Our Cars (dream or actual)

[endo]

I had this Chevy Suburban, a 1978 or so, when I did my first long trip through the US in 1990. Three months Boston to LA, mainly just National Parks. Bought it for $800, lived in it all the time, derusted it with a friend in SF and finally sold it in LA for $1100.

[gouki74]

Here are my cars:

1999 Z3M coupé, i have it for about 13 years, it has been prepared to race a little bit:

And my rare 1975 Innocenti Mini, the Italian version of it with more additional parts when they were sale brand new (chrome, front disk brake...)
I have it for 3 years now, it was really in bad shape and wasn't running great but with elbow grease and several spare parts, it's finally a little bomb that smoke a lot of small cars

Before:

And after:

And a photo of the 2 girls before the paint job:

[Ian72]

Hi Everyone, new to thread but here’s my dream car, the Jaguar XKSS and even cooler this one was owned by Steve McQueen

And here’s the one i regret selling,

[Daniel San]

still sad that I had to sell mine a few year ago 🥲

[louisbosco]

@gouki74 clown shoes looks amazing as always!

[gouki74]

@louisbosco said in Our Cars (dream or actual):

@gouki74 clown shoes looks amazing as always!

[Matt]

@endo absolutely

[Inorganic]

@endo damn..what an adventure that must have been

[endo]

yes, @Inorganic a great trip, and all before internet and mobiles

[Inorganic]

@endo i try to explain to my son (10) the freedom of those times. I feel bad for the young generations of today/tomorrow that that moments are likely gone - but via social media/mobiles they will have an awareness of the world that we didn't. good with the bad i suppose.

[endo]

I also find it difficult to judge here. Then, it was freedom and adventure. And more individuality, more contrast. But now it enables possibilities that were unthinkable then. If they are used ...

[Inorganic]

@endo 'if they are used' - therein lies the challenge.

[goosehd]

Mini Cooper JCW (John Cooper Works) Yes, No, or ... Appreciate any feedback on them. I have looked at them for years and think they would be a fun car and given today's economy would definitely be a little better than driving my truck around.

[louisbosco]

it's a very niche market. plenty of competitors out there in the 'hot hatch' market.

I'm respect the JCW racing heritage, but it's still a mini, which I'm not particularly a fan of.

[Giles]

I would stick with the standard Cooper - Paula had one. We were advised against the JCW, as being too harsh all round ......

[Matt]

Isn’t that what attracted her to you in the first place?

[A Former User]

@Matt yeah so one harsh thing was enough

[Giles]

Fuck off......

[goosehd]

Not everyone’s cup of tea, but she is pretty when it’s clean.

[goosehd]

Random question that I wouldn’t mind feedback on:

How many of you can drive a manual transmission? Is it something that is still worth learning how to do?

My thoughts are if you can drive a manual, you can drive anything whereas if you can only drive an automatic you are limited in choices (does it still hold true?).