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01-19-2006, 08:58 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Boring, OR
Posts: 14,608
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Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
May as well cover all the bses on the old car theme. :grin:
What I used to have and am glad I no longer have:
1974 Ford Maveric 4 door
1983 Hond Civic Hatch Back
1990 Ford Aerostar
1978 Plymouth Fury
CrF
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01-19-2006, 09:03 AM
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Chromer
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Off the Dirt Road
Posts: 720
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
Loved my first car...but after thinking of some of the stupid things I did in it...I am surprised that I am still alive.
86 Suzuki Samurai....
Gone places in it that I really shouldnt have...
Oh...and one that I wish I didnt own any longer 86 Jeep Comanche pickup...
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01-19-2006, 09:30 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Redmond Oregon
Posts: 2,805
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
Vega and Pinto
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01-19-2006, 09:32 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: On the BIG River, Columbia Co.
Posts: 11,116
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
Every Ford F250 with a leaky exhaust manifold!
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01-19-2006, 10:47 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: lapine oregon
Posts: 15,358
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
1961 international 1ton metro van. glad i had it, but was happy when i suckered someone into driving it out of the yard. 73 scout, a money pit. and i wish the 72/67 chevy 1/2ton long bed would go away.
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01-19-2006, 10:51 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 21,802
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
Fiat Strada
Fiat 128 sl
Fix It At Tony's= FIAT
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01-19-2006, 10:57 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: May 2000
Location: West Valley
Posts: 6,160
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
73 Pinto 
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01-19-2006, 11:23 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 3,449
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
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01-19-2006, 12:19 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Oregon City
Posts: 1,001
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
70 Capri
63 Valiant
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01-19-2006, 12:40 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Oregon
Posts: 1,247
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
1974 MGB convertible, purchased in April 1974.
The thing always died on a Friday afternoon. When I'd drop it off or have it towed in, they always gave me a Volvo to drive while they were fixing it. Wish they had the Lemon Law back then. In February 1975 traded it in on a Volvo station wagon....
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01-19-2006, 01:47 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Sisters, OR
Posts: 1,325
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
Fiat Spider :You had to be a Fiat mechanic and have an electrical engineer degree to keep it going.
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01-19-2006, 02:30 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Wilsonville
Posts: 1,329
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
72 Vega
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01-19-2006, 02:49 PM
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Tuna
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 8,108
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
76 pinto...69 4 door caprice :tongue:
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01-19-2006, 03:01 PM
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The Mods Must Be Crazy!
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Casting between the waves where dinner lies waiting
Posts: 25,081
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
1981 Oldsmobile Toronado Diesel.
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01-19-2006, 03:02 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 3,853
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
77 datsun king cab
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01-19-2006, 03:28 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Suburbia
Posts: 6,735
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
I thought I was the only one. I too had a 74 Mav. Pea green inside and out (except the black vinyl roof). Green seats, green steering wheel, green carpeting, green headliner... thus, we called her The Booger. :grin:
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01-19-2006, 03:36 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Portland
Posts: 2,160
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
those were my first 2 cars and in that order.
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01-19-2006, 03:57 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Bothell, WA
Posts: 1,198
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
1964 Jeep PU, over head cam 6, yes they made such a thing. Pile of junk that leaked oil by the quart.
1986 Ford Taurus. Total lemon, had too many things wrong with it to list.
1980 Chev Blazer, great rig after I fixed everything; radiator core 55K, overhaul tranny 60K, new long block 70K, traded it at 130K.
I've been buying Toyotas since 1991, drive a Tundra now.
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01-19-2006, 05:08 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: St Helens
Posts: 5,059
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
Quote:
Fiat Strada
Fiat 128 sl
Fix It At Tony's= FIAT
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Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation
74 Mazda RX4
92 Aerostar (not a bad rig, I just hate minivans  )
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01-19-2006, 05:42 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: under the hat
Posts: 12,597
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
77 Pontiac Sunbird
Black exterior, black interior with vinyl seats - in Texas. That car would get soooooo hot sitting in the Texas sun it was painful to get into. Designed for a 4 cylinder engine but shoe-horned with a cast iron V6, it would go through upper ball joints about once a year.
