Favorite cars
#16
Originally Posted by Garnet Canuck
Wow Deane, what a picture!! That brings a new meaning to winter beater! That's a great story behind the car driving it from Winnipeg to Halifax! What year was that?
The one in the pic I had for about 3 months in 1980 and paid $150 for. I bought it to replace the spun bearing car to move my stuff to Halifax. I never had it on the highway before leaving for my 2200 mile trip. I stripped everything out of it from the front seat back- rear seats or rear side panels etc. It was a great running car but rusted out in those rear body panels. I sold it for $125 soon after getting here. The funniest part of the story is the guy I sold it to used it as a hay truck to feed some cows located in a field close to where my folks. I wish I had a camera when I saw that wagon with hay stuffed inside of it and a guy with a pitch fork shovelling it out.
Both those car I used as a daily driver when I didn't want to drive the Torino or my motorcycle. I have an interesting pic of my motorcycle at the scrap yard if you want.
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#21
Originally Posted by SwivelMan
Thanks, Deane, for cutting into my love-life. But you're right.
Wish I had a pic at work (yes, it's only 5:22 here) of my 77 Chev Stepside. Retina-searing orange, 60-series on Turbo-Vectors, all the good stuff from the, uh, 70's. No gun-rack, though (I knew you'd ask, Cowboy)
Wish I had a pic at work (yes, it's only 5:22 here) of my 77 Chev Stepside. Retina-searing orange, 60-series on Turbo-Vectors, all the good stuff from the, uh, 70's. No gun-rack, though (I knew you'd ask, Cowboy)
#22
Originally Posted by inTgr8r
Can't find the pics of my Javelin, but it was like this one....
'73 with the 360ci
Mine was the same colour except white on the roof & a white T stripe on the hood.
After many beaters.... this was my first *brand new* car
'73 with the 360ci
Mine was the same colour except white on the roof & a white T stripe on the hood.
After many beaters.... this was my first *brand new* car
That's great Ian. Wow what a bright colour.
My best friends dad owned a '70 or '71 360 Matador wagon and a '75 Gremlin 304. Did yours have those dreaded vacuum operated wipers?
Last edited by RBull; 03-30-2007 at 09:15 PM.
#24
My favorite car ever, seriously.. was a 1980 Honda Civic DX hatch, because I learned to drive in it, and it was my first car (bought it from my dad). I finally sold it in 1998 with 451k km on it; it went from my dad to me, to both my sisters, then sold.. I wish I had a pic of it, but here is a representation (same colour too!)
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those were the days..
This was my first car back in the day, a Dodge Omni 024..think it was the early eighties. Although mine was red; it was automatic, the engine had a whole 80 bhp from a 2.2 four banger (Volkswagon), had huge 13 inch rims...and louvres on the rear hatch window.
Last edited by duhprez; 03-31-2007 at 12:26 AM.
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Originally Posted by duhprez
This was my first car back in the day, a Dodge Omni 024..think it was the early eighties. Although mine was red; it was automatic, the engine had a whole 80 bhp from a 2.2 four banger (Volkswagon), had huge 13 inch rims...and louvres on the rear hatch window.
Boy you must have smoked 'em with that one ^
--- actually you would have had no trouble smokin the Vdub diesel Rabbit that I used to have.
...now *that* was the definition of Sloooooooowwwwwwww.
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