What's your vehicle history?
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Lets share my cars shall we=)
I started off with a 1991 Buick LeSabre Custom. My dad bought it as a beater for $800. It was really clean besides a cracked mirror and a small dent in the passenger rear quarter panel. I got it about two years after he bought it. It had started to rust and looked worse than it was due to being white. The inside was so comfy with the red velvety cloth. I miss this car. It was my first and only automatic car too=) On to a picture (not even close to the time I got it)
I drove this on and off through my next cars up until this happened:
I got rear ended in a blizzard on the way to work one morning. I ended up getting $1400 from the guys insurance, and sold the car for $500. I later found out he was drunk when he hit me=/
Go back in time a bit. I bought this 1988 Mazda B2200 pickup for $400 my Senior year of High School. I think it had around 140,000 miles on it. It had absolutely no clutch left. You could start it and let it idle in all gears and it wouldn't move. My father and I put in a new clutch and I drove this around for around 6 months.
I just did basic maintenance, but always wanted to lower it. I ended up volcanoing some coolant via a burst radiator hose. This blew the headgasket and ended the fun=/ I then went back to driving the Buick until I found and bought my dream car. A 1986 Chrysler Conquest TSi.
Everyone say "Hi Earls Mum". lol Anyways I bought the car for $1900 and it had 103,000 miles on it. Ran great during the test drive and drove smashingly well on the way home. But that is where it ended=( After a half hour of driving, I started to hear a knock. Not knowing what it was I continued to drive. The knock started getting louder and louder, and I noticed my oil pressure was going lower and lower. I ended up getting off the road and having it towed home. After deeming it a rod bearing my dad pulled the motor. Here we remeber that the PO told us he just replaced the rod bushings. Number 4 was non existent=/ He did a shit job of torquing them down. I then started building up the G54B slowly.....and never finished in the almost 3 years I've owned the car. I still have it, but have sold most of the parts I aquired. I might just throw a 350 in it so I can just drive it and give no shits=D
Anyways, I continued driving the Buick since I had three cars at the time. I then traded the Mazda straight up for a 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit pickup. It ran and drove and that's all that mattered. I don't know the mileage since it was swapped. I did nothing to this besides basic maintenance and some paint on the valve cover. I also had 3.5" drop plates made for the rear, and bought some XXR's for cheap just to have good tires. It looked hilarious.
A PO before the guy I bought it from had done the paint=/ It used to be diesel and they did a 1.7 swap. With the diesel trans it wound out at a tad over 75 but was scary to drive even at 65 due to the high revs. It had an almost non existent passenger floor board. I ended up selling it after the gas gauge stopped working. This led me to selling it just so I could pick up the next car the same day. A 1983 Toyota Celica Supra P-Type. It had 113,000 miles on it, but definitely looked as if it had more.
I bought it for $850 and drove it for about 2 months before the headgasket gave up=/ lol It had the most bondo I have ever seen used on one car. I never even got to beat on it=( It did have tokico blues and eibach springs I found out after getting under it. I then needed a car badly and happened across the Ti. I bought it for $2200 with 144,000ish miles.
You guys know the story with her. lol Then I was forced to buy my 1996 Volkswagen Golf GL as my winter beater for $700.
I beat the hell out of it climbing things all the time. That is my car history=)
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Wheels....They're stock. And it isn't clean anymore. The underbody is more solid than any one you will ever see, but the normal rot spots have shown their repairs.
It is a waste for me to rebuilding this motor anymore Brian. It would have been back together over a year ago if I would have gotten the block hot tanked. You forget that the turbo was blown too. I have all new internals sitting around, a basically brand new crank, and I have a majority of the parts to do it but it's not getting finished. The BMW is getting my loving, and this can turn into a bastard 350 car=) The g54b is a good motor if you keep up on it. It is an attention whore and can easily kill a wallet.
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This looks fun, I think I'll play.
At 16 my parents gave me a 1997 Jeep Cherokee Sport 2wd. I beat the living snot out of this thing! Learned how to do brakestands in it which also taught me how to do U-Joints and driveshafts. I could fit 4 passengers plus all of our BMX bikes in and on the Jeep.
