On the 20th, I finally had a day where I wasn't busy so I gave the IROC one last washing and waxing before I put it away for the winter and probably summer and next winter. I snapped a few pics, some came out pretty cool. Here is my favorite one. The rest can be seen on Page 6 of my Cardomain page or on Page 9 of my website . What do ya guys think?

 

Looks real good
Is that the original carpet (it's very clean looking)? and is your pass side exhaust tip flat on the bottom ?

 

that's some niiiiice 'maro.

those spider-cracking pics make me shudder... remind me of darker days from my car

 

That's a long time for storage, whatcha going to be doing...

 

Thanks for the compliments guys.

As far as I know, the carpet is original. The guy who owned it before me has every receipt for things he did, so I know he didn't replace the carpet. But someone may have before that, which would make it at least 6 years old.

As for the exhaust tip, I backed into one of those cement parking stopper things at school last year and it scraped my one exhaust tip, so now its flat on the bottom I'll replace it someday.

Its going in storage mainly because I can't afford to drive it. I just started school, and its about 30 miles away. The IROC was using almost a half a tank of gas per day driving there. It also needs tires and the winter is coming up. So I could either spend $600 on tires, a ton of money on gas, and put miles on my car and have to drive it all winter, or buy my $1000 Cavalier with great tires and save money on gas and save my car from the winter. The problem is, I attend school for 15 months straight through, which means I still have to go during the summer. So I want to keep driving the Cavalier to school and I can't afford to insure both cars at the same time, so the IROC will probably sit next summer and winter as well .

Hopefully I'll be able to save some money up and buy parts for it though. I would like to upgrade the suspension, repaint the nose, POR-15 the underbody, get a 3.27 or 3.42 posi rear, possibly a cam and head swap, and either finish polishing my rims and get new tires, or buy new rims and tires. But, we'll see

 

I like it alot im gonna start polishing my rims tomorrow i just got my kit from eastwood today ill post some pix.

 

uhh lets see...
30miles.. tank holds roughly 13 useable gallons
half a tank is 6.5
30/6.5= 4.61 so you are getting four and a half mpg!?!?

why dont you fix your car so that you get decient mpg, and drive the damn car? you said so yourself that you would probly spend money on it... spend it on the tires and make it run right and you can drive your car.

 

but why put a beuatiful car like that through what winter brings. store it save up money and fix it when the time comes. it'll be more of a treat his way

 

i agree store it and drive the **** out of the cavalier

 

"attend school for 15 months straight through"

What school, ITT Tech?

 

oh yea.. winter.. i forgot you guys get snow and stuff...


well, atleast pull it out in the summer dude..

 

When I said 30 miles, I meant 30 miles each way, which would be more like 10-12 MPG. I know thats not what it should be, I still need to tune it better, but I'd rather not have to drive it 30 miles on the highway in a stow storm or something and pile it up.

I'm going to Universal Technical Institute for Automotive and Diesel Technology.

 

Oh yea, how rude of me.



Car is looking good as usual bud! What wax is on it now?



Hmm, that car reminds me of something.....

 

The wax is Turtle Wax Hard Shell.. I had a bottle sitting around I thought I'd try.

Not something I'd use again though

 

andy,
you mean your car might be put away longer than my Z has been?


gotta put my digs in now that you're in the same boat as me.

 

Steve-
My car just may be in the garage for longer than yours has been, but at any time I can get it out of the garage without pushing it

 

Sweet looking like usual.