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Post subject: Car Culture thread
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:35 pm
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So, I didn't find a similar thread, so we're on here.

What do you drive? Post your car, or the ones you love. I'm sure that in a guitar community we have several car lovers, grease monkeys, gearheads and all sorts of other 4-wheelin' lunatics...

I don't drive anything fancy, but I really like my Lancer...

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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 3:03 pm
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I used to have a Lancer - a Dodge Lancer :lol:

Nice timing. This is my new car (as of last month).

2017 Chevrolet Impala

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Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 3:19 pm
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My ride is a 2016 Kia Sorento. AWD V6

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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 3:35 pm
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My vehicles are older and quite unimpressive and not worthy of mention.
They are just tools to me.
A to B.
I used to be a gear head but at some point that part of me just petered out and died a slow, quiet, uneventful death.
Even my motorcycles (which I still quite enjoy) are old enough to be blasé to most folks.

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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 4:57 pm
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I always assumed you had a BMW.

I didn't know what I was missing. I start the car and my Android phone connects to bluetooth. Plug the phone into a USB port and now some of the phone controls work straight from the touch screen display via Android Auto. Now you can use Waze on the touch screen for navigation. This is all fairly basic and standard these days. :shock:

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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 10:26 pm
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I’ll start with an apology for the lengthy blurb. A little long, but a lot of you can relate if you’ve lived for some time, especially if you have been a two car or more family. The rest are sure to catch up.

My wheels in order:

‘63 Black Mercury Comet 2 Dr. HT. Dropped 6” Front/Up 6” Rear. Fast little 289 car that the cops adopted.

‘64 Midnight Blue Pontiac Parisienne 2 Dr. HT. Spring reverb under the dash for AM radio and a Quadriphonics 8 track. Perfect car for Drive-In movies. Cruises easily. Perhaps, my fave.

‘73 B/W Dodge Charger SE 2 Dr. HT. First year for Goodyear raised white letter Polyglas tires. Also came with 20 worksheets (most different) in 6 months. Goodbye Mopar. My father’s choice. Not the big fin ‘61 Bevedere or Baby Blue White interior ‘62 Valiant slant six Signet that I learned to drive with. The Dodge was beautiful to look at and fast when it worked. Rode like a skateboard IMHO.

‘73 White GMC 1 ton dualie (motorhome with introduced Class C’s coming out) 3 doors. LOL Great engine, but, a poorly designed front end stabilizer that kept slipping out of the rubber bumpers causing a commotion of noise and banging. RV prices almost doubled a year after I sold it. :cry:
‘73 Silver Honda Civic This was the 17th available locally for Canada’s introduction. I imported British 12” mags and British Dunlop’s because those were the only compatible performance wheels and tires available at the time (just like the Austin Mini Coopers from which I got the idea). Great fun, ran cheap and forever, and a rust experiment for Honda who showed up from Japan at my door to check it out.

‘79 Copper Buick Regal. Great for racing if you don’t get caught. It was that or the Monte Carlo with the new trendy poorly custom sprayed clear coat.

‘86 Beige/Brown metallic Toyota Celica GT. Most of us preferred rear wheel drive at the time (this wasn’t). Gorgeous car with pop up headlights, 3,000+ mile trips were gruelling with the stock seats.

‘86 Midnight Blue Pontiac Grand Prix. A big comfy boat with a complete analog gauge package and wire wheels. It loved tuneups.

‘87 Black and Grey 2 Dr. Nissan Pathfinder. First year in North America. Truck of the year in USA, Australia, and Canada, Awarded one of the 10 best all time best made engines . A real truck (not a city SUV which has it’s place). Clearance to crawl underneath and a long and wide wheelbase (no rollover stickers like I saw on our recent rental SUV). Great for logging roads. fishing, odd jobs, and groceries. Loved it. Hated 15 Cdn. mpg. Two gas gauges and if one gauge goes it’s a whole dash board replacement as I found out. My mild custom job tricked it out though with offset mags picked up at a custom truck show in Seattle for a much tighter turn radius. After I sold it SUV prices sky rocketed. :?
‘89 Gold Swedish Volvo 760 Turbo. Awesome car except for typical GM burnt out lamps and expensive turbo replacement. This was my first 4 door car bought to keep my wife safe for her daily highway drives.

‘89 Grey Oldsmobile Delta 88 2 Dr. HT. with a custom moonroof and wire wheels. This car, inherited from my father, had a great smooth dependable engine that complemented the ride. Hated the faux chrome plating that shreds and cuts. Faux chrome plating is all the rage now, but safer. :roll:
And now . . . The old guy’s present car:
2009 White 4 door Hyundai Sonata (with around 85,000 km or about 53,000 miles). How did this happen? Well, 2009 was talk of car companies failing, buyouts, bailouts, models being dropped, and hydrogen and electric were buzzwords. Options were limited and iffy. With an older relative and family concerns it was go with a sure thing rather than rolling the dice. Remember this when you buy your last gas or first environmental car.

