house now. 49 to go.

looks like visual basic or something, referring to terminator

not sure if this had been posted, not sure if it'll see the light of day actually but cool none the less. HURST PERFORMANCE AND “DOC” WATSON ANNOUNCE NEW HURST/PONTIAC MODELS Revered Performance Brand Teams Up with Legendary Visionary to Make History Again! Flint, Mich. (June 29, 2009) – Hurst Performance Vehicles, one of the most recognized and respected names in automobile history, announced that it has teamed up with newly appointed Hurst Director Emeritus and legendary performance visionary, “Doc” Watson, to build two new Special Edition Hurst/Pontiacs – a 2010 HURST/Pontiac H.O. version of the G8 and a G6 convertible. Hurst Performance President, Ron Flint, and Watson made the announcement together on Saturday at a special event held at the Sloan Museum in Flint, Michigan – the birthplace of GM. Hurst Performance in Irvine, California, will hand-build only 52 examples of the 2010 HURST/Pontiac H.O. – a modern-day version of George Hurst's “Executive Hot Rod”. These numbered cars will feature Hurst’s iconic white/gold and black/gold colors along with forged alloy Hurst wheels, an exclusive Hurst shifter, supercharged engine, suspension mods and a specially trimmed interior. Hurst will also commemorate Doc’s famous Pace Cars and build ten HURST/Pontiac G6 convertibles to be used as parade and special event cars. “Doc started all of this with George back in 1960 with Hurst Performance Research. His Hurst H.O. Pontiacs have stormed drag strips and main streets across the country for 50 years,” said Hurst Chairman, Nate Shelton. “There could not be a better time to honor Doc and the legendary Pontiac marque.” Watson's contribution to the American performance landscape is unrivaled. During a 50-year career in the development, manufacturing and marketing of special vehicles, Watson brought to life more than 80 performance cars and racing vehicles, including the original Hurst Oldsmobile, the Hemi-Under-Glass and the 1972 Hurst/Pontiac SSJ. These new HURST/Pontiac’s are yet another chapter in his illustrious career. “If we combine the wisdom earned through the heritage of past Hurst vehicles with the vision of globally beneficial vehicles, we will not be living through the death of the Muscle Car,” Watson explained. “Rather, we will see the birth of exciting, passion-filled performance vehicles – vehicles that will give new meaning to lean, mean, and environmentally clean machines. It’s a 'new machine age,' and Hurst will be first once again.” Hurst Performance has once again partnered with the Woodhouse Automotive Family of Blair Nebraska as the exclusive Hurst Authorized Pontiac Dealer for sales and service of these exceptional vehicles. Specifications, pricing and ordering information will be available August 1st on the Hurst website at www.hurst-performance.com. http://www.hurst-performance.com/assets/pr...iac-Release.pdf

i couldnt look at this thread at work. our internet blocking service blocked it under the category : vulgar/distasteful/obscene :rotflmao:

"want me to give you somethin to take yo mind off dat pain? lemme see yo finga boy eh heh heh heh"

hehe whoops... i forget theres a v6 model that people want this go round

yeap. gonna get my digital camera for some night ops recon tomorrow night on the way home. tons of cars and trucks 75-85% domestics on the lot.

dont forget that slp had a turbo kit for those to that put them right up there with the stock v8 fbodies. my buddy had a 99 v6 firebird with a set of flowmaster 50's. sounded good.

uh, possibly because its between to comfy luxury sedans and not luxury sport sedans. if this was CTS-V vs IS-F i would understand why performance carries more weight. yup you got em, they are reverse biased now, tremble TMC at the power of media bias! the weight isnt that huge of a difference in the mi... eh forget it. probably what happend is they went with buick cause the red was prettier than the dull humbug black...

