My current drivers except for the last:
All are rust free and original paint.

1990 CRX Si

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1988 Civic LX

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1991 Civic Si (garage queen)

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Nice crx

I want one

My daily driver is a 2003 Ford Crown Vic
Wife drives our 05 F-250 and it is 4x4
1976 Ford Maverick Stallion, ordered it in Sept of 75, 17k original miles, have been showing it, drag racing it since I bought it when I was 18.
1966 Chevy C-10 454 th 400
2001 Grand Marquis, parents last car they bought
1988 Mustang GT ordered it in Sept of 87, 14k original miles
1979 Z-28, bought it the night John Lennon was murdered :(
1960 Pontiac Catalina
1998 Pontiac Bonneville 412k miles
1972 Maverick Sprint, project
1972 Maverick Grabber, project
1977 Maverick 4dr
1949 Ford F1, field fresh
1956 Chevy 150, 350 Muncie M21, lotsa fun!
1930 Ford Model A blindback,, pretty much a low mileage original car. very rare body style.
2003 Harley Davidson Road King, bought it new
1973 Triumph 750 Bonneville
1976 Maverick Stallion parts car.
1949 IH Farmall tractor
and a 1959 Shasta canned ham camper,, my little man cave

I have enough to keep me busy lol

Daily driver is a 2001 Lincoln Town Car. 176,000 trouble free miles and still going strong. I'm often tempted to step up to a newer model, but I hate to get rid of it when it's still providing dependable service.....not to mention the fact that since it's a Lincoln, it's a nice comfortable car to drive.

Have a 1973 Ford LTD in the garage that's been in my family since new. 109,000 miles and the biggest thing ever done to it mechanically was a brake job.

You cant step up ! As you probably know Ford dont make that chassis anymore. Thats why I will keep my Crown Vic & Grand Marques til
the end then replace them with the same thing. Ford Panther chassis
was the last of the true economy family sedans that were safe &
comfortable. GM gave up in 1997............

73 Zeno:smoke:

Your right, Zeno. What I meant by "step up" was to an '09 or '10 model. The only thing I've noticed is that prices on those (with low miles) aren't dropping nearly as fast as they used to. I'd say it's because they are no longer being made, and there is still certainly a demand for them.

There are no other cars on the market today that (dollar-for-dollar) can touch them.

As of right now:
2010 Dodge Challenger R/T 5.7 Hemi
1997 Mercury Mountaineer 5.0
1966 Dodge Coronet conv. 383 4 speed
1962 Cadillac (Miller Meteor) Hearse. 390
1947 Dodge coupe 440,4speed,Dana 60..........not being driven,unfinished.
1937 Plymouth Business coupe,318,4speed


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I HAD, for awhile, a 1951 Chevy 3800 TON Panel Wagon..4 on the floor, extra-extra-extra large pizza sized steering wheel..Think it hit all of 50-55 MPH top speed...Drifted horribly, you never knew quite what lane you were in.. 216 6 cylinder..Hard to believe people actually drove these things for a living...

Wow, never realized there were so many cool car owners here. I just have a 1991 Ford Tempo with the 2.3HSC and lethargic 3 speed and a 1993 Ford F150 with the mighty 300 six inline six and five speed.
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They're both a bit high on the milage, and they're not much too look at, and eahc has their own set of quirks, but they're both paid for. :banana::thmbsp:

I'm hoping to add this 1991 Grand Marquis to the mix, alledgely with just 41K on the clock. I had an 85 and loved it.
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Ah, Rod! Your '91 Tempo brings back many wonderful memories of why I will never own a Ford again! My wife had that same year in red, and it was a dog through and through! Hope you never have to change a water pump on that thing!

It went to the shop over and over again for a deafening bearing noise-no shop could ever determine the cause, but all of the pulley components were changed over about a zillion times. It ate serpentine belts and bled oil everywhere-with only 60k on the odometer!

I did a lot of work on that car in the 18 months that we had it, and most of the respect I lost from Ford was how poorly their shop manual was written for that car. I don't know how many times I would come upon some cramped assembly that obviously required a special tool to change it out, and the Ford manual simply stated "take out the old one and put a new on in". Just shameful!

My last drive in it was nice. I had to drive it 5 miles to the dealership for a trade in. While it had been fine the day before, on this day, I started it up, and I had no power steering. I popped the hood, and was greeted to a running engine with no motion on the serpentine belt. So, I sped off to the dealership with no AC, alternator, water pump or power steering and crawled onto the lot with an overheated, dead battery mess. They still took it, though.

