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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raging Epistaxis" data-source="post: 2311475" data-attributes="member: 1169">Mmmmm  Cars....My parents sold the '64 Chevy II Nova that both of my brothers got to drive during high school 3 months before I got my license... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> The original 165 straight 6 froze up on my brother, so we replaced it with a larger straight 6 - 235? then they sold it a year later.I got to drive the '76 Chevy Suburban for about 6 years through high school and college.  Rust orange with tan strip around the middle.  It got 9-12 MPG, whether it was empty or pulling my parents 25' cabin cruiser across country.  454 V8, large bore exhaust, initially dual glass-packs which were exchanged when the neighbors complained that the truck was waking them up when my parents left for work.  Geared down as part of the trailering package, but I still had it up to 110 by it's speedometer on a flat straight country road one day.  Central Illinios - there are a lot of flat, straight empty roads.  The Beast was shimmying like mad, and my buddy who was acting as co-pilot (conspirator?) was white faced, white knuckled, and wimpering... I could probably have pushed it further, but my latent self preservation finally kicked in.  Besides, we were approaching a major intersection...  Ahh. good times.  Drop the middle seats down and you could put a twin bed in the back.  Not that I ever did, as far as anyone knows. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Then drove an 80-something Chevy Citation hatchback for a year or two.  Don't really remember much about that car either way.Within a year (~1990) I was given the first car to have my name on the title- a 71 Chevy Malibu/Chevelle that my great aunt bought new and it had <50K miles on it.  Garage kept its entire life and no rust.  Kept it until August 2000 when it was totaled by being rear-ended by some young punk in a delivery van who didn't even have the decency to ask if my 8.5 mo pregnant wife (who was alone and driving) was ok.  Fortunately no one was seriously hurt (he left the scene before I got there), but dang.  I miss that car.1994- first car I paid for and still drive - a 1992 Civic VX hatchback.  Aztec Green. Great little car.  200K miles and counting, no major problems.  We routinely get 43 MPG and have gotten as high as 55, and as low as 38. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />2000  - Honda 1986 Accord 4dr to accomodate our growing family.  An ok car for its time.Replaced in june 2004 by our first new car - a 2005 <a href="http://www.scion.com/showroom/xb/gallery/" target="_blank">Scion xB</a>.  Great car. Nothing else like it on the road.  32-35 mpg, plenty of interior space for our family of 4. Great value. And cool to boot.Ours is silver/grey like the first picture: Thundercloud Metallic, IIRC the 'official' name for that color.[sblock]<img src="http://www.scionevolution.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_DSC00453.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://www.kloquewerk.com/gallery/albums/userpics/_vti_cnf/normal_bBSideBig.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock] Not for everyone, I realize, but works well for us.</blockquote>

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