Which Car is your All time Favorite

WOW I recognize those cars yikes!! My first was a Mustang 1971 or 72 brand new on the dark blue sife of blue not the fast back, and only 3000, that was not even the down payment on my 2011 SUV ugh . Liked the Mustantangexcept it sort of felt like riding a filstone car hough.1972_ford_mustang_grande-pic-7191725113950365458.jpegSort of like that one more blue. You should see the cars that come trough here during the goodguys national show
 

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oldman said:
BTW, just as another interesting little fact; when the old bridge was demolished from the accident, they made two fishing piers out of it. A north pier and a south pier. Of course, there is a charge to go onto either pier, whether for site seeing or fishing.
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I'm very familiar with that bridge, I have the indentations in my palms to show for it. I was actually on it this past spring when I went to stay with my girlfriend that lives in Tampa after she had surgery. I've learned to adjust my panic attacks when going over it that I don't get as upset unless the weather is bad. When the weather is bad, that dang bridge isn't fun at all, it has a tendency to move with the wind a bit and can't say my mind doesn't go into overdrive. I canceled several last year's holidays when my friends were going to come pick me up to ride me back their way over the bridge because the weather was forecast to not be so good. The were willing to make the drive, I wasn't willing to make the ride. Bridges in NY aren't that great either.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
I have never been much of a car person, and I like a van or a pickup a whole lot better. They just do so many different things than a car does, I guess, at least the things that I wanted to do...
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Unfortunately I once owned a black Chevy cargo van (no windows) when I was working as a handyman, and I would usually dress all in black with dark sunglasses.

A lot of parents used to call the police when they saw me drive past. :(
 

to get a better look at this bridge. You can't really see the depth of the climb and descend until your actual on there in the flesh. If you don't like bridges, it's astronomical unless you've learned to calm your nerves. It's not a fun ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAh9xmNgpxU

It's also known as the suicide bridge, nice hugh?
And I wish I hadn't looked this up, though I'd heard many stories about it. Just more fuel I need to stir my phobia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3NpCGR35Wc
 
Son_of_Perdition said:
My first was a 51 Henry J. Real story is that it was previously owned by my spinster first grade school teacher. She bought it new in 51 and drove it 10 years had just over 40K miles. She had taken it out of state one time (trip from UT to CA and back). Picture is the same model and color. It had purple interior including trunk, seats and head liner, purple carpet and floor mats, purple dash, purple steering wheel. To me it looked like a premature Cadillac.

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I was devastated in 1961 when my father came driving it home with a smile on his face and handed me the keys. I had worked the summer for him (hod-carrier) and he owed me $250 back pay so he wanted to surprise me and bought it outright. I didn't drive it for several days because of the embarrassment but finally realized I had to make the most of a bad situation. My friends loved it and yep, the girls would actually ride in it. I sold it for $20 2 years later after using it for a mountain climbling deer hunting party car.
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Another beauty. Some really nice old cars you all are posting pics of. I happen to prefer the older model of the Jags at least older than this decade, still it's a lovely car to date.
 
Falcon said:
Whenever I see a T-Bird, I think of Thelma and Louise. They can fly.
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The closest I got to a T-Bird was a 1975 Ford Elite . Remember those? They called them the "Poor Man's T- Bird"

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AprilT said:
to get a better look at this bridge. You can't really see the depth of the climb and descend until your actual on there in the flesh. If you don't like bridges, it's astronomical unless you've learned to calm your nerves. It's not a fun ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAh9xmNgpxU

