Do you drive an OLD persons car?

Oh yes, I remember fighting with it, trying to get it into gear. Especially downshifting..going down steep New England hills.
 

I don't know what you'd call my car. It's a VW bug and I've had about eight of them over the years along with a camper van and a hippy window van. The one I've got now is a hot little number. Going down the road at say 55MPH and you tromp on it, it won't spin its wheels like some of the Z-cars would but it's got enough get up and go to get your attention. The only people I see driving these bugs are young school girls, so you tell me.
 
You are driving a young person's car Drifter. Back in the day, we had an old hippy window van we named Bessie. She had a top speed of forty- five miles per hour, and no heat. Travelling could be an adventure, travelling the hill country during black ice season.
 

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Originally Posted by oakapple
We have never had an automatic car, they are not common here.However, don't think that any car here is an old person's car as such.I drive a plum coloured Ford Fiesta Zetec, it's a good car, we often buy a Ford.We don't even think about changing gear, just do it 'automatically' as we have had so much practise.;)
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Ameriscot said:
They have become much more common though. We had to hunt to find one for me in 2001, but now they are very easy to find. Still in the minority though.
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I have never had an automatic, but when touring California some years ago, the hire car was automatic with cruise control which I quite liked. My car is a Skoda Fabia, which I bought in 2002 when it was two years old, its done 140K miles now, but still drives like new, apart from the electrics which do odd things from time to time. :confused: ...... its built in the Czech Republic, and is basically a VW but much cheaper. I don't use it so much these days and spend all my money on travel, so don't intend to replace it until I have to.



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I used to love to drive my stick shift, on the floor Corvair!
But these days my last 4 cars have been a minivan, a Jeep, a minivan and now another minivan! They work the best when in Florida and have to pick up the kids and grands from the airport! Plus, I can do a lot of shopping and drag it all home!
Would love a mini Cooper, but wouldn't be able to climb out of it!!!
 
My car is definitely an old person's car. A 1998 Buick Park Avenue Ultra. I love it dearly and have the same bond with it as I do with my 7 year old Beagle, Pikey. I will never, never let it go even if it stops running.
 
drifter said:
I don't know what you'd call my car. It's a VW bug and I've had about eight of them over the years along with a camper van and a hippy window van. The one I've got now is a hot little number. Going down the road at say 55MPH and you tromp on it, it won't spin its wheels like some of the Z-cars would but it's got enough get up and go to get your attention. The only people I see driving these bugs are young school girls, so you tell me.
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Thanks Drifter you brought back a memory...and you definitely are a "Hippie" I ran a BP Service station years ago and we had a young woman working for me opening the station in the morning and pumping gas.
She rebuilt the engine in her VW Bus and painted it ..Pink and Yellow with little flowers on the fan shroud..My first .."You can't do that ! it's so non Mechanical looking..." two seconds later..WOW how Cool.. :)
 
Yes and No...we own 3 vehicles... a sporty model, a Mini MPV..and a Vintage VW Camper which o/h has built from almost scratch...

My o/h's sporty model is this one...he's done it all out inside with beautiful leather interior, but the bucket seats are sooo low I find it too painful to get in and out of..so I've only ever been in it twice in all the years he's owned it..but he drives it every day

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This one is our Vintage camper which is 44 years old this year, and still going strong my o/h has spent a lot of money renovating it over the years from the heap of junk it was when he bought it in '88 , but it's rarely driven anywhere these days ..


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and last but not least is my car a Ford Fusion Mini MPV which I bought last year after selling a Blue skoda exactly the same as yours merlin, (which I hated with a passion)..and bought this one because it has a higher viewing position and because of my back problem it's easier to get in and out . It's the car I use every day...and also the workhorse because it holds so much with the seats down.


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The car that I usually drive is a Buick. When my mother passed away I bought her car from my dad. It's a 2002 with only 38,000 miles on it. It was as close as possible to a brand new car. It's solid, easy to work on, is easy to work on and is cheap. I really don't care what I drive on a daily basis as long as it's safe, cheap and reliable.
I also have a 1999 Dodge 4X4 pickup for pulling my trailer, going to Lowes, getting through snow in the winter, etc.
My wife drives a 2006 Subaru Outback with a manual transmission. She can't imagine not knowing how to drive a manual, and likes her Subie. It's completely reliable, easy to work on and very inexpensive to maintain.
We also have a 2006 Durango that is our travel vehicle. It's big and roomy, comfortable on the highway, and hauls plenty of stuff if we go to the lake house, including the dogs.
 

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