Cars

[caskur™]

What type of car do you like driving and if you were a billionaire, what car would you choose to drive?

I can tell you one thing. I would drive a plain ordinary family car....no point in advertising yourself a millionaire these days....you'll never be worried about car jacking or kidnapping then.

[Delilah]

i like driving bmw's, they're all i've ever driven, apart from my learners car. if i was a millionaire i would probably have it done up because it is quite old, but it's so comfortable and i hate changing cars

[caskur™]

Ha, when I was 21 and rounding a corner I crashed straight into a BMW.....it was 8:30 in the morning and the morning sun hit me straight in the eye and I cut the corner of my mothers street....I broke a headlight on the BMW...but the whole bill was $750 and my bill was $850....which was a fortune in 1981....anyway... I wasn't insured but I fixed my car and attempted to pay the other people's car so I took around $250 and said I would pay off the rest later.....after a few weeks they wrote me a letter and said not to worry about it, their insurance were paying for it and so I got let off paying the balance....if was like winning a small amount in lotto....it was a minning companies car...

[bella]

most likely the same one i am driving right now.  i am a pretty low key type of person & well that's just me.  i had some work done on my previous vehicle a while back & my bff lent me one of her cars.  it was a bmw suv.  it drove alright but had way WAAAY too many bells & whistles on the dashboard!  i looked at it & her & said, "just tell me how to turn the tunes on!"

BUT.....& i mean big BUT!  as some of you know i was in a bit of an accident a little over a month ago(first one in decades) & the car (freakin' truck) i hit from behind sustained little not no damage(one of the brackets on the tail lights was dented & a scratch on the tire cover) & my van was TOTALED-front end demolished practically to windshield. 

said car was a mercedes truck & starts & $119,000(g55 amg) & come to think of it-it was made of SUPER ALL steel & my dodge was made of plastic & cheap steel! 

no, i did not get another dodge but i didn't have the cash on hand for the mercedes either.  as i think about it, if i were to win the mega millions on tuesday(it's up to over $210 mil now, i'd swallow my pride for safety & get a mercedes.


not that BIG of a model though!

[arete]

As long as it's comfy and smooth with good A/C & great heat, I'm good.

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This is my car history-----My very first car was a Plymouth Fury with
crushed velvet blue seats.  LOL...I bought it from my sister's boyfriend
for 500 bucks when I turned 16.  I sold that car to a friend at work for 500 bucks
and bought my parents Nova.  I sold the Nova to another friend I worked with
& bought my best friend's chevy camaro (that was my favorite car of all time).
I traded my camaro in on a brand new T-bird (1987) but I bought it in the beginning
of 88---even though it was my first brand new car I still liked the camaro better.  I traded
the t-bird in on a Isuzu Rodeo (new).  I totalled the Rodeo & bought a chevy cavalier, gave
the chevy to my daughter when she turned 16 & bought a Nissan Armada which is
what I drive now.  I've had it for 4 years & I love it.  The kids  can watch movies
on long trips & it's fully loaded with the back up cam & navigation system. Gas hog though.
We just bought a Nissan Versa too but no one really drives it yet.  My son will be turning
15 in March & that's what he will be learning in & he will get that car when he turns 16.
My man drives an F-150 & my daughter just traded that cavalier in on a kia.

Oh & I also had a new motor cycle a few years ago ... it was a white honda shadow
& it was a blast.  Nothing like that feeling of riding!  I loved it.

[caskur™]

My grandfather had two mercedes...when both were broken down at the same time on a long journey from the country, and there was all the rigmarole over towing it....he traded them in and bought a new Holden Commodore station wagon....then he died and I inherited it and I still have it....it was 4 yrs old when I got it.

