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1 day
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0.81%
over a week
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11.29%
over a month
52
41.94%
over 6 months
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25.81%
over a year, how do you live?
25
20.16%
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Old 01-23-2009 | 12:29 PM
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it will be 14 months when I get back to the car. and yes it runs just fine but deployments are a bitch.
Old 01-23-2009 | 12:31 PM
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Im at about 13 months, hope to have it running within the next two, new paint and all.
Old 01-23-2009 | 12:36 PM
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Drove my car in today, it's been sitting about 3 weeks with the snow and freezing temps around here. Temp is high 30's today and it feels warm out.
Old 01-23-2009 | 05:37 PM
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was just over a yr for me...bought parts as the cash came in...
car was finished w/ no big c/c bill
Old 01-23-2009 | 06:19 PM
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Car's been dead for about 4 months now.
Old 01-25-2009 | 12:08 PM
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Since I've had the G35:
3+ weeks while my buddy was painting it for me after I hit a deer back in November. There was tire shine that kicked up on some of the body panels and it got nasty fisheye in a lot of the paint so he had to redo a lot of it making it take longer. Also he was doing this on the side, so he didn't have 8 hour days to work on it during the week. I drove Zturd's Rodeo during that time lol. I have 17" base 350Z wheels with Blizzaks on for winter, so I can drive this all year round now. This thing is a TANK in the snow!




When I had the Z28:
Maybe 1 or 2 days tops. I drove it all year round unless there was snow on the ground. Then I'd drive the Durango in the snow when I had it.




When I had the GTP:
1.5-2 years LOL. After it was fully modded, the tranny went, then I put a new one in and I chipped a piston from a shitty tune. Put a new motor in all back to stock and then oil pump went and motor #2 seized. Put motor #3 in which just made all kinds of noise so put motor #4 in, which finally ran smooth. Drove it for a few weeks and traded it in on the Z.

Old 01-25-2009 | 12:17 PM
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2 years bc a supposedly great shop with an ASE master tech as the manger (his mom and dad own his shop) cant install a short block in a lightning with F'in it up.
Old 01-26-2009 | 10:59 AM
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Working on 5 years for the 97 and a couple months for the 00.
Old 01-26-2009 | 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by maggiemike
It's been a couple of weeks, but due to the mountain of snow on top of it, it will be a couple more before I can fire it up and get the burned-out differential replaced.
scratch that, I took it out last night for a little action

Old 01-26-2009 | 11:40 AM
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I was out of the country from August-mid december, so I couldn't drive it then. When I got home, it was rainy/snowy, so I didn't take it out. I finally took it for a spin one day at the beginning of this month. I then put it back in the garage, and I won't see it until late march or April. Pretty depressing.
Old 01-26-2009 | 06:48 PM
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november 1st - may 1st
Old 01-26-2009 | 08:02 PM
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5 years.....feels like a lifetime.
Old 01-27-2009 | 11:42 AM
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I pull mine off the road as soon as they salt it and it doesn't go back until spring. It sucks, but oh well.
Old 01-29-2009 | 07:08 AM
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spun a bearing 2 hours after doing head/cam. It's been a year but motor is being rebuilt now
Old 01-29-2009 | 07:21 AM
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Car will have been sitting around for 9 months come time to pull it out in the spring.
Old 01-29-2009 | 10:02 AM
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She comes out every few months....sad yes I know. I am going to def drive her a lot more this year though. Sometimes its just easier taking the last car in the driveway instead of moving everything around to take her out of the garage. lol.
Old 01-29-2009 | 10:55 AM
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3 months
Old 02-03-2009 | 03:02 PM
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longest would probably be from Feb 10th, 2007 till june 1 2007. the car was in arizona in storage and i was here in indiana
Old 02-03-2009 | 03:11 PM
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A couple of weeks max. I start tweakin out if I don't drive it enough.
Old 02-03-2009 | 03:12 PM
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last summer i had shoulder surgery and couldnt shift it. it was 3 1/2 months without it. i almost died since i couldnt do anything id go outside sit and look at it start it. i was diein



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