Foo - The "I am not a car guy" club.

I would never, ever, spend enormous amounts of money on a car. Nothing wrong with having an expensive car if the money is buying quality. But if the money is buying looks and coolness factor, I'm out. Even if I make the lottery, you will never see Rube on a 6 figure price tag on a car.

Since "car people" are always making clubs. I hereby declare the foundation of a new club for "not car crazy people", where only owners of regular car owners can enter. To apply, please reply to this thread expressing your dislike for fancy car ownership and list what car you currently drive.

I'll evaluate on a case by case basis and approve applications accordingly.

PS: All Hyundai owners will be admitted automatically, except those who installed wheels that are worth more than the car's blue book value.

Application #1:

Name: Rube
Car: Hyundai Accent 2000
Condition: Stock, falling apart but still runs (most of the time)
Value: $500, including wheels.

Hard to say there Rube.

I own a 1983 Pontiac Bonneville wagon. I've put 50 miles on it in 7 years and 40 of those were driving it home from where I bought it.

However....

One of the best jobs I ever had was driving cars for an exotic auto auction, hopping from Corvette to Rolls to racecar. I grew up wanting to be a car designer, but coming of age during the Oil Embargo quashed those dreams.

So if I won the big one, I would probably get myself a nice fast vintage car. But I'm perfectly happy riding my bike and using public transit.

Application #3

Name-Midschool22
Truck-Dodge Ram 1994
Condition-Running
Value-Couple grand. Less if you include the labor required to remove all of the bike/music stickers plastered over it.

Fancy cars are not for me. Point A to B only. I'd rather spend my cash on the important things....BIKES.

Name: Siu Blue Wind
Car: True Japanese one
Condition: Pristine
Value: Uh....I think I'm in the wrong thread. My bad.

Club name suggestion: Knights of the Kitchen Table. :P

Application number: D
Name: jsharr
Car: 2005 Ford Freestyle
Condition: stock, 100k miles, dirty as the day is long
Value: $4500 on a good day.

hate to break it to you, but hyundai now offers cars that even enthusiasts can get behind

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7038/6867464701_1193c8e3e4_b.jpg

kia too!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/420969_335392979837923_100001016710687_947833_990988913_n.jpg

We can get behind Rubes Hyuandai and help him push it into the kitchen for a brake job. Wait, do you do brake jobs in the kitchen or bathroom?

Aplikashun:

Name: Steve
Car: 2001 Nissan Frontier. Acquired truck as ex-company vehicle with 118k on it. Now has 230,000+ on the odometer. A/C quit working a month after buying it and I'm unwilling to spend the $$ to fix it. Needs a wash. Badly.

I take photos of my bicycles but not my truck.

I take photos of my bicycles but not my truck.

Lean your bike against your truck, but be careful so you don't scratch it. The bike that is.

Lean your bike against your truck, but be careful so you don't scratch it. The bike that is.
Good idea. I'll update later.

I'll join. 2002 Stratus, blue book is about $1500. 110K miles.

I am with you in spirit, but when I take the cover off my 740i, zoom through the surface streets, hop on the freeway and watch it dance up to 75mph like a dog begging for bacon I think to myself...this is a pretty nice ride yo.

Rube, why do you hate America?:cry:

2002 4-door Tan Civic with, um, 42K miles or so? Not really sure, since I drive it only once a month or so.

Good idea. I'll update later.

BTW, are you on Facebook. There is a FW parts exchange page on there if so. PM your name on FB and i will give you an add if needed.

