buzz wrote: 
Never want to drive my 68 Opal Kadett again. 4 cylinders, 3 of which sort of worked. Sewing machines had more power than that thing.

 oldviolin wrote: 
not right now, but thanks for asking.

 FourFortyEight wrote:

 

The Road Runner went pretty good for an old car.  I only drove it a few miles - got the tires loose when the secondaries opened up in 3rd gear, at probably 80 mph, and barked 'em going into 4th at probably a bit more than that.  That was probably quite enough for a car with no seatbelts and an alignment we did by eye, at night.  It got sold a few days later to fund a race car.  As the owner said, "I couldn't wait to get this thing built, but now I can't wait to get this thing gone.  It's not a race car, and it won't tow a race car to the track, so $#%k it - who needs it?"

I borrowed an SRT-8 with the 6.1 liter / 6MT for a day.  That was a good day, car-wise.  The dealer who loaned it to me said "Drive it like it's yours."  The 5-year-old son I mentioned below was, at the time, a 15-year-old with a learner's permit, and he had been driving a manual-transmission Miata since he could reach the clutch pedal.  (The previous year, at age 14, he had driven the Miata on a racetrack.)  I asked the guy, " 'drive it like it's mine' means my kid will be driving it, is that okay?"  I was assured that was no problem.  You can find a couple of applicable Youtube video clips by searching for my user name and "SRT-8." 

That car was its own 4th of July parade wherever it went, and its own car show wherever it stopped.  Rolling up through carpool in a black SRT-8, with the obviously-a-manual-transmission kind of sounds it makes in a carpool line, was probably a pretty cool high school moment.  You can't even properly soundtrack such a moment with the car stereo, because you'd have to pick either "Back In Black" or "Hell's Bells" or "Highway Star" or one of several ZZ Top songs, and it's really best to let the exhaust sort of imply eight or nine such songs at once.   

My wife refused to even ride in it - she hates "gas guzzlers," and anything meant to be faster than her Forester qualifies as a "gas guzzler" even if it gets better fuel economy than her Forester.  The SRT-8 did NOT get better fuel economy than a Forester, but it's a pretty sweet mile-eater on all other fronts and I LOVE everything else about them.

 Bill_Rockoff wrote: 
'69?

 Bill_Rockoff wrote: 
That's a sweet ride - cool color.  I wonder who first started using those almost-flourescent colors.  It seems like it would have been Chrysler or AMC.

 Bill_Rockoff wrote: 
Understandable.  I drive a new Challenger.  Chicks don't care much for it either from what I've gathered.  It attracts more guys than girls. 
Sounds familiar.

What you've got right there, though, is a bad-ass. 

Funny, when I got to drive this Road Runner (the Coronet's snotty brother) it was the *most* expensive car I had ever driven, aside from cars that my parents were leasing. 

This is a 440/6-pack, 4-speed, matching numbers, Dana axle, no air conditioning.  I spent a summer wire-brushing and repainting the bolts holding this car together, because new bolts have different markings and would be obviously "not original."  The friend who owned it moved to my house with this car partly in boxes.  Not long after this photo, it was ready to be driven on the road for the first time in 20+ years. 

My 5-year-old son thought it was awesome, but it would have been tragi-comic to have "driven this car for dating mah girl."  For most of the women I have ever dated, this car would have been "Girl Repellent." 

 Proclivities wrote: 
That Wiamea is awesome. It lost a little luster when I realized I was looking at it backward and it doesn't have a 'bus' style steering wheel (that's the rear turn / break signal). It's still something I'd cruise down to the dog park it. 

 DaveInVA wrote: 
Nice, especially with that two-tone.

Speaking of old AMC's I'd take this over a Pacer or Gremlin any day...
 

 DaveInVA wrote: 
Yeah. Those whitewalls.

 Proclivities wrote: 
They likely put up the closed sign when they saw her drive up.

 DaveInVA wrote: 
That picture looks better anyhow, maybe because of the happy driver.  She's smiling even though the gas station she's pulled up to is closed.

 Proclivities wrote: 
I replaced the image....

Ah, yes, the Pacer.  I can see the image, but something about it will not allow a reply. 
* Hmm: The image URL is four pages long in MS Word, and does not end in a "JPG" or other image file type.  It starts with a 'base64' prefix.

 Proclivities wrote: 
i drove a Datsun 310 GX to date my girl Jrzy. worked out ok. 

 Proclivities wrote: 
I'd rather have the pregnant version of it -


 

 sirdroseph wrote: 
A friend of mine had one for about fifteen years.