One is in Ireland where people not having their drivers liscence is quite common, and the other is quite old school, i.e she doesn't own a smart phone, our only way of communicating her it through written letters. The shops are close enough so no real need for her to own a car, and she can walk to the library when she wants to use a computer.
That's a sharp '62! Looks like its got some go fast parts if the exhaust manifolds and fat rear tires are to be believed. Your old folks mostly chebby people?
Yeah it was a little souped up. That's my favorite Grandpa owned mostly GM but he had a '67 Galaxie 7-Liter and he has an F100 right now. My grandma's dad never liked Ford so she's mostly GM because of that. She did have a Rambler Dodge and a Jeep too. They didn't pass it down though. I don't even think my mom has ever owned an American car
I still own this car and I love it. My favorite thing is the reliability. Besides that my favorite is that it is fun to drive, followed by its style and comfort. I've put 30k miles on this car over 4 years. It has never let me down. I rate ownership 9/10. -1 point for limited availability of replacement parts in the states.
Ive sold my XJ Jag and bought a new to me R129 SL500. Its a 99MY built in November '98, has the M113 5 liter V8 with the 722.6 5spd automatic, Magma Red over Java Nappa Leather, Bi-Xenon headlights, Bose audio, integrated car phone, auto/power everything, a good service history and only 80k miles (and yes I do have the matching red hardtop its on in the interior photos).
How many people still on the forums here driving anything over 45 years old? Seems like they used to number some amount here before they just... Dispersed. Excepting @bussin.buses of course, actually Mr Bussin, have you managed to get that daily driver status yet? Edit: I have no idea how to ping people with normal forum messages, any help would be greatly appreciated
im picking up a ran when parked all original all complete 78 ford country squire thats been sitting in a feild for awhile next tuesday. Pretty excited i really like old station wagons especially the country squire so when i saw the car i had to have it.
I could but I haven't. I haven't driven it in a while because MN road salt sucks & work has kinda diverted my attention. Also I still haven't installed the block heater so I gotta do that Maybe this summer I'll drive it but then it would get a ton of miles put on it. We'll see Definitely want to drive it more though
The block, duh. Usually either in a threaded port for that purpose or it just replaces one of the freeze plugs. That loop heats up the coolant when plugged into wall power. Makes cold starts much easier.
Ah so it replaces one of the core plugs if its for something that never had one then Ooooh that a fancy looking one
I reverse parallel parked the other day, and i can now shift without the clutch in the cranes/tractors at work almost 95% of the time. Nothing beats the feeling of having the pedal to the metal then perfectly timing and rev matching an upshift in something that's falling apart around you as your absolutely flying at 20 mph
Today is the day that four years ago I bought the Valiant, its also the day I learnt some one I used to see quite often had died a few days ago, in car crash no less