Found two different news stories with the same plot... where's my money? the first is from south dakota: During the month long program, Billion Automotive sold close to a thousand vehicles but has only been reimbursed for 272 of them. Vern Eide sold over 200 cars and has only been paid for 27 of them, and that's fueling lots of concerns in the auto industry. Billion Automotive cashed in during Cash for Clunkers, but owner Dave Billion is still waiting for the rest of his money from the government run program, $3.2 million. "I wonder how long they'd wait if I owed them $3.2 million. I think they'd be at my door or at least my banker's door," Billion said. When Cash for Clunkers was first announced, dealers were supposed to be reimbursed within 10 days of a sale. Billion says that hasn't happened. "The program started in July and we haven't gotten paid for cars we sold back then, but then on the other hand we got paid for a car we sold last week. They don't have an accurate format. It's not like they're taking the first deals that were submitted and working those. I don't know how they're doing it, no idea. I know it's very random" Billion said. Plus, he's had problems getting some vehicles qualified. "We had a situation where we had a submission, they rejected it for multiple reasons. We didn't see anything wrong with it, so we resubmitted it. They rejected, we resubmitted it. They rejected it, seven times and finally they paid it, and we never changed a single thing on it," Billion said. article here the second story being from chicago: Here's the figure: $2.878 billion. That's how much money the government owes car dealers for the "Cash for Clunkers" program. More than $200 million of that is owed to dealers in Illinois and Indiana, so CBS 2's Mai Martinez checked with some of them to see how much money they've collected from Uncle Sam. Now that the popular program has ended, many dealerships are asking the federal government to "show me the money." "Out of 142 deals they owe us for, we've gotten paid on seven," Lou Tornabeni of Ettleson Hyundai said. "We had 102 cash for clunkers," Carm Scarpace of Westfield Ford said. "We've been paid for one." With each Cash for Clunkers deal worth between $3,500 and $4,500, many dealerships are anxiously awaiting their government payday. Some, like Advantage Chevrolet, which sold cars up until the last minute, have more than half a million dollars on the line. "It was chaotic towards the end," Jason Roberts said. Roberts says his dealership sold 142 cars under the program -- for a total of about $568,000 in government rebates. So far, the dealership has only been paid about $68,000 for about 17 of the deals, which means Uncle Sam still owes them roughly $500,000. "It's not crippling, but it definitely affects the cash flow on a regular basis," Roberts said. Roberts says his dealership can handle the cash crunch, but others may not be as lucky, especially if they didn't follow the government's strict guidelines for the program. "We know of one dealer that sold 40 cars under the Cash for Clunkers programs, and out of those 40 cars, he's expecting to get paid on eight," Roberts said. But even those who did follow the guidelines say they won't rest easy until they have the cash in hand. For Westfield Ford, that's about $400,000. "You're always nervous when the money's out there, but you've got to believe in the government," Scarpace said. "It should come back to us." The million-dollar – or should we say, billion-dollar -- question now is when? Dealers say they don't know, but it can't come soon enough. One of the dealers told us, originally, the government was supposed to pay them within 10 days of receiving their paperwork. But with more than 690,000 cars sold under the program, that dealer says he's not expecting payment for another 30 to 45 days. source

look at that idiot that put won instead of one... what a tool.

as far as logos and whatnot being on those cars... without permission... i would think it would be copyright infringement. back to the car, it needs a humongus brush guard as to crash through brick walls. maybe hornblasters.com can make won that screams OH YEEEEAAAHHH!!!

so, you seen this? i think it further backs you up...

so let me get this straight. when the "performance driven" CTS-V handily smacks an M5 around the track all day long the problem is yeah but the M5's interior has... but when buick outdoes a supposed luxo car in the interior department of a luxo car its "lacking in performance"...? i got a headache...

the reason for crappy hp and performance form 74 to basically 87 was lower compression ratios than before and of course choking emissions equipment that have in the last 10-15 years finally been improved enough so that there can be 1:1 displacement/hp numbers and beyond. by the time the c8 comes around i am sure that ICE will more than likely be the minority on the roads.

seems like they are a little late to the party to me...