Finally Saw What My Car Looks Like Today

"Jay Lauer" (thefaultinourcars)
11/09/2014 at 19:00 • Filed to: None

Some of you may have seen from my last post that I bought !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! last Wednesday. I knew it was black. I knew it had two, maybe four doors. Today, I found out it had a stripe and that it's a GMC.

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So this is what happens when you lose your fucks and forget where they went off to. Apparently, this guy thought this was the acceptable level of clean to advertise the car. I'm not joking, the ad picture was exactly this dirty.

While I had sometime time today, I gave it a smattering of water and tried brushing off the filth. After only mediocre results, I took it down to the small town car wash and gave it the full soap and foam brush treatment.

Sportwagen might recognize some of these Clearwater, KS places.

It's not all that bad looking really. I'm really digging the chunky tires the previous owner bought for it. There's a couple rough spots, but it's a 15 year old Jimmy and I've got practically nothing in it. The hood's all sorts of not black so I'll buy another one this week and fix that. The insides still a total mess, but I'll attack that another time once my dad and I fix the mechanical issues. It's only got like 119k miles too, which is way less than any other listed in town.

Also, dad bought this yesterday. It's a really smart buy considering where we are and all the country folk my dad grew up with. It'll be a super easy sell.

Also, we've had this outside for quite a while now, looking to get rid of it. 80 Pontiac Trans Am Pace Car. Originally had the 305 Turbo (Absolute dog motor) so now it's got a 455.

Lastly, I saw one of these at the car wash, I'm not sure the name, but I've some a couple around time before. It just looks like a weird awkward elephant or rhino to me.

DISCUSSION (46)

bob and john > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 19:01

Kinja'd!!!

Nissan NV van.

jkm7680 > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 19:03

Whoa, Looks really nice compared to most of those nowadays. Extra points for the 2-Door.

Brian Silvestro > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 19:03

RALLYCROSS TIIIIIMMMME

Jay Lauer > Brian Silvestro
11/09/2014 at 19:05

The Wichita Oppos are trying to set up our own snowcross of icecross, which I will thoroughly dominate with this thing.

Brian Silvestro > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 19:06

Please make that happen.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 19:09

But the van was at the car wash on 4th street, not a gas station :/ but nice Trans Am! I'll give ya a tree-fiddy fo' it!

Jay Lauer > Brian Silvestro
11/09/2014 at 19:11

Hell yes we will. I'm pretty sure we've got the spot picked out. We just need to make sure the lot doesn't have any poles or curb stops to crash into.

Safety, yo.

ly2v8-Brian > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 19:11

nice little jimmy.

Jay Lauer > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
11/09/2014 at 19:14

Right, I need to edit that. I meant to say car wash.

Dad's shop is on 95th, so I rarely go into the actual town much.

Jay Lauer > ly2v8-Brian
11/09/2014 at 19:17

Thanks man, I'm digging it so far.

ly2v8-Brian > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 19:18

I had an S10 it's a perfect size for a truck.

Rainbow > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 19:18

If you're just "looking to get rid of" the Trans-Am, I'll take it off your hands. :D

Brian Silvestro > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 19:20

I'd be so happy if you guys made it happen. I'm literally the only RallyX regular around here.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 19:34

Huh, think I could come by sometime? Just look around some? It's okay if the answer is no, but I would jump on it if the answer is yes!

Jay Lauer > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
11/09/2014 at 20:14

Nah, of course you can. Normally, there's not much interesting stuff in there: It's still an old 5-6 car shop on a farm, but we've still get restoration projects off to the side.

I'll just have to coordinate with you the next time I'm down there, preferably when we've got some more classic stuff in there.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 20:19

If that F250 was a diesel i would have came and bought it.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 20:20

LOL hey at least your dad isn't the type of guy who just collects car and let's them rot into oblivion... This guy for example (south of 68th) . He has a SHITLOAD of old 64-68 mustangs (V8's, I6's, Verts, Coupes, Fastbacks, you name it), a literal FUCKTON of Corvairs (Spyders, Verts, etc) and a bunch of other stuff (fox bodies, 50's cars, air cooled VW's, even a couple of Vanagons (Type 2), possibly some really rare ones!) I should post some pics I took of the place... it is rather depressing TBH :'(

Jay Lauer > Brian Silvestro
11/09/2014 at 20:21

I still haven't done any sort of RallyX events, just dirt drifting in the Subarus I had. Hopefully, they'll bring them back. I've only actually done the three AutoX events with the Honda and another upcoming AutoX in a Mustang.

