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HEY!! Lemme point out something......look down by my feet, this room was filled with trails of trans fluid, oil, and radiator juice from million dollar cars.....all cars leak! ha ha

So "Ginger" must have a "Michigan" tune because she sure likes this cold air visiting Florida this weekend! Just had to stretch her legs after a day at the auction.

Some of the beginnings of early Funny Car couple of ponchos

Bugatti Chiron was a didn't make reserve highest bid was 3.5 Million dollars LaFerrari did not sell at $3 million dollars Ferrari Superfast, did not sell at $1 million dollars Jim Wangers Edition 69 GTO.

actually peace signs at a bad angle, lol. or maybe 6 shooters since they wouldnt allow me in the building concealed carry, un American bastards.

Man, Had a great time, saw some awesome cars and collectibles, and got to experience some real historic hot rods. Got tons of pics just gotta find time to upload.

I didnt recognize anyone there last year, all college kid jobbers. I went and introduced myself and told them I was part of the forums and they could have cared less.

I've not signed up on Gold Eagle since they flipped the site. Didn't think there was enough room over there for Chris plus anyone else? lol. Carl got ahold of me via text and asked If I wanted these.

Dennis aren't you overdue to pay your boy Don Keefe a visit? maybe see what nice weather is like?

I did visit it Frosty but not the blockbuster I was expecting. There is a muscle car collection/museum down south of Ringo thats pretty badass. It used to be an old Walmart location and its just filled with muscle cars in #1+ condition. http://musclecarcity.net/

Please Jim one year add this event to your calendar you'll not regret it. Its an amazing experience. If you are a car guy there are a few MUST DO events, Mecum NHRA Gatornationals Daytona Turkey Rod Run Snowbird Nationals Bradenton I like the LS races in Bradenton as well as the U S Street Nationals

Who's going and when???

In all reality, I am building one of these as we speak. I don't want to alter my car in that manner and add A/C that it didn't originally come with and the nice thing is once i get to a car show< I can pull this out of the car and continue to use it without having to keep the car running. I can use it in the garage while working in the car, etc. I even found a red and black cooler to match the car. I'm using 1 gallon Gatorade bottles with handles and using the freezer in the garage as storage while not in use/recharging.

Here's my idea, $50 max! Hey.....why are you guys laughing??? It's a GREAT idea!!!

I remember that concept well and I had hoped that would have been the direction they should have gone in to be successful. I also was a fan of the Trans Am Depot kit hanging on the Camaro body although the front nose was out of scale for my tastes. THIS is the car I would have sold my house and kids to own if they just would have listened to our feedback. THIS is the car Jim Wangers would have been proud and passionate about to promote AND it would have been American and kept American jobs.

I used the term Monaro as a guide to the fact I was referring to the newer GTO instead of the classic GTO. Aussie GM car manufacturing recently ceased. Accountants and lawyers have historically ruined good cars, companies, and exciting auto trends, clowns all of them.

The Plan The C8 flagship, the Zora ZR1, will debut the new mid-engine architecture. Launching as a 2017 model, it will define the top of the Corvette hierarchy just as its precursors did in the 1990–1995 C4 generation and 2009–2013 C6 model years. As before, the ZR1 will be low volume, roughly 1500 units per annum, and high priced. We figure around $150,000. It’ll be a stand-alone special that will peacefully coexist in Chevy showrooms with C7 models for a few years. The new platform, with appropriate bodywork and cockpit changes, could also support a revived Cadillac XLR (with ­better sales success than the last one, we hope). By 2020, we expect the C7 to take its rightful place in the National Corvette/Sinkhole Museum and that all future models—yes, even the base Corvette—will shift to the mid-engine platform.

