Last year, I found a Craigslist ad for a motion picture that was being filmed in Albany. They needed cars and drivers for an action scene that would be filmed on the I-787 elevated bridges. I took a chance, filled out an application, and next thing I know, I’m getting a call from a Columbia…
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Blog posts about my 1991 Pontiac 6000, which I owned from 2004 to 2010. it was my first car. You never forget your first car.
If you call it a “Chevy,” pay 25 cents
I thought this was an April Fool’s Day joke, similar to the one last year where someone claimed that due to a bureaucratic mix-up and a lapse of copyright protection, Toyota was able to purchase the defunct brand name “Oldsmobile” and would start branding some of their cars as Toyota Oldsmobiles. That was an April…
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Let’s see…. This is based on having driven for the past seven years with a 1991 Pontiac 6000. The “6” was my first self-owned car, a car that I didn’t have to share with my wife. It lasted until about two weeks ago, when it finally drank its last drops of gasoline and headed off…
Read MoreNever made it to the moon…
Saturday morning. My Pontiac 6000 was still seizing up at stop lights, a condition that had gone from a slight shudder to near-stalling. Sometimes it would lurch forward and continue to drive on; sometimes it would conk out completely. I could get it re-started, but I couldn’t swing it any more. I knew what it…
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I remember when it happened last night. I was driving to Troy to play trivia at Meka’s Lounge in Troy; it was the new game for Marc and Anthony’s trivia game since their Monday night contests at Revolution Hall were shuttered. I was on I-90, heading toward I-787. I had just taken the off-ramp, and…
Read MoreHitting the Road in a 1991 Pontiac 6000
It garnered two MPG more than the “Cash for Clunkers” program would allow. US Fidelis, the Rusty Wallace-endorsed company that insures older cars, won’t ensure it because it’s over 15 years old. I’ve replaced nearly everything on it – from the brakes and the shocks and the struts, to the fuel injectors, the ignition box,…
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