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Took the family for a ride to town in the GT today, the kids love it :bigthumb:
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From yesterday's local Concours d'elegance event.
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Can I borrow 30k? :suspect:
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Minus when I picked it up from the previous owner...I've yet to ever see another of these on the road while I'm driving mine. I love it more than my 3/s, sacrilegious though it sounds. This hasn't broken my heart many times over though. Yes, that's dog fur on the seat, and yes, I need to wash the floor mats. The dash-mat, steering-wheel-cover & seat-belt pads were intentionally matched as near as possible.
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Depending on my job status in 6 months, its getting tint & the entire exterior Line-X'd (2-tone, black cladding/color-body). Door cards too. Same color as the seats.
Retrospec side splitters and front lip.
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Your 3S hasn't run since I've known you... like what, 5 years? More? How can you whine so much about it 'letting you down'? It's not doing anything, good or bad!Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
The vehicross is unique, I'll give you that. Your color preferences are questionable at best, but I've heard good things about the vehicles overall. Glad you're happy with it!
I love the VX :D
My 3/s runs...or at least at last update it was. But the 3.5L 16G build isn't in it; it's still running the stocker with 9b's. Lots of blame to go around on that. Exuberant (read irrational) optimism about throwing money at a project, and the details working themselves out. Several repeatedly poor choices on sourcing parts/labor--one of which members here have taken GREAT pains to sweep under the rug. The electrical system is so modded and bastardized that it takes a mad scientist to make heads/tails of it all. And it didn't help that the last time I drove it (2013) the wheel bearings gave up the ghost & the transfer case sustained a catastrophic failure, stranding me about 2.5 hours from the airport I needed to be at. But that wasn't even the start of it. The FWD trans went out on it about a year after I got it in 2003--that was heartbreak #1. GT-Pro selling me GT-C's that don't fit a VR4 was another heartbreak (one I didn't catch for years). My 1999 sitting at WSR for 8 months without a single wrench turning on it, then being shipped back to me at my cost--that was another huge heartbreak. And after a certain point, you simply get so many crushed dreams & setbacks that you simply stop caring. There are times that if someone came to me with $10,000 cash, I'd sell every bit of 3/s stuff I have; stroker, car, cosmetics, everything--because it's just too painful to even think about anymore. I have 2 fully built ATX's (one in the car, one on the shelf)--and I don't even care. And god forbid i ever get it up and running where I want it--then I have the asspain of insuring a car so heavily modded that it becomes a nightmare to document it all & properly insure it.Quote:
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Lesson learned though, the worlds' perfect sports car may be 600AWHP. True enough, but since the 3/s doesn't do that in OEM form, it's just a tedium of labor (and money) to get it there & keep it there. And then there's all of the cosmetic tweaks that I'd like to get done to it--but may never happen either. That's the problem with being an INTP/INTJ means that I envision what I want, but don't possess the skills or alacrity to accomplish it on my own. I've lived long enough to be viscerally aware of how intellectually lonely it is in the world--and I'd gladly give up a couple dozen IQ points to simply have the mechanical/engineering expertise to craft things. My IQ isn't doing jack shit for me.
That's why the VX isn't getting any lift kits, aftermarket shocks, mud tires, light bars, superchargers, CAI's, roof racks, etc. I'm keeping it 100% mechanically stock. And any 2-bit mechanic that can work on a trooper, rodeo or passport can fix it.
/rant
p.s.
Purple haters are homophobes. Not because purple is a gay color (it's actually a lesbian color) but because such people do not posses the testicular fortitude to ever display it proudly. At least, that has been my experience. Ironic that someone who drives a 3/s (being the attention-grabbing car that it is), would ever assume that an attention-grabbing color like purple...is "questionable at best".
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