TheSamba.com :: View topic - The absurd amount of cars that I have had

Sun Dec 07, 2003 11:23 pm

just got to listing them all....I have only been driving 11 years....anyone else have a hard time remebering them all? it gets rediculous...

81 ford fairmont wagon(free)-dead
86 dodge omni($180)-rear ended
85 chevy blazer(free)-dead
88 ford tempo(free)-dead
88 dodge aires($1200)-caught on fire
85 chevy monte carlo(free)-dead on a mountain side
83 subaru gl sedan-($800)too many problems
86 subaru gl 4x4 wagon(free)-crushed after motor change didn’t pan out
87 subaru gl 4x4 wagon($600)—missed dearly, frame rusted out donated motor to the 86
90 subaru loyale 4x4 wagon($750)-everything went wrong one weekend, dead
81 subaru gl 4x4 wagon($350)-still have it snowbank assault vehicle, will run over damn near anything
87 toyota tercel sedan($1200)-good runner, rip per rust
68 vw bus($2300)-sold
70 vw bus($400)-rusting/parts
71 vw bus($400) –alive and well, my car
71 vw squareback($300)-back from the dead-AM saphire rocks
81 vw rabbit diesel($400)-sold
66 plymouth belvedere($1300)-sold
93 vw fox Wolfsburg($1200)-nightmare, hated it-mechanic fried cpu, ended up with colt per negotiations
89 dodge colt dl 4x4 really mitsubishi($600)-given away and still alive-served 40,000 miles delivering pizzas and news paper photo assignments. Best car I have ever had.

Mon Dec 08, 2003 1:30 am

all that and no early VW's? Man, life is just passing you by.

Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:51 am

72 tle fastback
58 sunroof beetle
70 bus
59 beetle
77 golf
71 beetle
72 beetle
70 beetle
66 steel sun roof beetle
65 dual cab
65 bus
77golf
59 beetle
60 beetle
65 beetle
62 single cab
63 sunroof beetle
60 beetle

others
70 datsun
70 benz 4 speed
82 gm holden 300hp
81 bmw 318

Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:22 am

70 Ford F 100 (still here)
87 izuzu Imark turbo (died a horrible death)
83 Ford Mustang Gt (went on to make a kid vary happy)
75 Ford Maverick (dont even want to know what happend to this monster)
73 Ford F250 (cant remember where this one went?)
66 Ford Mustang (made a kid happy)
64 Ford Galxy 500XL (sold to a guy who parked it and hasent moved since)
67 Ford Mustang GTA (still here)
67 Cadillac Sedan Deville (now with a friend)
97 Ford Contour (curse of the ages dont want to know who got this lemon)
96 Dodge Dakota (recently sold to thin the herd)
69 Bug (still Here)
78 Westy (still Here)
67 13 Window Deluxe (still Here
75 Bay W/ Sliding Roof(went to a happy guy who couldent belive he'd found a sliding sun roof bay)

Sure i missed a few.....

Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:21 am

Hokey Smoke, Bullwinkle! That's a bunch of cars! Tho, I have to mention my folks used to own a '78 Ford Fairmont wagon...had the fake wood paneling on the side and everything! :-&

Right now, here's my line up:
1967 Riviera Camper (mine)
2002 Honda Civic (wife's)

But I have owned a few VWs over the years....
http://www.geocities.com/[email protected]/volks/scrapbook.html

-Taylor

Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:22 am

Gone and Mostly Forgotten
58 Chevy (tore the driveshaft out first week)
73 Opel Wagon (one tough little car)
73 Plymouth Duster (slant 6 engines were great)
76 Pacer (total piece of crap)
7? Renault R-10 (the beginning of my French Phase)
76 Cadillac (The deer was tougher than the car)
80 Renault LeCar (The end of my French Phase. LeMistake.)
86 Audi 5000 (last turbo I ever plan to own)
90 Toyota Camry (Boring. Soul of a toaster)
98 Dodge Dakota (replaced by a 70 Single Cab)

Gone, But Still Remembered
53 Zwitter (Hope it still exists. Doubt if it does)
54 Beetle (Best car I ever owned. Heart of Gold. Would refinance my house to buy it back.)
58 Karmann Ghia
59 Beetle (Heat like a microwave. Great winter car)
50-something ambulance. Only owned it for 36 hours.
60 Porsche 356
62 Beetle (Deer claim another of my cars)
64 Beetle
67 Bus (Died teaching me I don’t know how to do bodywork)
67 Beetle
73 Thing (bought new from the dealer)
76 Bus
73 Thing #2
74 Thing

