A couple Camaros + a Bird in Fargo...
03-28-2013, 05:05 PM
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A couple Camaros + a Bird in Fargo... Hello, my name is Deanne and I've lurked literally for YEARS, but I'm a reclusive wierdo so I finally just got around to making an account.
My husband and I live in West Fargo, ND with our two sons, ages 3 and 4 months. We've both been gearheads since junior high. My dad "made" me help him swap a 396 into his '65 Impala SS (the original 327 is still on the engine stand as a keepsake) when I was 15. From there I bondo-and-spray painted the gaping rust holes in my '90 Taurus, added a spoiler and hacked off the muffler and went around 'drag-racing' Honda CRX's and late 80's S-10pickups.
My husband and I started dating after attending a court-mandated defensive driving course that we both were ordered to in order to keep our driver's licenses. We were in our last year of high school. Isn't that a great love story?
Anyway, fast forward a few years and here we are...we bought our '00 Z/28 when I was pregnant with our first boy because that'd just what people do. Buy a Camaro 'for your pregnant wife'. Right.
The bug bit and before you know it the 100% stock car was sporting all the bolt ons, a few aesthetic changes etc. We take it to the local drag strip for the 'street legal' events. Way fun. She has dipped down into the 12.8's, much to our surprise. I bet the times would be even better if it had a driver that knew WTF they were doing. She also participates in SCCA autocross events. Not her shining glory, but still funner than a **** and the only car there that sounds like a pissed off dragon (SLP long tubes that dump mid-door serve as an exhaust). Driver probably has something to do with that, too.
And as the old story goes, I ended up pregnant again. I also work 20 miles away from home, and gas prices suck. My daily driver is an '08 Yukon Denali XL...and that AWD schoolbus with a 6.2L sucks the gas. So, in grand baby-expecting tradition, we found a heckuva deal on a cherry little '99 Firebird V6 ragtop with 70k. I put some different wheels on her, a 2nd-gen Bird on the hood, and kablam. Gas-car without being ridiculously undesireable. Actually people oogle that car like its a spring-breaker in a bikini. A friend of mine calls it the Pervertable. Its perfect.
Then, the big one hit. My husband got a '68 Camaro for his birthday. What did I get for my birthday? I went to WalMart and bought cat litter and laundry detergent and maternity jeans and ice cream. He gets a '68 Camaro.
The car was his dads for all of eternity up until this point, but I guess he figured we needed more cars. He was absolutely correct. WAY correct. Good thing we have two garages.
Im trying to attach images here...wish me luck...
My husband and I live in West Fargo, ND with our two sons, ages 3 and 4 months. We've both been gearheads since junior high. My dad "made" me help him swap a 396 into his '65 Impala SS (the original 327 is still on the engine stand as a keepsake) when I was 15. From there I bondo-and-spray painted the gaping rust holes in my '90 Taurus, added a spoiler and hacked off the muffler and went around 'drag-racing' Honda CRX's and late 80's S-10pickups.
My husband and I started dating after attending a court-mandated defensive driving course that we both were ordered to in order to keep our driver's licenses. We were in our last year of high school. Isn't that a great love story?
Anyway, fast forward a few years and here we are...we bought our '00 Z/28 when I was pregnant with our first boy because that'd just what people do. Buy a Camaro 'for your pregnant wife'. Right.
The bug bit and before you know it the 100% stock car was sporting all the bolt ons, a few aesthetic changes etc. We take it to the local drag strip for the 'street legal' events. Way fun. She has dipped down into the 12.8's, much to our surprise. I bet the times would be even better if it had a driver that knew WTF they were doing. She also participates in SCCA autocross events. Not her shining glory, but still funner than a **** and the only car there that sounds like a pissed off dragon (SLP long tubes that dump mid-door serve as an exhaust). Driver probably has something to do with that, too.
And as the old story goes, I ended up pregnant again. I also work 20 miles away from home, and gas prices suck. My daily driver is an '08 Yukon Denali XL...and that AWD schoolbus with a 6.2L sucks the gas. So, in grand baby-expecting tradition, we found a heckuva deal on a cherry little '99 Firebird V6 ragtop with 70k. I put some different wheels on her, a 2nd-gen Bird on the hood, and kablam. Gas-car without being ridiculously undesireable. Actually people oogle that car like its a spring-breaker in a bikini. A friend of mine calls it the Pervertable. Its perfect.
Then, the big one hit. My husband got a '68 Camaro for his birthday. What did I get for my birthday? I went to WalMart and bought cat litter and laundry detergent and maternity jeans and ice cream. He gets a '68 Camaro.
The car was his dads for all of eternity up until this point, but I guess he figured we needed more cars. He was absolutely correct. WAY correct. Good thing we have two garages.
Im trying to attach images here...wish me luck...
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03-28-2013, 05:10 PM
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photo attempt....
'00 Z/28, auto, full SLP "400hp Kit", plus a bunch other crap I cant keep track of.
'68 Camaro, M4, originally a 302 car - moderately built 350 transplanted in the early '00's
'00 Z/28, auto, full SLP "400hp Kit", plus a bunch other crap I cant keep track of.
'68 Camaro, M4, originally a 302 car - moderately built 350 transplanted in the early '00's
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03-28-2013, 07:59 PM
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Thank you! It can be a little temperamental, but in a good way. You definitely have to wrestle with her at times! The Camaros are snowed into our back garage right now, one it melts I can get some nice spring pics.