What's your motor vehicle history?

[putnam6]

Gosh, I'd have to sit and think about this for a few minutes.  I think between 18 and 21 years old I probably had more vehicles than I have had in the 40+ years since!  Back then I usually had 1 running 'driver' and 2-3 vehicles and/or engines in various states of rebuilding/restoring.  This rotated on an almost monthly basis.  Mostly Chevy and GMC 'square body' vehicles and a handful of Corvette engines. 

From that point I had a VW Sirocco, Jetta, Accord, DeVille and a string of diesel trucks.  Current rig is a '23 Ram 3500 mega cab Limited Longhorn w/ 6.7L Cummins turbo diesel, and also have a '14 Super Duty F-350 King Ranch w/ built Navistar turbo diesel (which the wife has sort of adopted as 'her truck').  Haven't put a wrench on the Ram yet, other than to install a headache rack, aux fuel tanks and in-bed hitches (oh, and to change out the OEM wheels and tires to Black Rhino's rolling on 12 ply Toyo's).  That thing is a beast!  (pic of the '23 Ram below)
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We also have a couple Subie Outbacks ('15 and '19) we use as daily drivers. 

My current project vehicle is a '14 Audi A8L.  Used to be my wife's daily, but we kept having issues with the air suspension, so we got her a Subie to drive.  I've now got it in our shop and I'm procrastinating on swapping out the air suspension for traditional high performance spring-struts.  When running, that thing is a straight-up rocket ship!  Only 6k lb car I've ever known which will hit 160mph...and still have 3,000 RPMs left in 8th gear.  That thing will go faster than you want to drive it (or at least faster than I want to drive it)!  They say the A8 was de-rated to 130mph for sale in the US, but I've had ours up to 158 (radar) on a nearby auto club track.  The original owner was the Audi dealerhip owner whom we bought it from, so I'm thinking they somehow undid the derating because it's the same engine-transmission combo for the Canadian and South American versions which aren't de-rated.  I don't know why I'm hanging onto it really.  It's too heavy and too long to strip it down and turn it into a race car.  Sure is fun to drive though (when the freaking suspension is working properly).

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Just a side note...I noticed that two (2) of your pictures aren't showing up in your post for some reason.  The picture of the Capri and the van are missing.  I only caught this when I went to 'reply' to your post and noticed they were shown there, but not in your actual post.

Just FYI.

I have no doubt most people have had more rides than I have had. I have mostly had jobs where I drove for a living, and most every one of my vehicles I had 250,000 plus miles. The Prelude, Blazer and Safari had well over 350,000. 

FWIW I did have 2 mobile show vans over the years I practically lived in too,loads of miles of those as well.

Only the Blazer and the Safari were newish but all of them were low mileage when I got them. 

I left off we had a Honda Civic for many years as my wife's and our "family car", and a Ford Continental loaner that was temperamental AF and tried to leave me stranded in Germantown TN one trip.

Miss my truck, though I had to sell it during COVID, it had 287,000 miles kind of beat up, had limbs fall on it during the ice storm a few years back. 

I still see it occasionally sold it to a guy down the road. 



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