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Archive for March, 2005

1998 F-Body Unique Identifiers

Posted by Chief Oddball on Thursday, March 31st, 2005 in Cars

This is kind of interesting. Yesterday I discovered a detailed list of all the differences between the F-body models from 1998-2002 (year-to-year changes, upgrades, etc.). Despite being the oldest year of the F-body’s final revision, 1998 looks to have several interesting advantages. Here’s the complete list. My dad may be particularly [...]

One CCCP Soda, Coming Up

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, March 29th, 2005 in Randomness

Today’s entry has nothing to do with CCCP Soda, but I thought it would be an amusing entry title. Much like the subject lines of emails I write to my friends are usually just inside jokes and bear no resemblance to anything actually contained in the email. I’m weird like that. Are [...]

The 450 Horsepower Lifeboat

Posted by Chief Oddball on Thursday, March 24th, 2005 in Cars

Mustang GT, Shelby Cobra GT-500, Mustang V6

Today was a day of opposites. Events mutually exclusive, polarizing in their respective extremity, alternatively joyful to some and dismal to others. Today Ford unleashed its next-generation Super Mustang, the 2007 Shelby Cobra GT-500, upon the world. [...]

Gimme Gimme Shelby…

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005 in Cars

Motor Trend cover

Here it is. The first photo of the next car I gotta have in my garage. The 2007 Shelby GT500. Will wonders never cease. I want it in that color scheme, too. Unless they offer a gold-on-black. [...]

GTO’s New Platform is Gone

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, March 21st, 2005 in Cars

It’s official. A few days ago, I posted a rumor that the next-generation GTO’s platform, codenamed Zeta, was under review at GM and might be scaled back. Turns out it’s worse than that—the entire Zeta platform in North America has been dropped, according to the Chicago Tribune. Zeta will, however, be used [...]

Outta Time

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, March 21st, 2005 in Cars

John DeLorean

John DeLorean, the man responsible for starting the muscle car craze by creating the Pontiac GTO in 1964, died yesterday at age 80.
After trying (and failing) to convince Pontiac Motor Division to let him build a two-seat sports car (he even attempted to use [...]

GM Losing Ground

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, March 18th, 2005 in Cars

Added 3/16/05 @ 10:44 pm: Tonight, the Free Press is reporting that GM has issued two more vehicle recalls, including the entirety of its 2005 Pontiac G6 line because “the owner’s manual doesn’t say there is a child restraint anchor in the middle of the back seat.” This kind of shit warrants a recall? [...]

Can You Hear Me Now? FUCK OFF.

Posted by Chief Oddball on Thursday, March 17th, 2005 in Rants

A plague be upon your house, Verizon, ye who never stoppeth working for me. For in reality thou never stoppeth screwing me, in mine humble experience.
Yeah, enough with the Ye Olde English crap. I just wanted to fly into a rant about how much I blisteringly HATE Verizon Wireless and how I so [...]

Good Day Tuesday

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, March 15th, 2005 in Life

First of all, happy birthday to my friend Pooch! If he hasn’t already received it yet, there’s a nice gift in the mail to him from both myself and Reaper.
Yesterday our DVD of Shutter (a Thai horror movie) finally arrived, as well as a DVD of classic anime Doraemon which my wife had ordered. [...]

Had to Move Again

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, March 14th, 2005 in Site

Yeah, the new web host I was trying didn’t work out. While pings and loading times were great, there was a variety of problems that all combined to make for a rather irritating experience. One of which was the fact that PHP was being run in CGI mode instead of as an Apache [...]