Sold the Jeep to purchase my great grandmothers 1994 Toyota Corolla with 34xxx miles on it so I could commute to UTI in Illinois everyday. I put the largest can I could find on the end of it and called it a day. I hated this vehicle with a passion but it got me to and from school everyday and I put over 80k miles on it in a lil over 2 years and it never failed me....
Until the day I picked up my 1995 325is and my corolla put a rod through the block. Talk about timing!
I overpaid like nobodys business for the 1995 325is because I was young and dumb and I wanted a BMW. No mods only maintenance and I sold it for $800 with almost 200k miles and still running strong.
Shortly after I bought the corolla I picked up a 1993 240sx rust free from Texas. Head gasket blew so I decided this was the perfect time to swap out the KA with 150xxx miles for an s14 KA with around 60k and a turbo build started. This simple little summer project ended up going on for almost 6 years, being transfered to 7 different garages and I finally had to sell her last summer.
That brings me to my current 1997 328i 5spd. I found it on the cab ride home after going out on Water st. the night before Thanksgiving, talked to him on Thanksgiving, picked it up that Friday and had the alternator die on the way home. The "new" one he advertised was too small because the car was wired for the car phone. Then in January my fan deleted itself on hwy 100. This meant a TMS aluminum radiator went in and upgraded water pump. She's a work in progress but she brings a smile to my face every day.
Not the longest list on here but every car had a purpose at a certain point in my life and brought some great memories along with.
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#1: 1991 Volvo 940 GLE 16 valve
Bone stock. Timing belt broke one wintry morning due to negligence.
#2: 1990 Volvo 760 turbo
My first experience with modification. I did a lot of work/modification on this car, but my enthusiasm outweighed my ability and the car was never as good as it should've been. I learned a lot from this car. Sold it to a guy from Alabama.
#4: 1990 BMW 325i
Bought this in an attempt to get away from Volvos due to my frustrations with the previous car. I loved every second of owning this car, and only sold it so that I could afford to pay for my last year of college without taking out a loan. It is now in great hands, owned by Ian (visian on this forum).
#5: 1990 Volvo 240 DL
Purchased as a cheap beater to replace the e30. I did a couple little cheap mods to it and drove the heck out of it. Worth every penny. Traded it for the next car.
#6: 1990 Volvo 740 turbo SE
Traded for this because it was a deal I couldn't pass up. The SE is rather rare and sought after in the Volvo world. Did a lot of maintenance on it and then traded it yet again for my current 240.
#7: 1989 Mercedes 300e
My brother gave me this car as a present. I really liked it, but it was plagued by k-jet issues, so I got rid of it cheap. I wish I wouldn't have had to let it go.
#8: 1984 Volvo 240 turbo
Was my brother's car, then a joint project we worked on, then my own project. Swapped a late model turbo motor into it and in general put way too much time and money into it. Sold it to a friend for cheap.
#9: 1987 Volvo 240 DL
This is my project car. A lot of time and a lot of money are in it. Nothing is stock anymore.
#10: 1998 Volvo S70 T5 SE
Picked this up to be my comfy daily driver so the aforementioned 245 could undergo more serious modification. Last week a drunk motorcyclist crashed into me, totally it. Hoping to find a replacement soon.
Wow, I guess I really am a Volvo guy. Still plenty of love for BMW's though.
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Do you still happen to have the car phone? PM me if you do=D
I wish! I've been looking for one. Apparently they're kinda rare. I can find them for 5ers all day.
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I love threads like this - some awesome vehiculars. Mine is more of the two wheeled kind, though.
First vehicle I ever owned in my name. Loved it so much and learned everything I know from it. Used to take out the engine and rebuild it in my apartment bedroom in college in 4 hours. So easy to work on and learn from.
Second bike ever owned - big step up from the 250. 1994 CBR900RR with a stupid sprocket setup.
Just sold her in Decemeber, had it since 2009.
Took her out to Pike's Peak
VFR750 circa 1992; best sounding bike I ever owned.
Another bike:
Got seriously fucked over from a Chicago twat with this car, didn't have it for long but loved it when it ran. Either way, everyone has a subbie now so it never felt that special...
