did you ever wake up and you love all your cars?
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I totally get it, here in 2025, being into cars isn't a thing. But for older folks, it was.
Yesterday, a '57 Buick Roadmaster was caught by my dash cam. I posted it and a bunch of folks on the forum loved the car.
I think our new 2025 car might be one week away. It was produced and shipped. Got an email it's at the interim destination (my assumption is it leaves Arlington TX by rail, maybe it got offloaded in DE).
It's taken all my life to assemble cars that meet virtually all my criteria. With the 3 vehicles:
NO FWD
NO AWD
NO 4 cyl
NO V6
NO hood prop rod
YES inline 6 (1)
YES V8 (2)
YES RWD (2)
YES 4WD (1)
YES HID xenon (2)
YES manual (1)
YES external engine oil cooler (2)
YES air ride (1)
YES True dual exhaust (1)
The downsides, 1 has LED headlamps that I already know blind others although not as much as last year
(2025). But it has cool "animation" the running boards light up as well.
One is a twin turbo, but the other 2 NA V8's. Again to me, turbo isn't desirable but it is a 2007. Only 8 psi each, true dual exhaust.
All 3 use premium, and one gets 14 mpg, also not the best.
2 have fake dual exhaust, take the fifth.
In a way everything I've written is nonsense. Cars are depreciating assets, why waste money on something that sits 20-22 hours per day doing nothing. Well, my generation, and the one before, have love affairs with the automobile. It's a smug feeling to think that all 3 cars are ones that I love. In the office, I see a tendency for the wife to always get the nice new car. Here? It matters not, 2006, 2007, 2025, all are amazing in my mind, what I always wanted. The end haha
Do you love the automobile?
Yes
Every Day when I get in it.
sure do ...
One is rally fast, and the other one has a pesky check engine light.
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it' the dog's fault
Garmin DriveSmart 5 My other toys: IMac quad-core i3, Mac Mini M1. MacOS: Sequoia 15.1.1 The dog's name is Ginger. 2010-2025
I'd love my car more if it
I'd love my car more if it had two less wheels....
48 Chevy
I sure wish I still had my 1948 Chevy coupe that I paid $75 for back in the early 60s! My younger brother and I drove the wheels off of that thing. I do like the Hondas I've had over the last 40 plus years, Nissan not so much!
Those things will get you killed
I'd love my car more if it had two less wheels....
"Everything I need can be found in the presence of God. Every. Single. Thing." Charley Hartmann 2/11/1956-6/11/2022
my son
I'd love my car more if it had two less wheels....
Sat on a police Harley Davidson the other night (National Night Out). He's 11. Isn't it truly amazing, his hands and feet find all the right places, as if why wouldn't this thing be something a young boy is interested in?!
I
One is rally fast, and the other one has a pesky check engine light.
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it' the dog's fault
Know that feeling. The last car that we no longer have, had a P0420 for 3.5 years. I actually have two aftermarket CATS in the basement, and 4 02 sensors. But the car was a loss in May.
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I'd love my car more if it had two less wheels....
50+ years of riding motorcycles, I just sold my bike a month or so ago. It's absolutely insane riding these days with all the folks in cars paying more attention to their phones than their driving. It just wasn't fun for me anymore.
. 2 Garmin DriveSmart 61 LMT-S, Nuvi 2689, 2 Nuvi 2460, Zumo 450, Uniden R3 radar detector with GPS built in, includes RLC info. Uconnect 430N Garmin based, built into my Jeep. .
My riding days are over!
I'd love my car more if it had two less wheels....
50+ years of riding motorcycles, I just sold my bike a month or so ago. It's absolutely insane riding these days with all the folks in cars paying more attention to their phones than their driving. It just wasn't fun for me anymore.
Yeah, I hear ya barkin'! I also started riding well over 50 years ago. My wife died several years ago, and I have ridden only a few times since. It's physically a lot tougher now at this age, so I am in the process of getting my two ready to sell.
Bikeless since 2012. There's
Bikeless since 2012. There's times I miss it, but mostly not as much as I thought. I survived 20 years on 2 wheels, going down twice. Once due to my own lack of skill (low sided going too hot into a corner), other time rear ended while stopped at a light.
These days I enjoy the comfort of AC. Too many brainless drivers around here as well. Wouldn't feel safe as before. Achieved age of wisdom.......?
69 Karmann Ghia
Yes I do
non-native nutmegger
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Bikeless since 2012. There's times I miss it, but mostly not as much as I thought. I survived 20 years on 2 wheels, going down twice. Once due to my own lack of skill (low sided going too hot into a corner), other time rear ended while stopped at a light.
These days I enjoy the comfort of AC. Too many brainless drivers around here as well. Wouldn't feel safe as before. Achieved age of wisdom.......?
I heard that I did, I was a 'Live To Ride ... Ride To Live' kind of guy for a long time. I don't miss it at all, I see some folks sitting in traffic 90+ degrees F out and I'm sitting in my nice AC'd Jeep not missing it at all. Wifey still does though, she turns her head every time she hears one.
. 2 Garmin DriveSmart 61 LMT-S, Nuvi 2689, 2 Nuvi 2460, Zumo 450, Uniden R3 radar detector with GPS built in, includes RLC info. Uconnect 430N Garmin based, built into my Jeep. .