desquirrel
|
posted on February 13, 2008 08:50:08 AM new
Dodge Magnum RT AWD (current)
Olds LSS Supercharged (current)
Ford Taurus SHO
Alfa Romeo Milano Verde
Fiat Brava
Fiat 128SL
Triumph Spitfire (back in the days I could drive 75% of the time and repair the 25%).
[ edited by desquirrel on Feb 13, 2008 10:08 AM ]
|
Libra63
|
posted on February 13, 2008 09:57:51 AM new
Our cars now. Nothing special just wheels.
94 ford taurus
98 buick special
My best car was a 1960 Chevy Impala Convertable but that was before I was married. Enjoyed the parade circuit.
I also had a 1957 Chevy special edition and that was my first car. price $1,700.
You have or had some great cars. Way out of my price range.
_________________
|
neglus
|
posted on February 13, 2008 10:18:08 AM new
Chevrolet Impala (got from my Grandma in 1975)
MGB-GT
SAAB (car from Hell)
Grand Prix (company car)
Buick Skylark (company car - we bought it off lease)
Plymouth Volare Station Wagon (another car from Hell)
Oldsmobile Cutlass
Grand Am (another car from Hell)
Dodge Caravan Minivan
Chevy Malibu
Chevrolet Venture Minivan
Toyota 4Runner
Ford Taurus (no more General Motors for us!)
-------------------------------------
http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
|
cherishedclutter
|
posted on February 13, 2008 11:23:24 AM new
1965 dodge valiant (with a slant six engine) paid $215 for it in 1982 - wish I still had it.
Camaro - hated that car
Buick Skylark
Dodge Caravan minivan
Dodge Grand Caravan minivan
Why do you ask?
Let me throw out another question - if money were no object what car(s) would you have?
For me it would be some sort of Jaguar for when I wanted to drive and a chauferred Rolls-Royce for most of the time.
|
desquirrel
|
posted on February 13, 2008 11:42:39 AM new
"Why"?
I was thinking in terms of the other thread where Kraft is carrying on about being forced to buy cars you don't want by the automakers.
"price no object"?
Very hard. BMW 7 series, Mercedes S Class AMG,
Audi A8. There are a lot.
|
Libra63
|
posted on February 13, 2008 12:57:55 PM new
How can someone be forced to buy a car? I think it is you have to keep up with the jones' so you go out and buy a more expensive car than your neighbor. That isn't force.
My dad had a Buick Wildcat and that was a dream car. But now I would just love a Volkswagon Beedle. Of course it would have to have the flowers.
_________________
|
coach81938
|
posted on February 13, 2008 01:00:27 PM new
196? Plymouth Valiant, powder blue, convertible with push button transmission bought from my mom when I graduated high school. Loved that car.
Dodge Challenger-383 4 bbl carb. Cherry Red-black rag top. What a guy magnet that was!
Pacer--All I can say is YUK!
Toyota Corolla
Nissan Sentra
Nissan Altima--stolen twice!
Another Toyota Corolla
1999 Saturn (hate it--feel like I am sitting on the floor, but it gets me where I am going.
Toyota Matrix 2003 (DH)
[ edited by coach81938 on Feb 13, 2008 01:01 PM ]
|
desquirrel
|
posted on February 13, 2008 01:11:07 PM new
"How can someone be forced to buy a car?"
Kraft claims in the other thread that Americans buy SUVs etc because American car companies do not build cars the public wants and Helen adds they use marketing to coerce them into buying these "bad" vehicles.
My contention was (backed up by all the sales data and surveys, mind you) that the car companies build what people want to buy.
The further left you are and the more in the minority you are, the more you think your brain is the only source of knowledge and everybody else contrary is "coerced".
|
desquirrel
|
posted on February 13, 2008 01:13:43 PM new
"(hate it--feel like I am sitting on the floor, but it gets me where I am going."
LOL. The number one reason the soccer moms give for driving a huge SUV with 1 baby seat in it to the local Walmart is that they sit "up high, above the traffic".
|
Libra63
|
posted on February 13, 2008 01:21:14 PM new
Coach. I really liked the Pacer. Comming from a City that had a large AMC plant there were many around. I think what I liked about it is that you could see in every direction. No excuses for getting into an accident.
