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| rovingcowboy - Aug-04-2008 server time |
| buick le saber was the next smaller car down in size to the 225. they stopped making the 225 some time ago about 8 years or so back.? i use to have the 1964 year model which was the same used by the police departments back then for patrol cars. this is a model of it that did not have the center post in between the door windows i had the one with the center post. thats just to say for your non car buffs that the windows on the doors had frames around them and the non center post doors only had glass on top of the body of the door. so it was one big hole when both windows are down. and mine was blue? it had 14 different shades of blue including blue interior lights that were really outside marker lights, but this shows you want they looked like. this was on line and was at a car sales place asking 18,000 for it. |
| Triple6_wild - Aug-03-2008 server time |
| Ok so i know what buick your talking about squirrel and they can be heavy but im sure it has a nice interior lol tho the extirior is not really my type of car >< I almost got stuck at the dump also but just puttered through it uphill lol back down was np tho just needed a little run to get up and a small car should have np also as long as its not a low car lmao Umm wtf is a duce and a quarter?  |
| rovingcowboy - Jul-31-2008 server time |
| a Buick wow my kind of car. i use to own a Buick duce and a quarter. big long swayed like a boat but was tweaked up to handle curves with extra strong lifters on the front a frames, thing was about 2500 pounds in weight, solid chrome bumpers and cast iron heads crossover intake crossover water thermo housing, wrap around rockers 650 four barrel holly with electric choke and open air cover that fit under the hood, the big switch pitch transmission with the big 425 engine 10 to 9 dome pistons i had that set up with a 300 pound pressure cap on the rad. and i bent the fan blades and balanced them so it was smooth, the thing pulled air through the rad up to the speed of 30 to 40 mph. with that holly on there it squealed tires like they was just thin bands, but yet going down the road it looked like any normal family 4 door sedan from the 1964 year it was made. it was only when some one in a hot rod wanted to impress his girl and came up to me and gunned his engine that i let them know i had a sleeper. i gunned mine to the floor that 4 barrel holly opened up with that normal deep vacuum sound. the guy gave me that deer in headlights stare and picked up his hands off his steering wheel. to say no trouble. of course maybe the whole front end doing the twist when i stomped the pedal had something to do with it too. he pulled out of the light at a normal pace then, the thought of running was gone from his mind.. i enjoyed that car but even more so when i blew up the engine, well that i didn't like but the stuff before hand was a joyride. long story but in short, 10 gallons of gas 4 bottles of octane booster one for racing engines that each took 20 gallons of gas to mix in with. engine was idling at 30 mph i had to ride the brake around fort worth. got to the freeway little new Porsche sat at light in front of me, I'm holding the brake with both feet my car is jumping up and down about 4 inch's with that much fuel power. he See's it in his mirror, gets big smile on face takes off goes under freeway takes left turn on ramp to freeway at 40 MPH. I'm still sitting there at light and he sees that. he's out of site i hit the fuel take left at 50 mph on to ramp hes 3/4s up ramp i see him look at me in mirror, just as i pass him on end of ramp and get in traffic at 100 MPH, when i passed him i looked in mirror his mouth wide open and car was being rocking sideways by my draft. I'm half mile in front of him when he gets off ram and then off the freeway on shoulder and kicks his car tire, i slowed down got off freeway went home on back streets to avoid cops. ha ha ha never did i laugh so hard, i know he took that brand new Porsche back to the dealer and started ranting and raving. if he only knew the fuel i had in it? and that the engine blew up the next day.  |
| Red Squirrel - Jul-31-2008 server time |
| I drive a buick lasabre, yeah its a heavy car lol. It's about the size of a cadilac, its huge. I hardly get stuck in winter, but the times I did get stuck, I was stuck pretty good. Though I'm pretty good at getting unstuck, provided cars don't stop passing making me have no room to move around. Also avoid the dump with a small car, there's like a foot of mud because of all the rain. I almost got stuck but managed to get out of it haha. That would suck. |
| Triple6_wild - Jul-30-2008 server time |
What kind of car you driving squirrel? LOL 1700kg? My truck is lighter then your car  Anyways roving ya adding weight and backing up the hill would work. FF cars/vans they have better traction in the winter because the weight is split 60%~ over the drive tires on most. In winter weight wont shift to the rear much because you cant accelerate hard anyways. Under hard acceleration in summer tho the 60/40 split is not good for traction as the weight shifts to the rear ^^ Ya ive had an obsession with cars since i was 2.y.o so i know enuff about em ^^ My truck on the other hand is FR and 60%~ of the weight is also in front but because the drive tires are in the back there is not much weight left to hold em down for winter when weight wont shift to the rear under acceleration. FR cars tho are closer to 50/50 so its not as bad in a car then with a truck. Also the hill in front of the house is a busy street and theres a really busy 4 way stop right near the top would look funny backing uphill here not to mention pissin ppl off on a busy street lol Its easy to avoid the hill anyways because i can just go around the block and end up on the main road here and the hill on the main road is rarely a problem in winter ^^ its just getting out of my driveway that will be difficult  You avoid the north?  We live here lol sliding does not bother me at all its getting out in the cold to push that does. There is a nice set of winter tires here that used to be for my moms dodge avenger but she sold it so the bolt pattern may line up and i got an awsome set of free snow tires /wheels  Wheels could use a sanding and some paint but the tires are good ones.I do however have all season tires on right now but i want to get some nice summer tires like yokohoma or something similar with some black 14" or 15" mesh wheels and chrome lip. Combo something like this image just replace gold for black. And then I can buy some new winter tires and mount them on the stock wheels next winter ^^ If i get a chance i will post a pic of my truck in this thread ^^ Camera needs to be charged so maybe tomorrow  |
| rovingcowboy - Jul-30-2008 server time | ||
yes both those are illegal in some places in the usa also. how ever that don't stop some from doing the studed tires.  snow tires ? summer tires? i always get all season tires, cause i'm too lazy to get out and change them in winter. i didn't even put chains on my semi truck when i was driving that. if i'm too lazy to put them on four wheels, then there's no way i'm going to get in the cold and put them on all 18 semi truck wheels. i just avoided the north in winter, when there was snow in that area. you might have heard this but if you didn't good. just add weight to your truck bed or the trunk of the car, that is rear wheel drive and go backwards up the hill if you can't get out the road from home. or some other hill on non freeways. thats how they came up with the idea for front wheel drive, someone spun out on a hill and decided to back up it. which worked it just took time to get front wheel drive cars to be accepted by the public. I believe one of the best was the car called " Auburn Boat Tail " by the Auburn Cord Duesunburg Company in Auburn In. was front wheel drive in the 1930's |
| Triple6_wild - Jul-29-2008 server time |
| 1. add snow chains to the tires, 12. put studded tires on to get traction. Both are illegal here unless off road As for more well sand is a common one because of added weight and ability to put some under the tires if you do get stuck LOL Oh and cant forget snow/ice tires ^^ no studs of course  If i can afford it im gonna go with some good winter tires and maybe a 1.5 way LSD because i dont have 4x4 Combo should get the truck moving n wont have to add alot of weight, plus will make it some fun once its on the move  |
| rovingcowboy - Jul-28-2008 server time |
if you got more add them in your reply's.   |
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