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Post by dumdave on Feb 8, 2015 12:03:58 GMT -6
My favorite car was my first one that I bought out north where Walsh is now. I worked and saved up $750. Bought a 1965 Chevy Impala SS convertable in perfect shape and only 50k miles on it. I drove it into the ground. Ten years later, I sold it for $500 and bedroom furniture. Still use a the furniture.
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Post by dumdave on Feb 8, 2015 14:32:06 GMT -6
This guy ran a paint and body shop behind and next to I-H. I didn't even know it existed. My Dad gave me the heads up on the car after he met this guy at Phil Oliver's Bar in front of Ligori's.
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Post by super on Feb 8, 2015 15:11:28 GMT -6
Here is a photo that is a carbon copy of my ride...had it 17 years before I grew out of it! I'm more of an AC Cobra guy, although I don't currently own one right now.
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Post by dive61364 on Feb 8, 2015 21:32:19 GMT -6
I had an olds 442 with the red body and white convertible top. I wish I still had it today.
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Post by toshiko on Feb 9, 2015 7:52:51 GMT -6
My 1973 Volkswagon sunbug! I wish, I still had it.
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Post by dumdave on Feb 9, 2015 11:04:39 GMT -6
My brother had a new 'Vette, but not a convertable. In fact he has almost always had a 'Vette. Still does. Tosh, my old roomate had a VW that he did a dune buggy convertion on. Loved to borrow that car. With the low center of gravity, it could turn on a dime. Mom and I had a blast in it.
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Post by Anonymous on Feb 9, 2015 13:53:38 GMT -6
I miss my '78 Firebird. I've tried finding it to buy it back, but it's probably in the scrapyard by now.
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Post by chevypower on Feb 27, 2015 22:49:55 GMT -6
300 zx twin turbo and 280zx turbo, both very quick cars and top end at 148 on the 300 and 139 on the 280 but very quick off the line plus a good cornering car.
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Post by chevypower on Feb 27, 2015 22:52:50 GMT -6
OH! and the (5) GTRS in the drive the GTR launch is great lol
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Post by chevypower on Feb 28, 2015 1:14:32 GMT -6
Those Z cars were pretty nice in the day. I had a 76' 280z with a 5 speed. It was the 2 seater, fuel injection and burned REGULAR gas. Strange all the domestics went to unleaded in 74 or 75, but this one was a 76 and burned regular gas. Those were some dark days for Detroit Iron. Even Corvettes and pony cars were pretty anemic back then. Fun cars CP. Yes they are very fun cars MNM my z was a silver anniversary 1980, so was the 300z they were pretty pricey also, most went with the vets mainly because they were 9.000 less than the 280z the 300z was around 38.000 new back in the day, and 280z was 20.000 to 21.000 in the 80s I believe vets were 12.500 back then.
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Post by ~MnM~ on Feb 28, 2015 1:37:46 GMT -6
Very interesting subject BD! Considering all of the different cars that my parents owned and collected in a sense I am partial to a '56 Thunderbird that I kind of "took" one night, that had belonged to the Fire Chief back in the day, which was of course was fire engine red with red and white leather interior, sharp car....lol. As far as my own cars though...when I got a job at 16, that's when soon after I bought my first new car off the showroom floor at Beckman's. . A 1976 Plymouth Arrow for $3800, lol. MAN that was alot of money way back then! And NO my dad or no one co-signed for me then either. The bad part was that this car was a 4 speed, and no I didn't have a clue how to drive a stick! My dad tried to teach me, in which at first I just wanted to give up and take that car back, lol, and then finally the big guy DID teach me how to drive it after a few stalled times. I loved that car, and drove the hell out of it! The second car that I bought was a 1992 Geo Tracker.......which .......... YES I am still driving that. It has 95.000 original miles on it too now. Yes I have had to replace one clutch,a few exhausts, and a set of tires. Yet another stick but this one is a 5 speed which I have always driven a stick since I could drive, oiy....now it's second nature. I get in to drive the big guys truck and I find myself trying to find a clutch. So in a sense vehicles do not owe me anything. My grand daughter lil peanut M used to ask me if when she grows up can she drive my Tracker...perhaps? I could go and buy a new car, but why,......really? Now as far as bikes are concerned...I still have my first 10 speed bike which was purchased from a cool bike shop in Dekalb when I was a freshman. But my favorite bike is a red Hawthorne tandem bike, which they're both hanging up in the rafters of our garage. I forget what make the 10 speed is, but I know that my parents brought that for me back in the early '70's, The tandem was purchased at "Monkey Wards" back in the '60's. NOW the furthest that tandem has gone, one day for some unknown reason one of my friends and I rode that bike from here to Cornell and back! All I know is that was the STUPIDIST thing I ever thought of!!! Now ....... some day yes I would love to get either bike down and ride again...BUT in the meantime... I'm still tooling around in my Tracker...... M
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Post by chevypower on Feb 28, 2015 1:49:20 GMT -6
Forgot too mention, the 280 was a (5) speed stick shift...fun.
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Post by ~MnM~ on Feb 28, 2015 2:17:37 GMT -6
Forgot too mention, the 280 was a (5) speed stick shift...fun. My sister and her husband had a 280 Z, canary yellow with black leather interior. I was babysitting their two kids when they went on vacation. Of course I knew how to drive a 5 speed, but I didn't know the area. I had to go and pick up their dog at the boarders on another side of town, in which I thought my nephew would know ..............him being 8 at the time thought he knew the way.............................. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Here we are driving a 280 Z and we get lost in the "not so colorful" part of Beloit Wisconsin, a dumb blonde with two little kids, scary! ...................AND................ I hit some button which triggered the wipers, and could NOT for the life of me figure out how to shut them off. That was one of my most scared times, it truly was. We ended up not finding the dog boarders house, but I did manage to get the kids back home though.... Despite that whole ordeal............................ really COOL car, lol!!! M
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Post by dumdave on Feb 28, 2015 11:26:16 GMT -6
My wife's first car was a totally stripped down Opel Cadet. It had a radio. The coolest thing about it was it was a manuel shift. Once Mom learned how to drive it, she was He!! on wheels. One time, at a local park, she drove it across a pedestrian bridge by accident. Made it across with an inch to spare on each side. LOL! But the squids came and we needed a car w/ AC. *sigh*
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Post by chevypower on Feb 28, 2015 15:24:40 GMT -6
Yes they are very fun cars MNM my z was a silver anniversary 1980, so was the 300z they were pretty pricey also, most went with the vets mainly because they were 9.000 less than the 280z the 300z was around 38.000 new back in the day, and 280z was 20.000 to 21.000 in the 80s I believe vets were 12.500 back then. IF I remember correctly, when the 240z FIRST came here in the early 70's it was a fantastic bargain, bang for the buck. Then the oil embargo hit and inflation kicked in and all car prices went up. The Japanese cars were also hit with a shift in the exchange rate. The Yen grew stronger against the Dollar and the price grew a little fatter yet. The one year only 260z was a bit weak and the solution was better engineering for the 280z with fuel injection. Soon to follow was optional Turbos and it morphed into something else with premium content, kind of like what happens with a lot of cars. T-birds and Cougars come to mind. Today many 4 door sedans offer excellent performance, without any penalty of a tight 2 seater or a 2 plus 2 but a little of the pizzaz is gone. For a while in the 70's and 80's those were some sweet cars, the z cars, Supras, rx-7, Mitsubishi Starion/Dodge Conquest. Yes the 240 z (fair lady) they called it, be worth a pretty penny now.
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