Vehicles I used to own and maybe would like to have back

smurfblue40 said:
No pictures of them on my iPad :homer:

1966 Pontiac GTO
1970 Pontiac LeMans convertible
1970 Olds Cutlass convertible

I was the second owner of the GTO, it was perfect. The original owner pampered it.

I got the Olds for a hell of a deal. I was going to fix it up and sell it later, but a friend had one like it at some point and made me an offer I couldn't say no too.

I would like to have the Pontiacs back :emb:
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Let me dig through some pics. I know a local old man that has multiple GTO’s and Olds 442’s. The best of the best. He also has a ‘69 Z28 302 4spd that is like new. Someone earlier posted a pic of a Monte Carlo SS, which is an awesome car, and this old guy has one of the Aero Coupe versions of that. Most people have probably never seen one.
 
BDK said:
1968 SS 396 El Camino I had in high school. Sold it to get a GT Mustang. Friend I sold it to let his little brother borrow it and he rear ended a big rig.

1991 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo, glacier white pearl glow with black guts. The best long distance highway car I've ever driven. Cruise comfortably at 85-90 all day long, with lots of luggage room in the back. Could still outrun 90% of the cars on the road today. Very fun car but only two seats. Sold it when my daughter was about six months old.

1989 Porsche Carrera 4, guards red with black guts. My all time favorite sports car. Comfortable, fast, handled incredibly, quirky, but dam it was fun. Sold it to buy our third house.
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Mrs Roundhouse just bought this one to be her daily driver
Non turbo , we won’t be owning any more turbocharged cars ,
five speed ,two owners ,

I replaced the timing belt and water pump and fixing to replace the rear main seal

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bad zuki said:
At one time, I had the 90s jeep trifecta.
1 owner Comanche with a HO 4.0
Wagoneer.
90 auto, ac, yj. The yj is the only one I kinda miss.

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That and a 1 owner 2004 Chevy 1500hd. That truck was the best thing I even owned, but I sold most all of them to get the down payment on my house.
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I sold one of my broncos , a 77 hardtop automatic power steering power brakes , for the down payment on our first house .

I sold it for $2,600
Thought I was doing good since I paid $1,000 for it a few months earlier .


But I’d do it again to get into a house and stop renting .
 
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Rhinoliner said:
I think you might be a Jeep guy!
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Die.

roundhouse said:
But I’d do it again to get into a house and stop renting .
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Yes. Was living in a place with zero heat for a while, along with some other places. I’ll never look back at those in trade for this dirt.

Sold for those 3 for $18k, plus the 04 1500hd and 98 holy grail 12 valve for the remainder.
 
Ranchtruck said:
Here's one I'm going to regret for a long time:
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71 bronco that was my uncles. Built it up for him over a bunch of summers, 2.5" lift, d44 front, disc brake, power steering, zf 5spd, np205, found the halfcab and converted it over. Painted it Hunter Green. Built a 302 for it as my tech school engine project. Put 100's of hours into aquiring, rebuilding, & installing the parts. He paid parts cost.

My cousin inherited it and offered it to me for $15k as a "family deal". I'm not in a spot to be locking up cash in something like that while I'm in the middle of building a house. So have to let it go.
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That is sort of a sad story. I think your best bet is to go buy a new Corvette and visit them at Christmas.
 
roundhouse said:
Mrs Roundhouse just bought this one to be her daily driver
Non turbo , we won’t be owning any more turbocharged cars ,
five speed ,two owners ,

I replaced the timing belt and water pump and fixing to replace the rear main seal

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I like it! What is it, a Supra?
 
I wish I’d kept every car I’ve ever owned .
Except for the 77 Dodge Aspen .
I don’t miss that one at all .
Oh, and the 89 Chevy Chevette .

But I wish I’d been able to keep my 66 Thunderbird that was my first car when I was 15.
And its replacements , the 428 in the T-bird got a rid knock and someone offered to trade me three cars and $500.

a 62 Mercury Meteor ,four door with the 221 V-8 and three on the tree .
a 63 Mercury Meteor two door with the 269 V-8 automatic
And a 69 four door Thunderbird with the 429

A few weeks later i sold the 62 Meteor , I drive the 69 Tbird for a while and I traded the two door Meteor for a 69 Mercury Cyclone Cale Yarborough edition.

Sold it and bought a 77 Dodge Aspen , and got married , clearly a case of temporary insanity .
Also bought a 79 Celica 20r five speed .

A year later I got divorced and bought a 78 Formula Firebird .

Drove it for a few years and
Sold it for the down payment on my first 18 wheeler, a IH 9670 with Armstrong steering.
Don’t miss that thing , but I miss driving it’s replacement , a IH 9700 and later a Ford LTL 9000


Somewhere along in there I bought a 70 Firebird , which a few years later lived up to its name and had an electrical short under the dash and burned .

Then I got a 91 Dodge Power Wagon
Drive it for a few years and sold it and bought a 73 Bronco (which I still have )

Mrs roundhouse bought a 94 Eagle Talon five speed , new . Which was a fun car but had to sell that and get a family truckster when the kids came among , so it got replaced with a 90 cherokee .

