| Post 1 | New | Posted January 26th, 2011 |
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| RunYaSneakers does this thing work? 
| SO I'd like to show you good fellas my current fleet. First up, my 1994 Chevrolet Caprice Classic LS. I've had this car since March 2009. I swapped the motor for a 350ci 5.7L (same engine in Impala SS and Corvette/Camaro) upgraded the ignition, exhaust, rocker arms and valve springs. It has custom made headlights with hella projectors. The grill is from a 1992 Oldsmobile station wagon.   It's in a heated garage for the winter. Next up is my daily driver. It is a 1992 Buick Roadmaster Limited Presidential sedan. It has a 350ci 5.7L engine. This car is the same car-line as my caprice with different sheet metal. The engine is the same size as my caprice but of a different generation. I custom made my own wide white walls and put on hubcaps from a 50's Roadmaster.   Next is my 1994 Oldsmobile Silhouette minivan. I bought this in July of 2009. I got it just because I thought it was cool looking. The transmission recently went and it's sitting in my driveway for now. In the summer I would like to swap the motor for a 3800 supercharged.  Next is a car I got for free from somebody in my car club. It's a 1996 Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 (police package). It runs real good but it is rusty underneath. I will probably part it out come spring. Either that or I will replace the brake lines, completely gut the interior and take it racing. It's sitting at my dads in Vermont. Here it is on the trailer being towed by my Buick.  Last but certainly not least, my 2006 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS. It is FWD but it has a 303hp V8 engine. My girl uses this as her daily driver. We got it to replace our 1995 Oldsmobile 88 that we had for 2 years.. rust was taking it over unerneath. AJ, I have yet to correct the SS badge. I found out the door has been painted and that's what happened to the badge.   I have some videos if anyone is interested. ------------------  |
| Post 2 | New | Posted January 26th, 2011 |
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| 2na Beans, eating it!
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| Post 3 | New | Posted January 26th, 2011 |
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| ameer cunt smasher! 
| Badass collection Tim. Crazy to think you'd have all these cars back when we were chatting around 2003! I think the Roadmaster looks sick with that raked stance. ------------------   |
| Post 4 | New | Posted January 26th, 2011 |
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| RunYaSneakers does this thing work?
| Never. Well the only cars being driven right now are the Buick and the Monte Carlo SS. I only drive the Buick when I go to work or when my girl isn't around. Spend over $100 a week on gas between both cars I guess. The Monte goes from V8 to 4 cylinder when you are not on the go-pedal so it gets 28 mpg on the highway. The rear of the Buick was so high because I installed air shocks and had them pumped up. I have since released the air. Here is a pic of it now with stock hubcaps/snow tires for the winter.  ------------------ |
| Post 5 | New | Posted January 27th, 2011 |
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| ameer cunt smasher!
| Well I think it looks fecking aweosme with the whitewalls and the back raised up. You should do that again after the winter. You said you had air shocks put in, but I'd have figured it already had air shocks, like a lot of 90's luxury cars- Lexus LS400 and Lincoln Mark VIII come to mind. It had conventional suspension originally? And dude, you totally had a non-American car! You had that Acura Legend! ------------------ |
| Post 6 | New | Posted January 27th, 2011 |
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| Post 7 | New | Posted January 27th, 2011 |
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| RunYaSneakers does this thing work?
| The engine is not a TPI nor is it a dog. It's an LT1 rated at 260hp stock. The way my Caprice sits it probably has close to 300hp to the wheels. This summer it will hopefully get headers, ported aluminum heads, cam, race built transmission and high stall torque converter. I like the B-body because it is so versatile. It's also very cheap to maintain. There are aftermarket parts available for anything you can imagine. I think the headlights look great. They light up the street like any modern car with projector headlights. I wanted to use the Oldsmobile grill to be different. Everyone puts an Impala SS grill on their b-body. I havn't seen any with the Oldsmobile grill. My car is unique and I like that. I dare to be different. The Monte Carlo is awesome. I'll post up some video tomorrow. ------------------ |
| Post 8 | New | Posted January 27th, 2011. Updated January 27th, 2011 |
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| Post 9 | New | Posted January 27th, 2011 |
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JJHW
| The only thing I don't like on the Caprice is the fact it looks a bit like it's trying to be a 5 Series. Other than that, I like it, the wheels are especially nice... ------------------  Long live the first 20 members! - I'm number 15 *duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhuhuuuhuhuhuhuhhhuuh* |
| Post 10 | New | Posted January 27th, 2011 |
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| RunYaSneakers does this thing work?
