Originally Posted by Travis Miller (Post 250606)

My daily driver is my 1997 Chevy Express van. It currently has 411,000 miles on the body. Last year at 367,000 miles its original 350 Vortec laid down on me. (You just cannot get anything to last these days.) It was running great but the plastic intake gasket blew at the water passage and dumped antifreeze internally into the engine making a chocolate milkshake out of the oil. Instead of rebuilding it I opted to buy a brand new 350 Vortec in a crate at the Chevy dealer for $2300 and installed it myself.

My other driver is a 1991 Lumina 4dr that my Mom bought new. I inherited it after she passed away in '04. It recently turned over 100K miles so it has a lot of life still left. It gets 26 MPG on the highway so I see no need to buy a new $20K car that gets the same mileage.

My wife drives our 1996 Formula Firdbird which we bought new. While it was still under warranty I played with it at the dragstrip running 8.73 1/8 mile and 13.80 1/4 mile.

My toy is a 1995 Corvette LT-1 automatic that I bought 3 years ago. It only has 53K miles on it. It has all the whistles and bells. I have pictures of it on my Facebook page.

Originally Posted by danny waters sr (Post 250652)

Travis , What does the Vette run?

Originally Posted by david ring (Post 250223)

Sweet car!
Mine is a 2003 Honda Civic Coupe, low mileage (for a Honda-only 135,000 miles), complete with dents.

My next car will probably be one of the new small Fords-my knees hurt on occasion and those new six speed automatics get even better gas mileage than the sticks-easy on the wallet and easy on the knees!