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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Unknown Target on January 07, 2005, 03:27:58 pm

Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Unknown Target on January 07, 2005, 03:27:58 pm
This might be my first ride (if my relative can find the keys):

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/DSCN1704.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/DSCN1705.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/DSCN1708.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/DSCN1707.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/DSCN1716.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/DSCN1709.jpg)

Funny thing: We don't know if it's working. She's 84 and her husband is 91. However, her husband refused to stop driving (about 3 years ago), so in order to keep him from doing so, they had to take out some part. He thinks the car is broken.
I have no idea what the part is, or where the keys are, but hopefully the damn thing still works :D

EDIT: I would like everyone to know that on the trunk it says "Pontiac Sunbird", on the sides of the hood, it says "Cavalier", on the dash it says "Chevorlet", and the grill looks like it belongs on neither car.
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Nuke on January 07, 2005, 03:33:51 pm
hey its better than mine :D

i want to see a comeback of the pinto :D
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Tiara on January 07, 2005, 03:38:00 pm
Dude, no. Just no. I can get a better car for 500 bucks with a full checkup too. And no rust (that's about the worst thing you can have on your car because it just gets worse and worse).

I don't know how much money you got to spend on your first car, but paying anything above 100 bucks is a rip-off. The think looks like it's 20+ years old (how old is it actually?).
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Unknown Target on January 07, 2005, 03:41:31 pm
Probably around 20+ years old. We're gunning for about 450.
And you can't buy cars down here like you can in the states. Things are way more expensive, and I don't have a lot of dough to burn.
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Tiara on January 07, 2005, 03:46:02 pm
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
Probably around 20+ years old. We're gunning for about 450.
And you can't buy cars down here like you can in the states. Things are way more expensive, and I don't have a lot of dough to burn.

450 for a 20+ year old car with rust and missing parts? Dude, you aren't just being ripped off, you are being raped by the elderly. :p

And who said anything about the States? I'm Dutch :p In what country do you live anyway?
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Post by: an0n on January 07, 2005, 04:04:54 pm
****ing Serbia, by the looks of that car.
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Liberator on January 07, 2005, 04:56:15 pm
I'd post a picture of my car(if i had one) then you jokers would realize that some of us have to make do with what we have...
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Martinus on January 07, 2005, 05:00:25 pm
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Originally posted by Tiara

450 for a 20+ year old car with rust and missing parts? Dude, you aren't just being ripped off, you are being raped by the elderly. :p

And who said anything about the States? I'm Dutch :p In what country do you live anyway?

[color=66ff00]Indeed, you can pick up 80's beemers over here for £500 in good nick.

Cars depreciate at a fantastic rate.
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Post by: redsniper on January 07, 2005, 05:02:24 pm
One of my friends' car says ford on the back, mercury on the front, and has a bumper made almost entirely out of black electricians' tape.
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Post by: Clave on January 07, 2005, 05:05:57 pm
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Cars depreciate at a fantastic rate.


That's true...

I have a nice car, it's French....
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Post by: aldo_14 on January 07, 2005, 05:07:53 pm
http://www.exchangeandmart.co.uk/search/car_search.php?MakeName=ANY&ModelName=&Minprice=&Maxprice=500&PostCode=G66+5NP&distance=&SortSpec=Price+desc&showphotos=Y&Mileage=&TradeSale=&RegistrationYear=&BasicBodyColour=&query=

for example
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Post by: Liberator on January 07, 2005, 05:09:38 pm
This (http://www.geocities.com/onamarie.geo/caprice1984a.html) is more or less my ride.  Except mine's blue and a little beat-up.
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Post by: Sandwich on January 07, 2005, 05:34:35 pm
This (http://members.aol.com/jonptp/EGGEDramatrachel450.JPG) is my ride. :D
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Post by: Rictor on January 07, 2005, 05:47:12 pm
anon, I will thank you not to mock the Yugo. It is a fine and noble machine, the likes of which would not seem out of place in a luxurious German showroom. It has only earned the reputation for being a piece of **** because of the fact that it is.

With that said, I take a certain pride in driving around in old, beat up cars. With few exceptions every car owned by my family, and by extension me (being until recently too young to legally run over old people), has been a POS. The last car we had (before upgrading to the current fancy-pants '91 NIssan) was an '84 Dodge Aries nicknamed "Deathtrap".
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Post by: Ace on January 07, 2005, 06:25:26 pm
Yeah... when driving a Yugo you at least have the satisfaction that you're not driving a Scota :p
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Post by: Clave on January 07, 2005, 06:30:57 pm
Mine: http://homepage.mac.com/clave/personal/newcar3.jpg
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Post by: an0n on January 07, 2005, 06:32:30 pm
Or one of those Soviet cars whose country doesn't even exist anymore.
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Post by: IceFire on January 07, 2005, 06:38:30 pm
Just me...but that car needs alot of work to make it look nice and probably to get it to run well, run clean, run efficiently....but thats just me.

