74novaman wrote:I love those V6s. The car I upgraded to from the catalina was a 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix with a series 2 3800. Of course, mine is a GTP model so it has a supercharger on top of it.austinrealtor wrote:Had that same 3800 V6. That is hands down the best engine of any car I've ever driven. Plenty of power
Hahahahaha!austinrealtor wrote:My dad's company car - the one he drove instead of the Nissan truck he grounded me from - was a 1989 Buick LeSabre (same car as the Delta 88). Had that same 3800 V6. That is hands down the best engine of any car I've ever driven. Plenty of power (admiting to a crime here, but I once dropped the needle on the speedometer and got it up to approximately 125 on I-10 when I was a young dumb 18 year old). But the amazing part is that when he finally got rid of that car years later, after my brother drove it into the ground, the transmission was shot, none of the electronics had worked for years (no ac, no power windows, no power door locks, no radio) but that engine had well over 300,000 miles on it and still purred like a kitten. My dad told me the local mechanic gave him a few hundred dollars for the engine. Said he would scrap the car and put the engine into an old Oldsmobile he had in back of the shop.McKnife wrote:1989 Oldsmobile Delta 88. This was technically my first car, but I had to share it with my older brother.It had a 3800 Series I V6. It looks like a grandma car, but it ran side by side with my friends' 5.0 Mustangs and 350Zs.
My first car was a 1994 Buick Century with the 3800 series I v6. I got 225,000 miles on that car - most of them very abusive driving with no maintenance. I loved that engine so much that a few years back we bought a 2003 Buick Regal GS with the supercharged 3800 series II v6. It would shock people when I put my foot down. We recently sold it to my wife's cousin - and it's his first car. In between I had a 1999 Monte Carlo with the 3100 v6, and while it was a great reliable car, it just didn't have the umph of that 3.8 liter. . the next engine I fell in love with was the 5.3 liter v8 in the 1500 trucks. I'm currently in a 6.0 liter 2500HD. :)
Similar to my first car:
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Similar to my first truck - 2003 Silverado LS C1500:
Similar to my current truck - 2005 Silverado LS K2500 HD:
