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First thing I drove... I think it was a tractor. International Harvester something.

Actual cars, the first one might've been a 1980 Chevy Chevette, but the car I drove in high school & actually owned was a 1980 Trans Am. The one that weighed 3800 lbs or so, and had 155 hp, 4.9L V8 with auto tranny. It was fun on dirt roads, but not so much on paved straights.

since then, I've owned (in order):

1986 Honda Prelude, 5spd - did stupid stuff on public roads
1991 Honda Prelude 2.0Si, 5spd - did stupid stuff on public roads
1994 Honda Prelude Si, 5spd - did stupid stuff on public roads
2001 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS sedan, 5spd - autoxed, rallyxed, tracked
2003 Honda Civic (co-owned with Christine), auto - autoxed
2000 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS coupe (co-owned with Christine), 5spd - autoxed, rallyxed
2005 Subaru WRX wagon, 5spd - autoxed, rallyxed
2005 Subaru Forester XT, auto - autoxed, rallyxed

Hey, this is kind of fun. I think this is most of them in roughly chronological order. Apparently I need some friends with better cars

Owned:
88 Honda Civic sedan
93 Nissan 240sx
95 Chevy s-10
99 Honda Prelude sh
03 BMW 330ci
95 BMW M3
01 Ford Expedition

Driven:
81 Mercedes Benz 300D
93 Chevy Corsica
94 Buick Century
86 Mercedes Benz 380sl
94 GMC Safari
94 Nissan truck
93 Chevy conversion van
82 Chevy Camaro
94 Ford Ranger
96 Mercedes Benz E300
97 Chevy Blazer
95 Eagle Talon tsi
98 Nissan Maxima
01 Chevy Trailblazer
03 Chevy Trailblazer
03 Toyota Tacoma
87 BMW 325e
95 Acura Integra GSR (Does this one count? I was steering while Karl pushed it up his driveway, since the wheels had detached themselves from the drivetrain, again.)
01 Ford Excursion
03 Chevy Corvette C5

Own/own'd

84 Nissan 200SX
88 Mazda MX-6 GT
91 VW GLI
85 Porsche 944
92 Dodge Dakota
00 Ford F150
77 VW Rabbit
86 VW Cabby
80 VW Rabbit truck(x2)
82 VW Rabbit Truck
89 VW GLI
88 VW GTI
88 VW Rocco 16v
94 VW Jetta
90 VW Rado G60
83 Rabbit( Now known as the DethBunny)
04.5 VW GLI

Driven in additon to the above;

86 Toyota MR2
84 Vette
88 BMW 325
86 BMW 325
02 VW GTI
90 Mazda Miata
86 Dirtmaster
03 VW Jetta
05 VW R32
95 BMW 325
92 BMW 318is

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91 Jetta GLI STS/DSP 111
85 Porsche 944 ASP 11
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Owned:
1983 Nissan Sentra hatchback (sold)
1993 VW Corrado vr6 (hauled off)
1986 Mercedes 190e 16v

Driven: (not quite that illustrious)
in addition to the above...
1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser wagon (dad's)
1991 Honda Accord (mom's)
1994 Mistu Diamante wagon (dad's)
2002 Lexus RX300 (mom's)
1983 Porsche 944
199? Geo Metro (it's like a big go kart really)
1994 Honda Accord
1988 VW Scirocco 16v
1986(?) VW Cabriolet
1988 VW Jetta GLI
1995 VW GTI vr6
2002 VW GTI 1.8t
1986 Mercury Tracer
1983 Mercedes 240D

Also a bunch of Ford's, Chevy's, Kia's, Lincoln's, Mazda's and Mercury's from working at Chevy/Kia and Ford dealerships. Oh, and one 1988 Lambo Countache.

