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Since some of us have other vehicles also and dont fit in the what did you do to your truck today topic this is for you.

 

Got it ready (put the top up) to go out tomorrow. Driving it to work (rain chances just went up). Taking half day and having my resonator cut out and replaced with a magnaflow X pipe. Also aired up the tires, down about 1 psi.

 

Exhaust video tomorrow :)

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I started looking for a new car. I am thinking 3rd or 4th gen Camaro

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Oh No Chris, did you catch my bug?

 

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Chris, one a few miles from me in decent shape for $500ish. V6 with a bad motor. Looks like everything is still there. I was thinking about buying it and turning it into a full on track rat, until I found the bird.
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Im wanting to make a "smog/street" legal road track/autocross car.

 

I have wanted to for a long while, but now the truck is almost paid off

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Im wanting to make a "smog/street" legal road track/autocross car.

 

I have wanted to for a long while, but now the truck is almost paid off

:lol: A few years ago I posted about the same idea for a third gen. Wanted to because almost no one cares about the right now.

 

Wonder how hard it will be to get someone to fabricate seat brackets for me. I might just take it to a restoration shop when I get the AC done also, and have them fit the seats while its there. Or I might store some in my closet and wait until next year and have them redo the entire interior.

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I have loved the 3rd gen since I was born. My grandmother bought an 89 red IROC drop top brand new a month before I was born. I loved that car

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I have loved the 3rd gen since I was born. My grandmother bought an 89 red IROC drop top brand new a month before I was born. I loved that car

 

 

I bought this 1986 3 years before you were born. I was 25 (your age now) at the time. My youngest (daughter) was born in 1989, when I was 28. Now my car is 28, and my daughter is 25, does that make me old? LOL

 

 

Memorial Weekend, 2014.

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I wash and wax my muscle truck after I took the photo for the other ride section. Then it rained. I thought it looked ignored.

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