Girl car

Jamie Ann · Post by **Jamie Ann** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 8:05 pm

You certainly are right about that, Kristens! A drive in that Dusk Rose Thunderbird would make a girls day!

Gelinda · Post by **Gelinda** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 8:31 pm

oh well, I know for a fact that mine is not a girl car. It is a Country Cadallic. I have a 2001 white extend a cab dodge d2500 diesel. the taillights are covered with a bass jumping. With a lot of crome. I do pull a 18,000 pd 5th wheel trailer travel from time to time with it. Put I still get 20 to 21 mpg with it on the road. Most full size gas burners do not get that and I do not know of a full size SUV that gets close.
Gee.

Shannon · Post by **Shannon** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:41 pm

Gelinda wrote:Cindy B. is that a Mustang (older) beside the vette. I would rather have it as it has a metal body instead of fiberglass as the vette. Gee.

Okay, I am going to have to show my other side here....

Metal over Fiberglass??????

Rust and decay over Structural Integrity?

Weight and dents over lite weight and smoothness?

Musturd over Corvette?

No disrespect intended Gelinda, but I am just very opinionated on Corvettes verus Musturds..... And please feel free to destroy my opinions.... I have been waiting for several years for somebody to convince me that a Musturd is 1/10 what a Corvette is.....

Please no hard feelings.... just the, dare I say, Corvette loving MALE in me

Alexandra · Post by **Alexandra** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 3:47 pm

On the other hand, Mustangs are far more memorable in movies:

Bullitt (1968 Mustang 390 GT):

Gone in 60 Seconds (1973 Mustang Fastback):

Gelinda · Post by **Gelinda** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 3:57 pm

Well, I have always loved the metal bodies over Fiberglass mainly because I have rolled two different cars. One on the streets an one on the track. If the one on the streets would have been fiberglass then I would not be here today. Clocked at 147 mph before a deer entered the picture. In a Maverick with a 428 Cobra Jet from a 68 or 69 Torino in it.

If I could have any Muscle car it would be a 67 Fairlane 500 with a 289 blue printed or the 427

Also a 69 or 70 Cuba with the 426 Hemi.

I have driven Porsche and all the other;s when stationed in Italy and I would still rather have the above. Unless it was the 69 Mercedes 2 seater I had over there. Now there was a car with style and ride.

Gelinda. instead of Gee as I have seen other using it for a word not a short name.

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:20 pm

I don't know if my weekend car is a "girly" car but I love it!

Tara · Post by **Tara** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:31 pm

What a great Olds Steph! What do you have in it? I love all of those early-mid 80s G-Bodies!

Hugs,

Tara

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:38 pm

Thanks Tara!

It has a V6 in it. I was about to drop a 350 in it before gas prices took off like they did so I decided to leave it as is since it purrs like a kitten.

Hugs,
Stef

Gelinda · Post by **Gelinda** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:33 pm

Stef. You might not want to drop the eight in as the weight difference. You would have to change the shock and spring setup on the front end and then it would mostly not drive as good as it is now.

Been there and done that one. It killed the driving ablity of a Camero I did in the early 80's Never did get the handling right again. It would fly with the super charger and 454 in it but was not a handling car anymore.

Friend had a Firebird of the same year that had an eight in it that we dropped the same setup in with no problem and hardly any change to handling.

Just attempting to help. Gelinda.

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:43 pm

Gelinda,

I had found a Cutlass the same year model that came from the factory with a V8. When I changed engines I was going to change the entire front end as well as the trans, rear end and drive shaft. I know I might not look it but I'm quite the shadetree mechanic.

Hugs,
Stef

Tara · Post by **Tara** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 6:14 pm

Yeah, good thinking about beefing up the front-end girls. With gas prices, I'd think I'd settle for the V6 too.

I have an '82 Coupe de Ville with infamous HT4100 V8 in it. It only gets 125 hp with all of the primitive smog controls on it.

I am eventually going to replace it with a Cad 368, I was thinking of it as early as next winter, but the gas prices have me putting it off until the 4100 is shot.

I must say its lack of horsepower is made up in that it can get 20 mph highway/15 city, which is amazing for a 22 year-old 3900 lbs. car.

Hugs,

-Tara

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:13 pm

Hi Shannon,

Only problem I have with the Corvette is that most of the people I have known that had one are no longer with us.

Nor are their cars, if you catch my meaning.

Most everyone I know that had a Mustang is still walking.

Didn't really mean to post a downer but I've lost too many friends to those rolling coffins.

Gelinda · Post by **Gelinda** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:32 pm

Sorry, Stef, If I implied that you did not know what you were doing. Just did that and had major problems and super more expenses than I was thinking it would be and was never right. Did not want you to make the same mistake. Gelinda.

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:49 pm

I didn't take it that way at all Gelinda! I knew you were trying to help!

Hugs,
Stef

Alexandra · Post by **Alexandra** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 1:47 am

girls, girls, have we forgotten that there is no subsitute for cubic inches!!!! The bigger, the better!

(besides, the way to tranfer some of that heavy front end weight to the rear is to pop a wheelie and off you go!)

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