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1989 Geo Prizm 204,000 miles. Owned since new, so about 16 years.

I've recently (about 2000 miles ago) fallen out of love with it, so I expect it to leave in the next year or so.

Anders

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Lina Racing: As Seen On Radio

How in the H E double hockey sticks did you fall *in* love with it?

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Has no responsibility whatsoever.

18 years old and it was my first car. Lots of adventures in it. Fairly simple.

Anders

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Lina Racing: As Seen On Radio

You must remember a couple things.

Its Anders
Road Rallys
Roll cage
Not enough padding.

That Geo, with four studded snow tires, drove through ridiculous amounts of snow.

I remember one night, at the University of Maine (where the temps got as low as -40F before wind chill) some of the lots were half plowed... So we would drive down the plowed section to get up speed, cut over into the unplowed 10" deep field, and then crash through the snowbank (3 to 3.5 feet high) where we met another plowed section. The car would actually lift (from smushing the snow) to the point where the suspension was at full droop, and then was a couple inches off the ground. This would also involve a rather spectacular foot of snow going _over_ the windshield and roof.

This of course stuffed the front end and radiator entirely full of snow. And since they salt up there, many seasons of this sort of activity caused the radiator to rust out. When I replaced it with the help of my then-girlfriend Beck, this is what it looked like:

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I have owned the current Integra GS-R race car since I bought it new in June of 1995. Making it basically a decade.

It should make its (triumphant?) return to Roebling in a couple of weeks.

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Karl S.
2014 Baby, 2014 House, 2013 Ford Focus ST, 2013 BMW 328i, 1994 Mercedes E320
(Insert passive aggressive signature line here)

That is as sorry an excuse for a radiator as I have ever seen.

I guess in my time at UMO I missed out on that activity as a regular form of entertainment, although sometimes you had to go through similar drifts just to get from point A to B.

Well, hence the overheating, and replacement.

You needed more studded tires. Friggen tiger claws! The night described occured in the lot of the Maine Center for the Arts.

Satalite photo link: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=orono,+me&ll=44.898881,-68.665055&spn=0.005139,0.007918&t=k&hl=en

When were you there, and for what? I left in 1995, electrical engineering.

Cheers!
Anders

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Lina Racing: As Seen On Radio

Anders, I graduated when you were in diapers - Mechanical Engineering.

rick

Oh good! I love learning new words!

Art
Who has owned his ESP Backmarker Special Mustang for 13 years and 1 month.

But if they switched at birth, wouldn't you think they would have switched AWAY from me?

Unfortunately, we will not be at this Rock event. I have a double race at Road Atlanta that takes precedence. And we are iffy for the November Rock event, as that is the weekend before the ARRC.

We will be at Roebling, in the racecar, so that should be quite entertaining!

Sitting in my yard right now:
1976 Chevy Van bought used in 81 so I've owned it for 24years.
1994 Taurus SW bought new in 93 so that's 12 years.
I just never get around to selling my old vehicles after replacing them.
Had a 76 Honda 500 bike I bought and crashed in 1980 until I finally got someone to haul it off last year.
The two oldest vehicles I've owned was a 1936 Chevy I bought in 73 and sold to my brother in 79, and the 1956 Ford Panel truck I currently own but bought only 8 months ago.

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