Let's talk about cars!

[TontoedRanger]

Old ones, new ones, funky ones, even not cars.


I have this junky old car sitting in a relatives yard. I really need to get rid of that scrap thing.


So, about the time it became too tired to roll, I bought it out of necessity. Had to have something. So I didn't take time to check it out.

First mistake I made - had all the fluids changed. Every single one. And changed the transmission screens/filter.

Was $800 too much to pay for all that fluid stuff?

There's other things I have done to it - cause I seen potentional and reasonably low miles.

But really, I never met a car I didn't like. I hate this one w/a passion - but would like to make a buck or 2 and have someone more capable than me to prepare it to sale w/out ripping someone off. It's a GM Chevy, of course.

 

[SpeareChucker]

I save my car talk for Wat's thread.



Maybe von_Bismarck could lie to you about the car he wishes he could own.

Any car. Even a toy car with the pedals...

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

I own a car. It's how I get places. Right now I have a leaky tire.

 

[TontoedRanger]

I own a car. It's how I get places. Right now I have a leaky tire.

Ask Sean how to fix that.

 

[TontoedRanger]

I save my car talk for Wat's thread.



Maybe von_Bismarck could lie to you about the car he wishes he could own.

Any car. Even a toy car with the pedals...

I had one of those airplane toys with pedals when I was little. That thing could fly!

 

[SpeareChucker]

We had sticks, rocks and mud...


At Christmas we got socks.

Dad did have a parade of cars, a '53 chevy, a '63 Corvair and a '67 Chevy II.
The rest of the family got packed into the BelAir station wagon.

 

[HisArpy]

We had sticks, rocks and mud...


At Christmas we got socks.

Dad did have a parade of cars, a '53 chevy, a '63 Corvair and a '67 Chevy II.
The rest of the family got packed into the BelAir station wagon.

In my family, we all got packed into the Corvair. I think it was a 66 or 67, the newer body style.

 

[SpeareChucker]

The station wagon had curtains so that after the kid's movie we could not watch the adult's movie (even though we had to listen to it).

The damnest thing about that is that the screen we could see out of the side windows was usually what would be considered an X, if not XXX movie by todays standards. Kids learn things in the funniest of manner...

 

[SpeareChucker]

Dad's Corvair was a convertible to boot.

 

[rae121452]

i always wanted a corvair. about 1983 i finally bought one, a 62? or 63?. that car hated my fucking guts. anyone else could drive it but if i got behind the wheel it would completely die within 10 minutes. i couldn't even drive it around the block. i let it sit for a year, then gave it to my nephew who said he needed a car to get back and forth to work. he sold it the same day for drug money. beware of what you wish for.

 

[HisArpy]

i always wanted a corvair. about 1983 i finally bought one, a 62? or 63?. that car hated my fucking guts. anyone else could drive it but if i got behind the wheel it would completely die within 10 minutes. i couldn't even drive it around the block. i let it sit for a year, then gave it to my nephew who said he needed a car to get back and forth to work. he sold it the same day for drug money. beware of what you wish for.

I finally got rid of my last "project car" about 10 years ago. It was an MGB GT that had been sitting in my driveway for about 5 years. It ran but needed restoring. I sold it to a guy who was going to do a father/son project with it.

 

[thør]

I have this junky old car sitting in a relatives yard. I really need to get rid of that scrap thing.

A lovely gift for the relatives.

 

[TarBeach]

I finally got rid of my last "project car" about 10 years ago. It was an MGB GT that had been sitting in my driveway for about 5 years. It ran but needed restoring. I sold it to a guy who was going to do a father/son project with it.

Damn, That was my ' first' car.. paid in full back in 1972. It was a 1971 MGBGT, White, with 2 - 6V batteries under the 'rumble seat'. Had to fill them with 'fluid', what a PITA.. It was a Fun car. Duel Webber carboratores. Finicky in damp weather, - typical of the time for Morris Garage..ie UK.. But had a lot fun, for both me and my girlfriend at the time. - Brings back great mamories. I got a pic of it somewhere..!!

 

[Hal9000_]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOMcAlO7rQ

 

[TarBeach]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOMcAlO7rQ

that's a Hoot..!!

 

[InsightRiot]

They get me from point A to point B, that's all I care about.

Driving past the hood is funny. Shithole homes with really nice, expensive, gas guzzling vehicles parked out front. They got their priorities all fucked up an sheeeeiiit.

 

[Chernosoth]

There are relatives who will need new rides soon. I bike past car dealers frequently, so I stop at some occasionally. The inventory looks all so similar that I tend to skim over the vehicles and miss what they actually are. Mostly SUVs, crossovers, and a few sedans. I take a closer look and notice they are mostly worthless crap that's not worth the cost of registering a car. One is a Toyota. Toyotas get good reviews, but damn that is an ugly front end on that RAV4, like it was hit with a huge uppercut. The current marketing of cars with angry faces fits the national mood of anger, but the anger will pass, and then all those used cars will be just ugly.

 

[MidKnight1378]

If I ever hit the lottery (a big one) I’m going to get a 1963 Corvette Coupe with 4 speed transmission. 63 coupe is the one with the split rear window, I think they’re the most beautiful automobile ever produced. Nice ones sell for 1/2 a million USD.

 

[Chernosoth]

Various mechanics on youtube have noted nothing made now has the durability of some older models that can run 500,000 miles. In newer cars, there are many layers of fragile plastic parts. Changing one little part can be engine out, and then engine out again a few months later to change another little part. Repair costs quickly add up to more than the value of the car. The carmakers will be forced to change their business models as more people realize they can't afford to drive fragile junk. Durable older models are passing factory new in price.

 

[Xxllrs69xx]

We have an electric car. I swore I would never drive one. But since our 10 year old BMW was becoming more and more unreliable and expensive to maintain we had no choice but to lease our new electric car. No regrets to be honest. Still have the old BMW as a backup car but the new electric one tick so many boxes - space, comfort, features.