Pinside Car Club

I run a slide show of my cars on a 23" TV next to my Mustang premium (with projector light "COBRA" topper).

mystic paint '96 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 7 miles on odometer)
mineral grey '01 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 55 miles on odometer)
torch red '08 Shelby GT500 Mustang (with 9 miles on odometer)
inferno orange '13 Camaro ZL1 (with 8 miles on odometer)
deep impact blue '13 Mustang GT premium (my wife's car)
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The cars are garaged under fitted covers and are started and run for a half hour every few weeks (to circulate fluids and prevent the valve springs from staying compressed in the same positions) and are moved back and forth a bit (to prevent flat spots on the tires).

The idea is to keep them in very good shape for when I retire some day, and then take them to local cruise nights and car shows (where I hope they stand out because of their condition and low mileage). I only pay for comprehensive insurance on them currently. My agent says I can put full coverage on any of them for a month at a time, so down the road I could put full insurance on the GT500 for the month of July and take it to a few local cruise nights, then switch coverage to one of the other cars and take it to some August cruises.

I haven't had any car payments in over 35 years. I saved for five years and then ordered the '96 mystic, then saved for another five and bought the 2001, then saved for a few more years and ordered the '08 GT500, then saved for another five and ordered the '13 ZL1.

Searched for and bought a used (less than 12,000 miles) gotta-have-it-green 2013 Boss 302 to match the Mustang Boss premium pinball. I'll add it to the slide show as soon as I get a chance to take some nice pics.
(If you've never seen this $495 extra cost green metallic color in person it looks fabulous!)

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I considered grabber orange with black stripes for my GT500 but liked torch red with black stripes better. Red with black stripes looks great on a Boss 302, too, but since I already have a red with black GT500 my Boss 302 had to be gotta-have-it-green.

Did you rescue it? On Pinside it should by transporter the rescue.

It's too bad that all your cars are for sale. (Your location is shown as "Sellersville" for a reason, right?)

Not with those wheels on it. Those wheels came standard on '07-'09 GT500s only.

You can talk for days trying to prepare the floor for a new finish, but some concrete just doesn't listen.

So that's what the slogan "you coulda had a V8" is all about!

My buddy (who also owns 10 pinball machines) has a Factory Five Racing Cobra kit car with a built 351 Cleveland (see pic below) and a Dukati 1098 streetfighter motorcycle. He likes to take the Cobra roadster out for a run before he rides the Dukati. Otherwise the Dukati can make a really fast car seem kind of slow.cobra roadster (resized).JPG

2007 to 2012 GT500 engine displacement is 5.4 liters but his Whipple supercharger volume is 2.9 liters.

That's because people like public transportation in urban areas.

My buddy built his garage with a nice high ceiling and has since added a lift like that. My garage just doesn't have the ceiling clearance or I would have added a lift years ago.

Three-wheeler? I thought the two wheels in front are for steering and the back end is a hovercraft.

I could use that garage spot if you were a lot closer.
I'm tired of going to advertised garage sales in my area only to find that the garage isn't for sale.

Why import one? Couldn't you just buy a machine and make your own cappuccino?

Okay, but just make sure you drive the truck out of there before that cement dries.

I wouldn't sell a car to get pins. But maybe the reverse? Occasionally I think about selling my BBB and my '64 Fender Stratocaster (both purchased new) to help fund buying another car, but I can never bring myself to sell either one. (And I already have five cars, so I certainly don't need another one.)

Why does the picture look like an elephant sat on it?

A better picture of very nicely collected piles of leaves than of the truck.

Again, why does the picture look like an elephant sat on the car?

That's too bad. Maybe do what you can to try to cheer the paint up?

I had to jack up my '69 SS396 L78 Chevelle (stolen in 1975) to fit Mickey Thompson N50x15s on 10 inch wide chrome Cragar S/S wheels back then. It's easier now with modern muscle. My ZL1 Camaro came with 305/35ZR20 Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar rear tires on 11" wide forged aluminum wheels (and 285/35ZR20 fronts on 10" rims) that fit neatly in the factory wheel wells. 2013 ZL1 Camaro (resized).jpg

Uh... I say no.

