One Piece at a Time (Page 1 of 2)

I drive a 2000 Ford Explorer XLT.  Bought it used about a year ago for 1700.00, put about 1200 into it for safety check. 4.2 L V6 runs approximately 25MPG highway and about 22 city. It is clean, comfortable, no rust and runs like a clock.
I used our local Kijiji website to find it.
Kijiji is great, regular folks selling all kinds of stuff. Bought a 12' aluminum boat, 2005 9.9HP Yamaha ourboard and a trailer for just over 1000.00, seperately. They sell boat, motor, trailer combos like this for 1500.00, so I saved quite a bit.
Will never buy a new item again, I swear.
Randy

I once owned a 74 Mercury Marquis - station wagon. That mutha was the biggest production car ever built. Bought it new, sold it in 1980. They guy I sold it to was a fellow Scout Leader, who always liked the car; called it the Dreadnought. He painted it battleship grey, put some lane lines on it and glued model airplanes on the hood and roof. Made me love the car even more.
Randy

I have a 1999 Ford Taurus with barely 50k on it,it was a IBM fleet exc.car. I have never really had any large issues with it.only tires, brakes etc. The ford Taurus seems too be the solid car of the last couple of decades. I do miss driving older larger cars I liked the Mercurys they were great.

I`ve had a lot of cars and trucks since 1978. My favorite was a 1991 mercury capri. I bought that to replace my 1965 mercury park lane convertible. I junked the capri in 2008. After my wife recovered from cancer,It just wasn`t important to me. Now I have a 98 explorer and a 92 f-150. The pickup is in awful shape, I always have the right of way at an intersection.

I think Fred Eaglesmith knows what your talkin about

"Mighty Big Car"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE9l84hp2i8

He also has a song "Bench Seat Baby" but there's no Youtube but a good and fun song to play

"It's got a Bench Seat Baby , you don't have to sit over there"

Naoslager - it was tough to quite get there, but did you just say that you were fired last Monday?  Geez I hope not.  If you were, here's wishing you the best luck in finding something better quickly. 

- Zurf

Zurf

It looks like Monday was when the odometer hit 200,000 miles, I think getting fired was part of the story of how he acquired the car.

You guys are scary - I have a Peugeot 207 hatchback which does about 55 mpg 'highway' and it's still pricey to run with diesel being around £6 per gallon!

I love the big old cars.  I had a 73 Monte Carlo with the long front end.  I loved that car.  Smooth ride.

Imagine this if you were in a wallmartand they announced gray compact,small car has its lights left on. You would empty out half the store. We are driving Gumby cars,they look almost the same and it is hard to tell what model it is till you get up close.

This thread has got me thinking about some of the vehicles I've owned over the years.  Some were new, most I bought with 50K-70K and drove until I put 150K-170K on them. Some looked good for used vehicles others were rust buckets. (Kind of embarrassing to get caught in a safety check and the patrolman says "Don't panic buddy, we'll get a torch and cut you out of that wreck ....)

Here's a list, although I'm pretty sure I missed a couple.   

'58 Olds Super 88 -(My first car, bought in 1966 for $250.  Got about 10 mpg and 200 miles to a quart of oil)
'56 Ford Custom Line 2-door couple (Came with a 272 ci engine, I put a 390 in it, Keystone mags, bucket seats out of a Mustang.  Sure wish I still had that car)
'60 Chevy Impala
* '70 Plymouth Duster - my first new car.  Drove it 2-1/2years, went to Florida 4 times and California once.
*'72 Mercury Cougar XR7 - looked great but always seemed to have some kind of problem
*'77 Ford F-100 truck - Loved that truck but had to sell it when the family started growing
'72 Chevy Vega Hatchback
'74 Chevy Vega Wagon
'72 VW bus - hauled 8 kayaks and kayakers in it one time-wouldn't go into reverse unless half the crew jumped out.
*79 Buick Century wagon - finally bought my first "family" car. My kids nick-named her "Granny"
'68 Chevy C-10 truck - hauled firewood with it
'74 Chevy Suburban - my best river vehicle for hauling paddlers and kayaks- OD Green, could sleep 5 in a pinch.  My daughters refused to ride in it because it was too ugly
'82 Ford Bronco II - daughter #2 wrecked it while mama and I were away on vacation
*87 Chevy C-20 customized van - best family vacation vehicle I ever owned
'68 Dodge Dart - work car, didn't have it long
'86 Chevy S-10 truck
'89 Chevy Corsica
'89 Chevy Citation
'90 Chevy S-10
'94 Ford Explorer
'94 Chevy Astro customized van - overall, maybe the best all-round vehicle I ever owned
*'01 Ford Ranger - still drive it
'04 Mercury Sable - still drive it
'07 Subaru Forester - still drive it

*bought new

A few I wish I still had, most served their purpose but were chunks of machinery which I poured a lot of money into.

DE

Here goes  71 chev vega ,70 pontiac bonneville, 69 plymouth belvedere, 66 vw bus, 81 vette (chevette), 69 chev pickup, 81 honda accord ,58 renault dauphine(never ran), 74 bmw bavaria, 77 olds cutlass,83 ford exp(remember those), 79 chev malibu, 84 toyota van, 84 renault alliance, 87 hyundai excel, 85 saab turbo, 92 chev corsica, 79 ford f-150,65 mercury park lane convertible, 78 ford f-150,  87 nissan pickup, 98 chev lumina, 93 nissan pickup, 91 mercury capri conv., 92 isuzu trooper(one of my favorites), 02 impala, 98 ford explorer, 92 toyota camry, 91 chevy conversion van, 92 ford pickup.  The impala, explorer and 92 ford pickup we still use.  My dream car is an Austin Healey 3000 mk II. I dont care if I go up or down in years. These are in order