Cars That You've Owned, or Currently Own. - Page 2

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ORIGINAL: Siber Express

Big Bodied Bronco, I had a 50/50 shot at winning since only 2 of us made it through the Snow storm to the Ford dealer, I traded the 7 foot Meyers plow they were going to put on it for a set of rims and tires.

 
Your still lucky.   I never won anything like that.
You sure that was a good deal?  I know ppl w/Jeeps and whatnot that make a lot o' money plowing snow. And dem plows ain't cheap.  I used to work for a Jeep dealer (in the mid-late '80's) and we used to install the suckers. My boss used to love plowing snow.
 
 

jeez richard what you doing up early in the morning.

They said the same thing Richard, but I had access to my Dad's 78 Powerwagon with an 8' Fisher on it and 3 of our single screw Dump trucks had 12 foot plows and the twin screw had a 13 ' V plow. I made a lot of money plowing needless to say, but I didn't want to tear up the new Bronco LOL.

ok so lets see....
 
take this bike, add beefier front shocks, handlebars, wheels, pedals, etc.

 
and my current bike:

 
and my civic:

 
and my current car:

no seatbelts in that car... did you ever get pulled over in it? i would assume so cuz ur a young kid in a modded civic with a body kit, fart can and rims and its lowered

well, my dad found some at a junkyard. i was going to weld them to the center console, but i never got that far
 
and no, i never got booked it in. lol
i only had it on the road for like, 10 days tops.

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ORIGINAL: dentinger

well, my dad found some at a junkyard. i was going to weld them to the center console, but i never got that far

and no, i never got booked it in. lol
i only had it on the road for like, 10 days tops.

so you bought a car for 5400 then sold it for 1500 with only 10 days of driving it.. wow that sucks lol

well i owned it for about 3 weeks, but i only had a temp. license for 10 days, and never got around to getting a new one

sooo basically you drove it... illegally

yupp. pretty much lmao.
 
besides. i only drove it on the side streets, and drove it to work, which was pretty much around the corner from me

ILLEEGALLLLLLLLLL HAHAHA. oh well my buddy has a civic that was due on october 18th with that temp licence. he is still driving it lmao

ya. i see that all the time. or tags that say june '06 on them

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ORIGINAL: Siber Express

They said the same thing Richard, but I had access to my Dad's 78 Powerwagon with an 8' Fisher on it and 3 of our single screw Dump trucks had 12 foot plows and the twin screw had a 13 ' V plow. I made a lot of money plowing needless to say, but I didn't want to tear up the new Bronco LOL.

 

Ah! Well in that case, good choice! 
 

Us old fellers have long lists.  I started out with a 48 Chevy 2door that my dad helped me buy.  Shiny black.  Did my first brake job on it.  Traded for a 55 Chevy.    Hated it!  This was before they were considered "classics" and that car did terrible things to me.  Broke a heater hose one Sunday morning on the way to church and puked antifreeze all over me and my lady.  Got rid of it and went foreign.  Jumped into a 59 Austin Healy Sprite that was a gas to drive - - - flat out all the time just to keep up with traffic.  Then to a 61 Sunbeam Alpine with detachable hard top - lovely little car.  Then to a 64 Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale - - - rare car that was so pretty it brought tears to your eyes.  Restored it and won trophies at concours d elegance shows.  It made the most beautiful sounds and the 5 speed (one of the first available I think) was a delight.  1965 Mustang notchback - deep metallic green with saddle tan interior - 289 - was the first new car I ever bought.  Loved it.  Then to a 73 Pinto wagon and say what you will about Pintos - it was a great little car.  Dependable and practical and I really liked it.  Somewhere along the way picked up a 1936 Chevy half-ton pickup that I restored - my only experience with an antique and it was very very fun.  All original and a trophy winner.  Went to a 92 Subaru Loyale wagon that is much like the Pinto - totally reliable and practical and dependable.  It's now my wife's car and she loves it still.  About 4 years ago got my 92 Mazda B2600i 4x4 pickup with the extra cab.  100,000 miles on it when I got it but running good and looking great, but not real good in the mileage department.  I love the truck - it's my daily driver.
Wife is talking about when I retire trading it and the Subaru in on another Subaru but I don't know - we'll see when the time comes,
Rolomac

Nice list, Rolomac.  I'm impressed.
I've always loved the "Bugeye" Sprites too. But your right, the original 998 wasn't to be feared.  In the late '70's/early '80's I worked in a shop.  We had one, an 1100 supercharged conversion.  That one moved pretty well.
The Sunbeam Alpine/Tiger is also a favorite of mine.
 
