TJ Trade Rumor Surfaces.....

[GregCook]

The sweetest and tightest honey pie ever offered to an American boy was.....the 1983 VW GTI Rabbit. It left all that Motown trash wheezing in the rear.

The ugliest car clearly was the AMC Pacer...pork chop ugly.

[BengalszoneBilly]

The sweetest and tightest honey pie ever offered to an American boy was.....the 1983 VW GTI Rabbit. It left all that Motown trash wheezing in the rear.

Not my 302 packing Mustang,

nor any 350 packing Camaro.

VeeDubs get slaughtered against American Iron. If you want to bring a German cars that can compete, make it a Porche, but be prepared to pay double for it.

[Ickey44]

My fist car was a busted-ass '86 Sable. That thing was a POS. Had front-end damage and needed a bungee cord to hold down the hood. The funniest thing was that I got pulled over in that thing on 75 and a Boone Co sheriff accused me of going over 100 in that thing and ended up giving me a ticket for 90, totally disregarding my pleas to actually look at the car and see that it would've fallen apart if it ever got up that fast....

[GregCook]

The sweetest and tightest honey pie ever offered to an American boy was.....the 1983 VW GTI Rabbit. It left all that Motown trash wheezing in the rear.

Not my 302 packing Mustang,

nor any 350 packing Camaro.

VeeDubs get slaughtered against American Iron. If you want to bring a German cars that can compete, make it a Porche, but be prepared to pay double for it.

I don't know about that. I ambushed quite a few big iron domestics...of course it was made in America too. 0-60 in under 7 seconds. Big wide tires that never lost grip on the twisties. Big fat power curve from each gear.

Cheap car too. 150K miles from my first car. It might take your 302 Mustang but definitely not your Camero.

[gregstephens]

The sweetest and tightest honey pie ever offered to an American boy was.....the 1983 VW GTI Rabbit. It left all that Motown trash wheezing in the rear.

Not my 302 packing Mustang,

nor any 350 packing Camaro.

VeeDubs get slaughtered against American Iron. If you want to bring a German cars that can compete, make it a Porche, but be prepared to pay double for it.

I don't know about that. I ambushed quite a few big iron domestics...of course it was made in America too. 0-60 in under 7 seconds. Big wide tires that never lost grip on the twisties. Big fat power curve from each gear.

Cheap car too. 150K miles from my first car. It might take your 302 Mustang but definitely not your Camero.

The 1969 Camaro is on my pedestal of automotive idol worship. That Z in your pic had the high-po 302, which had about 60 more horse than the standard 350. In fact, the monster V8 of the Camaro clan was the 396 found in most SS models, unless you got the Yenko 427 special. The 350 wasn't a racer, per se, but the 302, 396 and 427s rocked the drag strips.

[preyer]

when wife and i were dating we would race to work, i in my '94 mustang GT convertible, her in her '94 camaro with the corvette LT1. needless to say she killed me in short distances, but i would always pass her at about 105 and wave because her car had a governor. talk about one pissed off woman. (i've had a '66 289 convertible, a '73 302 convertible, the one mentioned, and another '94 i pre-ordered in '93, tho it was just a plain-jane six banger. heh heh, i remember i had enough to either buy the anti-lock brakes or the mach 460 sound system. let's just say i was lucky i never had to come to any hard stops.)

my first car was a '72 buick lesabre landboat. i think it originally had a sail and oars for the galley slaves when the wind wasn't up. it had a 455 cu. in. engine. back in '88 when i got it, i put five bucks in gas in it every day and that was just to get me up the hill to work and back, maybe ten miles round trip.

amongst the many, many cars i've had, i had a '70 porsche 911. the interesting thing was the guy selling it avered that the original owner was a lineman for the bengals and had signed the blaupunkt radio (removed from the car but it came with it) for some reason. i found it a dubious selling point at best, but i wish i could remember the guy's name. (funny, too, that the first owner, a lineman no less, bought it in 1970, no?)

i couldn't begin to list all the cars i've had. at one point i couldn't buy any more without having to get a dealership license.

my buddy's escort had a great dashboard for, ah, rolling your own smoking material. i think that was one reason why he liked the car so much.

