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Posted: 8/2/2020 2:35:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mini truckin ain't dead  I have a thing for lowered trucks (and sport trucks). Have owned a couple and my current daily is a Tacoma X-Runner.  |
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Posted: 8/2/2020 4:41:03 PM EDT
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Sorry, no pics but... MK1 and MK2 1979-1992 VW GTI. I have owned several 1985-1992 VW GTI in the Past, I LOVE the look and how small and quick they are for size, but MAN are they fall apart crap boxes and im sure the survival rate in an average crash is VERY low, oh, and they leak from everywhere,,, mostly the sunroof though. I still love the look though
 Oh and 1990-1991 and 1995-1999 Eagle Talon, AWD Turbo. the challenge is keeping them running for more than 1 week but WHEN they actually drive,,, fast as HELL and I LOVE the wedge look. |
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Posted: 8/2/2020 4:59:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/2/2020 5:04:37 PM EDT
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Diesel Rabbit
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Posted: 8/2/2020 5:23:04 PM EDT
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 My first car 86 Mazda 626 GT Turbo.  And my fourth car 2001 Grand Prix GTP The Mazda I would love to have back. |
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Posted: 8/2/2020 5:40:44 PM EDT
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But now days my dream car is a new LC79
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Posted: 8/2/2020 6:26:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't actively look, but I keep my eyes peeled for a deal on a clean Toyota Cressida. I'd love to find a decent clean one with a good body and make it into a mild to moderate drift missile. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/14857/8FD90DF3-2D1A-466F-AAA1-D7D8C8A592B2_jpe-1528647.JPG +1 owned an cresida. Thing was a like missile and very smooth. I liked it so much after I totaled it I bought it back and had it rebuilt. Eventually traded in on a Tacoma. |
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Posted: 8/2/2020 6:32:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI'd love to get a bed like that fabricated for my ranger |
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Posted: 8/2/2020 6:43:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/2/2020 6:51:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone who posted in this thread needs to go to a Radwood car show. This year's in Austin was hands down the best car show I've ever attended. |
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Posted: 8/2/2020 6:54:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI had one. Sort of miss it. Always liked the first gen and second gen Tahoes. Owned both but no longer have them. Also a 2nd gen Camaro lover. Don't know why to be honest but I did own a 78 for a while. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 12:21:01 AM EDT
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It's cool to see how many guys like the Shelby Dodge cars from the 80s. I can't get enough of them.
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Posted: 8/3/2020 12:56:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's cool to see how many guys like the Shelby Dodge cars from the 80s. I can't get enough of them. He wanted to help me get my 626 GT Turbo upgraded but I couldn't afford it back then. It was before import turbos were popular so everything was expensive and hard to find. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 1:07:22 AM EDT
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Quoted: Dodge Raider. Yes it is the same thing as the Montero, but I have a special attachment to the Dodge version. Would love one that looks like this. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/a7/26/a0a7264eb6b2b0b1b323b0c3801d49b9.jpg Quoted: reminded me of the Dodge Raider/Mitsu Montero https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--nr3Vpple--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jwyeerl5nce6j50fle7j.jpg The Raider was a cool name. These are highly underrated vehicles these days. I saw a Radier the other day at AutoZone. It was pretty clean. Three teenage guys were inside trying to find a spray in liner to redo the interior. Made me smile remembering the adventures I had in mine and thinking about the adventures they will have in that one. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 1:07:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had a coworker back in the day with a Shelby Omni he had done a bit of work to. He used to tear people to shreds on the street. All the Mustang bro's would get so pissed at him. I remember laughing so hard at all the V8 kids getting smoked by this guy all over MSP metro area. Good times. He wanted to help me get my 626 GT Turbo upgraded but I couldn't afford it back then. It was before import turbos were popular so everything was expensive and hard to find. There was a time when our little 2.2 and 2.5 turbo cars were incredible on the street. I can remember doing some stoplight racing in my 86 GLH Turbo lined up on Woodward Ave. with a Terminator Mustang, a GN, and one of the "new" Z06 Corvettes. The other three guys were really disappointed that I was right up there with them every time. It was hilarious. We was kangs. 
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Posted: 8/3/2020 1:13:53 AM EDT
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 1981 Toyota Pickup. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 1:17:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOne of my best friends had a rabbit in that same color until he wrecked it. He got a new car out of it though, one of these.  Attached File1993 Ford Festiva. Another friend had a 91' Geo Storm. It looked like the coolest thing back in the day. Now, not so much.   Attached File |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 9:46:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One of my best friends had a rabbit in that same color until he wrecked it. He got a new car out of it though, one of these. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/73787/IMG_8506_JPG-1530840.JPG 1993 Ford Festiva. Another friend had a 91' Geo Storm. It looked like the coolest thing back in the day. Now, not so much. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/73787/IMG_8507_JPG-1530846.JPG |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:02:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryMy dad had this one, same paint/decals. I remember the day he bought it. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:06:31 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:19:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryChrysler Conquest TSI. back in the 80's I was thinking about buying one. Insurance was going to be more than the damn car note. It was rated as the most expensive car to repair in a 5 mph impact. Average cost to repair a 5 mph crash as over $5,000  Glad I did not, the people that bought them found out how much a money pit it was. $2800.00 ECU, turbos that did not last, blown head gaskets and heads that were junk. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:21:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryA guy I knew in the 80's put a small block chevy in one. VERY fun car. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:24:26 AM EDT
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Miss having a 240sx. Owned 2, they were excellent. And my wrx that thing was awesome too.
