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max.patch wrote:
my first "vehicle" was a bike with a lawn mower engine attached to it with power transferred to the rear wheel via a belt drive. then i progressed to a real mini bike.
at 15 i got my hawg -- a honda 50. step thru model. florida was so stupid, you had to be 16 to drive a car, but they let kids at 15 get a motorcycle license and drive anywhere a car could go. screw up in a car ya got some sheet metal to protect ya. screw up on a motorcyle and its a whole nother story.
"Dazed and Confused"
Recycle, re-use, re-purpose
Plant a tree
Take a kid hiking
Make a difference -
17 to get car or bike license here.
We're happy. You can drink at 18.
Motorcycles have 2 classes. The higher powered one (based on power to weight ratio now, used to be over 250cc) you can only get after 1 year with the lower powered one.
You can get a moped license at 16. Sub 50cc.
Truck (i.e. real trucks not big suv's) license is over 21.Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait. -
socks wrote:
I had a Honda (boom boom boom as opposed to Yama ding ding ding) 350 CB, for about 15 mins. Used to break down all the time. I'd sure like to get another bike though...one day
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CoachLou wrote:
socks wrote:
I had a Honda (boom boom boom as opposed to Yama ding ding ding) 350 CB, for about 15 mins. Used to break down all the time. I'd sure like to get another bike though...one day
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Drybones wrote:
CoachLou wrote:
socks wrote:
I had a Honda (boom boom boom as opposed to Yama ding ding ding) 350 CB, for about 15 mins. Used to break down all the time. I'd sure like to get another bike though...one day
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Dr. Seuss -
CoachLou wrote:
socks wrote:
I had a Honda (boom boom boom as opposed to Yama ding ding ding) 350 CB, for about 15 mins. Used to break down all the time. I'd sure like to get another bike though...one day
Hopefully we'll run in '16.
Lest we forget.....
SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
PFC Adam Harris - USA
MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC -
LIhikers wrote:
jimmyjam wrote:
it was called a Bradley GT. Fiberglass body with gull wing doors. Engine in back behind an access door. Just 4 bolts for the motor, throttle cable and fuel line was all there was to undo/hook up. Swapped the motors with two floor jacks- his dad had an identical car. We were some crazy teenagers.
Once out on the autobahn, I used a stop watch to time the KM posts as the speedometer was outclassed. With a couple of KMs to run through the gears, he timed at just over 210 KPH which translates to a fraction over 130 MPH. However with the cost of premium fuel, he didn't run the van too often.
Lest we forget.....
SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
PFC Adam Harris - USA
MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC -
Picked up a 2016 Subaru Forester with a 6 speed manual yesterday, hopefully it will be my new car for the next 8-10 years.Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
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SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Picked up a 2016 Subaru Forester with a 6 speed manual yesterday, hopefully it will be my new car for the next 8-10 years.
Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait. -
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jimmyjam wrote:
my tricked out car was a '78 Rally Sport Camero that would do 150mph. That's what happens when your first car is a Pinto
5 speed, roll cage, one seat, and either a 302 or a 351 Windsor
depending on what he wanted in it at the time.Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them. -
jimmyjam wrote:
my 2003 Subaru is getting ready to turn 200,000 and still running strong. I think I can get another 100,000 out of it.
I want to run it the distance to make it to the moon and back, about 450,000 - 480,000 miles.
The thing still runs well enough but is slow in the acceleration department. -
my accord made it to 268000 miles when a traded it in on a Honda CRV. It developed a transmission issue at 160000 miles that I never fixed because it was a $3000 repair. Bought it for $14000 with around 30000 miles and drove it 11 years. Traded it in four $1800.
Hoping to get ten years out of this CRV unless I trade it in when the kids leave the house for a Mercedes Sprinter which I'll convert to a RV.Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
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LIhikers wrote:
I bet a Sprinter would make quite a comfortable camper.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Dr. Seuss -
SarcasmTheElf wrote:
jimmyjam wrote:
my tricked out car was a '78 Rally Sport Camero that would do 150mph. That's what happens when your first car is a Pinto
depending on what he wanted in it at the time.
"Dazed and Confused"
Recycle, re-use, re-purpose
Plant a tree
Take a kid hiking
Make a difference -
Rasty wrote:
my accord made it to 268000 miles when a traded it in on a Honda CRV. It developed a transmission issue at 160000 miles that I never fixed because it was a $3000 repair. Bought it for $14000 with around 30000 miles and drove it 11 years. Traded it in four $1800.
Hoping to get ten years out of this CRV unless I trade it in when the kids leave the house for a Mercedes Sprinter which I'll convert to a RV.
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I confess, my first vehicle was a Honda 550cc motocycle. After I got tired of that, I bought a MotoGuzzi 850. After I got tired of the weather and insects driving that. I bought I pickup truck, 4 cylinder. I now have a 4 door 4-cyl car.--
"What do you mean its sunrise already ?!", me. -
I wish I had a garage to work in.
If I did I'd teach myself how to do body work and restore my wife '71 VW bus, it's already a camper.
