Posted on 07/26/2013 4:30:32 PM PDT by Daffynition
The sun is out! The birds are singing! The open road calls! Your vinyl interior is burning itself into your thighs! Yes, summer is here and it's time to go on some road trips. What car do you take, though?
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Proof that if you wait long enough everything becomes cool again, even if in an ironic way.
BTW, congrats on the cassette player. My old BMW has the original cassette player. When I bought it a few years ago it gave me a chance to pull my old cassette collection out of storage. Now every time I drive the car it’s like a major nostalgia trip!
We had a Honda S2000 that was a blast to drive. Unfortunately Obama’s economy forced us to sell it last year.
Very fine...but I need *chrome* to use it. ;(
Roll 'em up!
Yes I do.
LOL....I’ve enjoyed going to flea markets and *restoring* the old tapes I threw out ages ago....they usually cost 25 cents each.
Yeah, but just watching the pre-made video is cool. I haven’t actually played with it either.
A 1979 Honda CX500.
I'd get the Supersonic Family Truckster.
“I had a 65 Olds 425 Rocket V8, 370hp Delta 88. It was powerful and got surprisingly good gas mileage.”
Had a similar experience with a 65 Buick Electra 225, also had a 425 nailhead. Had cruise control built into the speedometer, setup was similar to an alarm clock. Lived in Midland, Tx at the time and as with your Olds it would loaf along at 80mph for hours on end when driving to El Paso, Dallas, etc. quite the road hog, had dual exhaust with glass packs, sounded great. Good memories for sure.
Who has the money to go anywhere?
I can relate in kind of a tragic way. Just a few weeks ago my cassette case got stolen out of my car (while I was parked at Earthfare of all places). 36 cassette tapes gone, tapes that I had as far back as middle school. So now I’m replacing them. If I were smart I’d do the flea market thing like you’re doing, but instead I’m buying them on eBay for two or three bucks a pop. Still pretty cheap though.
When I floored it, you could hear the air being sucked into that 425. A beautiful sound, I mean really great sound.
I once had a girl friend whose Daddy owned one of those Electras. This would have been 1969. She was only 5 feet tall and really looked small driving that huge Buick.
Man, I got a big tote bin in the garage full of cassettes I can’t bring myself to get rid of. I listen to an old iPhone I loaded up with just music and plug into a cassette adapter.
Grandpa had a Buick Electra 225 that I learned to drive in.
When he drove it he was always speeding. The buzzer would go off when he got over the preset limit but he couldn’t hear it since he was hard of hearing. Those were the days.
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