What Did You Do To Your HHR Today?
10-27-2014, 11:26 AM
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Join Date: 06-30-2010
Location: Kannapolis NC
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The 1.4's are not too bad to drive, but the "Fun" Cruze is the 2.0 TDI. Those turbo-diesel engines have gobs of torque, even with the "Hyper Miler" gearing they're saddled with, they will slap you back in the seat from a stop sign.
Now GM just needs to lessen the noise on the upcoming 2016 new design Cruze models, people are grumbling about the diesels sounding like diesels, unlike VW's engines.
P.S. Congrats on the milestone mileage Budster!
Now GM just needs to lessen the noise on the upcoming 2016 new design Cruze models, people are grumbling about the diesels sounding like diesels, unlike VW's engines.
P.S. Congrats on the milestone mileage Budster!
10-27-2014, 12:17 PM
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Join Date: 10-21-2008
Location: hemet, calif.
Posts: 1,831
Stopped to give Paddy some $2.99 a gallon Premium on the way back from the Red Robin in Mooresville, too many years of $3-$4 a gallon gas have me conditioned like everyone else.
$2.99 a gallon is still obscene compared to the "good 'ole days", but I found myself thinking...Oh boy, cheap gas!!
Tomorrow, the '06 has a date with the muffler guy and a welder, no more bad flex joint.
$2.99 a gallon is still obscene compared to the "good 'ole days", but I found myself thinking...Oh boy, cheap gas!!
Tomorrow, the '06 has a date with the muffler guy and a welder, no more bad flex joint.
10-27-2014, 03:05 PM
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Well ya know what they say Jay, "The Good Old Times Are Really Over For Good".(I think that's a song title, but enough things have gone pear shaped at work today to make me doubt my sanity)
I remember Grandpa Joe's tales of a Saturday afternoon here before the war.
He'd put some gas in his Model B Ford, pick up my Grandma to be, go to the Gem Theatre(still in business and going strong since 1936, it's the oldest single screen motion picture house stiil operating in the U.S.), and then they'd go for barbecue and a Coca-Cola. All that for 35 cents.
Try to get anything for 35 cents these days.
P.S. Glad to hear you're liking your new Chrysler.
I remember Grandpa Joe's tales of a Saturday afternoon here before the war.
He'd put some gas in his Model B Ford, pick up my Grandma to be, go to the Gem Theatre(still in business and going strong since 1936, it's the oldest single screen motion picture house stiil operating in the U.S.), and then they'd go for barbecue and a Coca-Cola. All that for 35 cents.
Try to get anything for 35 cents these days.
P.S. Glad to hear you're liking your new Chrysler.
10-27-2014, 06:59 PM
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Join Date: 06-19-2013
Location: Southern NJ
Posts: 181
in 1970, could go out on Fri nite with the guys for $5.00
$1.25 for a 6pack of beer
$2.00 for gas in the car- (race all nite at 29 cents per gal)
40 cents for a pack of smokes
McDonalds hamburger 15cents + fries 15cents
$3.95 total
(Sat nite was a little more, another 6 pack and hamburger for your date-ha)
$1.25 for a 6pack of beer
$2.00 for gas in the car- (race all nite at 29 cents per gal)
40 cents for a pack of smokes
McDonalds hamburger 15cents + fries 15cents
$3.95 total
(Sat nite was a little more, another 6 pack and hamburger for your date-ha)
10-27-2014, 11:38 PM
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Join Date: 06-30-2010
Location: Kannapolis NC
Posts: 25,739
Only if someone mentions Richie and the Fonz, oops!
Got my '06 back with its new flex joint welded in, how nice to lose the "Rice 'O Matic" sound and get back to the usual Magnaflow burble.
I did have fun with the muffler shop's "shop truck", a hopped up 300cid Ford six goes pretty well in a short bed 2wd F-150.
Got my '06 back with its new flex joint welded in, how nice to lose the "Rice 'O Matic" sound and get back to the usual Magnaflow burble.
I did have fun with the muffler shop's "shop truck", a hopped up 300cid Ford six goes pretty well in a short bed 2wd F-150.
