What kind of mileage are you getting with that ;)

Every 20 miles or so I'd stop at a produce stand and fuel up on oranges, bananas, and apples.

:-)

A drummer I gigged with had a Pacer...I can't repeat anything he said about it.

Geeze Mike! get with the program....this would suck the paint right off your
ride. I built it from the ground up. Got a first place in that show and I didn't even know it was entered- I went with a friend that owned the red Chevelle next to it - he entered mine too.

.

I like your Chevelle.

I had a 1970 two door swept back Impala.

Good times.



:-)

I could fit 8 (yes 8) bicycles in the trunk and squeeze as many humans inside. We'd drive out into the forest at unmentionable speeds looking for bicycle trails to ride and explore.

:-)

 Thats a nice ride spacey.I'll bet it moved well too.

Thanks Mike. My bike had to have a motor...a big motor. :) I like your thinking and agree...the trunk or out in the woods is the place for them.

Yeah Star...it moved very well. I have a
'69 El Camino SS that I just sold. It's only half-way restored....ready for interior and paint.
It's going to be even faster. The El Camino was designed to hook-up better.
I just got tired of restoring. Funny dude too...he left it in my yard ( my Ok) and haven't seen him since. Maybe he thinks I'll finish it LOL...I think I may sell it again LOL.

I restored a '49 Willys "Stakebed" that James really wood have loved for gardening.
Sold it to a guy that put the Willys truck bed on it....friggin' bozo...if I'd know that I would
have kept it...or not sold it to him.

 I have had a few bad experiences with El Caminos for some reason. In one case I was in a potentially fatal accident in a 69' El Camino. My mom was driving it and a drunk with no headlights broadsided us at 70mph. Later on I bought a 72 ElCamino and the dealer swore it was in cherry condition....He lied. The engine had motor honey in it and after about 1000 miles or less it wore off. I could have killed mosquitos within a 10 mile radius with the smoke from the tail pipe. It got about 3mpg for gas and about 1 quart per mile in oil usage. We bought it out of state and taking it back and killing him was too much trouble. 

 The 69 my dad had was really nice. Candy apple red and cherry condition. Luckily noone was killed in the accident.

 

WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME - - GREAT RESPONSIBILITY! -Stan Lee

Star the Camino was because my wife liked them. I've never cared for them and she
decided she wanted a full size truck....women.

My opinion of the US '80 models is that we were the ones paying for them testing out
how to make them run with computers....much the same way we've been paying for testing
how to record with them for the last twenty years....I think we're getting very close to having that well taken care of. JMO.

I had a 1983 Olds Toronado. Beautiful ride but run like doggy do because of the electronic
failings.
Well I changed all of that. When I was done the only thing the computer did was remember where I set the seat positions.
It was a bat out of hell front wheel drive when I finished. A luxury car that would haul.
It also had the air ride leveling suspension so I had a tow package put on it.
Then it was a fast, luxury, horse trailor pulling most excellent ride. Ya didn't even know the
horses were back there and because it was heavy in the front it was also great in snow.
It was truly a cowboy Cadillac....that screamed.

It was kind of funny....everytime I got pulled over in any of my fast rides the officer would
get to talking about the ride...when he realized that I knew about the vehicle and was
"in control" they'd usally say, "well try to keep it down and watch out for those other guys" and let me go.

I wish I had pictures of a '70 Camaro that I drove for years. Now that was a mean street machine. Had a quad stereo in it too! Steely Dan was fantasic in that car! True quad too...they had some other crap that was like quadrsonic or sumpin...don't remember much about that. I think it was just reversing LR in front or back...stupid whatever it was.

jamesg1213


I've owned some rubbish in me time..

Started out with this, which I loved (walnut dashboard, leather seats..starting handle..);





Then this heap, which caught fire at Heston Services;






Then this lumpen great thing, not even power steering;



Then the best one of the lot, said goodbye after 10 years and 265,000 miles;






Now I drive this;






Ah, the glamour of it all...

I love the two-tone Wolseley.  My mate had a Triumph Vitesse of about the same era that was an excellent car too.
 
If I ever drive again I'd probably choose something like your latest one.  I tend to use cars in a similar way to how most people use a wheelbarrow except I like to have the option of it becoming temporary accomodation if required.
 
I've never had the car love thing, and I'd probably be unable to look after a decent one properly if I had one.  My parking mantra is "Stop when you hear a bang!" which kind of explains my attitude to motors.
 
I love being taken out for drive in a flash car though.  My stepson has had some stunning ones, last time he came down it was one of those new Jags and we went off lording in it.  Time before that it was one of the new pimped up Mini Cooper's and he scared the bejeezus out of me in it.

Yep, I remember those... lol. My first car was my parents car of course. Then when I was 18 I got a VW campervan. I didn't know you had to put oil in it... and I was a slow learner. I blew that engine, blew another engine, then got another VW van but not a camper, blew that engine... a VW van has what is called a "pancake engine" and it will ive you NO warning before it blows... it ticks for about 5 seconds, louder each time then CRACK... it is BUSTED. 
After the VWs I got an Opel Kadet. Of course I didn't take very good care of it either. I completely burned the clutch out and found I could drive it without one. I would shut the car down at a stop sign or traffic light, put it in 1st, turn the key and it would start up and start going. It had no second gear anymore... so I would let off the gas and flip it into third, let off and into 4th. I could even gear down with no clutch, just let off the gas and it would let me gear down. It was pretty amazing considering what I put it through. I junked it when a brake caliper broke.

I finally began to mature a little and began taking care of cars and other things. The last truck I had before I met my wife and settled down was a '51 Ford with a flathead V-8 (Sanford and Son truck).

I drive a 2003 F-150 now but I might as well be driving a muscle car for the mileage I get... or a Pacer!
 
BTW... 1959 was the pinnacle of auto design. I would love to see some automakers revisit those body designs with modern guts. Curves and fins... awesome!!

J