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Miscellaneous => Off-Topic & Testing => Topic started by: Jack59 on September 02, 2023, 11:24:35 AM
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We have a thread on Fantasy Cars and another on Cars I'd Like To Know, but I haven't seen one on Cars that we've actually owned so that's what this thread is about.
These are cars that you have actually owned. The pictures do not have to be of your actual car. Just the same make, model, color, and if possible year.
Let's have a little fun with this. What wheels have you owned?
I'll start things off with the first car I ever bought: a White 1977 Pontiac Firebird.
And yes, this is the actual car. Sorry that the pic is so blurry, it's old and was taken with a crappy camera.
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My first car I owned was a 1968 Chevrolet Impala which I bought in 1974 in my Senior year of High School. I had been working during my High School years in an Esso/Exxon service station when gas was $0.23 a gallon back in 1972 and I bought it from the owner/franchisee after his mother passed away for $800.00. I had savings and I paid it in full and then I got the pink slip from him. It had a 327 cubic inch v-8 with 250 horsepower and a two speed powerglide automatic transmission. This photo is what it looked like then, a green two door with a fastback and a black vinyl topped roof. After I joined the Navy back in 1975, I drove it until 1979 when I was transferred to Hawaii and I let my baby brother have it and he kept it until 1982. I have fond memories of that old Detroit dinosaur. :)
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My first car I owned was a 1968 Chevrolet Impala
As used in the TV show Supernatural. Love that car. I've driven an Impala, just not one that old.
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Now this was the first car I ever owned. A graduation gift from my parents that they bought used for about $600 as I recall in 1977. A 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass S. I drove this until I bought the Firebird around 1982 or 83. The catch that held the driver's seat up broke and I had to prop it up with a baseball bat effectively eliminating one seat. We called it "the Old Blue Bomber".
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We have a thread on Fantasy Cars and another on Cars I'd Like To Know, but I haven't seen one on Cars that we've actually owned so that's what this thread is about.
These are cars that you have actually owned. The pictures do not have to be of your actual car. Just the same make, model, color, and if possible year.
Let's have a little fun with this. What wheels have you owned?
I'll start things off with the first car I ever bought: a White 1977 Pontiac Firebird.
And yes, this is the actual car. Sorry that the pic is so blurry, it's old and was taken with a crappy camera.
My second car was a 79 Firebird. It looked like the car from The Rockford Files. My dad talked her down to $300. It was at a garage needing a timing chain and the owner didn't want to repair it.
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My first car was a 1970 Buick Wildcat, with the 455 ci motor and automatic transmission. It looked much like the one in the picture, with the black vinyl roof, but the paint job was a custom two tone metallic green/gold. I bought it from my dad with my earnings as a groundskeeper of an apartment complex.
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A list might be easier, haven't had a huge number over the years but most have not been noteworthy. :) The last two on the list are my current 2 vehicles.
1987 Ford Tempo
1977 Oldsmobile Omega
1996 VW GTI
2001 VW GTI
2006 Ford Mustang
1996 Chevy k1500 pickup
2012 Chevy Suburban
2020 GMC Yukon XL
1987 Buick Grand National.
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Here's my whole list,
1981 Ford Mustang
1979 Pontiac Firebird
1979 Chevy Camaro
1976 Chevy Stingray Corvette
1997 Chevy Cavalier Z24
2006 Ford Mustang GT
I still have the Corvette and 2006 Mustang
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My 3rd car was a Burgundy 1982 Pontiac Firebird w/ T-tops that I bought used I think in 1986 or 87. There was a problem with the electrical system though so the 1st couple of years she spent a lot of time in the shop. Eventually we got it sorted out but as I grew older I came to realize that Firebird was a bad choice to deal with New England winters so in the early 90s away she went.
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This is about as close as I could get to my first car. It’s a 1976 Honda Civic 4 speed stick with manual choke and a 1200cc inline 4. Mine was also white, but did not have a roof rack. What looks like fog lights above the bumper are actually the blinkers.
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I was stationed in Hawaii from November of 1979 till February of 1984 and in 1981 I bought a 1974 Plymouth Duster which is by far the worst car I've ever owned. I remember I was driving down the Like-Like highway (you pronounce it as Leekee-Leekee) when suddenly the engine seized up due to a catastrophic oil leak and I abandoned it on the highway. I got a ride to a nearby restaurant, called the base and was picked up by the Shore Patrol and taken back to Ford Island back to my barracks. when I was in San Diego , I got a letter from the Highway Department of Hawaii in which they seized the vehicle and junked it. Never had another Chrysler product. My second car. :(
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1974 Plymouth Duster
My sympathies. I bought their follow-up, the Volare, and there was not one single improvement.
But, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Those mopars were still decent engines. It's just that everything else connected to them needed improvement. The entire underbody notwithstanding. ::)
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My Fourth Car. A gray 1986 Chevy Nova CL Sedan. Decent gas mileage, handle fine, front-wheel drive to deal with the snowy weather the Nova was a good all-around car that I drove for a good five or six years in the early and mid 90s.
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Talking shit cars, I had a Morris Ital, the worse car I have ever owned. It was built by when the British car industry was in steep decline. Actually quite reliable, but it handled like a shopping cart as it had torsion bar front suspension.
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Back in 1984, I was stationed at the Point Loma Naval Submarine Base in San Diego, serving aboard the USS McKee (AS-41), which was a submarine tender or a mobile service station for submarines. While stationed there, since San Diego isn't known for its mass transit, I had to buy a vehicle and I got a 1984 S-10 pickup truck, which was the "small" truck of the time, which was equipped with a 2.8 liter V-6 engine with 140 horsepower and it had a small cabin and a two-tone paint job like in this photo. I really liked it. :)
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Back in 1990, I traded my 1984 S-10 pickup truck for a 1990 Chevrolet S-10 4X4 Blazer with a 4.3liter V-6 engine when I was stationed from 1988 to 1992 at the Trident Naval Submarine Base in Bangor, Washington. The 4-wheel drive did come in handy once in a while. This one is similar to the one I had, which was also all red. :)
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My fifth car was a blue Chevy Lumina. I can't remember the year just that it was in the 90s and I got it cheap. Can't remember if it was a coupe or a sedan. I had it for 2 years I think before I got into an accident and it wasn't worth repairing. Sorry about the lack of photo but I just can't remember much about it.
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Talking shit cars, I had a Morris Ital, the worse car I have ever owned. It was built by when the British car industry was in steep decline. Actually quite reliable, but it handled like a shopping cart as it had torsion bar front suspension.
What year was that Morris? Looks like something from the 80s. I’m surprised you called it reliable because British cars of that era were not particularly known for their reliability.
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Lists, lists, lists
Let’s see if I can remember. Hmmm… in order (approximately) of when I owned them…
1976 Honda Civic 4 speed
1977 Honda Civic 5 speed
1974 Jeep CJ5
1959 Imperial LeBaron Southampton Hardtop
1976 Subaru station wagon
1974 Chevy Nova
1965 Austin Mini Cooper
1982 Honda Accord LX hatch
1993 Honda del Sol S
1998 Dodge Intrepid ES
2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser
2015 Chrysler 200 C
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Back in 1997, I traded my 1990 S-10 Blazer for a small cab 1997 S-10 pickup truck with a 4.3 Liter V-6 engine and it was of this color of the photo. I wish GM would bring back the compact trucks. The new Colorado is huge compared to this one. I moved to Las Vegas back in November of 1995 after I retired from the Navy.
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I would tend to agree with you, Sol. My Dad used to have little B series Mazda pickup that he bought from my brother in the early 80s. We all loved that little truck! As I recall it got pretty decent gas mileage too.
Anyway my sixth car was a light blue Pontiac Sunfire coupe, a '96 I think. A nice little car. I drove it into the early 2000s
It was a lighter shade than this photo but otherwise the pic is pretty accurate.
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Back in 1998, my mother moved to Las Vegas from West Covina, California, after some asshole gangbanger sprayed some graffiti near where she lived and it frightened her since West Covina was in a slow state of decay. She worked at a near hospital, Queen of the Valley, and had recently retired and she sold her house and moved to a 55+ Senior community here in Vegas. She owned at the time a maroon 1993 Chevrolet Celebr1ty four door sedan, and she lived about 15 miles from where I did at an apartment complex not too far from the strip. I would visit her often and of course, I never let her know about my porn predilection. Anyways, if you guys might remember how there was this talk about the upcoming Y2K computer disaster on January 1, 2000, and how it turned out to be nothing, well, my mom did suffer a disaster that day. She had invited me to her house for a New Years celebration and as I drove to her house and I entered, I didn't smell the turkey cooking and the house was quiet. I then stepped into the kitchen and found her on the floor with her pajamas and bathrobe on and I noticed the spilled coffee was dried out, so I figured it had happened early in the morning. I had worked that day in the Luxor from 7AM to 7PM since Security personnel HAD to work during New Years. She was breathing but I had no idea why she would not respond. I contacted 911 and when the paramedics arrived, one stated that it looked like she had a stroke. She was transported to the hospital and the Doctor in charge there told me she had suffered a stroke on her left side of the brain and so her right side would be paralized. My mother became wheelchair bound, was unable to speak and could no longer take care of herself. Afterwards, I had her car modified so that it could carry a electric wheelchair and I moved into her house so that I could take care of her since after seeing several of those senior warehouses, I decided not to put her in one. In 2005, I sold my pickup truck to my brother who then gifted it to his daughter who then two months later, she wrecked it and the insurance company totaled it. In 2007, my mom's car was dying and so I bought a 2007 Chevrolet Malibu and since it was hard to put my mom into a pickup truck, I bought a sedan. Mom was only 5 foot tall, and I had to pick her up in order to put her in a vehicle. So, a low riding sedan was easier. Mom died in 2010. This photo is exactly what that vehicle looked like.
