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Stay the fuck away from the n00b drivers!
worker201:
Been driving for 17 years now, and I'm on car #5. First was an 80 Buick Skylark that my friends insisted I make a skater car - which means filling the thing with garbage, covering entire windows with stickers, burning the upholstery with cigarette lighters, and removing the headliner to put up an Anthrax poster. It was high school and I had a mullet, what can I say? Next up was an 81 Oldsmobile Omega, which was just like the Skylark except it had 4 doors. Drove that thing for a few years, until the vacuum system started to go, making it take like 30 minutes to start the car without stalling. On a road trip from Colorado to Washington, it did just fine, but on the way home, the exhaust system fell off, the speedometer cable broke, the hood latch failed, and a couple other things went wrong. Sold it to a junkyard for like $200, and bought an 80 BMW 320i with no transmission. Added a tranny, and replaced the dashboard, sunroof, upholstery, and most of the engine myself. Just before I got a chance to take it in for a paint job, some crazy old woman t-boned me a block from my house, totalling the car. Fortunately the insurance settlement was enough to get me another BMW 320i that actually had paint on it. I drove that car for years, and it was fucking solid. The starter was blown, but I took that car with me to Portland, and then down to Texas. Finally, the starter got so bad that it was making me late, and I found out that getting a new one put in would cost more than the value of the car. So I sold the car to a scrap metal dealer for $36 (that's all I could get for it). The car had well over 300,000 miles on it, and it stalled on the scrapyard's scale and would not restart.
Anyway, now I have a 94 Volkswagen Jetta. It gets about 30mpg. But I bicycle so much that I only have to put gas in once every 2 months. Just got the rear brakes replaced yesterday. I'll probably keep this car for awhile.
Oh, and I hatehatehatehatehate to drive. I wish I didn't have to. But I do - here in America, for those of you who don't know, most of us could not do important daily things like grocery shopping or going to work without a car.
Aloone_Jonez:
I hate driving too, I'd cycle, motorcycle or even walk if it's possible.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---You were probably going too fast for the road conditions.
I admit I am a n00b driver, I passed my test about 3 years ago but I only started driving last summer, it was weird getting behind the wheel again, I'd almost forgotten how to drive so I had to re-teach myself. Now although I've been driving since August I'm not very good because I don't drive very often as I share the car with my sister and I have a motorbike to get me to work and back and believe me I can't afford to have an accident at 65mph.
--- End quote ---
You would become a pancake at 65 mph on a motorbike :eek: ... and you are probably right maybe I was going too fast, now I drive extra slow in the rain ... still I think the tires had a lot to do with it too.
Pathos:
I've been riding a 150cc motorcycle for 8 months.
reached 100mph, crashed 4 times, $3500 damage (not bothering to repair, as long as the back wheel spins) and love every minute of it.
motorcycles are cool you just give them shit and they love it.
cars suck. The autoturnoff indicators annoy me as much as apples non maximisable windows...the motorcycle felt natural as soon as I hoped on.
Oh and its a great excuse to wear really cool leathers :P
Aloone_Jonez:
Shit how did you get 100mph out of your 150cc motorcycle?
I have a Honda CG125 and it does just over 70mph at a push!
What sort of engine does it have, is it a 2-stroke or 4-stroke?
Mine's 4-stroke, more reliable, lower fuel consumption but much slower. To be honest I'm thinking about getting something a bit quicker, nothing too big as I don't want to kill myself, perhapps something twist and go a 250cc Vespa.
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