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talkpoliticsThey're beautiful little metal beasts. And we love'm so much. Vintage cars. They're like a drive down memory lane, and remind us of the good times of old.
Do you have any? Or have you had and old car at some point? What kind of car was it? Which fave places did it bring you to? GOT PICS???
This baby over here is my hubby's old Ford Capri 1971. He finally managed to renovate it a few months ago, and so this little baby is shining in front of home once again. It's Bordeaux-wine red, has a vinyl roof and original rostyle wheel rims (very rare). 3-gear automatic transmission still in perfect condition and the engine ticks over beautifully. Fave place it has brought me to? Simons Town on the Cape Peninsula - a very Mediterranean-looking place, and quite fitting for a Ford Capri, IMO. :)
Do you have any? Or have you had and old car at some point? What kind of car was it? Which fave places did it bring you to? GOT PICS???
This baby over here is my hubby's old Ford Capri 1971. He finally managed to renovate it a few months ago, and so this little baby is shining in front of home once again. It's Bordeaux-wine red, has a vinyl roof and original rostyle wheel rims (very rare). 3-gear automatic transmission still in perfect condition and the engine ticks over beautifully. Fave place it has brought me to? Simons Town on the Cape Peninsula - a very Mediterranean-looking place, and quite fitting for a Ford Capri, IMO. :)
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Date: 21/6/13 08:48 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21/6/13 08:55 (UTC)It's here I sit and rust amid this ruin and rancor
Like tire irons, toothy grills and car parts before me
The acid rain floods my floorboard, burns my pores and rots my upholstery
Once I was worshiped, polished magnificently
Now I lay in decay by the dirty angry bay
I'm ready to leave, I wanna be out of here
I'm ready to ride away, I don't wanna die in here
I'm ready to ride
My skin is metallic now, no longer an elegant powder blue
My body unhinged and sleeping in the jungle
Of motor block manifolds and metal relics
What was deluxe becomes debris, I never questioned loyalty
But this dead end demolishes the dreams of an open highway
I'm ready to leave, I wanna be out of here
I'm ready to ride away, I don't wanna die in here
I'm ready to ride
Dig me, but don't bury me
First car was a 1969 Ford Mustang with a 302w. The floor was rusted out in the back seat, so those kids had to watch their feet.
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Date: 21/6/13 09:18 (UTC)Then we had a Lada.
Now I have a VW Golf 3, but it ain't exactly "vintage".
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Date: 21/6/13 09:21 (UTC)^ The Batak dam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batak_Reservoir).
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Date: 21/6/13 15:40 (UTC)I'm guessing a low-geared transmission with a lot of torque? Was it a front-wheel drive?
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Date: 21/6/13 10:05 (UTC)& the Yugo.
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Date: 21/6/13 10:08 (UTC)Some harsh old jokes from the comments section below the video:
How do you double the value of a Yugo? Put a gallon of milk in the back seat.
What do Yugos have in common with Ferraris? A Ferrari goes from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds. A Yugo goes from 0 to 4 in 60 seconds.
A friend went to a dealer the other day and said, "I'd like a gas cap for my Yugo." The dealer replied, "Okay. Sounds like a fair trade."
How do you make a Yugo go faster? Throw out the passenger.
What is the difference between a golf ball and a Yugo? You can drive a golf ball 200 yards."
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Date: 21/6/13 15:42 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21/6/13 16:52 (UTC)Your poor co-worker, driving a Yugo. I still want one, though.
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Date: 21/6/13 21:07 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 22/6/13 01:48 (UTC)Not to drive of course, it'll have it's special place in the sheds with oil pans built in :P
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Date: 21/6/13 12:03 (UTC)The engine seized up after the radiator died. Never got it to run again.
Second card was a 1993 Cadillac Deville, white with red cracked leather, and a creaky engine.
Bought it for like 75 bucks from a friend whose brother had died. My father sold it to a day laborer for like 250.
My next car was a 1988 Mazda 323, virtually the same, even the paint job, as this one:
It's transmission died as I was leaving school; spent like 1000 bucks to get it fixed. It never ran well again. Sold it for like 500 afterwards.
I never have had a good run of cars.
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Date: 21/6/13 13:58 (UTC)It was incredibly impractical and pretty uncomfortable, what's not to love?
