Cars...

This will either be interesting or not, only one way to find out...
I think (hope) it will be due to the various countries of the people in here.

What car's have you owned and currently own? (include spouses from when you met)

1982 Ford Fairmont Brown/Tan...1st car 4 door, a chick magnet :wink:
1985 Subaru XT AWD Turbo Grey/Grey
1985 Dodge Aries K Silver/Grey :oops:

Wife enters the picture...

1985 Chrysler Lazer Silver/Black...It talked :roll:
1989 Honda CRX Si Silver/Black
1993 Ford Thinderbird SC 5spd Blue/Grey
2000 Honda Accord LX Black/Grey
2003 Honda CR-V EX Black/Black
2003 Honda Accord Cpe 5spd Grey/Black (gauges are my avatar)

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1957 Vauxhaul Victor
1976 Nova Hatchback
1975 Nova SS

Wanting to purchase a 1977 Chevelle....

my ex just got a 1976 Nova Custom SS....I'm so pondering how to get away stealing it..

Reply to CHEEZball

1991 Holden Commodore.

Reply to Action_Man

Too many to list, starting with a 58 Chevy Delray......

Reply to RCPilot

Drat, I was looking forward to your list too!

Reply to KingLoftusXII

OK then!!!!

58 Chevy Delray
62 Pontiac Star Chief
66 GTO
64 Olds F85 Cutlas (sedan)
64 Olds F85 Cutlas (wagon)
69 Ford Fairlane
73 Cutlas Supreme
73 Dodge Van
84 Chevy Van
73 Ford (Plow Truck)
86 Grand AM
89 S-10
92 Delta 88 (248K on it)
98 GMC Highrider
99 Buick LaSally

I think that's about it.... Might have missed 1 or 2 though.....

Reply to RCPilot

GTO...hawt

Reply to CHEEZball

I'm nuts.
I want to ram import car drivers off the road.
Oh yeah, I get a woody when I see a couple imports smashed up on the side of the highway. It's the second best thing in life. The first is playing with a great set of Hooters.

Reply to zpyrd

1960 chevrolet apache 10 (with a '69 thunderbird 429 big block in it, 8))
1993 Buick Century Special
1993 Oldsmobile Achieva
2002 Ford Focus ZTS (still owned)
2003 Ford Focus SE (still owned)

Reply to mrface

64 Ford Fairlane
63 Plymouth Fury
72 Chevy Vega
67? Nova
62 Ford Econline
72 Ford Bronco
61 Ford F-150 4wd
72 Plymouth
74 Toyota Corolla (wagon)
68 Ford F-250
79 Toyota Supra
76 Ford E250 van
89 Ford Aerostar van
74 Toyota Corolla (wagon) (second one)
85 Honda Accord
84 Ford F-150
76 Ford E150 van
91 Chevy Astro van
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97 GMC Safari van
94 Nissan XE 4wd
2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Still driving the last three...

Reply to _WW_

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I'm nuts.
I want to ram import car drivers off the road.
Oh yeah, I get a woody when I see a couple imports smashed up on the side of the highway. It's the second best thing in life. The first is playing with a great set of Hooters.

Hard to tell what's an import now adays. My Accord was built in Ohio.

Reply to KingLoftusXII

RC Pilot will tell you why your Accord was assembled in Ohio.
The same reason the Civic is assembled in Ontario.

It doesn't matter where the car is assembled.
Honda, Toyota, etc. are Japanese companies. GM, Ford and Chrysler are world wide companies. In simple terms, GM Canada is a divison of GM where automobiles are designed built and tested, Honda Canada is a paper company. Honda automobiles are not designed and tested in Canada. Honda assembles cars in Canada just to avoid import tariffs to keep the sticker price low to squeeze out domestic made cars. It's a dirty game. GM is loosing the battle.

I want to support my country's economy by buying a product that increases my country's GDP. Keeps Canadians employed. etc.
Asian car manufacture's are parasites of the North American economy causing it to loose world dominance.

What sucks is some of the Asian made cars are designed and built very well and outlast our own made cars.

Reply to zpyrd

well if it consoles you, I should be driving a european car, but I'm driving an american import!
here's my humble list:
1992 Suzuki Swift (known as Alto at your side of the atlantic, I think)
1995 Pontiac Firebird!

