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Re: My new ride
« Reply #15 on: May 31, 2008, 03:41:04 PM »
My first car was a Volvo 142 from 1969. It lasted for a summer.
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2008, 06:41:17 PM »

My second car was a '69 Camaro. It was a convertible with a factory 396 CID engine (about 6.5 litres!). I only drove it twice and sold it at a huge profit to a complete stranger. I did not really understand what I had gotten my hands on, at the time, being eighteen and all.

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My first car was a '63 Dodge Custom 880, an enormous two-door "hardtop" beast. My "friends" called it the Batmobile.

Just like this one, but mine was red .....



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Re: My new ride
« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2008, 08:42:40 PM »
I miss the older car nothing you could not fix for yourself on them so easy to work on too
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #18 on: June 01, 2008, 07:57:29 AM »
Yeah, there's very little in a modern car that you can fix yourself.
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #19 on: June 01, 2008, 08:06:07 AM »
Quote from: odeon on June 01, 2008, 07:57:29 AM
Yeah, there's very little in a modern car that you can fix yourself.

there is on crappy little old bangers, like the ones i drive.  :laugh:
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #20 on: June 01, 2008, 10:48:37 AM »
I want to get an old car per catalytic converter to play with.  Something small and simple bug maybe 
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #21 on: June 01, 2008, 01:56:48 PM »
ooooh, i love bugs!  i drove one for a while - not mine: i was looking after it while my friend had her brother's swanky car to play with for a few months.
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #22 on: June 01, 2008, 02:07:06 PM »
Quote from: parts on May 31, 2008, 08:42:40 PM
I miss the older car nothing you could not fix for yourself on them so easy to work on too

I drive a '98 Windstar, now. I can change the fluids myself, but that's about it. It costs me almost three hundred dollars to have a mechanic change the plugs, for instance. It has a transversally mounted, "computer operated,"  V-6 and front wheel drive. You can not reaxch the plugs without a lift and removal of some other pieces - even an engine mount must be loosened!

The brakes are even a bitch to replace.

Fortunately, I have not had any trouble with it which was not considered attributable to periodic maintenance on a ten year old vehicle with almost two hundred thousand miles on it.

I think I bought a bike, today, though. A guy at work has an old one (we've talked several times, already about it) and I haven't seen it yet, but the price is in my budget. If his description is anywhere near the true mark of its condition, it's minen!





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Re: My new ride
« Reply #23 on: June 01, 2008, 02:17:07 PM »
:hug: for dawg for his rough day.
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #24 on: June 01, 2008, 02:22:24 PM »
OTOH, I don't want a car that I *need* to fix. I know of better ways to spend my time.
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #25 on: June 01, 2008, 03:11:11 PM »
Quote from: Lucifer on June 01, 2008, 02:17:07 PM
:hug: for dawg for his rough day.

Thanks.

Hey, if I manage to get this bicycle to ride to work, can I get another one of those?

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Re: My new ride
« Reply #26 on: June 01, 2008, 03:42:48 PM »
Quote from: odeon on June 01, 2008, 02:22:24 PM
OTOH, I don't want a car that I *need* to fix. I know of better ways to spend my time.

For me fixing things is better than meds at calming me down
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #27 on: June 01, 2008, 10:28:21 PM »
Just bought a mountain bike last month, over 20 years since I've been on a bike. This might prove to be painful. Seemed like a good idea at the time though.  :toy:
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #28 on: June 02, 2008, 05:23:07 AM »
Quote from: Icequeen on June 01, 2008, 10:28:21 PM
Just bought a mountain bike last month, over 20 years since I've been on a bike. This might prove to be painful. Seemed like a good idea at the time though.  :toy:

Yeah I was thinking the same thing and got one from a trash pile :green:
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Re: My new ride
« Reply #29 on: June 02, 2008, 07:20:49 AM »
Quote from: parts on June 02, 2008, 05:23:07 AM
Quote from: Icequeen on June 01, 2008, 10:28:21 PM
Just bought a mountain bike last month, over 20 years since I've been on a bike. This might prove to be painful. Seemed like a good idea at the time though.  :toy:

Yeah I was thinking the same thing and got one from a trash pile :green:

Woman wanted $15 for it, got her down to $10 though, the color matched my truck. :lol:
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