It's also known as the suicide bridge, nice hugh?
And I wish I hadn't looked this up, though I'd heard many stories about it. Just more fuel I need to stir my phobia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3NpCGR35Wc
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Yes, this bridge has a very imposing history. I have crossed this bridge and fished from its piers many times and the one time that I did go over during high winds, I was a bit nervous. There are lights on a warning sign at the entrance to the bridge to warn people of "High Winds" to allow them the opportunity to either stay off, if they are nervous, or find another way, which to my knowledge, if you want to go south on I-275, there isn't any other way. As a former engineer, I can tell you that the bridge has to move or it would break. Like any long bridge, (Golden Gate and others), they are nothing more than concrete, steel and cables. There is a longer bridge in the Tampa area called the Howard Frankland, which is not nearly as high, but is maybe 5 miles long, I believe.
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oldman said:
Yes, this bridge has a very imposing history. I have crossed this bridge and fished from its piers many times and the one time that I did go over during high winds, I was a bit nervous. There are lights on a warning sign at the entrance to the bridge to warn people of "High Winds" to allow them the opportunity to either stay off, if they are nervous, or find another way, which to my knowledge, if you want to go south on I-275, there isn't any other way. As a former engineer, I can tell you that the bridge has to move or it would break. Like any long bridge, (Golden Gate and others), they are nothing more than concrete, steel and cables. There is a longer bridge in the Tampa area called the Howard Frankland, which is not nearly as high, but is maybe 5 miles long, I believe.
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Yes, I'm familiar with that one two. I can't remember which road it is, but there is another route to take to get from Sarasota to Tampa, I've gone the other way with a friend, it's kind of out of the way and at one point lots of re-routing, due to construction, was going on by that route and lots of ticket writing as well. My friend received a nice large ticket in the mail for not paying a non-existing toll booth fee; haven't been that way in a few years, we were going to Ikea at the time.

The one nightmarish time I recall crossing the skyway I was returning from a late night out and it was a stormy night, so I was near tears as we drove over the bridge, my palms were darn near bloody from my hand holding a grip around something I don't remember what, but, I remember after crossing realizing how much my palms were hurting. Not that the rest of the trip was all calm for me, we still had another 30 or so minutes to go before we got to my place. :sick:
 
I like little dinky stone bridges, built around 1300. There is one near my village [it's over a river and called New Bridge.] The locals named it at the time because it must have replaced an even older, and probably wooden bridge.
 
AprilT said:
Yes, I'm familiar with that one two. I can't remember which road it is, but there is another route to take to get from Sarasota to Tampa, I've gone the other way with a friend, it's kind of out of the way and at one point lots of re-routing, due to construction, was going on by that route and lots of ticket writing as well. My friend received a nice large ticket in the mail for not paying a non-existing toll booth fee; haven't been that way in a few years, we were going to Ikea at the time.

The one nightmarish time I recall crossing the skyway I was returning from a late night out and it was a stormy night, so I was near tears as we drove over the bridge, my palms were darn near bloody from my hand holding a grip around something I don't remember what, but, I remember after crossing realizing how much my palms were hurting. Not that the rest of the trip was all calm for me, we still had another 30 or so minutes to go before we got to my place. :sick:
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You can take I-75 to avoid the Skyway.
 
Yes, that's the one. I'm ok with taking the skyway as long as it's not storming. I just do a little calming talk before the approach, the descend it the worse, but if you don't internalize it too much, it's not so bad. For some reason, I'm getting dizzy. I think my bridge talk has come to a close. Everytime I go over this subject, I get a pit in my stomach. That's enough stress for the day. Well at least for this thread in the day. :eek:nthego:
 
How about tunnels?
if we go over the Dartford Bridge, we come back via the tunnels!

Or, the Channel Tunnel to France..
 
On the bonnet of my last car, my son-in-law's brother did the graphic and my son-in-law put it on the car.:)


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My all time favorite is my present Prius IV. It's nice looking, very sleek and efficient, the ride is great and very quiet and of course the mileage of 50+ MPG is the topper.
I have had quite a few cars over the years but this one tops them all.
 
This is the car I drive, listening to my 1960's music waving at the women, but I keep a close lookout for my wife, she has a mean baseball bat!
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So it was you. My driver said that he noticed a ding in my door after you had left. I am trading for a new one later today...
 
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