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02-05-2018, 09:00 PM
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Playmaker
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Frederick, MD
Age: 45
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Re: Cars, First cars?
Got my license at 16 (1995) and drove Mom's car for a bit. It was a early 90s Ford Taurus (1992 I think). That year around Christmas time, my mom's co-worker was selling her 1988 Chevy Cavalier coupe, so My Dad bought it and let me drive it. So while the Taurus was the first car I drove (I ended up buying a 95 Taurus as my 3rd car when I graduated college), I consider the Cavalier my first car. My favorite car was my 2nd car, which was a 1988 Honda Accord coupe with a manual transmission. I had so much fun in that car.
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02-06-2018, 09:06 AM
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Warpath Hall of Fame
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: UNITED STATES
Age: 37
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Re: Cars, First cars?
86 Corolla at age 18.
Currently a 2014 Challenger
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02-06-2018, 10:04 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: Cars, First cars?
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02-06-2018, 10:26 AM
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Gamebreaker
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: Cars, First cars?
Actually contemplating a purchase of a "muscle car" for myself but one like I wanted growing up nothing brand new......don't like the new ones. It's not the Mrs keeping me from it but being retired I am trying to be thrifty with the money and I know it wouldn't be an investment I would drive it all the time,still on the fence.
This one was sold but something like this...  or this............ 
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02-06-2018, 10:39 AM
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02-16-2018, 03:46 PM
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The Starter
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02-17-2018, 08:36 AM
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Gamebreaker
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Re: Cars, First cars?
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02-21-2018, 04:30 PM
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02-21-2018, 07:28 PM
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Gamebreaker
Join Date: Apr 2006
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LOL, Bennington is a little bigger than that but there are towns like that Arlington Vermont(Norman Rockwell's first home)and Dorset Vermont and Weston Vermont home of the Vermont Country Store are all great little towns like Mayberry.
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02-17-2018, 07:36 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: lancaster,pa
Age: 62
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Re: Cars, First cars?
i bought an 1985 ford escort brand new. probably couldnt even get in that thing now, it was really small. now driving cadillac escalade
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05-28-2018, 02:44 PM
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Camp Scrub
Join Date: Feb 2018
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Re: Cars, First cars?
Bought a 55 Chevy for $550 in 1962. Small v8 engine and 2 speed automatic - looked good but couldn't get out of its own way. Sold it in 1965 for $250 - stupid me.
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05-29-2018, 02:53 PM
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A Dude
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Age: 44
Posts: 12,416
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Re: Cars, First cars?
I've never driven stick in my life. If you were born in the late 70s or thereafter, there was little point in ever learning. By the time you were old enough to learn to drive automatic transmissions were cheap enough and had advanced to the point where manuals were obsolete, for all practical purposes.
Learning to drive stick goes in the same category as: - you better learn how to do math and long division because you won't have a calculator everywhere you go - you better carry a paper copy of maps in your glove compartment - you better keep a quarter on you at all times in case you need to use a pay phone
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05-29-2018, 09:47 PM
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Gamebreaker
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: Cars, First cars?
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05-29-2018, 02:59 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: NY
Age: 51
Posts: 99,427
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Cars, First cars?
I could drive a stick at one time, barely
I did some work on a farm one summer in college and the guy I worked with had a pickup with a stick, one day he asked me to drive and I was too embarrassed to say I didn’t know how so I just winged it lol, I guess from playing driving games in the arcade I had enough basic knowledge to pull it off, again, barely |
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05-31-2018, 03:48 PM
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Special Teams
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Fairfax, VA
Age: 47
Posts: 421
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Re: Cars, First cars?
I bought my first car as a junior in HS for $100 from a neighbor's friend. It was a used, manual transmission, 1980 Honda Civic hatchback that the friend had brush-painted bright yellow.
I sanded it down and used various cans of spray paint "gifted" me by a buddy who worked at Hechinger to paint it like a WWII P-40 Warhawk Flying Tiger; complete with camo stripes and the shark mouth. It was 1994, so there were still a bunch of WWII vets around and I'd routinely get stopped to say how much they loved the car and how they had a buddy who flew a P-40. I taught a bunch of friends to drive stick in that car since it was such a piece of junk I didn't car if they'd grind the clutch. Driving stick may be obsolete, but it's also awesome (except for in traffic jams). I've had a few relatively recent situations in rural areas and in other countries when I needed to drive stick, so I guess it still can come in handy.
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