Still Around
66 Ghia (in pieces)
70 Single Cab (current daily driver)
65 Double Cab (just sitting)
02 Isuzu Axiom (Wife’s car. Keeps her happy. Don’t know why)

Mon Dec 08, 2003 1:34 pm

My turn:

Waterpumpers:

- jetta MKI Diesel (wrecked it)
- Rabbit MK2 diesel
- Rabbit MK2 GTI
- Audi 80 Diesel
- Rabbit MK2 GTD
- Rabbit MK2 diesel
- 76' Rabbit
- 90' Passat Wagon diesel
- 97' Audi A4 wagon TDI (current daily diver)

Aircooled:

- 51' deluxe splitbug
- 52' barndoor panel
- 53' deluxe oval
- 54' standard oval
- 55' deluxe oval
- 56' deluxe oval
- 57' deluxe oval
- 59' deluxe bug
- 62' 11 window
- 65' 11 window
- 66' notch S
- 66' Type 34 Ghia sunroof
- 67' samba
- 69' squareback
- 72' standard
- 72' thing
- 73' standard
- 76' baywindow ambulance

Currently own:

- 48' standard split (in restoration)
- 58' semaphorebug (parts car)
- 60' semaphorebug (wifes daily driver)
- 74' Westy (in restoration)

Mon Dec 08, 2003 6:52 pm

None of you are mentioning how old you are/how long you've been driving.

I'm 18 and have had the following
'69 Beetle
'66 13-window
'58 Panel Bus
'67 13-window
'62 DD Panel
'63 Kombi

Still own:
'60 European Beetle
'67 13-window
'75 914 1.8
'78 Westy

Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:05 am

I actually haven't had that many cars. I'm 21 now and have been driving for 5 years. I've owned:

66 Beetle (gone, but definitely not forgotten)
85 Ford Thunderbird (biggest POS I have owned..but it was cheap)
67 Beetle with metal sunroof (just sitting for now until I can tackle that project)
72 Super that was Baja'd (only drive it in the summer)
88 Chevy Corsica (not too bad but not a VW)
96 Ford Contour (man, I hate Fords)

I still have the 67 Beetle, the 72 Super, and the Contour

Tue Dec 09, 2003 10:21 am

OK

I'm 25. Been driving for 10 years (Has it been that long?)

68 Plymouth Fury III (free, total sh*tbox caught on fire and burned out in auto shop class)
72 Dodge Challenger ($500 Owner felt so bad after selling to me that he tried to steal it back that night! Sold for $1500 6 mos later, and I never did get it running!)
78 Camaro Z-28 (Totaled while drag racing 48 hours after purchase. Total brake faliure but what do you expect for $500)
84 F-150 SWB 4WD ($500. Shot in the door w/a 12 ga. by accident. UGLY. sold back for the same $500)
81 Chevy Silverado SWB ($2000. Nice when I got it, left for dead 20 mi. east of Columbus OH)
61 Lincoln Continental (Bought out of a barn for $1000 in Zanesville OH to replace the Chevy. I have to say that the Lincoln was tough as nails. had for 2 years then some drunk kid T-Boned it in Shreveport LA. I still drove it home and sold it for $2000)
58 Caddy series 62 ($500 from body shop $800 2 mos later. Car was a TOTAL basket case)
68 Olds Cutlass (Bought for 300 bucks from a kid who couldn't put a front brake drum on. No kidding! 15 min of work and I drove it home. Sold a week later for 2000!)
72 Plymouth Sport Fury (Free from garage. rusty and ugly but had a console, buckets, and a 400. Sold for $900
71 Datsun 510 wgaon. Free from friend (parts runner for all the cars piling up at my house Died from lack of care. I didn't cry about it. Sold for $100 to the salvage yard.
66 Pontiac Bonneville $2000 (Bought while I was in the Army, rusty but Black and mean! Shackled up, straight pipes, 389, ex-wife hated it, so I got a divorce. Sold to a body man for $2000 used that money to buy guess what?)
56 Volkswagen Beetle $2000 (Found on thesamba. I had a friend in the service that had brought one of these back from Germany. Never been into foreign cars and didn't have much respect for VW's at first but I learned different. We drove the hell out of that car and it always got us where we needed to go. I bought mine in New Mexico and drove it back to Houston w/no problems. I've said this about a lot of my cars but this time I really want to keep the car I've got. But then again, tempation, temptation!

Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:08 pm

not to many non vw's

used to have, in close to this order

72 bus
66 w/t panel camper
66 w/t 13 window
67 w/t westy
7? toyota corolla/tercel. yep both names on the same car back then. this one was super pimp with metalic gold paint and three tone orange racing stripes.
65 kombi w/ pop top cut in
65 GMC bread truck(our first home)
64 kombi
89 ford van
59 15 window
67 w/t american camper
60 kombi
65 kombi
64 panel camper
67 w/t h/t westy
67 w/t 21 window
68 single cab
63 standard
63 dormobile (wish I still had it)
66 dormobile
57 shorty single cab
67 13 window w/t
60 double door 15 window (wish I still had it too)
58 single cab
58 standard
62 single cab
59 kombi
59 kombi #2
57 panel
57 double door panel(og yellow)
65 MR CAMPER
60 23 window
65 standard
65 standard #2

still have
02 tacoma double cab
57 23 window
64 21 window w/t
56 kombi
60 single
54 cab/59 bed single(anybody have a good back half of a b/d?)
72 panel

soon to buy
68 double cab
66 h/t westy parts pile

Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:11 pm

Andrew wrote: None of you are mentioning how old you are/how long you've been driving.

27, started driving at 16, but lost the privilage for a couple years there in the middle somewhere.

Tue Dec 09, 2003 5:01 pm

jesus skip,
when you line them up like that, it makes you look like you have a problem......

j/k

Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:29 pm

I'm 18 and have had the following:

'95 Saturn SC2 (ran it into the ground on 3 cylinders)
'63 standard beetle (still have this, body off resto)
'67 standard beetle (sold to finance '63 resto)
'71 super beetle(hey it was free and I sold it for $500)
'72 Camaro RS clone (brought it back from the dead rat look, grey primer, big ol' tires in back, cragar SS wheels..... think O'Banian's car in Dazed and Confused sold to pay for college)
'87 Mitsubishi Mighty Max pickup (ugliest piece of shit I've ever owned, got me everywhere I needed to go though Sold for $1000 more than I got it for)
'64 standard beetle (cut up made over $2000 in the process)
'69 Karmann Ghia
and my current daily driver while I'm working construction.......
'76 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4 pickup w/ a 400 small block

Goin for one for every year that I'm alive I think........
Good thread, neat to see what everyone has been driving

Tue Dec 09, 2003 8:47 pm

Quote: None of you are mentioning how old you are/

that's because we already had this discussion in another thread.

ANYWAY,
if you can remember how many you've had, then you obviously haven't had enough!!! :)

Wed Dec 10, 2003 10:48 am

'76 bus
'79 Rabbit
'67 Nissan Patrol
'68 Ghia
'64 Dune Buggy
'67 Bus 13 Window
'65 Westy
'70 Westy
'66 Bug
'84 Volvo
'88 Honda
'95 Pontiac Grand Prix

A few bikes too-
'76 CB200
'77 CB750SS
'73 CT175
'46 La Ray

Wed Dec 10, 2003 10:56 am

For the record, I've been driving for about ten years now. That averages to not quite a VW per year.

-Taylor

Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:40 am

Superskim, easy for you to say being from texas.......do you have any idea what its like trying to find a drivable 30 year old car in new england? Does not happen. They don't even title cars after ten years in new hampshire where I grew up....they don't last much longer when half the year the roads are covered with sand and salt.

Wed Dec 10, 2003 3:21 pm

I've a few pics of the ones I used to have
http://www.geocities.com/fruitbat1313/past.htm
here goes my list ...

?? Maverick (what was I thinking?)
83 Accord type POS
73 Super Beetle
84 Scirocco
63 23 window ragtop
63 bus
74 ghia
74 bus
87 Scirocco 16V
90 Corrado G60
89 Vanagon
64 Beetle
70 Westy
87 Scirocco 16V
87 Scirocco 16V (parts car)
85 Scirocco (parts car)
87 Scirocco 16V (still have)
81 Rabbit pickup
57 Beetle (shell)
70 Ghia (still have)
57 Beetle (still have)
66 Beetle (now daily driver)

kelly
http://www.geocities.com/fruitbat1313

Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:21 pm

I'm 18 and these are the one's I currently own
1971 Beetle
1974 Westy
1959 European Beetle
1968 POS Baja

The only others I've had was:
1958 Ghia
1972 Super

there are a few that I know of that I want though :wink:

And Andrew I didn't know you had a bay window?