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talkpolitics2013-06-21 09:09 pm
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Friday LOLs. A drive down memory lane
They'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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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).