I like the sixties onwards American cars Rosie....when I was 17 I drove a Shelby Cobra fast back Mustang for a day....Such a beautiful car abd breathtaking to drive....Modern cars are ugly and horrible to sit in... Old Jaguars ,Jensens and even old RollsRoyces and Bentleys were great to drive....The new one have no style any more... So many new cars after just a few years old become un repairable because of such inflated prices of all the tiny electronic parts... There are so many really dangerous chemicals used in making many of the electronic components...cars that catch fire and burn produce so many harmful fumes and burt components become highly toxic and should never be touched with bare skin...apparent they get absorbed by your skin and poison you...:(
You sound exactly like my Jim sweetie. "The new ones have no style any more". He thinks they all look alike and in the olden days cars were distinctive in design and you could tell them apart without any problem at all. I remember falling in love with the style of the 1969 XKE Jaguar many years ago. I sat in one once but never rode in one. You are young in age D but older in your tastes. I like that about you. Your tastes span many generations. I did drive a 1960 (I think that was the year) Mercedes Benz that belonged to Old School's family. It cornered like a dream and was as solid as a bulldozer. I fell in the love with Mercedes Benz right then and there so along with a plain pave Tiffany Diamond ring which I saw decades ago and fell in love with (kinda pricy though) I'm a Mercedes Benz gal. I do love to see the old time cars that have been well maintained. Some if not many of them are worth much more now than they were new! Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply D! :)
I've had a few Old Mercedes cars...my favorite was a 190D auto...it was diesel and was just so economical...it was cheap to repair and things never really went wrong with it... The old Mk 2 Jags ,S-types ,Mk 10s and 4.2 XJ6 were very solid cas...
My old 190 was like Driving in a comfy armchair...quite slow to pull away in ...but after twenty mph it really began to pull away quickly........it did about 55mpg on a run....so it was very economical....
I might try and find another that's been looked after.... Trouble is that they are stolen and sent to Africa in Storage containers......:(
You're gonna laugh D but your last paragraph made me think of exotic animals being poached and sent away to other lands. Perhaps that was your intention. Very sad. I don't remember the model of Old School's Mercedes but it was kinda large and it shocked me how responsive it was and how easy it was to maneuver around sharp corners. We drove up to visit my son when he was attending Cal Berkeley and Old School let me drive it for awhile. I loved the feel of it. If I remember I'll ask him the next time I email him or he emails me and let you know which model his family had. Thank you for your reply! :)
This post was edited by RosieG at September 11, 2018 1:51 AM MDT
Expensive cars get stolen and shipped out in ship containers for the Arabs and to Nigeria in Africa... They like old Mercedes cars because of how cheap and available the spares are....plus anyone can fix them ..They also love small commercial vehicles like Nissen Cabstars....they steal thousands of them and all end up kind of exported.....nothing's really done yo stop them either....
Im only 5'2" ,yet still feel like a sardine in nearly all modern cars....
Old cars are are defiantly more fun to drive as well. :)
We are all a bit of replicas of our parents I think to some degree at least.... Some old things like my parents ,still have a bit of use left in um...,so all us kids got together and after many hours of serious debate ,we decided we were going to try and keep them...:)
On the roads around here one can find virtually any kind of car - from a 1908 Model T, to a 2019 Toyota Land Cruiser. From a golf cart to a motorhome. Some are painstakingly pristine, others are covered with spots of Bondo and primer. Some autos are so low to the ground you couldnt slip a piece of paper under them, while others are so tall you need a ladder just to get inside. Some are covered with bumper stickers, while others just have one - "my other car is ia bicycle". There are cars with perfect paint jobs, and others that look as if they were painted with rust. To most of these drivers, that "auto" is their pride and joy - even if it is so caked with so much dried mud that one can barely tell what kind of car is underneath (if it even is a car). Many of them will proudly tell you what year, make and model their "baby" is as well - whether you care or not. ("this here's my 1960 Cadillac De Ville".
Personally I don't like fancy cars. I drive a simple truck, as I need it to get through the winter snows and to haul dirt and rock for my yard.
