Our Cars (dream or actual)
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Down South??? I thought you lived in Northern California?!?!
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Nate, I hear ya. I got lucky and made money on mine because it was still so new when I sold it. Think about it this way, though: getting 40 mpg on a bike will help pay off whatever loss you take pretty quickly.
JSJ, I'm South Florida born and bred. The Coast Guard moved me out to CA a little over 5 years ago. I'm out in 3 days and on my way to Colorado next.
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@TJ:
JSJ, I'm South Florida born and bred.
Central Florida born here. You from Little Cuba or a redneck town?
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I still regret selling my bike. Nate, be careful, once you get one, nothing will ever replace the way it feels. It's like my heart skips a beat just thinking about it. The smell of riding through the country at dusk.
In Oklahoma, when you're 14 you can buy a motorcycle. When dad told me I could get one if I could raise the money. I worked 2 jobs, illegally, and saved up $5K. I put 30K miles on that little Suzuki GN125 in about a year and a half!!! There's a bunch of work/life changes coming in the near future, and as soon as the dust settles, it'll be one of the first things I do.
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Redneck town. Stuart, just a bit North of West Palm Beach. My childhood was properly filled with lifted trucks, swamp buggies, airboats, hog hunting, Real Tree overalls, and Sonny's BBQ.
Here's a few more rides from back in the day:
Dad's
Disregard the missing wheel… that was my fault, too, haha.
A friend's rig I helped build
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@TJ:
Redneck town. Stuart, just a bit North of West Palm Beach. My childhood was properly filled with lifted trucks, swamp buggies, airboats, hog hunting, Real Tree overalls, and Sonny's BBQ.
Nice. Sounds about right. I miss muddin.
I lived about 30mins below the Green Swamp in Lakeland.Damn, I miss Sonny's Sweet Sauce so much. Anytime I have a friend coming up(live in NYC now) I have them bring me a few bottles.
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Damn, I miss Sonny's Sweet Sauce so much.
And for everybody outside the Sunshine State, if ya don't know, now ya know.
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oh man… Sonny's is the best BBQ ever. had it in Gainesville a couple of years ago. that sliced pork...
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Didn't realize Sonny's was from Florida. I used to eat it all the time growing up in Charlotte. They do make a pretty respectable pork bbq.
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This was parked outside of my tent a few days ago. I thought it was pretty wicked… What make is it???
It's a russian UAZ. We still have loads of those in the army. Absolute worthless pieces of crap.
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@Jii:
Discoveries are totally ok too :). Regarding the parking pic above, parking spaces in the city center have decreased by about 60-70% thanks to the copious amounts of snow we've gotten in the last two weeks. No shortage for 4x4 parking spaces though..
This means that when you're living in a big city here, you'll need a 4x4.
We country boys get by with Minis (whose bottom is constantly scraping snow which is accumulated between tire tracks) -
Saw this exact same scenario when I was living in New Jersey. The roads in the cities were full of potholes, uneven pavement and miscellaneous crap, so folks drove SUVs. People out in the boonies were driving Mustangs and Camaros.
As a fun random fact, the drug gangs in Camden cruised around on ATVs- a cop friend told me it was because when police chased them, they could hop sidewalks, cut through vacant lots and other maneuvers that police cars couldn't replicate. Nothing like adapting rural tools for urban life…