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Date: 21/6/13 14:19 (UTC)My first car was damn near as old as me- a 1976 Dodge Aspen sedan. My dad called 'the gray ghost' because it was originally some kind of silver-gray color, but it had faded to several distinctly different colors of gray and was primered other colors of gray in rusty spots (although it did inherit a blue body panel after a broken tie rod sent me into a guy's fence one day). Oh, and it did have the remains of a maroon vinyl top- because, hey, who doesn't want a hardtop that does a piss-poor job of looking like a convertible (no offense, OP)? Ugly as sin, with persistent electrical problems, but shortly before I got it it belong to a buddy of mine who totally rebuilt a 318 V-8 and dropped into it. So yeah, at least the engine ran great and it was surprisingly fast. I don't think I have any photos, but if I ever find another Aspen like it for cheap I might consider a rebuild project. For decades my dad had a '71 F-100 pickup with a 3/4 ton rear end and a 390 automatic- very much a towing and hauling truck. I drove that for a good long while, too. Sadly, hurricane Claudette dropped an ash tree on it and totally crushed it in 2003. Losing that truck was almost like losing a family member.
As for myself, I would love to restore a classic vehicle. My current favorites are lead sled Mercurys (not chopped and lowered, though- I prefer a factory restore), any old COE truck, and anything Cord ever made (fat chance of that, though).
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Date: 21/6/13 15:39 (UTC)Still, I miss it. It was my college car, the car I drove to my first job, the car that I drove to meet my girlfriend for the first time in. Even though I've been driving an automatic for years now, sometimes I find myself reaching for the clutch.
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Date: 21/6/13 16:13 (UTC)God, I still do that- and rest my hand on the gearshift. I had my Scion for a couple of years before my sister realized that it was an automatic! That's what happens when you drive nothing but sticks for, like, a decade straight.
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Date: 21/6/13 16:15 (UTC)Good times.
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Date: 21/6/13 15:47 (UTC)In college, I had a 1980 Chevy Chevette. Actually one of the most reliable cars I've every owned.
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Date: 21/6/13 16:18 (UTC)Please tell me it was covered in brightly-painted flowers and peace signs and had shag carpeting inside!
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Date: 21/6/13 16:15 (UTC)And 2 years later I purchased a brand new Toyota 4WD.
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Date: 21/6/13 17:21 (UTC)Except in black and probably worse condition. By the time I sold it, it was made as much out of parts of coffee cans and bailing wire as original parts. Not a bad car, it survived quite a long time after I had it. It's actually basically the same car as the Mazda 323 up there.
My second car was this:
In a time when ford was known as bad quality, it was actually a pretty damn good car. I never had any problems with it. Fairly peppy V8 engine. Pretty luxurious for its time too.
Not horrible for a car I got fairly cheap. I ended up finally getting rid of it when I had to move half-way across the country. No way I could move my stuff in that.
Now I drive this:
A fairly functional little vehicle.
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Date: 22/6/13 01:46 (UTC)It had an irish green interior. Rally suspension, worked 2 litre engine. The thing was a rocket. I got it when I was 16 and learnt to drive in it (we can't drive without a full licensed driver until we're 18 here). The day after my 18th birthday I got my provisional license (can drive alone, but not drink). Four days after that I had put the escort sideways into a dirt embankment, completely bending the chassis.
My brother ended up cutting it down the middle, putting it up against a wall and putting photos of the other side 10m up the wall. It was his graduation piece from art school, made the papers and everything :P
Still the best car I've ever had. Such amazing fun. I could fix just about the whole car with a screw driver and a shifter and things found on the side of the road. Between my brother and I we had about a dozen escorts. In the end we had a mint condition shell and the crazy motor out of my yellow peril, but my dad decided to sell them on us to clear room in his shed when they were worth about $300. Now that shell would be worth a few thousand :/
To make it up to us, he's promised not to sell one of his mustangs (my brother's):
1970 Convertible, Burgundy, White Interior
nor the merc (me):
1979 450slc Convertible, Blue, Blue Interior.
They're both great fun on long straight highways, you just don't want to turn corners in them :P That's OK there's also a series 1 and series 2 MX5 in the shed :P Then there's the utes, trucks, sedans, motorbikes, go karts, boats and tractors. Our family has many, many motors.
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