[COB]

My first vehicle was a 1971 Ford truck. It had some old stepside bed on it that rattled like hell when the truck was in motion. It had been a gas company truck, and the guy I bought it from had taken the utility bed off and put on the old stepside bed. He also painted the truck red, and spray painted the interior with some cheap black spray paint. Every time something dragged across the dash or doors, it scraped away the black and revealed the strange orange that Columbia Gas painted all their vehicles in the 70s. By the time I got rid of it, that interior looked like a Jackson Pollock reject. I got pulled over in it once, and upon seeing many patches of fabric showing on the tires (which I bought for five bucks apiece at a junkyard) the cop about freaked out. He went ballistic yelling at me about how I could get killed driving on those tires. He gave me a warning and said if he saw it on the road again with those tires, he'd impound it and arrest me. Back to the junkyard for some more five dollar tires.

The funny thing is, that truck was only 8 years old when I bought it in 1979. But by then it was a ragged out, rusted piece of crap. Nowadays cars are so much better that an 8-year-old car or truck is usually still in pretty good shape.

[COB]

As for my first car...well, it was a beat-up VW Microbus. Wasn't everyone's?

My parents had one when I was a little kid. I used to stand behind the driver's seat and hold onto the handle mounted on the back of the seat. On Sunday on the way to church we went through a big puddle and that bus was so rusted that my church pants got seriously splashed with mud and water. My mom gave my dad the glare of death pretty much the rest of the day. We laugh about that one to this day.

[ArmyBengal]

My first car was a 1976 Cutlass Supreme. Black on black with a 350 Rocket under the hood. I loved that car, but one night in a Thriftway parking lot, I thought it would be cool to do a neutral blast and blew the transimission into pieces ruining my engine at the same time. After that I was reduced to a mid 80's Cavalier. Things were never the same...

Oh yeah, TJ is pretty good...

[BengalszoneBilly]

All these auto lovers, yet few post in the Nascar/Autosports forum. Kinda weird...

[gregstephens]

My first car was a 1976 Cutlass Supreme. Black on black with a 350 Rocket under the hood. I loved that car, but one night in a Thriftway parking lot, I thought it would be cool to do a neutral blast and blew the transimission into pieces ruining my engine at the same time. After that I was reduced to a mid 80's Cavalier. Things were never the same...

Oh yeah, TJ is pretty good...

I had a similar experience...sort of. This guy I used to work with in high school wanted to drag race his 1967 Cougar against my 1978 Grand Prix (yeah, right) behind the KMart we worked at. We take off and he's about a hundred yards ahead of me when I see the big dip coming. I stop...he didn't. Cracked his oil case when he bottomed on it. He won, but I laughed my tail off for a month.

Oh yeah, TJ isn't irreplaceable, however.

[gregstephens]

All these auto lovers, yet few post in the Nascar/Autosports forum. Kinda weird...

It is funny how this took on a life of its own, isn't it?? I'd close it, but there's nothing going on with the team and we're having so much fun reminiscing about our piece of crap cars.

[preyer]

oh, yeah, it's pronounced poor-shuh, NOT poor-sh. it drives me crazy when i'm watching tv or a movie and the car owner himself mispronounces the name of his own car! as if the salesguy wouldn't correct his ignorant ass....

my first car bit the dust at a jimmy page concert at hara arena in dayton. my buddy and i had, in the course of the night, become, ah, dazed and confused. then my transmission went out. oh, i still drove it home, somehow, but i really should have gone to jail that night. i sold it not long after that.

agreed, tj isn't irreplaceable. his numbers look good because he's getting the ball thrown to him more, as per usual, eh? i've not looked at any stats on this. i think 85's #'s are down simply because palmer can't get him the deep ball. so, for right now, tj's stock is higher ~ don't they run different routes? tj will cut across field and risk the big hit closer to the line as opposed to 85 cutting across field a bit deeper. unless palmer's elbow or shoulder is feeling fine, i wouldn't look to henry as being that serious of a threat being another deep ball guy. another plus for tj is he's got good hands, better than henry's, right?

[gregstephens]

I don't know who changed the subheading on this thread title...but that was classic.

[GregCook]

I had so much fun with a sub 7 second first car, that my second ride was a Honda 650 Silver Wing. The only time I really got beat bad off the traffic light was against a monster Porsche, 911. He almost killed me with a nasty swerve too...what a prick.

Then I got married, and lost the speed toys.

