Cars, my downfall in life-
77 Camaro. Rusty Hawaiian POS. Learned Teenage wire butchery on it.
69 Camaro - remodeled parents garage with motor oil, tools and antifreeze. Started family fights reguarly
89 Acura - Parents made me. See aforementioned car. College dropout vehicle. Lowered, tint, stereo ($12k in music!), etc. etc. A trend quickly forms that I shall became notorious for .
80 633 CSI. POS. Bought this car wrong, 1st german car. lowered blah blah
86 325 ES. One of the best cars I've owned. Paid too much though. Dropped springs, the usual crap
90 Corvette. Traded my beloved BMW for this POS. 24K on clock, and had squeaks and rattles. Learned the reality of GM in the 90's with this car. Worst car I've owned. Chipped, custom exhuast, big beats. Needed hobby car so I bought a:
67 Camaro. Started life with 250/6/pglide/10 bolt. Ended with 408SB/T350 -3500 stall / 4:10 12 bolt. Beautiful car, ran 11's. Surprise surprise-lowered on Weld's. Now my neighbors hate me!
Got tired of huge gas bills and Vette part bills so those two sat in garage and bought another daily driver:
69 Bug. $400.00 drove forever. Cheap and rusty. Couldn't pick up chicks with it though. Not lowered or anything!
Tired of everything, sold Vette, Camaro (huge mistake, still kicking myself), and the bug and bought a:
91 Taurus SHO. Overrated, but OK car. Beats. Lasted a whole 2 mos. w/o hotrods so bought a:
95 Formula Firebird. AKA: screaming chicken. Quickly reminded of GM quality, so sold it. Nothing but power programmer. Traded Taurus afterwards for (biggest mistake yet)
99 Chrysler Sebring LXI. Eibachs, big beats, about as firm as a rotten Watermelon when comes to resale value. I looked stupid driving it so sold it and decided to take a break from everything. Bought an:
84 GTI. Wonderful car. Ugly, but got me everywhere. My only car for 1 year. No car payments, I can save and pay $$$ for next rig, no desire to modify (except big stereo, gotta do SOMETHING to it) whist I pondered what would eventually end this quest for the PERFECT hotrod.
Then I discovered it (so I thought)
81SC. Bought 7/2002. Same week get as a gift my
77 Mercedes from Uncle. Promptly dumped way more $$$ into Porsche than anyone with a working brain should. Given my past history, it was par for the course. Love it, but 7 month itch is coming up, possibly a trade for - the NEW ideal car:
A 73 RS clone, or a nice 930?
any takers?
rjp