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86 Corolla at age 18.

Currently a 2014 Challenger

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[quote=skinsfaninok;1188055]86 Corolla at age 18.

Currently a 2014 Challenger[/quote]

....a little different ,huh?:D

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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...

[IMG]http://www.mjcclassiccars.com/cars/72CutlassSupreme442CloneConvertible/01.jpg[/IMG]



or this............


[IMG]http://www.mjcclassiccars.com/wp-content/cars/2015/02/69-firebird-conv-blue0004-801x572.jpg[/IMG]

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[quote=Giantone;1188062]....a little different ,huh?:D[/quote]

Yes and I love it, put some snow tires on that bad boy and NY winters have no effect on me

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[QUOTE=Giantone;1186831]LOL, pretty much .I would try to take my Dad's (1969) Olds 98 when I would go on a date or to a "drive In movie",....the room in that thing was amazing!!




This is the car ,just yellow with a white interior and top(Best Drive In car in the world!!!)
[url]https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds...8/2032936.html[/url]


This was mom's car but a darker blue.These are the two I started out on.
[url]https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds...ag/oldsmobile/[/url]

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[quote=skinsfaninok;1188055]86 Corolla at age 18.

Currently a 2014 Challenger[/quote]

Nice! I would most definitely take a Challenger, but I'm really a Mustang guy. Right now, I just want another (any) muscle car. Hard being a car guy when you're not driving a full-fledged sports car.

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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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[quote=metalskins;1188710]Nice! I would most definitely take a Challenger, but I'm really a Mustang guy. Right now, I just want another (any) muscle car. Hard being a car guy when you're not driving a full-fledged sports car.[/quote]
Being a car guy I assume you have heard or read "Hemming's Motor News" ? While the Mrs and I were on one of our trips up through New England we decide to drive from Manchester Vt to Bennington Vt down rt 7A which is the old road we get into Benning and right at the corner of rt 9 and rt 7A is Hemmings Motor News" they have an actual store/ service station,it's like an "old time gas station" very cool!


[url]https://www.facebook.com/HemmingsNews/[/url]

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[quote=Giantone;1188743]Being a car guy I assume you have heard or read "Hemming's Motor News" ? While the Mrs and I were on one of our trips up through New England we decide to drive from Manchester Vt to Bennington Vt down rt 7A which is the old road we get into Benning and right at the corner of rt 9 and rt 7A is Hemmings Motor News" they have an actual store/ service station,it's like an "old time gas station" very cool!


[url]https://www.facebook.com/HemmingsNews/[/url][/quote]

That is awsome! I have actually not read the Hemming's Motor News. The place you're talking about puts me in mind of Mayberry, NC, which is where they shot the Andy Griffith Show.

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[quote=metalskins;1188927]That is awsome! I have actually not read the Hemming's Motor News. The place you're talking about puts me in mind of Mayberry, NC, which is where they shot the Andy Griffith Show.[/quote]



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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[quote=Giantone;1188932]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.[/quote]

Yeah, I want to head up there for vacation someday and visit some of those little towns. My wife has always wanted to live in a town like the one on that show Gilmore Girls, lol! I basically just want to live in peace and quiet and to make sure I can watch football and have high speed internet. I don't ask for much. Oh, well, and I muscle car. I have to have another muscle car. You can't have a username like metalskins and not have a muscle car!

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[quote=metalskins;1188947]Yeah, I want to head up there for vacation someday and visit some of those little towns. My wife has always wanted to live in a town like the one on that show Gilmore Girls, lol! I basically just want to live in peace and quiet and to make sure I can watch football and have high speed internet. I don't ask for much. Oh, well, and I muscle car. I have to have another muscle car. You can't have a username like metalskins and not have a muscle car![/quote]

Let me know when ,I know the Berkshires of Mass and the southern part of Vermont pretty well all so if you ever get the chance visit Freeport Me and go to LL Bean , it's awesome .

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[quote=Giantone;1189064]Let me know when ,I know the Berkshires of Mass and the southern part of Vermont pretty well all so if you ever get the chance visit Freeport Me and go to LL Bean , it's awesome .[/quote]

Awesome! That's a deal!

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Chico jump started the other car thread so I was thinking about this one again.


I learned to drive on an automatic transmission but how did you guys learn to drive a stick? I had gotten a part time job at a liquor store in 1976 and this was their delivery car... a three speed stick but once I got the nac it was fun to drive.



[IMG]http://www.jeff-young-design.com/WorldWideWagons/Images/1972-Ford-Pinto-Wagon.jpg[/IMG]

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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.