Life's too short to be bored. Get yourself something like Twitch54's above, post #500Our two very, very boring cars
If that don't get your juices flowing, nothing will.
Life's too short to be bored. Get yourself something like Twitch54's above, post #500Our two very, very boring cars
1967 911? My dad had a '69 912, and as the youngest of three children, my designated place was the hump between the two back seats! Funny to think that it was a prestigious automobile yet so spartan by today's standards, with just a Blaupunkt AM radio for entertainment (dealer-added shortly after he took delivery), and it never occurred to us that we should want anything more. Even if it had been available, both of my folks would've been suspicious of frills like air conditioning.
For a time I remember my Dad saying AC was just something complicated that would break and cost you money. Didn't need it on his car.1967 911? My dad had a '69 912, and as the youngest of three children, my designated place was the hump between the two back seats! Funny to think that it was a prestigious automobile yet so spartan by today's standards, with just a Blaupunkt AM radio for entertainment (dealer-added shortly after he took delivery), and it never occurred to us that we should want anything more. Even if it had been available, both of my folks would've been suspicious of frills like air conditioning.
The "juice" in question would be gasoline, unfortunately.Life's too short to be bored. Get yourself something like Twitch54's above, post #500
If that don't get your juices flowing, nothing will.
Very sweet Ford, they're really looking good.Purchased in December. Now I work from home and never leave my house. Only been able to put 1,400 miles on it so far.
Take the brakes off and push the toy in the water.If I were better heeled I might go for a Tesla Model X.
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If I were better heeled I might go for a Tesla Model X.
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Take the brakes off and push the toy in the water.
1967 911? My dad had a '69 912, and as the youngest of three children, my designated place was the hump between the two back seats! Funny to think that it was a prestigious automobile yet so spartan by today's standards, with just a Blaupunkt AM radio for entertainment (dealer-added shortly after he took delivery), and it never occurred to us that we should want anything more. Even if it had been available, both of my folks would've been suspicious of frills like air conditioning.
Which brings up the issue of what types of car motors have the most mellifluous engine noises...
Real autos run IC engines.Toy?
Me, inconspicuous as a student in about 1969.
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Car is a 1957 Hillman Minx convertible.
It was! I got very strange looks from a girl's father when I turned up in that for a date.Please tell me it was tiger colours?
It was! I got very strange looks from a girl's father when I turned up in that for a date.
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Oh man, my midengine Boxsters have always made me sweat through the backs of my shirts commuting to and from work with the engine block directly behind the driver's seat. Then again, to your point about traffic I've been commuting in either LA or NYC for the past 20 years.For a time I remember my Dad saying AC was just something complicated that would break and cost you money. Didn't need it on his car.
A drunk crashed into my Mom's car. She got my Dad's car, and he purchased a used '60 Bel Air to drive to work because he got it cheap. Someone had put aftermarket air in that car. We lived in the deep southern US, and he was driving across a large city without interstates. So it was a 25 mile slog with traffic lights every couple blocks at least the whole way to work. In the afternoons, in the summer, that drive was suddenly a whole lot better with AC in the car. He'd joke about seeing everyone else pull up and wipe the sweat out of their eyes with hankerchiefs at the red light, and he'd be riding cool and comfortable. He never wanted another car without AC after that.
PS-if you weren't in traffic a rear engine car like the Porsche is a whole lot more comfortable in the summer than a front engine car. All the heat is behind you, and you 'leave it behind'.
That would be the case. I suppose I actually had in mind time spent in VW Beetles or Corvairs, where there is a back seat between you and the engine. Those are very cool cars to drive in hot weather even if maybe they aren't 'cool' in other respects.Oh man, my midengine Boxsters have always made me sweat through the backs of my shirts commuting to and from work with the engine block directly behind the driver's seat. Then again, to your point about traffic I've been commuting in either LA or NYC for the past 20 years.
That would be the case. I suppose I actually had in mind time spent in VW Beetles or Corvairs, where there is a back seat between you and the engine. Those are very cool cars to drive in hot weather even if maybe they aren't 'cool' in other respects.
The clickety-clack of an original Beetle definitely has some cool cachet in my book.
Which brings up the issue of what types of car motors have the most mellifluous engine noises...