Favorite Car You've Owned? (1 Viewer)

louBdub said:
Quick obligatory car pr0n….

Because lil red Chevy life.

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I have two teenage daughters as well…. The 15yr old is in the process of learning…
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DAMN that's SWEEEETTT!!!

That's awesome that your 15 year old is learning to drive a stick. I have 4 kids and none of them ever drove my supercharged Mustang or my 67 Vette because they didn't want to learn how to drive a stick. I would have loved it if my dad had those cars when I was growing up.

Edit: to be clear, them not learning made life easy for me...I didn't have to say no....LOL.
 
krafticus said:
I wasn’t allowed to get my license until I could drive stick. My 1st 5 cars were all stick. Only went to automatic as my wife cannot drive a manual
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Same here, probably because my dad never owned an automatic.

By pure chance, because it was a gift, my first street car was a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere convertible, 318 V8 with the Push-Button TorqueFlite. ($300 from Reedman in Philly, 1964.)

The only automatic cars I've had other than that are the 2018 Alfa Romeo Giulia Ti Sport, now gone, and the 2013 Mini Cooper S Roadster that my wife drives -- although she also drives sticks.

There's just no satisfaction derived from driving an automatic, IMO. I have owned two automatic Ford extended vans, though, where the automatic makes sense.
 
We had a 96 jeep Cherokee that we drove for 6 years, 130,000ish thousand miles that ran perfect and as new its entire lifetime.

Traded it for a new 2004 Ford Expedition that started an oil leak about 10,000 miles in. Ended up with a total (under warranty) engine replacement because they couldn't stop the leak. I complained and noted the my trade in, the Cherokee, never dripped a drop on the garage floor in 130,000 miles and they ended up putting the new motor in the Ford ($11,000 invoice but warrantied).

Funny enough, we had driven a couple others before we bought this exact one and I didn't even test drive it. My wife took it for a spin while I did the paperwork.

That Cherokee was a GREAT vehicle.
 
krafticus said:
I wasn’t allowed to get my license until I could drive stick. My 1st 5 cars were all stick. Only went to automatic as my wife cannot drive a manual
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The first car I bought myself was a manual acura TSX back in 2004. I did not know how to drive a manual when I bought it, so my dad had to drive it home for me. 10 years later my coworkers claimed I “still didn't know how to drive stick”. I wasn't allowed to drive to lunch often.
 
Was a Full size 1990 something Blazer …
Black exterior with a custom painted bull skull on tailgate and red interior. Had a flowmaster muffler too !!!
 
My first new vehicle was a 1977 Pontiac TA 6.6, White, 4 speed Muncie manual with Hurst shifter. I had it for 17 years, and sold it when we started a family, as it was just sitting in the garage year after year.
 

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pltrgyst said:
There's just no satisfaction derived from driving an automatic, IMO.
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Probably, but it could be an acquired taste about a skill no longer necessary.
I guess, 100 years ago, one could have said "real men start it with their hands; electric starters are for ...)

Stopwatch-wise, there 's no match for manual changes using paddles on the steering wheel, without a clutch pedal (ie double-clutch gearbox or very responsive torque converter gearbox)
 
Coyote said:
Probably, but it could be an acquired taste about a skill no longer necessary.
I guess, 100 years ago, one could have said "real men start it with their hands; electric starters are for ...)

Stopwatch-wise, there 's no match for manual changes using paddles on the steering wheel, without a clutch pedal (ie double-clutch gearbox or very responsive torque converter gearbox)
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^ This

I get it. I drove a stick. Learned on a Mustang, and I enjoyed it. But once manual overrides (flappy paddles / bump-shifter) came into the picture, the need for a stick became as antiquated as a good riding crop.

When was the last time F1 used a stick shift?

I do think it makes for a nice theft-deterrent though.
 
Poker Zombie said:
^ This

I get it. I drove a stick. Learned on a Mustang, and I enjoyed it. But once manual overrides (flappy paddles / bump-shifter) came into the picture, the need for a stick became as antiquated as a good riding crop.

When was the last time F1 used a stick shift?

I do think it makes for a nice theft-deterrent though.
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I don’t think anyone who drives a go fast manual is arguing that it’s faster.

I own an electric car too, it’s plenty fun/fast, BUUUUUT - my manual rwd V8 is fuckin special. There’s a soul connection.
 
That all said, no driver can be considered a driver if they haven't learned how to drive with a stick and clutch pedal.

In the Artillery too, we had a computer, but first we had to learn how to compute firing data manually, on a map.
Understanding of whatever you do is paramount.
 
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The tyres in this car need not bark; if you 're running out of traction (impossible on the dry} or lateral grip, the steering wheel or your seat are going to tell you that, soon enough.
 
Coyote said:
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The tyres in this car need not bark; if you 're running out of traction (impossible on the dry} or lateral grip, the steering wheel or your seat are going to tell you that, soon enough.
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That’s the difference. For some of us it’s never been about “need,” it’s just about “Want.” ;)
Love the Porsche! If I was going to own one, it would be a 911 with a standard transmission.
 
Lil Tuna said:
That’s the difference. For some of us it’s never been about “need,” it’s just about “Want.” ;)
Love the Porsche! If I was going to own one, it would be a 911 with a standard transmission.
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Any Porsche is about "want"
Porsches are voluptuous cars, and very reliable, as opposed to exotic Italian damage-prone cars, or autistic Scandinavian power-crap, featuring un-driveable thousands of HP.

Given the huge depreciation suffered by cars, I think that the only cars worth buying and keeping, and probably selling (only if poverty stricken like me), instead of leasing, are Porshes.

I 've been among the lucky few people to own a 911 (997 Mk2, Carrera GTS).

Jokes apart, her PDK (double clutch gearbox) with paddles on the steering wheel, have made me forget about any other form of transmission. I took her to various sports driving training courses in France and Belgium, while there.
I even drove here around the Nuerburgring Nordschleiffe and the Spa Francorchamps, decently.

I learned how to drive at the age of 15 back in 1984, in the 911' s ancestor, the VW Beetle.
 
Coyote said:
Any Porsche is about "want"
Porsches are voluptuous cars, and very reliable, as opposed to exotic Italian damage-prone cars, or autistic Scandinavian power-crap, featuring un-driveable thousands of HP.

Given the huge depreciation suffered by cars, I think that the only cars worth buying and keeping, and probably selling (only if poverty stricken like me), instead of leasing, are Porshes.

I 've been among the lucky few people to own a 911 (997 Mk2, Carrera GTS).

Jokes apart, her PDK (double clutch gearbox) with paddles on the steering wheel, have made me forget about any other form of transmission. I took her to various sports driving training courses in France and Belgium, while there.
I even drove here around the Nuerburgring Nordschleiffe and the Spa Francorchamps, decently.

I learned how to drive at the age of 15 back in 1984, in the 911' s ancestor, the VW Beetle.
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The best Italian sports cars to drive are the ones your friends own. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
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Anyone drive a car with gated gearbox? I almost bought a Lotus Esprit because it looked awesome and had a gated shift but I couldn’t get over their unreliability. I regret not getting it for $20k since I could prob sell for $30-40k now


Looked just like this
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joeyshin said:
Anyone drive a car with gated gearbox? I almost bought a Lotus Esprit because it looked awesome and had a gated shift but I couldn’t get over their unreliability. I regret not getting it for $20k since I could prob sell for $30-40k now


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The Ferrari in my photos has a gated gearbox.
 

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