Yikes, sounds like you got a lemon. Mine has been alright as far as reliabilty and driveability since I've had it, thankfully. I did have to replace the starter on it. The air doesn'r work in it though, and I've had little problems, like the AC switchbox not working properly, the headlight switch is also messed up, and has one hairtrigger position that lights bot hthe headlight and tail lights. It's one of Ford's lower end cars, that much is obvious, and with it's boxy appearence, OHV motor and 3 speed auto, was dated in 91 and especially 94 when it was discontinued.

Here's me with my car Clyde, a 1957 Imperial. Aka "Clyde the Ride" :D

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I built this replica of KITT from Knight Rider out of an 82 Trans Am. Sold late last year, sadly. :(

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LOVE that Imperial...1st use of curved sideglass on a "Major" brand...That, & the heroic Exner fins...Possibly the BEST looking car of 1957..

I wish I still had my '59 Imperial.

My favorite Imperial is the 1966 "Black Beauty" from the Green Hornet TV series. It's also the only custom car I really like. The car I want most though is a base model 1981 or 1982 Mercury Lynx 2-door in medium blue metallic with a medium wedgewood blue interior, 4-speed manual and of course one of my factory 8-track stereos. Here's a pic of one, but in a different color.

My brother bought a 1990 Mercury Topaz for his wife, at the end of the model year.
The car had many options on it for a $9,000 car. Air, power windows, auto transmission and stereo radio and tape, etc. Also a decent color exterior. Deep metallic red. They only drove it for fifteen years.
Crazy little problems like an accelerator cable that snapped in heavy traffic and a few other minor problems.
Good value for the money. :yes:

It's too bad so many of them were scrapped early in their life. The MoPars of the day, didn't have much of a demand on the used car market. Poor fit and finish, as well as an early rusting problem, sealed their demise. :tears:

kv-1926r,

why would anyone want one of those pieces of poo ...

had one, 1982, lynx, black with red interior, 4cyl., manual transmission
purchased new (ok-i was young and didnt know any better)

what a embarrassment for the Ford Motor Company




thankfully ... nearly all of the escort/lynx have found their way to scrap yards and recycle mills

You should have bought a Chevy Citation and found out what a real piece of junk was. How many GM "X" cars survived the test of time. :scratch2:

yeah ... one seldom sees a GM X car, or the escort/lynx on the road today
same with the Chrysler K's ... they are disappearing fast as well ...

I disagree on the K cars.... I still see a few running around NY, and with little rust. The Escorts usually had the motor blow up after 70K miles, junk yards here had tons of them with no heads. X-cars also filled the junk yards pretty early... They didn't even get time to rust.... Both of them almost as bad as Yougo's, which I have seen a few in the junk yards with their original battery.... That's pretty bad...

A strange thing on batteries, Both our ford/mercury LTD's (79 & 87) had the original Ford battery live for 9 years.....

K-cars were easy to get parts for and keep running. My parents ordered a Reliant SE wagon with a 2.2 liter (I advised against the 2.6 mitsubishi, though it might have had more torque) and 4-speed and that K was a much better car than my Grandmas 1980 Pontiac Phoenix, which caused her first (and last) accident with its wacky-ass brakes. Changing the plugs on the back half of the 2.8 V6 was a pain, but it was a good motor. I still cant believe she traded a 1969 Mercedes 220 diesel for that POS

K's did have a negative image from day 1 because it was a result of a government "Bailout" IIRC, but Lee Iacocca had a good design compared to others. Too bad they never redesigned the transmission enough when they started making Voyagers and Caravans.

I could never get an Escort or Lynx to run right with that Italian-made Holley 2V progressive linkage carburetor. I had to buy a rebuilt carb every time.
A friend replaced the clutch on his girlfriend's Escort then found out the cheap firewall was flexing when the clutch pedal was pushed, after he was finished.

Yeah - the 80s...good electronics but not such good cars
I was sick when family members traded good, but worn 60's and early 70s cars in for that JUNK!!

I make no apologies for my taste in cars.

There were a number of fords where the dash flexed and broke with the new hydrologic clutch mounted on the fire wall. Place I worked had a f150 4x4 '87 inline 6 with that clutch failing a few times.... Pain to get that fixed. A friend had a T-bird with clutch cable, still cracked the fire wall.

KV- you can have the car of your dreams...... but that car was a nightmare for a bunch-a-people.... I worked on many of those first run Escorts, they were sorry to say really cheap junk. I'm sure those and X cars helped sell lots of Honda's and Toyotas.... The Quad 4 sold me my Prelude.

I hear a lot of guys mention how they made great demo-derby cars... that or the Hemis were pulled out by the hot rodders. :(

This car came from the California central valley... only rust problem is a spot about an inch round on the rear passenger side rocker. It was garage kept and still has the original vinyl padded dash and door panels. :thmbsp:

I loved my grand am that i transplanted a w41 ho quad four into.
Drove it for over 20 years put over 450,000 miles on it
Very fast and cheap to own
I did all of the repairs and maintenance my self.
No prelude ever out ran me :D

My w41 was extrude honed had hollow aftermarket cams - - etc
Lots of modifications
It had about 230+ hp and it was reliable

I drove it very hard all the time like a idiot. :D
I drove it like i stole it

I had two of those, back 20 years ago. Wait, three....one was a wagon.

