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10-19-2001, 11:16 PM
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Red-eyed Moderator
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YAAAAAA.... no more beater car!
Dumping out my luxurios 1987 Pontiac Safari station wagon, blue and rust colour (mainly rust colour on the lower doors) complete with wood paneling, roof rack, and rumble seat. An awesome 14MPG.
Just brought home a 1999 Pontiac Sunfire GT loaded!
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10-20-2001, 12:08 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Congrats there, big guy. My AMC Hornet mentioned in an earlier post was surrendered when I moved.
Enjoy your new ride. -phat |
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10-20-2001, 06:04 AM
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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Hal that is like getting out of a horse and carriage and getting into a rocket.
You sure you can handle all that power? lol. enjoy it. The new Pontiacs are driving excitement. |
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10-20-2001, 11:33 AM
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I have to admit, I was oversteering quite a bit as I was used to driving the Titanic, and good thing for seatbelts or the braking power would have put me through the windshield. With the wagon, you saw a red light 3 blocks away and slammed on the brakes to stop in time. Not that it had bad brakes, just plenty of momentum
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10-20-2001, 01:10 PM
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SQL nutcase
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Can you post a picture, as I don't know that car. (not available in europe)
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10-20-2001, 01:25 PM
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Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Long Beach, Mississippi
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Congrats HAL. Now if I could only get rid of mine ('87 Mercury Sable wagon)...
Really and truly though, so far it has been a good car. I got it for free, and all it has needed so far is a power steering hose and a water pump. It still needs a new radiator, and I think we killed the power steering pump running it with basically no fluid in it (replaced the hose, now it is leaking from somewhere on the pump), and it runs at weird RPM's, and being a Ford it has very little clearcoat left on it (what's up with Ford's paint department anyway? Most everyone else seems to have no clearcoat problems...) so the hood/roof is just a mass of white spots and dull maroon paint, and it has 220,000 miles on it... OK, maybe it is time to get rid of it, lol
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10-20-2001, 05:53 PM
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Good job Hal, after three months of hard searching I too found a reliable one. '93 Honda Accord w/only 50k miles. Really wanted a vette but the wife said I had to have four doors.
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10-20-2001, 11:38 PM
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Hal, congrats. I feel like a dinosaur with a '70 VW bug. However, saw a '69 bug today I'm considering.
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10-21-2001, 05:50 AM
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SQL nutcase
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Belgium
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Very nice car. Looks very sporty.
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