| RE:What cars from your past do you wish you still had? |
Subject: RE:What cars from your past do you wish you still had? by tobijohn on 2008/1/15 21:18:28 I'm coming from the opposite end of the spectrum. Until I bought my first C4 (an 88 coupe the summer of 89), it was one hand-me-down bucket of bolts or beater POS after another. The only one that might remotely have been a keeper was a 1963 Triumph TR-4 convertible but it was a mess when I got it too. Let's see: my first car was a 1964 Chevy Bel Air station wagon that my father traded some dental work for. A few months later I slid through a stop sign and creamed a guy who was driving his brand new Buick home from the dealership (He was a bit miffed, to say the least). That was followed by 1967 Rambler American from my grandmother who was moving up to a Nova (the tranny went out on that one and although I installed another from a salvage yard, I never could get it to run again). Then came a 1970 Olds Vistacruiser station wagon from the parents (rear axle broke, left it in shopping center parking lot for a few months and then one day, it wasn't there anymore), then the Triumph (which made left turns all by itself because the frame was rusted completely through just behind the drivers side front suspension). I had big plans for the 1969 Chevy panel van which followed but instead, it sat rusting on the side of the house for a year or so, bringing the neighborhood property values way down. Then a 1972 VW bug which even if it had heat, didn't (had to use the ice scraper on the inside of the windshield). And the last junker was a 74 Pinto which everyone called the Flintstone-mobile because the floor panels were completely rusted through (for all I know, it still might be parked in front of the apartment I moved out of in 1987). Not one of those cars was less than ten years old when I got my hands on it and a couple were considerably more. Some were pretty dependable but most were an adventure... |
