Mementos

"Agrajag" (Agrajag) 12/08/2013 at 11:12 • Filed to: suburban

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Does anyone else keep a memento from a fallen vehicle? My 1975 Suburban was one of my favorites. Picked it up for $250 and all it needed was fuel pump. Ran fine for about 6 years until I hadn't noticed the drop in oil pressure and kablooie. I kept this tag and a hubcap from it. What have you kept from previous vehicles?

Dubblewhopper > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 11:18

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For some odd reason I used to keep the owners manual from my previous cars. I even had a 1978 Chevy Chevette (which was my 1st car) owner's manual.

Eazy-O > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 11:19

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The driver's seat, front emblem and front side window wind deflectors, along with the registration papers from the family Škoda Favorit...

Here we are together, circa 2005:

I miss you, Darlene... *sigh*

Ian Duer (320b) > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 11:19

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In a drawer I kept a key chain that has the ignition key from every vehicle I've owned which met an untimely end. Used to have the hood ornament from my first vehicle but both things got lost in a move. Hopefully there is a box somewhere that I've merely forgotten to unpack.

Agrajag > Eazy-O 12/08/2013 at 11:29

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Nice. I kept the driver's seat from my first car, a Pontiac Grandam, and used that for racing wheel setup for video games. Logitech wheel broke, so I got rid of both as it took up to much room at the time.

Agrajag > Ian Duer (320b) 12/08/2013 at 11:31

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Hopefully. The only hood ornament I kept was from an 1986 Ramcharger.

(not mine pictured, but identical)

Agrajag > Dubblewhopper 12/08/2013 at 11:33

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Sadly the only car I had that had the manual is the only one that didn't die an untimely death, so it went to the new owner. I do still have the Haynes/Chilton's books for some of them.

Orange Exige > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 11:33

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Funny you say this because just last Sunday I sold my first car that I had for a year (87 MR2) and I decided to keep the little registration receipt (I think that's what it is) and hang it up on my door at school with other random stuff.

I also have way too many parts from it but I'm not keeping them as mementos lol.
I've been waiting to scrap an old radiator, A/C compressor, condensor, and starter but I haven't got around to it...

GTCL > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 11:33

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I've got the license plate from my CRX. I think I have the owners manual too. I still have a few parts from the GTI, but that's just because I haven't cleaned out the garage in a while.

Jay Lewis > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 11:51

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The last car my grandfather bought was a (new) 1990 Pontiac 6000 LE.

After it tried killing me (frame rusted through as I pulled up to a stop sign which was just after barreling through a twisty back-road at 80kph), it sat for about a year. I couldn't send "my grand father" to the crusher.

Finally, it just had to go after 23 years of service. I pried all the badges off of it, saved the manual and took out the No Smoking sign my grandfather had stuck on the dash (he died of lung cancer). My brother has had a son, so I gave our father the #1 Grandpa keychain my grandfather always used. I even keep an ignition key on my keychain. Loved him & loved that car.

cazzyodo > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 12:10

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These are actually on my bedside table. If you're not familiar with my nostalgic posts it was a '99 f-150.

505Turbeaux > Dubblewhopper 12/08/2013 at 12:50

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I used to do this until owners manual karma caught up with me, and I didnt get a manual on like 5 cars in a row. Now I am all good with it and I get the owners manual, and usually a bentley or a haynes to boot :)

Ian Duer (320b) > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 13:05

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That's better than my first vehicle. It was a Plymouth Voyager. Then again I didn't get bitten by the gearhead bug till my third vehicle. Besides there't lots of "stuff" a teenager can do with a minivan lol.

Ian Duer (320b) > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 15:20

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I just noticed your username. You wouldn't happen to have a grudge against Englishmen in bathrobes who carry a towel everywhere would you?

Agrajag > Ian Duer (320b) 12/08/2013 at 15:32

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Calling it a "grudge" would be making light of the situation. It is a hatred so deep there are no words for it.

Ian Duer (320b) > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 15:35

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You make it sound like he killed you or something.... More than once... Which doesn't sound possible.

Agrajag > Ian Duer (320b) 12/08/2013 at 15:44

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This reveal in the book was one of the funniest things I've ever experienced. My brother read this section while on a plane, and was laughing uncontrollably to the point of tears.

Ian Duer (320b) > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 15:52

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Yeah sort of a Chekhov's armory condensed into one moment.

Slave2anMG > Agrajag 12/08/2013 at 16:13

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I have the rear 'Peugeot' badge off my 504 Diesel Wagon, an OEM ignition key from my '77 280Z, and a couple of other bits and bobs. Sentimental fool that I am...

Dubblewhopper > 505Turbeaux 12/08/2013 at 17:19

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When I purchased my Z, it came with 2 books,Chilton's and a Haynes.