Cars

Hm.

1960 Plymouth Valiant (work in progress)
1974 Karmann Ghia (in pieces now)
2002 PT Cruiser (wife's ride, bought while they were still cool)
1994 Jeep Wrangler (usual ride)
1991 Dodge Dakota (commercial box, for our business)

Recently got rid of the '66 Barracuda, and drove a '64 Cadillac sedan before that (wife hated it, I loved it, after spending three years restoring it).

Have a 300C on order, be seeing it beginning of next year. But I'll probably still drive the Jeep, mostly. While a 300C actually gets much better mileage, a Jeep can park almost anywhere, and I quit caring about dings and dents many dirt roads ago.

Not a sad thing. It was my wife's high school project car, and she spent a couple years on body work and interior restoration. She drove it for years... Then our neighbor's oak tree fell on it.

So, we parked it in the garage for a couple years, but neither of us really had the heart to get started on it. A guy made us an offer - since then, it's been sold to another guy in Florida, who is restoring it yet again.

i was stuck in a 2 hour back-up in Canadian Customs yesterday and it seemed like about 75% of the vehicles around me were Trucks or SUV's...

a passed one of above an hour ago in downtown Buffalo,with Colorado plates no less...driver was GIRL with purple hair with pink streaks in it...

We had a vintage car show here at Easter and my husband wouldn't shut up about how s**t chevy is and how cheaply they were made and how they don't last. We walked up the road towards town and was really sick of hearing him and then a vintage chevy broke down right next to us

my wish list;

'60s VW van
Land Rover Defender
'65 sunbeam tiger
several BMW 80's models

Finding yourself a restore-it-herself-car-nut wife is commendable!

Sounds like y'all wrung out about all that could be asked of the ol' Cuda.

I have a thing for cars of the '50's. I've been haggling with a guy over a cherry '53 Cadillac Coupe DeVille he's selling. I'm mostly just daydreaming,
however. I seriously don't see myself actually buying it.

I rest my case.

77 Camaro
79 Trans Am
89 Grand Am
97 Thunderbird
I Still got the Thunderbird.
Wish list
1963 Corvette
1970 Trans Am
1969 Camaro RS SS
GTO or Chevelle from 60's or early 70's

I wanted to buy a Jeep - but bought a Honda instead.

Cars I've owned so far:
'95 Plymouth Neon Hiline (sold for $300 )
2007 Honda Civic EX Coupe in sporty red

Don't tell her, but she welds better than I do, too.

I'm going to finish the '60 Valiant, and maybe do the '74 Ghia - but that's it, no more for me. Gettin' too old for this stuff. OTOH, a '53 Caddy in good shape? Tempting.

Look upon Strat's carbon footprint, ye mighty, and despair!

Not to worry greenieworld, I'll buy some carbon credits from Al Gore's company.

Yes, the Caddy is nice. It was restored frame-up about 6 or 7 years ago, and is immaculate. Black. Tan leather. It looks stock, but they swapped a '69 472 cube caddie engine w/ turbohydro for the original V8 / hydramatic.

My first car was a '74 Renault 12. It was metallic grey but the driver's door was dark blue (I had a little accident and I couldn't find any grey doors to replace it...) The back seat kept falling off from time to time, there were a couple of holes in the bodywork near one of the back wheels due to corrosion and I had to fix the plate number with wires so it didn't fall. You see, I've never been quite keen on restoring cars (or in cars in general for that matter...)

In the days when I didn't shave and I wore an old tracksuit the police used to stop me and ask me for the documentation. Everything was legal so the situation was funnily absurd.

It died the night my mates and me went to a heavy metal concert some 30 kilometres away from our hometown. We could reach the concert on time but we had to get back in a taxi.

The good old beast lasted 25 years. Then I bought my '98 Volkswagen Polo but I don't think this one will last that much.