Sad sad day for me. The Trans Am finally sits as garage queen...

[Hurley711]

I knew the day was going to come sooner or later, well it's finally here. The Trans Am has been reduced to a garage queen, and the wife gets her new car while I get to drive the beater, a 2000 Explorer XLT. She picked out a '07 Wolfsburg Jetta, black on black which we got for $270 a month with $1000 down for 36 month lease. After that we will buy a new car...('10 Camaro???) The Jetta is just a holdover til we find something we really like. I am goin gto drive her 1 last time tomorrow, rip up some roads, hit 140+ and do a few burnouts, than the car cover goes on.

[0rion]

I don't see the sad ending here.....keeps the miles off of it and a perfect setting to start tearing into it.

[Y2KPewterSS]

I am not seeing the sad side of this either. Having a beater preserves your baby and you will enjoy the TA that much more when you do drive it.

[Hurley711]

I know I know, but I DD her 50 miles a day an das much as I enjoy the truck I really do, it's not the TA. Heads are gonna go on along with pulley and LS6 manifold over time, and when I break her out again in a few years I know she will be a headturner. I refuse to be that 40+ year old guy who tells you the story of how he regrets letting go of his first real muscle car. You know the "Oh I had a 70 something Firebird and I sold it, shoulda never let go of it!" or the "I had a a 70 something Mach 1 mustang damn I wish I had kept that car.!" That wont be me, mine is staying here in the family and I will enjoy driving it for the next 50 years God willing

[juiced99ws6]

I was SOOO happy when me and my gf bought a spare car because I could leave the TA down forever. It is a blessing my freind.

[sgt0704]

so... why can't you alternate? or use the suv for "family trips" and you can't really use gas as a reason, because paying 270 a month for a new vehicle, that you're not buying is not really off setting the cost of gas... and what's the point of having a nice car, if you don't drive it?

[sgt0704]

even when we had the expedition, the cavalier, the camaro, and my gsxr, i still drove the camaro atleast 3-4 days a week.. i mean, if you got it flaunt it right??

[Knighthawk LS1]

So what is the big fuss?

[Hurley711]

Car has over 80k miles on her, and I don't want to go much further. Everything seems to be falling apart and the wear and tear maintenance is starting to outweigh the cost of driving it. For inspection alone I will be out close to $1000, the Jetta is saving me $350 a year on insurance, and prol' another $20 a week in gas which adds up to $1000 a year. Factor all of that in and further maintenace on the TA down th eline whereas the Jetta is fully covered maintenance wise for the lease, and I will be making out pretty well $$$ wise in the end.

[Knighthawk LS1]

You still own the T/A correct?
Weekend cruiser 20 miles a day...There you go you get to save it, i wish i had a T/A sitting in my garage, and had a beater to drive around....oh wait i do. a damn blazer not a T/A #@%@#

[Tman]

Weekend cruiser for me. I have a 2000 and it just went over 7,000 miles.

[eddierox]

A Garage Queen is a perfectly healthy way to treat an Ls1.

[nhraformula]

my car is totally a garage queen. its a 2000 model with 17500 miles on it.
i take the formula out on nice days only. that car has never seen snow and its been rained on about 10 times.

[1MileCrash]

I know I know, but I DD her 50 miles a day an das much as I enjoy the truck I really do, it's not the TA. Heads are gonna go on along with pulley and LS6 manifold over time, and when I break her out again in a few years I know she will be a headturner. I refuse to be that 40+ year old guy who tells you the story of how he regrets letting go of his first real muscle car. You know the "Oh I had a 70 something Firebird and I sold it, shoulda never let go of it!" or the "I had a a 70 something Mach 1 mustang damn I wish I had kept that car.!" That wont be me, mine is staying here in the family and I will enjoy driving it for the next 50 years God willing

i don't know how i'm going to do it and don't care either but i'm not going to get rid of the camaro for that exact reason. i'm not going to sit there one day and see one go by and say "yeah i used to have one of those..."

[SexOnWheels]

I have had sow as the garage/trailer queen for years now.

When you get one of the new Camaros your suffering will end.

[BADBLUE02]

Having an extra car for a DD is a blessing. My company supplies me with a vehicle, so the TA sits in the garage most of the time. I don't see the problem. It's nice not having to worry about transportation when you decide to work on or modify your ride.

[sgt0704]

Car has over 80k miles on her, and I don't want to go much further. Everything seems to be falling apart and the wear and tear maintenance is starting to outweigh the cost of driving it. For inspection alone I will be out close to $1000, the Jetta is saving me $350 a year on insurance, and prol' another $20 a week in gas which adds up to $1000 a year. Factor all of that in and further maintenace on the TA down th eline whereas the Jetta is fully covered maintenance wise for the lease, and I will be making out pretty well $$$ wise in the end.

so why do you have so many issues? and what's the inspection about? i have 178k on mine. and i don't have the problems you say you have with yours.