What's your motor vehicle history?

[putnam6]

great thread idea!

Between my wife and I

78 Civic
81 Plymouth Horizon
84 Pontiac Fiero
83 Pontiac T1000
85 VW Golf
89 Mazda 323
96 Hyundai Elantra
92 Mazda Protege
2000 Hyundai Sonata
2003 Mazda MPV
2006 VW Jetta
2007 VW Rabbit
2011 Hyundai Genesis Coupe
2013 VW Tiguan
2013 Hyundai Veloster
2015 VW Passat
2017 VW Jetta
2019 VW GTI

due for new.  Looking at a Genesis G70 Sedan

Im sure there are other common makers but lots of us had Hondas too.

[KKLoco]

Thats a helluva fleet of cars 8 different decades worth. Dig your current rides too

Good to see you here...

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LOL you will be more than fine once the world joins the Mad Max timeline? I have to ask are you a ride service or chauffeur?

Wine tours. Recycling the entire Benz fleet this summer. Fucking pieces of shit!

they come with a 3 year 36,000 mile warranty from the dealership. Which tells you that Mercedes knows they are big pieces of shit.

[Creaky]

Australian-

Holden-
Torana LX
HQ panel van
Hz station wagon
commodore VP sedan 
Jackaroo 
currently a VE Ute 


Mitsubishi
Scorpion, 
Magna 

Toyota 
Camry 

Nissan
Patrol GU
Murano

Ford
Xf Panel Van 

kia
Sorrento 

 
TSX Suzuki
XS Yamaha
kawasaki ER6
Harley sporty
Plus off-road bikes to numerous to remember

[putnam6]

Australian-

Holden-
Torana LX
HQ panel van
Hz station wagon
commodore VP sedan 
Jackaroo 
currently a VE Ute 


Mitsubishi
Scorpion, 
Magna 

Toyota 
Camry 

Nissan
Patrol GU
Murano

Ford
Xf Panel Van 

kia
Sorrento 

 
TSX Suzuki
XS Yamaha
kawasaki ER6
Harley sporty
Plus off-road bikes to numerous to remember

Yeah Im going to have to look some of those up and see what they look like. I was a semi-into motocross as a kid to a young adult myself a couple of Hondas and Kawasakis.

[Creaky]

Yeah Im going to have to look some of those up and see what they look like. I was a semi-into motocross as a kid to a young adult myself a couple of Hondas and Kawasakis.

We had Fords and Holden, gone now.
The cars in Mad Max 1 and 2 were what we drove around in back in my day 
it was funny seeing them on the big (big) screen back in the day

Few if any US cars
First car I stole was a Datsun 1600, little ripper

[putnam6]

I get picky as hell, and I really prefer an older ride, I'd definitely think about getting a rebuilt Capri II or Blazer. Loved my Honda too probably the fastest ride I had,got it up to 123 MPH coming back from the lake early one morning. The Capri though spent many a night in it, just lay down the back seat, open the hatch back it was your own little mobile lounge . 3-4 7 hour drives to Daytona on a Friday, drive on the beach all day, stay at a ratty motel, leave Sunday afternoon, and be sunburnt and hungover in class Monday morning.

Used to go hunting in the Blazer lol slept in it too for different reasons. It got me into and out of places I probably wouldn't drive into now. If not it will be an early 2000 truck, I drove the 2023 and didn't really like them at all. I mean for me they are nice AF drove well all the extras but if Im going have that interior Id prefer the Dodge Challenger type ride.

[CCoburn]

My history is fairly short:


1. Around 2000 I was driving a Dodge Stratus

2. 2003 bought a used 98 Dodge Neon.

3. 2005 bought a nice 04 Chrysler Sebring Ltd(200 HP), and purchased a rear spoiler and put it on myself - you can see where I'm beginning to go with this. Large gap following since I had that car for 13 years.

4. 2018 got a 2010 Charger V6 at 250 HP. No manual mode, but things were starting to get a bit more fun here.

5. 2020 it was a 2007 Charger. V8 at 370 HP 394 Tq I think. Only paid 5,000. Guy said the radio didn't work, but I later got the CD working without an LCD display for MP3 data discs and it was powerful and sounded great. This is really where I started becoming a driveway mechanic. Replaced alternator, replaced radiator fan assembly and then the radiator itself. New radiator hoses, new battery, and I don't know what else. This is where I also got introduced to an independent mechanic who worked from his house, and he did anything that I couldn't do or required a lift.

6. 2022 the 2012 Volvo S60 T6 at 325 HP and 354 lbs of Tq.

The last three were the most fun to drive, but mostly the last two because they had the manual mode - some call it auto stick. Some of the manual shifters are around the steering column(Camaros) but both of mine were at the shifter on the floor.

The last two are comparable but maybe the Volvo has a little quicker response. The audio system in the Charger was maybe a hair louder, but the Volvos' is loud enough(also by about a hair), and maybe sounds about a hair better.

[FlyingClayDisk]

I get picky as hell, and I really prefer an older ride, I'd definitely think about getting a rebuilt Capri II or Blazer. Loved my Honda too probably the fastest ride I had,got it up to 123 MPH coming back from the lake early one morning. The Capri though spent many a night in it, just lay down the back seat, open the hatch back it was your own little mobile lounge . 3-4 7 hour drives to Daytona on a Friday, drive on the beach all day, stay at a ratty motel, leave Sunday afternoon, and be sunburnt and hungover in class Monday morning.