However, I know these little 4x4 Blazers are pretty good offroaders. I had one just like this in high school that I drove up a steep we were using for sledding. That was on street tires too. I bet it'd be slow, but it'd be a fun RallyXer.

Takuro Spirit > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 20:22

If you can't sell the T/A outright and decide to part it out, let me know.

Brian Silvestro > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 20:23

DUDE HAVE YOU SEEN MATHIAS'S POSTS

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/i-said-i-would…

Rallycrossing SUVs is fucking awesome

Jay Lauer > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
11/09/2014 at 20:31

Don't speak too son, Dad's got a 69 Mach 1 that's been sitting in the West St. Spangles for about a year now.

Hell, we know that guy. He sells parts off of most all of those cars for people like us that do restorations.

One of dad's clients bought a brand new Boss 302 to match the one we're doing for him and has it stored somewhere just north of the pool. It's got like 12 miles on it. I'm assuming you've seen the little house just south of K42 and 135th. They've got a pretty sizeable collection that I posted about here and here . They're the people generous enough to lend me their Pantera for a week .

Jay Lauer > Takuro Spirit
11/09/2014 at 20:32

Will do.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 20:33

WTF? The house on the west side of 135th?

I SAID I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THEIR PROPERTY IF IT WERE FOR SALE! Some sort of foreshadowing???

Jay Lauer > Brian Silvestro
11/09/2014 at 20:33

If we had RallyX in town, I totally would after seeing that. We just need to bring it back to Wichita. Otherwise, it's about 3 hours away.

Brian Silvestro > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 20:36

I know, that's what Jake keeps telling me. You guys gotta take the initiative!!

Jay Lauer > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
11/09/2014 at 20:39

Yup, it's this one . All the barns are full of cars.

They're never going to sell it though. They've got more money than they know what to do with. But they're super nice and generous people.

Jay Lauer > Brian Silvestro
11/09/2014 at 20:41

I don't even know the SCCA people! I've only been doing Porsche autocrosses; Next week will be my first SCCA event.

We'll have to see if we can coordinate and revive it over the winter.

Brian Silvestro > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 20:43

I wonder if winter autox is a thing. Like snow covered lots. That would be cool.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 20:47

Holy shit... never would've guessed :/ Good on them! Is this the guy with the Alpina and AMG Hammer?

Jay Lauer > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
11/09/2014 at 20:50

Yup, same dude. He's about 85 I think now. His grandson is one of the guys running Cars & Coffee, which should be insane next week on the west side.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 20:52

Where is it at?

Jay Lauer > Brian Silvestro
11/09/2014 at 20:52

Well that's what we're talking about doing between the Oppos. A completely unofficial snowcross in an abandoned dog track parking lot north of town.

The Subaru guys used to do stuff kinda like that when I had mine. It'd be all kinda of hopeless in the S2000. That's difficult on warm, dry pavement.

Jay Lauer > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
11/09/2014 at 20:56

Creative Composites, next to Mel Hambelton Ford.

Lawrence Smith's collection there is on a whole other level.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 20:57

Hoping to be there, my parents weren't too enthusiastic about me telling them I was skipping the school pancake breakfast for Cars and Coffee... BTW is the pancake feed the reason for it not being over there?

Jay Lauer > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
11/09/2014 at 21:00

No idea really, I'm just glad it's there. I haven't seen that place in a couple of years and it's only about 1.5 miles from my house, compared to being 25 normally.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 21:03

lol it's "only" 6 or 7 miles from my house ;) (Hint: I don't actually live *in* Clearwater)

Brian Silvestro > Jay Lauer
11/09/2014 at 21:06

LOL #S2000life

Jay Lauer > Brian Silvestro
11/09/2014 at 21:08

Lol I swear they're just as bad of owners as STIs and Evos. Maybe even Dodge Pickup bad.

Found out why we don't do RallyX anymore.