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1993 VW Corrado VR6 - DSP15 (RIP)
1986 MB 190E 2.3L 16v - STX (SOLD)
1997 BMW M3 3.2L - BS for now

Owned
1972 Plymouth Duster
1991 GMC Sonoma
1995 Dodge Avenger
1995 Eagle Talon
1989 Mitsubishi Mirage
1989 Dodge Colt
2002 Mazda Protege5
1995 Nissan 240sx
1996 Nissan 240sx
1997 Dodge Dakota


Driven

1997 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX
1985 VW GTI
1991 Toyota MR2
2002 Subaru WRX Wagon
1992 Plymouth Laser RS AWD
1991 Toyota MR2 turbo
2003 Mustang GT
2004 Pontiac GTO
2002 Chevrolet Corvette
1993 Saturn SC2
1992 Saturn SL2
1993 Chevrolet Blazer
1997 Honda CRV
Acura Integra Type R (Shawn's car)
2001 Ford Focus
The General Lei
2004 Mazda RX8
2004 Mitsubishi Evo

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In need of car.

Owned:
1972 Buick Skylark. Bought it when was a senior in HS. Could only leave rubber if I was making a right hand turn.

1970something Datsun 510. Someone gave it to me.

1980something Yamaha 650 Special II. Did triple digit speeds every time I got on the damn thing. Sold it a year later to preserve life.

1970something Subaru. Given to me by my wife when we were dating and poor college students.

1986 Nissan 4x4 King Cab pick up.

1990 Oldsmobile Quad 442. My first new car, bought after I graduated college.

1996 Volvo 850GLT that I bought one day while out shopping for speakers. Surprised my wife with that one.

1999 Nissan Frontier 4x4. Bought a KX250 the week before and realized I needed a truck to tote it around. Surprised my wife with that one.

2001 Volvo XC70 AWD. B-day gift from the wife.

2004 Subaru STi. Wanted a new M3 but would be too anal about hitting cones with it.

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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Like some other people here I have worked around cars for years and have not kept a list like some of the retentive members. I have driven many different cars and trucks for work. I also stopped keeping track of the miles I have driven when I passed 500,000 miles years ago.

Own/Owned
64 Datsun 410 3 speed on the column (2)
First cars Paid $150 for one of them or was it both of them
68 Datsun 510 4 door
69 Datsun 510 2 door
72 Datsun 510 2 door (2) Train ate one of them
73 Datsun 1200 fastback
81 Datsun 210 owned 89 to present
89 Mazda B2200
00 Ford Focus ZX3

My Dad had owned a lot of cars. I remember these
50 Mercury
6? MGA
6? MGB
66 or 67 Sunbeam Tiger
66 VW Microbus (family car)
67 Fairlane wagon (family car)
68 AMC AMX low serial number
68 Datsun 2000 Roadster solex model
This is the car that got Jim Fitsgerald to switch from Morgans to racing Datsuns
69 Datsun 521 pickup
72 Datsun 240Z
72 Datsun 510 one 4 door and one 2 door
79 Datsun 310 one coupe and one sedan
?? VW Scirracco 16 valve
90 Plymouth Voyager minvan (family car)
?? Nissan 300Z
92 Nissan Sentra SE-R
95 Nissan Quest minivan ( family car)
00 Ford Focus ZX3 (sold to me)
03 Nissan Sentra SE-R

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George Bright Member # 141
One of the youngest of the old farts.
Yes I voted against you joining the club.

We better hope Peter Krause doesn't see this thread and start listing the F1 cars and various other exotics he has driven. . . on the STREET as well as the track.

Dick (who doesn't keep track of rental cars but does remember driving various jeeps and trucks in Vietnam )

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Dick Rasmussen

FS 50 2018 Mustang GT

Is anal-retentive supposed to be hyphenated? Hmmm...

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Mike Whitney
whit32@gmail.com, 919-454-5445
V10, V8, V8t, I6, I6, V6, F4t, I4, I4, I4, I4, I2, 1, 1

i found two interesting facts

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05 MCS

I like this thread.

Owned:

85 Dodge Omni, Auto, first ticket 50 in a 35!!
81 Mazda GLC, 4 spd, a Good Little Car. No really, it was!!
84 Chevy Chevette, 4 spd, bad clutch, no upper shock mounts in the rear, bald tires, no head liner, beat the crap out of it.
96 Mazda Miata, first new car, went on our Honeymoon in this car
88 Toyota Celica, Came with the wife
99 Mazda Miata, got it when the lease ran out on the 96
96 Dodge Caravan, first "family" vehicle
02 Ford Mustang GT, needed another "family" car when baby 2 was born
04 Toyota Sienna, updated the "family" hauler. Put 2500 miles on it in the first week of ownership.
92 Mazda Miata, debuted this past weekend. Got wife hooked on autocross with this car!!!!!