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I will save you all a pic of my ‘77 Honda Civic, as it basically looked like my first one, except it was yellow. If I ever find a real picture of that car after I painted it with spray cans, I’ll post it here. It’s rather difficult to describe. I created graded bars of color in ever increasing thickness from deep red to yellow that ran up from the hood and top. The sides were black, and as I was a film student, I thought the fuel filler door on the side looked like a sprocket and so left it yellow and replicated the same rounded off square across the black sides like one sees on a strip of film. On the hatch I taped off the words “Heavy Metal” ala the magazine. Goodness knows what my mother thought of that car. LOL
The only major difference between that car and my ‘76 white one was that the 77 had an automatic choke (!) and a wonderful 5-speed. Probably one of the best cars I ever owned until some ass went thru a red light and I plowed into him.
c'est la vie
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This is the wrong color, as my ‘74 Jeep CJ5 was rust colored (VERY appropriate!), and the wheels were not white. Also I didn’t have what looks like a winch and fog lights like this one. But, what’s important here is the hard top kit, which looks exactly like the one I had. My friends called it “the Box” because it certainly felt boxlike inside. CJ5s came as 2 seaters as the back was pretty damn small, but that didn’t stop us from shoving two of my friends back there when necessary! :P
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I bought a 1997 Pontiac Sunfire Coupe in 1999, it was part of a lease fleet sell off. This one is exactly like it, except mine was green. I owned it for over 15 years, then I had to sell it to buy a minivan. It was a pretty nice little car. :)
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I bought a very similar white Imperial LeVaron Southampton hardtop sedan while I was in college in the early 80s. Even though the source claims that this is a LeBaron, I’m dubious as it seems to have IMPERIAL in block letters behind the front wheels and mine had “LeBaron” in script. Probably the coolest car I’ve ever owned.
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I bought a very similar white Imperial LeVaron Southampton hardtop sedan while I was in college in the early 80s. Even though the source claims that this is a LeBaron, I’m dubious as it seems to have IMPERIAL in block letters behind the front wheels and mine had “LeBaron” in script. Probably the coolest car I’ve ever owned.
Like I've said before, those late 1950's cars had personality. :)
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Back in March of 2015, I decided to trade in my 2007 Chevrolet Malibu for a new vehicle and I decided to get an SUV. I wanted an economical one that would get good mileage and so after looking around, I bought a 2015 Chevrolet Trax which became the tiniest vehicle i had owned up to that time in my life. It had a 1.4 liter four banger with a six speed automatic and it got about 35-37 miles per gallon which made it the best mileage car I've ever owned up to that time. Unfortunately, with only three more months to pay it off, a Suburban decided it wanted my lane on the freeway and forced me to change lanes which caused me to hit a concrete median and my little car was killed off. Fortunately, the airbags deployed and I didn't suffer an injury. Poor car was unfixable, and it was totaled by the insurance company. This was the color of it. :'(
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I bought a very similar white Imperial LeVaron Southampton hardtop sedan while I was in college in the early 80s. Even though the source claims that this is a LeBaron, I’m dubious as it seems to have IMPERIAL in block letters behind the front wheels and mine had “LeBaron” in script. Probably the coolest car I’ve ever owned.
Like I've said before, those late 1950's cars had personality. :)
What’s funny is that, to me, it was a very old car from a bygone era, yet, I think I got it in ‘82, so it wasn’t even an antique, yet! But, car styles had changed so much in those days (and I was so young) that it seemed like something from a different epoch compared to, say, what my old ‘98 Dodge Intrepid would feel like compared to present day cars. That car, while now an official antique, isn’t so different than the design of current cars.
