I've owned a lot of cars

"Tristan" (casselts)
10/04/2016 at 23:12 • Filed to: None

I just remembered I had a photobucket account. Remember photobucket? Something something peppersomething farms. How many cars have I owned? I lost count a long time ago... My best estimation is somewhere around 60. Here’s some pictures of some of them.

‘84 GT with T-tops! It only had around 63,000 miles, but the paint was thoroughly Florida’d.

‘88 GT convertible. I bought it for $700. I got royally hosed. Total POS. What’s that other car?

‘83 Crown Vic. I did a lot of brake and suspension upgrades to this and had planned to build a nice GT-40 headed small block for it. Sadly, I lost interest. I drove it for quite a while with the 130-hp EEC3 CFI 5.0. It was slow, but it looked good!

Not a car! And I still have it. I rode this thing from Minneapolis to New Orleans 10 years ago... Now it gathers dust in my shed.

Also not a car! 1970 Pere Marquette with Volvo B20 Dual Stromberg powah! I learned that boats suck. At least it was pretty.

Another ‘88 GT! I owned this car in high school. I bought it from a traveling sales lady who bought it used with 11,000 miles in 1989- when I got my hands on it there were 425,000 miles on it. Original everything, too. I even knew the mechanic who serviced it for its entire life who verified this. High school me ruined it. This was several years after I had sold it when I had found it sitting in some meth head’s lawn. Nope, he didn’t want to sell it. He was going to fix it up some day, but “the fuel injection went out.” I never saw it again. Bonus: That totally boring 2001 Impala in the background was mine, too. It wasn’t even interesting enough to get its own pic.

Keeping with the Mustang Convertible theme- here’s a 2003 GT. I wanted to love this car so badly... What a miserable, half-assed car. There wasn’t one part on the New Edge Mustangs that Ford gave a single *&%$ about.

.’85 Eagle. I bought it for... reasons. I sold it for better reasons.

‘88 TurboCoupe. With a proper fuel system and FMIC this thing was a hoot.

‘88 Country Squire. Best. College. Car. EVER. Especially with the 12" subs occupying the space where the way-back seats were and the 2" straight pipes.

‘87 Crown Vic Police Package w/351 Windsor. It was the first engine rebuild I ever did. I started restoring the car, but got nowhere. Ended up scrapping it. The engine still resides on the floor of my dad’s shed.

Not a car again! ‘97 Honda Valkyrie. I deeply regret selling this. I had it for about a year and put about 15,000 miles on it.

‘86 CJ-7. Again, wish I still had it. I sold it to fund my Cherokee’s rehabilitation. Should have sold the Cherokee instead. Oh, well.

‘97 Cherokee. Bought it to flip, did way too much work to it, made zero profit.

‘95 Cherokee. It was my baby, and still is. The body succumbed to the tinworm, but the drivetrain was swapped into a rust-free 2wd body. So when I say I’ve owned my XJ for 14 years, I’ve really owned one for 7 years that morphed into another one that I’ve had for 7 years.

‘88 Bronco II. Gutless turd. Kinda cool though, I guess.

‘63.5 Galaxie. It a parts car for another Galaxie that has gone nowhere in 15 years. Also pictured: ‘64 Buick Wildcat, ‘56 Studebaker President and ‘57 Studebaker President. All parts cars. Only the Galaxie and the ‘57 remain.

2007 F-teenthousand. Meh.

Isuzu Pickemup. I got it for free, drove it like I hated it, and sold it for $900.

‘79 Bronco. Lost my ass on this one. I traded a decent ‘79 F-150 Supercab 4x4 for it. Have you ever seen a ‘79 half-ton Supercab with four wheel drive? I have. Once. Stupid me.

‘67 Baja Bug. Bought and sold without ever getting to drive it.

MAH STUDE! Still have...

‘88 Cabby. I lit the dorm parking lot on fire with it because Bosch CIS.

That’s all I’ve got for now. And this doesn’t even scratch the surface of all the shitboxes I’ve owned!

DISCUSSION (24)

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Tristan
10/04/2016 at 23:16

You really like fords. Also that Eagle. Want.

Tristan > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/04/2016 at 23:21

I used to be huge into Fords, but I’m really not biased. I just grew up playing with them and they’re the most familiar to me.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Tristan
10/04/2016 at 23:24

That makes sense.

