What do you drive?
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Drove a stick for the first time in years recently at the auto show. Ford kid said he'd have to take over the driving if I killed the car.
After some high speed passing and a few well executed downshifts the kid said he "liked my style"
Manual transmission is hella fun when the traffic is light. Heavy traffic and a manual are a bad combo.
The new manual transmissions shift very smoothly. I was impressed even if it was a Ford!
2007 Chevy Monte Carlo SS. Picture below isn't my car but it's the same color scheme I have. It's been a fun ride to own but will be a sad day to see it go later this year. With a newborn having a 2 door isn't quite ideal anymore and will be trading it in for a SUV.
I drove a Daytona before we found Baby...if you floored it for a peelout start, the turbo kicked in & pushed the car hard left, so you had to be an experienced, SMART driver in that car. It was something of a lemon, and we got tired of nickle & diming it (plus we found Baby, my dream car), so we put the Daytona up for sale. It was pretty sweet looking; the stupid original owner put a bra on it though, and that basically allowed gravel up under to destroy the finish on the front end. As long as you left the bra on, the car looked great. This guy wanted to buy it...for his son's 16th birthday. We have never tried so hard to talk someone out of buying a car as we did with that guy - told him about the finish, told him about the hard pull with the turbo, told him all the bugs, because we knew what was going to happen. He finally broke us down. Kid wrapped it around a telephone pole a week later. Fortunately, he wasn't hurt seriously. I really wanted to hunt that dad down and cuss him out for being so dang stupid, though.
Girl here had a somewhat similar story. Tried to talk a young marine out of buying her Corvette. By the sound of it the guy was lucky to survive. Wrecked it on his way back to Camp Pendleton is what I'm told.
My latest purchase 2014 Silverado (pic from web, but almost identical):
Petey, next time you chat with Papalew, ask him about his YoYo...
Yeah....but they were cool!
I still find it hard to believe that today's Honda Accord V-6 could take the Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am in a race.
I never, ever want to see this. A part of my soul would die
I owned a 2000 Trans Am WS-6 with a six speed and thought I was going to have one of those stories as well. Same situation - kid turning 16 and pops was going to buy him a new ride. We meet at Home Depot so he can check out the car and he says something to the effect of "wow! this looks fast!". It didn't take me long to realize he didn't know anything about cars and his kid probably tracked it down. I ask him if he's sure this is the first car he wants to buy his kid. He asks why. I tell him "well, you said it looked fast, and it is." He asks how fast. "It will do 140mph in 1/2 a mile, and I've had it going 155. It might go a little faster than that." Fortunately, that was the end of the showing. He thanked me for showing him the car and walked away. His kid scowled at me.
Not long after, a cute couple in their early 20's who had just gotten out of the military took a look at it. They both loved the way it looked so we went out for a test drive. I puttered around, then headed towards the interstate. I asked the husband if he wanted to drive. He said no, which was weird (he may not have known how to drive a stick). I figured if they were interested in a car like this, they wanted to have some fun. I slid it sideways onto an exit ramp and then went through the first three gears, which didn't even last long enough to get us on the interstate. The wife looked green and the husband didn't react at all. I thought he'd have a smile or something. There goes that sale.
I drove straight back to Home Depot. Everyone got out, I said "thanks for looking at it, if you decided you're interested give me a call", just wanting to leave knowing this isn't going anywhere. The husband looks at me and says "we'll take it." Huh? Ummm, OK, great! I have it listed for $18,900. "That's fine. Do you take cashier's checks?" Yes I do! We drove straight to the bank, signed a few papers, cashed the checks and they took off with the car. I had to call my girlfriend to get a ride home.
Aaaarrrgggghhhhhh!!!! To follow up on my Trans Am story, I regretted selling it and bought another one four years later that was nearly identical. Everything works fine....except the stupid, stupid headlights. I've had them apart more times than I can count, replaced the stupid nylon gears with brass, replaced both motors....they're still junk. I'm strongly considering putting in thin LEDs in place of the pop-ups. They would look nice, but it's stock and I don't want to mess with it. The complete housing for the lights is $850...for one. And almost all of them at the junkyard are junk too.
I hate the fact that most cars on the road look the same nowadays. You have about five body types, and that's it. Take the emblems off and you can't tell a Ford from a Chevy from a Dodge...
Line up a Goat, a Stang, a Roadrunner, a Challenger, and a Chevelle - you KNEW which one was which...
If the car has to have "MUSTANG" or "CAMARO" written across the rear end, it doesn't qualify (as far as I'm concerned!).
My first new car was a 1978 Cutlass, two door with vinyl over the back. It was one of the first "down sized" cars. Great car. Any rate, I eventually traded it for a 1986 4 door Honda Accord, 5 speed---with yes the pop up headlights. One of the first mainstream imports,,many new standard features, that are now universal. Changed forever how Americans viewed automobiles.
You mean it was finally proven that cars didn't automatically leak oil, break down at 75,000 miles amd rust as you pulled out of the dealership?
:shocked::shocked::shocked:
And yes, of course the old 924S is a manual transmission!
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