Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

For me it’s Hoosiers in a straight line, Pirellis on the track and for street performance. Had horrible luck with Goodyear (street, off road and track) and wasn’t impressed with Michelins on the track. I’d consider Michelins if I had a family sedan or a mini van, they seem to ride smooth and quiet on the road.

Goodyear Eagles (I forget which model) have worked great on the Miata and on the 3s that replaced it.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Good afternoon, I was playing today some funk vibes in the Thunderbird, cheers!

And on the sexiest of the current model NRs!

 

[RedVee]

I toyed with trading the G8 in on a new Impala SS 6.2L when they first came out. I wanted a 6 speed, when I bought the G8 they were all 6.0L with 6 speed automatics and the GXP's with the 6.2 and 6 speed tranny were not out and I don't think I even knew they were going to make them or I may have waited.

yeah, over time the standard V8 grew from 5.7 - 6.0 - 6.2. We had a semi factory tuner called HSV and Holden started putting LS2 then LS3s into the cars going via HSV. I’m pretty sure the GXP was a GT but with HSV touches like the engine and brakes.

The Holden that Chevrolet belatedly took was basically the VF (the one after your VE based G8) and was just called a “SS” with no Impala or other name attached.

It would have been nice if the Commodore range went as Malibu, Nomad, Chevelle for sedan, sport wagon & Ute.
(Or if Pontiac lived G8 GT, ST & SW. They got as far as running a competition on guessing a name for the Pontiac Ute (with 50 Cent?) (even though I’m sure they had decided on ST).)

But I believe they were trying to avoid criticism from the public about them not being a “real whatever” like what happened with the GTO (from Monaro).

 

[GonePlaid]

It's what your model trains are for!
Check out this cool 3-D printed car side I've been working on, the green one.

Random Ibanez......I used to own.

Cool(both).

 

[GonePlaid]

The Ibanez was "OK" not great, the Greco creamed it, though they were quite obviously from the same factory. The boxcar sides came from Shapeways, don't know if you're familiar with them, there's tons of really cool model train stuff there.

And scale vehicles that are otherwise unavailable.

 

[GBassNorth]

View attachment 4699267

LOL - this one might have to be named FrankenGoth.
I was planning on retiring the old one anyway.

 

[GonePlaid]

"How to fail in the music business one hundred and one ways"

How to wind up with a small fortune in the music biz: start with a large fortune.
EDIT: also applies to being an owner/operator truck driver.

 

[bobyoung53]

yeah, over time the standard V8 grew from 5.7 - 6.0 - 6.2. We had a semi factory tuner called HSV and Holden started putting LS2 then LS3s into the cars going via HSV. I’m pretty sure the GXP was a GT but with HSV touches like the engine and brakes.

The Holden that Chevrolet belatedly took was basically the VF (the one after your VE based G8) and was just called a “SS” with no Impala or other name attached.

It would have been nice if the Commodore range went as Malibu, Nomad, Chevelle for sedan, sport wagon & Ute.
(Or if Pontiac lived G8 GT, ST & SW. They got as far as running a competition on guessing a name for the Pontiac Ute (with 50 Cent?) (even though I’m sure they had decided on ST).)

But I believe they were trying to avoid criticism from the public about them not being a “real whatever” like what happened with the GTO (from Monaro).

And those GTO's were nice too, they never advertised them, I didn't even know they were around until after they stopped making them. GM is run by a bunch of suits who only care about the short term or something and yeah the G8 was basically a more powerful G8 GT, I had a few mods done to mine though and it's pretty fast even though it's sick right now. GM got rid of their two coolest cars IMHO.

 

[PillO]

View attachment 4699267

Best scene from that movie

 

[GonePlaid]

Good afternoon, I was playing today some funk vibes in the Thunderbird, cheers!

 

[PillO]

Good afternoon, I was playing today some funk vibes in the Thunderbird, cheers!

You can't play funk on a Thunderbird... They are only good for rock. One trick ponies. I read that on TalkBass so it must be true.

 

[Stealth57]

You can't play funk on a Thunderbird... They are only good for rock. One trick ponies. I read that on TalkBass so it must be true.

I can confirm you can't play slap with tapes on a Thunderbird...oh, well, you can't play slap with tapes period.

 

[JIO]

You can't play funk on a Thunderbird... They are only good for rock. One trick ponies. I read that on TalkBass so it must be true.

You can't play spy music on it either...

 

[icefly]

View attachment 4693146

These Rotosound RB45 ....

Time to wait for delivery by post office these RB45.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

For me it’s Hoosiers in a straight line, Pirellis on the track and for street performance. Had horrible luck with Goodyear (street, off road and track) and wasn’t impressed with Michelins on the track. I’d consider Michelins if I had a family sedan or a mini van, they seem to ride smooth and quiet on the road.

Mickey Thompson for straight line

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

It was their last gasp at competing in the bass amp space. I also have an old solid state 60 watt Hartke (b600 that I got for $120 when they discontinued them). I like it a lot for a practice amp and I can dial in some nice Tbird grind through it. But I thought the MB sounded better with the tube pre when I first got it. But now I think there is something amiss with it.

Marshall needs to stick with full tube amps.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

You can't play spy music on it either...

or Disco….

 

[dagrev]

It was certainly true of me in my hippie days. There was definitely some good stuff in there, but I was bonkers for drugs, which just made me more bonkers.

I had some of that as well, but didn't like too much trippin', but did like some herb and a few other things. But preferred all those delicious tastes in bottles much more. Too much more. I was always functioning well. Blessed or cursed with a really high tolerance for alcohol. Both grandfathers, one grandmother and bio dad lived in bottles (but generally functioned). If current theories were true I'd should still be in one myself. I can take it or leave it now and have no problem leaving it. I give credit beyond myself for not ending up like the two generations of ancestors before me.

 

[Gaolee]

Yeah, we have to keep @JJR58 out of jail.

Nah, no problem. He would age them on contact.

 

[Gaolee]

For me it’s Hoosiers in a straight line, Pirellis on the track and for street performance. Had horrible luck with Goodyear (street, off road and track) and wasn’t impressed with Michelins on the track. I’d consider Michelins if I had a family sedan or a mini van, they seem to ride smooth and quiet on the road.

I only use two tires. So there is that.