Will do.

Let us know what you guys decide!

Velly funny! Vell done!!

I just loved the feeling of power. I lived in a suburb of Detroit and sent my boys to a camp in the upper peninsula and I would visit them flying up I75 to the Mackinac Bridge and beyond. 50 miles outside of Mackinac City in the lower peninsula the ground rose up to a few hundred foot elevation, and I would run the car up to full speed and throw it into neutral and coast the 50 miles into town. Ah, the follies of youth.

Being hyperactive up until 38 years old...betya I got more tickets than you...one thing that was really hard for me to control.
I am fond of saying that I used to get a ticket a day...whether I needed it or not...It's amazing I never had an accident...even on the track.

My dad told me not to peel out, but I did. At 16, with a part time job, I soon found myself dipping into my savings to buy new tires. Lesson learned. Then around that time, I a downside to being a girl who drove \ a hot car, but not enough sense to refuse a challenge. We got pulled over for drag racing. I worked after school for what I had learned was a mob run business, cops were our friends - to the extent I got no ticket. My male challenger got charged with something (since you cannot drag yourself), and I learned a lesson in self control. Even though i have had similar challenges by others over the years, the funniest was when a guy in an SUV pulled up beside my Vette, revved the engine, and actually, albeit pathetically, squealed his tires. I slowly left the light, laughing at his need to dominate. I had learned you do not let others dominate your actions, besides I knew I could do 200 mph, no need to prove it.

Did you know that if El Al Israel Airlines merged with Al'Italia Airlines, the new name would be Val I'll Talia

When I was finally in a position to get my "dream car" I got a '69 Dodge Charger with the 440 hemi engine. I loved that car. Unfortunately, I loved it a little too much. I got a lot of speeding tickets and had to learn to slow it down, the hard way. Just because you can easily do 120 mph doesn't mean you should do 120 mph.

My favorite was my first car, a '57 Chevy Bel Bire with A/C - we lived in New Mexico then. I sold it because trying to gt established in the late 60s, just did not have spare cash to give it what it needed. Lived that chrome! My dad raised me liberated, when girls were not, but peacefully so, sharing cars, teaching me to solder, giving me no grace during our tether ball games. I am so glad he shared skills with me which have enriched my life. His last trip was to look at cars at the nearby dealership, the week before he went into Hospice, sneaking out while my step-mom was at the grocery. I smile, I understood.

So has the Lib Pope!! I answered the driver who
inquired if I was Italian "No, but I'm driving this
beauty to Rome even as we speak" giving him
a hearty laff!! (Something we all need during
these fretful times)..Buona fortuna with car
shopping.

Everything lib helps the Pope. However, Fiat has been around for a long time.

I half expected that!! Ya think it helps the Pope?

Now that's funny...I bought a 2dr coupe, 53 mainline for 5.00 while on my paper route at age 13.
That was my first car and drove it until I was 17...it would shimmy at 80...great little 6cy.

Still have the receipt on the back of a pack of matches...

I had saved up enough for a down payment on a cheap new car. It was a Ford Mainline six with 3 on a tree. I had $450 in quarters and half dollars. I handed the box of coins to the salesman. I guess he didn't know what to expect since the box was so heavy he almost dropped it. I was 19 so my dad cosigned. I drove the car for 185,000 miles, and sold it for $200 after the motor burnt out and the fellow who bought it dropped a new motor in it and drove it for another two years.

But it helps.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

OMG! Am I feeling overwhelmed re:all the big
cars!! Just purchased a fab FIAT!! Love it to
death! Someone (at a stop light) leaned over to
me and asked if I was Italian!!! Hey, you don't
have to be Italian to drive a FIAT!!

My all time fav, was my 61 Ford Starliner, 425Hp and later I rebuilt a 66 Mustang GT Fstbk...still regret having to sell it in 09 when I got laid off from DeWalt Power Tools.

I'm with you on that Olduglycarl! The joy of hitting the lots to see the new models with my dad, those were good days. We had a Blazer in the 70s, it got us West several times. But my love are my 2010 Camaro and my 20002 Vette. Actually, the Vette is my "truck". We had a screen needing repair, and the Vette was the only vehicle that would carry it. My husband had an Impala, which was great in snow, but I kept telling him it was an old persons care (he is retired., Then he found his love, a 2009 Challenger. What do people do wit all that space in those huge SUVs that look like buses? Most of the time, I see one old lady, alone, driving these huge vehicles which they has no idea how to handle.

Cheap is good.
We're going to Chrysler next week to look at the Dodge Durango, the mini van, and the jeeps.

I just drove my 137,000 mile bought-used baja to the drug store
and passed everyone gassing up for the weekend! -- j
.

Our nearest dealers are Chevy and Toyota.

Hand's down, it was the Toyota RAV4.

In rural NE Washington state, Toyotas and Subarus rule the roads.

Got it!...duck tape some short 4X4's to each peddle!, either that of see it you can purchase a used "Shriner" car...you know, the kind they used in parades...you might even get one of them pointy hats to wear.

Scout out a "Gulch" for us while your there...

Worthy of thought. Although the BW doesn't like used, even though when we were struggling to get our business going I bought a cheap used one about every 2 years. I'm one of the few people who ever owned a Hudson Hornet and actually drove it until the front bumper fell off and the motor gave up the ghost.

If I ever see a hamster, 6 feet tall, wearing human clothes and strutting after exiting a Kia Soul, I'll summon up Peter Pan and escape to Neverland. AND I'll be on Hook's side.