Driven (all years are approximate)
CARS
94 Geo Metro
90 Pontiac Grand Prix
86 Nissan Maxima
95 Honduh Civic
66 Ford Mustang GT (Dad's car)
67 Chevy Camaro (Father-in-law's car)
97 Porsche 911 (Michael Jordan's car at the airport!)
04 Chevy Corvette Z06 (my brother's car)
98 Chevy Corvette Convertible (uncle's car)
99 Cheby Corvette Convertible (brother's old car)
95 Mazda MX-6 (brother's old old car)
96 Mazda Miata (brother sold the MX-6 to buy this Miata after driving my Miata)
01 Ford F-150 Lightning (cousin's car)
85 Mercury Capri
88 Chevy Beretta (girlfriend's (now wife) car)
89 Chevy Beretta (mother-in-law's car)
96 Pontiac Grand Prix (mother-in-law's car)
75 Chevy Corvette Sting Ray (uncle's car)
99 Acura Integra Type-R (Shawn Whipple's car)
93 Eagle Talon (Ryan Holton's car)
86 Ford Escort (Parent's car)
88 Pontiac Grand Am (ditto)
85 Plymouth Voyager (same)
96 Mercury Sable (yep)
01 Dodge Intrepid (again)
93 Oldsmobile Cutlass (Uh-huh)
96 Ford Ranger
01 Ford Taurus
03 Ford Windstar
02 Subaru WRX
96 Dodge Neon
84 Chrysler LeBaron (Rebecca's first car)

Motorcycles I've not owned any, I just ride other peoples' bikes.
01 Ducati 748R (race preped)
00 Kawasaki ZX-6 (race preped)
90 Honduh Hurricane
78 Honduh Mini Bike (first motorcycle experience)

Airport Stuff
95 8,000 gal Rampmaster Refueler
97 5,000 gal Peterbuilt Refueler
03 10,000 gallon Rampmaster Refueler (Volvo cab)
04 8,000 gal Rampmaster Refueler (Sterling cab)
99 and 00 5,000 gal & 2,200 gal Determan Brownie Refueler (International cab)
02 F-350 based 1,000 gal Avgas refueler
55 2,000 gal White Refueler
Misc. belt loaders, bag tugs, pushbacks, forklifts, airstairs, provisioning vans, de-icing trucks, crap wagons and aircraft tugs.

Aircraft
several mid-70's Cessna 150, 152, 172, 182 RG
97 Diamond Katana
42 Douglas DC-3
42 Boeing Stearman
92 Kitfox Homebuilt
46 Piper Cub
early 50's Aircoupe
78 Grumman Cheetah



That's alot of stuff, but I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

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Todd Breakey
STS 42 - 1992 Sunburst Miata
Dammit!
"You souldn't play leap frog with a porcupine. You might get hurt." - Eliza

Owned:

1982 Ford Escort
1970 Jeep Wagoneer
1977 Toyota Celica GT
1980 Toyota Corolla
1985 Nissan Pulsar
1986 Honda Accord Hatchback
1995 Toyota 4x4 Extended Cab Truck
1997 Honda Passport
1995 Chevrolet Extended Cab Short Bed Truck
1972 Chevrolet Longbed Truck
1993 Jeep Wrangler
2002 Toyota Fourrunner
* 1999 Ford F-250 4x4 Crew Cab Short Bed Truck
1999 BMW M Roadster
2002 BMW M3 Convertible
2002 Porsche 911 Turbo
2001 Ford F-250 King Ranch SuperCrew
2003 Toyota MR-Spyder
* 1991 Spec Miata
* 2004 Toyota MR-Spyder
* 2004 Ford Excursion 4x4 Diesel
* 1999 Miata Sport
* 1962 Chevrolet Stepside Pickup
* 1931 Ford Model A Coupe
* 2004 Subaru STi
* 2005 Lotus Elise
* 2005 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
* 2005 Freightliner Columbia (the toter)

The cars we've owned for my wife to drive:

1988 Suzuki Samurai
1995 Honda Civic
1998 Acura TL
2001 Range Rover
* 2003 Range Rover

Street Motorcycles:

1985 Honda Shadow
* 1999 Honda VFR
2000 Honda VFR
2003 Kawasaki KLR 650
2003 Honda CBR600F4i

* are the ones we still have. The 2004 Spyder is for sale. My chronology may be *bit* off as my memory is getting fuzzy on some of these. I'm also fairly certain I'm forgetting at least one. I didn't include vehicles that my businesses have owned or currently own, either (except one truck above that was my personal truck and is now a business vehicle).

