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I had 3 of them in my life...each one cost 300 dollars and I sold them for 300 dollars each time..basically the free cars of my life..they are wonderfully reliable, ugly cars with decent mileage...that slant six in those darts was one of the best american motors ever put in a car in my view....you had to put a new starter motor in them once in awhile because they were so low to the ground they'd eat gravel and weren't like other starters that were easy to rebuild....only design flaw
not chick magnet cars though
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Yeah, I loved their dependability.
 
andalusian said:
Hey, the minute details are not always important, but this is old cars, this shit means something ;)
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Yup, I'll never get back all the hours I spent working on my cars...especially the Triumphs. But at the time, it was worth it.
 
Lanny said:
Sit on his lap? In '68 I was dodging 150 mm rockets in a war.
By the way, In '63 I talked my mom into buying an Impala from ABC Chevrolet on West Burnside. Greatest car she ever owned.
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I read somewhere that this is the last year for the Impala.
 
yankeesince59 said:
Now THAT is cool.
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The Rabbit was the American version of the European Golf. Essentially the same car.
Saw a conversion of a Rabbit to a Golf on Wheeler Dealers. Different bumpers, different headlights. The changing of the square American headlights to the round headlights of the Golf meant a lot of body work.
 
jonnyboy said:
I’ve got a Datsun b210 emblem glued onto my mini fridge.
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That was a great car.
I had a buddy in college that had the pickup truck. He once hauled a tread from his bulldozer in it and drove over rough terrain. He was a logger near Coos Bay. Now retired, he lives on the major fork of the Coos River about 25 miles out of town. Right on the River. Owns enough forested land that he once had two resident herd of elk. Truly God's country.
 
yankeesince59 said:
lol...Lanny, I was talking about THIS year being the last year for the Impala.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31153803/chevy-impala-end-production/
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I quit following cars since '63 except for the Super cars of the late 60s.
Also, I haven't seen many Impalas on the road so I guess I thought they were dead. Hey, talk to me about electronics or math or physics. I even know something about history and politics. Cars? I wish and often fantasize that I owned an extremely large collection of Classic cars. I also wish I owned a large collection of mostly closed restaurants like Shakey's Pizza, Morrison's Cafeteria, A&W Root beer car hop restaurants, Orange Julius restaurants, Haagen-Dazs and there's one that was based in California, I believe in the Bay area that had a roast Turkey, rib roast and ham in the window it was called something Hof Brau.

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Sam's Hof Brau suddenly comes to mind. They use to have one just East of Portland State University, once known as Vanport college. By the way, I actually saw the Vanport flood. I think my dad drove us to about the location where the original GI Joe's was. I got out of the car and with my father's hand on one side and my mother's hand on the other side I saw water across the road at our feet and as far as my tiny eyes could see. That was the death of Vanport College which they then moved to it's current location. At that location it was originally known as Portland State College. I think it became a university in about 1964.

I'm the king of trivia.
 
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wow....lots of car memories here

I'll switch gears a little and talk about the most 'un-coolest' car I've been in, and it was my own. In 1970, I was working on a construction job in Bates, Oregon (east of John Day). I bought my first car for $75. Yeah, you're reading that right. It was a 1961 Rambler Classic Station Wagon. It was ready to go except for a tire and a starter.

it looked just about exactly like this:

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now again....$75. The tire and starter ratcheted up the price to about $100. And I was mobile. Sure, it was the opposite of a chick magnet, but it got me to a lot of places. It had some dents, and a rear door never really closed tightly, but I put 40,000 miles on that thing in 3 years and only had to change the oil. The rear seat folded forward so I slept in it a few times when I was camping or the rumor is partying too hard

ugly car dear to my heart
 
After HS when I worked at a detail shop, we had an account with Rasmussen BMW. This was my dream car for years..... 1988 BMW M5

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riverman said:
BMW is my favorite German car by far...they are top notch machines
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Not so much nowadays from what I understand. They have been dumbing down the cars for a while now becoming a luxury brand instead of an enthusiast brand.

They used to make some real nice cars, but I am not certain they have any advantage over Audi or Mercedes now. At least Mercedes still races at the top levels of Motorsports, not that too much of it trickles down...
 
andalusian said:
Not so much nowadays from what I understand. They have been dumbing down the cars for a while now becoming a luxury brand instead of an enthusiast brand.

They used to make some real nice cars, but I am not certain they have any advantage over Audi or Mercedes now. At least Mercedes still races at the top levels of Motorsports, not that too much of it trickles down...
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I bought my Audi for a reason FAMS!!!
 
riverman said:
BMW is my favorite German car by far...they are top notch machines
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Aren't the new ones unreliable as shit? All kinds of things going wrong.

I'd love to get a BMW, just scared of the ownership costs.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Aren't the new ones unreliable as shit? All kinds of things going wrong.

