Ahhh good point. I forgot your location.

True, my buddy has a white GT3 and no one even notices him here in Silicon Valley.

Yes, yes, and YES. I was looking for one of the old cars I used to love, except for really reliable and cheap to drive. I wanted a car, not a computer, mobile phone you can drive, or space ship.





Make it a $100,000 bar and you've got a deal.. ;)

But that is only 15 cents!


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Like we were sayin' in the other thread, a million bucks ain't what it used to be.. ;)

I was keeping my 68 DeVille forever... until my Dad sold me his 67 F-250, which I was going to keep forever. Well, until I get it running now. I can't wait for it to be gone.

Yep. I chuckle when the teens or eary 20s guys here say they will keep the car "forever". They have no idea how long that is in real life. Most of the stuff that I was going to keep forever when I was a teen is either dust or a vague memory by now. Life changes plans and one day you wake up feeling 20 and 40 years have actually gone by since you were. The things that were so valuable to you then really just are not anymore.


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^^This^^

Well, I have one car I've owned now for 32 years. That is close to forever?

For a lot of unfortunate people it is.

That is the exception not the rule.

I had a Ford Bronco, year ??, 351 auto, it was a beast, cost me a fortune to buy because "Australia tax", the chassis and body ended up falling apart from rust.

It went from good to a parts car in about 2 years.

That was an expensive experience.

Brilliant tow car though, the thing sounded like war when yuou were on it to.

In the end I swapped it for a AW11.

Basically if one owns a M3/M4 in Southern California, it's "just another car"

That's the car culture here in a nutshell.

The humfrz bros have great taste in cars!

I once owned a B-GT. Wires, OD, drove it for almost a year but decided not to ship it to my new home. Liked the low-end torque and engine sound, didn't like the seats or brakes. Glad to sell it right after the throttle return spring broke at WOT going about 80 approaching a turn. Didn't crash, shat my pants though. It looked like this one:

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Cool, My mom had one. The starter was bad, and she'd have to rock it to get it started but weighed like 100 lbs. After the last time it happened when my dad was away on cruise (in the navy) she convinced him to replace it with a new Chevy Monza so she wouldn't get stranded anymore.
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If I find it again, I'll try to buy it.

@yurikaze, your Mom could have been a Bond girl opposite Sean Connery.

Interesting color GT, don't recall seeing one like it.

Is that your mom? I would have breast fed till 23.

Holy eff I almost wore my drink.:lol:

It was originally light yellow. My dad was restoring his Jaguar E-type, so painted the MGBGT to match it at the same time. His dad owned a body shop.

"86" is not a brand.

You know what he ment.

Another coincidence. Before the BGT I owned an E-Type Series 1 FHC. Repairs almost broke me. I still have a scar from changing the starter.

Sad to sell it, more women were attracted to that car than anything I've owned since. Lots of great memories when it was running (and stopping) properly. Here's its twin:

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All it would take is a coat hanger, a few bends and a hot fire and it could be

I carried one of my dad's ball peen hammers in my car for several months to start my TR6.

One day I had a girl in the car and we had stopped at a convenience store to get some soft drinks. The starter was dead when we came back out. I said, "Hey, reach down between your legs there and grab that hammer."

She handed it to me with a rather concerned look and said, "What are you gonna do?!"

"It's all right. Just sit tight a minute."

She watched me walk around to the passenger side, lay on the ground, reach up underneath and give the starter a couple of technical taps. Started right up.

"That worked?!" she said. "I thought you were gonna start smashing it with the hammer!"

Later I got a hammer of my own to keep in the trunk so I wouldn't have to keep stealing my dad's hammers, even after I had replaced the starter. Always carry a hammer in your tool kit in the boot of your British car.

It was also handy to tap on the electric fuel pump, located back by the gas tank, to get it running for a few more miles - :thumbsup:


humfrz

And a flashlight.

My British iron seemed to break on rainy nights often due to Lucas "engineering".

Brings to mind the day I was on this road not too far from my house in CT, when Lucas smoke started rolling out from under the hood. I popped the hood open then started in on getting to the batteries underneath the back jump seat, when the neighbor keep yelling at me to get away from that car before it blew - :eyebulge:

I walked home and got my 1956 Ford PU (which always ran just fine) and towed that smoking puppy back home. Yep, drive it for an hour and work on it for an hour, repeat - :sigh:


humfrz

I learned that after the second 'forever' car. The first fell apart, and i sold it like a game of hot potato. The second, i just got bored with, and realized forever is way to long to be bored.

If all was right in the world it damn well would be. [emoji36][emoji12][emoji41]

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The way I see it. My car is paid off, has been put into a wall (track indecent), and stripped of most things that make it desirable for the average person. It owes me nothing and its value is far less than what I would be comfortable selling it for. When it gets retired from active track duty, it can sit in my shop and collect dust.

Are we talking about cars or marriages?

Cars, silly!

It costs you to get rid of a marriage - :eyebulge:


humfrz

how about a little from column A and a little from column B!

Imagine a curve ball:

Next gen 86 with a BMW B48

Best sister award?

When I bought my car in 2012 my plan was to drive it 100,000 miles at a minimum. I'm currently @ 77K. At this point I'm not planning on selling it in 23,000 miles. But no one really knows what the future holds.

I can see myself keeping mine for at least 3-5 years. I don't change cars that often. I had Miatas for five years before coming to this platform. The two main reasons I switched were:
Miatas started being stolen and burglarized left and right. My personal car was hit twice the last year I owned it. I became too paranoid owning an easy theft car that isn't being garaged.

They just don't make very good daily drivers if you're 5'10"+ and on the heavy side like me.


The FR-S does everything I need it to do.
It is reliable, simple, easy to service in my own garage. It's cheap, too. I got mine for less than $10,000 with 54k miles. It's salvage title, but straight where it matters. I'm also more than equipped to deal with small cosmetic imperfections on such a car.


For someone in my mid-twenties who enjoys frequenting driving events and hitting the local canyons on the weekends while only owning one car, this one is perfect for me.



And it just puts a smile on my face each time I drive it.
I wasn't interested in Subarus much for many years as a car enthusiast in California. The twins changed that.

they've all but come out and said that the supra will never get a manual, so i'd say he's just taunting her.