Darky
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- Location
- 29 Palms, CA
I didn't quite sell it, but I seriously regret totalling my 94 Tracker. I drove and wheeled the piss out of it and the only casualties (besides some minor body damage) were a broken muffler that had me sounding like a ricer from hell (fun to screw with people though) for a week until I got a new DYnomax muffler put in, and a clutch that couldn't handle me learning to drive and wheel in it and then teaching 3 girls to drive a stick. Burned the clutch out, replaced it in the driveway but frgot to replace the throwout bearing which gave up the ghost 30k later and took the transmission with it. I got the tranny rebuilt and then totalled the thing 3 weeks later. I got 26mpg driving like I stole it, 30-33 driving it nicely. I once made the trip from 29 Palms back to Tucson in 4.5-5 hrs with only one gas stop after about 380 miles. I was at my Mom's house 20 miles later.
My uncle at one point had a 67 Firebird in highschool. This was in the early 80's late 70's (whenever Rocky Horror first hit theaters) and he traded it for an early 80's Mazda pickup for college. Firebird was canary yellow with a 421(?) under the hood.
My mom had a 66 Chevelle SS that the previous owner had pro-streeted (back then it included air shocks to jack the back end way up). It was gold with big fat rear tires. She hit a dip at 90, caught air and bent the rear suspnsion to hell on landing. She had to replace it with regular springs that weren't nearly as high. Eventually she got married and the schmuck told her the car was a single person's car and she had to get rid of it. She did and was divorced a couple years later. Her other one was a 74 Cutlass Salon that she traded for an 85 Tercel. That one was my fault. I had just been born and she decided to get something with better mileage and that was (supposedly) more reliable. That one died at 60k. We replaced it with a 86 S10 with the 2.8. Ran great, but the body was falling apart. We also had 72 Peugeot 504 Sedan Diesel. Loved that car. Had a big sunroof, sapphire blue, hardly any rust (this was in NY with a nearly 20 yr old car). Plus it was unique. After that was a 72 Fleetwood, white on white leather, big-block under the hood, original side skirts, beautiful. I wish we had that. It had a minor electrical problem so we gave it back to dad, he gave it to a nephew and he rammed a telephone pole. So, uh, if you know anyone with a similar car, let me know. I can't afford it, but I can dream...
My uncle at one point had a 67 Firebird in highschool. This was in the early 80's late 70's (whenever Rocky Horror first hit theaters) and he traded it for an early 80's Mazda pickup for college. Firebird was canary yellow with a 421(?) under the hood.
My mom had a 66 Chevelle SS that the previous owner had pro-streeted (back then it included air shocks to jack the back end way up). It was gold with big fat rear tires. She hit a dip at 90, caught air and bent the rear suspnsion to hell on landing. She had to replace it with regular springs that weren't nearly as high. Eventually she got married and the schmuck told her the car was a single person's car and she had to get rid of it. She did and was divorced a couple years later. Her other one was a 74 Cutlass Salon that she traded for an 85 Tercel. That one was my fault. I had just been born and she decided to get something with better mileage and that was (supposedly) more reliable. That one died at 60k. We replaced it with a 86 S10 with the 2.8. Ran great, but the body was falling apart. We also had 72 Peugeot 504 Sedan Diesel. Loved that car. Had a big sunroof, sapphire blue, hardly any rust (this was in NY with a nearly 20 yr old car). Plus it was unique. After that was a 72 Fleetwood, white on white leather, big-block under the hood, original side skirts, beautiful. I wish we had that. It had a minor electrical problem so we gave it back to dad, he gave it to a nephew and he rammed a telephone pole. So, uh, if you know anyone with a similar car, let me know. I can't afford it, but I can dream...
