This could be a dangerous slide...Last time I did this, I rec’d a not-so-nice PM to knock off the car slide.
I didn’t start driving until after I got out of the service-1971
Since then I would guess I’ve had 50-60 cars and a motorcycle.
My cousins are in the auto business and I bought a 74 Audi Fox with 138k miles for 400 bucks from one of them.
The speedometer was pegged so who knows how many actual miles. Until i rewired the starter, I had to back into an incline in the parking lot at work, so I could get the car rolling then pop the clutch to start it.
I had a 71 & 74 Vega. My girlfriend at the time (now my better angel) bought the 71 Vega for a buck then sold it to me for a buck. She then got totalled in it...no harm to here. That wreck begat the 74 Vega...fat tires, racing stripes - car couldn’t get out of its own way.
I also had a 68 Chevy badged Chevy II-Nova. Floorboards were rotted...used plywood over some boards to cover the holes. Whatever pollution stuff was on it was cut off and crimped. Somebody put an after-market carburetor on it where, after a while, the bowl would over-fill and produce a flood condition...while driving. Had to pull over to the side and wait a bit, then go again.
Guess I could do the begats again, of all the vehicles, to see how many I have had...and that includes buying the same car twice.
I’m strictly a Mopar guy. My experience with Chevys was a nightmare. Best one I had was a 1971 Buick Riviera and that didn’t last a year. I don’t know what the heck I was thinking. A friend of mine is the service foreman at a Chrysler/Dodge dealership so I get excellent care.
-SB
I also had a 68 Chevy badged Chevy II-Nova. Floorboards were rotted...used plywood over some boards to cover the holes.
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Car slide..
That’s funny. Glad your better half was not hurt in that accident.
I only married my husband because he drove a 1977, fresh off the showroom floor, Firebird. I knew I’d have nice cars from then on hahahahahhaha. KIDDING!!!
It was a special orange color. I’d give really almost anything to buy find, it, fix it, and buy it for him. He sold it when we had kid #2.
Bought his mom and dad’s Delta 88 that had been converted from a gasoline engine to a diesel engine. The first day I drove it, the filters all plugged and it became a No Va. I hated that thing.
Then 2 cadillacs. I bring this up, because my boys were young and rotten in the car. My car was this pale yellow, very pretty and I bought a pale yellow fly swatter so I could swat their legs from the front seat. 😂
When that comedian, Jeff Foxworthy came out with his “You might be a redneck if you have fly swatter in your car” my boys gave me a hard time. I said.. “IT WAS NEW AND YOU WERE THE FLIES.”
Now old Beemers, hubby’s girlfriends lol. I drive a Yukon. It’s fairly new and I can’t figure it out!!
Petey
I don’t mind the slides. Had to listen to many over the years. Nobody talking about anything but Covid, anyway.
That Nova was a great car. A little heavy but very stable. Not overly bulky as compared to other vehicles of the same age range. I had a 1969 Ford LTD. Big heavy car with the cutout dash. Engine was great. That thing ran well and could move pretty quickly for a dinosuar.
I also had a 68 Chevy badged Chevy II-Nova. Floorboards were rotted...used plywood over some boards to cover the holes.
Finally, around a decade later when the paint job started to wear out (rust), we reluctantly sold it to a teenage kid and his dad a couple blocks away, who used it as a father and son bonding project, spiffed it up bigtime, and then got it painted red. Not a good color choice in Florida.... we watched sadly from a distance, as things went downhill for it from there.