Time Travel Bus: And You Landed in 1979

[lostchild]

If I could get Mr. Peabody’s WAYBACK machine, set to fall of 1968, I’d go back to Baker Motors’ used car lot on Peachtree. Buy that used burgundy ‘66 ‘Vette coupe with the 425 horse 427, 4 speed,, with factory side pipes and factory knock-off alloy wheels sporting the red stripe tires. $3200. Stupid me went down to Central Chevrolet and bought a 396 4-speed Nova SS.

 

[dhal22]

1976 BMW 2002. I had a 280z but couldn't afford insurance after a speeding ticket. Fun car but need more power and a 5th gear

I had an ‘80ish Audi Fox, similarly needed more power and a fifth gear.

 

[james357]

Silver went to 28.50 per 4 quarters or 10 dimes or 2 50 cents. I sold 200.00 of my 320.00. 1977. Bought a kick as mustang and hit a ditch 1979. Total.
Dad bought a new car and I got his Ford Grenada.
Graduated from college and drove it 3 years. Used it for a company car. Company paid 435.00 month. Bought a Toyota Celica GT. Beautiful. My friends said I bought a stero with a car attached.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

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Hard to beat the old Duce and a Quota... Don't forget fuzzy dice hanging from the look around and some curb feelers.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

I had an ‘80ish Audi Fox, similarly needed more power and a fifth gear.

My first car was a red two door 76 Audi Fox. I loved that boxy sumbitch! Only attention I ever got from the Preppy Girls was from that Audi. It was like "Hey I heard you had a Mercedes."
" No it's actually an Audi...'OW-dee'. German but different."
"Whatever. Can we take a ride in it?"

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Early 79 an orange 74 VW Super Beetle. Summer of 79, after wrecking the VW, a bronze 74 Mercury Capri.

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That first gen Capri was THE coolest one.

 

[JimmyJet]

That first gen Capri was THE coolest one.

Repossessed a mid 70s Capri …. and drove it for a couple days before we (the bank) sold it…. had my wife convinced it had a “rain sensor” in the windshield and the wipers would automatically start running…. the washer button was on the floor (where the headlight dimmer switch used to be) and if you stepped on it slowly, water wouldn’t come out of the washer hose that could be seen…. I should have patented the idea because I was about 30 years ahead of the actual product available on a car! My wife’s 2005 Trailblazer had rain sensor wipers on it….


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[letusbuyyourcar]

Repossessed a mid 70s Capri …. and drove it for a couple days before we (the bank) sold it…. had my wife convinced it had a “rain sensor” in the windshield and the wipers would automatically start running…. the washer button was on the floor (where the headlight dimmer switch used to be) and if you stepped on it slowly, water wouldn’t come out of the washer hose that could be seen…. I should have patented the idea because I was about 30 years ahead of the actual product available on a car! My wife’s 2005 Trailblazer had rain sensor wipers on it….


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That's funny. And I clearly remember the dimmer switch in the floor. We HAD an 03 Trailblazer that came from a widow of an alcoholic Mercer professor a couple of years ago. He also thought he was a "Pool Man" so the entire hatch area was bleached out from chlorine damage. But....it did always smell real clean.
Problem was it leaked oil from everywhere it could possibly leak. And it had an engine fire while loaned to the wife's niece. But damn that was a comfortable ride.

 

[MacTavish]

Living in Alexandria, VA

 

[JimmyJet]

That's funny. And I clearly remember the dimmer switch in the floor. We HAD an 03 Trailblazer that came from a widow of an alcoholic Mercer professor a couple of years ago. He also thought he was a "Pool Man" so the entire hatch area was bleached out from chlorine damage. But....it did always smell real clean.
Problem was it leaked oil from everywhere it could possibly leak. And it had an engine fire while loaned to the wife's niece. But damn that was a comfortable ride.

Yeah… I liked that Trailblazer…. bought it for my wife as a birthday present to replace the Windstar she was driving…. the Trailblazer was the "extended" LT with 4WD and the 5.3 ltr V-8…. put over 150k miles on it in just under 12 years and sold it with about 175k miles (bought it used)…. it didn’t require much outside the ordinary maintenance…. never changed the tranny fluid but did do the transfer case oil and a seal at about 130k…. it did start using a qt of oil about every 1500-2000 miles at about 65k on the odometer and GM tried to convince me that was "within limits"…. pretty sad for a later model car…. my 1976 Datsun straight 6 only used a qt every 3000 miles at 230k on the odometer! Guess that’s why imports outsell American cars these days….


There's nothing better than getting paid to look out the window....


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