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I don't currently own a car as I don't get my licence until august, unfortunately there's quite a big difference between the cars I want and the cars I can afford.

^^^^ Join the club, brother if my luck had been better, i'd be wealthy enough to have an underground garage about the size of jay leno's garage, and it would contain the following cars-
*1974 vw karmann-ghia convertible
*1980 amc pacer
*1988 caddy sedan de ville
*as late a model of vw eurovan i could find
*2016 chevy volt
*1970 citroen ds sedan
*2015 honda crv lx
*1974 amc matador sedan/coupe [one each]
*1974 amc ambassador
*1998 vw beatle [pink]
*1979 or '80 vw rabbit [the best model years i've found]
*1995 ford contour or mercury mystique
*1993 chevy celebrity
*1985 ford tbird
*1989 renault medallion
*1980 amc concord
*1983 chevy malibu sedan

My van runs on waste vegetable oil, I hadn't accounted for the cold weather by thinning it down. Oh dear!
Holy thread bump.

This is my car. Isn't it awesome?

^^^sorta reminds me of a flintstone car somehow.

^^
Ohh, but this is a newer model.

***much newer and more streamlined

This one isn't mine, but it's identical to my car, same colour even!
It's a 2006 Toyota Corolla Conquest sedan (mid-range model in Australia), which means it has all electric windows and ABS fitted as standard.

you sound like the perfect person to buy a used car from.

here is my baby.

her name is Gyall, she's a 1990 toyota camry DX with the 3s fe engine (2 liter 4 banger, N/A) and a four speed automatic slushbox. she pu down about 115 horsepower when she was new, but these days i'd be surprised if that figure even broke the triple digits....

still not terribly little for 2400 lbs and no passengers; she gets out of the way (somewhat). she has 159,800 miles on her as of, right now.

she's my daily driver/work car, and she's seven years older than me.

i bought her last year early in september for $1500, with 153,800 miles on the clock, which was really low for one of these often abused cars, and of this age. completely stock, and with a virtually flawless interior save for a chunk out of the drivers seat that i "fixed" with seat covers.

she is very sturdy, starts up every time and never disappoints me now, but i'd lie if i said she never has had her share of issues. the previous owner ha to rebuild the transmission at 134K three years ago, and under my ownership she has had an alternator fail, a motor mount give out, and a front axle replacement done due to excessive play.

the alternator may have been my own fault, i made the idiot mistake of leaving the lights on for six hours while i was at school, to come back to a dead battery. it was jumped and i went home, but the car kept dying on me. i eventually diagnosed the issue and reinstalled an alternator. she has started reliably ever since, with a couple hard cranks in the winter.

the motor mount failure may have been due to shoddy workmanship when i went to get the original stock mounts replaced (ALL RUBBER IN A CAR IS NO GOOD AFTER A QUARTER CENTURY) within the warranty period for the repair i started hearing a loud clunking sound in the front passenger area, in the engine bay, while in gear every time i'd coast.

turns out, the part was too soft and the engine was actually hitting the fender. i got it replaced for free and i no longer hear that clunking.

interior rattles characteristic of an old nihonese econobox, gradually being snuffed out with folded paper and rubber/foam seals.

don't plan to put any more money into her.

all buttons work, cruise control works; best on flat surfaces, but it gains a lot of revs when trying to keep up on hills so i prefer "manual throttle" there.

A/C uses r12, no longer blows cold so i just roll the window down.

fastest i've gone was 90 MPH on a nearly empty shoreline highway.

0 to 60 is measured in minutes. i don't have the guts to put the hammer all the way down and really test it because i don't have a tach, and i'm not ready to find out the hard way whether or not the engine has a rev limiter.

but she'd probably tough it out anyway.

i do oil, plugs myself. plan to do brake shoes/pads myself whenever the time comes, as well as wires, though those have to be replaced with the rotor.

a couple of the interior bits are taken from the top-of-the-line LE trim of this car, such as the chrome door handles and color-mismatched center console with ACTUAL STORAGE SPACE.

i really want the LE door panels with carpeted bottoms, though they probably cost too much for what it's worth, and most of them are trashed by this point anyway.

it's possible to swap a 3s-gte into this thing from a celica and make some real power, but again...cost vs benefit. and who makes their daily into a project anyway?

pics time.

^^^^ looks like you're taking good care of her may you two have a fine long relationship together
anyways, mine has low miles for a '97, 69k.

^ thanks

what is yours? i don't think i've seen it here.

I posted it a while back, mebbe on a similar thread elsewhere on WP, time slips by me. anyways, here is a lookalike of it-
['97 Honda CRV]

it had that paint that changes color sorta like a mood ring depending on the sun's angle/ambient light, but that top layer faded long ago and now it's just black.

2000 audi A4 in oatmeal color
220,500 some miles on it. or, well traveled as i like to put it.

it's nice to know an audi can last that long.


how are the running costs?

Wow, I forgot that I for a short period of time (when I drove regularly) that that was my car. It's my brother's now.



I don't drive much anymore, but when I do, it looks like this but with some rust. It was my dad's and then my sister's and now is mine. We play musical cars in my family a lot.

Don't have any pictures of it right now so I'll just describe it, it's a 2008 Fiat Grande Punto 1.3 Multijet 3 door in Metallic Silver