Spridget > Tristan
10/04/2016 at 23:41

We need pics of the Galaxie, and more of the Stude.

Tristan > Spridget
10/05/2016 at 00:00

SOON! :)

citizennick > Tristan
10/05/2016 at 01:05

I just recently did one of these and pulled pictures from my old photobucket account, too. That place was lit!

Birddog > Tristan
10/05/2016 at 01:07

There has to be something about owning Eagles and Turbo Fords.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Tristan
10/05/2016 at 01:53

I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I’m on number nine right now. Or 11 if you count my Wife’s Cavalier that I drove for like 3 months or her Fit that I like to think of as ours.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Tristan
10/05/2016 at 02:02

I don’t even particularly like wagons, but I’m strangely attracted to that Ford Squire for some reason...

Tristan > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
10/05/2016 at 02:12

It’s on my top 5 favorites list. I’d still have it if it hadn’t completely rusted away.

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Tristan
10/05/2016 at 02:52

I’ve owned 2, and both have been German!

First, my baby, my first car and first love; my (now 360hp) Jetta GLI! I loved it when i bought it, realized FWD sucks, thought about selling it for a used GT stang, got hit, said fuck it, and built it up in to a little monster. still looks stock, but that will change in the following months....

Kinja'd!!!

Secondly, the one car i flipped on my own without doing 50/50 with a buddy, a 1992 BMW 525i. Interior was shit, and none of the windows/sunroof worked, but it drove like a dream. All i did was replace a wheel bearing an oil change, and gave it a really thorough wash/wax, and then sold it for $1050. I bought it for $500, so I effectively doubled my money!

Kinja'd!!!

(the paint is really not $500 car paint at all!

Roundbadge > Tristan
10/05/2016 at 08:03

That Crown Vic is killer...except for the slow part. Looked awesome!

Tristan > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
10/05/2016 at 09:16

$1,050 looks like a killer deal for that 5 series! Nice GLI, too! I almost bought a mark 6 when they came out, but I bought a crappy Focus instead. I don’t always make the best decisions.

Tristan > Roundbadge
10/05/2016 at 09:19

Thanks! I put a lot of love into that one. I wish I would have suck with it, but it started to get a bit rough around the edges after I moved to Florida and had no garage space for it.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Tristan
10/05/2016 at 12:30

Cool collection. Does it need a Montego?

Tristan > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
10/05/2016 at 12:40

I do quite like your Montego, but the collection is going through a bit of a purge right now. I have 2 Miatas that need to go away yesterday.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Tristan
10/05/2016 at 15:30

Haha, sell the Miatas by the Montego.

I’ve always said Montego is always the answer

Tristan > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
10/05/2016 at 16:49

Ugh... Lord knows I’m trying.

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Tristan
10/06/2016 at 02:10

even more killer since i got it for $500 ;)

and yep, it’s pretty damn fun to have a 360hp jetta, it surprises people often!

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Tristan
10/06/2016 at 09:36

torture

http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/cto/5764702769.html

Hahaha

Tristan > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
10/06/2016 at 10:19

NP!

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Tristan
10/06/2016 at 11:35

tell that to people with cash lol

Tristan > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
10/06/2016 at 12:03

Craigslist be like:

“Take a trade? I got a real nice truck. ‘87 Ranger V6 5-speed. It’s a real good truck. The paint isn’t great but it’s a real good truck. It’s always been great for me. It needs an engine-that just blew up, but it’s a real good truck. I took the bed off so it doesn’t have a bed on it right now, but it’s a real good truck.”

Actual phone call I received from a CL buyer... It probably would have continued to spiral down from there, but I hung up on him in the middle of his next sentence.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Tristan
10/06/2016 at 12:27

Ha!

I had a guy trying to push a V8 swapped 92 S10 Pickup on me. I was like - I only want to trade for a fox body.

Well take me truck then trade it for a fox body. I’ve gotten lots of offers of fox bodies.

How about you go trade the truck for a fox body and then trade me the fox body?

no I’m not going to do that you can trade the truck for a fox body after you’ve traded me the Montego.

I ended it with - not going to happen. I’ll only let the Montego go for a vehicle i want. It’s a nice truck but I’m not interested in it. Call one of the guys who offered you a fox body back and set it all up. If you can’t I’m not interested.