At this point it's more rust than metal and to pay for a good quality restoration would cost more than a brand new car, I'm sure. Good work isn't cheap and cheap work isn't good. -
LIhikers wrote:
I wish I had a garage to work in.
If I did I'd teach myself how to do body work and restore my wife '71 VW bus, it's already a camper.
At this point it's more rust than metal and to pay for a good quality restoration would cost more than a brand new car, I'm sure. Good work isn't cheap and cheap work isn't good.
"...We even replace things that are not yet broken, but we know from experience are problematic. A good example is the water pump on late model Eurovan VR6 models with plastic impellers. It's a $79 part that, when it fails, can cause a $6,000 engine to MELT DOWN. We KNOW these things inside and out, know how to fix what is wrong, and know what is GOING to break, and fix that too!..."
gowesty.com/view_page.php?name=VFS%20Articles
i've decided that a vw doesn't make financial sense for me.2,000 miler -
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I love getting the Automobile Aficionado, bring their 67 Cuda in, put 15g into the motor, 5g in the suspension, and another 5g in the interior.....i have to perform CPR after I tell them that if they want the body to look like the rest of the car we will start at 10g.
Of course after they have done all that other stuff, the budget is busted..............6 months later I'll see that 'Cuda with an $800.00 paint job.Cheesecake> Ramen -
there are a couple of informal weekly car shows where I live- held in shopping center parking lots. I go by and drool over the old muscle cars."Dazed and Confused"
Recycle, re-use, re-purpose
Plant a tree
Take a kid hiking
Make a difference -
SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Picked up a 2016 Subaru Forester with a 6 speed manual yesterday, hopefully it will be my new car for the next 8-10 years.
OzJacko wrote:
SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Picked up a 2016 Subaru Forester with a 6 speed manual yesterday, hopefully it will be my new car for the next 8-10 years.
Lest we forget.....
SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
PFC Adam Harris - USA
MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC -
jimmyjam wrote:
there are a couple of informal weekly car shows where I live- held in shopping center parking lots. I go by and drool over the old muscle cars.
Am considering swapping a built 350 into the truck and make a few runs at Bonneville, but the cost of speed rated tires is steep.
Lest we forget.....
SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
PFC Adam Harris - USA
MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC -
CoachLou wrote:
I love getting the Automobile Aficionado, bring their 67 Cuda in, put 15g into the motor, 5g in the suspension, and another 5g in the interior.....i have to perform CPR after I tell them that if they want the body to look like the rest of the car we will start at 10g.
Of course after they have done all that other stuff, the budget is busted..............6 months later I'll see that 'Cuda with an $800.00 paint job.
All the repair panels and parts are available but that doesn't help me much cause I haven't welded in years and I have no garage to work in.
While I was draining the oil on the VW Kathy informed me that it wouldn't start last time she tried.
The thing has an issue where the points slowly close up over a few months. So while the oil was draining I pulled out the distributor, replaced the points and condenser as the points were worn, and reinstalled the distributor. After I put in the new oil the thing started up on the first try -
Dan76 wrote:
SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Picked up a 2016 Subaru Forester with a 6 speed manual yesterday, hopefully it will be my new car for the next 8-10 years.
OzJacko wrote:
SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Picked up a 2016 Subaru Forester with a 6 speed manual yesterday, hopefully it will be my new car for the next 8-10 years.
It's steering wheel is the wrong side for you..
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jimmyjam wrote:
there are a couple of informal weekly car shows where I live- held in shopping center parking lots. I go by and drool over the old muscle cars.
You might look at going to 'Cruisin' the Coast in the Biloxi, MS area each October. Lots of muscle cars from the 1950s and 1960s. I never went, but some relatives did and they said the prices were rather high.--
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OzJacko wrote:
Dan76 wrote:
SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Picked up a 2016 Subaru Forester with a 6 speed manual yesterday, hopefully it will be my new car for the next 8-10 years.
OzJacko wrote:
SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Picked up a 2016 Subaru Forester with a 6 speed manual yesterday, hopefully it will be my new car for the next 8-10 years.
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Lest we forget.....
SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
PFC Adam Harris - USA
MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC -
i have no mechanical aptitude.
i had to replace the power side mirror on my honda. that, according to the research i did, is a $150 part from honda and they charge another $150 to install it. $300 total.
i bought a replacement mirror from amazon for $39 (it looks exactly like oem), watched a 3 minute video on youtube, and installed it myself in 15 minutes. (someone handy coulda done it in 5 minutes) $39 total.2,000 miler -
That's my kind of auto repair...
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Rasty wrote:
I had to replace the motor for my Honda Pilot that I had. The YouTube video was 30 minutes. The repair took 15 minutes.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them. -
SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Rasty wrote:
I had to replace the window motor for my Honda Pilot that I had. The YouTube video was 30 minutes. The repair took 15 minutes.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Dr. Seuss -
Rasty wrote:
SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Rasty wrote:
I had to replace the window motor for my Honda Pilot that I had. The YouTube video was 30 minutes. The repair took 15 minutes.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General
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