[geeks] Clerks and Cars

[joshua d boyd]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:51:55AM -0400, James Fogg wrote:
> Now... please don't hate me for saying this, but you have no idea how hard "me
> and the boys" used to laugh at 4-door muscled cars (notice I didn't say muscle
> car). Except, of course, for that one 71 Nova 4dr sleeper that roasted my
> factory 4bbl 318 duster! I swear there was no visual or audio clue that the
> Nova had an early 60's 401 buick clamshell motor under the hood. It even had
> granny's houndstooth-check vinyl bench seats and the original prndl on the
> steering column. That dude got to enjoy all the laughs that night (what is that
> saying about last laughs?). He also go to enjoy $200.00 of my very hard
> earned cash (big money back in the day).

Not really at all the same, but I keep dreaming of doing a sleeper Jetta
someday.  Take an all wheel drive train from an Audi, and drop in a new W8
engine, and soup up from there.  Leave the exterior completely
factory.  Well, that's the dream.  I'm probably not enough of a car guy to
every actually do something so radical.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd