This may sound corny, or retarded at first, but hear me out. I know I am talking to a good amount of gear heads, grease monkeys and car fanatics in this forum, maybe not everyone but I know you're out there. So here is what I am talking about. Does anyone feel their car is [B]more[/B] than just a car to them? Does anyone feel like your car is almost one of your best friends? Not in a weird way, but does anyone [B]really[/B] care about their car enough? I personally am a fanatic about my car. I consider my car, 'my girl'. Not like in a weird 'I can't get a girlfriend way'. But just like I've been through hell and back with my car, and she's always pulled through, shes never let me down and no shitter ever came between us. Do any of you really care about your car, or just not give a shit?
The thing about a car is, if you take car of her, she'll take care of you, unlike a girlfriend ;). But really. No matter what happens, my car gets me through the shit, i'll give you some examples of stories that have had happened recently, most importantly,
I was driving home from my Ex-girlfriends house, and this stupid bitch pulled out of the drive of her trailer park about 10 feet in front of me. I was doing 45 (speed limit), completely focused on the road. When she pulled out, I slammed my breaks on (in my mind, knowing my breaks weren't going to stop a 4,200 pound block of steal doing 45), So I cut the wheel to the left going into the opposite lane of traffic (only choice I had. To the right was a solid line of trees and a telephone pole). All I saw looking to my right out my passenger window was a purple Mazda 3, 2 inches from the side of my car, then looking back to the road and out my drivers window a "oversized load" 18 wheeler hauling lumber coming straight towards me, blaring his horn. I reacted, I immediately down shifted into second (automatic trans) and put my foot to the floor. Roaring sound of my ladies 5.0, V8 engine and screeching tires I cut in between with about 4 feet to spare from the truck and the distance of the Mazda. Coming out of the shit, at this point about 100 yards down the road doing around 65, I checked my mirror and slammed on my breaks, coming to a hault and then yelling "fuck that bitch". I pulled into a driveway, as the cars behind me during all this slowly drove by just starring at me. I threw it in reverse, and flew back up the road to the girl who cut me off. I got out to check my girl for damage, nothing but a dented hubcap from the force of my tires during the maneuver. I went up to trailer park drive. A guy on a bike behind the girl who cut me off looked at me and said "Holy fuck dude...Are you okay?" I just replied with "Yeah I'm fine" before coming up to the girl in the car, and at this point, my fuse was up (mostly because I hate dumb, irrational, poor decision making drivers) I started cussing, and asking her what the hell she was thinking. I never got more than "I just gave a quick loo-" before I cut her off, swore some more and got in my car and floored it away back to my house.
I know that was a lot to read, there has been so many more; but have any of [B]you[/B] out there had a story you and your car has been through that you want to share? Does anyone feel that way when it comes to there car, like super defensive, or do you just not care? If you do, post a story, or your thoughts, and post a picture of your car, I know a lot of people I know name their cars, you can't have a car without a name. I don't want this thread to be like another "Photo's of your Car". So try to keep it to if you have a story, or just like what I said about your car being more than a car to you.
This is my Christine. 1989 Caprice Classic.
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My Dad bought our mustang a year after I was born and we've had it ever since. It was the car my parents dropped me off at elementary school in, and the car I drove myself to high school in. I love my car.
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my mustang and my dad at the dragstrip yesterday.
As much shit it puts me through and even though I want something else, I love my jeep. First car and the big thing about it is is it was my moms and she passed away in 2002 when I was 8. I get sad thinking about selling it, I would only sell to someone who would fix it.
I definitely think of my car as more than something to get me from A to B, it costs me a fortune to run and I've often thought about trading it in but wouldn't be able to. Every time I park up and walk away I look back at least twice and still smile knowing it's my car. There's only 2 that I've spotted or know of in the town I live in, quite a big town too so not many people know much about them and I love answering questions and noticing people give it a second glance.
It's not the fastest car in a straight line, by no means slow either but with a decent set of rubber there's few cars that can keep up with me in the bends and the feedback from the car is amazing, knowing exactly what the wheels are doing and giving confidence to push on that little be more, even when it lets go it's pretty forgiving.
Feels good to feel part of the car when you're driving it.
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I don't know about you but I'd be fucking horrified to be in a car named "Christine."
My dad had 2 celica
one 84
and one 85gts
I grew up with these two cars, before he sold them when I was 7-8yo.
My uncle had a supra 88 turbo at that time
and my cousin bought a 85 celica gts and took care of it like a baby, swapped a 1uzfe into it to replace the old tiring 22re.
Basically, all those relative are older than me and introduce me to the world of toyota 80's sports car.
When I left the motocross world, I could only buy a supra, and here I am: 1989 supra turbo
I joined a local club for supra owners, and I met a bunch of wonderful people.
I am 19yo, that supra is my first car and I scored doing that choice
[QUOTE=Sparkey989;33005604]I don't know about you but I'd be fucking horrified to be in a car named "Christine."[/QUOTE]
Well, she's *my* christine ;) Christine was always good to her owner :wink: The reason I call her Christine is a few reasons. Reason one being Caprice, Christine. Sorta ring a similar notion. But the main reasons,
1. When I bought her, the radio would when it wanted to, switch channels, fade in and out, turn the volume up and down etc, due to bad wiring.
2. Christine also hates women. Every single time a girl is in that car, she acts differently. When it's just me and her crusin' around she purrs like a kitten. The only time a girl ever got behind the drivers seat, she stalled out and lost power. I started her and she fired right up. She never fails me any other time. When girls are in the passenger seat often enough she may run a bit rough, breaks will squeak, just things like that. But [B]any other time[/B] she doesn't do any of that. ;)
[QUOTE=sam.clarke;33005543]I definitely think of my car as more than something to get me from A to B, it costs me a fortune to run and I've often thought about trading it in but wouldn't be able to. Every time I park up and walk away I look back at least twice and still smile knowing it's my car. There's only 2 that I've spotted or know of in the town I live in, quite a big town too so not many people know much about them and I love answering questions and noticing people give it a second glance.
It's not the fastest car in a straight line, by no means slow either but with a decent set of rubber there's few cars that can keep up with me in the bends and the feedback from the car is amazing, knowing exactly what the wheels are doing and giving confidence to push on that little be more, even when it lets go it's pretty forgiving.
Feels good to feel part of the car when you're driving it.[/QUOTE]
I agree man! I love having a car I know exactly if there is something wrong, you'll feel it or hear it and no something is a bit off beat. And I agree, when I walk away from my car at a parking lot. I always take 2 or 3 looks back. Its upsetting I wont be able to drive her for 4-5 months for winter. :(
Good replies so far though guys! Its good to see there are more of you out there!
[QUOTE=Sparkey989;33005604]I don't know about you but I'd be fucking horrified to be in a car named "Christine."[/QUOTE]
I would ride Christine all day. [img]http://www.breakpointservers.com/Smileys/sa/rimshot.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Halo0004;33007500]Well, she's *my* christine ;) Christine was always good to her owner :wink: The reason I call her Christine is a few reasons. Reason one being Caprice, Christine. Sorta ring a similar notion. But the main reasons,
1. When I bought her, the radio would when it wanted to, switch channels, fade in and out, turn the volume up and down etc, due to bad wiring.
2. Christine also hates women. Every single time a girl is in that car, she acts differently. When it's just me and her crusin' around she purrs like a kitten. The only time a girl ever got behind the drivers seat, she stalled out and lost power. I started her and she fired right up. She never fails me any other time. When girls are in the passenger seat often enough she may run a bit rough, breaks will squeak, just things like that. But [B]any other time[/B] she doesn't do any of that. ;)
I agree man! I love having a car I know exactly if there is something wrong, you'll feel it or hear it and no something is a bit off beat. And I agree, when I walk away from my car at a parking lot. I always take 2 or 3 looks back. Its upsetting I wont be able to drive her for 4-5 months for winter. :(
Good replies so far though guys! Its good to see there are more of you out there![/QUOTE]
Christ, Why don't you just fucking marry the damn thing already.
To me my car is something special too. When i bought it right after getting my license i didn't like it at all. It had no extras and 240 000km on the clock. Now, 3 years later i got it up to 312 000km, still running great and i installed a ton of gadgets and all these things i like in cars. I fell in love with it, i'd rather abandon my apartment than this car when worse comes to worst. I don't like naming it though, it's just my cookiebox. I also had quite some adventures in it already. Especially driving along empty country roads in winter, staying away from any highway because people go crazy on the roads as soon as snow falls.
But to me every car is more than just a vehicle. I could never scrap cars and i always get a really bad feeling seeing all these nice cars in scrap yards.
[QUOTE=hoodoo456;33009855]Christ, Why don't you just fucking marry the damn thing already.[/QUOTE]
It's not legal to marry a car in this state :rolleyes:
One of my first words was "Choc Choc Lorry", pointing at a Cadbury's Chocolate Lorry passing. Not long after that my mother realized I'm going to be in love with cars forever. She was right! She set up a playment plan of £15 a month in a bank account to save up for a car for me when I'm older.
I had no idea of this, of course, until I read it on a small piece of paper in front of all my family at a restaurant on my 18th birthday. She offered to buy me a car with what'd accumilated to a four figure amount of money. She then said, if'd I rather, I can have her (nearish new) Hyundai that is an incredibly reliable but naturally, isn't as cool. She would then use that money saved to buy herself a car.
Our family car, we love so much and is part of the family is now mine! I am genuinly not allowed to sell her! I've made my friends rather jealous having the most valuable car in school/sixth form.
Whats incredable about this is, that we're one of the poorest families in the area with an annual household income in the lower of four figures ...and my friends are very wealthy with high five & six figure household incomes.
I <3 "The babe" (mother gave her that name), I'm proud of her and will never sell her!
...but if anyone asks, she's a Honda ok?
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(I took my two friends to a festival down south. Me-Left)
When I used to live in my old house, my dad had a older Ford Gran Torino with a 351c in it. Me and him used to sit outside when I was 3 or 4, and he would let me help him work on it. Thats when he figured out how much I loved cars. He sold the Torino to my uncle, and thats when he bought his 2001
Lightning, which I have memorys of sitting in the bed of, at the dragstrip. He then sold that a year
later and bought his 2003 Cobra in Sonic Blue. I absolutly loved/love that car. He noticed that
immediatly, and I would always joke with him, asking when I could have my own Cobra. Around 2008,
he went out and bought a 1997 Cobra in Crystal White. Told me, when I turn 16, if I have the money
to buy it from him, I can have it. I got a job the summer of 2010, when I turned 15, and started
working my ass off. I ended up not having enough money for it. So, we worked out a deal, and I am
now about $2000 in debt for the car. But, I do not care, because I have so many good memorys with the car, and no matter what I go through, I will always have it.
Me and my dad go on cruises together, without anyone else. Its how we spend time together. So many memorys of me and him, working on eachothers cars.
Yeah, my truck is far more than just a slightly rusty, faded, dented old workhorse. That tough old bastard has been through hell and back. I bought it with just 200K on the clock, for five hundred bucks. All we could afford at the time. I drove it through most of high school, quickly racking up the miles. Then after I got out of that my mom started driving it to work, as her Dodge had let her down. The miles continued to rack up, and at one point it was the only running vehicle we owned.
Then, at 265K miles, the head gasket let go on the freeway.
But did that tough old thing stop? Did it just give up, bend some rods and consign itself to the scrapyard? Fuck no! It dropped three of the six cylinders, sure. It was way down on power. It was smoking like a chimney. But it soldiered on, 25 more miles of freeway and five more miles of stop and go. It never once stalled, even with a catastrophic failure of a pretty god damned important engine seal. It would even restart. We got it towed the fifty miles back home and I pulled the head. No damage. Head was fine, pistons were fine, block was fine. Just a bad gasket. Had the head rebuilt, put a new gasket in, good as new.
And then the clutch lets go.
So I replaced that. It has since racked up another 15,000 miles, and it is still soldiering along. It was there for us when my mom's minivan sucked water in and drowned. It was there for us when the dakota she had before that decided to throw it's gearbox onto the ground. It was there for us when she wrecked the 2003 Ranger she had before that. It's been there for us every time we've ever needed it to be, never let us down, always gotten us to our destination, and it will continue to do so for us long after the gasoline it runs on is no more.*
Best $500 anyone will ever spend on a vehicle anywhere.
*Converting it to run on another fuel is piss easy given how simple the engine is. There's even off-the-shelf LPG parts if LPG is still a viable fuel.
Got any pictures of this old one? What kind of truck is it man? That's a damn good truck.
[QUOTE=Halo0004;33007500]Well, she's *my* christine ;) Christine was always good to her owner :wink: The reason I call her Christine is a few reasons. Reason one being Caprice, Christine. Sorta ring a similar notion. But the main reasons,
1. When I bought her, the radio would when it wanted to, switch channels, fade in and out, turn the volume up and down etc, due to bad wiring.
2. Christine also hates women. Every single time a girl is in that car, she acts differently. When it's just me and her crusin' around she purrs like a kitten. The only time a girl ever got behind the drivers seat, she stalled out and lost power. I started her and she fired right up. She never fails me any other time. When girls are in the passenger seat often enough she may run a bit rough, breaks will squeak, just things like that. But [B]any other time[/B] she doesn't do any of that. ;)
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The fuck? I understand the whole being close with your car. I love my car and been through a lot of shit with it but you're scaring me with the 2nd point man..
[QUOTE=Soldier32;33160146]The fuck? I understand the whole being close with your car. I love my car and been through a lot of shit with it but you're scaring me with the 2nd point man..[/QUOTE]
ahah calm down, its just a little joke man.
I just say that because normally when I drive that car I am by myself or will have a friend with me, but when I have a girl in the car, it 'acts up', the 'it hates women' thing is a reference to the movie Christine, if you havent seen it.
[QUOTE=Halo0004;33154675]Got any pictures of this old one? What kind of truck is it man? That's a damn good truck.[/QUOTE]
1985 Ford F150, 300ci inline six, four speed OD manual. Wonderful old truck. [url=http://www.carforum.net/build-restoration-logs/7286-testes-old-truck-resto-log.html]You can see pictures of it here, along with quite a lot of the things I've done to it to keep it reliable.[/url]
[QUOTE=TestECull;33164641]1985 Ford F150, 300ci inline six, four speed OD manual. Wonderful old truck. [URL="http://www.carforum.net/build-restoration-logs/7286-testes-old-truck-resto-log.html"]You can see pictures of it here, along with quite a lot of the things I've done to it to keep it reliable.[/URL][/QUOTE]
those old f150's are really good work horses. My friends dad had one with a 302 V8 in it, the first engine blew at 200k, so he put another one in that lasted another 150k until the body rotted away and was practically broken in half.
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The 97 Hyundai Coupé 1.6
My first, and still going car.
And don't give me any lip about it being a Hyundai. Seems to most people that if it's a Hyundai then it's a bad car.
I have this car for about 6 years and did a little over 100.000km with it.
It's a small "beast", but a nice and comfortable drive even if you have to do a little off-road.
I'm a photographer, and this car went with me to everywhere I needed to go, so I have countless good memories with it.
Shame that I dont have enough money right now to keep this car beautiful (it desperately needs a new paint job, and a small body work). And I live in a city in wich it seems that people like to smash, hit and run your car... :(
I thought it was wrecked at first...It looks bent in half or something
[QUOTE=justin1992;33191171]I thought it was wrecked at first...It looks bent in half or something[/QUOTE]
Hyundai styling bro, that's normal.
[QUOTE=Awt2 x;33033442]
Me and my dad go on cruises together, without anyone else. Its how we spend time together. So many memorys of me and him, working on eachothers cars.[/QUOTE]
That's what my dad and I do. My parents live in another country now, but I'm still here because I'm in uni. Whenever he comes visit we always take long car rides along the mountains.
[QUOTE=justin1992;33191171]I thought it was wrecked at first...It looks bent in half or something[/QUOTE]
Jebus! it's not that bad!
It may seem like that probably due to the photo I guess...
Dat dumb rating. :v:
You shoulda got an mx3. It looks the similar, except with the "hurr durr hyundai" styled back end.
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My neighbors had one just like that but blue, and sold it for salvage. It has some slight problem but otherwise was great, even had a manual transmission. I wanted it :(
[QUOTE=Halo0004;33165713]those old f150's are really good work horses. My friends dad had one with a 302 V8 in it, the first engine blew at 200k, so he put another one in that lasted another 150k until the body rotted away and was practically broken in half.[/QUOTE]
Heh, yeah. I love mine, won't get rid of it for a very long time. Just can't kill 'em, they're cheap and easy to fix and don't often need fixing unless they've had the hell beat out of them. Mine's not even that rusty underneath, it's got a long life left ahead of it.
[QUOTE=Super_Noodle;33194656]Hyundai styling bro, that's normal.[/QUOTE]
You do know that Saturns are among the ugliest cars?
I'll post this again:
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You guys would surely enjoy these videos,
[media]http://vimeo.com/27010709[/media]
There's a few more on the vimeo page, all of which are mostly about the connection between driver and car.
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