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Hi everyone, I’m happy to be in this group. Here are a few pictures of my car. We’ve painted it and had a new top installed but interior is original. Pretty good shape for 175 dollars running and driving.

Hi all. Hope we all had good holidays. I have not been on here in awhile. I work too much. I must say that W-Bodies are scarce in my area. Makes me sad. I miss my Cutlass. Last year I sold my 90 ScottsDale after NY killed the frame. My garage space is taken up by 2 Caddys. Still old school. The cream one is supposed to be my DD but I have a winter rat so I park it when I can. The Red one is a garage queen. Even these are getting difficult to find. I just refuse to buy newer. Since I retired my 94 Cutlass Supreme I have not found not one other. I had left phone number on 2 other that were driven locally in my area but both were driven into the ground and later found in my local yard. I will still try and lurk here to help our fellow members. Life gets crazy. I am sure we all know.

How in the world did you get it for that cheap?

Finally got around to retrofitting 4th gen Camaro window sweep felts on my Cutlass. It definitely looks much better, and the wind noise reduced some! Hopefully they last a while considering they have been on a junkyard Camaro for its lifetime. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

I don't know what the spec is, exactly. I just know 10ohm is probably still ok... I'd keep an eye on it. When they go bad they'll usually drop to 1ohm or less and at that point they short the driver and no injector pulse to all of them.

I had it done at a repair shop so I’m not sure how they did it. Later on I also had to do a vacuum ball(just a little plastic ball) that was cracked and resulted in poor running. When I took it to dealer they took the cover off for the timing belt and discovered the timing belt was eating itself due to some parts that held it on track breaking. I had been hearing a small squeak but didn’t think much of it.

I bought it at Copart auto auction. It needed some vacuum lines, brakes, and tires, and battery but it still ran and drove. It needed a lot of work but it was still a good deal.

Looks good!

So, did you get it?

Congratulations on the upgrade.

I suppose from a personally selfish point of view I'd prefer that we keep our *home* just as it is. What models GM has to offer today to me pales in comparison to what it used to make available a lifetime ago. The technology has advanced, but the fewer choices that the buyer has to select from rubs me the wrong way. GM killed off both the Olds & the Pontiac marque just because they were not marketed on a global scale. I've never forgiven the upper echelon for doing that. If that reasoning was to stand why didn't they drop either the Chev or GMC truck line?...why are 2 lines needed?....when was last time you saw or heard of full sized trucks being exported overseas to Europe or Asia? In my past visits to either Britain, Poland or Germany I've never seen a GM truck being marketed there at all.....and you won't, not given the lack of fuel economy they deliver that doesn't meet the needs over there. The Pontiac brand was supposed to be the *sports* oriented division of the lot, so much for head office waving the *Excitement* banner.......the yearly Carlisle event (what used to be known as the GM Nationals) is now the Chevy Nationals, Chevrolet wouldn't sponsor the show unless the name was changed to Chevy.... another strike.....the show is now boycotted by many of the Pontiac & Olds owners for this reason, for those who own or want to own a W-body, they know where we are & the doors are always open...... Nope, I like things just the way they are.....

When you put it like that, it sounds like a bad thing. Maybe I need to read Lord of the Flies. I figure when a corporation changes it's products so that they no longer make anything relevant, abandoning them is a responsibility, not merely a choice. Someone has to tell them they're on the wrong track, and sucking air. I volunteer. HEY GM: POUND SAND! And K-M-A. And shut your fukkin' headlights off in the daytime. You look ridiculous.

You are talking about a small subset of GM vehicles from a weird time period in their history. If people are interested, they will come here. Sadly, most forums are going away because of Social Media. After seeing most of the crap that goes on with those platforms I'm happy to let people find us and post good content rather than just posting content.

Maybe it's because I'm a little older now but I have been repeatedly disappointed with new vehicles other than my Super Duty. GM has been putting out unattractive and just strange looking vehicles lately. I don't get it and I don't understand what's driving this trend with them. Nothing is attractively unique anymore within their divisions. Makes these older W's and vehicles from the 80's and 90's that much more enticing.

Nah. I don’t mind being helpful or people getting help but that defeats the purpose. I think that’ll kill our numbers because there will be even less users per topic as I don’t think many will migrate anyway. Just my .02

My concern is with diluting the W-body content. We're here because we want to specialize in W-body; losing that specialization would eliminate any reason for me to log on. The newest vehicle I own is a 2003; GM has probably lost me as a customer until that vehicle won't run reliably because they've decided to follow political correctness or crazy styling instead of building stuff I want to buy. There's not a car in the stable that I have any real interest in. Pretty-much the same with the trucks. If you need the tailgate to multi-function as a step ladder...the truck isn't designed for use, it's designed to "look mean". I don't need that. Linking to other GM platforms would be a total waste of bandwidth for me. I'm already on forums that specialize in other GM brands; what they have in common in that there's little content for newer crap. It's all Chevy-Pontiac-Olds-Buick-Cadillac pre-1999; and in most cases largely pre-1980. "Global personal transportation" and "alternative powered vehicles" are "politically-correct JUNK", and that is what I DO NOT WANT.

Thank you for the offer! Are they basically the same then? I'll might take you up on that! You won't believe it, my parts guy at the local GM dealer says there are still NOS ones available!