Your post has received seven "up" votes so far.
But are they up voting the "roll'n" part or the "hate'n" part?

(Sorry, but I'm personally not a fan of any minivans.)

Now that car is an Oww-di.

No. But you reminded me of a clever guitar ad I saw back in 1966, which pictured a Fender Jaguar guitar leaning against a Jaguar automobile fender.

Gee, you don't have to cry about it.

I see the 'cuda is parked in front. I guess the pin hauler is parked outback.

I do not own a '60s Fender Jaquar, but a quick google shows 4 available priced from $3500 to $4500.
And there are numerous listings of sunburst '60's Jaguars currently on eBay priced from $3750 to $6536.
(Although there are several custom solid color '60s Jaguars on eBay that are priced from $6395 to $11,000.)

But I am the original owner of a '64 Fender Stratocaster, which a quick google shows 2 for sale at $15,000.
There are a couple '64 sunburst Stratocasters very similar to mine listed on eBay for $18,500 and $26,000.

...and it will be a real sleeper once you install it in a 1987 Yugo.

But I can't pass this information on because when people ask where I heard it all I can say is from some other guy.

A little too much rust and not enough headlights for me.

I ordered a limited edition '76 Trans Am (black with gold pinstriping and the giant bird decal on the hood) with the first factory T-tops (installed by Hurst Performance in Brighton, Michigan) ever put in a Firebird (or Camaro) and they were definitely not water tight back then, either.

Clearly a Fiero with a Ferrari F40 rebody kit (and not a real Ferrari).

Over the course of my twenties I owned a '62 Corvette, '69 SS396 L78 Chevelle, '70 Z/28 Camaro, '64 Corvette coupe and '76 limited edition Trans Am (the first with T-tops).

Then the era of big horsepower died and V6 Fieros looked good, so my wife and I owned four Fieros at one time:
yellow '88 GT automatic with leather seats and powered subwoofer (the rarest color with the two rarest options)
white '88 GT 5-speed
black '87 GT 5-speed
red '85 SE V6 automatic (wife's old car)

Those Fieros are all gone now that horsepower has returned, and we currently own the following:
305HP '96 Mustang SVT Cobra mystic (color-shifting paint) 5-speed - 7 miles on odometer
320HP '01 Mustang SVT Cobra mineral grey 5-speed - 55 miles on odometer
540HP '08 Shelby GT500 torch red with black stripes 6-speed - 9 miles on odometer
420HP '13 Mustang GT deep impact blue automatic (wife's current car) - her daily driver
444HP '13 Boss 302 gotta-have-it green 6-speed - 13,600 miles on odometer (driven by me in good weather only)
580HP '13 Camaro ZL1 inferno orange metallic 6-speed - 8 miles on odometer

My rare yellow '88 Fiero GT had only 93 miles on it when I sold it in 2007 to buy my '08 Shelby GT500.

To still keep it factory I added the FRPP "KR kit" from Ford Racing Performance Products (cold air intake, less restrictive exhaust and reflashed computer program from the 540HP 2008 GT500KR which otherwise has the exact same engine as the '08 GT500).

I don't have a lot of money. I'd save for five years and then order and pay cash for the '96 SVT Cobra, then save another five years and pay cash for the '01, then save a few more years and pay cash for the '08 GT500 (and sell my yellow '88 Fiero GT because the GT500 cost $50K), then save five more years and pay cash for the '13 ZL1 Camaro. Doing it that way I haven't had any car payments since my '76 limited edition Trans Am. (And I saved and paid cash for the four V6 Fieros we used to own.)

I think you're absolutely correct. I plan on keeping mine until I die and then my wife will surely sell them all if she outlives me (she can't drive stick).

All 2008 to 2014 GT500s are supercharged, not turbocharged. My naturally aspirated 2013 Boss 302 is incredibly fun to drive.

