Watching des Moines rerun of today's auction.

They've auctioned off two mid eighties caprices and a 2002 sebring. All bone stock.

How desperate do you have to be to have this shyyeeeet in your auction?

 

Nice cars or what?

 

I went to a cruise night last night and some one pulled in with a pair of Lamborghini/Fiero kit cars, one for sale. And I have to give credit, the suckers were good looking and superficially did not show up as a kit car. The one for sale was needing some form of work as it appeared to be under-repair but what fascinated me was it used the Caddy 4.1 L V8 which I did not know had the same bell housing bolt pattern as the Fiero trans-axle which is the same as a small block Chevy and I have seen them installed. For 10 grand it was worth it in parts alone and sharp enough to make a real poor mans automobile money pit but if I did not have way more collector cars than I need AND 10 grand I didn't, I'd have bought it.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...QEwAA&dur=6577

 

I rather have a Fiero with a Fiero body on it sporting a 2.0L ECOtec turbo.

 

That's pretty slick looking, but being a Mopar man at heart, if I had ten grand, there'd be a Mopar sitting in my driveway, not some other GM product. This Chevy has turned me against ever owning GM again.

 

Of all the cars I have owned for a variety of reasons, some because they fit the basic needs at the time, others because they they supplied the need of transportation and something in addition to enjoy owning it and some pure toys that were not justifiable by any definition. Kinda like putting my Mercury Marine engine in my 1976 Hornet Sportabout, I have a couple of favorites one being the 4 cylinder 5 speed Fiero I owned. It was just a pure fun car. I likened it to owning a modern MG TD in function of the time and have no regrets in owning one. It was of course a GM kit car assembled from the parts bins of products they owned put together on a platform with a plastic body, typical of kit cars at the time. Except it was a really rigid platform and could take a hell of a beating. It was a base model with the pointy noise rather than the Hoover vacuum cleaner nose that was also available if you bought the V-6 . Some one commented recently on the difficulty of changing parts, there was nothing to touch this one. Replacing a head light required a service manual to cycle them up and down a number of times in order to get at screws holding things together in a proper sequence. It was also the first car I owned with rear disc brakes and replacing pads required knowing how to deal with the parking brakes. I had an estimate from Midas for $1000.00 to put brakes on it, so I drove to the dealer, spend $80.00 for a factory manual and then to CarQuest where I bought $60.00 worth of brake parts and 4 hours later it was done.
I think every one has owned a car they wish they never saw. For me it was that 1987 Lincoln Continental. A corporate platform model that consisted of the line of Ford Torus and Mercury Sable. The biggest pile of unreliable expensive components of anything I have owned.