How old were you when you got your suby and which model ? ! ?
10-14-2004, 09:49 PM
#106
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Car Info: '99 Impreza OBS
Originally Posted by wombatsauce
I counted 27, but so what I guess. Well, I really like cars. I am pretty good at buying cars - finding deals and stuff. I like to buy cars that are rough and clean/repair them. Eventually I get bored with them and move on. Also, for some reason people have given me a few - like the '72 BMW - it was sitting for a year, and the guy asked me if I wanted it. Sure... When it gets boring, I will sell it. The Celica GT-4 is my "project car" and as soon as it runs, my '03 WRX is for sale. Maybe that will explain it.
-Jacob
-Jacob
yea, I can't count higher than 1, 2, 3, like 5 :banana:
That's pretty awesome though, I wish I could do that
well, I actually like keeping my car, I like it, even if it is just a lowly OBS. It'd be fun fixing up the cars, but to go through more than 1 a year, wow. You must know a ton about cars though And as a side note, everyone needs to calm down, we're all one big happy family :-)
Stupid smiley limit grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :insert list of explitives here:.
10-14-2004, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by trey2s
Maybe you guys should get your own forums called sophisticatedadultsi-club.com so you guys can talk about things like bar-b-queing, and how you saw your wives looking over the prenup papers in your filing cabinet last night. Or maybe, you could learn to deal with the age diversity on the forums and leave the argueing to the "Off-Topic" forum.
Can't we all just get along? So what if someone said or implied that people of a certain age were unlikely to have paid for their cars. Yeah. So what. That's life.
It's hard to pay for a nice, new car. Most people don't get a hot powerful top rated sports sedan as their ride at 17. Enjoy it. Why make crappy comments at people that have to work hard for their stuff? Sheez. Go for a drive, enjoy your car. Smile.
No I am not implying that you didn't pay. Are you?
-Jacob
10-14-2004, 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted by kravdra
yea, I can't count higher than 1, 2, 3, like 5 :banana:
That's pretty awesome though, I wish I could do that well, I actually like keeping my car, I like it, even if it is just a lowly OBS. :.
That's pretty awesome though, I wish I could do that
well, I actually like keeping my car, I like it, even if it is just a lowly OBS. :.Hope everyone's chill, a movie is on that I am not into, cable started working and I guess I was bored. Yarr.
-Jacob
10-18-2004, 10:11 AM
#110
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Car Info: my 02 Wrx > STi = G35
Originally Posted by g352STi
ohh i still have the g35...just dont drive it as much!!!
10-18-2004, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by g352STi
ohh i still have the g35...just dont drive it as much!!!
10-18-2004, 07:38 PM
#117
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Location: 1999 OBS, 1985 GTI rallycar, 1995 Miata trackcar, 2001 Ford E350 van
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Car Info: 1999 OBS
My first subie was a '77 GL wagon I got when I was in college. Beat the snot out of that thing and it just kept on going. We'd take it up to Tahoe to go skiing regularly. Everyone hated riding in it because it was noisy and slow and the heater sucked and the stereo was some old Radio Shack thing, but then we'd get up there in a snowstorm and I'd chonk that big ol' lever down into 4WD mode and it'd plow right through 2ft high snowdrifts without missing a beat. At around 140K miles, I lost all compression in one cylinder, but for $350 and a weekend's work, I put in a "new" on from Attarco. A year after that, I was using it to commute from Santa Cruz to San Jose and something went clunk in the tranny and I lost 2nd and 4th, so I drove it like that for a couple of weeks until I could get a replacement one, again for about $350 from Attarco. Finally, around 200K miles everything just sort fell apart, all within a couple of weeks...first one CV, then the other, then I found the ball joints were shot, the water pump started leaking, the carb wouldn't idle below 1500rpm, and the exhaust developed a big rust hole. The clincher was the exhaust...everything else was cheap to replace or overhaul, but the replacing the double-walled aluminum exhaust would've been something like $1200 - waaaaaay more than the car was worth.
Anyway, my first car was a Mercedes-Benz. No, I wasn't rich. This was a 1959 190D with 375K miles on it that my dad bought for $100 in 1976 with the intention of restoring it. He never got around to it, and it sat in our garage for years. When I was in highschool, I needed a car, so he gave it to me. 2800lbs with 50 rip-snortin' diesel horses, 4-wheel drum brakes, a 4-speed on the steering column, and a roll center about 5 feet up in the air. I used to take it out to the dirt roads along the coast (Higgins-Purisima, Tunitas Creek, and a couple I never knew the name of) and slide it around.
And now I have a '99 OBS. It's a good daily driver, and has been a good rallycross car until this year. The STi and Evo drivers are getting good and are starting to clock my ***.
Anyway, my first car was a Mercedes-Benz. No, I wasn't rich. This was a 1959 190D with 375K miles on it that my dad bought for $100 in 1976 with the intention of restoring it. He never got around to it, and it sat in our garage for years. When I was in highschool, I needed a car, so he gave it to me. 2800lbs with 50 rip-snortin' diesel horses, 4-wheel drum brakes, a 4-speed on the steering column, and a roll center about 5 feet up in the air. I used to take it out to the dirt roads along the coast (Higgins-Purisima, Tunitas Creek, and a couple I never knew the name of) and slide it around.
And now I have a '99 OBS. It's a good daily driver, and has been a good rallycross car until this year. The STi and Evo drivers are getting good and are starting to clock my ***.
