"Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius" (rex-imperator) 03/31/2014 at 19:27 • Filed to: None

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When I bought my 1987 TSi back in 1993, it wasn't this clean. It certainly wasn't this shiny. Wow.

http://bringatrailer.com/2014/03/28/cle…

jkm7680 > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 03/31/2014 at 19:34

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Nice, Love those. That's a really clean example. A low mileage example showed up on Richmond Craigslist a while back, 67,000 miles for only 6 grand.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > jkm7680 03/31/2014 at 19:37

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That would have been mine for $6K. The only one near here has two grainy pictures and 47 paragraphs about what the current owners wished you to believe what he did to the non-running, faded, rusty car... for $3500. Rare does not mean valuable.

jkm7680 > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 03/31/2014 at 19:39

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Here is the link to the post I had up, No screenshot though.

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/chrysler-conqu…

McMike > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 03/31/2014 at 20:00

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I had an '86 Tsi for 12 hours back in the summer of '89.

I went back and got the 30 day plates and all my cassette tapes in the woods when I got out of the hospital.

Such nice, much fast, wow louvers, oops rwd.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > McMike 03/31/2014 at 20:10

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I was in college and deciding if I should buy tires or pay for 6 months of insurance. Bought insurance. Kissed the median in the pouring rain.

McMike > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 03/31/2014 at 20:13

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Medians > Trees

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > McMike 03/31/2014 at 20:46

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geeeze.Glad you're still among us.

Cassette tapes. Good one. I remember those. I remember coveting the Stealth/3000GT for having CD head units that used the same steering wheel controls as our cars. Except a OEM CD head unit at the time was 1/3 of the price I paid for the entire car.

Are the auto stranglers the reason to didn't find yourself on the mountain side?

McMike > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 03/31/2014 at 21:10

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The car I had was fitted with door mounted seat belts. Odd, but normal once the door was closed.

I was pretty lucky. Aside from being beat up, I only broke both hands when the a-pillar came in and broke the steering wheel. I actually got out the open door and walked to a nearby house and knocked on the door. (so I'm told)

I found the definition of full opposite lock that night. I also learned that sometimes there just isn't enough.

Every time I hear about some young kid (new to RWD) wrapping a BRZ around a telephone pule shortly after delivery, I think to myself.. "Yup, sounds about right."

#BRZ'd

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > McMike 04/01/2014 at 06:10

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Huh. So they 86 had door mounted belts. My 1987 had the motorized belts. I think I would have liked the manual belt a lot better.

My mom's Cougar (keep your jokes to yourself) had motorized belts, but you could unclip them from the top if you chose. My Mitsu did not disconnect which for the most part was no big thang, except when you're spending Sunday trying to clean the interior and this THING is always in the way.

McMike > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 04/01/2014 at 07:37

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I'm glad we decided on the airbag, because it it a LOT better idea than that motorized belt.

Jesus, what a bad idea that was. Just about every time I got out of a car fitted with them, the damn thing caught be by the neck and I ended up trapped with my head/neck up against the a-pillar.

Not to mention that if they break - you're without seat belts and can't really drive your car. A neighbor of mine still daily drives a Topaz to work every day. Thing has to have 300K miles on it. He was sidelined for a month because the motorized belt broke.

Not to mention the number of people I knew that didn't wear their lap belt because they thought the shoulder belt was enough.