Shit, I own too many cars.


--Donnie

OMG!!! I wonder if we're related!!!!1111

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Mike Whitney
whit32@gmail.com, 919-454-5445
V10, V8, V8t, I6, I6, V6, F4t, I4, I4, I4, I4, I2, 1, 1

Whenever you decide to sell that let me know. Ever since my '85 VF700F was stolen, I have lusted after all of the V4 sporty-bikes that Honda makes. Is it red?

Here's my motorcycle list (different tab on my spreadsheet)

Own/d

* 1985 Honda CB700SC Nighthawk
1983 Honda CB550SC Nighthawk
1980 Honda CB650C
1985 Honda VF700F Interceptor
1982 Honda CM450C

Ridden

1980 Honda CB750K
1986 Honda VF500F Interceptor
1978 Honda CB750 Super Sport
1981 Honda CX500 Deluxe
1988 Honda Hawk 650
1986 Honda VFR750 Interceptor
1994 Suzuki RF900F
1981 Kawasaki 440 LTD
1981 Honda CM400
1986 Honda VT700 Shadow

If anyone else wants to get together for a ride this spring, let me know. I'm rusty but I bet I still remember. Need to get the Nighthawk started...

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Mike Whitney
whit32@gmail.com, 919-454-5445
V10, V8, V8t, I6, I6, V6, F4t, I4, I4, I4, I4, I2, 1, 1

Not-so-strangely, the only colors you could get in 1998 and 1999 in the US were red and, err, red. What is strange, though, is mine is *not* red. It started out life red. Then in 2000 they brought yellow to the US as the only color. And I lusted after that and got it. Sold the red bike. On a group ride in the mountains the new owner lowsided at pretty low speed (25MPH maybe) right behind me. It went down a small embankment and hit a tree.

I ended up buying it back intended to make it a track-only bike. That was dumb. My original intent was to get used plastic for it off eBay and have it painted. But I couldn't find a front cowl off eBay, so I bought one from a Canadian dealer (the exhange rates at the time meant buying parts from Canada was a *hell* of a lot cheaper than in the US). Didn't specify a color because I didn't care. It came in this *really* cool blue/green (it sorta changes with the light) that I fell in love with. So I resold all the eBay plastic I had gotten and bought all *new* plastic for it from Canada, including a new tank (the tank was dinged in the crash, too). There was *no* structural damage to the bike at all, but all the instruments were crunched as was the wiring harness. So I put a new harness and new instruments and new plastic on it. Then sold the yellow bike and kept this one.

It has a Zero Gravity Double Bubble windscreen, which rocks. Also has a Corbin saddle, which is a must on that bike. I think it has 7k miles total. What's interesting on those things is the digital dash is really a self contained unit in the front of the bike. The "computer" in the back is just a FI controller and nothing more. So when I swapped for the new gauges I lost my mileage *and* the stupid things were metric. Did some comparing with the old unit and found no jumpers or switches, but did find a chip on each with a different label. Figure that must be what sets it between standard and metric units.

But in looking, the reason I needed a new digital dash was that my LCD was busted. The PCB was *not*, however. And the LCD appeared brain dead easy to swap. So I did. Put my original digital dash back in with the new LCD and it worked perfectly and retained my mileage!

The only thing not "right" is the analog speedo has KPH on the outer ring and MPH on the inner ring, which is backward from what US bikes have. But you get used to that pretty quick.

I have since dropped it mildly on one side in my trailer and scuffed the right side a little, but it would mostly buff out. It probably currently needs a new chain and new tires. But given how little I ride it, I'd definitely sell it if you were interested. Asking $3000. It's had religious oil changes, and I am pretty sure I have another filter or two that would go with it.
Oh, I also have the Datatool Digi gear indicator for it, but it's not installed. I put one on the CBR600F4i that I had and really liked it, just never got around to adding it on this bike.


--Donnie