[caskur™]

My first car my boyfriend Philip bought me...for 100 dollars without a motor [had a perfect body] in 1977 and he put a 50 dollar re-conned motor in it....I loved that car...an "Austin Lancer" 1959 model. I had it for 3, nearly 4 years....it had a crank feature so if the battery ran flat, I could crank it....no ****....I put it on the net before,...I found a picture of one on an Australian Stamp....my car was gun metal grey...not a two toned like this one. I thought I was hotshit driving this car everywhere....I took out the front seat passenger's side and Kane used to sleep there when he was a baby.....one long trip in it one time, saw me burning oil all over the place and I picked up a hitch hiker [top guy] and he looked after my car and me all the way to Dongara [5.5 hr drive north of Perth] until I got to my destiny....lol, I wouldn't pick a hitch hiker up now though....I liked it for the hood ornament...




my second car was a Ford Cortina....and my last car was/is a Holden Commodore....your equivalent company is GMH, I think....Kurt's had two cars when we married, one was a V8 GT Ford Sedan and the other was a Ford Station Wagon....V8 also.

[caskur™]

I was thinking of getting something like this for my next car...Retail Price: $18,990.00


     

site for bigger pictures...last 3 cars.

http://dvg.rtrk.com.au/?scid=11067&kw=32634:17346


Its nice in burgundy. BUT…..not a good safety colour. I guess I’ll have to buy a white car….I’m a safety girl....this one is over 20,000.

[arete]

Oh that is so cool.  I picked up a hitchiker once.
My mother used to pick them up all the time but
they were mostly my brother's friends & people
she had seen around the neighborhood.  You don't
see people hitchin rides like they used to back in
the 70's.

I've never hitchiked, that was fading out quickly by the
time I was approaching my teens.

I have a cousin that is my brother's age and she and her
girlfriend used to hitchike.  They took a ride from a man
once & when they got in the car they realized things were
not right.  They jumped out at some point and they were running
from him along the road, my cousin went into the woods while her
friend was running alongside, the man ran her over with his car
and killed her.  My cousin said she tried to grab her but before she
could pull her into the woods further it was too late.

That was enough to scare me away from it.

[caskur™]

I used to hitch hike when I was 14 and 15.....at 14, I read a book called "Adventures of a Hitch Hiker, 5 times....loved the story....

I was lucky but it only takes 1 nut in two hundred good rides and you're history....I got picked up by taxi drivers, and once by a slow learners bus full of aging slow learner, men.....and I was dropped off at the beach in front of all my surfie friends...LOL

EMBARRASSING...

[arete]

LMMFAO

[caskur™]

I tried to post this last night but kept losing my internet connection.

My apologies….”Confessions of a Hitch Hiker”…..good thing I remembered the authors surname…..”Reid”….anyway, GREAT read, and funny as hell.

[caskur]

My first car was a beetle.

Everyone drove them in the 70s.

I still wished I had one.

[caskur™]

Do you know the history of beetles? We call them V-dubs. One of my puppy owners had a white one made into a convertable in 1990's....but do you know how they came to be?

I'll see if I can google it. I cannot be bothered typing it all out.

[caskur™]

This is what the net says but there is actually more to it than this very brief explanation...

Adolf Hitler and Volkswagen

http://www.hitler.org/artifacts/volkswagen/

and since the site is clearly marked "all rights reserved" I shall not post it up.....

Sitting at a restaurant table in Munich in the summer of 1932, Hitler designed the prototype for what would become the immensely successful Beetle design for Volkswagen (literally, the "car of the people"). In an era where only the most economic elite possessed cars, Hitler believed that all people should be able to own a car and additionally thought that a smart design could allow for reliability, enjoyment, and vacation travel. The name given to the car in 1938 was Kraft durch Freude (KdF-Wagen, literally "strength through joy car").

Hitler gave his design to the head of Daimler-Benz, Jakob Werlin, and stressed its importance. "Take it with you and speak with people who understand more about it than I do. But don't forget it. I want to hear from you soon, about the technical details."

what they did say was that Hitler conned the workers in putting money towards the making of these cars and it was a fortune for the workers too......but when it came time to give the people cars they paid for, the army confiscated them and used them to get around in.