The F-150 was the tow/support vehicle for my first and only (so far) actual race car, an ITC 1980 Ford Fiesta. Being wrenched on here, as usual:
After I wrecked that, I moved back into autocross with an 84 RX-7. This was circa 2000, at a Chrysler lot somewhere, with Adrian Thompson at the wheel:
I decided I missed V8 power, so I had a brief fling with this 95 Z28, the only GM product I've owned:
I returned to my roots with my second 89 Fox body, "Old Smokey" so named for the smoke produced by it's original engine and it's color. I swapped that engine out for an Exploder 5.0, did a 5-lug swap on it, and generally flogged it for 5 years. Good car, lots of fun:
I was still dailying the 99 F-150, and gas was up over $2 a gallon (horror!), so I decided to pick up a beater to save gas with. 87 Accord LXi:
After selling the Mustang in 2007, I tried out an 86 944 Turbo for a while. Fun, but fragile and expensive:
Then I bought my first BMW, an 05 E46 330i with the ZHP package:
The E46 carried a pretty hefty payment, so I dumped it after a year or so. At that point, I decided that the answer was Miata:
But, alas, for me it wasn't. So I moved on to a 98 M3. Had it for a year and a half, this is the day the seller came to pick it up. In the background, you can see my current E30 on the trailer. And we are up to date!
Automotive ADD? I have no idea what you're talking about.
Welcome to Costco,
Tom Spangler, why go from E36 M3 to E30? I'd think the M3 would be everything the E30 would be after lots of work.
I'll be losing my job soon because of a union seniority bump.
Never knew one of the Hansons learned to pitch.
Streetwiseguy wrote: Never knew opne of the Hansons learned to pitch.
And rock!
My Game, off the album "My Game"...
Appleseed wrote: They hired this shiny happy person's family in droves at Sam's Club.
And Costco, Lowes, HomeDepot, WalMart, ect., ect.
All those unskilled forklift operating nitwits have provided me with years of employment. Three cheers for Dangerous Dick and his forklift crashing friends!
Keith Tanner wrote: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 520hpYou don't think there was a lot of tech involved there? Including aero...
No doubt there is plenty of 1930s tech stuffed in there - 1600 lbs, with a streamliner version hitting 236 mph. Compared to 2012...
Ahh the memories, I know many of your cars.
Tom_Spangler wrote:But I have absolutley no memory of this one. When was this?I was still dailying the 99 F-150, and gas was up over $2 a gallon (horror!), so I decided to pick up a beater to save gas with. 87 Accord LXi:
Tom_Spangler wrote: After selling the Mustang in 2007, I tried out an 86 944 Turbo for a while. Fun, but fragile and expensive:
OK guys, Tom made the fatal mistake of refering to his 951 as 'Der Panzer', which I imidiatly changed to 'Der Pansey'. I then up a false Michigan licence plate saying 'PANSEY' and taped it over the real one one day. Just by luck that was the day he brought his buddies out at lunch time to see the car 
Adrian_Thompson wrote: Ahh the memories, I know many of your cars.Tom_Spangler wrote: I was still dailying the 99 F-150, and gas was up over $2 a gallon (horror!), so I decided to pick up a beater to save gas with. 87 Accord LXi:But I have absolutley no memory of this one. When was this?Tom_Spangler wrote: After selling the Mustang in 2007, I tried out an 86 944 Turbo for a while. Fun, but fragile and expensive:OK guys, Tom made the fatal mistake of refering to his 951 as 'Der Panzer', which I imidiatly changed to 'Der Pansey'. I then up a false Michigan licence plate saying 'PANSEY' and taped it over the real one one day. Just by luck that was the day he brought his buddies out at lunch time to see the car
I can't help but think...
What did he do to you afterwards?
Adrian_Thompson wrote: Ahh the memories, I know many of your cars.Tom_Spangler wrote: I was still dailying the 99 F-150, and gas was up over $2 a gallon (horror!), so I decided to pick up a beater to save gas with. 87 Accord LXi:But I have absolutley no memory of this one. When was this?
Such is the nature of the Honda Accord. They do not engender strong feelings. Or even memories.
Although I do have fond memories of one of these. It's what my high school girlfriend drove so it's not the car per se that I remember...
Keith Tanner wrote: Such is the nature of the Honda Accord. They do not engender strong feelings. Or even memories.
Clearly they don't. You didn't even notice that I also had one just like that in an earlier post.
Adrian_Thompson wrote: OK guys, Tom made the fatal mistake of refering to his 951 as 'Der Panzer', which I imidiatly changed to 'Der Pansey'. I then up a false Michigan licence plate saying 'PANSEY' and taped it over the real one one day. Just by luck that was the day he brought his buddies out at lunch time to see the car
I did no such thing, you named it, sir. And if I still had access to my Ford emails I could prove it. You are much more of a car-namer than I am, I think it's a British thing. Plus, I tend not to keep them long enough to grow attached. 
But yes, the plate thing was funny, I think I still have it, actually. And I think it was in response to me making fun of the chicken-wire grill in his Contour SVT.
People wonder why the other thread exists.
Men: We really are base creatures.
Fail
DukeOfUndersteer wrote:
Hilarious. Stupid people putting stupid crap on FB and becoming angry when their "facts" are completely untrue and they are simply pointed out to them. If you don't want to be proven wrong, don't open your mouth (that includes posting online).
This of course has nothing to do with her exclamation of how "great" her particular deity is, but in fact only focusing on the pure scientific facts of the matter.
Speaking of wrong:
It is a Prius "Tote"
In my universe this would be the neighborhood
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