Cars

[c750dt]

I know I can't be the only car enthusiast here. On top of that, I love to brag about my ride as much as I love to brag about my body. With that said, what do you drive daily?

 

[brmstn69]

No, your not the only gear head...

But, I'm ashamed to say that I blew the motor in my Mustang last year and after the heart attack, I had neither the energy nor the fundsto fix it. I ended up selling it to buy my mother a flat panel TV for Christmas...



But my aunt came to the rescue and gave me her old car, a 1996 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera with only 66k miles on it for Christmas.
It's the most boring car in the world...
So that's my daily driver...



But, hidden away in the garage...

I still have by beloved 1974 Mercury Montrey coupe. It was bought new by a now elderly cousin of mine. It was his very first car and his daily driver for 35 years. He special ordered it from the factory with A/C, AM stereo, power windows and locks, and a 400ci./6.6L V8 with auto tranny. I have every record and receipt on the car from the day of purchase including the window sticker and cancelled check he used to pay for it...
The motor and suspension have been heavily modified and the stereo upgraded since I took possession. It goes really fast, handles very well (for a car this large) sounds awesome, and gets really shitty gas mileage. No seriously, real shitty, like 8 mpg...



And finally, I have a 1978 Lincoln Continental Town Car, with the 460ci./7.5L V8. Nothing special, I just needed something my mother could get in and out of comfortably with a trunk big enough for her wheelchair...

 

[dargelos]

I'm so glad you've still got that wonderful pimpmobile. My husband would love me to get a car like that but at European petrol prices it would be insanely expensive to go anywhere in. We could only sit in it and listen to the eight track.
We actualy get about in a junker that was about to be scrapped. It's so much fun, BMW drivers keep their distance coz whereas one scratch would reduce them to tears, a hundred more scratches wouldn't make this heap worth any less. They'll never know the excitement of wondering when the engine is going to stall next.

 

[c750dt]

I like that lincoln a lot! That's a great car. Also, lol at the Cierra. I'm not sure what it is about those cars but around here, the Buick Century and Oldsmobile Cierra are really popular with gays.

Here's my daily driver btw, a 1999 Lexus GS300.

 

[theseeker]

Don't have one, car prices here are too high to ever get one in the foreseeable future anyway. Guaranteed most of my driving experience comes from games , but IMO the Dodge Viper seems like a pretty badass car to drive.

Specifically this:

 

[c750dt]

^It's funny to think the Viper came from the same folks who brought us the Aries K and Reliant K.

 

[theseeker]

^It's funny to think the Viper came from the same folks who brought us the Aries K and Reliant K.

Care to explain? Sorry we don't see much American cars other than from the media, most of the cars I see here are German and Japanese/Korean exports. German cars are pretty cool too, but Japanese/Korean cars are pretty much utilitarian, nothing much to look at imho. The occasional Chevy Cruze or Ford Focus is all we ever see of American cars here

 

[c750dt]

In the 1980s, Chrysler made a bunch of cars on their "K" platform and they are regarded to this day as some of the most boring and crappy cars to be made in this country. And yet, in the early 1990s, they went and made the Viper!

 

[theseeker]

^Ah, probably explains why I've never heard of them!

 

[brmstn69]

A brief photo history of the dreaded "K" car...

1978 Chrysler introduced the Dodge Omni/ Plymouth Horizon twins...


Which was really nothing but a re-badged Simica Horizon...


By the early 80's Chrysler corp. had managed to build their entire line-up for Dodge, Plymouth, and Chrysler on a modified version this humble platform, and the K car was born...
Sedans...


Station wagons and coupes...


A pick-up...


A sports car (The worst thing that ever happened to the Dodge Charger)


A luxury convertible...


And even a Limousine...


The final evolution of the K car, the 1993 Chrysler Imperial. A car they tried to compete against Cadillac, Lincoln, Mercedes and BMW with...


And there's a good reason why many have never seen one, there are none still running left...