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:35:04 AM EDT
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1977 Celica. Fun little car. I had 2 of them. 22R 4 cylinder, I even put en Offenhouser intake manifold on one of them. Pretty sure it added at least 6 horsepower... LOL!!
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:36:26 AM EDT
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I bought an 86 Corolla GT-S to flip back in the mid 90s and that was a truly fun car. First car my daughter ever drove. Almost kept it for her, but sold it for a good profit, and ender up putting her in a Porsche 914 instead. Which was also a fun little car.
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:38:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1977 Celica. Fun little car. I had 2 of them. 22R 4 cylinder, I even put en Offenhouser intake manifold on one of them. Pretty sure it added at least 6 horsepower... LOL!! https://img.hmn.com/fit-in/900x506/filters:upscale()/stories/2018/08/611568.jpg I had a 1978 Celica. It was honestly the slowest car I've ever driven in my life, it could not get out of its own way...0-60 was probably 20 seconds. Worse, about 50% of the time, if you turned left it would die. So, had to make 3-rights when you wanted to turn left. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:41:44 AM EDT
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Quoted: and the Chevy Beretta. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/C5909-R405-0017-700x456-610x397.jpg Even today, the Beretta is still a sleek-looking car - especially in red. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:45:36 AM EDT
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My dad drove a Hyundai Tiberon (called the Hyundai Coupe in Europe) for about a decade after he retired.
He loved it. He could easily have afforded a much more expensive car, but he thought it was great. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:48:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1977 Celica. Fun little car. I had 2 of them. 22R 4 cylinder, I even put en Offenhouser intake manifold on one of them. Pretty sure it added at least 6 horsepower... LOL!! https://img.hmn.com/fit-in/900x506/filters:upscale()/stories/2018/08/611568.jpg Sadly made out of compressed rust. I had a 77 GT, still managed to be rusty here in CA where cars simply do not rust (was an OG CA car too). |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:50:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sadly made out of compressed rust. I had a 77 GT, still managed to be rusty here in CA where cars simply do not rust (was an OG CA car too). Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 1977 Celica. Fun little car. I had 2 of them. 22R 4 cylinder, I even put en Offenhouser intake manifold on one of them. Pretty sure it added at least 6 horsepower... LOL!! https://img.hmn.com/fit-in/900x506/filters:upscale()/stories/2018/08/611568.jpg Sadly made out of compressed rust. I had a 77 GT, still managed to be rusty here in CA where cars simply do not rust (was an OG CA car too). |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:54:54 AM EDT
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I still have a love affair with my 1991 Sentra SE-R.
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:57:29 AM EDT
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I had an '82 Toyota Corolla 5 speed for many years. That vehicle was damn near impossible to kill. My first dragrace (nighttime street drags) was in it against another guys old POS sentra. It was late and the real cars were starting to disperse so all the shitboxes came out to play. Unfortunately I would up losing because I somehow managed to slip the shit out of the clutch I was so nervous.
I always used to love fucking with all the hicks around here telling them i've got a hemi in my Toyota. 99% of them couldn't wrap their minds around the fact hemi is about the combustion chamber design and wasn't just a mopar thing lol. https://www.enginebuildermag.com/2017/11/1981-toyota-3tc-1-8l-engine/ |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 10:58:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I still have a love affair with my 1991 Sentra SE-R. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Nissan-Sentra-SE-R.jpg <3 
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Posted: 8/3/2020 11:03:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thought of a couple others I get the itch for from time to time. Ford Fairmont. These are basically a fox body Mustang underneath and can be modded as such. https://static.cargurus.com/images/site/2008/03/04/19/33/1978_ford_fairmont-pic-61624-640x480.jpeg ETA: just noticed the silver Contour SVT in the background. I had one just like it and mentioned it earlier in this thread. This guy has great taste in vehicles! |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 11:21:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's cool to see how many guys like the Shelby Dodge cars from the 80s. I can't get enough of them. @killingmachine123 My first was an 85 GLH-T, no a/c car. The second gear synchro was bad and it would grind a bit going into gear. The 525 was not the greatest trans. But it was my favorite car. It was unmodified and met an untimely end when I was rear ended while at a stop. My second was a 1987 GLHS. This car I modified enough that after the second time I bricked the trans I modified and installed the better A523 cable shifted trans. I was running 18psi with ported head, s60 cam, Stage 3 Garrett turbo, etc. I remember Lambros Race Engineering and FWD Performance as the companies that sold race parts. On the GLHS I switched over to the SMEC computer and had a guy named Paul chip it. It was fun to work on but I worked on it way too much. Broke all kinds of parts. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 11:53:59 AM EDT
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Cadillac DTS. Last full size American sedan that looked sharp.