Another project bike - had no fairings from previous damage and "rebuilt" it. Sold it to my good friend.
Current track-only bike.
Current road bike:
Picked this girl up in September of 2011 and is current daily:
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Some awesome toys there Mot Power.
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1986 Buick Park Ave
1989 Buick Something...
1995 Olds Cutlass
1991 Cherokee XJ
1998 328is
2000 M5
1989 325i
1998 M3
1991 325i
1991 318is
1998 540i
1995 M3
1991 325i
2002 WRX
All the BMWs were manual
Bikes:
1991 CBR 600 F2
2001 CBR 600 F4i
2006 CBR 600rr
2001 Victory V92c
And some random pics of the aforementioned vehicles:
My 600rr and the GF's Ninja
The old project M5:
M5 with the 328is, my first BMW.
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Holy bikes, just fantastic.
And if anyone doesn't believe him, the VFR does sound absolutely incredible....
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oh whoa holy crap, my friend was just telling me about that S4 a few weeks ago, Thats pretty cool that it was yours he was talking about. Very nice collection!
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oh whoa holy crap, my friend was just telling me about that S4 a few weeks ago, Thats pretty cool that it was yours he was talking about. Very nice collection!
Thanks! Yeah, that car was easy to spot out. but even as modified as it was, it's no where near as fun as my M... Began to wonder why I was messing with Audi's for so damn long.
And some random pics of the aforementioned vehicles:
Hah, I remember essentially following that E36 on Craigslist until it was an empty chassis. Sucks what happened to you on the deal though. And it might be a longshot, but do you by chance have the FMU catback on your M5?
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This is a pretty cool thread! A lot of good and mixed progressions (i.e. lots of different makes).
Here is mine:
1994 Chrysler Concorde (first car and Dad's hand me down, was a fuckin boat)
1997 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS (riced out... sadly)
2000 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer
2006 Scion TC (Bought because current GF wouldn't "let" me get a BMW)
2003 BMW 325xi (Broke up with her ^^)
2010 Audi A4
2007 BMW 328i (wife took it)
2010 BMW 335xi (current)
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#1: 1991 Volvo 940 GLE 16 valve
Bone stock. Timing belt broke one wintry morning due to negligence.
#2: 1990 Volvo 760 turbo
My first experience with modification. I did a lot of work/modification on this car, but my enthusiasm outweighed my ability and the car was never as good as it should've been. I learned a lot from this car. Sold it to a guy from Alabama.
#4: 1990 BMW 325i
Bought this in an attempt to get away from Volvos due to my frustrations with the previous car. I loved every second of owning this car, and only sold it so that I could afford to pay for my last year of college without taking out a loan. It is now in great hands, owned by Ian (visian on this forum).
#5: 1990 Volvo 240 DL
Purchased as a cheap beater to replace the e30. I did a couple little cheap mods to it and drove the heck out of it. Worth every penny. Traded it for the next car.
#6: 1990 Volvo 740 turbo SE
Traded for this because it was a deal I couldn't pass up. The SE is rather rare and sought after in the Volvo world. Did a lot of maintenance on it and then traded it yet again for my current 240.
#7: 1989 Mercedes 300e
My brother gave me this car as a present. I really liked it, but it was plagued by k-jet issues, so I got rid of it cheap. I wish I wouldn't have had to let it go.
#8: 1984 Volvo 240 turbo
Was my brother's car, then a joint project we worked on, then my own project. Swapped a late model turbo motor into it and in general put way too much time and money into it. Sold it to a friend for cheap.
#9: 1987 Volvo 240 DL
This is my project car. A lot of time and a lot of money are in it. Nothing is stock anymore.
#10: 1998 Volvo S70 T5 SE
Picked this up to be my comfy daily driver so the aforementioned 245 could undergo more serious modification. Last week a drunk motorcyclist crashed into me, totally it. Hoping to find a replacement soon.
Wow, I guess I really am a Volvo guy. Still plenty of love for BMW's though.
#11: 1994 BMW 325is
shit. I'm pretty sure theres like 3-4 cars I forgot to list. I forgot the S13, because I drove that thing like, once the whole time I owned it. Thanks for the reminder Earl!
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