Toy's got to love toy's

^thanks for pics

 

If you put a bra on the G with our soft, crappy paint it will do more damage to the area it's supposed to protect than the car would sustain w/o it. Any dirt or debris will scratch the **** out of your paint. I had rear window louvers on a car in the 80's, would never think of putting them on the G.

LMOA at the New Kids on the Block reference.

 

I was just thinking about louvers the other day. Not to put on, just thinking about them. hahaha. The 77 Z i drove had it.

 

That's really funny. The same thought crossed my mind the other day as well. I had put them on my my first "new" car, a '76 Celica GT. Gee, I really liked that car.... The louvers gave it a really fast look.

 

You guys are cracking me up with all this louver talk. My best friend in the early 80s had an RX-7 with them and in a state of madness I put them on my one and only new car ever, the mighty 1980 Ford EXP. We used to argue for hours who's car looked cooler.

I spun out in the rain between Austin and Houston one weekend going home from UT and the louvers went flying off into an unknown place (searched for an hour and never found them), probably worked out for the best. I never replaced them, although I wanted to for a while.

 

^^^I had them on a 72 Mach one Mustang.....................................but they were a factory option.

 

i thought louvers were cool too. unfortunately, i didnt have the funds to buy some. or, maybe fortunately.. my first car was a 88 dodge colt..

 

One of the only applications that I still think looks cool to this day. They just seemed to belong on the 66-72 fastback Mustangs. For some reason the bigger 73's and up didn't fare so well with them.

 

And some actually taste good.

Bumping an awesome thread..........

 

I'm 37 and i just got a used G. since i replaced my4 door Altima i've been spending more time om my G like when i was younger. My wife always clowns me about trying to be young again!!!

 

Hilarious! I just happened to bump into this thread and was wondering this very thing. I'm 44 and have no plans to ever stop modding and motoring. Hell, I mod the hell out of the 83 Minnie Winnie every chance I get. Old, young, no matter!

 

I'm 61 and I love moding my car!

I have lowered it and changed wheels four times. Sway bars, adjustable shocks, and Bluetooth install. CAI, ham radio, radar detector, and yellow fog lights. Jim Wolf Tech clutch pack, more rotors and pads than I can count.

If I ever get the money, LSx install.

 

I grew up wanting to do everything I could to put my hands on a car that I had any influence over. If I could wash a car, I would; if I could pump up some tires; fukc yeah. If I could clean out the interior; yes.

When I was at the age where I could (and did) buy my own car I loved everything about putting my hands in/on/around my 89 camaro. Goddamn, I loved when **** broke so I could rebuild the distributor or change the heater core or put on a new idler arm...goddamn. Heaven for me.

Over time howerever (and many many repairs) I realized I didn't actually like working on my car; I liked improving my car. So, now, my philosophy is that if you're always working on your car to fix it..get out. Get rid of it. If, however you're working on your car to improve it (hopefully with a goal in mind), you will never get tired of getting your hands dirty. It's a beautiful thing.

 

I got my first car in 1970, I felt the same as you. Then two years later, I got my first real "sports car" a 1964 MGB. Car culture "across the pond" was different. You were expected to perform routine maintenance and repairs on your car and the owners manual reflected that. There were instructions for rebuilding the carbs, setting the valves etc. now cars are so reliable you just don't need to do much to them anymore and people just haven't learned how. I miss that. I loved spending a Saturday cleaning and gapping the plugs, checking the spoke tension on the wire wheels. We do get more trouble free driving, but we are much less involved with our cars now. I think that's why modding is so popular.

 

I'm almost 67 and still modding!