Consider cost of the car, cost of replacement parts, cost of fixing major problems, cost of fixing optional minor problems, etc.  The top end price is just the beginning.
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Post by: an0n on January 07, 2005, 06:40:54 pm
Get MTV to pimp that mother****er!
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Post by: WeatherOp on January 07, 2005, 06:45:36 pm
I'm very proud of my Nissan 240sx, *Runs out to give it a hug.:D
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Post by: Corsair on January 07, 2005, 08:21:05 pm
Here's a picture of my car.
















:nervous:
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Liberator on January 07, 2005, 08:22:28 pm
:lol::lol::lol::lol:
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Unknown Target on January 07, 2005, 08:46:58 pm
All I can say to you nay sayers is that you're lucky I purposefully angled the camera so that you wouldn't see the dead mouse (that's been there for like a year) on the passenger side mat.

It has since been removed, thank God. The skin on its back dissolved away, leaving the spine and the back of the skull exposed, but the front half of the mouse still had some semblence of skin.


EDIT: And I am gonna negotiate for a lower price, somewhere in the $100 range.
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Liberator on January 07, 2005, 09:20:18 pm
I wouldn't go lower than $150, it's worth more than that as scrap.  Regardless you will be getting a lot of value for you're money if it runs.
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Unknown Target on January 07, 2005, 09:44:26 pm
Supposadly it does run, if it had that part and a new battery. Problem is, we're still trying to contact my cousin (who removed the part), to see if he still has it and can put it back in.
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Post by: Taristin on January 07, 2005, 10:58:35 pm
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Originally posted by WeatherOp
I'm very proud of my Nissan 240sx, *Runs out to give it a hug.:D


You suck.

As everyone knows, I have an Integra. Therefore I > you. Even if you have a sick RWD sports car, and I have an underpowered FWD econobox.
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Post by: Swamp_Thing on January 08, 2005, 02:14:53 am
I own a Rover...
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Bobboau on January 08, 2005, 02:24:25 am
well that could be worse, I mean it has all it's seats... and a steering wheel.
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Post by: vyper on January 08, 2005, 02:31:10 am
I too have a Rover, a  416 SLI (hence it moves like a beast despite it's conservative exterior).

My preference for a new car would probably be a 99 MX-5, or perhaps this;

(http://www3.mg-rover.com/stellent/groups/public/@all/documents/htmlsnippets/mgr_003000.jpg)

However a mid 90's merc or bmw is more likely.

Anyway, UT, screw the naysayers. You now have a car, and thats what matters - so long as it moves, has a heater and is roadworthy.
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Post by: Bobboau on January 08, 2005, 02:40:19 am
and your able to cram enough speakers and amps to stop a racehorse's heart.
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Post by: FireCrack on January 08, 2005, 04:06:45 am
(http://www.buysell.com/userphotos/0001264409/81420031219.jpg)This is my ride (more or less)
Title: Don't feel bad about your car....
Post by: Unknown Target on January 08, 2005, 09:26:30 am
I don't need a heater, I live in the Carribbean :)
The AC's probably dead, tho.

Does anyone want a vintage push-button AM/FM car tuner? It's got a little switch to change it from AM to FM, has about five large switches for station memory ( I think), and a little dial to move the bar to change stations. :D
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Post by: Fury on January 08, 2005, 09:56:04 am
This is my first, and current ride. (http://www.nissan.fi/images/mallisto/micra/big/syvatty_micra_edesta1.jpg)
Mine's metal gray in colour and it's three door model but otherwise the same car. :)
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Post by: Taristin on January 08, 2005, 10:28:33 am
Ha! Thank God there aren't Micras here.  It's bad enough we have those Scion xB's... and their slightly less repulsive xA counterparts...
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Post by: Fury on January 08, 2005, 01:23:46 pm
Meh, I happen to like my car. It's convenient and does not use gas like like sailors drink alcohol. :p
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Post by: Taristin on January 08, 2005, 01:25:18 pm
My car is just as fuel eficient. And it looks 40x better. :p
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Post by: vyper on January 08, 2005, 01:32:49 pm
In fairness Fury my mate's girlfriend drives one of them :p
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Post by: WeatherOp on January 08, 2005, 02:05:57 pm
We also got it for $800, allthough it was from my uncle, so that got the price down alot. Everything works, except the speaker in the driver's side door. And it really needs to be cleaned out.:lol: And to be able to boast, saying it would kick my brother's Storm'S BUTT.:nod:
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Post by: Knight Templar on January 08, 2005, 02:15:35 pm
*Feels a lot better about his ride*

*wants a Scion tC*
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Post by: Taristin on January 08, 2005, 02:39:43 pm
tC is hotness. Supercharged.