Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

JohnInKansas wrote:

Firetrucks should not be yellow and Firebirds should not be (that) green.

All parties involved deserved this. Even the baby.

Curmudgeon wrote: Tell me again why Mazda has never produced this. It might make me reconsider my penchant for never buying a new car.

JohnInKansas wrote:

I would probably cry myself to sleep.

Then be on Craigslist the next morning.

Simple and Elegant

Triumph Spitfire

Gasoline wrote:

May I have my Escort in a Mk1 version with flares? Please?

Only if I can have:

In reply to P Heller:

Of Course! Hey, it's the interwebz:

PHeller wrote: Only if I can have:

I have one of those. I got it on closeout for 50¢.if only I could fit inside and it had a real engine.

Maple bacon cake!!

DoctorBlade wrote: Simple and Elegant

AMERICA, F@*% YEAH!

http://www.speedhunters.com/2012/10/gmc-scyclone-feature/

They hired this shiny happy person's family in droves at Sam's Club.

oldtin wrote: The old tech - just go with brute force. Auto Union C type (I think) - hillclimb version with supercharged v16 and Hans Stuck. Somewhere around 520hp

You don't think there was a lot of tech involved there? Including aero...

RexSeven wrote: AMERICA, F@*% YEAH!

I've seen this truck at one of our local SCCA PDX/CT/TT events. It is impressively quick on the track.

HAH

DoctorBlade wrote: Simple and Elegant

Gotta build me another one, dammit. Enjoy, Toyman!

Gasoline wrote: Triumph Spitfire

Er... close. Actually Mk II GT6.

“What’s it sound like on the starting line at Bonneville? It’s like the gods crapping lightning.”

A sampling of some of the cars I've owned in the past 25+ years. These are all actual pictures of my actual cars taken when I owned them.

My first car, a 77 Mercury Cougar XR7. In the background, dad's 85 Dodge Van in which I passed my driver's test, and Mom's Burnt Orange 83 Tercel in which I learned to drive a manual:

After I drove the Cougar into a Buick Riviera by not paying attention, it was replaced with a $400 '77 Granada for a while:

After finishing up high school with a 1980 Dodge Colt (twin stick!), my first college ride was this 85 Honda Accord hatch:

I then inherited Mom's 86 Prelude Si, which I loved even though it was a slushbox.

My first new car was a 93 SHO, which oddly enough, I can't find any pics of. Right around this time, I got married and we bought my wife this 94 Escort LX, which I, of course, drag raced:

SHO and Escort were then replaced with a 94 Ranger and a 95 Mustang GT:

Then the Mustang gave way to a 97 Contour SE, the first car I ever autocrossed:

Then I picked up an 89 Mustang, the first car I ever did serious wrenching on. Here I am looking very spiffy at some late 90s autocross:

One of my favorite vehicles was this 99 F-150. I sold it to my neighbor, he still has it today:

Huh. My 1977 Merc Cougar was this color, but almost identical to your ride. We nicknamed it the Klingon Battlecrusier. One car I really miss, mostly for the ride.