Your car

[MadmanDan]

A lot of you people probably have cars and/or are interested in cars. Well here's your chance to tell us about yours. Give details like car type,top speed,engine size,horse power,etc, along with some interesting stories


I have an '81 Opel Ascona,witch I just repaired for 500 $(my parents were pretty pissed),with an 2000cc engine,90 horse power and a top speed of about 170 km/h

[journey]

I bought my first new car last year. It's a Saturn Ion Quad Coupe. It's kind of a sports car, or it just looks sporty. I'm not sure about the horses in it, but it can reach a decent speed.? It's polar white, which makes it difficult to keep clean, but other than that it's great.

Here's a show room link:

http://www.saturn.com/saturn/showroom/ion/quad/index.jsp?nav=200

[D]

I bought my first new car last year. It's a Saturn Ion Quad Coupe. It's kind of a sports car, or it just looks sporty. I'm not sure about the horses in it, but it can reach a decent speed.? It's polar white, which makes it difficult to keep clean, but other than that it's great.

Here's a show room link:

http://www.saturn.com/saturn/showroom/ion/quad/index.jsp?nav=200

your car is awesome!!!!!!! very comfy!


my car is a 98 red cavalier, a bulldozer plowed into me while i was parked and dented my entire passenger side, it runs very good though and gets me from point a to b which is all i care about.

i use to have a 91 geo metro convertible, that car was rad, i had an awesome system and some cool rims on it, i fell asleep and wrecked it, screwed it all up, i miss that car! it was a sweet car!

[Wheres Izzy]

I have a red 89' mustang gt convertible. It's a convertible and a manual trans. I had almost the exact same car except in the hatchback but it was stolen last may so I got this one. On account of losing a ton of cash because of this (didn't have theft) I havn't had the finances to do anything to the new mustang yet so it's still stock. Hopefully down the line I can play with it tho and try to get it under 14 in the quarter mile.

[Oddy]

ok i dont think anyone can beat me.

i have a 1981 Renault 18 GTS. Don't let that GTS fool you, its no sports car by a long shot. Bought it for $150 Australian.

Um lets see its silver, dull non-shiny silver.

i have plenty of funny stories about it, but they're too long.

i dont really give a shit about it, i leave it unlocked 100% of the time, so my friends sometimes want to do "projects" on it. You all know those idiots that do up really crap cars, they go around in their hyundai's, well we decided to take the piss out of them.

$30 later, my car had black racing stripes (some plumbers tape, trust me it worked really good), spray painted chrome wheels, grill, windscreen wipers. To top it off, the thing that pushed it into the boundary of hilarity, we made a wooden spoiler. Ok, we made it really really good, fuck i surprised myself with how good the spoiler looked, we painted it this metallic black with a couple of coats, bolted it onto the back and voila, the car was now sexified.

most people couldnt tell the spoiler was made of wood, we made it that well. It was only after we told them or they came close to the car.

it gets from a to b thats all i care about, and its mine, i earnt it with my money. Its not my parents car or my parents didnt buy it for me or its not from a bank loan.

[Rocket_queen125]

thats hilarious...
sum what similar to what me and my mexican buddy did to his fathers work car. 1980 sumtin corrolla (similar to this car in the pick)

excepth the body was rusted out.. my friend stephen is an excellent artist so he painted a mexican flag on the hood he then painted red white and green stripes down the car that ligned up with the flag and did sum excellent fancy mexican art work down the side.. We then named the car Rebaldo...

later on that week we realized that the car wasnt sporty enough and wasnt getn the attention we wanted so we went and purchased a high powerd roadgear tape deck and installed that in the car. we then purchased a loudspeaker that we found at sharpless auction for 3 dollars and mounted it on the roof of the car then put a sunroof on the car... (bad Idea #1)

then we thought that it would be best to rip out the interior, everything except the two front seats.. the door panels, backseat, dash, spedometer, carpet, windows, including the front window (bad idea #2) we then promptly replaced the window with chicken wire!!.

