Posted on 02/14/2014 11:09:59 AM PST by EveningStar
It's hard to picture what today's teenagers will wax nostalgic about 30 years from now when they reminisce about their first car. (It still required gasoline, perhaps?) Who knows how automobiles will change in the future; what we do know is how different they are today from 30 or more years ago. If you fondly remember being surrounded by two or three tons of solid Detroit steel with a whip antenna on the front from which you could tie a raccoon tail or adorn with an orange Union 76 ball, and enough leg room that you didn't suffer from phlebitis on long road trips, then you might also miss a few of these.
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If you really search.. They are still out there. Lexus makes one, Hyundai gets close with the elantra touring...
I love them too.
Not as long as there are sports cars and econoboxes.
Not so fast.. CVT econoboxes can actually do better than manuals and the “flappy paddle” gear boxes are taking hold in the sports cars.
Yes, Dodge does, but I don’t want to give $ to Fiat. Of course, I think since Obama took my money, I should get a free car from GM (I want a Better) and a free car from Chrysler (a Jeep with Daisy Duke driving :-).
And additional trunk space.
If Telsa made a Country Squire-ese (with the 3 way tailgate) wagon, I would buy it.
When did cars stop having audible turn signals ???
Yup.. they sure did...I had one of these...my first car...
05 Audi A4 Avant.
Hope I never have to use it,
Cheers,
Jim
Mine was a chrysler wagon...finally got rid of it when literally everything that could leak did...
Oilpan, radiator, brake fluid, powers steering, wiper fluid, transmission
It had like 85,000 miles on it...
***Trucks still have steel bumpers. Been rear ended twice. No damage to me.**
I got rear ended a couple of years ago. My Dodge truck thin steel chrome plated bumper was caved in and under. It happened in front of a cop. Lucky me.
With the settlement I bought a real 1/4 inch real steel bumper! Got rear ended again a few weeks later. No damage to my Dodge. Her front bumper had a nice dent all the way across her plastic bumper.
If I ever decide to sell this truck, I will pull off the good bumper and place the old bumper back on as I kept it in my scrap pile.
Let’s not forget the starter button on the floor by the accelerator. Turn on the key, press the clutch with the Left foot, press the starter button with the right foot, when the car starts press the accelerator with the right foot.
FORD - Fix or repair Daily. or Found on road dead.
Then there were the 1974-75 Chevys. “Listen quietly on a cold clear night, and you can hear a CHEVY RUST!”
I have a 93 FXR. I think that was the last year for that particular model.
Your bike is SWEET ! :-)
That isn’t my bike, but a very similar specimen. I sold mine back in ‘98.
I lost my husband, my drums, my keyboard, and my house, but Thank God i still have my BIKE! :-)
Seriously.
That's it.
total piece of crap.
That confirms that we are talking about the same car.
Manuals are still cheaper for the base models of econoboxes. You are right that the “fuel economy” argument v an automatic is disapperaing.
Ummm, I never said I smoked. So, relax.
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