100%! it only has to survive five more winters till i retire, then it's all gravy p.s. that 1886 MR2 must have about a million miles on it by now... 8^)
Posted on 07/29/2015 4:32:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
I’m still driving my 99 Escort LX 263,000 on it but I love Insurance is just $26 a month. I do know this will one day have to go but not til the wheels fall off as another poster wrote. I use a rental when going on trips out of the city.
Cash for Clunkers, while obviously bad policy and a sop to the UAW, reduced the US vehicle population by 0.27%.
It difficult to believe it had that big an influence.
Okay, I’ll play. I have two cars in this age group. Both bought used in the mid 2000s:
- 2000 Chrysler Town & Country; still runs strong, no rust.
- 2001 Ford Windstar; still runs strong, no rust, just repainted mainly to remove some scrape marks from the Mrs. getting a little too close to pillars and such when squeezing into parking spaces in covered garages. Even though we got a great price on the job, she’s a lot more careful now that she knows how much repainting a van costs.
Plan on driving them until I can shift to what I consider to be the ideal family trio: economy sedan, van, and full size pickup truck (w/ladder rack and maybe a cap).
No they didn’t get rid of it. The state built their own emission stations [I’m sure to the tune of millions and manned them w/ state DMV workers]; I’m sure you’re surprised they then closed them and went back to indie garages to do the tax test ...I believe it’s up to $20/year; mandatory annually [unless your car is over 25y/o]
Those toll plates cost $75/yr, IIRC. Removed around ‘83....after a semi crashed into the cars waiting at the Stratford toll plaza that killed seven people; Dumbo Malloy is talking about them again to pay for his $100 billion dollar plan for a transportation overhaul, and no money to pay for it. Typical radical democrat.
I can’t imagine them putting tolls on I-95....that stretch of road thru Connecticut has to be one of the most dangerous highways in the US. It’s a deathtrap as it is now. Then they are talking about installing “Open Road Tolling.” Idiots.
100%! it only has to survive five more winters till i retire, then it's all gravy p.s. that 1886 MR2 must have about a million miles on it by now... 8^)
The old MR2 is known to friends and family as “the race car” because I took it to the track for lapping day a couple times. Click my screen name for a link to dash cam video of the fun. It has 140 k on the clock. It spent 8 years in surgery.
i did,,, but look at the date in post 54, 1882? 8^)
where did you shoot the video?
Well remember the Stratford crash.
Also remember that the tokens, which cost about twenty-five cents, could be used in NYC subways instead of the $2 subway tokens.
Quite the cat fight between NYC and CT over that! IIRC. They both wound up screwing over the company that made the tokens.
High plains raceway about 70 miles east of Denver.
Know what you mean....Joel Schiavone [scrap metal dealer] ran for public office of some sort; his wife was caught in a *gifting* scheme...may be in prison.
Funny about those tokens....I never heard about that SNAFU ...good old Connecticut. Heh.
Except the recent airbag recall.
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