later on that week we ripped out the door handles and welded the doors shut with small peaces of iron...  (bad idea #3) Rusted car bodys dont weld tthat good and just made a huge hole in the side but it all worked cause the doors were locked shut for good now.. we then took are sombraros? idk how to spell? and took off for a joy ride to muscatine (overpopulated mexican community) where we would joyride around the mexican bars and taunt the mexicans with stephens dad authentic mexican music playing extremely loud over are loudspeaker.. we then were chased down by some mean looking mexicans in a rusty old tbird who then threaten to kill us but we i lied to them and told them my momma was mexican and the let us off the hook..

we then decided that it was time to venture home cuase it was getn cold and so we took off from the big ole town of muscatine back to our hometown of tipton and then it started to rain. so what should have taken us 30 mins took us nearly 2 hrs... plus did i forget to mention that we took off the exhaust cuase we wanted it to sound like a racecar (bad idea #4) the exhaust leaked up into the car and nearly killed us.

later on that summer we thought we could enter it into the cedar county fair race but they turned us down and wouldnt even let us demo it so we made out own little racetrack int he back yard where then later on crashed it into the creek..

ps before we raced it we would run it till it ran out of gas buy one gallon of gas mix it with high octane boost about 3bottles pour a little into the carb and them put the rest into the gast tank nearly blew it... i
i will get some pics of it for ya'ss

[Sin Cut]

I got a red Mazda GTI hb '88, it got 150 hp (109kw) from a 2 liter 16 valve engine, my tops are 200km/h it would've gone a bit faster still, but my front shocks need to replaced to take that kinda speed.

Anyway it's not a sport car, but you can get past a truck fast enough, I'm planning to get a bike or a real sport car when I got the cash and this would just be my ride to work.

And it's fun ride on the summer since it got a sunroof (electric) and all all 4 glasses work from push of a button, so that's cool 

Really, I should just sell it and get something more new with space for my dogs in the back.

[Oddy]

thats hilarious...
sum what similar to what me and my mexican buddy did to his fathers work car. 1980 sumtin corrolla (similar to this car in the pick)

excepth the body was rusted out.. my friend stephen is an excellent artist so he painted a mexican flag on the hood he then painted red white and green stripes down the car that ligned up with the flag and did sum excellent fancy mexican art work down the side.. We then named the car Rebaldo...

later on that week we realized that the car wasnt sporty enough and wasnt getn the attention we wanted so we went and purchased a high powerd roadgear tape deck and installed that in the car. we then purchased a loudspeaker that we found at sharpless auction for 3 dollars and mounted it on the roof of the car then put a sunroof on the car... (bad Idea #1)

then we thought that it would be best to rip out the interior, everything except the two front seats.. the door panels, backseat, dash, spedometer, carpet, windows, including the front window (bad idea #2) we then promptly replaced the window with chicken wire!!.

later on that week we ripped out the door handles and welded the doors shut with small peaces of iron...  (bad idea #3) Rusted car bodys dont weld tthat good and just made a huge hole in the side but it all worked cause the doors were locked shut for good now.. we then took are sombraros? idk how to spell? and took off for a joy ride to muscatine (overpopulated mexican community) where we would joyride around the mexican bars and taunt the mexicans with stephens dad authentic mexican music playing extremely loud over are loudspeaker.. we then were chased down by some mean looking mexicans in a rusty old tbird who then threaten to kill us but we i lied to them and told them my momma was mexican and the let us off the hook..

we then decided that it was time to venture home cuase it was getn cold and so we took off from the big ole town of muscatine back to our hometown of tipton and then it started to rain. so what should have taken us 30 mins took us nearly 2 hrs... plus did i forget to mention that we took off the exhaust cuase we wanted it to sound like a racecar (bad idea #4) the exhaust leaked up into the car and nearly killed us.

