Emotional attachment to Vehicles

[bellzisu]

HP and torque are equal on the engine 2 and the Honda. The Colorado actually gets its power earlier on in the rpms. If anything an inline engine will feel like it's stronger than similar sized V6 because of the low end torque. So your butt dyno is lying to you. Butt dynos are worthless.

The V8 eats the Honda for lunch.

So your ripping on the Colorados engine makes no sense.

Ok... How about I make it as simple as possible... I didn't like the Colorado. Didn't like the feel, the room, the look, the response on the 4 lanes. None of it.

The V8 would of been sweet though. That might of got me to buy one, but I already had that engine in the full-size.

[Phaedrus]

Well, I am still sad at the day I traded my Toyota Tundra and Audi TT Quattro Roadster off for a Pathfinder. Long story, but with getting married and a large dog, 2 2-seater vehicles wasn't very practical. Our new house, the garage was about 4 inches too short for the truck, I wanted to keep the TT, but I still had 3 years payments, truck payed off, and didn't want 2 payments. Still miss both vehicles.

I also miss my 85 Saab 900 Turbo I drove while attending ISU. Fun car, but horrrrribbbblllleee in snow.

I love me an old style TT. In fact, I might buy one in a year, if my financial stuff works out.

[Arkansas]

The one car that I regretted trading to this day was my '80 Z-28, black with doeskin interior and 4 on the floor and air induction - absolutely LOVED that car. I got mad one winter when it got stuck in snow and traded it for a piece of junk Ford Explorer.

I was attached to the Z-28 but I've had two vettes since then and never batted an eye when I got rid either of them.

[jdoggivjc]

I love me an old style TT. In fact, I might buy one in a year, if my financial stuff works out.

I'm more of an A-series guy myself - 4, 6, and especially 8. I appreciate cars I don't need a shoehorn to get myself in and out of... (although the TT is a hot car)

As for the emotional attachment to a vehicle, about a month after I traded my '97 Monte Carlo in I ended up parking right next to it in a Kwik Shop parking lot (I recognized the body damage). I know it's a car, but part of me was like "that's MY car" and I felt a slight twinge inside (that was almost 4 years ago now). Haven't seen it since, though...

[HOTDON]

You know, some cars I remember fondly, and others not so much. I've held on to my first car, a 1967 Mustang convertible, with right around 30,000 miles on the odometer. I need to take a long look at it before I leave this Friday, for sure.

I had a succession of Mustangs in high school, and totalled a '69 the night before I left for the USSR in 1985, on which trip I met my wife.

We were both attached to our first and only new car; a 1988 Toyota Corolla that she bought while working at a Toyota Dealership. It's name was Sabrina, and it died at the hands of an incompetent windshield replacement company, that induced a transient short somehow when replacing a cracked windshield. (don't ask me how.) And it never fully recovered, though we drove it off and on for a couple years afterwards.

I'm thinking I will be fond of our current cars: a '95 Cherokee and a '95 LeSabre. Both are awesome cars in their own right and will be good for quite a few years into the future, provided we do our share to maintain them.

Interesting. That's a side of you I wouldn't have expected. Admittedly I groaned a bit when you weighed in on the financial side of things, not because I think you're wrong, just because it's far too idealistic a concept for most people to live with. I was starting to think you only had an objective side. Like I said, interesting.

[CycloneErik]

Interesting. That's a side of you I wouldn't have expected. Admittedly I groaned a bit when you weighed in on the financial side of things, not because I think you're wrong, just because it's far too idealistic a concept for most people to live with. I was starting to think you only had an objective side. Like I said, interesting.

Some might be surprised to know that he smiles and has a courteous streak.

[Phaedrus]

Interesting. That's a side of you I wouldn't have expected. Admittedly I groaned a bit when you weighed in on the financial side of things, not because I think you're wrong, just because it's far too idealistic a concept for most people to live with. I was starting to think you only had an objective side. Like I said, interesting.

I am a paradox. (We all are, aren't we?) I am a very emotionally charged person, which forces me to be able to disassociate a lot. Especially in my line of work.

One of my dirty little secrets, is that I become emotionally involved with nearly every person I train or work with. (For obvious reasons, you aren't supposed to) And it tears my guts out to see them hurt or killed. (which is why you aren't supposed to get emotionally involved.) A little over a year ago, 11 soldiers of the 173d Airborne Brigade were killed when their unit improperly occupied a Combat Outpost, which was a task I helped train them on six months earlier. I obviously failed in some fashion.

So when a person on here accuses me of being harsh, or a dick, I rarely get their point, (do they really understand what "harsh" is?) though I do respect their opinion.

Sorry for the maudlin bit. Back to talking about cars. I'll try to get a pic of the Mustang later today, when I'm working in the shop.

[Phaedrus]

Okay, as promised, my "Hot Little Pony" that I purchased new in 1973. Note that it is a 1967 Mustang. A kid taking it for a test drive wrecked it in 1967, and the dealership returned it to Ford, who fixed it, but no one wanted it after that. So, it sat at the Spencer Ford dealer for 6 years. I bought it for the princely sum of $3000, at the tender age of 13. I had earned the money on a pen of 20 feeder cattle, which I sold right before the cattle market collapsed.









Speaking of "Hot Little Ponies", this is what going to High School with a car like this was like...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k8FKdDGD7Y]YouTube - (Hot Little) Pony by Far from Sacramento. The Official Video.[/ame]

That car was pure catnip, man...

[IcSyU]

I bought it for the princely sum of $3000, at the tender age of 13.

[HOTDON]

I am a paradox. (We all are, aren't we?) I am a very emotionally charged person, which forces me to be able to disassociate a lot. Especially in my line of work.

One of my dirty little secrets, is that I become emotionally involved with nearly every person I train or work with. (For obvious reasons, you aren't supposed to) And it tears my guts out to see them hurt or killed. (which is why you aren't supposed to get emotionally involved.) A little over a year ago, 11 soldiers of the 173d Airborne Brigade were killed when their unit improperly occupied a Combat Outpost, which was a task I helped train them on six months earlier. I obviously failed in some fashion.

So when a person on here accuses me of being harsh, or a dick, I rarely get their point, (do they really understand what "harsh" is?) though I do respect their opinion.

Sorry for the maudlin bit. Back to talking about cars. I'll try to get a pic of the Mustang later today, when I'm working in the shop.

I certainly can't claim to even have a real snapshot of who you are from reading things you post here, but this thread has cast a bit of a new light on you. You disassociate quite well based on most of your posts that I've read, enough that I have an admittedly poor reaction to some of them. It's not that I disagree, but they are often quite blunt and suggest that everything in your world is either black or white, while everyone else is drowing in gray. It's really more the context than it is the content, I suppose. The Mustang talk is putting a human shape in front of your robot logic.

That is a nice looking Mustang. I imagine that would be pretty hard to part with.