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Archive for December, 2005

Hilarious Car Racing Video

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, December 31st, 2005 in Cars, Quick Takes

You gotta see this hilarious video clip from Robot Chicken — it’s a stop-animation car race skit featuring some of the ’80s most recognizable TV characters!

Get the Goat NOW?

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, December 31st, 2005 in Cars, GTO

With my Trans Am sold, there’s nothing standing in the way of me getting my new GTO. Nothing, of course, except the GTO actually arriving.
As the finances from the car sale have been raised, and since GM’s Red Tag Sale (which will save me $2,200 off the cost of the car) is ending on [...]

Last Ride: An Out-of-F-Body Experience

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, December 30th, 2005 in Cars, GTO, GarageBlog

My Trans Am, she is gone.
Everything went smooth as silk today with the transfer of ownership. The buyer, Matt, happened to be a registered member of the LS2GTO boards where I hang out, and this morning he flew in with a bank check in hand, intending to buy my car and drive it back [...]

How’s This for Hair Tearing

Posted by Chief Oddball on Wednesday, December 28th, 2005 in Cars, GarageBlog

Remember how I posted a few weeks ago about the first kid who came to look at my Trans Am with his grandmother in tow? Back when I had it stickered at $16,500? And who then disappeared from the radar after failing to return my subsequent calls? He calls me today. [...]

The Past and Future of My Garage

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, December 27th, 2005 in Cars, GarageBlog

I found a buyer for my Trans Am. He’s offered me $11,250 and will be flying down from Virginia Beach this Friday morning to pick it up and drive home, assuming it passes muster anyway. I advised him to stop by the DMV afterwards and get a temp tag to drive home on, [...]

Search for $A, Find $B: 2005 Edition

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, December 24th, 2005 in Site

About a year ago I posted a humorous sampling of some of the search engine keyphrases people are using when they stumble across Oddball Update. I happened to find that post by accident tonight (uh…this morning), and thought that the time was ripe for a second round. Except this time, I’ll actually go [...]

The Internet Comes to My Rescue

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, December 24th, 2005 in Cars, GTO, GarageBlog

Okay, so if you just read my big exciting tale of being “Denied!” a decent trade-in value for my Trans Am, you know that I was walking around with “mortified pride” (hey, didn’t they commit people for that in the forties?) about my current predicament. I originally asked $16,450 for my Trans Am, figuring [...]

Long Distance Goat Purchase Justified Today

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, December 24th, 2005 in Cars, GTO

As you may have read here on the site in the last few days, it looks like my ‘06 GTO will be arriving at the dealer quite a bit earlier than originally anticipated. Of course, none of this was ever an exact science. But GM really picked up the pace this year, and [...]

The Crooked Dealings at Morande Mazda

Posted by Chief Oddball on Thursday, December 22nd, 2005 in Headlines, Quick Takes

With what I am now reading about the now-defunct Morande Mazda of Naples, I am surprised we managed to buy a car there last year without going bankrupt. Check out the latest news that has just surfaced about one of their illustrious former employees.

And So Begineth the Final Chapter

Posted by Chief Oddball on Wednesday, December 21st, 2005 in Cars, GTO

I received an unexpected call from McNamara Pontiac this afternoon. My salesperson informed me that my GTO had been delivered to the rail head in Orlando, and would be hitting the dealer’s lot within the next week — possibly even before Christmas. I was surprised that it made the trip so quickly, but [...]