I'd love to get a BMW, just scared of the ownership costs.
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I have no idea...I've dated girls who've had them back in the day..Benz and BMWs.....I'm a Toyota or Nissan guy ...Toyotas frickin' last....my son is a Subaru guy...BMWs I've driven were great...tight transmissions...great suspension...great engines..quiet...the Mercedes I drove were clumsy, didn't corner well, had lots of creaks and moans...shitty gas mileage and noisey engines...would never own one...also in the shop getting something fixed with overpriced parts all the time....no idea about new German cars
 
wizenheimer said:
wow....lots of car memories here

I'll switch gears a little and talk about the most 'un-coolest' car I've been in, and it was my own. In 1970, I was working on a construction job in Bates, Oregon (east of John Day). I bought my first car for $75. Yeah, you're reading that right. It was a 1961 Rambler Classic Station Wagon. It was ready to go except for a tire and a starter.

it looked just about exactly like this:

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now again....$75. The tire and starter ratcheted up the price to about $100. And I was mobile. Sure, it was the opposite of a chick magnet, but it got me to a lot of places. It had some dents, and a rear door never really closed tightly, but I put 40,000 miles on that thing in 3 years and only had to change the oil. The rear seat folded forward so I slept in it a few times when I was camping or the rumor is partying too hard

ugly car dear to my heart
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I knew that car the instant I saw it. My aunt and uncle bought nothing but Ramblers. Not sure about the early 50s when they may have owned a Nash. The last car I remember them owning was a Javelin, probably some time in the mid to late 60s.
 
Lanny said:
I knew that car the instant I saw it. My aunt and uncle bought nothing but Ramblers. Not sure about the early 50s when they may have owned a Nash. The last car I remember them owning was a Javelin, probably some time in the mid to late 60s.
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I had an AMX.
 
yankeesince59 said:
I had an AMX.
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Why are people now saying muscle car when motor trend and other auto magazines most often referred to them as Super cars Back in the late 60s and early 70s?
 
Lanny said:
Why are people now saying muscle car when motor trend and other auto magazines most often referred to them as Super cars Back in the late 60s and early 70s?
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Not sure, Lanny. But another classic I owned and was the car that I traded in on the AMX was, get this, a white GTO convertible. [ducks, and runs for cover]
 
yankeesince59 said:
Not sure, Lanny. But another classic I owned and was the car that I traded in on the AMX was, get this, a white GTO convertible. [ducks, and runs for cover]
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You'd better run for the hills. A GTO for an AMX? What were you thinking or were you even thinking? The GTO was my main dream car out of a bunch of dream cars.
 
BlazerWookee said:
Dad had a 1979 Camaro RS, like this except the colors were reversed.

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Camaro was one of my favorite cars. I told you about the '68 with the 4 speed Hurst close ratio shifter that my brother had. Did you see that post? I think it may have had the 327 but definitely not the 350, which is too bad. I was amazed that he got no tickets. I got a shitload of tickets just driving my '69 four banger Volvo with an engine that was barely 100 cubic inches. It even had a .426 rear end which is pretty damn low. I once had a race in that car with a Vette on I-5 headed North just past Wilsonville. I had pedal to the metal but all I could get out of her was 100 mph. As he was cruising past me I looked over and he was smiling so I smiled back knowing he had another one of my dream cars.
 
Lanny said:
You'd better run for the hills. A GTO for an AMX? What were you thinking or were you even thinking? The GTO was my main dream car out of a bunch of dream cars.
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lol...my only defense/excuse is that I was a young car coveting kid who was making good money.
 
yankeesince59 said:
lol...my only defense/excuse is that I was a young car coveting kid who was making good money.
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I remember when I was 17 and working on a job in Atlanta with my father. He said son, those bulldozer drivers make $5 an hour. Brick layers were making $3.50/hr. My father made $5/hr. as the boss of a crew. He said he was concerned that I might operate a bulldozer making $5/hr. and be so satisfied that I might never return to college. At that point I quit thinking about operating a dozer and put all my efforts into college. Wasn't enough, though. Still got drafted. To this day I'm not quite sure what happened but I think the registrar's office made a clerical error and that changed my life.
 
Lanny said:
I remember when I was 17 and working on a job in Atlanta with my father. He said son, those bulldozer drivers make $5 an hour. Brick layers were making $3.50/hr. My father made $5/hr. as the boss of a crew. He said he was concerned that I might operate a bulldozer making $5/hr. and be so satisfied that I might never return to college. At that point I quit thinking about operating a dozer and put all my efforts into college. Wasn't enough, though. Still got drafted. To this day I'm not quite sure what happened but I think the registrar's office made a clerical error and that changed my life.
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...I got lucky...my draft lottery number was 353...never served, but in retrospect, looking back, I wish I had...getting married at 19 was a dumb move.
 
yankeesince59 said:
I had an AMX.
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Those AMX's with the high horsepower 390 were pretty quick cars as I went up against one with my 427 Cougar and I was surprised how quick it was. He got the same view many people got though and that's a view of my taillights. :breakdance:
 
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has anybody else noticed that Sly has not participated in this thread. I guess tires are the only part of a car he's interested in
 
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