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Thanks for the compliment. You nailed it by the way with the reliable and practical aspects. Needed the van as we have 4 kids, and it's great for hauling if the back seats are taken out (cave on wheels) Needed the 4x4 as we have a very long driveway and needed something capable of navigating it during snow, etc. Park Ave is a (relatively) inexpensive reliable comfortable 4 door sedan. Cutlass is a fun cruiser and has been reliable and not expensive to maintain. And of course the Miatas, fun and reliable as hell. Yellow one we bought new in 1993. Red I bought in May 2019 a it's ultra low mileage (only 15k miles) but I think I'm gonna' sell it as it's almost too nice to drive/enjoy.
I'm retired, wife just retired, and 3 out of 4 kids are now out of the house so we'll have to get rid of a few sometime over the next year or so. Will be tough to decide what goes !!
I considered getting one of those several years back when I was buying a full size 4-door sedan. What I really liked about it was the fact that the roof line and back doors were sized and configured to allow for easy entrance/exit for the back seat. Most 4-doors nowadays have little doors and/or a swooped down roofline that makes getting in and out an agonizing experience.
I ended up with a 2002 Buick Park Avenue instead. It also has huge rear doors and same benefits, but the additional benefits of better overall MPG, and no center console ( I tend to 'manspread' pretty severely while driving so not a huge fan of the big chunky consoles in modern cars).
RichardMor
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Love those Miatas! My son and I had 1990 and 1993 that besides using them, we often autocrossed them. So much fun!
geezin - yes, it’s a 1990! Built on a Chevy Caprice chassis.
geezin - yes, it’s a 1990! Built on a Chevy Caprice chassis.
The van is nice enough and all, but given my choice I'd like to have one a few years newer as then I could get one with the LS motor in it. As it is mine has the standard 350.
I really liked the van we had before this one. a 1987 Chevy Beauville 8 passenger with rear A/C and one of the removeable seats also folded out into a makeshift bed. Here it is face to face with the GMC in late 2000 One was on the way in..... the other on the way out....
The Sunburst yellow Miata has 112k miles on it. Coincidentally so does the Cutlass.
Volvo242GT
Well-Known Member
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Re: Woodinville, there have been some people from Bellingham and Tacoma showing up. The owner of the blue Volvo S60 lives in Tacoma. Alas, someone in a dark blue Camaro ruined it for everyone. Did a rolling burnout in front of an officer. Both the police and the shopping center requested that the meet be suspended until they can make sure that shenanigans like this won't occur again.
My old reliable rust bucket. They only caught me because I let em.View attachment 2069881
Ahh. 67 Chevy. By the trim and caps I'm assuming a BelAire or Biscayne?
Long ago during the 1973 gas "crisis" I was working as an automobile mechanic. My girlfriend at the time had wrecked her 68 Ford Cortina and we were on the hunt for a replacement vehicle. A woman brought in a near new Toyota for an oil change. While talking with her she mentioned she had just gotten the Toyota recently and she was looking to sell her previous vehicle, a 1967 Impala station wagon. She asked if I was interested in the Chevy, which honestly I wasn't. But ..... she was insistent. Couple days later she pulls up in this near flawless 67 Impala wagon. She thought maybe if I actually saw the car I'd be interested. She was right. The car was beautiful, the price was pure bargain. Sold. That was the first vehicle I ever owned that had A/C. Must've been a HD system as it would rapidly chill you down even on the hottest days. Under the hood was a 327/275hp engine, backed by a turbo 400 trans. It really was an awesome car and my girlfriend and I drove the wheels off that thing. Eventually the engine from it found it's way into my 1965 Chevelle.
@Mr Boochie I really like that S2000 sans that wing however! I would have bought one over my miata but the cost of them is just too high for me to spend on a car that would likely only see 3k miles annually.
I was actually looking for an NSX to restore. But by 2014, mid 1990s vintage in restorable shape were out of my price range. I found the S2K, looking for the NSX. It was in remarkable OEM condition (yes, that is the stock dealer added wing). I couldn't pass it up, for the price --- $20K. 32K miles. One owner, Orange County, CA.
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Now, looking for a nice Toyota FJ Cruiser to restore and replace my tired Element.
55Redneck
Canadian Redneck
Mine's a bone stock Belair with a 283/Glide. The caps are actually off an old buddies 58 Delray (he put American Racing 5 spokes on it). I like the look of dog dish caps and I've always been to poor, or cheap to fork out for aftermarket wheels. That Impala wagon sounds like a very cool ride, I'd love to find a deal on something like that some day.
P.S. My first of quite a few Chevelles was a 65 300 2 door post with a 6/Glide combo that should have got my L-79 327/350HP after my 69 Malibu got wrecked but my plan got screwed up. Long story but that 65 would have been wicked with that 327 and the built T-350 out of my 69.
Two-speed Powerglide! 283ci was a rock-solid, reliable engine. Kinda like the old Ford 289ci. They don't make engines like that anymore.
The rebuilt 327 was a nice upgrade over the stock 283. The engine started out as a 327/275 (Tonowanda built) At the time of the rebuild I had a pal working in the Chevrolet parts dept, an he was able to get me smoking deals on a L-46 hydraulic cam, and Chevy truck high rpm lifters, timing chain and steel gears, springs, flat top pistons and new bearings. Another friend who worked at a Buick dealership found me a deal on a T-350 trans to replace my powerglide. What a nice combo the two made, and an easy swap. Yoke and driveshaft worked as is, trans cooler lines needed to be bent only slightly, had to do very minor work on shift linkage to get it to work.
I've driven a bunch of powerglides over the years. Not exciting but reliable. And 283 motors too..... had 3 cars with those...
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55Redneck
Canadian Redneck
This pales in comparison to modern motors but my 283 when parked for the winter last season had just under 113,000 original miles and never been apart, still purrs like a kitten but could maybe use another carb soon. I rebuilt the original about 5 years ago but it's worn out beyond rebuilding now unless I find some place to do throttle shaft bushings for me.
I have used Performance Oriented which rebuilds and re-bushes Weber carbs. They used oil-impregnated, sintered bronze inserts. They may know a place which machines Holley and Rochester carbs. They are located in Oregon.
http://www.performanceoriented.com/
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