![]() 05/23/2018 at 18:53 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
So, I was greatly inspired by Tristan driving his sweet Studebaker on the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! I know a few of us have older projects/classics/heaps in the Northern PNW and thought that it would be cool to have a drive someday. What do people think?
If I had to pick a location, I’d probably choose Samish Island, Edison, La Connor area. Quiet and cool in the summer. Plus, there is no way I am taking my truck on the I-5.
Here are a few that I could think of within a couple hundred miles (that run/drive):
CarsofFortLangley’s D100
Fintail’s....Fintail
StudyStudyStudy’s Datsun
GMcTavish’s Raider
Zoidberg’s Toyota Pickup
AestheticsInMotion’s Miata
NKato’s Police Interceptor
![]() 05/23/2018 at 19:01 |
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My schedule has already become busy for this dry season, but it’s interesting. I suppose my 22 year old BMW qualifies.
![]() 05/23/2018 at 19:03 |
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^Decay calculating exactly how much extra oil he’d have to bring to get the $200 Miata up there and back...
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Yeah, summer’s busy. Your BMW would 100% qualify!
![]() 05/23/2018 at 19:11 |
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All of my cars are project beaters... Unfortunately, my summer is now consumed by house projects between the house we’re buying, the house we’re selling and the house we own in Florida that has shitty renters I’m trying to evict.
And I just realized my number of project houses is equal to my number of project cars... Ouch.
![]() 05/23/2018 at 20:01 |
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I support this! Hopefully I’ll be acquiring a clunker truck soon that could join in.
The logistics might be difficult, since I’d not drive whatever I buy on the highway either, which makes Samish Island an 8-hour drive for me (Portland area) and this outing a full-weekend event.
![]() 05/23/2018 at 20:32 |
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My chance to be the fastest car!
*intentionally ignores Datsun (2j)Z*
![]() 05/23/2018 at 20:33 |
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If I go on 5, I like to stay in the 60 zones or have a secondary road as an alternative.
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Is the Miata faster than the crown Vic?
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And I thought three project CARS were bad. Damn.
![]() 05/23/2018 at 21:01 |
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In the corners
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Oil is cheap - it’s the roadside towing that’ll get ya
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Does my 2001 E55 count for this?
![]() 05/23/2018 at 21:12 |
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Not if my 55 qualifies!
![]() 05/23/2018 at 21:13 |
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People who have AAA and don’t use it have been subsidizing my beater addiction for years!
![]() 05/23/2018 at 21:18 |
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Best for me is likely after August, which would still technically be summer-ish...
![]() 05/23/2018 at 21:26 |
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I’m depressed. I no longer have my old car and have nowhere for a proper project car. :(
![]() 05/23/2018 at 21:39 |
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Sure!
![]() 05/23/2018 at 21:40 |
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Yeah, I think that’s best for me too. I think a september drive would be kinda nice!
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I know how it feels, I don’t either. The truck lives at my parents.
![]() 05/23/2018 at 21:42 |
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I demand a drag race
![]() 05/23/2018 at 21:56 |
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You could still come though! I wasn’t planning on making this a big thing like the cruise. More lunch, beer show and shine type deal
![]() 05/23/2018 at 22:15 |
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Get outta here! Shoo!
![]() 05/23/2018 at 22:16 |
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*cue multitude of broken parts*
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So does “clunker cruise” just mean “bring your worse car”? Because I know my C63 doesn’t qualify, but that just affords me an opportunity to fulfill my longtime threat to bring my high-mileage, wet-dog-smelling 4Runner to an Oppo meet. Or do I have to go out and buy some kind of interesting old thing like the cool vehicles depicted above?
![]() 05/24/2018 at 01:52 |
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Surely too nice for anything with the word “clunker” in it, but also you should bring it anyway.
![]() 05/24/2018 at 01:57 |
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I feel excluded and that hurts my feelings!
![]() 05/24/2018 at 02:00 |
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Well the sway bar end links are just beginning to wear so if you listen real close with the windows up and radio off, you might hear a bit of a clunk over the right bumps!
![]() 05/24/2018 at 06:19 |
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And I come to realize that I’ve never owned a car that could really be called this. Even if fairly old, I always maintained them, so they never suffer from the long-term neglect necessary to transition.
I was looking for a suitable ride on CL (probably couldn’t get a real heap roadworthy in this time, even if I had the time) or Turo (found a couple potentials, but you can’t search by terms like “tetanus”).
If I still lived near my parents, they have like an entire junkyard worth of old cars I could get into marginal shape for this, but I’d never trust one for a drive this far even after getting them running...
![]() 05/24/2018 at 06:34 |
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If this is the plan, maybe my wife will let me take her car. I’m on the title and it is the “worst car” we own. I just don’t know how well that would go over with her if I admitted why I was taking her car, especially since she already wants a new one.
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I think the 4Runner counts! I didn’t exactly have a set criteria for this. I more just wanted to have another PNW meet (smaller/less of a cruise maybe) where people could bring a different car.