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12-21-2006, 09:19 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Corona Del Mar, CA
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Your favorite car/truck you ever owned?
I was thinking of my old dodge truck I had a couple years ago on my way to work today. Why, I don't know but I guess I just miss it. It was a 1953 Dodge M37 Power Wagon with oversized tires and in mint condition. I sold it to the owner of Chatham Mobile when I gave up commercial fishing. It was a tank on north beach and ran like a top  .
What was your favorite one you ever had? |
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12-21-2006, 09:23 AM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
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I had a 1974 Land Rover in high school..
unreliable, 12mpg top speed was 50.. great car  |
Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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12-21-2006, 09:28 AM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
Posts: 7,181
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'69 Camaro, sucked to drive everyday but man was it fun when ya put it to the rug.
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12-21-2006, 09:33 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Plymouth, Ma
Posts: 1,405
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Easy one..........67 GTO 400 Tri-Carb.
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12-21-2006, 09:39 AM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,642
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ahhh- crying time for me, as i've owned a few favorites...'68 landcruiser 400 small block, stroked- rocket sled...'66 sunbeam tiger 289/273hp- another rocket...'69 roadrunner "convertable" wacked out 383- pulled front wheels...couple of bmw 3.0 csi'...slew of 'vettes from '58- '82...couple of mb coupes..still got a bmw 635csi.
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12-21-2006, 09:48 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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1956 Willy's 4X4
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12-21-2006, 10:10 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
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67 MGB convertible, my first car.
I learned a lot about car mechanics with that British piece of engineering but it was fun to drive.
I love my Silverado that I drive now.
Last edited by Slipknot; 12-21-2006 at 04:39 PM..
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The United States Constitution does not exist to grant you rights; those rights are inherent within you. Rather it exists to frame a limited government so that those natural rights can be exercised freely.
1984 was a warning, not a guidebook!
It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
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12-21-2006, 10:22 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Southern R.I.
Posts: 173
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73 Mustang convertable candy apple red with a 351c. Whis I still had it
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12-21-2006, 10:31 AM
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Boston Anglah
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Sitting on top of the world with my legs hangin free
Posts: 3,322
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'71 CJ5, w/350 3 speed, full roll cage, big mudders on it.
I had so much fun in that thing, I'll build another one day
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Used hard and put away dirty....
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12-21-2006, 11:04 AM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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67 Buick GS 2 door 340/2 speed powerglide. 90 mph in first gear  |
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12-21-2006, 11:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: mass
Posts: 168
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83 f150 4x4 351 windsor was the balls
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12-21-2006, 11:43 AM
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Plug Builder in Training
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: wareham MA
Posts: 4,046
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69 Mustang with a 289  |
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12-21-2006, 11:55 AM
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Just Keep On Pluggin !
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: New Haven,CT.
Posts: 1,041
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74 Buick Riviera, Red with white leather interior 455 4brl that was a
smooooooth ride and had some b-lls to boot.
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12-21-2006, 11:57 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: MA/RI
Posts: 2,411
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69 Camaro
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12-21-2006, 12:25 PM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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'86 VW Vanagon
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i bent my wookie
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12-21-2006, 12:39 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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1966 Olds Toronado --Brown St. Providence to Bolton MA 30 minutes flat. And 115 mph mid-Cape on Friday night. Had a nice long chat with a Statie at the Willow St. exit that night. I didn't deserve that car.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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12-21-2006, 12:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
Posts: 3,228
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Toss up between a '69 Road Runner 440 with 6 pack and 4 spd.
Or fully restored '67 Chevelle SS 396. |
The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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12-21-2006, 01:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,036
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Thew one I have now..LOVE IT ! 2003 GMC Sierra 4x4 short bed..Absolutly love this truck !
Before that it would have to be my 88 dodge ramcharger, what a tank that was ! had it fixed with duel batts to run a tank for the herring etc...it saw lots of service on Block Island...many nice bass with that rig!
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12-21-2006, 01:42 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,690
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'78 VW westfalia camp mobile.. man i miss that rig  |
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12-21-2006, 02:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: North of Boston
Posts: 444
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I think I like my current ride the best: Nissan Titan crew cab.
My 1986 Toyota MR2 was a lot of fun; wish I still had that for commuting.
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12-21-2006, 03:55 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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For a pure fishing sled, my 1972 burnt orange Wagoneer. It's still plowing snow for my uncle in Attleboro.
Least favorite is easy--my 1974 Fix It Again Tony. I bought it used with 16,000 miles and sold it about a year later with less than 18,000 on the clock. I think it once ran for 3 straight weeks without breaking down.  |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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12-21-2006, 04:36 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 353
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As I don't have any one favorite, I have all my favorite cars from when I was young, just out of High School, pretty much broke and got a string of beaters that others were getting rid of for $100-200 dollars.
