For people into cars.........

[DanaC]

If I had 100k I'd buy Chitty chitty bang bang.

[Hoof Hearted]

If I had 100k I'd upgrade my barn and buy a few more horses to enjoy.
I already have my dream car:

[maninthebox]

Nice Vette Hoof! Have you done any work to it?

I'm a fan of Chevy as well, but I grew up around Dodges. Can't stand Ford whatsoever. I'd take a new Mustang though! And actually, I'd save up a lillte more, and buy a Hennessey Viper. 1000+ HP should do the trick!

[glatt]

If I had $100,000, I'd buy a Mazda 5, and spend the leftover $80k on an addition onto our house.

[Hoof Hearted]

Originally Posted by maninthebox

Nice Vette Hoof! Have you done any work to it?

Have we done any work to it? He-he-heh! Oh yeah!

We have had this 78 Silver Anniversary for 17 years. It has about 250,000 miles on it. We had the rear end (pumpkin gears, stock) rebuilt about 12 years ago. I replaced the original engine (catastrophic failure) with a 4-bolt main GM crate engine in 1997. Two years ago the timing chain had some slack and when I romped on it I sucked a valve and the valve dented the piston. We bought new heads and did the installation ourselves. Still had trouble getting it to run right and decided to do a complete tear down and discovered the cam had also been bent. Transmission (auto) is factory original with all 250k miles on it!

We sent the block and manifold to the machine shop and brought it home and did the rebuild ourselves in the garage. It was great fun doing it ourselves and especially for me, being able to actually see inside and how everything worked together. I even turned the torque wrench a time or two! We are very happy with our results. When we tore it down the second time we upgraded the cam. It isn't lope-y, but it did give me more low-end torque, which is what I like.

But...if we had to do it all over again...we'd spend the money on a GM crate engine with hp/torque and a warranty.

It also has dual chambered (no "mufflers") exhaust. Sounds niiiice!
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