Harry P.

1994 Pontiac Grand Prix 6 cyl, 3.1 L, Automatic 4-spd, Regular Gasoline 17 City 20 Combined 26Highway $2843per year 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix 6 cyl, 3.4 L, Automatic 4-spd, Regular Gasoline 15 City 18 Combined 24Highway Source: www.fueleconomy.gov

In fact EPA mileage estimates used to be very "over-optimistic"... so much so that they finally changed the way they run the testing, so that they would get a more realistic estimate. Back in '94 when the Pontiac's 15 city/24 highway rating came out, the actual MPG you could expect was a lot less than what the EPA told you you'd get. So the fact is, a '94 Pontiac would be even LESS likely to get anywhere close to 30 MPG, unless you shut down the engine and coasted downhill with the wind at your back...

According to the EPA the mileage rating for '94 Pontiac GP (6 cyl, 3.4 L Automatic 4-spd) is 15 city, 24 highway. Show me your 30 MPG example...

Nobody drives freeway miles exclusively.

There's no way an old Pontiac gets 30 MPG. Very few new cars TODAY can get that kind of mileage, and a car with 1990s technology is obviously NOT going to get better mileage than today's cars. Show me proof.

Guitar polish??? Hey, whatever works!

It's all already been said. Awesome. PS: Love the red sway bar!

Give me a donk riding on 32s any day...

Like many of our best threads... it's eclectic!

Did you miss sarcasm class?

Good thing the DRAGON in the back is so realistic... makes up for the "whimsical" running boards!

Yeah, kinda like a heated towel bar in your bathroom... The lap of luxury!

If Ford would have done that in the first place all this would have been avoided! But noooooooooo.... a screw clamp would have cost Ford a few pennies more...

$40 an hour???!!! Where do you live... in 1975???

In the second and third model photo you can see a small round door at the bottom of the rear of the boiler. But with that goofy piston assembly pointing out from the back, my question is... how did they reach that door??? And remember... if anything ever went wrong, the engineer could just step right off. It only went about 2 MPH! It was actually slower than walking speed!

I agree. Nice job on an incredibly ugly car!

Well, since somebody posted the answer on another thread, there's no point in this going on any longer. This one is over.

Jim, you said it about as well as possible.

Sorry to hear that. Does the fact that she was your ex make the loss any easier to take? I hope it does, for your sake.

That's a pretty good guess...

What in the world is "cowboy action shooting???"

Come on... 30 MPG on a '94 Pontiac?

Got a date with the tax man Monday at 9 AM... So we start ROM a little early. How about it? Real or model? The answer: Since the answer was posted on another thread, no point in this going any further.

A few days ago I posted some photos of my model of Stephenson's "Rocket," the first successful "modern" steam locomotive... built in 1829. As obscure as that was, here's something even more obscure! This is Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive from 1803. This one is considered to be the first working railway steam locomotive. A little history: Trevithick was an engineer and inventor. He designed stationary high-pressure steam-powered engines in the late 1700s-early 1800s, and in 1802 one of his engines was installed in an iron works factory in Wales and used to drive machinery. In 1803 Trevithick mounted the stationary engine on wheels and in effect created the first steam locomotive. The "Pennydarren" (named for the town in Wales where the engine was from) was tested on tracks used by horse-drawn carts, It ran at the then-unheard-of average speed of almost 3 MPH!!! After the test, the engine was put back into operation as a stationary engine. The kit is from Minicraft, and is 1/38 scale. It's pretty small... only about 8 inches from the tip of the locomotive to the back of the coal car. I added real wood to the coal car and detail-painted the rest. A pretty neat model of a very obscure subject! As you can see, the locomotive rides on a flanged rail. This was before they figured out to put the flange on the wheels, not the tracks!

Why would you assume that everyone who builds models is in a club? I'll bet the vast majority who build are NOT in a club. Club membership probably represents a tiny minority of all who build model cars. It's like people who like to read. Do you think they all belong to a book club? Of course not... only a tiny minority of people who like to read belong to book clubs. Same with models builders, I'll bet. For every club member, there are probably hundreds, if not thousands, who don't belong to a club.