| The BMW look was totally unintentional lol ------------------ |
| Post 11 | New | Posted January 27th, 2011 |
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| ameer cunt smasher!
| Hahaha that's exactly what I told him. If you kind of squint it resembles a 5-series, lol. While badge engineering does have it's obvious problems in the long-term marketplace, that does make ownership a little more fun- you have a whole plethora of parts to choose from to make your car look different. Sorta like this, somebody took the back of a Camaro and put it on a Trans-Am body:  ------------------ |
| Post 12 | New | Posted January 27th, 2011 |
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| RunYaSneakers does this thing work?
| People put caprice front ends on roadmasters all the time. Ive even saw roadmaster front on a caprice. They also put roadmaster sedan front ends on wagons. The roadmaster wagons have caprice noses. Ive seen fleetwood fronts on wagons too although I thought that was ugly. ------------------ |
| Post 13 | New | Posted January 28th, 2011 |
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JJHW
| Nothing beats the various Silvia cut and shuts... Silvia 'Strawberry Face', something to do with S15 and 15 sounding like Strawberry in Japanese... And of course the Onevia and SilEighty....   ------------------ Long live the first 20 members! - I'm number 15 *duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhuhuuuhuhuhuhuhhhuuh* |
| Post 14 | New | Posted February 1st, 2011 |
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| ameer cunt smasher!
| RunYaSneakers wrote: People put caprice front ends on roadmasters all the time. Ive even saw roadmaster front on a caprice. They also put roadmaster sedan front ends on wagons. The roadmaster wagons have caprice noses. Ive seen fleetwood fronts on wagons too although I thought that was ugly. A Roadmaster wagon would look so sick with a Roadmaster sedan front end on it! I don't think I've ever seen one before. I don't know why I never thought about how the Roadmaster wagons have Caprice front ends. That's GM for ya. ------------------ |
| Post 15 | New | Posted February 1st, 2011 |
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JJHW
| I can't believe you called this a Cadillac; ------------------ Long live the first 20 members! - I'm number 15 *duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhuhuuuhuhuhuhuhhhuuh* |
| Post 16 | New | Posted February 1st, 2011 |
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| ameer cunt smasher!
| JJHW wrote: I can't believe you called this a Cadillac; That was all marketing gimmick. At the time, Americans were saying the same thing- "I can't believe they called that a Cadillac". It didn't look or feel like a Cadillac, and nobody was buying GM's hype. These days whenever you see them driving around, it's a really sad affair. They're always in horrible shape, and driven by someone who obviously wanted a Cadillac but couldn't afford anything at all better. There's no shame in driving an older Cadillac- sure a lot of them are in rough shape but every once in awhile you'll see a kid in a 90's Cadillac with nice paint and wheels, and most other kids will nod in approval. But nobody, absolutely nobody respects the 'Cadillac Catera', and you never EVER see one that anybody's put any effort into. Every once in awhile you'll see some hapless soul who's slapped some cheap 15" chrome wheels on it (and the 5x110 bolt pattern makes finding wheels for it impossible), but you never see one that's well taken care of or lovingly customized. It really was hated from day one, thanks to its stupid and universally maligned ad campaign. This series of ads was a complete failure at making the car appealing to its demographic: ------------------ |
| Post 17 | New | Posted February 1st, 2011 |
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| ameer cunt smasher!
| My favorite part about the Cadillac Catera is the following evolution:    ------------------ |
| Post 18 | New | Posted February 1st, 2011 |
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| 2na Beans, eating it!
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| Post 19 | New | Posted February 2nd, 2011 |
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JJHW
| This is actually a nice car though; Just looked at the Holden range on their site, it's weird how they just seem to sell any old GM car as a Holden, the range doesn't even have a common design theme or anything... ------------------ Long live the first 20 members! - I'm number 15 *duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhuhuuuhuhuhuhuhhhuuh* |
| Post 20 | New | Posted February 2nd, 2011 |
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| ameer cunt smasher!
| JJHW wrote: Nothing beats the various Silvia cut and shuts... Silvia 'Strawberry Face', something to do with S15 and 15 sounding like Strawberry in Japanese... And of course the Onevia and SilEighty.... I remember when John and I were in middle school, he used to have this poster on his wall of a Silvia, it was an advertisement for some company that makes aftermarket wheels, and they called it something weird, I don't remember if they called it a "Silvia S13.5" or a "Silvia S14.5", but the .5 was because it had the front end of the newer model and the rear end of the older model. ------------------ |