72 VW Super
The first car I owned that actually ran, but just barely. Paid $450 for it and got $10 for it when they towed it away. Standing on the brake pedal, only one of the back wheels would actually provide braking (didn't know how to fix that kind of thing back then) but I put a really neato exhaust on it. Blew a seal somewhere and dumped oil. Parked it and it filled with water, then started to mold.
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01-19-2006, 05:57 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Vancouver, WA
Posts: 1,387
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
79? Chevy Monza (small car, V8, small clutch, rust bucket)
76 Olds Cutlass (bigger than my boat and worse gas mileage)
And GM wonders why I drive Japanese vehicles...
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01-19-2006, 06:24 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Beaverton Oregon
Posts: 648
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
Hey Baltz526 , I had one of those 60's vintage Metro vans....but this one was an old ice cream truck from California. It had " Spaceman Snowcones" painted on both sides of it with a ballerina twirlling around eating a snocone, and it had a big red bumper sticker that read " I am from Mars" Don't ask me why but I traded a guy a my '67 GTO for the darn thing. 
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01-19-2006, 06:32 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Independence, OR
Posts: 716
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
1974 "fire trap" Ford Pinto even though I had the gas tank fixed under recall
1974 Ford Maverick (yes, another sucker)
1986 Dodge Aires station wagon
I learned enough lessons owning and driving American makes...now I only own and drive Toyotas
P.S. my T100 was made in Indiana in 1998 :grin:
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01-19-2006, 06:41 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Kalispell, MT
Posts: 1,515
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
85 GM PU
88 GM PU.
I'll never own another GM product after those two. 
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01-20-2006, 07:00 AM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 196
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
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1981 Oldsmobile Toronado Diesel.
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That's awesome, was there ever a worse car made?
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01-20-2006, 07:32 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: lapine oregon
Posts: 15,358
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
my metro started life as a produce delivery van in sanfrancisco. it gives me the willies just thinking about driving that thing in the sf hills 10,000lbs with the brakes of a geo metro.
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01-20-2006, 08:00 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Anchorage Ak
Posts: 1,050
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
Put me down as another ex Ford Maverick owner. Mine was a 75, 4 door 6 cly. Hated that car but it is still one of the best cars I ever owned. I never put any money into it other than gas, and that wasn't much.
Oh yea, had an 8 track tape player. who can top that?
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01-20-2006, 03:01 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,576
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
1968 Datsun Pickup - the thing was possesed. It had daily electrical issues.
1970 Toyota Sprinter - never EVER buy a model that was imported from Japan. Impossible to get parts.
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01-20-2006, 05:43 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Yamhill County, OR
Posts: 2,179
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
'88 Dodge Shadow. Gutless pig. Grannies with walkers passed me on the hills.
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01-20-2006, 07:36 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: By the sea
Posts: 3,164
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
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1970 Toyota Sprinter - never EVER buy a model that was imported from Japan. Impossible to get parts.
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How about a 1960 Toyo Kogyo. Later, they changed their name to Mazda.
Mine was a two cylinder rear engine jobby with a torgue converter. You had to decide what type of driving you were going to do before you started it - city or highway. If you were in highway gear in the city, you couldn't get enough power to get over the crown in the road. Top speed in city was 25 and top speed in highway was 45. Tires were 4.80X10's.
I needed an alternator and actually sent the company a letter and got a garbled reply three months later.
I get a kick out of the Pinto and Vega posts. I never had one but my friends did. I smile whenever I see a Pinto on the road. Fortunately, I don't think there are any Vegas still on the road. 
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01-20-2006, 08:48 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Bonneville dam
Posts: 2,756
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
Worst: 1994 Ford Mustang with a V6. Engine blew up at 54000. I promptly installed a rebuilt the engine and traded it in!
Best: 2001 VW Beetle TDI. The car is a hoot to drive, and extremely good on fuel!
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01-21-2006, 10:57 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Hockinson, WA.
Posts: 2,210
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
First car was a 1978 ford LTD with the 351 windsor in it... Man you could fit 8 people and a keg in that car...
I thought i won the lottery the day i got rid of that thing...
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01-21-2006, 11:33 AM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Eugene
Posts: 449
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Re: Old Cars I\'m Glad I No Longer Own
88 Mercedes 300E
I have never put so much money in a car with under 50,000 miles.
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