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Posted: 8/3/2020 12:00:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/3/2020 1:28:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had an '81 Celica for awhile. Fun little car. The 22R(e) was one of the best engines ever made. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: 1977 Celica. Fun little car. I had 2 of them. 22R 4 cylinder, I even put en Offenhouser intake manifold on one of them. Pretty sure it added at least 6 horsepower... LOL!! https://img.hmn.com/fit-in/900x506/filters:upscale()/stories/2018/08/611568.jpg Sadly made out of compressed rust. I had a 77 GT, still managed to be rusty here in CA where cars simply do not rust (was an OG CA car too). One of my trucks has close to 300k on a 22re. Slow but pretty damn reliable. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 1:30:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 85 Celica GTS last year with a solid axle. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/196611/IMG_8191-e1528474356151_jpg-1531112.JPG If those were smog exempt in CA, I would love to build one with a 3S-GE or 3RZ swap. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 1:40:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryPrices on early Toyota 4x4s are climbing fast, especially survivor or good restorations. One of the reasons I am hanging on to mine.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 1:40:35 PM EDT
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I would mind another EXP to fuck around with.
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Posted: 8/3/2020 1:43:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't miss all of the potholes but I still have my Dakota around for the occasional quick spin. 4.7L V8 and Viper T56 with a few things done and Hotchkis suspension set up for the road course. I did quite a bit of autocrossing in this in the mid-2000's. https://i.ibb.co/JBht64z/Smokey-LCH.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Mini truckin ain't dead I have a thing for lowered trucks (and sport trucks). Have owned a couple and my current daily is a Tacoma X-Runner. https://i.ibb.co/JBht64z/Smokey-LCH.jpg I am not nominally a Dakota fan but that is a really nicely done one. Almost makes me regret passing on the clean, straight V8 powered one I could have had for next to nothing. But it wouldn't pass CA smog and numbers didn't add up (cost of truck+ repairs). |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 2:09:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryBeat. Always wanted a Legend Coupe from that generation. Miss my 93 Accord. Black with tan interior. EX 5 speed coupe. Loved that car. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 2:10:46 PM EDT
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So many of the cars that were affordable to young people int the early 2000's were all show and no go. The 3000GT, Stealth, Eclipse , Xtreme S10, Probe, Talon, etc.
If you wanted something fast you bought a LS1 car. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 2:11:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Beat. Always wanted a Legend Coupe from that generation. Miss my 93 Accord. Black with tan interior. EX 5 speed. Loved that car. https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.9di_28yUBFYICa4Dd5S7wQHaFI?pid=Api&rs=1 Quote HistoryQuoted: Beat. Always wanted a Legend Coupe from that generation. Miss my 93 Accord. Black with tan interior. EX 5 speed. Loved that car. https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.9di_28yUBFYICa4Dd5S7wQHaFI?pid=Api&rs=1 My wife had that exact same car. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 2:15:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I am not nominally a Dakota fan but that is a really nicely done one. Almost makes me regret passing on the clean, straight V8 powered one I could have had for next to nothing. But it wouldn't pass CA smog and numbers didn't add up (cost of truck+ repairs). The guys who would swap all their crap back to stock every year in CA to pass smog always blew my mind. One guy has a very nice twin turbo regular cab out there, not sure how he passes. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 2:16:23 PM EDT
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Wouldn't mind finding another one of these. Mine was the same color, but lwb.
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Posted: 8/3/2020 2:18:49 PM EDT
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3rd Gen F-Bodies will always hold a special place in my heart. My first car was a ‘89 Iroc Z. T-top, 5.7/700r4 car. Black with grey interior. It ended up getting stolen along with a garage full of parts. Still have the key and title.
Right now, I’ve been eyeing these verrrrry hard. I’ve got a donor 6.0 and I’d love to pick one up: 
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Posted: 8/3/2020 2:23:03 PM EDT
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 I love the early 80's El Caminos. I had one in High School and will always make me want another not rusted one. |
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Posted: 8/3/2020 2:24:18 PM EDT
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Saw thread title....wondered if there'd be any 2.2 turbo love....pleasantly surprised
My GLH-Ts rusted away but I still have a Spirit R/Ts for when I feel like wrenching on something. Least reliable car ever but I spanked on many a mustang with that car, never mind all the dumbass VWs. Mine dyno'd 225/275 at the wheels before mods. It pulled strong well into 5th gear, but I never did much more than 145 with it, even in those years common sense intervened on occasion, before I ran out of boost (or road). |
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