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I still remember taking bus trips around Oahu for 25 cents. Granted, that was the late 70s, but that probably started me along that path.
Lived in Japan as a youngster where my primary mode of transportation was my 6-speed bike. Otherwise my mom and I did a lot of walking or took taxis. However, it wasn't unusual for us to walk to the grocery store, walk to the department store, walk to restaurants, especially when we lived out in town.
I spent two years at the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics. No cars allowed except to go back and forth to home. We walked a lot.
Four years at The Citadel, with the first year meaning no cars allowed. Second year meant walking about 10 minutes from campus to the "Sophomore Parking Lot." Downtown was only 20 minutes away by foot, so I walked a lot all four years.
Needless to say, my perspective is probably very different than the average American male.
K. Brian Kelley
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sushila - I am only agreeing that once in a while we are what we drive!!!
Course, I suppose that if you consider the fact the I bought my wife a big conversion van a few years back (works great with all the rug rats :-)) then I guess I do still mirror my vehicle(s) - big, comfortable AND A RESOURCE HOG!!!! 🙂
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"so I can only confess to driving those around me crazy and up the wall!"
Sushila, shame on you picking the low hanging fruit. For most of us crazy and up the wall is a very short trip.
I agree with Brian a car/truck is just a means of transportation. As long as it starts when I twist the key it works for me.
Once upon a time long ago and far away I once had a fast car. But the Virgina Highway Patrol convinced me that having a car that could run all day at 140 mph when the speed limit is 70 mph was an expensive proposition.
Its not the initial cost its the upkeep (and tickets) that kill you.Mike
BTW I drive a 1999 Ford F-150 pickup whose name is Susie.
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I agree a car is just a means of transportation. Maybe its a Brian thing. I went for the cross vehicle its a 03 Ford Focus wagon. I can fit all my bikes, a canoe on top and 4 people comfortably and it gets around 40 mpg on the highway (75 mph -after that it declines). The downside it it really looks like a family car. So I'm tinting the windows and trying to get my wife to agree to putting flames on the side. But since I bike to work the car only has 11k miles on it so its barely worth anything beyond gas and oil.
I just wish I had a 6th gear, I would love to be doing 85 ant 1.5k rpm.
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I've fallen back on my trusty '77 Chev pickup since my Toyota decided to blow a hole in the engine block.
I'm afraid, as I've gotten older, I've fallen victim to thinking of a car as just a means of transportation though I'd still like to see my old 1969 Camaro RS/SS again.
Greg
Greg
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Hey Greg is you had your Camaro and DSP had his Challenger and I had by goat we could have a drag or road race.
But not in Virginia those VHP have long memoriesMike
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With the cost of gas today I think it would probably cost us about $40 each just to rev the engines a couple of times on those old beasts!!!!
But it might be worth it just one more time!!!!!! 🙂
Darrell
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My old goat could pass everything on the road except a gas station. It would be fun.
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My old goat could pass everything on the road except a gas station. It would be fun
My Challenger was the same way! I think the gas gauge moved as fast as the tach on some days!!!!
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I hear that! It was easier to drive a car like that when all I had to pay for was rent, gas, and beer.
Greg
Greg
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You all reminded me...
My first 'car' back in school was actually a Jeep Wagoneer with wood panels on the sides. This was made back in the day when Kaiser owned Jeep and they bought all their components from other companies. So long story short, my version had a Buick 350 V8 in it with a 4 barrel carb and a Chrysler drive train. It was quick as anything, but pretty heavy and hard to stop sometimes. I think I had to shut the thing off at the gas pump as it would drink the stuff almost faster than I could put it in.
It was a nice ride though and cool to have 4 wheel drive when you wanted to 'baja' on the beach...and it looked even better once I put my surfboard racks on top. Ah, the memories... I have better memories of that car than I do of my first girlfriend.
No offense, ladies...I was just unlucky at love in my misguided youth. My hovercraft is full of eels.
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the newer cars are much better on gas they just dont soudn fast... which with some kind of sound processing chip and apporpriately placed 5.1 speakers 'outside' the car... they just might sound liek we thought we used to like them to sound...
my old cars of the past
77 mercury monarch
would have been good on gas but the hole
in the gas tank86 olds cultass supreme
smooth ride lots of power moss green
89 buick regal ...great 3.8 stil used in most GM's of merit...
went small with a couple of cavailers and a short lived pony for get around reasons... ended up back at hyundai many a year later ... with the below
and the current tiburon 2004 173hp /180torque ... goes like snot and still has a nice growl to it .... you need a GTP to out accerate meh... muhahahahaah or flashing
red lights and a uniform... then no car .. think lots of biking ... It may be a means of transportation but sometimes the pilgrimage is the adventure not the destination... and hence why my shift is to having a nice car and a comfy couch ... or reclining chair...
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For a pilgrimage nothing beats a bike (Triumph's 650 is was real nice)
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Almost everyone in Alaska drives a truck. Mine is a 2004 Chevy Avalanche.
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A bike - now that's what I am thinking of for my second mid-life crisis!!!! 🙂
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