katzenfinch

Here’s my 1991 M-B. There’s also a 1960 Bugeye Sprite in the shed waiting for me to restore it.

riva

I'm with you on the 4cyl and tons of space but prefer the sliding doors of these..

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obrentharris 

I owned this one for 14 years and an awful lot of adventures. I sold it 2 years ago. I try hard not to miss it.






Brent

bradtx

Yeah, not too many Ford and Chevy fans.

Brad

PS The hatch's problems were generally from somebody slamming it closed.

Midtown

Love the 914/6. Had a chance to buy one ten years ago and didn't. Kick myself every-time I see one.
One day.....

SJX426 

Had this for awhile, 1992 XJ. Really enjoyed it. I also have a 1990 purchased new and a 1998 version as well.

All are the 4.0L with AW4 auto and the NP242 transfer case. This one had the TracLock rear end with 3.55 rear. There was a hole in the roof when I bought it so I filled it with a CB antenna and hooked up a 40 channel as well. There was something unique about this one's handling that was a great rider. Perhaps it was the 19mm sway bar. Oh yeah, they all had factory class III hitch so came with the HD package. Bought it with 242K miles and sold it with 280K or so. The wheels are from a ZJ.

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Was great in the snow! Added a 2" home made lift. 1990 in the back
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noglider 

A few months ago, @RobbieTunes mentioned how great a car the Honda Element is for cyclists. Soon afterwards, my wife bought one, though I didn't tell her what he said. It's true. She bought it for hauling building supplies, as she is renovating our house upstate. This is a 2004 model with about 217,000 miles on it.

Hardrock23

I can appreciate them, but its true im not their biggest fan. I do enjoy the 70s & late 80s mustangs most though.

Thats horrible...Im sorry someone slammed it! Im surprised so many try to do this, just given the resistance you feel trying to close one.

Ed.

One is a 1983 model, the other a 1970 LT-1.

With 'bike rack':



But, a bugeye! How cool is that. And Scooper's 914/6- outstanding.

SWIMPAL had a 91 Cherokee- drove it well over 200K, nearly trouble free. No major issues. Then there was the '85, falling apart from day one.

My daily driver - no photo, will rectify that soon. It's 19 years old.

tashi

Good buy. The wife and I have put over 200k on our 2006 Element and it's been as reliable as a..well..Honda. Such a practical car, particularly for bike/snow/dog/surf/tools/materials types like us. I'm a carpenter that doesn't own a truck, but Element plus a utility trailer gets a LOT of work done. A little 6' trailer can make moving stuff (dump runs, materials, aggregates etc.) quite a bit easier and save on delivery charges. Mine can take about a yard of aggregate, or a yard and a half of light stuff which stays in within the capacities of Element nicely.

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edit: Looking at the pic I noticed that my rear camber was still bad then. This is common with aging Elements and CRV's and I corrected it with an aftermarket adjustable camber kit. Under $200 CDN installed and fully worth it.

arex

My wife drives a 2004 Element, though she hasn't reached 90K yet. It's a good dog vehicle.

noglider 

@arex and @tashi, the funny thing is, my wife try to live a "green" life and have been anti-SUV for a long time. But really, the sin is in using more than you need. We use this SUV for SPORT AND UTILITY! We don't drive it much, and for such a big vehicle, it gets good mileage. I think it's over 25 mpg. We are not power hungry, so we find the four cylinder engine totally adequate. Also, we are used to driving manual transmissions, and I have generally preferred them, but there is something special about the automatic in this one. It shifts exactly when I would shift. I really like this automatic.

Unfortunately, because of all the miles, it hasn't been reliable. It might be going through a period of repairs which might settle down. We've replaced the fuel pump and other things. The starter showed signs of failure so we replaced it proactively. The lock cylinder for the ignition switch is so worn out that you can remove the key in any position. My mechanic says it will fail in a most inconvenient way so we placed an order for an expensive replacement. It might take weeks to arrive, as it's on national back-order.

My wife's other car is a 1998 Civic hatchback with 240,000 miles, manual transmission. She owns two vehicles, and I own none.

non-fixie 

Nice!

I became a Jeep lover by accident. I bought the first one, an '89 XJ Limited, out of frustration over the high price of winter tires for the cars we were driving at the time. This was cheaper. It wasn't a very good one, it had a nasty 'wobble', which meant I couldn't drive very fast, but I liked it anyway.



After a year it was broken into, and the thieves managed to do $1,500 worth of damage to steal a $5 radio. So I traded it for a not as cool, but much better '02 XJ:




Great car, but it did develop a tendency to run hot, so when I saw a cheap low-mileage '99 WJ V8 Limited for sale I could not resist. It's been my daily driver for two and a half years now, which is longer than any other car I've ever owned. It can do everything except be a sports car. Hence the Alfa Romeo.

