When I was a soph. in college in '71 my dad bought a '70 Ford Maverick that had been traded in at the local dealer. He handed me the keys and said I owed him $1200 and could pay $50 per month. The car cost $1995 new and had about 25k miles. I said thanks and never complained. The car had a nice inline six and "three on the tree." I kept it for two years, paid it off and saved my extra money and when I was a senior, I sold it for $900 and bought a '69 Triumph TR6 for $2500. I drove the TR6 for about two years and then went to Alaska with the Air Force and left it with my brother in Alabama. After a year in Alaska I got orders to Germany for two years so I sold the TR6. When I got to Germany in '77, I bought a '73 MB 220D.

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Bruce

73 220D (never left Germany)
81 300D (totaled)
84 300D (Purchased '03, sold '17)
85 300SD (purchased 10/01/03)

I think I had car horniness even before I had girl horniness! Even though I was only 15 (in 1985), I hocked my amp to a friend for $500 and bought a 1964 Dodge Model 440 4 door from this family of hillbillies across town who ran hemicars at the local dragstrip. They had turned this thing into a parts repository for everything that didn't make it into their race cars - a 70s cop 360, headers, suregrip (positraction), slapper bars, a left over 2 barrel from a van, hood pins (!), snow tires and Cragar 5 spokers. I was about 8 months away from a licence, so I spent the whole winter doing bodywork on it and idling it in the driveway. I put in a tach and an 8 track player, helper springs and air shocks, cranked the torsion bars down low, and flipped the air cleaner upsidedown because IT SOUNDS COOLER, DUDE!

After finally getting my license I took it to the strip and turned a disappointing 16.2. Couldn't get any traction with the snow tires. My first semester in college I sold it to a friend for $800, so I guess I didn't do too bad. I upgraded myself to a 1967 slant 6 Valiant.

Kip Amore
-gearhead-

I was way ahead of almost everybody, I had a SUV in 1956. It was bought a Willys Utility Wagon It had 4WD and a 4 cylinder flat head Jeep 75 HP engine that wouldn't get out of it own way.

Later I put a 55 ford V8 in it. It was fast on acceleration with the 5.56 differentials but top speed was only about 75. Never needed the low range in the transfer case anymore. It would go up any off road hill in high range.

I still have it. It hasn't run for 30 years, the V8 finally tore out the transmission gears. Just sits up in the field.

P E H

Now heres a man with a heart like mine.

Had it not been for my ex-wife, my first car would still be in my possesion.
She had my '67 chevy, a '68 t-bird with sucide doors and a fresh motor and tranny [ too rusty to pass insp.] and a great condition '69 bird, no motor or tranny but everything else A-1, towed to the junkyard [in 1985] while I was at work.

I throw nothing away-except my ex!!! Tossed her not long after she junked my cars

Cheers,

Bill

Which I still miss.

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1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, the boxy 4-door version, not the cool 2-door one. Looked like this ( http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/503572 ), but mine was dark blue. My dad got it cheaply in 1988 or 1989 as it was a company car turned in by one of his salespeople, then sold it to my mom for my use. I was not asked to pay anyone back for it, but I was expected to pay for maintenance, gas, and insurance. All my grocery store and restaurant income went into that car, and into flying lessons It was eventually given to my stepbrother after he ran all the oil out of his Blazer, and I got a 1988 Buick LeSabre my dad was finished with. Now that Buick was a very nice car, with a decent amount of power.

1952 Ford Flat Head V8 with 3 on tree, and electric overdrive in 1962 my Jr year at HS. I paid $200 for the car and drove it till I went into USN in Oct '63 after graduating HS in May of '63. My parents gave it to my youngest sister in Dec of '63 to drive. She traded it for a new '67 Ford in '67 and I never got my $200 from her either.

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'10 Chrysler T&C Stow-N-Go White. Grandpa's ride.

'13 Chrysler 200 Touring Candy Red. Grandma's ride.

Age and cunning will always over come youth and vigor.