 

[brmstn69]

I'm so glad you've still got that wonderful pimpmobile. My husband would love me to get a car like that but at European petrol prices it would be insanely expensive to go anywhere in. We could only sit in it and listen to the eight track.
We actualy get about in a junker that was about to be scrapped. It's so much fun, BMW drivers keep their distance coz whereas one scratch would reduce them to tears, a hundred more scratches wouldn't make this heap worth any less. They'll never know the excitement of wondering when the engine is going to stall next.

I can't afford the gas in them either, which is why I have the Cutlass...
I have a long standing love affair with those so called "Pimpmobiles" of the 70's. Up until recently they were about the only vintage cars still affordable, no one wanted them...
I've owned several over the years...

1968 Cadillac Coupe Deville...


2 1978 Cadillac Coupe Deville's




1985 Cadillac Seville Classic Roadster...


1978 Buick Riveria...


1978 Chrysler Cordoba...


*I don't have any particular affinity for 1978 models, it just happened that way...

 

[dargelos]

There's only one song to listen to while looking at those lovely old cars and this is it. Just be thankful for what you've got, listen to the message of the song. Perfect.

 

[tonka]

My friend's dad had a 68 Buick Riveria.
In high school we would drop him off a the bar, then have the Riv till 2 am.
My friend would drop me off first, and then deal with the drunken dad.
Great car.

 

[dargelos]

A question about those gas guzzlers, as the engines got more power and weight, the brakes were never uprated to match. How did you ever manage to do an emergency stop?
Even the most underpowered modern car has discs that stop it on a dime. 400Hp with only drums to soak it up sounds scary.

 

[brmstn69]

A question about those gas guzzlers, as the engines got more power and weight, the brakes were never uprated to match. How did you ever manage to do an emergency stop?
Even the most underpowered modern car has discs that stop it on a dime. 400Hp with only drums to soak it up sounds scary.

Given that all these were top of the line luxury cars, they all had huge power brake boosters and front disc brakes and most of them 4 wheel disc. I never had any issues, in fact most of them braked better than my Cutlass and Mustang with ABS...

 

[theseeker]

You guys talked about pimpmobiles of the '70s, but any one of you here interested cars of earlier eras? I think some of the most aesthetically beautiful cars were from the '30s to the '60s.

 

[slimjim]

A few yrs back I was tempted (only for a short time) to buy one of these



I love the curves and the sound :thumbs up:... but with the associated insurance premiums for an engine size of 3.5lts and the fuel economy & cost I had to think again.

 

[dargelos]

Good point about the insurance, slimjim, sometimes you can't have the car you want, only the car that the insurance company will let you have. Even more so for theseeker, unless you have a ton of money, you can dream about all those sexy cars but for your first car, the insurers are only going to let you have something plain and utterly boring until you build up some experience.
For an impossible fantasy, imagine owning a 1935 Dusenberg, that must be the most magnificent piece of engineering to ever roll on four wheels. You'd need to own a bank to afford to drive one of those.

 

[theseeker]

Good point about the insurance, slimjim, sometimes you can't have the car you want, only the car that the insurance company will let you have. Even more so for theseeker, unless you have a ton of money, you can dream about all those sexy cars but for your first car, the insurers are only going to let you have something plain and utterly boring until you build up some experience.
For an impossible fantasy, imagine owning a 1935 Dusenberg, that must be the most magnificent piece of engineering to ever roll on four wheels. You'd need to own a bank to afford to drive one of those.

I was actually thinking about Al Capone's armored 1928 Cadillac when I wrote that, but damn the Dusenberg's real fine too!

But you're right. At this rate I'd be lucky to even afford a Honda Jazz! This is why we have so many mid-range luxury sedans here, once you can actually afford a car, you probably have the spending power to shell out a little more for a mid-range luxury anyway. But hey, a man can dream, right?

 

[rs18550]

My daily driver is a 2013 Kia Optima (it's my 4th one. EX with panoramic roof leather heated seats at all 4 corners the fronts are cooled as well. Remington Red Got it last July. Love it. Had a "few mods" done. 6000K hi and low beams, Cree front fogs, Led tails, 2-way mirror mounted turn signals,replaced stock interior lights, LED bumper lights (that one they had to remove the bumper)and few others i can't think to mention. I got the have system but I want to up grade to a better system but they want 14 hundred and that's not including installation. So my more intermediate goal is a viper alarm.