Reply to stefan

The only problem with Asian cars is their quality.

Don't get me wrong, that is problem - an automotive industry is one I think a government needs. Market forces are great in raising standard of living, but some things should be, at least in part, beyond market forces. (Automotive, defense, education, airplane, etc). Where would an independent government be during war/other cataclysm without those things? Dead.

That said, blindly pouring money into any of those things is never a good solution.

Reply to Snorkius

69 El Camino (first car, pic in SS mag ametuer section!)
80 Toyota Crayolla
70 Cutlass Supreme
70 El Camino
79 Chevy Nova
85 Suziki Enduro
89 Ninja 600
97 Chevy 1500
98 Chevy Silverado Custom
00 Chevy Silverado

Reply to RichPLS

Quote :

This will either be interesting or not, only one way to find out...
I think (hope) it will be due to the various countries of the people in here.

What car's have you owned and currently own? (include spouses from when you met)

1982 Ford Fairmont Brown/Tan...1st car 4 door, a chick magnet :wink:
1985 Subaru XT AWD Turbo Grey/Grey
1985 Dodge Aries K Silver/Grey :oops:

Wife enters the picture...

1985 Chrysler Lazer Silver/Black...It talked :roll:
1989 Honda CRX Si Silver/Black
1993 Ford Thinderbird SC 5spd Blue/Grey
2000 Honda Accord LX Black/Grey
2003 Honda CR-V EX Black/Black
2003 Honda Accord Cpe 5spd Grey/Black (gauges are my avatar)

1978 Ford Falcon V 8. Still own and drive the focker.

No aircon, no stereo, door handles are focked, rust marks everywhere, no power steering and the upholstery is only good for a shaggy dog to lie on; but she's got an arse on her like a porno star and I can slam half-a-footy team drunk off their nanas into the back if I need to.

Baybe, she still purs too. Focking fuel bill is outrageous so I only drive her down for a surf on occasion or down to the boozer.

My broad drives a Holden Astra 1999 model. Great chics car.

Reply to BomberBill

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RC Pilot will tell you why your Accord was assembled in Ohio.
The same reason the Civic is assembled in Ontario.

It doesn't matter where the car is assembled.
Honda, Toyota, etc. are Japanese companies. GM, Ford and Chrysler are world wide companies. In simple terms, GM Canada is a divison of GM where automobiles are designed built and tested, Honda Canada is a paper company. Honda automobiles are not designed and tested in Canada. Honda assembles cars in Canada just to avoid import tariffs to keep the sticker price low to squeeze out domestic made cars. It's a dirty game. GM is loosing the battle.

I want to support my country's economy by buying a product that increases my country's GDP. Keeps Canadians employed. etc.
Asian car manufacture's are parasites of the North American economy causing it to loose world dominance.

What sucks is some of the Asian made cars are designed and built very well and outlast our own made cars.

Also they're built here to avoid currency fluctuations. As you see, my first
cars were American (the Subi was given to me) and when I met my wife
she had the Lazer. But then she bought that little Honda CRX and we stuck
with them ever since. (I bought the T-Bird before the CRX) I would love
to buy American again, I really would but My Honda Accord 4 banger is
quicker than most comparable American 6's and get's almost 40mpg on
the highway. Of the 4 Honda's we've had we only had one problem on
1. The 2000 Accord's fan switch went bad leaving the fan on all the time.
$50. Relability, resale value, fit and finish, if the Big 3 catch up, I'll go back, but until then...

As for GDP, the people employed in Ohio surely add to it. As does Honda,
Toyota, Nissan, etc. building plants here while the big 3 move 'em out.

Reply to KingLoftusXII

I would have thought it to be "un-American" in the extreme not to buy Ford.

You're rightt about Honda though and in particular the Civics they had in the 90s which were very good little four-bangers.

Mate, we sell what is a Holden Monaro (V8) over your way under the pontiac badge, I believe.

Very, very, very nice...

http://www.holden.com.au/www-holde [...] elid=12001

Reply to BomberBill

My dads mate has one, very cool. He even let me have a drive. Lucky for him he was there or I wouldn't have come back!

Bomber mate where you been?

Reply to Action_Man

Yeah, here it's the Pontiac GTO. 400hp Corvette engine. She'll move!

Reply to KingLoftusXII

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My dads mate has one, very cool. He even let me have a drive. Lucky for him he was there or I wouldn't have come back!

