Hey everybody let's talk about cars. Not just any cars though, talk about what is sitting in your driveway.
I had this car
Which was turned into this in '09, weeks after I bought it
But now, thanks to the Habitat ReStore and 500 bucks, I'm in the process of swapping all the gofast and lookgood parts from the car above into this
The turbo was dead and the exhaust was completely rotted out, so I swapped those this weekend and it now runs like a champ. Next on my list is the wheels and body trim, then I'll gut and swap out the interior with the end result looking like this
So what moves you at freeway speeds/eats through your cash like Adam Richman at a Mexican restaurant? What kind of problems have you bent over the fender at most times? Or are you one of those people who have the latest, greatest no-service-necessary fancy cars? Motorcycles are okay too
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and I don't think I'll take any cause some fuckin retard ripped the badge off the front grill.
Anyway it's an 05' Mazda 6, v6
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Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
The (now) donor car is a 1987 900 SPG. Rare because the 86 had a different body and the 88 had different suspension/hubs/e-brake/engine management system. It's also on my list of dream cars
So I bought it for $1000 in August '09. Cheap because it needed a paint job. Got it emissioned and titled in October, and we were in a hit-and-run, leaving the car derelict in the center of an intersection the first weekend in November. Such a short time to enjoy the car
So here I am, year and a half later, and I finally found this other 87 to swap my parts into. My fiance didn't see me at all this Valentines weekend as I was under the car from sunup to bedtime swapping parts and testing
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I'm too fuckin' poor to play
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It costs a fortune in petrol (averaging 28mpg on a good day), comes under one of the highest insurance bands, costs one of the highest road tax funds, needs £360 worth of tyres every 18 months, £80 of oil every 8000 miles but is an absolute blast to drive.
You can throw it into corners at ridiculous speeds and it'll stick to the road level and a 7 second 0-60 time given by the 2 litre 180bhp engine isn't too shabby.
Oh, it's also ugly as sin:
I'm in the middle of saving up for a new back box exhaust as it's started to rattle at 1k rpm, which is going to hurt.
it's a silver 2002 subaru forester s that had about 25,000 miles when i bought it
it runs nicely and has yet to give me any problems!
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Or how old was the lady you bought it from
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I'm too fuckin' poor to play
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according to the sales guy who i dealt with he traded it because he wanted a newer forester with an integrated gps display
why he wanted such a thing when he never goes anywhere is a question i can't answer
but whatever, i got a nice car out of it
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maybe he never goes anywhere because he didn't have integrated gps!
My first car was/is(i still have it!) a 93 honda del sol =x convertibles with enough trunk space for hockey equipment are hard to find
this is mine, except mine doesn't have alloys and is from 1998
it's an old photo
I love my car
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My current car is a tan 99 Oldsmobile Cutlass that some old guy bought and never drove so when he died I got it mint for pennies on the dollar.
Still smells like dead guy though
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It's much nicer than a 90s American econocar has any right to be.
The EPA says it should get 21 MPG city, and it gets 16. Not great, but not terrible for a 13 year old car made when gas was around a dollar a gallon.
It is so awesome.
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It was a rental car in its past life, so I got a badass switch-blade type key with all the buttons on it what make the doors lock.
But what I dig most about it is the interior
On the steering wheel there are all the buttons one needs to fuck with the radio and I love it.
I love Coopers. Would hate to deal with repair bills though
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Nice little car, works fine for the amount of driving I do.
It doesn't have a hemi, sadly. It does have Sf Giants black and orange fuzzy dice hanging off the rear view mirror
I kind of regret trading mine in. Went more practical and got a Honda Fit to replace it, but I did love that coop. It was the fear of those repair bills that made me do it. Was pretty sure I was going to need a new clutch or tranny if I kept it. Thing was just possessed and would be horrible on some days and then perfect other days. The problems had been around for a while and the dealerships and other techs I went to were never any help since I could rarely recreate the problems.
which hurt like a bitch to get rid of.
But I moved up(ish) to an 05 Volvo V70R. 300 HP and AWD. Woo!
Waka
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2001 Acura MDX. This one's a stock photo but it looks pretty much exactly the same. It had a previous owner for about 160k miles and the paint job is a little roughed up, and the suspension needs work. Otherwise it runs like a champ.
I love my car, even though it only runs on premium. -.-
Except in another colour. Cost about 600€ and there were some things to fix, and there still is. One of the side mirrors was taken from another astra that used electric ones, so to change the view you need to lower the passenger side window and stick your hand out.
The engine warmer is broken which is great when it's -30 degrees outside and you need to get to work, the gearbox is stiff as hell when it's cold (Shifting into third or first can sometimes be a bitch) and there aren't any safety features such as ABS breaks or that kind of stuff which the car I trained to drive in had. The windows don't fully close and occasionally the central locking mechanism fucks up and leaves a door open.
I'm looking to replace the thing for a four-wheel drive because the roads here can be terrible.
Cars I'm thinking about:
BMW 325 '91 driven 206 000 km for 2850€
Subaru Legacy 2.2i 4*4 '92 driven 200 000 km for 2250€
Audi 100 Quattro '93 driven 254 600 km for 2000€
Mercedes-Benz C C180 '94 driven 240 000 km for 2900€
Any thoughts about those options?
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Let the old times roll, crash and burn in a fiery death because I don't have no ABS breaks.
(Then again I have been using this car for more than a year now with only like two accidents, both extremely minor ones)
Nice to have another member of the club on the forums.
Mine's got the v6 but without the sport body kit, go fig
nice leather!
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it's a piece of shit
its kinda boring
but also kinda fun
edit:
What's weird about Saturns is that they all sound the same. Even the needlessly overpowered gas guzzling DOHC in this thing sounds like a Saturn engine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2K72CACnHo
(the clicking is shifter noise and the camera jostling around)
I figured "Finnish radio sucks anyway, and with my USB drive I can listen to what I want instead of hearing the same song 3 times in the course of 30 minutes"
Damn straight. No ABS, no traction control, MASSIVE fwd torque steer, and better power/weight ratio than Mustang 5.0 or Camaro Z/28 of the same vintage. It's fun to shift to 2nd, give it full throttle and listen as the tires lose all sense of traction
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Except with the wheels from this model:
Anybody got a good spare SR20DET they don't want? My engine is kaput.
The girlfriends car:
right before I got rid of it, it was leaking both power steering fluid AND brake fluid
Taurus: Built and leaks like a bull.
But in the summers, I unleash this:
My '68 Chevelle. I don't have a photo handy, so picture that car with charcoal stripes down the middle. It gets about 10 miles to the gallon down hill and leaks oil in the garage, but damn it feels good cruising around town in that.
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please ignore the thumb in the frame on the first one.
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