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They also share Fuchs. BMW's share parts as well. Big deal. I think you'll find that most car makers have to do this for cost reasons.

My Z-28 was a good car and a hoot to drive. I didn't push it anywhere near the limits of cornering as I have with the 911 but it would brake, accelerate, and corner pretty well, even stock. The cool thing was that I didn't have to invest in a bunch of gold chains.

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A bigger question..........why the hell don't you just buy something?. You post lots of ideas, then claim you can't find one. BS, you just aren't trying. When you claimed you couldn't find a decent Prelude, I found two nice stock SH models in KC with 100k and under your price range.

If I can live in KS and buy a C36 (one of 1500) you can find whatever you like in FL. Decide what your first choice is, then focus on that one car. If you can't decide between a few, we can help. But you need some solid criteria. How you jump from a SC Camry to a mullet mobile, I have no idea.
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Even worse, the 959 had the same seats and steering wheel as my lowly 951!
Heck, I have the same steering wheel in my '83. It always makes me grin a little when I see interior shots of 959s.
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How you jump from a SC Camry to a mullet mobile, I have no idea.
I certainly understand the complete lack of consistency I've shown in this endeavor.
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I still have an old Hot Rod magazine that reviewed the Boss 302 Mustang, Ford's equivilent to the Z28. The main question raised in the article was "what is so 'boss' about a 302?" It was a running joke through the article. Remember, those were the days of the 426 Hemi, 427 Rat, 427 cammer, 428's, 429's, 440's, and finally 454's. A 302 was small potatos in those days. Granted, for guys raised on small bore sports cars, a 302 - all 5 liters of it - sounds huge. It isn't.
How quickly folks forget or are too young to remember why those cars were built. When it's realized that max displacement allowed is limited to 305 c.i., then factory builds like the Boss 302 and the z28 make much more sense. They squeezed a lot of muscle and endurance out of those small blocks not forgetting the suspensions were also tuned for road racing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Am_Series
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How quickly folks forget or are too young to remember why those cars were built. When max displacement allowed is limited to 305 c.i., then factory builds like the Boss 302 and the z28 make much more sense. They squeezed a lot of muscle and endurance out of those small blocks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Am_Series
Don't forget Chevy put a 302 in the Z28 too.

I think an oversquare 302, 4"x3" b&s, chevy could be fun under the right circumstances.
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Don't forget Chevy put a 302 in the Z28 too.
Well, that was the entire point of my post....

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