Dave, I know the feeling exactly. I have a ’91 Dodge Daytona I bought new sitting in front of my house, waiting to be either sold or donated to a charity. The new car (2011 Charger!) is great, but part of me wants to cling to that 20-year-old Daytona with 227,000 miles, rusty quarters and only one working window.
Damn… all I have to reminisce is a Rover 414, which is to say a Honda Concerto (seeing as they were almost one and the same). The electrics were always sorta wonky, but the car itself was tough as nails. It survived a collision with two other cars, a streetlight and a boar (I may not have been the greatest driver ever).
Too bad I saw this too late to help…the driveshaft is an easy fix. Should take an hour or so.
Sorry.
BTW, I have a 22 year old Ford F150, and still going strong…less occasional rusty bits falling off.
*sniff*
Dave, I know the feeling exactly. I have a ’91 Dodge Daytona I bought new sitting in front of my house, waiting to be either sold or donated to a charity. The new car (2011 Charger!) is great, but part of me wants to cling to that 20-year-old Daytona with 227,000 miles, rusty quarters and only one working window.
Damn… all I have to reminisce is a Rover 414, which is to say a Honda Concerto (seeing as they were almost one and the same). The electrics were always sorta wonky, but the car itself was tough as nails. It survived a collision with two other cars, a streetlight and a boar (I may not have been the greatest driver ever).
Too bad I saw this too late to help…the driveshaft is an easy fix. Should take an hour or so.
Sorry.
BTW, I have a 22 year old Ford F150, and still going strong…less occasional rusty bits falling off.
This is how I felt when my 74 VW Beetle’s carburetor terminally failed. It could have been fixed, but it caught on fire…