Used to go hunting in the Blazer lol slept in it too for different reasons. It got me into and out of places I probably wouldn't drive into now. If not it will be an early 2000 truck, I drove the 2023 and didn't really like them at all. I mean for me they are nice AF drove well all the extras but if Im going have that interior Id prefer the Dodge Challenger type ride.

A while back I got a line on a '76 GMC Jimmy.  Kid that owned it got his GF prego and needed money.  Had a tired 350 V-8 in it, and a busted trans, but the body was straight (except for the front left fender).  Bought it off him for $500 bucks.  Didn't screw around with trying to repair the fender, just ordered a new one and replaced it and the liner entirely.  Pulled the engine and trans, and swapped in a Corvette LT-1 engine I'd just finished getting balanced and blueprinted.  Put in a 400 trans I had also.  I'd had the engine in the shop just looking for something to put it in.  The Jimmy had the low back interior, so I just gutted that entirely.  Found a crashed Blazer Silverado series which was loaded, picked it up for a song and the interior was showroom new.  I started just thinking I wanted the high back bucket seats, but wound up pulling the entire interior and swapping it into the Jimmy.  What had started out as a beater hunting truck was now turning into something special.

Rebuilt the front and rear ends, transfer case checked out good.  Changed out all the lights and dash electrical.  Sanded it down and primed it up.  This thing was shaping up like a million bucks.  Sprayed it down with a 2 stage lacquer paint job (DuPont Corvette Orange), inside and out.  By then I was in 'the gonzo zombie zone'.  Striped it up with some white pinstripes (painted on).  Put the whole new interior back into it (tan leather) over the top of all new carpet.  Yanked the intake manifold and put on a Edelbrock high flow intake and topped it off with a Holly 750 cfm double-pump 4 barrel.  Tore out the old exhaust from the manifolds back, and dropped in a set of Hooker headers w/ straight 2" dual exhausts with some glass packs about mid way back.  Put some Methods and new shoes on it.  Drove it out of the shop and that thing was gleaming!  And, boy howdy, would that puppy get up and go!  Man, that thing would leap straight up off the ground when you mashed the throttle.  I literally have pictures of it at a dead stop where you can see daylight under all four tires!  Those old full-time 4wd's would do stuff like that.  Absolutely loved that thing!  When you'd mash on the gas you could see the whole front end twist from the torque.  Once I'd gotten into 'the groove' rebuilding that old Jimmy, I just couldn't stop.  By that point it was way too nice to ever beat on it up in the mountains elk hunting, so it mostly sat in the shop as a garage queen. 

Every place I drove that thing someone wanted to buy it.  Wound up selling it to this older fella I knew who collects and restores square bodies for about $20k (I had about $9k in it by then, plus my time).  Wish I would have hung onto it now.  I can't touch one of those for under about $45k in not nearly as nice condition as the one I built.  Watched a similar one go across the blocks last year at Barret-Jackson and the dude fetched $80 grand for it.  His had more chrome on the engine, and all braided lines, but otherwise almost identical...wow!

P.S. - Part of my sales deal with the older fella was I've got him on the lookout for a '71 Chevy "Cheese grater" 4x4 (my dream truck).  When he finds it, and he will (if anyone can), that will be a full frame-off restoration from the ground up.  Told him to buy it on sight if it has potential, I don't care how much it costs.  If he can find me a 2500 I've got a half a mind to do a resto-mod with a 6.4L Cummins turbo diesel.  Now wouldn't that be cool!!

[Elevatedone]

Interesting Thread,

When I was 17 ( a long time ago ) 1st car was a 1974 Pontiac Firebird. My dad paid $900 for it. Paint was faded, White leather interior cracked and beat up, Ran really nice. Best part was the 5 spoke Crager rims, they had no rust and shined nicely.

1979 Chevy Monte Carlo - used
1985 Old Cutlass - used
1994 Chevy Cavalier  - 1st Brand New Car.
1994 Chevy Cavalier  - 2nd Brand New Car -  1st one hit and totaled on the 3rd day I had it.
1996 Chevy Monte Carlo
1995 Saturn
2000 Chevy Cavalier
1997 Pontiac Grand Prix
2003 Pontiac Aztek
2005 Ford Explorer
2007 Pontiac Gran Am GT
2010 Dodge Charger - Stolen and Totaled.
2011 Toyota Camry
2013 Chrysler 300
2015 Chevy Silverado
2017 Chevy Silverado
2020 Chevy Blazer
2022 Chevy Silverado
2023 Chevy Blazer.

[VulcanWerks]

The E30 M3 and the E28 M5 have appreciated so much since I had mine.
The M3 would be worth over 50k and I bought for 10k.
I paid 12.5k for the M5, and nice examples are going for over 100k!!

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Edit: the M3s are going for over 100k as well.

Easily 100k.

My father’s was a heck of an investment given he picked it up for ~5k in 2000!

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Wine tours. Recycling the entire Benz fleet this summer. Fucking pieces of shit!

they come with a 3 year 36,000 mile warranty from the dealership. Which tells you that Mercedes knows they are big pieces of shit.

I didn’t know these were so problematic. What are the primary issues you’ve had with them?