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Mon 12 May, 2003 07:49 pm
Here's my list in cronological order owned:
'55 Mercury w/ '54 motor
'57 Mercury
'63 Chevy 10 pick-up
'63 Volvo 544
? Renault R-10
'65 Saab 93
'70 Saab 94
'56 IHC S-120 4x4 pick-up
'72 Toyota FJ-40 Landcruiser
'74 Ford F-250 4x4 pick-up
'73 Triumph Spitfire
'70 VW Bug
'84 Toyota pick-up
'87 Toyoya pick-up
'90 Plymouth Laser Turbo
'93 Dodge Dakota 4x4 pick-up
Longest owned were the Ford: 1975-1993 and the Plymouth: 1990 to 2002 and now in '03 I have no car at all.
Update: bought a '97 Chevrolet (Suzuki) Vitara. Carburatot and manual choke. Probobly assembled here in Colombia.
What's your list?
Hmm..
'63 Mercury Montery
'65 Rambler American
'72 Plymouth 'Cuda
'76 Toyota Corolla
'73 VW SuperBeetle
'86 AMC-Renault Alliance (biggest piece 'o crap of the lot of them!)
'76 Datsun Pickup
'87 Chevy Astro
'81 Jeep Cherokee
'85 Ford F-150
'88 Subaru Wagon
'93 Mazda Pickup
'94 Chevy S-10 Pickup
'02 Pontiac Grand-Am
I guess the Chevy Astro is the one I had longest. Bought it new and it's still sitting out in the driveway 230,000+ miles later.
you guys are nuts! You remember the years of all those cars....?
toyota corolla, 5-speed, 2-door year...? maybe 1980
Ford Festiva, 4-speed, 2 door, hatchback, shitbox, 1989? When'd they start making those?
toyota corona, ayto, 4-door - 1987?
honda civic, 5-speed, 4-door, 1997
had the corolla longest, bought it used at 60,000 miles, drove it through college and then across country and to Santa Fe. Sold it for parts when I moved to Georgia. It had well over 150,000 miles on it.
The 'Cuda sounds fun and that's a long lived Astro!
The 'Cuda was LOTS of fun! lol I had oh, lemme think, It came with 318 c.i. engine in it and then I found a 440 and I picked up a 340 and an 360 from another friend that had a Road Runner. I used to do engine swaps on the weekends.
Kinda scarey. Now I look under the hood of a car and run. lol
1979 Buick Park Ave
1982 Pontiac 6000
1979 Ford Fairmont
1980 Chevy Pickup Flare-side(never drove it, just own it)
1985 Ford T-bird
1983 Pontiac Trans-Am
1991 Pontiac Firebird
1997 VW Jetta GL
1994 Mitsubishi Diamante
1996 BMW 318is
2000 BMW 323ci
1992 Lamborghini Diablo
Just kidding about the Diablo.
How was the diamante, slappy?
1956 Buick Special- Red with a white top (the one with the holes in the sides)
1960 something green Buick
1965 Brown Buick Skylark
1970 something green Plymouth Duster
1980 something Grey Nissan Stanza (drove like a Mack truck)
1990 something Silver Toyota Camry
2001 white Honda Accord.
Just looking at this list I learned something about me.
1- Don't change cars very often. Buy for cash, and then drive it til it's not worth much any more.
2- Don't buy very "exciting" cars. I have always been aware that I wanted a car that sorta blended into the background. Never wanted anything flashy that would attract attention. Maybe it has to do with the way that I drive! :wink: The red and white Buick was given to me by my parents, so it is the exception to the rule.
Phoenix, I wish I didn't love cars so much, I'd just buy a camry or something more practical. But it's a love affair...
My Diamante was the biggest sh!tbox I've ever had. Looked good, drove nice when running, had leather, sunroof, all the toys, but had to get the transmission rebuilt twice, and have the engine replaced.
To everyone: don't buy a mitsubishi. They suck...I sell cars, and they're the worst. My roomate bought one from me, and his engine popped to. I've seen so many problems with those cars(especially the V6's..the 4 cylinders aren't that bad though).
thanks for the tip slappy - they do LOOK good, though....
Yup, that's why I bought it at the time. It was my first car I bought on my own, and it looked good, and wasn't too expensive. It ended up costing me though...until I sold it for a good chunk...wonder how long it lasted?
I left my festiva to a car-junkie who wanted a little piece of **** as back up to a host of old muscle cars and military vehicles he already owned. He passed it on to an ex-boyfriend of mine. It self-destructed shortly there after.
My favorite was a '64 Dodge Coronet 440 with the old push button transmission.
The best car we ever had was a '83 Malibu station wagon. We sold it in '92 when we moved overseas.
We bought a '88 Suburban when we moved over here. The wife insisted on having something big enough to give us half a chance of surviving if we got into a wreck outside of the compound. For the first few years here I used to love to go out exploring, but I haven't driven outside the camp now in six or seven years.
One time I was walking down the street, and I was frustrated, so I picked up a Ford Festiva and threw it 40 feet.
Those things are soooo small. What a death-trap.
1977 Datsun (my first wife's, really) - "Vuxito"
1980 Datsun - "Blue"
1979 Opel - "Blau"
1987 Datsun Tsuru - "Greenpiece"
1993 Shadow - "Rubino"
2001 Pontiac Sunfire (my wife's, really) - "Prince Charming"
Jim - how big is that compound????
Slappy, yep. If someone parked me into a tight space, I could just lift the car up and out of the spot.
Wow, you're a freak.
Lifting cars? I don't know if I want you introducing me to chicks.
I said I 'could', not I did.
Since i'm realitively starting out.. I have owned 2 cars
A '91 Mazda Navjo ( I had her for 4 years and she was totaled out when I was ran in to a retaining wall at 60 miles an hour through 2 lanes of traffic, the middle and the fast lane at rushour traffic. Amazingly I didn't hit any one else!)
And currently
a '98 Dodge grand caravan SE sport
with the 3.5ltr
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