04 Aug 2012, 5:02 am
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04 Aug 2012, 5:16 am
auntblabby wrote:
outofplace wrote:
I currently own 5 vehicles, but only in my two favorite colors for cars: white or blue.
wow
you have $$$$and my favorite car colors are cordovan and gold/bronze.
Well... only three of them have engines and transmissions in them and only one of them will start without doing a bit of work to it.
I actually need to thin the herd a bit to make my life more orderly and manageable. As of now, two of the vehicles are in the back yard and I need a weed eater to get in them. One is in the garage and two are in the driveway. The oldest car is my first car that I got in 1989 at the age of 15. I also still have my second car that I got when I was 19 and my old truck that I bought new in 1998 and now has over 350,000 miles on it. The other two are my Metros. The combined price for both was $600 and both ran when I bought them (one needed an engine rebuild though). One of the Metros is now used for parts to keep the other one running, but may see a reversal of fortune if I can get enough parts together to build the "ultimate" Geo Metro. The shell is too clean to let it go to waste. BTW, my "Special Interest" = cars, if you couldn't tell.
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04 Aug 2012, 5:43 pm
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04 Aug 2012, 6:28 pm
I haven't tested for my permit yet, but I drive a lot. 
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05 Aug 2012, 1:13 am
outofplace wrote:
Well... only three of them have engines and transmissions in them and only one of them will start without doing a bit of work to it. I actually need to thin the herd a bit to make my life more orderly and manageable. As of now, two of the vehicles are in the back yard and I need a weed eater to get in them. One is in the garage and two are in the driveway. The oldest car is my first car that I got in 1989 at the age of 15. I also still have my second car that I got when I was 19 and my old truck that I bought new in 1998 and now has over 350,000 miles on it. The other two are my Metros. The combined price for both was $600 and both ran when I bought them (one needed an engine rebuild though). One of the Metros is now used for parts to keep the other one running, but may see a reversal of fortune if I can get enough parts together to build the "ultimate" Geo Metro. The shell is too clean to let it go to waste. BTW, my "Special Interest" = cars, if you couldn't tell.
I actually need to thin the herd a bit to make my life more orderly and manageable. As of now, two of the vehicles are in the back yard and I need a weed eater to get in them. One is in the garage and two are in the driveway. The oldest car is my first car that I got in 1989 at the age of 15. I also still have my second car that I got when I was 19 and my old truck that I bought new in 1998 and now has over 350,000 miles on it. The other two are my Metros. The combined price for both was $600 and both ran when I bought them (one needed an engine rebuild though). One of the Metros is now used for parts to keep the other one running, but may see a reversal of fortune if I can get enough parts together to build the "ultimate" Geo Metro. The shell is too clean to let it go to waste. BTW, my "Special Interest" = cars, if you couldn't tell.you got a car at 15?
05 Aug 2012, 2:47 am
MakaylaTheAspie wrote:
I haven't tested for my permit yet, but I drive a lot.
(in the Mad Hatter's voice) Naughty!
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05 Aug 2012, 3:02 am
auntblabby wrote:
outofplace wrote:
Well... only three of them have engines and transmissions in them and only one of them will start without doing a bit of work to it. I actually need to thin the herd a bit to make my life more orderly and manageable. As of now, two of the vehicles are in the back yard and I need a weed eater to get in them. One is in the garage and two are in the driveway. The oldest car is my first car that I got in 1989 at the age of 15. I also still have my second car that I got when I was 19 and my old truck that I bought new in 1998 and now has over 350,000 miles on it. The other two are my Metros. The combined price for both was $600 and both ran when I bought them (one needed an engine rebuild though). One of the Metros is now used for parts to keep the other one running, but may see a reversal of fortune if I can get enough parts together to build the "ultimate" Geo Metro. The shell is too clean to let it go to waste. BTW, my "Special Interest" = cars, if you couldn't tell.
I actually need to thin the herd a bit to make my life more orderly and manageable. As of now, two of the vehicles are in the back yard and I need a weed eater to get in them. One is in the garage and two are in the driveway. The oldest car is my first car that I got in 1989 at the age of 15. I also still have my second car that I got when I was 19 and my old truck that I bought new in 1998 and now has over 350,000 miles on it. The other two are my Metros. The combined price for both was $600 and both ran when I bought them (one needed an engine rebuild though). One of the Metros is now used for parts to keep the other one running, but may see a reversal of fortune if I can get enough parts together to build the "ultimate" Geo Metro. The shell is too clean to let it go to waste. BTW, my "Special Interest" = cars, if you couldn't tell.you got a car at 15?
Yup. It was a freebie because the guy who owned it was told it needed a valve job and it wasn't worth the $250 it would have cost to have it done. A junkyard would only give him $50 for it and so he gave it to me. Turns out that, no, it didn't need a valve job but it needed almost everything else. I learned a lot from it by making plenty of mistakes and jumping in where angels fear to tread. It's still fairly worthless even today, but I did mange to make it fast for a while and use it on the drag strip. With the gearing and exhaust it has, it's also louder than I can tolerate. It's so loud, in fact, that I have to wear ear plugs when driving it on the highway. My other hot rod is much quieter though and I prefer it to my first car.
05 Aug 2012, 3:29 am
05 Aug 2012, 4:41 am
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05 Aug 2012, 7:58 am
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Yup. It was a freebie because the guy who owned it was told it needed a valve job and it wasn't worth the $250 it would have cost to have it done. A junkyard would only give him $50 for it and so he gave it to me. Turns out that, no, it didn't need a valve job but it needed almost everything else. I learned a lot from it by making plenty of mistakes and jumping in where angels fear to tread. It's still fairly worthless even today, but I did mange to make it fast for a while and use it on the drag strip. With the gearing and exhaust it has, it's also louder than I can tolerate. It's so loud, in fact, that I have to wear ear plugs when driving it on the highway. My other hot rod is much quieter though and I prefer it to my first car.
what kind/make of car is that $250 car? just curious.
05 Aug 2012, 8:05 am
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05 Aug 2012, 1:11 pm
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