I suggested the lists and haven't done mine. I'm always remembering 1 I forgot everyday. Not in any real order mostly chronological. I remember some like it was yesterday, some I see old grainy pics and don't remember much about them.
1963 Pontiac Parisienne, 2 door hard top, they call them pillarless coupes today. My first car I remember, paid a fellow Dad worked with $1.00 to make it legal back then. 1970.
1965 Chevy Impala 4dr. 283. The car I learned to drive in.
1967 Chev Impala SS, 2 door hardtop. Mom made me sell it after my 3rd ticket. Grade 11.
1967 VW Bug, gas heater, battery under back seat. (I just remembered another car)
1967 MGB, blew engine week 2
1972 Triumph TR6, bought in summer of 73 going into grade 13 with money I made working weekends in grade 12 and summer in the Steel Plant, I had a few 40 hr weekends that winter. My English teacher asked if he could borrow it for a hot date.
1969 Mercedes Benz 280S, Paid 3 grand in 75'. Sold it for 20 in 95' at auction.
1970 Ford T Bird, rounded back seat, sequential tail lights, black with partial white padded roof. 429 I think. The Quadriphonic Muntz 8 track stereo was almost 1/2 the price I paid for it in 74'.
1970 Ford Econoline Van. Used for beach parties and plant truck. Never had a mattress in it, the 1st thing my girlfriends father checked for.
1972 Pontiac something, it was basically a Nova. Flipped a week later.
1965 Ford Galaxy 500, 2 door HT, useless 6 cyl. winter beater, plant car.
1976 Corvette Stingray L-88. Had it when I was 23 when you are supposed to have a Vette, not 43 or 53 like most of my buddy's did years later when they couldn't get in and out of them.
1975 Chevy Malibu, I hated that car because my wife convinced me to sell my Vette when we got married. I thought it was the mature thing to do. That got us an additional $7200.00 towards a new build $55,000 home.
1972 Ford Capri, European in line 6, 4 speed manual, pocket rocket.
1979 Audi 5000S bought as a demonstrator in 80', beautiful car but that thing broke down every few months. Found many VW parts fit thank goodness. How does a frame crack after 35,000 miles?
1981 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. Love Barge, boring, boring. 4-6-8. Never worked as designed GM recalled them and set them for 8 cylinders only.
1977 Dodge Ram. Someone spent big money on chrome with a sewing machine slant 6. Crager wire wheels and DeeZee trims all around. Black and lots of chrome. Nice looking, no guts.
1971 Mercury Marquis Broham, Dad's trade in, I bought most of them, mint condition for a few weeks after I took it in and out of the plant.
1978 Corvette Stingray, Indy Pace Car Edition, detailed and flipped. Bubble rear window, ugly *** Vette.
1980 something Audi 5000S, flipped
1955 Chev Bel Air, painted, some rechrome, interior rugs and flipped. Should I have kept it? Ya think, dummy.
1966 Chevy Caprice SS, 2 door hard top, 327. Inherited from a close Uncle, southern car, Lexington KY, mint That I kept from around 79 until 86 when we built a new home, turned out to be a house, not home. Never drove it, maybe 100 miles.
1969 Ford F something, plant truck.
1988 Hyundai Exel, 1st new car I ever bought, for wife not I. $7200.00 out the door all in. Little 4 speed, never had a problem the 5 years she owned it, She traded it in for another Hyundai 2 door sports car.
Bought 2nd 69' Benz 280S, flipped.
This time period 80's gets confusing I was flipping cars with a buddy, maybe 6 to 8 cars a year. We talked last Saturday and he can only remember a few so I won't count them.
1986 Jeep YJ. A fun car, not a car, not a truck. Later to be called a SUV by some Maddison Ave. add man. It was when AMC owned Jeep I think or was it AMF the bowling ball company that almost bankrupt Harley Davidson, hybrid GM, Ford, Chrysler.
1984 Dodge conversion van, fishing cabin on wheels. We cut holes in the floor and hinged covers over them. Drove on the ice and fished in the warmth and comfort of your living room. Flip down beds, TV and stereo. Microwave and BBQ. Home made porta potty. 5 gallon pail with a toilet seat. Warning, if you use a Coleman stove for heat, open a window.
1998 Pontiac Grand Prix, my new ladies car. Always something wrong with it except the 3.8 V 6, indestructible. She drove it for 7 years.
1986 BMW 3 series 2 door. Bought it in 96' from my cousins wife. A cream puff. I want another but rag top.
1992 BMW 5 series from a buddy, drove it for 10 years, sharp car and a sleeper.
1987 Just remembered. Buick Park Avenue. Bought from my father for $750.00 when he bought a new Oldsmobile. Tranny went a month later, no rebate. He gave my brother his Florida car at the same time and gave him the 750 to ship it to Calgary Alta. Why did I pay $750.00 for a $500.00 car? "You know your brother doesn't have any money!"
2003 Chrysler Intrepid, leased for business after I took my pension and had to buy out. Worse car I have ever owned to drive. It drove you not you drove it, boring as all heck, and would get stuck in 6" of snow. 3 Transmission Communication Modules at 1000 bucks a piece. Once the 4th went I tapped out. Many klics on it I admit, over 350,000 KMS. all highway. I couldn't give it away in 2008. It served it's purpose I suppose.
2007 Nissan Altima 3.5 litre 280 HP, a rocket family sedan. The most dependable car ever. Sadly the tranny went last month. My wife drove it 75 miles a day to work and back. It had 35kms on it and she has put on another 325,000. I serviced it well for her, nothing much other than oil and filters . Everything on that car still works. I did the suggested services like tranny fluid and filter every 100kms, the timing belt at 150,000kms I think and air and cabin filters. Original dual exhaust, plugs, wires, and still blows cold, only 1 AC service. Brakes and batteries of course. I gave it to a pals 20 year old. When he can come up with $1500.00 he has a nice car. Shines like new. I should sell Nissans.
1989 GMC short box stepside, my boat tower. Traded it in for my new then truck. 350 cid and someone put dual exaust on with straight pipes, woke the dead when I started her, I loved that little truck. My wife had to move it one day, came in and said you my dear are getting a new truck. Had pillows on the seat to stop the springs from giving you a colonoscopy. GM gave me $3500.00 as a GM owner retire your ride trade incentive on a new GM product.
2011 Chevy Silverado LS, chrome edition crew cab. 350cid. I have 110,000 kms on her now. Someone gave ma a present last week and dented the rear bumper and bent the tailgate, obviously took off. Estimate is $1400.00. With 500 deductible and maybe, maybe not my insurance will go up according to my agent. I am just going to get a better price and bite the bullet.
2013 Kia Optima. A few weeks ago Ticha bought her Kia Optima. That car surprises me, it is a nice little sports sedan. 2 sunroofs, every bell and whistle one can have on a car for my liking. Use the 6 speed auto/manual shifter and you drive it, not the other way around.
I have to count. I know there has to be at least a dozen flips I don't remember make and year. I know there was a few Camaros and Mustangs, I was going to keep a Camaro but I couldn't refuse the quick buck. I just remembered another, a 76 Alfa Alfetta, sports coupe I drove for a year, how could I forget that beauty.
With the Alfa and the dozen flips I would say around 45. Less than I thought. I'll remember another 1 later I'm sure. I almost lost my mind a minute ago. I go to enter the post and the screen says "Invalid server". I look and I'm no longer logged on. Thankfully this site unlike many others saves your post and you can restore it like I did once I logged on.
