Car Wars

by Crystal 39 Replies latest jw friends

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  Francois

  Um, right now it's a Ford F150 stick 'um up truck with a third door and a short bed. Very, very useful. Or it was when I was pulling a 21' boat every weekend.

  Before that, it was a 1986 Honda Prelude, 4-speed, the best auto I've ever had. I drove it like I was in the Indy 500. And it was, sort of, I-285 around Atlanta is more raceway than road. It got 30 mpg around town and vastly more on the road. Left Atlanta once heading to Cincinnati and got to the northern fringe of Louisville, KY before buying gas again. Nimble. A great car. Only one complaint: absolutely NO place to sit down a drink in that car.

  Next? I'm lusting after a car with a V8. I've had my last six-banger. The only cars I know of that have a V8 are the Camaro/Firebird kinda cars, which I don't want. Too low to the road, uncomfortable. So it looks like a Cadillac El Dorado, V8, every option known to man.

  francois
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  gsx1138

  I own a '99 toyota tacoma

  98 Ford taurus

  The Ford is a POS. I can't believe it's had so many problems and it is so new. I'm going to stick with Toyota even though I would love one of those new VW bugs.
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  sunshineToo

  98' Toyota Camry sedan. I like it very much. The only problem is that some times it doesn't start well; I have to push the gas pedal for about 1 min. to get it going. I'm kind of afraid of fixing it now because I don't know how much it's going to cost me.

  To those who know cars inside and out, do you think I should have it fixed?
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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  ok ladies, which cars turn you on? i mean, when you see a man behind the wheel of one of these, doesn't he suddenly get very sexy?

  • dodge ram, black with blacked-out-windows. (a man pulled beside me one time, in this very truck, smoking a cigar. we smiled at each other but i wonder if he knew he could have had me if he wanted, just because of that truck and his "i-don't give-a-s---" demeanor)
  • corvette
  • porsche boxter, carerra (in charcoal gray and silver)
  • vintage muscle cars, like 1965 - 1975 chevy super sport, chevy nova (with kregger wheels on them), camaro and trans am

  ~shallow but excited incense

  Tracy Chapman - "Fast Car" You got a fast car
  I want a ticket to anywhere
  Maybe we make a deal
  Maybe together we can get somewhere
  Anyplace is better
  Starting from zero got nothing to lose
  Maybe we'll make something
  But me myself I got nothing to prove
  
  You got a fast car
  And I got a plan to get us out of here
  I been working at the convenience store
  Managed to save just a little bit of money
  We won't have to drive too far
  Just 'cross the border and into the city
  You and I can both get jobs
  And finally see what it means to be living
  
  You see my old man's got a problem
  He live with the bottle that's the way it is
  He says his body's too old for working
  I say his body's too young to look like his
  My mama went off and left him
  She wanted more from life than he could give
  I said somebody's got to take care of him
  So I quit school and that's what I did
  
  You got a fast car
  But is it fast enough so we can fly away
  We gotta make a decision
  We leave tonight or live and die this way
  
  I remember we wre driving driving in your car
  The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
  City lights lay out before us
  And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
  And I had a feeling that I belonged
  And I had feeling I could be someone, be someone,
  Be someone
  
  You got a fast car
  And we go cruising to entertain ourselves
  You still ain't got a job
  And I work in a market as a checkout girl
  I know things will get better
  You'll find work and I'll get promoted
  We'll move out of the shelter
  Buy a big house and live in the suburbs
  
  You got a fast car
  And I got a job that pays all our bills
  You stay out drinking late at the bar
  See more of your friends than you do of your kids
  I'd always hoped for better
  Thought maybe together you and me would find it
  I got no plans I ain't going nowhere
  So take your fast car and keep on driving
  
  You got a fast car
  But is it fast enough so you can fly away
  You gotta make a decision
  You leave tonight or live and die this way
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  13th_apostate

  2000 candy apple red dodge intrepid. dodge has been good to me - this is my second intrepid.

  will
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  Undecided

  Hi TeeJay,

  I have an old 76 GMC 4WD that has 200,000 thousand miles and it's still going strong. I pull a 35ft camper to the coast with it and it has an automatic trans. The body is about to fall off it but the running gear is fine. I like the GMC trucks.

  Ken P.
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  joannadandy

  Actually seeing a man in a Neon makes me moist...rrrow rrrow!
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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  Actually seeing a man in a Neon makes me moist...rrrow rrrow!

  LOL @ joanna

  to get to saturated, he better drive a car that costs more than 10K, haha

  for some reason, a lot of guys around town drive neons. they trick them out with clear lamps and neon trim around the bumpers. it's mostly high-school kids though. sometimes they put these gigantic spoilers on the back that look like small ladders. i'm still trying to figure that one out...
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  Bendrr

  My favorite car was one I bought in '89. I was 17 and retired the old Mustang II (Pinto-Mustang) given me by my grandfather.

  My dad and I went car-shopping one day and this bright silver behemoth at one lot virtually shouted to both of us. A 1978 Dodge Monaco. Same as a Plymouth Fury. Thousands of them died horrible deaths as police cars in shows like 'The A-Team' in the 80's. This one was a cherry. 32,000 original miles by one owner, an elderly couple. For real. The paint was like new, the interior was like new, the vinyl top was like new, the air conditioning worked. And back in the days those cars were made, Dodge made full-size sedans that rode much better than Ford or Chevy. Gotta love that torsion-bar front end! That car would cruise at 100. It handled like a car half its size, and that's outstanding for 70's automotive technology. Plus if I "kept my foot out of it" I could get around 20 mpg average thanks to that "voodoo" lean-burn system Chrysler put on their cars back then. I would kill to find another Monaco/Fury in similar condition now. Ahhhh the things I could do! Show those "Fast and the Furious" teenyboppers a thing or two!

  Damn I miss that car! Now I have a 91 Geo Storm. Just for the hell of it I put on a header and MSD Ignition and while the gas mileage is great, it just doesn't have the low-end power I like. Top end is great though. I don't shift into 5th until around 60-70. But the car is so light that it gets pretty squirrely at high speeds. I need to lower it about an inch or so.

  Next car I'm thinking maybe a retired Ford Crown Vic police cruiser. You can pick them up for next to nothing but count on rebuilding the engine and transmission. But believe me when I tell you, just as any cop will, that Crown Vics will go unbelievably fast (like 140 or 150 mph). And they ride and handle great - with the proper tweaking at the hands of a good tech. Hey that's me!

  TeeJay, great truck! I've always preferred Chevy trucks. Have you had dual exhaust put on yet? I can't even count how many Chevy trucks I've run "cat-back" duals on. Once I got good at it, I could put on a set of cat-backs in 30 minutes by myself. When the 2000 models came out, I was the first tech in Macon to run duals on one.

  Francois, I love Preludes. Ok, I love ALL Hondas but anyway. Oh.....THIS JUST IN: C. B. MITCHELL IS STILL DEAD!!!!

  <<grin>>

  Mike.
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  Bendrr

  Thanks for the insights, Incense! I don't mean to hijack the thread, but now that the subject has come up I just have to ask. What cars turn women on and what cars turn them off?

  Mike.