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Surfpup, that's an easy one. No hills or mountains in the background. That means it's at Venice High. Marshall is in Los Feliz. If you don't know LA, that's by Griffith Park. If I remember, it's maybe a mile or so off the 5 freeway— October 10, 2009 12:04 a.m.
He Got A Nobel Why?
Daniels, I was listening to BBC radio and heard it a little earlier than that, about 2-2:30 I think. I was drinking some coffee at the time and literally almost choked on it. Don't get me wrong. I voted for him and he's not even 1/4 of the way thru a first term, but as someone said above, it's an uphill battle. I haven't scene any sign of bipartisan politics yet and that's disappointing. We'll see how the next 3 yrs go.— October 9, 2009 11:39 p.m.
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rickey, it is ridiculously easy to convert a vehicle of that era. You can buy a kit and do it yourself, but I would not recommend it and it's expensive...25k+— October 9, 2009 10:58 p.m.
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surfpup, I agree about the 302. It was built to compettion in the 305ci class in ssca trans am racing and designated for the Z28. Amazing to think you could get 450hp out of such a small engine. Gotta disagree with you on the handling aspect though, as far as the Camaro is concerned. Mark Donahue dominated in the ssca in 68 and 69 driving a Camaro. Ironically, the trans am was named after the series, but t/as have only won 7 races. You couldn't order a copo version of the ssca camaro, but if you knew someone at a dealer ship you could get a 69 camaro with a ZL1 and then order a bunch of suspension parts that Chey supplied to it's factory teams. Just my personal feeling, but then again Im a Chevy guy. Btw my favorite mustang is the 1969 Boss 429. A friend of mine in college had one It was cool lookin and it was scary fast.— October 9, 2009 10:40 p.m.
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Pete, no need for apologies, man. I didn't feel insulted in any way. But honestly, even had you tried to insult me, you couldn't. This is just a comments section on a blog so I don't take anything I don't like personally. Your posts may not always be done with the most elegant of voice, no offense intended, but you clearly always speak your mind and say what you really think and whether I agree with what you say or not,I can respect that. I don't comment all that much, compared to some people, but when I do there is alot a diversity in the respones from people like you,daniels, ag, gringo and yes even the surfpup. And sometimes, it's more fun just to sit back and observe, kind of like a disfunctional family holiday, no offense to anyone I mentioned.— October 9, 2009 10:09 p.m.
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surfpuppy, so you must have seen the movie Who Killed the Electric Car?. Yor opinion?? We knew someone at the time who was featured in the movie and got to hear all about the cars. They were pretty cool.— October 9, 2009 5:47 p.m.
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I got my license on my 16th birthday in 1978. About 6 months later, I bought my first car, a 1967 Chevelle SS 396. 30 years later and, except for a month or 2 here and there, I have always owned a muscle car, it's always been a Chevy and it's always been a rat. My dad, granthfather and uncle helped my rebuild my motor when I first bought the 67 SS,so I know exactly how you feel. As for the economics, well that really didn't have much to do with it. Even at $4.00 a gallon, we would have to drive about 400k miles to break even. In other words, it's expensive.It's just something we wanted to do and since we have the means, we did. Where we live, we have access to SCE for power, but we generate about 120% of our power needs from solar arrays and a couple of delta 2 vertical axis wind turbines. Even the Chevy wasn't cheap. IF you could ge one, Chevy sold the ZL1 for about 25k. My uncle knew somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody; you get the idea. He sold it to us for what he paid and all I will say is it wasn't anywhere near Chevy's price. But worth ever damn penny. Im not a deadman, so you can imagine what it does to me. And even my girlfriend loves it.— October 9, 2009 5:37 p.m.
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Pete, I think you might like one of our cars, at least a little bit anyway. It's a 1969 Camaro Z/28 RS. Well, a clone of one actually. I picked up a 69 Camaro that was in good shape and spent about 2 yrs reworking it as a Z/28 RS....except for the motor. There's a guy in LA who has been doing conversions for a while, so once everything else was done, I took it to him. I guarantee that just looking at it, you can't tell. No rumble like a rat motor, but alot quicker. The other conversion is nothing special, just a 2001 Four Runner. But If you like rumble, you'd love my baby. A 1970 Chevelle SS 454. The LS6 was not #'s matching and was kind of tired so I changed it out. My uncle somehow got ahold of a 40th anniversary ZL1 and for some reason decided not to use it. We drove up to his ranch in Montana, wrote him a REALLY big check and brought it home. 530 HP out of the crate ( a few mods now), thru a rock crusher into a 4.10 12 bolt posi. Remember the line from Stones Start Me Up...that's what my baby does.— October 9, 2009 4:56 p.m.
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"I personally have no problem with electric cars. If people want to look like douchebags,that's their business." Why do people who drive electric cars look like douche bags? Is it the way they look, or do you mean the cars they drive. And yes, 2 of our vehicles are electric, but I'm fairly confident they are nothing like you normally associate with electric vehicles. Nothing meant pejoratively here, just curious.— October 9, 2009 4:22 p.m.
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Pete ??????????????? Isane because some people drive electric or insane because ronnie mcd wants to bribe people to eat there by offering a free charge? Please elaborate. On another note, we just got back from a trip so I haven't had the opportunity to inquire as to your opinion of MNF game this week. I know you are a Packer fan, but that not withstanding, what was your reaction to Favre's performance? Just curious.— October 9, 2009 3:23 p.m.