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  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    the windshield wiper solvent/h2o solution for cleaning your windshields can serve
    as a mild lubricant, but it's not 100% friction free.

    i didn't feel so bad having my pants around my ankles, since everybody else did too.

    julen
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    RIP GURU
  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What kind of milage are you getting on that 8? I've owned Camaro Z28's for the last 9 years
    and I thought the milage was a fair trade off for the power ( 350 V8 310 HP). I usually get 18
    in the city and 22-23 highway. I use K&N air filters and that helps by the rate of 2 miles per
    gallon. Great product, never change your air filter and keeps 99.9% of the grime out of your engine.
    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • rbdjr1rbdjr1 Posts: 4,474 ✭✭

    16.5 MPG average according to the dashboard computer (just click a botton and it figures it out for you!)

    The best I got on the highway was around 19 MPG (tested it for about 50 miles)...


    rd







    Quicksilver Messenger Service - Smokestack Lightning (Live) 1968

    Quicksilver Messenger Service - The Hat (Live) 1971
  • Carew29Carew29 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭

    I have an old Plymouth Sattelite wagon souped up for racing with a 440 Mopar. Tell me about it!! 8 miles to the gallon sucks (weekends only)!!
  • cardbendercardbender Posts: 1,831 ✭✭
    Back in '81 in High School, I drove a '72 Buick Electra that got 5 mpg! Gas was about $1.25 to $1.40 a gallon then. I would use $5 worth of gas just on my drive to and from work after school. Got rid of that lemon within 6 months. Once you got it started you could pull the keys out of the ignition and drive without a key! You could fit 7-8 friends in it with ease, so it made me popular going to H.S. parties.
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    We can all probably tell some stories about the hot cars from the past....I bought a 66 Chevelle with 396, 4 speed, the whole nine yards back in 1973 right before the gas crisis hit. If I remember correctly gas was 32cents a gallon when I bought it but it shot up soon thereafter ....I was in the Army at the time and bought it down in Texas. It was a beauty, candy apple red, not a bid of rust...beautiful....but the gas ate up my money real quick.....before I got out I traded it in for a Ford Maverick...talk about downsizing!!

    al.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    rd

    Give me a break...

    With the amount of stuff you buy?

    I think your concerns about the price of gas are about as critically serious as me deciding whether I should supersize my meal at MickeyD's tonite!

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    Mike
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    I've never owned a car that was great on gas milage , but then again , I've never really wanted to , the only one I can complain to is myself , But I won't .
    And just to prove it to myself , at the end of 07 I'm getting the new Dodge Challenger as soon as it hits the showroom floor .
    Once again at 425 HP I'm not expecting good gas milage , but that's not what I look for in a car , If I wanted great gas milage, I'd buy a bike or a horse .
    This is the 08 Challenger due to be released at the end of 07 and I'm dying to sit in the drivers seat and stomp on the pedal .
    I was thinking of getting the Mustang , until I saw this beast .
    Looks very much like the 71 Challenger, a car I have always wanted but could never seem to get a hold of .
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  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,342 ✭✭✭✭
    <<16.5 MPG average according to the dashboard computer (just click a botton and it figures it out for you!)

    The best I got on the highway was around 19 MPG (tested it for about 50 miles)...>>

    Well, shame on Chevy for not telling you that the SS had the V8.

    In any case, I'd be willing to bet a 1976 Topps Larvell Blanks PSA 10 that you're getting 25-27 MPG on the highway, as the SS has active fuel management and should actually be running as a 4-cylinder once you're crusing down the open road.
  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,342 ✭✭✭✭
    Hey TNTonPMS,

    You sure I can't change your mind:

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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Hmmmm do I really care? Nope.

