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Replying to: fezo (Jan 20, 2009 6:57 pm) Well, It will be nine years old by the time he heads out. It's also pretty safe and it packs less than 200 hp. And that's important; remember, my kid is the one who says, "C'mon Dad, he's not that fast- you can take him!" whenever some punk pulls up beside the MS3 and guns the engine. |
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I'm probably a year-and-a-half, at least... from having to do this... I figure the car my son will get.. is currently getting the crap beat out of it by some other high school kid... but, even that might be too good for him... 
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Replying to: kyfdx (Jan 21, 2009 11:11 am)  The first two years of college I walked and used the campus buses. This was at Rutgers which has a good sized campus. My senior year i had a 62 Chevy panel truck. rb - true enough. I would suspect that even a 9 year old X3 would have more of a cool factor than the Tempest ever had on its best day.
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Replying to: fezo (Jan 21, 2009 11:34 am) I don't think this guy is for sale:  link
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Replying to: fezo (Jan 21, 2009 11:34 am) Tell the truth, I think HS & college students had a lot more fun in the '60's & early 70's...... |
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Replying to: woodyww (Jan 21, 2009 12:19 pm) The Tempest was on its second engine by the time I had it that year. That one held up until we sold it with maybe 120K on it. The panel truck was amusing. Just had the old flathead 6 in it so it was plenty slow. Three on the tree. My dad had bought it for delivery for his business on the odd occasion that an Impala wasn't big enough. Almost immediately he decided the Tempest would suit him more and I got the truck. Can' complain. The price was right. It actually was dependable for me. After that dad joined the transmission of the month club with it.
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Replying to: fezo (Jan 21, 2009 12:32 pm) I went to Stony Brook, on L.I., when I had the '68 Charger. By then, I actually treated my (3rd) car very well, but it was so so unreliable in sometimes bizarre ways that my room-mates dubbed it the "Ghost Car". A few years later, I managed to get a new '73 V6 4sp Mercury Capri (European Ford). Actually one of the best cars I've ever owned, & by then I was obsessively doing tune-ups myself, oil changes, bought a timing light, etc. But I think buying a "disposable car" for an 18 y.o. could be a very good idea.....
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Replying to: woodyww (Jan 22, 2009 11:18 am) |
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One of my college roommates had a '76 Mercury Capri. Same here ... though his may have been a '77 .. I do know it was the second generation, not the first one that was available around 1971 or so. This was around '83 / '84. I was driving a '79 Sunbird at the time, and his car was positively luxurious compared to mine. Then, the Sunbird got totaled and I bought the aforementioned Olds Omega, which I drove for only a few months before graduating. My buddy with the Capri traded it in on a Mazda B-series pickup just before graduation. |
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