How many cars or bikes do you remember owning?

Posted by: Sol Duc

How many cars or bikes do you remember owning? - 05/31/16 06:47 PM



Starting with your first.

1. Mazda 616 (early 70's, not rotary.
2. 73' Chevy Vega, that my bud and I drove to Mexico with no spare and fix a flat in two tires. grin
3. 1970 Chevelle....POS 305CI.
4. Came back from King Crab fishing in Alaska and bought a cherry Alfa Romeo GTV Sprint Veloce.....fast and fun!
5. 1978 Toyota Corolla HB.
6. 1988 Honda Prelude, fun car to drive for a front wheel drive car.
7. 2002 Lexus 300es
8.Ford F150 2003
9. 1965 Chevelle Malibu 283 Power glide..18k miles when I bought it.Selling that one haunts me to no end. I bought it for 4300.00 in 95' and sold it four years later for 8500.00

Motorcycles:
1.Yamaha 175 enduro
2.Suzuki GS 750 with full yoshimura kit.
3.Kawa 1300.
4.2004 KLR 650 that I still own and ride mainly on dirt roads/trails.
Posted by: NickD90

Re: How many cars or bikes do you remember owning? - 06/01/16 10:11 PM

1994 Land Rover Defender 90. Manual 5.0L V8 Perm4x4, 90" base with Detroit lockers, OM Emu shocks, ARB winch - bull bar - full upper rack - lights. Soft / full hard top, bright red. Best stock 4x4 ever built - by far. The lugs were the size of a large walnut. Had it for over a decade as an investment. Sold it to refi my house. It's worth a gosh darn fortune now. $100K plus easily. It was a nightmare to own (Lucas electronics) but oh so sweet when running. I could literally drive over anything.

Hence....NickD90. wink

Oh..and a Huffy or two.....
Posted by: Snake Pliskin

Re: How many cars or bikes do you remember owning? - 06/02/16 08:07 AM

First car: '64 Oldsmobile Jetstar for $150, would fit me and 7 of my friends.
Next: '67 Cuda, not Barracuda
Next: '72 MG midget...was in the shop more than on the road.
Next: '80 Datsun pickup
Next: '84 Plymouth Laser...cool car
Next: '90 Ford F-150
Next: '93 Lexus SC 400...very cool car
Next: '05 Ford F-150
Posted by: Salmo g.

Re: How many cars or bikes do you remember owning? - 06/02/16 08:55 AM

The first was a home conversion of a 1920s or 30s Ford flat bed, flat head, with the fuel tank in front of the dash board, with brakes that mostly didn't work. I was 14 and bought it for $15 to drive around the farm, as it wasn't and couldn't be licensed. Then in succession came:

1955 Chevy street dragster purchased from teenage shade tree mechanic, a mistake I never repeated;
1959 Chevy, not classy, but reliable;
1970 VW, even less class, but more reliable;
1956 GMC pickup;
1976 Dodge pickup;
1980 Datsun pickup;
1979 VW Vanagon;
1982 Puegeot;
1989 Dodge Grand Caravan - great soccer mom and camping rig;
1985 Subaru;
1988 Toyota Camry;
2000 Subaru Outback;
2014 Subaru Outback.

Schwin fat tire;
Raleigh 10 speed;
Diamondback mtn bike;
Rodriguez 27 spd road bike;
Guerciotti 18 spd road bike;
Rivendell Ramboulett 27 spd touring bike;
Eddy Merckz 20 spd road bike;
Bottechia classic 14 spd Italian.
Posted by: Dogfish

Re: How many cars or bikes do you remember owning? - 06/02/16 09:01 AM

1980 Pontiac Sunbird.
1979 Mustang, with a 2.8 liter V6, no less.
1984 Toyota SR5 PU
1989 Ford Ranger. Great truck.
1993 Ford Explorer. Great rig.
2002 Ford F150. Great truck, and I'm still driving it.

My daily drivers have all been $3,000 or less, Volvo 850, Honda Civic, Honda Accord coupe, and Honda Accord. Usually get 3 years out of them, sell them for half of what I got them for, and move on.

1976 Yamaha XS400
1980 Yamaha 650 SECA. Great shaft drive bike.
1984 Yamaha QT50 Yamahopper. Still have it, and I use it as a turn-around when needed.

Posted by: DBAppraiser

Re: How many cars or bikes do you remember owning? - 06/02/16 10:28 AM

First car was a 1973 Buick Century that my Dad bought out of a wrecking yard for $400. it was a pile and then I drove it into a telephone pole.

2nd 1965 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1970 VW Bettle- another pile
1973 Mercury Capri-smoked so bad and there was so much blow by, it would blow the oil cap off during start up.
1970 Ford F250-wife killed the truck on I-5 by Southcenter
1978 F150 4x4
1990 Toyota Camri-POS
1989 Buick lesabre
1973 F250 4x4
1991 Lincoln Town Car-my favorite of them all
2005 Dodge Ram 1500- still driving it today with 190k on it.

I also had a 1984 Kawasaki Spectre 550 that I ran around on
Posted by: Sol Duc

Re: How many cars or bikes do you remember owning? - 06/02/16 02:16 PM

When I rebuilt the top end of my Alfa, the exhaust valves were 60 dollars a piece crazy They were sodium filled, the intake valves were about 10 dollars. Finished up, torqued the head gasket, damn near finished, then dropped a nut in one of the the spark plug holes. cryriver Had to buy a new head gasket and finished the next day. That sports car held 12 quarts of oil, at 50mph it had half of it's HP left, in 5th gear I would blow past V8'S on the freeway. Loved those dual Weber 40's side draft carbs...I had dozens of notes left on my car of people wanting to purchase it.