_________________
|
kraftdinner
|
posted on February 13, 2008 02:30:22 PM new
What about...
If you knew oil supplies were dwindling 10 years ago and had a choice between a small car that was good on gas or a large car that was bad on gas, which one would you have chosen?
|
desquirrel
|
posted on February 13, 2008 02:37:53 PM new
Oil supplies are not "dwindling" and I would buy what I want.
In polls taken, the average person claimed the price point which would make them change the vehicle they buy or would buy is $7 gallon. Everything less they would "adjust" to.
|
roadsmith
|
posted on February 13, 2008 03:51:33 PM new
VW bugs (2)
VW station wagon
Mazda
Mercedes
Buick sedan
Toyota sedan
ditto
ditto
ditto
Subaru Forester
Prius (now)
Lexus hybrid SVU (now)
_____________________
|
profe51
|
posted on February 13, 2008 04:03:50 PM new
Too many to mention here. Current cars include the wife's Honda Element and her 99 GMC Suburban. I own two GMC 3/4 ton pickups, one diesel and one gas, a one ton diesel GMC pickup with flatbed conversion, all 4x4. I also have an old 86 Toyota 4x4 pickup used for pulling stumps and fence repairs in the back country. Then there is my grandpa's 49 International factory 4x4 pickup in the barn waiting to be restored along with his Indian motorcycle.
Other vehicles I remember fondly thru the years have included
Triumph TR4
An Alfa Romeo Berlina coupe late 60's vintage
Various International Harvester Scouts and Travelalls
A tragically flawed and hopeless Morgan +4
66 Pontiac LeMans 2 dr. (high school love machine, hoo yeah)
Several Honda Civics
59 Chrysler Imperial, titty pink, continental rear end, that car had four cigarette lighters, weighed three tons and could smoke tires off a stop light...
there are more, but I'm getting all misty......
|
profe51
|
posted on February 13, 2008 04:08:46 PM new
almost forgot the very first one...a cherished 51 GMC pickup that my grandpa had babied for years, then had repainted and a new oak bed put in it before giving it to me for my 16th birthday.
|
coach81938
|
posted on February 13, 2008 04:52:54 PM new
"Coach. I really liked the Pacer. Comming from a City that had a large AMC plant there were many around. I think what I liked about it is that you could see in every direction. No excuses for getting into an accident."
That is so true. 360 degree vision. I was young and foolish and all my friends made fun of it because it was so unusual looking. After a couple of years, one of my friends begged me to sell it to her. I resisted for months---don't like selling cars to friends. She finally talked me into it and I sold it to her. About a month later the car blew up. Luckily she was not in it, but I never heard the end of it.
_________________
|
coach81938
|
posted on February 13, 2008 04:57:32 PM new
Roadsmith--Thanks for reminding me. I also had a Subaru and loved it.
[ edited by coach81938 on Feb 13, 2008 04:58 PM ]
|
desquirrel
|
posted on February 13, 2008 05:06:07 PM new
Wow prof, you've had some iron there that would be worth quite a bit today restored.
I see you had the TR4, not the 4a right?
Same suicide rear axle set up as my 64 Spitfire MkIV. I was blasting down along a country road next to a field that seemed to go on for miles. Well those "miles" abruptly ended at a right turn. I hit the brake HARD and those swing axles jacked up and the drastic camber change made a perfect 90 degree turn in a tenth of a second @ 40mph and I was going in the other direction like nothing happened (other than breathing funny).
|
desquirrel
|
posted on February 13, 2008 05:15:52 PM new
The Pacer was AMCs answer to the smaller car. They tried to distinguish it from the Pintos, and small Chevies, that Kraft's legion of small car buyers were ignoring. They made it very wide, like the large sedans and added a lot of glass with a low beltline. They even had to make the door bolster higher than the window frame on the inside because the window could not go all the way down into the door.
AMC made some strange stuff, like the Gremlin which was a Hornet with the back end chopped off.
|
profe51
|
posted on February 13, 2008 05:35:58 PM new
It was a 4 squirrel. I managed to overheat mine too many times and the motor finally went, leaving me with a huge expense to find parts and somebody to work on it out here in the sticks, so I let it go. Those brit cars were never designed for the desert heat. Yours sounds like a much more fun end
|
profe51
|
posted on February 13, 2008 05:37:00 PM new
I dated a gal that had a Gremlin. Darned thing was like a greenhouse on wheels...
|
desquirrel
|
posted on February 13, 2008 05:47:49 PM new
My college roommate had a Gremlin with the optional "Levis" interior. It got stolen and stripped. The insurance company bought him new Levis.
