Government Motors = GM????

Apparently that's the fact, even though the registered name is still General Motors. Good article with details.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30483016/

 

Well...you have your head in the sand if you didn't see this coming. I'm telling you, guys...grab all the vehicles that you know and love now. They will soon follow Pontiac's ride into the sunset.

 

We really didn't have real Pontiacs here. They were Chevy powertrains under a Pontiac badge. But I saw lots of US Pontiacs at the Car shows. Made ours look like afterthoughts.

 

I didn't know that, Normy. I'll tell you, though...some of the old Ponchos were works of art. Did you notice the hood ornament on your terrific video? And the chrome trim?

 

Norm we really need to get together as a group go to Mexico buy all the old cars we can find hide them somewhere and get one out one at the time to fix up.

I might have to move out of the states one day looks like we are heading toward Communism

 

I think I figured out why there aren't many car forums in Mexico. There's so many robberies that any guy with a decent ride doesn't want to take the risk. There's a few sites with mechanical repair sites, but no show'n-tell sites.

Let me put it this way. At one time, in Guadalajara, a female reporter had her car stolen. She flagged down a cab and followed the car to a big steel-plated gated yard. When the gate was opened, there were uniformed city and state police parting out the cars and loading semis. She called her station and they came with cameras. She got her car back and warned not to say or show. The station had to hand over the cameras.

You don't mess around with people with machine guns and a badge.

 

Yep that is rough. So we need grenades,machine guns, missile launchers. Anything else you can think of?

 

You can cruise the Mexican newspapers and buy legal cars by the 100's. The further South and central you go, the cheaper they are (and more original shape). Lots of good deals, and the US and Mexico have a simple agreement to import them. Just not through California - too many regulations. Texas is OK (Laredo). You need all the paperwork and title.

Next time I go, its for vacation and family visits (the inlaws).

 

It's a long way to go for a car.

 

Yep. Arizona and New Mexico and around the Waco, TX turn off from HWY 281. We stopped at a Junkyard there for a wheel wrench. No rust.

 

+ 22 dogs in a station wagon

 

Hey we can have a pig round up and have BBQ for a few months

 

Now were talkin

 

Have it on the border so they can't touch us