Anyone swear by a Harley? BMW bike?

[jjakq27]

I don't know who changed the subheading on this thread title...but that was classic.

I dunno either..... :angel:

[Wraith]

My First Car was a 1972 Ford LTD Convertible (Red with White Pleather Interior) 351 Winsdor an absolute BOAT!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...v%3D2%26hl%3Den

Second Car 1974 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon (Black though started life Yellow I think) 455 Rocket ran 13.1 in the 1/4 at Edgewater. Loved that car but ran it into the back of a pickup truck going 55 MPH on Hwy 50 in Lawrenceburg after falling asleep at the wheel coming home from a double shift at Merries Grocery Store in Aurora, Indiana, 2 weeks before leaving for my freshman year at IU-Bloomington

http://memimage.cardomain.com/member_image...9/2238921_2.jpg

My 2 Favs as an adult:

1992 Subaru SVX (Green with Grey Leather/Swede) 3.3 H-6 normally aspirated not a super fast car but felt like it was riding on rails around a corner (with good tires) partially because of the handling and partially because it sat so low to the ground (made my wife car-sick)

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...v%3D2%26hl%3Den

My current Car 2001 Audi S-4 (Pearl with Grey Leather) 2.7 V-6 with twin turbos and an APR tuned ECU putting out 300 HP and 366 ft/lbs of torque at the wheels. Fast, Handles like a dream, and still gets 24 MPG onm the Highway.

http://www.clutchmasters.com/static/photos/MY%20s4.JPG

[gregstephens]

My current Car 2001 Audi S-4 (Pearl with Grey Leather) 2.7 V-6 with twin turbos and an APR tuned ECU putting out 300 HP and 366 ft/lbs of torque at the wheels. Fast, Handles like a dream, and still gets 24 MPG onm the Highway.

http://www.clutchmasters.com/static/photos/MY%20s4.JPG

As a man that has owned three Audis, including currently driving a 2005 A6,

My first one was a 1992 Audi 90S. Loved that little car. Your's would be what we would call 'hell on wheels'.

[BengalPimp]

Staying on the highjacked issue at hand... If we are talking AMC, talk the BIG talk and go with the Matador !!!

What about that Dodge Al Bundy used to drive?

[gregstephens]

Staying on the highjacked issue at hand... If we are talking AMC, talk the BIG talk and go with the Matador !!!

What about that Dodge Al Bundy used to drive?

Wasn't that a Plymouth Duster? Another classic piece of American automotive dung.

[BengalszoneBilly]

Staying on the highjacked issue at hand... If we are talking AMC, talk the BIG talk and go with the Matador !!!

What about that Dodge Al Bundy used to drive?

Wasn't that a Plymouth Duster? Another classic piece of American automotive dung.

I did like the Dodge slant six engine.

[gregstephens]

Staying on the highjacked issue at hand... If we are talking AMC, talk the BIG talk and go with the Matador !!!

What about that Dodge Al Bundy used to drive?

Wasn't that a Plymouth Duster? Another classic piece of American automotive dung.

I did like the Dodge slant six engine.

Especially when combined with Ricardo Montalban's 'Fine Corinnnnn-thian Lea-thur'.

[BengalPimp]

Staying on the highjacked issue at hand... If we are talking AMC, talk the BIG talk and go with the Matador !!!

What about that Dodge Al Bundy used to drive?

Wasn't that a Plymouth Duster? Another classic piece of American automotive dung.

It was a dodge dart....but looked very similar to a plymouth duster.

[jjakq27]

Staying on the highjacked issue at hand... If we are talking AMC, talk the BIG talk and go with the Matador !!!

What about that Dodge Al Bundy used to drive?

Wasn't that a Plymouth Duster? Another classic piece of American automotive dung.

And we wonder why the Japanese kicked our butts in car manufacturing in the 80's.

[gregstephens]

Staying on the highjacked issue at hand... If we are talking AMC, talk the BIG talk and go with the Matador !!!

What about that Dodge Al Bundy used to drive?

Wasn't that a Plymouth Duster? Another classic piece of American automotive dung.

And we wonder why the Japanese kicked our butts in car manufacturing in the 80's.

I had a 1986 Mazda RX-7. Could have gotten better gas mileage since the rotary engine isn't fuel efficient, but otherwise was a perfect little sports car.