My new ride

[odeon]

My first car was a Volvo 142 from 1969. It lasted for a summer.

[DirtDawg]

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.




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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[Parts]

I miss the older car nothing you could not fix for yourself on them so easy to work on too

[odeon]

Yeah, there's very little in a modern car that you can fix yourself.

[Lucifer]

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. 

[Parts]

I want to get an old car per catalytic converter to play with.  Something small and simple bug maybe 

[Lucifer]

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.

[DirtDawg]

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!





[/sorry if I missed any more typos - rough day so far]

[Lucifer]

for dawg for his rough day.

[odeon]

OTOH, I don't want a car that I *need* to fix. I know of better ways to spend my time.

[DirtDawg]

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?

 

[Parts]

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

[Icequeen]

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. 

[Parts]

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. 

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

[Icequeen]

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. 

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

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