Frosty from what I hear GM is offering 2 versions of the vette. The current platform and the ZORA mid engine at a substantially higher price point. Past Corvettes have been attainable, simple in function and design, performance to cost ratio matched by no other car, and afforded the "common man" a chance to be part of an elite car family without paying a ridiculous "tax" to be part of that family. Those attributes will go away when the ZORA has a higher price point than a Ford GT. Don't get me wrong I was a fan of the Monaro GTO from a performance standpoint but was an easter egg for lack of a better description. No creativity, no nod to the past icon, and the materials used on this car, especially the interior ranked right up there with the Chrysler K car. AS old school GTO owners we were sent from GM countless surveys on what we would like to see "IF" a new GTO name badge was to be introduced and GM went into a totally different direction than we gave feedback. Lutz just had to have a American built "Euro/German type" coupe to compete for the three German powerhouses customers. That was laughable and the end of Pontiac plain and simple.

so far I am not liking the lines of that car. Not sure why all the hype for a mid engine Corvette? If it was meant to be it would have been successful under Duntov decades ago. Just leave the damn car alone and keep the Domestic image that has been the basis of its success for over half a century. Why do we NOT want to be American anymore? Why does everyone want to emulate "European styling?" If I want Euro, I'll buy Euro, If I want American Supercar that out performs Euro at 30% of the cost, I'll buy American. Didn't Chevy learn from the bastardization of the GTO? IT KILLED A BRAND!!!! OUR BRAND!!!!!

Well I am a bit OCD when it comes to oil and oil changes. best oil, rigid oil change schedule, and a consistent maintenance schedule. GTO- Royal Purple Full Synthetic with a Royal Purple or K&N oil filter EVERY 3,000 miles or 6 months whichever comes first which has always been 6 months. C6 Corvette- Mobil 1 5W30 Full Synthetic with a Mobil 1 filter or K&N oil filter. EVERY 3,000 miles or 6 months which is usually at 3K miles. NOW, before I complete EITHER oil change above I drain the old oil, remove old filter, replace with STP oil of similar viscosity and a new filter and run the engine for @ 10 minutes and then drain, replace filter again. THEN I add the above listed oils and filters. YES its overkill, yes its more expensive but I've never lost an engine, I've never gotten less than 140K miles out of my engines, and I sleep better at night. I gotta chuckle at those that try and squeeze every last mile out of their oil they can and complain of the price of oil. Compare it to the price of spun bearings or a engine rebuild and I think you'll AGREE that the price of an oil change is nominal.

From mac's Motor City garage. M/T project from circa 1962 featuring a twin-supercharged Pontiac V8 with an unusual breathing arrangement, to say the least: The intake and exhaust ports are on the same side of the cylinder heads. But there was actually some method to the madness, as we will see. A pair of GMC blowers mounted outboard and driven by Gilmer belts. This seems to be somewhere in the mockup phase, and the cylinder heads definitely appear to be new aluminum castings rather than modified Pontiac production pieces. Note: There’s an extra cylinder head on the floor at lower left in the photo that can give us a clue as to what this engine is all about. This detail enlargement provides*a better look at the M/T cylinder head arrangement. We can see that yes, the intake passages have been rotated 180 degrees so now they are on the same side of the head as the exhaust ports. While it seems counter intuitive to jam the intake and exhaust ports together on the same side of the head in this manner, evidently there was some sensible logic behind it. By flipping the intake ports around to the “back side” of the head, now they no longer had to snake around the pushrods and the top, inside row of long head bolts. The intake ports could now be shorter and straighter with minimum resistance to airflow. In theory, anyway. There was also a naturally aspirated version of M/T’s contrary V8 using a pair of Carter AFB four-barrel carburetors. Since the conventional V8’s cylinder firing sequence would create some carbuertion problems with this arrangement, it’s possible that a 180-degree crankshaft, aka flat crank, was used. This would transform the Pontiac V8 into two separate-but-equal inline four-cylinder engines on a common crankshaft. click on the links below; Hey Ringo? Would you consider opening a "Pontiac History" section so we can archive some Pontiac history, trivia, old school tech articles, pictures, etc. for future Pontiac enthusiasts? Just a thought. Some of the old timers here (not me of course, like Steve and Dennis, lol) may be able to contribute things like posted above as I believe we would have a good size audience of Poncho historians out there.

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I've yet to discover the "low profile" in a low profile creeper....

and nose, and ears, and down your shirt....I usually look like Al Jolson when I am done. Justa I have been hitting the floorboards with the same clear coat I have restored the wheels with. Very durable and a nice shine. Its funny because I went thru 3/4ths of this project before I finally got a creeper. Mobility is tough with age I tell ya.