Application #9 #9 #9 #9
Name: Shifty
Car: Honda Pilot
Condition: Mostly good, lots of smelly cycling socks in the way back, so there is that.
Value: Don't laugh, it's paid for

Name: David
Car: None, but have owned many cars. Several cost me less than $200 and were driven for 3+ years
Longest-owned car: 2001 Kia Rio - bought new (11/2000), engine died with 130,000 miles 4/2008
Most recent car: 2008 Nissan Frontier - most expensive ever purchased (used), sold it back to the dealer during my divorce

Application #10
Name: dstrong
Car: Nissan Maxima, 2001
Condition: 106,000 miles. Better now that the entire frikken' suspension has been replaced
Value: Dunno

App 11
Name: mikeybikes
Car: 2003 Subaru Impreza
Condition: 136000 miles. Bought it from a car guy who is a friend and offered to fix it as things break as long as I buy parts.
Value: I bought it a year ago for $6000... so probably a little less.

Application #11
Name: Flying Merkel
Cars: 2000 Camry, 189,500 miles. 1999 Plymouth Voyager 116,000 miles. Bought for $1,300 from a 300 lb dead lady's estate. The drivers seat is broken.

I spent 18 years in the automotive parts industry. I've rebuilt engines, customized cars, still do most repairs. Stopped caring about them years ago.

Application #12
Name: Will G
My Car: 2009 Camry bought used with 49,000 miles. Current mileage: 72,000. College kid: 2002 Tundra, bought used with 90,000 miles. Wife's car: 2007 Freestyle, 80,000 miles (bought new since she cares more about wear and tear than I do). Those each replaced a car or truck with 190-200,000 miles.

Application #13

Name: ahsposo

Vehicle: 2004 Honda Accord

Mileage: 199, 342

Value: Well I'm about to fill the tank so it will be probably twice as valuable in just a bit.

Application #14
Name: Bob Ross
Vehicle: 1998 Honda Civic hatchback
Mileage: ~98,000
Value: I'm trying to sell it and I'll feel guilty taking more than $2,000 for it. And I will not be replacing it! Just have no use for a car anymore.

btw, I stopped being a "car guy" sometime in the early 1980s when I realized that everything I knew about cars came from the "Visible V-8" plastic model I built in ~1969, and that none of that info was still current or applicable to real current cars. Fuel injector? wtf is that?

App #15
Name: Chris
Vehicles 2011 Ford F150 and 2011 Subaru Forester.
Combined mileage 10k
Value about 75K

I like cars, I just hate driving. It's complicated.

Application # 16
Name: James Murphy
Vehicle: no car anymore, grew to hate spending all my free time fixing the damn things. last vehicle was a 2002 Hyundai Accent GS
Value: worthless, and to expensive to maintain if you want to truly live within your means
Mileage: before sending it to the junk yard 238,000

I still love fixing things, but I am not going to be working on a 4 wheeled vehicle for a good while ..

All right then.

Application 17
Name: Ben August
Vehicle: The last one registered to me was a 2000 Tacoma Prerunner Extended Cab 4-banger. My wife and I currently "share" an '08 Honda Fit.
Value: probably $12-15k or so, the Fit holds its value pretty well.
Mileage: Currently 43k or so (I pretty much only drive on weekends, and the car hasn't gone further than Sac or Santa Rosa since 2009).

Application #18

Name: Willie Nelson
Car: 1993 Mongoose Rockadile
Condition: Owned and brutally abused since 8th grade, was a mountain bike for 13 years, commuter bike ever since. Condition is excellent.
Value: Hard to say. About $500 new, currently has some pretty expensive parts, but probably couldn't get $150 for it. Mainly because people can't appreciate true beauty.

Name: Siu Blue Wind
Car: True Japanese one
Condition: Pristine
Value: Uh....I think I'm in the wrong thread. My bad.

I thought you would catch on the "no expensive wheels" footnote :P

Rube, why do you hate America?:cry:

All beaten up pick up trucks with blood stains from the last deer hunt are hereby granted admission. :thumb:

Don't currently own a car. Don't think I've ever owned a car less than 8 years old or with less than 120k miles on it. Not that fond of driving. Eh, whatever. My wife wants us to get a new (to us) car. Probably will at some point. If we ever won the lotto, I'd probably buy a subaru forester or a prius or something to make her happy.