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My seventh car was a purple 1998 Chrysler Concorde sedan that I sort of inherited from my parents when they moved out to Las Vegas. I didn't keep it long. It was a good car but I absolutely hated the color. Purple is a color that you love or you hate, and I hated it. I started looking for something new right away and within two years it was gone, replaced by the absolute worst car I ever owned! Many a time I wished I'd swallowed my dislike of the color and just kept the Concorde.
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Back in December of 2020, I got in an accident while driving northbound on I-15 and as I was trying to get on the merger to the spaghetti bowl and get into US 95 westbound, an asshole in a huge black Chevrolet Suburban decided he needed my lane and to avoid hitting him, I unfortunately hit the concrete barrier and badly damaged my 2015 Chevrolet Trax. The Suburban kept going like nothing happened. >:( I wasn't injured, Thank God, but the insurance company totaled my car and so then I went to Carmax and I got a used 2019 Chevrolet Spark that only had 4,000 miles on it and I still have it. It gets 38-40 miles per gallon and it has been a good little car. I'm retired now, even though I work part time in a movie house and I get to see free movies as a perk. Anyways, this is my most recent car. This photo is exactly what it looks like. :)
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1974 Subaru Wagon 4 x 4
This is pretty close, color and all. This was a great vehicle for hauling camera equipment for shoots for college or, The New York Times, which I delivered on Sunday mornings as one of a couple of jobs I had while in college. I remember one freezing 10 degree morning when I got in the car at 4am intending to go meet the guys to collate the paper and load up the cars when the gas pedal froze to the floor. I had to wake up my mom and ask her if I could borrow her new ‘82 Accord to deliver the paper. She must have loved that.
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The first car I actually owned was in 1960 for Christmas, a pedal car. ;D
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I’m going to skip a picture of the ‘74 Nova since it wasn’t properly registered to me. A nutty friend of mine had cut the roof of his car and his mother made him get rid of it. Stupidly, I said I’d take it after he drove it through the Holland tunnel purposely knocking into the tunnel’s walls for fun. It was a dangerous car to drive becsuse it was totally illegal. I had no title to it. But that didn’t stop me from driving it in some nearby sandpits. Eventually, it lay neglected in the street in front of our house till the town towed it away.
Another car I purchased while in college (my friends used to joke that I went through cars like toilet paper) was a 1965 Austin Mini Cooper I purchased from a Frenchman who was preparing to return to France with a Chevy Caprice. That’s quite the change in vehicles. Unfortunately, right after I purchased it, the brakes totally failed and so I had to have it towed from Manhattan. Soon afterwards the engine’s water jacket split open. Not a good purchase.
It had a manually retractable cloth roof that was pretty cool, though.
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Another car I purchased while in college (my friends used to joke that I went through cars like toilet paper) was a 1965 Austin Mini Cooper I purchased from a Frenchman who was preparing to return to France with a Chevy Caprice. That’s quite the change in vehicles. Unfortunately, right after I purchased it, the brakes totally failed and so I had to have it towed from Manhattan. Soon afterwards the engine’s water jacket split open. Not a good purchase.
It had a manually retractable cloth roof that was pretty cool, though.
I remember back when I worked at an ESSO/EXXON service station from 1971 to 1974 during High School, that British sports cars like MG, Triumph and Jaguar were beautiful style cars but they had a bad reputation as lemons. I remember a costumer that owned an XJ Jaguar that got rid of the original engine and swapped it for a small block Chevy V-8 engine since it was better and much more reliable. British cars in the 60's and 70's were not the best by any means. :P
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The eighth and absolutely worst car I've ever owned: a gold 1999 Cadillac Catera. I know that they had problems but I did my research on Carfax. Although it had had troubles when it was new, into and out of the shop constantly, it hadn't had any for several years. I figured that whatever the problem had been it was fixed and bought it.
The problem was not fixed. Every four to six weeks I would come out to a dead battery. I had the car jumped so often that AAA refused to come and jump it for me. I replaced the battery twice. Nothing worked. Something was draining the battery and no one was able to find out what. I eventually came to the conclusion that during those "trouble free" years on the carfax report the vehicle had been garaged and ignored until it was finally sold to a sucker, in this case me.
Just when I was thinking that I would have to rip out every electrical component in the car and replace them all with new ones fate smiled upon me and the car was totaled in a fairly minor accident. I got enough from the insurance company to put a sizable down payment on a new car.
I should note that when the car started up it ran fine. Plenty of power, good handling, nice amenities, and so forth but it was completely unreliable. Live and learn I guess.