My first beater was a 72 Chevelle. I paid about $150 for it. It was orange with a black roof, had a straight 6, 2-speed Hydro-glide transmission. What a piece. When I did get it it would light up the tires around every corner and I used to light them up everywhere. It had the kind of rear quarter windows that would roll down and I thought it was the coolest thing. It would never pass inspection because the exhaust was never right, I would put flex-pipe underneath and get $25 Thrush Cherry-Bomb mufflers from the hardware store to get the cool exhaust sound. another time we levered front end springs from a Pontiac into the rear so the back end of the car was about 1-2 feet too high to be legal. On one trip to Salisbury/Hampton beach up 110, I got pulled over in every town and got a ticket for improper equipment, bad inspection sticker and all sorts of things but they would let us go and we'd drive through the next town and get stopped again. I never paid the tickets because they would go in a file somewhere as there were no computers back then. I ended up leaving that thing in an alley when a better car came along . . .
. . . a 1974 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus, ohhhh, this thing was a beaut.. Gloss black with a white roof this time and the oh so cool stock factory mags and a sweet white interior. It had the 318 V8 and the coolest Slapstick Automatic transmission on the floor. When one put it into L, the colors on the indicator would change and no matter how hard you slapped the T-Handle forward, it would not go past the next gear. Great for dragracing the other idiots back in the day that wanted to go. The car was a big heavy beast, but when gas was oh, 60 cents a gallon, I don't remember ever worrying about the price of gas back then. I had a derelict buddy, if I could call him that, who would put stuff in my gas tank, loosen up my lugnuts and do all sorts of things to sabotage the car but it still went on until I pulled the fuel filter and clogged the carb and killed the motor. No problem though, I only paid $250 for the thing.
The next car was a 1974 Monte Carlo, the long, BIG, two round headlights in the front kind. It had a 350 V8 and this thing could smoke the tires up like it was nobodys business. It seems that the most fun thing to do back then was to spin the tires. What kids do that now in all the 4-cylinder front wheel drivers nowadays? What fun is that anyway? The car had a broken windshield but was fun to drive, just attatch some plates on it, didn't matter where or who's they were, just put them on and drive. Nowadays, not for a second, but the mid-80's were definitely a different time, at least for me and the gang. I ended up trading the car for a car amplifier/equalizer and that was about it. I probably paid $250 for it.
One of my favorites as a Subaru, some GL 2-door beater, like a 1979. Thing had this transverse or flat 4 and the spare tire was mounted on top of the engine. I went to the junkyard and got some 70 series tires and the little car handled pretty good and the car never gave me any trouble in all the time I had the thing. After all, the mid-late 80's supercars like the Trans-Ams, Camaro's and Mustangs and even the Vettes only had 60's. I paid a lot for this car and I don't know why, like $600 from some used car dealership that I'd walk by on my way home from my dishwashing job. I think I killed that car by plowing through a big ice puddle one winters night and the car either drank water or the cold shock broke the block because the car never ran right after that.
As one can never go back, these really were my favorite cars. I do love my truck I have now because it lets me do all the things I need to do/tow or haul what I need to haul, but something about those cheap cars, those carefree times, that young age before drinking was legal but in VT back then one only had to be 18 so we'd truck to VT every now and then just so someone could buy up that way, but good you asked.
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12-21-2006, 05:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Gloucester, MA
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My current ride is the best Tacoma 2001, close second was my ' 86 Camero T-Top (Red) too bad she died at 199,890. Wanted her to make it to 200k but she was a death trap in the end.
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12-21-2006, 05:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Corona Del Mar, CA
Posts: 794
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Another great on was a Land Rover Defender 110 I rented in Australia. When we tried to return it early they wouldn't refund anything we paid... big mistake for them. We took it for another 4x4 trip and I have pics of that thing 4' in the air. We beat the $hit out of it!!!
Nothing, i mean nothing drives like a rental...
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12-21-2006, 06:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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1969 AMX
1962 Willy's jeep pick up
a few mid 70s Corvetts that I had
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LETS GO BRANDON
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12-21-2006, 06:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Whitman,Ma.
Posts: 4,263
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1st car..67 Chevelle convertible.....68 Mustang 289....
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I'm going where I'm going... 
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12-21-2006, 06:24 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Brandie new 1986 Jeep CJ-7.....all time favorite! Close 2nd my 1985 CJ-7 w/318 Chrysler.....probably the most fun vehicle I have ever had! 
Car...1987 Monte Carlo SS...brandie new out of the box! Them was nice cars! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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12-21-2006, 06:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Brewster, Cape Cod
Posts: 138
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A mid '70 VW rabbit diesel. I could not kill that thing and never had to repair it. A blistering 0 to 60 in 19 seconds also!!
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Pete
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12-21-2006, 06:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,690
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ktugboat42
A mid '70 VW rabbit diesel. I could not kill that thing and never had to repair it. A blistering 0 to 60 in 19 seconds also!!
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i had the same rabbit- talk about a fuel sipper. |
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12-21-2006, 08:08 PM
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DDG-51
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,550
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86 4x4 Toyota pickup
Tipped it over, it stayed on its side for over an hour, got it back on all 4's and drove away.
later that summer head on collision with a fiero, and i drive onto fieros hood, but drove away.
it loved the beach because it was a part knee board boat,
moved to fla drove it there, won a race in a orange grove, then sold it for 4K and joined the navy. fun truck
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