Posted on 09/15/2017 9:14:09 PM PDT by Army Air Corps
Calling all motorheads: what is the weirdest, most oddball car, truck, or van that you have ever driven? The "weirdness" can be anything from exterior design, to mechanical features, to the interior. Have at it, FRiends.
Absolutely beautiful. I’ve had the worst luck with roll bars and that one looks wonderful. Love the plantings, too.
I had a single bout with stones in my late 30’s...maybe 15 or so, none bigger than a large grain of sand. The pain was “hands and knees on the floor crying out to God for mercy” level. God help anyone who had it worse.
A friend of mine had a Citroen with a two stroke engine. We had a lot of fun in that thing. It was a pretty exotic car for our neck of the woods.
He lent it to his beautiful but seriously ditzy sister and she let the oil reservoir run dry.
Engine seized up tighter than Dick’s hat band.
Yes, she was a blonde.
A natural platinum blonde.
It's possible - there couldn't have been very many in all of Hawaii!
Funny story about that particular wealthy Lieutenant (whose name I have forgotten): while we were on an artillery shoot at Schofield Barracks, were right next to the Dole pineapple fields and the perfume of those ripe pineapples was gorgeous. There were signs posted telling us that there was a $50 fine for stealing pineapples, so we knew better than swipe one. Our rich lieutenant ignored the signs and went out in the field and took one and then cut it up with his Kabar for all of us.
As you'd guess, a small white pickup truck showed up and caught our lieutenant cutting up the pineapple and sternly told him that it would be a $50 fine. The lieutenant looked up at him, then the pineapple, and then took out his wallet and said "Fine, I'll take two of them" and handed him a $100 bill.
We thought he was the coolest character we ever knew.. That Pantera was just icing on the cake.
I drove a little right hand drive van in Malta when my ship pulled in for liberty and I was assigned as duty driver. The engine was between the front seats and it felt like my legs were sticking out in traffic. The foot pedals were in the same place as a regular car, but the stalks on the steering column were reversed. Every time I went to make a turn I turned on the windshield wipers.
Did you sing the song while behind the wheel?
Of course!
Those engines were light enough and small enough that he probably could have pulled it out and put another in by hand, by himself. Guess there weren’t any candidates for an engine swap at the time, though.
Jeep Scrambler. Cobbled together with so many different parts, you didn’t know what it would cost until you tore into it. Loved it because I could take the top off by myself.
AAVP7 Amtrac when I was a Navy Doc attached to the 5th Marines on CAMPEN during NATO exercise ‘Gallant Eagle 81’.
Certainly wasn’t built for looks...
He was here in VA, she had borrowed the car to go to see friends in Rome, GA.
The engine died in GA.
The mechanics in GA said they couldn’t find another engine. He and I decided they didn’t want to bother with it.
The original GM electric car in 1996. Don’t remember the name, but it looked like a door stop, was eerily quiet, and had instant torque and acceleration though not much of either. It was only available for lease in CA and AZ if I remember correctly.
The EV1
For about 3 years n the mid 70’s I owned a Honda civic - 2 cylinder. It looks like a roller skate on wheels, had 2 cylinders. It was great on gas. I bought I from a young guy from Detroit who said he had paid 1800 new for it and when he bought it they were offering a buy one get one free deal.
Ping
My baby (niece) is 57. Know what you mean.
Cars aren’t transportation. I’ve never understood people who felt that way. They’re a home, in some funny way from someone who’s never lived in hers. I slept in the backseat of the Packard as grandfather waited at the bus stop for mother and would sleep under a blanket. Broke my heart when they got rid of the car.
I never want to give one up. For a while we tricked me by always buying the next one to look like the last so I could pretend it was still the same car. For the last two decades we’ve had two identical cars in the driveway. Amuses the neighbors no end.
It was so very hard to grow so old that a stick shift no longer made sense and we had to go automatic. Total mind turn. I see a small convertible go by and I still ache.
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