 

Somehow forgot to mention the '65 Pontiac GTO.  I have mixed feelings about it.  Exciting to drive - at the time.  Bought it off the dealer's lot with 389, triple carbs, close ratio gears with Hurst shifter, heavy duty suspension, all the goodies.  Fire engine red with black interior.   It drove like a truck!  Clumsy and heavy feeling but would make your ears bleed in a straight line.  Debated whether GTO stood for "gas, tires and oil" or "great thirsty ox".  Traded it for the Mustang and liked it a lot more.
 
Rolomac

I've only owned two cars in my life; both Mazdas.  My first was a '97 Protege' that was build in Hiroshima.  It was a great little car that served me well for 10-years.  When I tell some people that I had a Mazda that lasted a decade and went over 200,000 miles they seem surprised!  I hated to have to let the car go, but it had cylinder misfire and would have cost a lot of money to fix and the cats were fried too.  I would look at the car and think "man, this car doesn't look like a car that's on its last legs" (it was well taken care of both inside and out).  The end came one morning as I stared my drive to work.  I came to a traffic light less than a mile from home and she died...never to be restarted again.  But now I have another great car; a 2006 Mazda 6S.  I've only had it for a few months, but I feel that this is another keeper.  The funny things is that now I get a car with a V-6 and gas is sky high!!!  It's a conspiracy I tell you.  They were waiting for me to get a bigger, more powerful car so they can raise prices.

you scrapped the protege?

"... It's a conspiracy I tell you. They were waiting for me to get a bigger, more powerful car so they can raise prices.  "

 
Yup, it is.
 When I was 16 and gas prices were much much cheaper than they are now, I had a 57 Chevy that got 9.5mpg.  I could barely afford to put gas in it. 
Now, 35 yrs later it's still too expensive to put gas in the car and my Mz3 gets 26-28mpg, even w/my foot in it most of the time!!
 
 

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ORIGINAL: virgin1

"... It's a conspiracy I tell you. They were waiting for me to get a bigger, more powerful car so they can raise prices.  "


Yup, it is.
When I was 16 and gas prices were much much cheaper than they are now, I had a 57 Chevy that got 9.5mpg.  I could barely afford to put gas in it. 
Now, 35 yrs later it's still too expensive to put gas in the car and my Mz3 gets 26-28mpg, even w/my foot in it most of the time!!

 
I can remember the gas wars before I could drive, Phillips 66 on one corner and a Atlantic Richfield on the other, .199 for a gallon of gas.
When I started driving I was paying .499 for Ethyl (That should Confuse some of the younguns Richard)

ummmm i rememeber.... last year where it got up to 143.5 a litre and everyone was freaking out (by the way thats 1 DOLLAR and fourty three cents) in case people were like WTH

here's a long list
 
for x-mas (don't remember the year) believe it was 2000 i got a 94 ford tempo. I ended up going over a ditch too fast and i bent the frame. I needed a car bad so my parents went to a repo auction and for $500 i drove away in an 89 chevy beretta biggest piece of crap ever. My ex got tired of fixing it so we traded it in for a 93 dodge dakota. The truck had alot of rear end problems so we traded that in for a saturn then i HAD to have a camaro. so i got an 00 camaro he lost his job so i got rid of that for an 03 cavalier. then my cavalier after 3 years started having engine failure so i traded that in for an 06 cobalt. the cobalt was a lemon. I had it re-poed and now i own my mazda and i'm only 24 lol

tempo's own.. nuff said

my tempo was a piece of crap and it was a ford

yea it was a ford tempo but i think it was one of the best cars they ever made.. well for driving around in a field they wont die. in auto shop was working on one.. took parts off a mercury Topaz put all the parts onto the tempo lol. and now the tempo runs like a beaut lol