1972 Olds Delta 88. Yellow with green interior, and the loudest seatbelt buzzer ever made, with huge red light. Was my fathers work car for 5 years before I had it. At least it was a 2 door. Got a "hi-tech" under dash mounted 8 track installed. Have audio systems come a little ways since then or what....
Jimmy

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

1965 volvo 122s I still own this car. I begged my parents to help me buy it. It has twin su carbs three point seat belts and front disc brakes. White exterior with red interior four doors. Hopefully one day i will find the money and the time to restore it.

1966 Chevy Van with a '71 Pontiac 6 cylinder and 3 on the tree. Plexiglass front windshield, railroad tie for a front bumper, red shag carpet all around the inside, mirrored back windows. I bought it for $300 in 1976. My dad was in the Navy and we lived on base - I think he got written up by base police every other day because of that railroad tie front bumper Went to many a concert in Chicago with that thing. My have times changed

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'85 300D - 206K (sold)
'81 240D - 149K (sold)
'03 Jetta TDI - (sold)
'79 300D - (sold)

I shared a VW beetle with my mother. I was young, she was young at heart, and we bought a '62 w/ full baja conversion, exposed engine, stingers, oversize rear tires, cutoff fenders, a wild paint job, short leg tranny, 69' 1600cc engine, etc. 1500$ as I recall. We drove the thing all over the place, sharing the drive, and sharing the maintainence. She later bought a second bug, and then a third.

I moved out, bought an Aprilia SR50 scooter, 50ccs of two-stroke heaven. Drove it for a few years in Colorado, California, and Missouri. Then it was stolen by savages in MO... Finally recovered it, trashed. They caught the guy, but he was a 17 year old from a poor family and NO money... Blood from a turnip. I didn't have comprehensive insurance on it, so I started saving my cash to fix it (estimate was 1400$, but I was going to do it myself for about $600). When I finally got the cash to fix it, I took it to the shop to get a few things done that I couldn't do myself, the next night they had a breakin, and the scooter was stolen along with a bunch of their BMW and Aprilia bikes!! So their insurance bought me a 2001 Aprilia SR50 (this time the revolutionary fuel injected two-stroke version!). I also owned an 84 Honda Aero 125. Despite having 150% more ccs than my Aprilias, it was slower! Only paid 300$ for it though. It still lives with my friend who drives it all the time.

I now drive the new scooter all the time, I put about 2500 miles per year on it (pretty good, considering that it never goes on the highway).

Finally decided that four wheels would be nice, so I just bought a 300TD. Can't have a 'regular' vehicle!

peace,
Sam

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"That f***in' biodiesel is makin' me hungry."

1982 300TD Astral Silver w/ 250k (BIO BNZ)
2001 Aprilia SR50 Corsa Red w/ 5.5k (>100 MPG)

mine was my 300sd i payed $300 and i have had it a little over a year now

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have no worries.....President Obama swears "If you like your gun, you can keep it

60 Chevy Carryall that sat for 10 years in a barn at a boy scout camp. Dad bought it for $50 bucks and towed it home for Christmas when i was 16. Best gift I ever got. Had it running by spring, drove it thru high school and in college. More good memories and stories than I could ever type

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'82 300SD - 361K mi - "Blue"

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

listen, look, .........and duck.

1960 Austin Healey. $995 in 1961 w/4,000 miles. Two years later my father helped me put a 327 Chevy engine and auto trans in it. A real death trap.

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You can get farther with a smile and a gun than you can with just a smile.

1984 300D
1985 300CD
1980 300SD
1993 SL500

1966 Chevy Impala that was also my mothers first car. Had the small 283 V8 but she would still float. I thought it was neat to watch the gas guage move; till I had to put gas in it. That was in 1990 and it sits in my brothers garage now with 83k on the odometer. Not cherry but all original and one cool sled.

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1980 300sd 225k+(mine, daughters jungle gym)
2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara(mine)
2003 Navigator(hers and the banks)