I liked them, they were kinda neat. I made a body kit for one of them too.....out of plastic gutters, and painted it same color as the car. It actually looked really good!

Although I did like the 85 1/2 Escort/Lynx style better....when they came out, I was amazed at the sexy European look they had. Well, after all, it was 1985...... ;)

The Escort EXP was a good one too. Such an improvement over the Pinto-Mustang II "POS platform".
I knew many who had the Lynx-Escorts, always lending a hand to fix them. It was a "world car", using much design from Ford of Cologne Germany.

Ford of Cologne Germany gave us the Mercury Capri from 1971-76, a true pocket rocket with that wicked-running 2.8 V6, but the body rusted bad and electrical system was a disaster, they kept running long after the garages refused to pass inpsection on them.

The chevette also had lots of critics but the simplicity of rear wheel drive made them so easy to fix.

The 2.8 GM, wasn't that good of an engine either. They used them in S-10's and Blazers. The people that bought the 4 cylinder, had a lot better luck.
GM, also sold those to AMC for the Jeep Cherokee. Bad choice.

Regarding the people that grumble about the government bailout of the auto industry, Chrysler paid back the money, with interest, in less time, than planned.
I have no problems with the GM bailout, even though, I'm not crazy about their products.
How many more people do you want on the unemployement line? :sigh:

I saw the wagon version of the one I want on Craigslist one time, seems that it sold fairly quickly. The '84 we had when I was a kid had some problems when we first got it that were mostly caused by abusive previous owners. Once everything was fixed it performed quite well, its performance in the snow being especially good. Unfortunately it was sold in favor of a hand-down Dodge Lancer that developed a myriad of problems, just because the Dodge was a 4-door. An upstairs neighbor had an '84 Lynx that held up quite well in a rear-end collision, only the bumper was ruined. Ford kind of shot themselves in the foot in regards to earlier models with the interference engine, they failed to educate the public to replace the timing belt every 60k.

I have a bunch of the harder-to-find, mostly NOS non-mechanical parts for the 1981-early 1985 models, including the little black hubcaps that were exclusive to the lower-trim models. A 1981-82 grille hangs on the wall above my desk. One good thing about this car's lack of popularity as that many parts can be had cheap. I figure it was better to start stockpiling these parts when I did, rather than trying to find the parts when the need comes up.

Maybe not in a Blazer, but my 88 year old neighbor(may he rest in piece) had an 89 Chevy Celebrity with a 2.8 and a three speed auto, and even with over 200k on the clock, that thing was zippy. I loved driving it.

Those Shitvettes were as exciting as watching paint dry, but were almost as reliable as hammers-Front engine, rear-wheel drive, a combination that was well & truly understood by the late Sixties/early Seventies..Didn't they soldier on til '85 or so ?

Roger that, Pontiac made the Iron Duke 2.5 4 cylinder a workhorse four, maybe because their experience making fours like the ones in the early 60's Tempest.:D

The only problem with the Chevettes is the front suspension was weak, cross-member issues and threw the camber way off. I remember seeing a lot of ads for alignments and in small print said "toe in only on chevettes". I owned a '76 Capri(or crappi) as a lot of people said but was a pretty good car except for the C3 automatic which started pouring fluid out of the torque converter seal. Only $300 to rebuild the trans(those were the days!!)

IIRC, the Chevette was GM's 1st "World Car", a design that with small modifications, could be sold in virtually any market they serviced. I THOUGHT most of the initial design work was done in South America, I could be wrong. Think they called it the "T" car at the time..It was, in '76, however, a design that was on the way out, for the nominative car design from then til now has basically been a transverse-engine, front wheel drive set up..

Super duty or ho versions of the iron duke are pretty kool
3200 cc ho 4 banger

When I was in high school in the early 80's the student parking lot was literally half full of Chevettes or Pontiac T1000s with an occasional Ford Fiesta or Dodge Omni thrown in. They had absolutly no resale value, which is why they were popular with kids cause they were cheap. The other half of the cars were old farm trucks, or 70's era family trucksters (my group), or old muscle cars that had no resale value thanks to $1/gallon gas.

By the time I went to college in the late 80's Escorts had replaced most Chevettes. I can tell you they didn't last as long as either. But, like the Chevette, most people drove them 'till they fell apart because they just weren't worth anything on a trade in.

SandyG, I like your avatar. That is a REAL CAR!