Nobody would put up with a Spitfire today, not even an impoverished college kid. It was like going out and kicking over the prop on a Sopwith Camel. Probably had some of the war surplus parts in it too. But it was a car of ADVENTURE! Always keep the tool box in the trunk and you could always get home with some chewing gum and bailing wire.
I once pulled the transmission (synchros shot AGAIN). You worked on the clutch from inside after you took the tranny hump out. So I figured I might as well replace the pressure plate. I grabbed the clutch cover and the whole crankshaft moved back and forth 1/2 inch. Gee I noticed it was a little down on power.....
|
coach81938
|
posted on February 13, 2008 06:02:34 PM new
desquirrel--Lord knows there are things wrong in the auto industry, but can't say I would blame them for the SUV's we are buying.
We see all manner of advertising for all manner of products and if you know what you want and what you don't want or need, hopefully, as an adult with free will, you will not be persuaded. If you think that driving an SUV is bad for the environment, don't buy one.
|
desquirrel
|
posted on February 13, 2008 06:14:30 PM new
Exactly coach.
Greenies as a group have got to be among the most stupid people on the planet.
They harp on and on about SUV but block turbodiesels that 70+ percent of Europe uses. They attack the car for emissions when not only has there been a GEOMETRIC improvement in that regard, but emissions from vehicles is a tiny fraction of the picture (less than 1/30 I believe). The number 1 emitter by far? Production of electric power. But not one of those twits would march for major and virtually overnight improvement: ie the building of nuclear power plants like most of the civilized world. Rocks are smarter.
|
profe51
|
posted on February 13, 2008 06:34:33 PM new
That's about the way the TR4 was too desquirrel. I had it in college but luckily I was able to walk most anywhere I needed to go. The Alfa was similar, nobody told the dumb kid who bought it that it really needed distilled water in the radiator given our incredibly hard water here....4 grand to rebuild the top end of the motor when I'd paid less than that for the whole car...bye bye.
BTW, I consider myslef a "greenie" in many respects, but agree with you regarding cars and fuel. Please don't lump us all into the same lockstep group.
|
coach81938
|
posted on February 13, 2008 06:39:36 PM new
I used to be 100% against nuclear power plants, especially after seeing China Syndrome I remeber the air raid drills in grammar school. When the sirens went off, they made us hide under our desks (like that would help.) For years, every time I heard a siren, it scared me to death. I have definitely come around somewhat. It seems an efficient, clean form of energy, but can't help worrying that incompetent people or greedy companies will endanger us all.
[ edited by coach81938 on Feb 13, 2008 06:41 PM ]
|
desquirrel
|
posted on February 13, 2008 07:11:13 PM new
China Syndrome was made up bs. and current designs (by American companies but being built all around the world) do not need massive containment structures because they do not attain the temperatures of older plants. Meltdowns cannot happen.
|
pixiamom
|
posted on February 13, 2008 08:21:13 PM new
Chevy Citation
Volvo 850 Station Wagon
Volvo 850 Sedan
Grand Marquis
My ex is 50, has had a car since he was 16, and is on his 3rd vehicle. The first was a very used Volvo, when he was 28, he upgraded to the cheapest new vehicle available, a small Mazda pickup. At age 40 he got a used Dodge caravan, which he's still driving. He keeps impeccable maintenance on his cars. I remember celebrating the odometer turn-overs of 100,000 - 200,000 and yes, 300,000 miles with balloons and lots of pictures.
|
pmelcher
|
posted on February 16, 2008 06:12:24 PM new
1960 T-Bird convertible, I was 16, first car
lots of Ford trucks
1940 Fort flathead
lately a 1994 Chevy S-10 pickup headed for 200,000 miles and running great
|
profe51
|
posted on February 16, 2008 06:28:52 PM new
An S10 with more than 75K miles on it??? Gotta be some kind of record. You ought to call Chevy on that one, maybe get yourself in a commercial.
|
