The Automotive Thread

[Road Guy]

when I drive by doing 70 mph in fleeting snow I cant really tell the difference between a Camaro and a Firebird?

I thought it was usually the firebirds had a driver with a Mullet and the Camaro drivers had the wife beater t-shirts with mustard stains?

 

[Supe]

Rear spoiler/side profile is definite Camaro.

And as an owner of a 2nd gen Firebird, I can confirm that you have those mixed up.  Camaro drivers have the mullet, Firebird drivers have the beaters.  IROC-Z 3rd gen drivers have both.  

 

[Road Guy]

you can see the classy area this Camaro / firebird /trans am resides...

 

[Supe]

Come on, RG.  I'm sure the Great Value brand mustard is just as good as the fancy kind.

 

[MA_PE]

Rear spoiler/side profile is definite Camaro.

And as an owner of a 2nd gen Firebird, I can confirm that you have those mixed up.  Camaro drivers have the mullet, Firebird drivers have the beaters.  IROC-Z 3rd gen drivers have both.  

I owned a 2nd gen Firebird for 32 years and never had a mullet (or wore beaters for that matter).  IROC-Z and 3rd gen Firebird GTAs drivers have both.  4th gen Firebirds are just plain cool!

And Gulden's spicy mustard is the way to go.

 

[Supe]

Oh, come on, the V6 Turbo GTA's are totally excluded from that population.

 

[MA_PE]

Oh, come on, the V6 Turbo GTA's are totally excluded from that population.

Absolutely.  However, I'm not sure if all the 1989 20th anniversary Trans Ams (the only cars produced with the Buick Turbo V6's) were GTAs or not .  Mullet/beater folks would not about that.

 

[Supe]

All TTA's were GTA's (in body), but not all GTA's were TTA's.

 

[MA_PE]

All TTA's were GTA's (in body), but not all GTA's were TTA's.

Understood but all TTA (Turbo Trans Am) were limited edition 20th anniversary cars.

 

[Road Guy]

The Camaro song

 

[Road Guy]

well I needed new shoes for the jeep and I didn't really have $3 grand to pay for the lift yet so I was looking around to try and find 3 tires that matched my spare (new tire BFG Mud Terrain Tires)

I had had a bad experience with some tires from Discount Tire back in Atlanta but they were basically the only people in the state that had this same size tire (they are normally $250 tires) So I gave them another shot since I was trying to save the expense of buying the 4th tire.. I have to say they were good to deal with, and since jeep isn't using the Mud Terrains as the stock tire anymore they were fairly cheap ($185/tire).. I was making the rounds and these were literally the only ones I could find in state.  But they had them on in 30 minutes.. I was actually impressed..

Sucks I have already put so many miles on the jeep but I am hoping this will give me 2 years to squirrel some money away for the lift and the 35's...  so now it can start snowing... surprisingly the mud terrain tires do really well in the snow, but they do really bad in the rain (you defin have to break early) but luckily it doesn't rain that much here..

 

[FLBuff PE]

What is this "rain" of which you speak? It only mists here. In GA and FL, now THAT was rain. When you can't see your hand in front of your face.

 

[Road Guy]

Y'all remember a few years ago I was I Bitching about the wheels on my old tahoe? One of you'se gave me some great advice to just spray paint them.... well maybe I plasti dipped them

Before:

After:

(I had to stuff rags behind the wheels so it didn't get all over the brakes...

 

[MA_PE]

very gangsta.

 

[MetsFan]

Looks great!  

 

[Road Guy]

now that I see it in the daylight I need to also plasti-dip the chrome trim around the body in a few places or else its just not gonna look right...

 

[Supe]

Just pop some chrome lugnuts on and call it a day.  Or add some of those sweet stick-on autozone portholes to the center caps.  You can tell the casual onlooker that its for brake cooling.

 

[jeb6294]

Y'all remember a few years ago I was I Bitching about the wheels on my old tahoe? One of you'se gave me some great advice to just spray paint them.... well maybe I plasti dipped them

(I had to stuff rags behind the wheels so it didn't get all over the brakes...

What for...the brakes will rub it off.

I forget where I got my new tires for the truck, but 285 75R17's were not cheap....especially 10-ply since it's an F350.  Looked around and found the best deal online and then went to Tire Discounters when they showed up.  Only charged $100 to install them.

 

[Road Guy]

Just pop some chrome lugnuts on and call it a day.  Or add some of those sweet stick-on autozone portholes to the center caps.  You can tell the casual onlooker that its for brake cooling.

If I had the patience I would do the entire car - I hate the green color (it screams late 90's hunter green)  but its my 17 year olds daily driver and we use it for family trips / snow season.  I don't care too much about the appearance but the more I look at it the more I want to change out the chrome trim, I think that will make it look like it just came off the used car lot with some low profile wheels..

 

[Supe]

If I had the patience I would do the entire car - I hate the green color (it screams late 90's hunter green)  but its my 17 year olds daily driver and we use it for family trips / snow season.  I don't care too much about the appearance but the more I look at it the more I want to change out the chrome trim, I think that will make it look like it just came off the used car lot with some low profile wheels..

If you want cheap and long lasting - go pick up some John Deere Blitz Black paint and primer.  Doesn't chalk up like primer and doesn't rub off/blister up like plastidip.  Thats what I did my racecar in.