One of my friends used to rag on my Civic all day. About the same time I bought my EG and started to wrench on it, he bought an 80' Malibu and decided to redo the whole thing. He attempted to tackle everything at once, and he dug himself a very big hole. That was close to 4 years ago. As it stands now, there is a 3/4 built 350 sitting in his basement, along with 2 tranny's, 3 rear-ends and all the misc car parts he has bought, swapped, or scavenged from a junkyard. The car sits on jackstands with no rear-end, front clip, engine, heater core, steering, suspension, dash, transmission and headliner. It does have some nice cheapo Summit seats in it - in horrid blue. He drives a Hyundai Elantra, and his father drives a Plymouth Laser. They have tons more cars - mostly American - and many don't run. They include;
-88 Cadliac Deville (4.9L V-8, is sometimes a V-8, sometimes a V-6, and sometimes a V-7.)
-89 Lumina (Leaky HG, spills coolant and oil everywhere)
-94' Intrepid (dent city)
-93' Elantra 4-door (Head rebuilt after botched timing belt DIY, and has been milled twice to remove and over-torqued broken spark plugs)
-92 Laser (New clutch, only car that runs reliably - kids father refuses to admit its a Mitsubishi, and says he won't upgrade it because he doesn't trust turbos. Right - too bad its a factory turbo car.)
-80' Malibu (as stated above)
-86' Monte Carlo SS (parts car, no engine, tranny or rear-end)
-91' Bronco (work in progress, no front wheels/brakes)
The kid finally admitted that some imports were cool after he went for a ride in Trick Engineering's 460whp STI.
