Longbow
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1956 Olds 88, 324CID, 3 speed manual.
Used car suggestions?
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Jack_Crow
Enlightened
Ok,
At the risk of being abused....
Take at look at Ford Contours.
I have a 99 with the five speed and 4cyl engine.
The damm thing runs like a watch.
Look up a web stie called the contour enthuasts groop (sp?), lots of good advice on keeping these cars on the air.
It's a very sold bit of goods. Check on Ebay Motors for pricing. They are fairly cheap but good iron.
Later dude
At the risk of being abused....
Take at look at Ford Contours.
I have a 99 with the five speed and 4cyl engine.
The damm thing runs like a watch.
Look up a web stie called the contour enthuasts groop (sp?), lots of good advice on keeping these cars on the air.
It's a very sold bit of goods. Check on Ebay Motors for pricing. They are fairly cheap but good iron.
Later dude
The Chevy Lumina and now Impala/Monte Carlo are good cars. Big enough to be safe (I saw one hit a Honda Accord and the Accord was carried away in pieces and the Lumina drove away). My wife's Impala gets 37MPG highway with a pushrod engine (no $$$ timing belt to replace) and I have seen several Lumina taxis with over 200k one them with no major repairs needed. Had a Co-worker buy one of those Lumina APV minivans (the old dustbuster van) from our boss with 250k on it and he drove it another 150K when I left the company, it has the same 2.4L engine and transmission as the cars.
PlayboyJoeShmoe
Flashaholic
I'm sorry Jack, but I'd take a cheap GM car over a cheap Fomoco car any day!
I feel the opposite about trucks however...
I feel the opposite about trucks however...
3rd_shift
Flashlight Enthusiast
I agree with PJS.
Ford makes good trucks and not so good cars.
I have worked security in apartment ghettos where the ford trucks are still clunkering around while I'm tagging broken down ford cars littering the parking lot.
Have a heart to heart with your bank, or credit union loan officer too about what you can afford before you set foot on any dealership, or curbstone's lawn to buy a car.
Ford makes good trucks and not so good cars.
I have worked security in apartment ghettos where the ford trucks are still clunkering around while I'm tagging broken down ford cars littering the parking lot.
Have a heart to heart with your bank, or credit union loan officer too about what you can afford before you set foot on any dealership, or curbstone's lawn to buy a car.
markdi
Flashlight Enthusiast
1956 Olds 88, 324CID, 3 speed manual
was it 56 or 1958 that the thin wall nickle alloy hi compression engine showed up in the olds ?
the first modern v8 I think.
I had a 64 skylark with the aluminum v8.
3 on the tree.
still the age of the muscle car is now
cars are lighter-handle/brake better.
my grand am with its w41 4 cylinder does 0 to 60 in better than 6.7 seconds. tops out at around 135.
that is faster than a 67 gto with the 389 tri power.
my car is old-1988
was it 56 or 1958 that the thin wall nickle alloy hi compression engine showed up in the olds ?
the first modern v8 I think.
I had a 64 skylark with the aluminum v8.
3 on the tree.
still the age of the muscle car is now
cars are lighter-handle/brake better.
my grand am with its w41 4 cylinder does 0 to 60 in better than 6.7 seconds. tops out at around 135.
that is faster than a 67 gto with the 389 tri power.
my car is old-1988
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