App #15
Name: Chris
Vehicles 2011 Ford F150 and 2011 Subaru Forester.
Combined mileage 10k
Value about 75K

Both the F150 and the Forester are admitted. However, 75k, even for both, seems a little high. Special permit could be issue if you commit to keep the past the 150k miles... the Forester specially.

Was a car guy when I was young, now I buy according to what we need and can afford. it all started when I had to sell my 1970 Camaro, 1980 TransAm, and the love of my life, my 1966 Malibu! :0( but all for good reason, my first daughter was born and we needed a safe affordable vehicle. :0)

We can get behind Rubes Hyuandai and help him push it into the kitchen for a brake job. Wait, do you do brake jobs in the kitchen or bathroom?

Yes because there is dish towels and soap to clean up after the job:thumb:

All beaten up pick up trucks with blood stains from the last deer hunt are hereby granted admission. :thumb:

Thanks Rubenslayer.
Bagged my last 8 point buck with the left front bumper and finished it off with the push button 4wd.

Thanks Rubenslayer.
Bagged my last 8 point buck with the left front bumper and finished it off with the push button 4wd.

Whoa! You da MAN!

I like cars, I just hate driving. It's complicated.

Sez the guy uploading raw video to South African insurgents.

Sez the guy uploading raw video to South African insurgents.

No, no, no. You have it all wrong. The South Africans are uploading video to us. The videographers are down there, the editors are up here. Or they were supposed to upload it until we realized that they aren't as lucky as we are with respect to net access.

Name: no1mad
Vehicle: 2003 Jeep Liberty Sport 4x4
Condition: Runs. Needs both front and spare tires replaced. Left front fender needs to be put back on.
Mileage: 140,000 and accumulating about 250-300 miles a week.
Value: Ask my wife- she's the one making the payments.

current car 2001, honda civic, 135,000 (Was bought new by wife, handed down to me last year)
Previous car 1986 mustang, paid $1100 for it mileage (114,000) or so it said........................

All beaten up pick up trucks with blood stains from the last deer hunt are hereby granted admission. :thumb:

Does sawdust from wood cutting count? Elk season is a ways away.

Name: no1mad
Vehicle: 2003 Jeep Liberty Sport 4x4
Condition: Runs. Needs both front and spare tires replaced. Left front fender needs to be put back on.
Mileage: 140,000 and accumulating about 250-300 miles a week.
Value: Ask my wife- she's the one making the payments.

Your wife should write a book, she's awesome.

Your wife should write a book, she's awesome.
Awesome perhaps, but as she is currently the only one bringing home a paycheck (my unemployment is up in the air at the moment), we can't afford for her to pursue that avenue right now.

Aint got no car. I suppose when the time comes to get one, itll be an electric.

Name: Sonata
Car: 2008 Saturn AURA XE
Condition: Stock, except a cloth garbage bag that I attached to the back of the front seat.
Value: $10,000 when full of gas.

Okay, so I want to get Opel badges for it, but it's cost prohibitive.

Awesome perhaps, but as she is currently the only one bringing home a paycheck (my unemployment is up in the air at the moment), we can't afford for her to pursue that avenue right now.

Why do us dudes always have to be the breadwinners.I can bake cookies and have my hair/nails done cute also.

Ok, I'm back with a pic of my filthy truck carrying my clean bike. I know my priorities.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6944230989_a7c896fe5c_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yospiff/6944230989/)

Name: no motor?
Car: 2006 (I think, I don't really remember) Huyndai Elantra
Condition: unwashed since I bought it last summer. It's survived a 4 wheel brake job that didn't involve a kitchen table, and replaced an earlier Elantra that didn't survive being submerged in 3 feet of water.
Value: went up today when the gas went to over $4/gallon here.

I used to be a car guy when I was younger, but came to view them as transportation appliances years ago after spending too much time in the automotive aftermarket. I got paid to drive other peoples fancy cars then and never got the urge to do more than that. My last 2 vacations have been more enjoyable due to going places and being car free while we were there, I really hate driving now.