Blake Noble

The search is almost officially over. And it isn't either of the two cars I've listed.

To get to the dinosaurs, you obviously don't make a left turn.

Bricks were shat.

This thread has become a logical, verbal, and idiotic cesspool. Rick didn't do all he could have done to save GM. I'll admit that he had a hard-headed bunch of jackasses to go up against to bring about change (with those hard-headed jackasses being the GM Board of Directors), but the fact still remains that he didn't quite cut away all of the gristle and leave the meat. He was THE man in charge, the big cheese, the head honcho. If he was set in what he wanted and wasn't afraid to fire a few buddies on The Board, there would be very little to stop him in getting what he wanted done, done. That's the fact, get used to it. And I don't have much faith in Henderson. In fact, I don't have any faith in him period. Someone who isn't a lifer needs to sit back in the CEO chair at GM for a while. There's a reason why so many GM faithful and ex-GM faithful are calling for someone like Alan Muallay to take the reigns: you don't see Ford dropping their drawers and bending over for the government to rape them do you? Muallay is seriously trying and getting a lot accomplished. The product that FoMoCo builds is rapidly becoming less and less of a factor as to why they are in the financial shape they are in. Ford holds the most promise and most likely Ford will be around into the next decade. I'm personally waiting on GM's curtain call at this point. And it really doesn't pain me anymore to say that. If so much money wasn't wasted while Roger Smith was CEO, if 3/4 of what GM built in the 1990s wasn't, for the majority, junk, if someone with real balls, leadership skills, a passion for cars (or at least the product being built), and some accounting know-how was working GM right now ... it would be such a different story. Farewell GM. Too bad that America is no longer willing to serve you as well as you served it. Too bad that there wasn't anyone that knew $h! about anything to take the driver's seat when you were going through the nine circles of Hell the first time around.

Yeah. I went there. Do something about it.

I'd rather walk.

That was a real Grand Prix. I'd actually love to own one.

I nominate Slint.

Well no project car for me. Let's see what happens Saturday. It's a certainty that it's not going to happen, my intuition is too strong.

(If this is true ...) Praise God! Praise Jesus! Praise Buddah! Praise Allah! Praise Vishnu! Praise any other god in the f@#king book!

You should try to pick up some Intrepid R/T (were they all saddled down with cloth textures?) or 300M door panels to complete your interior.

FYI: I'm buying the Firebird. The cash price on the car is $3,500. However, I'm not going through with the original deal I offered to the lot that has it. Offering my truck in on trade plus an additional $1,000 ... well, you know who would have been screwed on that one. I'm still working it out with the dealer and I'm going to talk a little more to them this weekend. It's possible that I might be able to buy it for three-grand even and pay for it with a loan. I'm not sure what's going to happen to the Sonoma. There's a chance it could stay within the family, though. Also, I'm going to pick up a Firebird project car as well. I have an '03 Bombardier Rally with a bad crankshaft bearing that I'll be trying to trade to this car. This particular 'Bird is a '95 with a hefty 209,000 miles under its belt. It's previous owner treated it like an absolute dog and it needs a $h!load of cosmetic work, but it is 90 percent sound mechanically. This is what I'll be re-creating with it: The '95 will be restored over a very long period of time. The Cutlass burned through quite a lot of my savings, money I've earned, and money I've obtained through selling my ATV and other odds and ends. As I'm working on it, it'll be my winter car to keep the miles off of the '99. I'm not going to rest until I at least have that '99 Firebird in my possession. The '95 project I found is something that I'll have to keep my mechanical skills sharp and I'm getting rid of something completely useless to me in the process. Here's to hoping next week turns out the way I want it to.

Glückwunsch Herr PCS. Best wishes at BMW.

Really? I thought the ones for the Year One Bandit were about 18" or 19" in size? I might have been mistaken, though. Thanks Ocn. EDIT: I looked on Year One's site, and they are the same wheels. I was wrong.

At this point, no one gives a $h!. We all know what's going to happen: promises will be made, but only partially delivered, if they are actually acted upon at all.

I see no Oldsmobile in that ferrin job, sir. Nope, not quite. The head honcho of design for Kia jumped ship from Audi.

Ya damn Yank with yer fancy solutions and whatnot, a real man uses duct tape.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I got you a present, but something happened to it after I purchased it ...

Confession: I used to really like Cowboy Bebop. I haven't watched it in years, though.

I'm going to make a road trip to Massachusetts next year to this junkyard, DF. Hopefully, I'll like my next car enough to upgrade it with better parts, etc. Is there a limit on return trips?

What should have happened a long time ago: Wagoner stepping down. What shouldn't have happened now: Henderson stepping up. This isn't change for the greater good for the company. This is a very redundant decision. A lifer should not have top chair at GM; we all know what that's brought us.

I think you guys know which car I'm going for. Knowing my luck, I'm 100 percent certain I'm not going to get it but whatever. Ocn, could you find me a picture of those snowflake rims? I know for the Year One Bandit Trans Am, they've reproduced them to a size even larger than that and I'm sure that they would fit as well.

Someone call the New York Times because it's snowing in hell right now. That is a very attractive electric car. The only thing that appears similar to a Saab to me would be the interior and its layout.

Waiting on Dodgefan's response ...