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Interesting...
AMC Gremlin - 3-speed manual with a 5 litre V8. Could win ANY drag race, as long as the track wasn't longer than 14 meters. It was a rolling oxidation experiment.
79 Rabbit GTI - got broken into for the Blaupunkt and I felt so violated I had to get rid of it
79 Trans Am 6.6L, T-roof that only leaked in one spot, right over the driver's seat. The resulting hemorrhoids in winter were spectacular. Also had a trunk so small it could only accommodate the roof panels... and a pickle. If you had sufficient determination.
Pontiac Grand Prix - traded in the TA  because we were going to start a family. Had a trunk large enough to transport the entire Gambino family.
Plymouth Reliant (K car) station wagon - my first front-wheel drive. Loved it in the winter.
Plymouth Voyager mini-van V6 - by this time I was so thoroughly domesticated that I considered Car & Driver magazine, porn!
VW Jetta 1.8T - Kids grown. Check. Divorce final. Check. Not quite ready for the Bugatti Veyron. Check.
Toyota Camry Hybrid. - Wait. WHAT?!? Hey, it gets ~5.7 L/100Km fella!
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
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Missed this thread the other day, but what the hey!
Never owned a car in Blighty, 'twas but a kid and then a dirt poor student.
'92 Toyota Tercel - Picked it up in Chicago and brought her back to St. Louis. Bought for $3k, ran for over 30k miles and sold for $2k. Unfortunately the previous owners had ragged the cooling system. Still $1k depreciation + $400 for a new radiator for over 30k of driving isn't to bad for '98-'00.
'96 Jeep Cherokee - Had/Have a thing for Jeeps. Loved the unreliable heap. Fuel pump would fail intermittently. Eventually forced to sell after the exhaust manifold cracked.
'97 Saturn SC2 - Wife's workhorse bought new and ran in to the ground over 7 years. Reliable but ugly as sin by the end.
'02 Jeep Liberty - Reliable, but spent waaay toooo much. Sold after having kids, gas prices shooting through the roof and facing a 60 mile round trip every day.
'04 Honda Accord - Wife's replacement for the SC2. Nice, if boring, car.
'06 Subaru Legacy GT - Bought new, improving my gas mileage (not hard to beat 16mpg), but needed something fun and this did the trick.
'08 Kia Sedona - New car purchased in the midst of the downturn. Our newer workhouse for hauling the kids (had 2 at that time, three now!).
'14 Dodge Challenger RT Plus / 6 Sp. Manual - Told to buy a car that fits three kids seats (the Subbie did not). Daddy needed V8 and 20" wheels.
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^]
Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. 
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Lancia Beta HPE 2000[^]
Great fun to drive, reliable, easy to get spares, easy to work on, economical to run, cheap to insure.
It was one of these. 
[edit]Add "Corrosion resistant" to that list.[/edit]
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I'm guessing fun to drive (?) nearly all Lancia's were made from rust, a pig to work on & frank fuel from what I remember of them 
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Indeed it was: the paint held them together (for a while).
You had to dismantle the cooling system to change one of the spark plugs...and it had twin, staged, down-draft Dell'Orto carbs, both with accelerator pumps.
But...it was worth it!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Land Rover series 2A (LWB) - it could go absolutely everywhere except past a petrol station
Coast me £300 to buy - and about £700 to get through its first subsequent MOT 
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LWB not used for off road then?...
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It was yes - the rear load space was big enough for a bed hence it was used for really lazy camping/hill climbing.
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A friend of mine did (probably still does, haven't spoken to him in a while) off road/terrain trials always reckoned the LWB would get stuck in area's where his SWB would get out of...
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Totally agree - the LWB can get beached...however the lack of power steering, the leaf springs and the solid unsprung bench seat means your internal organs will have been liquidised long before that happens.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: it could go absolutely everywhere except past a petrol station
...until the half shafts packed it in...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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'89 Mazda RX-7 bought it in '97 for $1000 lasted for a few years without A/C until I bought a 2000 VW Jetta, which was a great car when it wasn't falling apart.
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I ignored the unspoken rule that a first car should be cheap and bought a second hand Audi A3 (2007, 2.0 TDI, 6 speed S-tronic) for about 13k.
That's still my car.
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A '76 Chevy Monte Carlo[^], yellow and black and rust, aka. the Bumble Bee Mobile. Paid $200 USD, lasted about a year. The door panels would flap over 40mph, had a pretty decent stereo though.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I drove 7 cars over the last 20 years, but owned no car - never.
The first 3 was of my father, and the other are belonged to the company I work for...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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1981 Honda Prelude, drove it until the transmission locked up. Loved that little car.
First cars I drove were a 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (4 doors, vinyl top, and AM only radio) and a 1972 Ford Pickup truck (with the gas tank inside the passenger compartment)
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1941 Chrysler Highlander.
Dave
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Mine was a Wolsley 16/60[^] in blue.
Paid £20 from memory - from a guy who split up with his wife - I think it was his wife's car.
Did me well for a few miles, but cracked a cylinder & would have cost more than I had to fix it.
I tried leaving it in the local car park with the window open and the keys in the ignition - but I jsut got a note from the council telling me it would be towed & I would be fined, if I didn't move it.
Eventually I paid someone a case of beer to remove it
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I had a 1958 Standard Ensign that I bought for £41. It was a tank! Weighed over a ton and had non-servo, non-disc brakes. Stopping it was an adventure. With its 1296cc engine, starting it moving was fun too. No power steering, cross ply tyres. Bench seats. Column gear change.
Accelerator had a cable drive that left the throttle wide open if it broke, ask me how I know that.
I loved that car. Says a lot about me perhaps.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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1976 Mercury Capri II. Red.
*sigh*
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... also called "Water on my camera lens" effect ...
Unless the picture was taken by a unicorn.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Exactly what I was thinking! Is a good picture though!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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