[trackbird]

I'm still looking at cars, trying to find something interesting to drive. I found two 2002 Camaro Convertibles today. Both are automatics (sad), one has 46k miles on it and is $13,500-ish, the other looks to be an SS and has under 8k miles...for about $20k? I'm a little surprised at the prices they are asking for lowly F cars these days. I was looking through the classifieds and I realized that I have front and rear sway bars, a T56 and some other bits left....maybe I just need a 3rd gen? (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (and any third gens I find these days are ROUGH....).

I keep wondering if I should just keep the T56 to go with the engine that's coming out of the Corvette. Give it a freshening up and find something to stuff it in. My GF was pushing for an L98 powered Miata. Tons of torque and no real weight to push around...sounds fun, but I don't think it's going to fit. I thought about a truck (maybe even an older one) and doing an EFI conversion. Sadly most of those have rusted beyond recognition and the rest are expensive. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

No real point to this post other than to say that for the first time in my life, I can't find a car I want to buy and drive??? This is unusual.

Edit:

Is it sad that I want to go buy this?

http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/ve...72722&Log=0

[airtime]

Blackbird I bought a 96 vette brand new. It was fun to drive and handled pretty good. The dam thing was a rattle trap from day one tho, the electronics seemed to work when they wanted too instead of when I wanted them too. My point is those cars were not very well built when new as far as the interiors go and throwing money at it ain't t going to change how they were originally built.

Now with that being said, I bought a 1971 ls-5 corvette a few years ago. It was a running car with full interior, motor, trans, rearend all original, 70 k miles on car. I paid 5000 for the car and thought I had a great deal. After 2 years of rebuilding it and 19000 more dollars thrown at the car it is finally going to the body shop for paint. So I feel ur pain, but at some point u have to realize that no matter how much money you spend on the car it's still a corvette. It's still gonna rattle, shit is gonna not work, it still gonna have issues because these cars were built to perform and not be touring cars. Please don t think I am hating on corvettes because I am not, for what they are designed for they do great, and I love mine but they r not touring cars for sure.
Good luck with that jeep, they are nice looking vehicles