Dream cars

[zulu]

Nobody knows how th f--k to caots and pade themselves

Guilty as charged.

 

[adorshki]

Guilty as charged.

Coffee hadn't kicked in yet. In your own mitigation however, I've seen the traffic in Vegas and it's fulla tourists who don't care how bad they thrash their rental car.

 

[James Hart]

I found a new project I might acquire after the snow clears... most of the front end was replaced, new tires, new intake and spider injector, etc. But the engine seized and the owner lost interest & faith.

Never hotrodded, just accessorized... over 200k miles. It is a 1996 Chevy 2DR Tahoe with Barn doors.

 

[sharps4590]

Freeway driving was never something I had to contend with so until this last pick-up and Mercedes I always had 4 or 5 speeds.

I'm not sure I know what a metering light is, unless it's that infernal thing that stops and starts your engine at stop lights or when you're stopped longer than it thinks necessary. My Mercedes has one and fortunately it's easily disabled. If that's what you mean, I couldn't agree more, hateful things. Just like touch screens for climate control and the radio...and half a dozen other things...I hate 'em.

 

[Prince of Darkness]

How lame are today's cars/SUV's with all of the traction control?

No doubt either one of our old Subaru wagons (1995&2000) with winter tires would get around just fine.

Leaves me with a few thoughts.
1. A lot of modern SUV style vehicles are fake off-roaders. My wife has a Skoda Karoq and the manual actually goes so far as to state that it isn't a SUV!
2. Even with four wheel drive, if you have the wrong tires you are going to struggle.
3. Traction control is no substitute for low gears.

Subarus are pretty good, four wheel drive and low gears. The Imprezza built up a cult following in the UK due to their World Rally Championship successes. The sound of that boxer four engine through a race exhaust definitely helped as well!

 

[adorshki]

Freeway driving was never something I had to contend with so until this last pick-up and Mercedes I always had 4 or 5 speeds.

I'm not sure I know what a metering light is, unless it's that infernal thing that stops and starts your engine at stop lights or when you're stopped longer than it thinks necessary. My Mercedes has one and fortunately it's easily disabled. If that's what you mean, I couldn't agree more, hateful things. Just like touch screens for climate control and the radio...and half a dozen other things...I hate 'em.

Metering lights are stop lights placed at the start or sometimes even midway down the merging "on ramp" to a freeway. They were intended to mitigate the issue of bad merges creating traffic jams.

Advocates say freeway commute times are actually lower, but they never take into account that in practice the backup at the onramps starts clogging city streets, so the total commute time for any given person is now longer.

Even worse is that the on-ramps were carefully designed in the day to allow even relatively slow-accelerating cars plenty of distance to get up to safe merging speed, but now they put a stop sign somewhere in there, defeating that original design intent.

Most people don't want to gun their cars down the ramp to get up to merging speed, and I don't blame 'em. I blame effing politicians attempting social engineering and that's all I'm gonna say about it.

 

[sharps4590]

Wow...not for me.

When I got out of school a lot of my classmates headed for a city. At 18 I knew that was definitely not for me. I did leave home but went to a town I already knew quite well and, comparatively speaking, would have been called a 'small town' but, not by my standards. At 24,000 it WAS a city to me, (it's close to 50K now). It was not on an interstate, all roads leading to it were 2 lane back then. Even so, I only lived 'in town' for a few months and soon moved 15 miles out. When my wife and I got married in 1978 we bought a house 17 miles from town. We have only lived in a town for one year in the 47 years we've been married and that was only because we sold the farm and were building our house on 36 acres. Funny thing, we live closer to a town now than we ever have, it's 8 miles to the city limits of a town of 20K. It IS on an interstate and I wish it was 16 miles to the city limits.

 

[Guildedagain]

8 miles to the city limits of a town of 20K

12 miles to a town of 1500.

 

[adorshki]

12 miles to a town of 1500.

We got cattletowns that size in CA. Sometimes with as many as 30 or 40 people.

Dorris CA and Shaniko OR spring to mind from a road trip many years ago, when the ashes of Mt. St. Helens were still the primary part of the topsoil in Yakima county.

234 Main St, Dorris, on a bustling summer Friday night;

(Everybody's down the block):

But for a little peace and quiet and no nosy neighbors, you really want Shaniko:

Sadly it's become pretty gentrified in the 40 years since I went through, when it looked more like this:

I think it would be cool to relive that trip in new car. (Return to topic veer alert)

While I don't often go for heavy resto-mods, I could live with this one crafted from one the much unloved GM "Colonnade Coupes" 0f the mid '70's.
https://www.schwartzperformance.com/project/1973-oldsmobile-cutlass-lsa-2/#!
Most of the styling was love-it-or hate-it but these guys saw what Olds was hiding under that federally mandated front bumper:
Before:

Dr Oldsmobile would approve, except I would have kept the original wheels, more like a real Olds wheel:

 

[Guildedagain]

^ As far as big wheels go, they're almost tasteful. Bumpers are a good idea? ^

I love it when somebody gets "real" in a FB "dream car" post, beyond "I do not respond to is this available" and "Lowball offers will be ignored" "Scammers don't waste your time"

This one, hot off the presses.

"if you’re”thinking about buying it” don’t text me. I’ve had to many people text me on this saying that, I literally don’t care if ur buying it or not.

Sometimes, the honesty's too much?

 

[sharps4590]

Down here in the Ozarks there is a slug of little 'burgs' back in the hills and the sticks. Most with less than 100 folks and many only a wide spot in the road with 3 or 4 houses. Pankeyville, Lecoma, Redbird, Canaan, Yancy Mills, High Gate, Vichy, Decatur, Enon, Rock Enon, Koeltztown, Argyle, Rich Fountain, Guthrie, Japan, Vida, Bem, Old Woolum, New Woolum, Drake, Rhineland, Portland and that isn't a good start. Most are little farming or ranching communities, or nothing. Some are little river towns or used to be railroad towns. None of those have so much as a gas pump anymore though some were going concerns, a couple hundred people at one time. Not anymore. I expect it's the same or similar about everywhere.

 

[adorshki]

Betcha all thought I forgot about the interior for my beatiful black 442 above.

Cadillac had some wonderful stuff in '68:

On good 8-way adjustable seats with lumbar and even adjustable side supports like my beloved T-bird:

Best damn seats I ever owned. My interior was grey skies blue.

 

[James Hart]

not MY dream car, but it was my father's pride and joy for his last few years. I just sold this for my mother today. 2012 Shelby GT500 with SVT performance package, Recaro leather seats, and factory stripe delete. Barely broke in at 23k miles

 

[JohnW63]

I hope you got a good price.

 

[James Hart]

I hope you got a good price.

$40k. Was hoping for $45k, but we got a grand over our bottom number.

 

[Guildedagain]

What passes for good advice today.

 

[Midnight Toker]

not MY dream car, but it was my father's pride and joy for his last few years. I just sold this for my mother today. 2012 Shelby GT500 with SVT performance package, Recaro leather seats, and factory stripe delete. Barely broke in at 23k miles

Sweet ride!

This is currently my older brother’s 800HP “Hellcat Killer”. (We share a house)

 

[adorshki]

Ford's original Ranger 4x4:

 

[GGJaguar]

 

[adorshki]

"Not responsible for damage to Flux capacitors resulting from speeds in excess of 88mph"