Bomber mate where you been?

Very 8) 8) 8)

Mate, one day we may be able to buy a second-hand one. :lol: :lol:

I went fishing for a week bud. The second degree fell through and the old man was going up to Fraser Island (our family holiday spot of 25 years) so I went up with him and did some fishing and relaxing.

Bloody good fun mate. Great week but a bit warm. Winter fishing is much better, of course.

I hope you're well, mate.

Reply to BomberBill

Ah coolness. How'd that go?

I'm well been enjoying my time off with my good mate jack daniels.

Reply to Action_Man

In order...

1988 Jeep Cherokee
1996 Chevy S-10
1980 Chevy Camaro Z-28
1994 Jeep Cherokee
1996 Chevy Lumina
2005 Madza 6 (current car)

All my cars have been used up until my new Mazda. My Cherokee's were the best vehicles ever. Everything else died or was totaled in the half a dozen car wrecks I've been in. (none of which were my fault... bad luck I suppose)

Reply to mpjesse

oh! wrecks, I've been in:
1989 mothers Honda Accord (between 2 trees)
1990 friends BMW 528i (between road and abyss)
1992 friends Lancia HF Integrale (3 rolls in the fields)
1994 my own Suzuki (I stopped in a lorry, I was very drunk, man that was expensive!)
so no more money to ruin cars for a while, next crash was a few years later:
2002 Yamaha TDM 850 (bike: a car shot me off it)

Reply to stefan

1987 gmc s-15 4x4
1994 gmc sonoma 4x4
2003 kia sorento

All 4x4, for rural winter road...

Reply to pat

1986 Jeep Cherokee Laredo <- it was good for a few years...
1991 Toyota 4Runner <- Fun car but costs to much to operate
(Big jump)
2005 VW MKIV GTI 1.8t <- awesome car tons of power when the turbo kicks in, definatly a keeper... 8)

Reply to webdog

Then:
Me:
1994 Ford Escort LX (ugh!)

Wife:
Dodge Omni. . . don't remember the trim or year
1992 Geo Metro (the car that wouldn't die!)

Now:
2003 Honda Civic LX

Reply to dwellman

Still on my first one. 8)

2000 Ford Ranger

Reply to Forlorn

Quote :

Now:
2003 Honda Civic LX

What? Huh? Who? Dear Lord! A consevative in a Honda Civic?

*falls out of chair*

Admit it-you're a liberal greenie! :wink:

Reply to KingLoftusXII

'83 Chrysler New Yorker - "A door is ajar" SHUT UP! from parents
'85 Ford LTD Crown Vic - the SuperBoat! from parents
'84 Jeep Cherokee - bought from friend
'97 Jeep Wrangler Sport, currently w/ 170K+ miles on it.

Since we've been together, the cars I've purchased with / for wifey were
'02 Dodge Stratus - totaled after she was rear ended
'04 Chrysler Sebring - replacement car, decent little ride

Reply to JustPlainJef

After owning a Ford Escort and a baby on the way, we decided I needed one of the most reliable cars on the market. We were going to get a used one becasue we didn't think we could afford a new one.

Long story short: $100.00 over invoice, right off the truck (they had already met their yearly goal). Best part: we paid it off in 12 months.

Kind thinking of getting an Element now. But the wife wants a van. Ugh.

Reply to dwellman

Way too many to list... But will cover the highlights

1st car 1967 malibu w/a 307(had been a 250 6pin sewingmachine motor)

One of my fav's was a 1964 Olds 98 2dr rag top

lets see a 67 Goat

A 69 Nova with a 396 (Ohh Bad ass ride)

Currently a 1969 Buick Riveria powder blue w/ sandal interior & vinyl top & a big Old 430... I love The young turks that plaster a big 5.0 sticker in their mustangs rear window... I walk up & say 5.0 now thats a cute lil' motor & they allways respond quickly well whats that thing got?.... In Litres?... 7.0 sonny....Oh :lol:

Reply to AilingBlackLab

I kid because I care. Element is nice, based on the CR-V. My wifes CR-V
was bought new 3 years ago next month. 54,000miles and not so much as
a warning light or a burnt out bulb. Oil changes, wipers, and tires-that's it.
Only downside is the 22mpg average.

Congrats on the baby!

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