Jadesfire 

This thread has me thinking about my first car, a 1989 Volkswagen Fox. I loved that car, death trap that it probably was. "Gunmetal gray" i.e. primer coat was the only paint left on it, no AC (in Louisiana), and the radio wasn't attached to the dash so it slid around on the passenger side floor . Wish I would have kept that and fixed it up.
And am now also thinking about my dad's 1948 Plymouth coupe that has been holding down various garage floors for my entire existence. One of these days I'm going to get that one fixed up right.

Edit: also a Jeep lover, too. Second car was a 1996 Jeep Cherokee that I kept for 10 years and put 150k miles on before it finally died. Now I have a beautiful 2014 Jeep Wrangler. That sucker isn't leaving my sight anytime soon.

non-fixie 

I had one of these for a while, when I worked in addiction care (!). The only car mrs non-fixie ever asked me to get rid of. Because it was too fast. And it only has a two litre engine!

greg3rd48 

Dad's '78 AMC Matador Barcelona Edition. My brothers and I loved riding in it with him any time we could. People would literally stop in their tracks wherever we went to talk about that car. He absolutely relished it and it was the coolest thing to me as a teenager. We never had a new car but he always had two AMC's in his stable that he was working on or showing in classic car meets. I never learned how to work on classic cars like he did but I sure loved them and spent a lot of time chatting with and watching my dad as he worked on those AMCs. He really knew everything about them and anyone who collected them. It is now in my little brother's possession and this April he rode up to the the church at his wedding in the Matador and dad was certainly there with all of us in spirit.

@noglider It is a Matador! Growing up we had two Matadors and a Rambler at one point. I think the love affair with AMC's began when he bought the '62 Rambler Classic from its original owner for $50 when I was about 10 years old. It was a wreck but he rebuilt it and went on to show it and actually win some trophies etc. This Barcelona was another winner. The other Matador was just a beast that we drove around in.

SJX426 

They all develop a death wobble. New TRE's (Tie Rod Ends) will fix that.

Running Hot is sometimes confused with temperatures of 200 degrees which is normal for these engines. They use a 190 degree thermostat. Otherwise it is likely a plugged radiator.

Check out WJJeeps.com - Jeep Grand Cherokee WJ 1999-2004 in the section covering Service bulletins. 1999 had a bunch as it was the first year on WJ's. I have a 2000 GC. One of the things I did was have the transmission computer updated to give me 5 speeds instead of 4. Drops RPM down by 200 at 60 MPH.

Since you have a Limited, as do I, don't be surprised if the HVAC starts behaving badly. No cool or hot all the time. There is a kit to fix it. I tore the whole interior out to fix mine because of a failed heater core.

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Looks like the bike is waaaaay to long! The real answer is the camera is waaaaay to close!

noglider 

@greg3rd48, so THAT'S a Matador!

VintageRide

1978 Volvo 245 DL with a 1993 Ford 5.0 L H.O. out of a Mustang GT. The engine and transmission had approx. 10.000 miles on them when they were pulled back in 1995. The Volvo itself used to be Carlsbad Yellow with a tan cloth interior, which is now black leather and has been updated a bit, later style rear hatch, post '86 side mirrors, '83 - 85 Euro style bumpers and some other pieces.

arex

Those old Volvos were something special. I used to have a 142E that was an absolute hoot to drive. Like an idiot, I traded it in on a truck I couldn't afford.

VintageRide

arex - I had a 1972 142E, 4 speed w/ overdrive of course, dark green with black leather interior, even had the rally dash along with cosmic alloy wheels. I have a picture of it somewhere on a slide, will try to post it for you. i remember it also had an R Sport air dam, seem to recall they were around 50.00 in the mid '80's. The one car I regret selling, back in 1989 was a 1969 Dodge Charger, not an R/T but it had a 383, factory disc brakes and a very rare trunk mounted luggage rack. One of my dumb moves in life!

dedhed

HAD a jeep

xiaoman1 

Hi,
Here is one of mine, 1958 original. In the garage covered with"extras" a 1956 Nomad restored with my waiting to be worked on a 2 owner Signal orange 71T Targa . embarrassed to say can't move all the junk around it for pics, but they'er definitely in there somewhere.
Regards, Ben

Bikedued

Under destruction, construction will probably take longer. Working on a budget. But hey, the flathead runs. I need a carb that works, maybe one of the repop edelbrocks in the future if I stop spending money on bikes. Top chop of three inches is nearing completion. It will also be channeled 4 inches or so, and the hood shortened in height to match. I will probably shorten the bottom of the cab too, so the running boards are usable.,,,,BD


1950 Ford F-1...

Bikedued

Man I gotta repaint that generator. Of course I need to find my set of SAE allen wrenches to do that. I am going to use center dump headers, evemtually.,,,BD