Ah, you win some. you lose some. At least it’s not a Yugo.

Now ya know to respect the next old coot that passes you in the 4 door slug. He might just have nitro in the cab or, perhaps, a faster electric vehicle with a whine instead of a zoom. :wink: :lol:
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Great thread, Sergio. :D

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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 6:58 am
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I've always been a Ford man myself, but right now I must say I'm enjoying this rice burning little thing.

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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 7:45 am
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I've always been a bike guy.
I have a BMW road bike and a KTM dirt bike.
Hence my handle.
My 4 wheeled vehicles are VERY ordinary.
People sometimes assume I am wealthy or at least well off because I ride a BMW but it is older and even when new they are significantly cheaper than a Harley Davidson.
KTMs, on the other hand, are pricey compared to the Japanese big 4 but IMO they are worth every penny.

Little known fact: BMW was building motorcycles decades before they ever thought about building an automobile.
They began as an aviation engine supplier during WW1.
When the war was over they had a surplus of engines with no market for them so they built a motorcycle around the engines.
That's why the air-cooled cylinders stuck out the sides.
It is also the reason for their logo which is supposed to represent a propellor in motion.

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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:12 am
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BMW, I don’t think any car is too old or short of ponies to deserve mentioning.

I’ve owned several cars and the one I lived the most aboard was a black Mexican Ford Fiesta, a small sedan that I drove for 7 years and had some serious adventures in it.

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I laughed in joy and wept very bitter tears aboard it. Met (and went quite further) many great women in it, drove it to play memorable gigs, brought my best guitars home in it, escaped from two armed robbers who tried to mug me, by defensive-driving it.

I shed a tear when I said goodbye to that Ford, even though I was technically trading it for a bigger, better car.


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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 1:16 pm
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My daily driver is a 2010 VW Passat wagon. I love it. In 2011, there were no Passats, sedan or wagon sold in the US.

2012, sedans were made outside of Chattanooga. But no wagons.


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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:25 am
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A friend of mine in Florida just bought a Gem electric car. A glorified golf cart!
It goes to 40mph and lasts 10 hours on an overnight charge :

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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 4:49 pm
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Just wanted to add that having many vehicles over time as in my post are pretty typical in this part of the world. Extreme weather takes it’s toll with temperatures and salted and rough roads that brings rust with it. They take a beating. Add to the fact that Canada is a considerably larger country divided by 10 from coast to coast whereas the U.S. is divided up by 48 (50 with Alaska and Hawaii) which, if traveling, can chalk up the Canadian miles easily.

Some people actually drive clunkers over the winter to keep their cherry cars in show and shine shape for the warmer season(s).

Any Classics, and Winnipeg is reported to have the most in the country (something to do with winter pastime I suppose), they come out in the good weather.

Lots of tuners, especially amongst Canada’s largest Filipino community.

We have Super cars, but Vancouver is literally overrun by them and electrics have taken off for that city preparing to be the most environmental.

Just like most places Rods and Customs are here too. Convertibles are rare and often Classics.

Kinda hard to drive a nice slammed car on crap roads and for plowing snow. :roll: There’s always some adventurous soul, however. :P
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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 6:48 am
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That makes sense, FSB!

Garage your nice vehicles for the winters and drive clunkers.

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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 7:09 am
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Too many "SUVs" on the road these days. First of all, a lot of them are regular car suspensions with a shell that looks like a truck on top. And people drive them like they can drive faster in the snow because their car is 4 inches taller.

When I mentioned what car I was interested in, I kept getting "you want a car with a 6 cyl engine? But those suck in the snow". OK Karen, but your "SUV" sucks at going around turns. :evil:


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Post subject: Re: Car Culture thread
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 2:45 pm
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ghost_of_strings wrote:
Too many "SUVs" on the road these days. First of all, a lot of them are regular car suspensions with a shell that looks like a truck on top. And people drive them like they can drive faster in the snow because their car is 4 inches taller.

When I mentioned what car I was interested in, I kept getting "you want a car with a 6 cyl engine? But those suck in the snow". OK Karen, but your "SUV" sucks at going around turns. :evil:


Having the ECO/SPORT option makes driving an SUV fun, IMO. You're right about too many of
them on the roads but after being trapped between them in a Karmann Ghia, I love having more
visibility on the roads now.

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