Automatics used to have fewer gears than manuals, going back to 2-speed powerglides versus 3-speed manuals and 3 -speed turbo-hydros versus 4-speed manuals. And more recently 4-speed autos versus 5- and 6-speed manuals. Then 6-speed autos (like my wife's 2013 Mustang GT) were offered alongside 6-speed manuals (like my 2013 Boss 302). And now 8- and even 10-speed automatics are available, whereas the 7-speed manual in the Corvette is really a 4-speed with 3 overdrives for better highway mileage to avoid a gas guzzler tax. I chose a 6-speed manual over a 6-speed auto for my 2013 Camaro ZL1, but even I would take the latest 10-speed auto over a 6-speed manual if I were ordering a new Camaro ZL1. Ten speeds should always keep the engine in its powerband and pre-loading the next gear should make for quick shifts in these modern automatics.

My Camaro ZL1 is inferno orange.
My Shelby GT500 is torch red.
My Boss 302 is gotta-have-it green.

I guess I'm an old guy trying to look cool.

Ugh. Anything bigger than 20s (or maybe 22s) start to look like old western wagon wheels.

Another possible problem with machine-controlled cars: A while back I read a recap of a test where a fleet of delivery vehicles in London, England had their GPS systems linked to the posted speed limits of all that city's streets, where the vehicles were prevented to exceed any of the speed limits. The test period resulted in numerous traffic jams with lots of cars stuck behind the delivery vehicles because the delivery vehicles weren't able to go over the limit and couldn't pass any other traffic.

But where's the image of your matching Porsche fanny pack?

You have to respect their performance, but I have never liked the look of Porsches. They look like stretched out VW beetles and just like VW beetles their basic shape/design never changes all that much. It just gets tweaked a bit every now and then.

That reminds me... I need to go catch a cab.

Several years ago Shelby American charged me $300 for a stainless steel dash plaque engraved with the serial number of my own GT500 and signed by Carroll Shelby. I wonder if they had him sign a stack of blank plates before his death in 2012 so they could continue to engrave and sell such plates?

My first car was a used '62 Corvette. I only had it for about six months because at age 19 the annual cost for insurance even on my dad's policy was two thirds of what I paid for the car. I sold the 'vette for enough of a profit to cover my insurance cost for those six months and then looked for a sporty car to replace it. At the time my available car choices at local dealerships were:

used 1967 Mustang GTA (Mustang GT with an automatic trans) 390 V8 in lime gold - didn't like the color or automatic trans.
used 1968 Camaro Z/28 302 V8 in burnt orange metallic - liked the car a lot but it wasn't quite fast enough for me at the time.
used 1967 Shelby GT500 428 V8 in nightmist blue with white sill stripes only - engine was so tired and beat it would barely run.
new '69 SS396 Chevelle 375HP L78 daytona yellow with black vinyl roof - someone had ordered it then forfeited their deposit.

I bought the Chevelle SS396 and absolutely loved that car (until it was stolen six years later and never recovered).
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Nice cars (understatement). Apparently you agree with Henry Ford that you can have any color you want as long as it is black?

I've seen it where there's too little left to tell the original body color, so they list "patina" as the color of the car.

It is nice. Someone might try to steal it. He should watch it like a hawk.

You have to like the performance, but I don't like the C8 design at all.

I'm sure you would consider it, since for the first time since the V8 engine was introduced to the Corvette in 1955, a manual transmission is not available. Chevrolet opted to make the C8 the first Corvette with an eight-speed dual-clutch automatic.

I own four Mustangs and one Camaro (plus my wife's 420HP Mustang GT), including a factory supercharged Camaro ZL1 and a factory supercharged Shelby GT500. Would you bet on the Camaro or the Mustang?

I haven't seen two utes together since I watched My Cousin Vinny on cable.

Gee. My insurance agent recommends keeping cars away from black ice.

Guess that leaves me out then. According to Samay Hagar I can't drive 55.