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So when is the party?
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So when is the party?
Anjel
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I send you dancing rodents from the jungle of Africa ... CONGA-RATS!!!! LoL
Congratulations, Anjel!! :beerchug: :beerchug:
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It shows how religious you are - wearing holy clothes.
NomadicMedic
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For me it would mean I'm wearing my Redbacks. Weird wear pattern always puts a hole in my left sock over the big toe. :/.
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Congratz! It feels good doesn't it?
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Congrats Anjel. That is awesome news.
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Now that's pretty funny :lol:
Are Buicks good cars for traveling, or in other words good on gas(MPG), not the newer ones either, the one I was looking at was a little older not sure what year. Also what are some good cars that are easy on gas. Just going to be traveling a lot so looking for car that would work out for that.
Do you know the model? Or can you find a similar picture?
That's a biiggg gap that the car could fall in, haha.
I'm guessing you're talking about a LeSabre (it's the most popular [if you can call a Buick besides the GNX popular? haha])
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Honda, Toyota, Nissan...
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Apparently we're getting raises and new tablets with voice recognition software for charting... This is gonna be interesting to see how this all goes down.
Alright. I'm probably going to ramble sometime in this post, so sorry :blush:
So, I'm just gonna guess we're talking late 90's/ early 00's at that price point.
Most of the Buicks at that time (Riviera, Le Sabre, Regal is all of them I think) had the L36 3.8L series II, along with a lot of Pontiacs and Olds. I don't know the motor in the Century, but I know they get high 20's, because my sister used to drive one.
The 3.8L is a great motor, they made Ward's top 10 engines list for 2 or 3 years in a row. The Series I (it was phased out in '95 I believe) was also a good motor, just underpowered.
I've had 3 of the series II's in that past two years, including the L67 version with the Eaton roots type supercharger. The Riviera is the one in Buick's line up that's available supercharged.
I drive with a heavy foot, but the Camaro and the Firebird with the 3.8L both averaged about 24ish MPG. They're decently peppy, too.
The one problem they like to have is the intake manifold gasket. You can normally see if that has cracked by checking the coolant and seeing if there's oil in it. I cracked my Firebird's and did 4 coolant flushes and there was still sludge from the oil. If it hasn't been replaced, but they kept up with coolant flushes then it's probably ok.
I also had to replace the AC compressor on both my GTP and Firebird, plus the AC clutch on the Camaro, so that seems to be another.
Other than that, they're pretty solid. I gave the Camaro to a friend and he's ran it up from the 170k I had it at to 250k in the past year without any other problems. I've loved all of them and they all took trips from Phx to San Diego, about once a month and held up fine.
So, I'm just gonna guess we're talking late 90's/ early 00's at that price point.
Most of the Buicks at that time (Riviera, Le Sabre, Regal is all of them I think) had the L36 3.8L series II, along with a lot of Pontiacs and Olds. I don't know the motor in the Century, but I know they get high 20's, because my sister used to drive one.
The 3.8L is a great motor, they made Ward's top 10 engines list for 2 or 3 years in a row. The Series I (it was phased out in '95 I believe) was also a good motor, just underpowered.
I've had 3 of the series II's in that past two years, including the L67 version with the Eaton roots type supercharger. The Riviera is the one in Buick's line up that's available supercharged.
I drive with a heavy foot, but the Camaro and the Firebird with the 3.8L both averaged about 24ish MPG. They're decently peppy, too.
The one problem they like to have is the intake manifold gasket. You can normally see if that has cracked by checking the coolant and seeing if there's oil in it. I cracked my Firebird's and did 4 coolant flushes and there was still sludge from the oil. If it hasn't been replaced, but they kept up with coolant flushes then it's probably ok.
I also had to replace the AC compressor on both my GTP and Firebird, plus the AC clutch on the Camaro, so that seems to be another.
Other than that, they're pretty solid. I gave the Camaro to a friend and he's ran it up from the 170k I had it at to 250k in the past year without any other problems. I've loved all of them and they all took trips from Phx to San Diego, about once a month and held up fine.
That will be very interesting, you gotta keep us informed on how it all works out.
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I'm quite fond of my '05 Dodge Dakota 4.7L V8 though the mileage does kinda suck, getting 16-18 combined. Though I can get up to 22 highway on long road trips (going from LA to SD or even the coast to coast road trip I did last year). Need to hurry up and get into the FD so I can afford one of them new Eco diesel Rams lol