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Another car I purchased while in college (my friends used to joke that I went through cars like toilet paper) was a 1965 Austin Mini Cooper I purchased from a Frenchman who was preparing to return to France with a Chevy Caprice. That’s quite the change in vehicles. Unfortunately, right after I purchased it, the brakes totally failed and so I had to have it towed from Manhattan. Soon afterwards the engine’s water jacket split open. Not a good purchase.
It had a manually retractable cloth roof that was pretty cool, though.
I remember back when I worked at an ESSO/EXXON service station from 1971 to 1974 during High School, that British sports cars like MG, Triumph and Jaguar were beautiful style cars but they had a bad reputation as lemons. I remember a costumer that owned an XJ Jaguar that got rid of the original engine and swapped it for a small block Chevy V-8 engine since it was better and much more reliable. British cars in the 60's and 70's were not the best by any means. :P
I think you have to include 80s in there, too. And the phrase you are looking for, as far as reliability is concerned, is “they sucked”. :P
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One of the reviewers in Road & Track called them "money pits".
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My ninth car was a dark blue 2008 Pontiac G5. It was my fourth and last Pontiac. A very nice car, it was a certified preowned that had previously been a rental car and been well taken care of. I bought it in 2010 when it was two years old with plenty of time left on the warranty. I kept it for six and a half years before trading it in on my current car. It never gave me any trouble even at the end, I just wanted a new car. And I'll tell you about that later this weekend.
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In the mid-80s—probably ‘86–I bought a 1982 Honda Accord LX hatchback. It was a pretty good car and had a manual sunroof, which I loved. I added two oval rear view mirrors on the front fenders ala the Japanese and they actually helped with blind spots.
I recall driving down to visit a friend in Winston-Salem and I couldn’t drive faster than 85 mph without the whole dashboard shaking violently. Other than that it was great. Probably one of the more visually mundane cars I’ve owned. Kept it until Honda came out with the del Sol.
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And finally my tenth and current car a 2014 Buick Verano in mocha bronze metallic. Bought in late 2016 she's the best car I've ever owned. I don't plan to replace her for at least four more years possibly six. She's got 84k on her but still runs fine. When the time comes to replace her it will probably be with an electric or at least a hybrid. But for now I'm quite happy with my Verano.
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And finally my tenth and current car a 2014 Buick Verano in mocha bronze metallic. Bought in late 2016 she's the best car I've ever owned. I don't plan to replace her for at least four more years possibly six. She's got 84k on her but still runs fine. When the time comes to replace her it will probably be with an electric or at least a hybrid. But for now I'm quite happy with my Verano.
Nice car. Does Buick make regular sedans anymore?
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This was a stupid car to buy when you consider my then wife and I were planning on raising a family. She might even have been pregnant when I bought it. Who the hell buys a two-seater when you know you’re going to have kids? We both wanted to play with it and so neither of us was the voice of reason, LOL. This is a 1993 Honda del Sol S with just 102 hp. Not a slug for such a small car, but not the fastest thing in the neighborhood, either. The Si, which had the bigger engine cost too much to afford. What was great about the car was that you could remove the targa roof panel and store it under the trunk lid and then retract the back window. What fun! And very little wind buffeting. I hated the little beep it made and so replaced the horn with a high decibel one that would make people jump. It did have the annoying attribute of suddenly not wanting to start every now and again. Don’t remember the cause, but it was not due to the alternator or the battery. Really annoying. The roof panel also creaked terribly in cold weather.
But it was so much fun.
Sold it eventually to buy my family hauler.
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And finally my tenth and current car a 2014 Buick Verano in mocha bronze metallic. Bought in late 2016 she's the best car I've ever owned. I don't plan to replace her for at least four more years possibly six. She's got 84k on her but still runs fine. When the time comes to replace her it will probably be with an electric or at least a hybrid. But for now I'm quite happy with my Verano.
Nice car. Does Buick make regular sedans anymore?
Unfortunately only in China. They're still making the Verano but only in China.
Here in the good old US of A it's just SUVs.
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My family hauler: a 1998 Dodge Intrepid ES. This was a great “cab forward” design and doesn’t really look old today. It was one of the biggest front wheel drive cars at the time, which I needed to drive the family out to Wisconsin in the summer. Had this car for 17 years and I miss it a lot.
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This thread has been neglected for a while. Back in 2007, I bought a Chevrolet Malibu sedan replacing an old 1992 Chevrolet Celibr1ty. Bumping this thread.
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1995 Dodge Dakota v8 5 speed stick