later on that summer we thought we could enter it into the cedar county fair race but they turned us down and wouldnt even let us demo it so we made out own little racetrack int he back yard where then later on crashed it into the creek..

ps before we raced it we would run it till it ran out of gas buy one gallon of gas mix it with high octane boost about 3bottles pour a little into the carb and them put the rest into the gast tank nearly blew it... i
i will get some pics of it for ya'ss

hahahahahha thats one hilarious story.

me and my friends are thinking of taking off the racing stripes and painting a massive jamaican flag on the top. throw in a couple of bongs in the car that are permanently there.

the racing stripes are starting to peel (they lasted about 9 months, damn good), and the spoiler is off now (it lasted about 5 or 6 months).

i've always wanted to enter it in a destruction derby or some sort of rally race.

i've also always wanted to just drive right into my uni and just leave it there, taking the license plates off before i do so ofcourse. right into the center of it.

me and my friends have some big plans for getting rid of it (road trip to perth, other side of australia, oh i dunno a billion kilometres the car has to die, driving it off a cliff, so far driving it off a cliff is winning, or just leaving it in redfern, real bad area it'd be trashed in a second).

[KeVoRkIaN]

1988 Mustang Cobra GT - Flowmaster Exhaust, 2 Tone Grey - Manual Transmission - gone past the 180 km/h spedometer but not sure how fast it actually can go.

http://www.ratemyride.com/uploads/33434.jpg

[Rocket_queen125]

kevorkian that is a tight peace of machinary i have a 90 gt mustang but i recently blew the engine and its just sitn there but neways i have some awesome set of wheels and tires that i am trying to get rid of cause the car is kapute now and if your interested pm me...

[Gunner80]

I still drive an '88 1/2 Ford Escort-LX 2 door.  Replaced motor once.

[Butch Français]

I have a 1988 Saab 900i. still have my old car too, a 1981 Volvo 244.

[C0ma]

2 cars:

2001 Nissan Maxima SE, nothing special about it. It's all factory no upgrades.

1992 Pontiac Trans AM GTA:
Engine was replaced with a 350 Crate motor, bored and stroked to 383
Flowmaster Force II Exaust
After Market Ram Air

[jarmo]

I have a 1988 Saab 900i.

You're the first person to admit owning a Saab.

By the way, they make most of them here.


/jarmo

[Eeebs]

I have and drive a 2001 VW Beetle.  Oh how I luv my little bug

[Butch Français]

I have a 1988 Saab 900i.

You're the first person to admit owning a Saab.

By the way, they make most of them here.


/jarmo

should I be ashamed of owning a Saab? they're good cars!
mine even looks cool!
I was more embarassed writing that I have a Volvo 244
and hey, Jerry Seinfeld drove a Saab 900 in the show!

[MadmanDan]

I have a 1988 Saab 900i.

You're the first person to admit owning a Saab.

By the way, they make most of them here.


/jarmo

should I be ashamed of owning a Saab? they're good cars!
mine even looks cool!
I was more embarassed writing that I have a Volvo 244
and hey, Jerry Seinfeld drove a Saab 900 in the show!

Saab and Volvo used to be the most boring cars on the planet,but lately they rule!

[Butch Français]

I have a 1988 Saab 900i.

You're the first person to admit owning a Saab.

By the way, they make most of them here.


/jarmo

should I be ashamed of owning a Saab? they're good cars!
mine even looks cool!
I was more embarassed writing that I have a Volvo 244
and hey, Jerry Seinfeld drove a Saab 900 in the show!

Saab and Volvo used to be the most boring cars on the planet,but lately they rule!

I agree, but only about Volvo, I think Saabs have been looking cool for quite a while!

[jarmo]

Too bad for Saab (and this place), nobody buys them....



/jarmo

[Cornell]

OK - I'll admit that I drive a 2002 mini van.    In my defense, I have sons that are very active in soccer, baseball, football and hockey and I needed the room - my little MR2 just wasn't cutting it. 

Oh, and I also have a RAVE4 - 2003.