    Steve



    edited to add: congrats on the new car, it's the gas whining I can do with out.
    Good for you.
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭


    << <i>Hey TNTonPMS,

    You sure I can't change your mind:

    image >>



    YEA MAN ! That car is hot too Detroit, in that there is no doubt .
    I do love the new Camaro too, But I am already commited .
    It was a toss up really and the thing that clinched the deal was just the fact that I have always wanted the 71 Challenger and as soon as I saw the new one I almost had heart failure , as if the Mopar Gods were saying " Yes my son here is your second chance "
    But if I they hadn't been releasing the Challenger, I'd absolutley be getting that one , I used to have a 69 Camaro L-88 427 and that car was mind blowing , it had only one seat , Mine but it was only a track car 9.6 1/4's . . . . . . Ohhhhh OK, so I did take it on the street a few times image
  • rbdjr1rbdjr1 Posts: 4,474 ✭✭



    << <i>Hmmmm do I really care? Nope.

    Steve



    edited to add: congrats on the new car, it's the gas whining I can do with out. >>



    Steve, Thanks! I love the car! Whining? No, I really wanted to show the funny pic that someone emailed me!

    Over $50 a tank? Nah, I'm not whining! LOL!

    rd

    Quicksilver Messenger Service - Smokestack Lightning (Live) 1968

    Quicksilver Messenger Service - The Hat (Live) 1971
  • rbdjr1rbdjr1 Posts: 4,474 ✭✭


    << <i>rd

    Give me a break...

    With the amount of stuff you buy?

    I think your concerns about the price of gas are about as critically serious as me deciding whether I should supersize my meal at MickeyD's tonite!

    image >>



    LOL! You are right! I just can't wait to see $4.00 per gallon! Yeah, so what's $65 per tank of Premium gas for my car that gets a little over 16 miles per gallon?

    No big deal! Guess I'll apply for food stamps! image

    rd

    Quicksilver Messenger Service - Smokestack Lightning (Live) 1968

    Quicksilver Messenger Service - The Hat (Live) 1971
  • themetalsignthemetalsign Posts: 555 ✭✭
    detroit,

    thanks for the great desktop background.





    Dave D.
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭


    << <i>My new Chevy Impala SS V8 is a:

    Super car! Except for the gas mileage! image


    rd

    image >>



    OMG, I guess the whole page didn't load before I started replying to this thread .

    That is one hell of a funny Caption !
    Insane , absolutely insane !
  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    That Challenger is SWEET! And so's the Camaro. Anybody remember the movie "Vanishing Point"?

    "Molon Labe"

  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
    Well.............since the OP gets to brag on his new car, may I?

    2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 (420 HP, HEMI V8, fastest SUV ever made)....

    Thank you 1993 Refractors!!!

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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>rd

    Give me a break...

    With the amount of stuff you buy?

    I think your concerns about the price of gas are about as critically serious as me deciding whether I should supersize my meal at MickeyD's tonite!

    image >>



    LOL! You are right! I just can't wait to see $4.00 per gallon! Yeah, so what's $65 per tank of Premium gas for my car that gets a little over 16 miles per gallon?

    No big deal! Guess I'll apply for food stamps! image

    rd >>

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    Mike
  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,342 ✭✭✭✭
    <<detroit,

    thanks for the great desktop background.

    Dave D.>>

    Dave,

    No problem, glad you like it. I got it here: New Camaro. If you go to the "downloads" tab, there's more.

    Being a GM employee, I'm very proud of this car as well as the Impala. But I have to admit, the Charger is sweet. And I do have to give Ford a ton of credit for the retro Mustang - obviously that was the car that prompted GM and Chrysler to come out with the Camaro and Charger.

    -Tom (detroitfan2)
  • puckhd27puckhd27 Posts: 87 ✭
    It will be mine, oh yes it will be mine.




    << <i>Hey TNTonPMS,

    You sure I can't change your mind:

    image >>

  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭
    i have a 1966 impala SS 396/325 that loves gas but i love driving it so it's a wash i guess
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • Munson15Munson15 Posts: 189
    My last car was a Jeep Grand Wagoneer!!!!!

    It got 9mpg city and 11mpg highway!!!
    On the Yankee Bandwagon since April 22nd, 1979 (my first game).
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    Collecting all Yankees especially:
    Thurman Munson, Yogi Berra, Melky Cabrera!

    For my son:
    Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada

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