Originally Posted by caprice_2nv
Originally Posted by 14Accent
Originally Posted by caprice_2nv
Originally Posted by earlyre
that's one of my dream cars... if only i wasn't always functionally broke....
Grandpa was an Olds guy, and my big brother had a 79 Grand Prix... put the 2 together, G-body Olds.
Thanks. My dream car used to be a 72 442, now it's probably just my current car with some nicer rims and a lot of upgrades. I've been driving the same car since 2007, and before that it was an 87 Cutlass I bought when I was 18. I'm 36 now. I always have an 80s b body Caprice for my winter beater.
It just gets better! My one and only B-body was a '91 Caprice with the 5.0 TBI. Terrible car (by no fault of it's own) but boy did I love driving it. There's just something about driving a rolling couch that can't be beat. Those car's do nothing well, but everything satisfactory.
I can't argue with that. What it does best is just continue to run year after year, with almost no money put into it. My 83 only has 240k miles, but the last one I had to scrap 10 years ago was an 89 TBI 5.0 with 332k miles. It ran great still but the floor and frame rusted out. My 83 is still like new underneath.
That's the awesome thing about those old boats, just like Panther cars. Rust is far and beyond that kills them, long before the running gear gives out. Are they fancy? Tightly screwed together? Top of the line, ahead of the curve? Absolutely not. That's why they WORK. With so little to go wrong, it's almost impossible to have a catastrophic and expensive failure.