favored cars

I'm having to do the car scramble this year. Not a fun thing, but the Honda is falling appart at the seams and Isn't really worth fixing. I was hoping to do something decent with it, but it just won't happen now. I'm not close enough to a solution on the ranger. So with little less than a few hundred I can throw at the problem, and not really being in a "make payments" stage of finance. I'm going to put a tranny in my old '91 Crown Vic police cruiser and drive it for awhile. It's big, ugly, and beat up....everything execpt the motor, that is. It has a fine EFI 5.0, and the interior is not too bad either. With a decent stereo, I could drive it a few years.

I have owned/ had regular use of the following vehicles in my life.

1. 1966 Oldsmobile 442. My first car. It was a cool old muscle car that was too much of a project the day it was bought. Unfortunately, it was a great source of grief. My Dad and I referred to it as a "thosemobile" since it was an odd model that you could not find parts for.

2. 1979 Monte Carlo. This was actually my mom's car, but I drove it alot while waiting for parts for the thosemobile. I did like this car alot.

3. 1982 Ford conversion van. My Grandad's pimp ride. It was a heaving hunk of garbage that he let me borrow from time to time. It was a rolling motel. Perfect for teenage dating. Personally, I'd kill the boy that drove up to pick up my daughter in a van knowing what I know now.

4. 1979 Datsun B210 hatchback. My mom's paper car, and my back & forth car after keeping up the Old's was too much.

5. 1987 Nissan 300 zx. A very sweet ride. I liked this car the most of all.

6. 1983 Datsun 280zx. "ghettolicious" just called ghetto for short, mostly because it looked like a ghetto, toren to shreds, scary-looking, and illegal. It had an exaust leak in the car and I may have suffered brain damage from the carbon monoxide, but past that it was the fastest car I've owned.

7. 1982 Datsun 210 sedan. As big of a piece of crap as this car was, I loved it. Super cheap on gas (35 +). Alas, if I had the money to upkeep this car, I'd prolly still have it today.

8. 85 & 89 sentra project. I bought two Nissan Sentras for under $300 and wanted to "make a car" one had a great body, the other had a great engine. I messed up the wiring harness. Other wise, I did good. But the car project was a failure.

9. 92 Crown Victoria. I bought this car for $600

10. 91 Crown Vic. A monsterously powerful ex-cop car that has a bad tranny.

11. 1985 Honda Accord. This should be an awesome car....but it's an awesome disaster.

12. 1985 Ford Ranger shortbed. A fixer upper that was a hit and victim then burned down. A shame too, it had great potential....

13. 1985 Ford Ranger longbed. Undaunted, I bought a $200 project truck. I've not done too much with yet.

14. 1980 Honda CB650. My first motorcycle. It was garbage, but I loved it.

15. 1983 Honda Magna 750. A very fast bike indeed.

16. 1996 Honda Magna Deluxe. This was my only brand new vehicle. I sold it to afford college and I miss it dearly.

I promised myself 2 things. When I get my BA degree, I'm buying a new car, then I'm buying a motorcycle.