I agree. Beauty is subjective. I like beautiful. I like sleek. I like simple. I like unembellished without buttons and bows and furbelows and unneccessary anythings. I fell in love with a 1969 XKE Jag decades ago. I saw a Lambo years later and that was it. Love at first sight. All the iterations are very beautiful to me. But where is my heart? In volkswagons and a red Toyota Truck we christened "Roseybelle". I had an "affair" with a friend's Mercedes Benz once many decades ago. It cornered beautifully as if it were a race car yet felt solid and safe like a big huge truck. I like clean lines and clean cars. I look down upon those whose cars are crapped up with junk and food wrappers and whatevers. They are being very disrespectful to the car and anyone who rides in it and it says a lot about them...none of it good. I don't like junky anything. Offices/homes/RV's. I am NOT fastidious but I am a fan of orderly and clean. Show me your car and whether or not we get to be friends will be determined by that. Terrible isn't it? Truthful though. Thank you for your reply! :)
This post was edited by RosieG at September 10, 2018 3:24 PM MDT
Uh-oh... While my truck never had junk on the floor (the floor isn't a trash can), it did have many poppy and apple seeds on tehpassengersidd e flor it when I worked. My truck was my lunchroom (if you eat in the store they won't leave you alone, so for 30 years I ate in my car). Unfortunately, when I got injured and couldn't work it was sunny and warm, so I left the window cracked as I've always done - and completely forgot about it. 5 weeks later, I walked past the truck and noticed that the window was still cracked. Unfortunately, those prior 5 weeks were extremely stormy (wind, rain and snow). The driver's seat was like a wet sponge and the floor had standing water. I tried to dry it out (pulled the carpet and mats out, then used a hair dryer, towels and newspapers to thoroughly dry the rest). I thought I'd gotten it, but come May the entire inside of my truck was solid mold.
How awful that must have been for you Shuhak. So what happened next? Were you able to get rid of the mold? If so I hope it didn't take too long and that it didn't cost an arm and a leg. It rains so rarely down in our neck of the woods. We're a lot dryer in southern California. Did northern California have the "drought" warnings and water cutbacks? At its worst folks let their lawns go and they all turned brown. I think it's better now but we aren't out of the woods so to speak. I gather you don't or didn't have a garage or a carport. Poor truck. It clearly suffered for those 5 weeks. Poor you. You suffered for those weeks too but I hope all that is behind you both...the truck and thee! Thank you for your reply and Happy Tuesday to thee! :)
I tossed out everything I had in the back cab (bible, car blanket, emergency kit, tools, etc.) as most were ruined. During the following summer I alternated between "cooking" the truck (all windows tightly up) and airing it out (all windows down, all doors open). I used upholstery cleaner on the seats, rug and mats (teh mats hung on the fence for the entire summer),and Armor All cleaner on the plastic parts. Other than an occasional bout of mold on the center console, I think it's back to normal now.
Yes, we had drought restrictions here as well. We may never be out of the woods. Snow isn't as common as it once was, and what littell does fall is being restricted to extremely high elevations (8,000+). I used to go hiking and run into old snow drifts clear into September (above 10,000'). Now every trace of snow is gone by May or early June.
Yes, I have a small garage, but it was converted into a workshop/winter arboretum many years ago.
I'm so sorry you had to experience all of that m'dear. A tough row to hoe for sure . You worked really hard to resuscitate your truck and put it on life support with your hard work. I bet it will be forever grateful to you. Vis a vis less snow etcetera an so forth. Of course there is no such thing as global warming. It's just a liberal hoax. I never got the reason for it though. Do you know? The polar bears are dying as their world is melting and getting ever smaller. The seas are rising. The weather is getting fiercer. Humans of course are blameless. Anyone who sez otherwise is a pinko commie or worse. SIGH. Thank you for your reply Shuhak. So we are in a downward spiral and is it too late to come out of it? :(
This post was edited by RosieG at September 12, 2018 1:32 PM MDT
If you have ever watched that TV program American Pickers you know that there are people who are willing to pay all kinds of money old broken down and rusted out cars or even old car parts. Which I guess are beautiful to many people which is why they are willing to pay for them. To some of us they are just "junk". To me a great symphony is beautiful or a great book but others have different opinions or value different things. I don't know what a Lamborghini is but neither do I know what a broken down jalopy is. I just drive regular new cars and trade them in and get another every few to several years.
Jalopy. I'd be terrified of wrecking a Lambo. I also don't like the lines of most modern sports cars, they're angular and not at all pretty to look at. The exception is the Porsche 911 - those voluptuous curves are an adolescent male's dream on wheels.
My first car was a VW Beetle and still the best car I ever owned. Ran on the smell of an oily rag, cheap and simple to repair, handled beautifully. Tuned it myself, didn't own a set of feeler gauges - my ATM card was the perfect size to set the points gap.
Somebody T-boned me in a ute (pickup). That made my little car very unhappy, the fire brigade had to cut me out of it.
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at September 11, 2018 5:52 AM MDT
Nice Jugs 