Which later got replaced with a 96 4Runner ,
About that time I accuired a 83 Mazda 323 five speed for $200 which was a fun little car .

Traded it for a 95 4runner with a bad head gasket , bought a 1KZT turbo diesel and five speed from Ireland and swapped that into the 4 runner .

Got tripped up with the DMV and the emissions testing beauracacy and sold it to someone in an area that didn’t smog test .

Also bought a 66 Thunderbird at an auction and later sold it

And for some bizarre reason I bought a 1980 Volkswagen rabbit pickup with the diesel and five speed

Kept it for a bit and sold it
Don’t miss the rabbit diesel .

I was gifted a 83 Chevy C-10 with the 6.2 diesel . Drove it for a while but don’t miss it .


Also owned a GMT 3/4 ton 4wd suburban ,
Don’t really miss it ,
Its replacement was a 04 expedition which I liked much better .

If I’d had an old farm
Or somewhere to park em all,and didn’t have to sell one to buy the next one , I’d have kept nearly every vehicle I’ve ever owned .


I will add pics if I can find em
Kinda frustrating when you know you got pics and can’t find em

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Ranchtruck said:
The history would be tainted by being reminded I had to pay my cousin for a rig I built every time I looked at it.

That pic is from the last time I took my uncle out for a canoe trip before he went to a memory care facility. He couldn't remember the path back from the launch point but we had a good time. I shouldn't have let him drive but we were up on forest service roads so risked it and it was good for him to feel free.
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I wish this did not sound so familiar.
 
Rerock said:
Not with the current gas prices I guess, but my old '83 GMC K15.

Then again I don't drive much so fuel economy really doesn't matter. Carulburator and I could fix it myself for cheap.
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Same here. Maybe 7K per year these days. Split between 7 vehicles, all of my junk is going to waste.
 
I'd like to have the blue on blue 59 Rambler Cross Country sedan, ohv 6, 3 on the tree and od, the 70 SS454, LS6, 400 convertible, the KZ900 and 495KTM and the 47 7AC Champ

I'm doing good without them but anyone of the above would be fun.
 
64Trvlr said:
I'd like to have the blue on blue 59 Rambler Cross Country sedan, ohv 6, 3 on the tree and od, the 70 SS454, LS6, 400 convertible, the KZ900 and 495KTM and the 47 7AC Champ

I'm doing good without them but anyone of the above would be fun.
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The 70 SS 454 sounds sweet. Do you still have any pictures? Champ sounds familiar but I’ll have to look it up to jog my memory.
 
Sentimentally- I’d like to go back to owning my 96 T100. Not terribly powerful, but it took me on whatever roadtrip and light wheeling I wanted. Drove it to Moab, Canada, New England and Baja. Never complained, once. Daily driven at 17mpg.

By the end, ~13yr; 250k, it had couple bruises but still fired up every time and never complained. Lightly bruised vehicles suit me anyways.

Comfortable by those days standards. Good roadtripping suspension- it’ll handle some load, but it won’t rattle your teeth. SR5, so it was loaded- that means it had ac AND power windows. The hieght of Toyota truck luxury in that area.

Dead reliable. Tires, oil, brakes and batteries were the only things I put into it. Firewall did crack around the clutch pedal, but that was the only issue and it had 240k at that point.

Realistically do I want it back? No. By today’s standards it’s not up to par. I am soft and spoiled by my 08 tundra. Plush leather seats, decent power (occasionally tows 7k) and similar mileage. Wife wants the newest gen, but I’m still getting sticker shock. We have one at work, but it doesn’t seem like the huge jump forward as the T100 to the 2nd gen Tundra. The 360 camera is nice though.
 
had 76 bronco I bought cheap, sold it to a friend and he cut it up for parts.
also had a 80 scout diesel, sold it to get some money together to buy 4 lays trucks with 4bt's in them. made a pile of money, but should have found another way. it was a great truck, drove it everywhere, even took it down bourbon st in New Orleans. dude flew out from montana and drove it home.
 
V30crewcab said:
had 76 bronco I bought cheap, sold it to a friend and he cut it up for parts.
also had a 80 scout diesel, sold it to get some money together to buy 4 lays trucks with 4bt's in them. made a pile of money, but should have found another way. it was a great truck, drove it everywhere, even took it down bourbon st in New Orleans. dude flew out from montana and drove it home.
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I had a 66 uncut half cab that was mint. Sold it for what I thought was a high price of $3,800. 😆
 
Rhinoliner said:
I’m naive and didn’t realize I might have hurt your feelers. Sorry! You might look into anger management options.
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the hardest part of being anywhere near a jeep club is getting tested after you blacked out again
it was only two drinks, so you figure whoever it was that spiced them up probably also put some other substances inside you after the first ones went into effect
 
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the hardest part of being anywhere near a jeep club is getting tested after you blacked out again
it was only two drinks, so you figure whoever it was that spiced them up probably also put some other substances inside you after the first ones went into effect
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:lmao:
 
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