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How the 10th spends it's winter and my beater car

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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 11:19 AM
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How the 10th spends it's winter and my beater car

The only problem when you use your parents garage as a storage facility. It's the most expensive storage rack I've ever seen

Plus my custom 82 olds delta 88. Can't beat $1500 for a full size V8 that hasn't given me a lick of trouble.
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 11:22 AM
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 11:25 AM
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winter beaters are fun Check out the custom NAAAWs sticker. You can't see it but I have a SI-R badge on the right side. Kinda pisses off the ricers and still my 150 (stock) hp 5.0L still puts a hurtin on em.
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 11:27 AM
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whoops..the sticker is in this pic. Later, I'm going to start a thread on if 235's on a 9" rim will fit up front. Pics will follow.
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 02:34 PM
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Goddamn...american cars are SOOOOOO ugly!!

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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 02:43 PM
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dude, you should cut the springs on that! put in some subs and than cruise around town, than you could **** off thugs, and g's along with ricers. haha
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 02:45 PM
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lol...niiice...well at least its inside and out of the weather

i also use the parents garage...T2 in the basement...n/a in the regular garage...only problem is the T2 gets blocked in by my dad's vette...which he never moves or starts up, arghhhhhh!
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 03:13 PM
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StarionX: You're going to hurt it's feelings

See the impala ss in the background? I'm trying to get my dad to put new springs on that and I'll take the stock SS springs. It'd be off da heezy

For an 82 I could think of much much worse things to drive. The only problem with that car was that it smelled like a grandma inside. You know that kinda funeral flowers type of smell. Thank god that's gone now. Now it just smells oddly like a car with no cats on it
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 03:15 PM
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Buying that olds was also the best mod I've ever done. Picture driving that for months on end then getting into the T2. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 10:12 PM
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where at in Ohio do you live?
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 10:24 PM
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I have a mazda 626 for winter, and when i drive the T2 it feels like a Mclaren! The 626 is sooo slow. I took out the T2 the other day since the roads were perfectly dry, the dayys of rain washed all the salt away.

Where in Ohio are you? im west of cleveland
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 10:27 PM
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AHHHHHHHHHH! Is that a '94-96 impala I see in the background of the beater picture!?
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 10:28 PM
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My RX-7 has been doubling as a depository for a bunch of clothes destined for donation at the local Goodwill. The trunk also contains a bunch of old textbooks and miscellaneous things. All this will change come January.
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 10:50 PM
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Yeah, that's a 95 SS in the background. It's mom's car Flowmasters, CAI, modded MAF. My dad drives a lightning. I'm near akron and I'm finishing up school in Toledo. So it's a good drive to come home and work on the car.
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Old Dec 24, 2002 | 11:08 PM
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What kind of wheels are those on you AE. I think they look great on your car. Any other pics.? Know how much they weigh and where I could get them?

Thanks,

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Old Dec 25, 2002 | 08:13 AM
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They are basel's by speedform. They were one of the only wheels I could find in the right offsets and widths. They are about as heavy as the stock rolling hardware. However, the extra weight probably comes from having a 17x9 in the rear and 17x8 in the front with 235's and 215's

Haven't seen them since I bought em. Sorry.

I'll try and snap a few more pics of the car after the relatives leave
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I just love the last generation b-body impala's. I drive a '93 caprice around so it's basically the exact same save the engine Such comfortable cars, and it's amazing how they can perform. I took my caprice autocrossing and oh boy was that a riot, strangely enough it did quite well, I wish I could take a impala out there and see how they do with their better sway bars and such! Anyway, that was VERY off topic!
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Old Dec 25, 2002 | 10:04 AM
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getting even more off topic I have impala swaybars on that olds. Works great. The rear bar was hands down the best mod I've done to it. I was going to autox it while the T2 was being built up.
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