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CWSooner · « **Reply #3528 on:** April 02, 2022, 11:27:28 AM »

Quote from: Cincydawg on March 31, 2022, 06:48:23 PM

Who will win the Big 12 next season?

I'd put my money on OU if I were a betting man.
But I wouldn't bet on OU making the CFP.

utee94 · « **Reply #3529 on:** April 02, 2022, 11:32:56 AM »

Quote from: CWSooner on April 02, 2022, 11:19:15 AM

That's a newer one than my 1980 model. You can tell by the more smoothly integrated bumpers on your future wife's car.
If that is her car, that is.

It was a picture grab off the 'net but I think the year is correct, 1987.

CWSooner · « **Reply #3530 on:** April 02, 2022, 11:34:18 AM »

Quote from: Cincydawg on April 02, 2022, 05:42:46 AM

The way they rated horsepower changed in 1972, they started using SAE net, which dropped numbers a lot. My car's engine dropped from 285 to 185 because of this, though I think 5 of this was because of the added AIR pump. They did not build an SS model in 1973. The engine in mine was the most powerful they offered.

I thought that they made that change in with the '73 models.
I remember that the 1973 SD455 Pontiac Trans-Am's engine was rated at 310 hp. Then, later in the year, or maybe it was for '74, it was downrated to 290, with no actual change to the engine.
I loved Trans-Ams until the giant screaming chicken took over the hood.
Loved this:

Didn't care much for this:

CWSooner · « **Reply #3531 on:** April 02, 2022, 12:11:02 PM »

I got behind a C8 Corvette in traffic a couple of days ago. It was a color that looked like battleship gray with a bit of dark green mixed in. It had a black rear wing.
That was one ugly sumbitch.
And that's surely no accident. The GM stylists aren't incompetent. The damn thing is ugly on purpose.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3532 on:** April 03, 2022, 11:15:35 AM »

Mabe this color, unless the idgit had it painted

Cincydawg · « **Reply #3533 on:** April 03, 2022, 11:25:21 AM »

I like the look of the Corvette except at the rear, they were constrained by the requirement to have a trunk able to accept two golf bags apparently. Then you have issues with cooling of course. I read somewhere they are being separated from the Chevy brand.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3534 on:** April 03, 2022, 01:09:12 PM »

I'm still thinking of ordering one

waiting on a couple other things, such as my daughter's wedding

Cincydawg · « **Reply #3535 on:** April 03, 2022, 03:30:01 PM »

Yeah, I go back and forth, but they'd be a toy for me, and mostly just sit.

We had a lot of problems with the Cadillac tires (and wheels) and potholes. I think it had seven tires go bad over three years, they were 35 profile run flats, and expensive.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3536 on:** April 03, 2022, 10:03:47 PM »

be a toy for me as well, but probably drive it at least once a week

to the golf course or some other fun place

utee94 · « **Reply #3537 on:** April 03, 2022, 10:27:37 PM »

Quote from: CWSooner on April 02, 2022, 11:34:18 AM

I thought that they made that change in with the '73 models.
I remember that the 1973 SD455 Pontiac Trans-Am's engine was rated at 310 hp. Then, later in the year, or maybe it was for '74, it was downrated to 290, with no actual change to the engine.
I loved Trans-Ams until the giant screaming chicken took over the hood.
Loved this:

Didn't care much for this:

I dig the flaming bird on the front. Especially in Bandit black and gold.

Gigem · « **Reply #3538 on:** April 04, 2022, 12:13:12 AM »

Well damn. Missed winning the NIT by one shot, bounced off the rim. I know a lot of Aggies were upset we didn’t make the Big Dance but playing for the NIT championship in NYC IMO is much better than a probable first or second round loss in the NCAA tournament.

longhorn320 · « **Reply #3539 on:** April 04, 2022, 12:27:25 AM »

Quote from: Gigem on April 04, 2022, 12:13:12 AM

Well damn. Missed winning the NIT by one shot, bounced off the rim. I know a lot of Aggies were upset we didn’t make the Big Dance but playing for the NIT championship in NYC IMO is much better than a probable first or second round loss in the NCAA tournament.

nothing wrong with playing in the NIT tourn

The Horns have done it several times

tough break on the rim shot

CWSooner · « **Reply #3540 on:** April 04, 2022, 12:37:12 AM »

Quote from: FearlessF on April 03, 2022, 11:15:35 AM

Mabe this color, unless the idgit had it painted

That looks like the right color, but I could swear that the one I saw the other day had a gloss--not metallic--finish to it.
I guess I would have sworn falsely.

CWSooner · « **Reply #3541 on:** April 04, 2022, 12:40:02 AM »

Quote from: Cincydawg on April 03, 2022, 11:25:21 AM

I like the look of the Corvette except at the rear, they were constrained by the requirement to have a trunk able to accept two golf bags apparently. Then you have issues with cooling of course. I read somewhere they are being separated from the Chevy brand.

Aesthetics are subjective, or at least the majority position within the field says so.
But the front end of the C8 Corvette looks like an explosion of lines blasting away from some point in space a few feet in front of the car. Looks unattractive to me.
Not as ugly as the rear, though.

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