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I've been going to lots of meetings at EPA-Boston on Congress St lately. I keep seeing a red GT wagon on level 6 in the garage... you on here?

#1) What tire are you offering for review (size, model, type (summer, A/s, winter, race, etc), price paid, miles driven on tires, etc): Continental SportContact 3s, 225/17/45, summer performance, $735 installed and balanced on BBS RKs, ~1,300 miles so far #2) What is your geographic location: West Simsbury, Connecticut #3) What types of driving events if any (Track, AutoX, Commute , etc): DD, no events #4) Percent of highway vs. city driving: 50/50 - it's ~22 miles to work on secondary roads, but have frequent trips to Boston, MA area (~120 miles each way) #5) Tires used previously: RE-92s (OEM), Hankook Icebear W300 (205/50/17, this winter) #6) Your review and personal comments (Dry, wet, and snow, if applicable. Also, please compare to other tires used): Great tires. Only used in wet and dry, as Icebears on stockers are for winter. Much quieter than either prior tire. Better gas mileage than either prior tire (~1.5-2 mpg better than icebears). Much stickier, better braking, no squeal on corners that previously strained the RE-92s - drive through instead of slide through. 2x posted limit is good rule of thump for most turns without stressing tires. While I was looking at the Goodyear F1GSD3s, they would have been higher priced, and I think, more likely to be louder due to tread design. I'd recommend them to willing to spend more for something other than the korean manufacturers - which I haven't tried, so I won't knock.

keep us informed - inside the grill seems like the best place, short of some kind of bracket sticking out from under the hood. I'm thinking of something small, but have not seen how they do in reality. Any knowledge on these small offerings from PIAA?

I did the HIRs for high beams l18 months ago. So far, so good, in that my GT is now > 2 years old, and has yet to burn out a bulb (knocks wood). I really like the way the extra lumens project - I see a noticable, better difference from the stock hi-beams. I used to sport cibie replacement headlights in my saab 900 turbo, along with driving lights below the bumper. Just the thing for late nights driving in back woods Georgia (when I lived there in 88-89). So - what are the options for adding on driving lights to the GT? Any decent brackets available yet? I'd kinda like to add some PIAAs or similar - but have not seen any doing similar mods to date...

Some of my favorites... USMC Rules for Gunfighting 1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. 2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive. 6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a long gun and a friend with a long gun. 8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and running. 20. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get. 21. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis and a few from Albert Einstein... "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions" "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

the first time I talk to a fellow GT owner, and of course, he's on this site. I drove up to Boston today for a client dinner at Kingfish Hall prior to mtg @ 60 State Street tomorrow AM. while walking back up to the hotel after dinner I came across an occupied black GT sedan. noted the BBS wheels, then the large exhaust - said to myself, what the hell, and walked around and knocked on the window. asked him "what exhaust is that?", followed immediately by "you on legacygt.com?" having nothing better to do now but drink the mini-bar and post, figured I'd follow up and say "nice to meet you "sportwagon". good work on the GT. cute S.O. (unless that was your sister).

Red GT sedan in the left lane of the Bank of America ATM drive through in Simsbury, CT at 8:10 AM this morning. say hello to the GT wagon in the right ATM lane. probably not on this board.

Black GT sedan, MA plates, "SPT" stickers behind front wheels - leaving the garage on W. 44th st in NYC yesterday @ 6:00 pm. don't know about you, but we had just gotten out of "Spamalot", and got to go backstage and see David Hyde-Pierce (my 11 yr old daughter was very psyched to get pictures and autograph, and my mom got to see David, who worked as a para-legal for her back in his starving artist days, when ma was a corporate lawyer in NYC)

today - Atlantic Blue OBXT pulling into the Windsor, CT taco bell (near the airport) today - as I was pulling out with my burrito supremes... I keep seeing an Atlantic Blue GT sedan and a red GT wagon in the Simsbury, CT area, but both are driven by women - not likely to be legacy gt .com types... but maybe

pulled in behind a blue OBXT wagon in my blue GT wagon this afternoon as I was leaving FoleyHoag. you pulled in by the courthouse. probably too busy on your cell to notice - I thought MA had a hands free law...