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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #30 on: May 21, 2015, 06:24:27 AM »
I dare not photograph my car, the force of the light from the flash striking the bodywork may well prove irresistible....

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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #31 on: May 21, 2015, 08:46:28 AM »
    Not to put to shame all the "Beamers", Bugattis, Jags, and Porsches etc. however I thought I'd show my wheels here as well. First, my personal everyday mode of "go to town" transport, 6.7  8 cylinder Turbo Diesel with leather interior, full back seat, and 12,000 pound winch on the deer catcher up front. A little thirsty but if someone runs into me I should win most times.



Where Wonder Dog sits when "riding shotgun",



.....and my opulent "digs" (complete with self reversed photo in my working garb)



.........and for property patrol and chores, my little marvel of Japanese Engineering companion, 650 CC's and a virtually unstoppable mud and muskeg conqueror .......



   I started as a young fella with an MGA Coupe followed by a 64 and a half first year Ford Mustang, and look at me now! You can take the boy off the farm but you can never take the farm out of the boy they say.
Cheers, (from Canada's Boreal Forest)
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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #32 on: May 21, 2015, 11:48:14 AM »
Guess I will add to the list.  My current daily driver is this black on black 2003 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS.

The car I had prior to that was a 2002 Monte Carlo SS Limited Edition Pacecar, in mint condition until I was rear-ended on the highway on the way to work, but that's another story...

A fun car back in the 1990's was this 1985 Chevrolet Cavalier convertible.

and the first new car that I bought in 1987, a Chevrolet El Camino SS with the rare Choo Choo Customs SS nose conversion.  I still have this one, but it is currently in my garage waiting until I can afford to restore it. 


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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #33 on: May 21, 2015, 11:53:04 AM »
How about a Talley of all the cars and trucks each of us has owned! I've had so many it's embarassing. But here goes.
77 AMC Hornet wagon
72 Chevy Impala
76 Chevy Camaro
62 Chevy pick up
64 VW Baja buggy
89 Chevy Camara
92 GEO Storm
94 CHEVY S10 Pickup
96 Dodge Ram pick up
2000 Jeep Wrangler
2000 Ford pick up
96 Dodge Dakota pick up
2004 Jeep Wrangler
2007 Jeep Wrangler
94 Jeep Wrangler
2003 Dodge Ram pick up
2011 Dodge Ram
2004 Nissan XTerra

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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #34 on: May 21, 2015, 05:28:27 PM »
This might look a bit sad...

1915 Peugeot 153A    *
1924 Chevrolet depot hack
1928 Renault KZ2    *
1929 Chevrolet sports roadster
1930 Durant 614 deluxe coupe  *
1930 Durant 614 sedan
1954 Peugeot 203A sedan
1955 Peugeot 203C sedan
1966 Peugeot 404 coupe
1967 Peugeot 404 cabriolet
1967 Peugeot 404 sedan
1968 Peugeot 404 sedan
1971 Peugeot 404 pick-up    *
1972 Peugeot 504 sedan
1975 Peugeot 504 sedan
1979 Peugeot 305SR
1979 Porsche 924 turbo
1983 Porsche 944   *
1983 Peugeot 505 GTi
1987 Opel Manta GT/E
1987 Citroen BX GT
1987 Peugeot 309 GTi
1993 Peugeot 405GR
1996 Peugeot 405MI16
1999 Peugeot 406 coupe *

*  still got it

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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #35 on: May 21, 2015, 08:08:40 PM »
Cars and bikes I have owned over the years, I think I have them in order that I owned them;

1960 Morris Major
1969 Datsun 1200 Coupe
1961 EK Holden ute
1968 XT Ford Falcon
1971 Honda SL 350 Trail bike
1972 ZF Ford Fairlane 351
1939 BSA M21 motorcycle with sidecar
1939 BSA M20 motorcycle
1947 BSA B33 motorcycle
1971 XY GTHO Phase II Ford Falcon
1985 Toyota 4Runner SR5-D
1929 BSA Sloper Motorbike
1994 ED Ford Falcon
1996 EF Ford Falcon
2000 S Type Jaguar



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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #36 on: May 22, 2015, 02:25:43 AM »
 Besides my daily driver of a 2012 Scion XB, I own a 1912 Pioneer cyclecar built by the American Manufacturing Company in Chicago. I bought this as an investment but I am currently selling it due to unemployment. In 1911 William H. McIntyre commissioned a young engineer, named William Bushnell Stout, to design the 1912 model Pioneer as his first major project. Stout later went on to form the Stout Metal Airplane Company which designed and built the Ford Trimotor.
  AMC started in 1910 but closed production in 1914 due to the onset of WW1 and mainly competition from the Ford model T. My vehicle has the original Monarch engine and transmission. It is the only AMC Pioneer survivor of any year made. William McIntyre did open a factory in Indiana from 1913 to 1914. He stretched the wheelbase by four inches and changed the seating arrangement from two side by side bucket seats to one bucket seat and a rear bench seat. He renamed this version the Imp. There are two Imp survivors. One is in the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum.
  You can view many photos of my cyclecar if you Google "1912 Pioneer cyclecar". The selling price is well below the appraised value. Maybe you know a serious collector or museum that might want this rare vehicle. If so , please send me a PM. Thanks, Barry.

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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #37 on: May 22, 2015, 06:10:44 AM »
Fitted a new exhaust today... yummy sound and improves the mid range power curve  8) :o




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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #38 on: May 22, 2015, 06:49:45 AM »
Yepp, Acra is the best!!
You have made a very good choice, Master Bob of sound  ;)

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« Reply #39 on: May 22, 2015, 07:38:00 AM »
Yepp, Acra is the best!!
You have made a very good choice, Master Bob of sound  ;)

Thank you, Master Jedi of plactic  ;D

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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #40 on: May 22, 2015, 07:56:02 AM »
Besides my daily driver of a 2012 Scion XB, I own a 1912 Pioneer cyclecar built by the American Manufacturing Company in Chicago. I bought this as an investment but I am currently selling it due to unemployment. In 1911 William H. McIntyre commissioned a young engineer, named William Bushnell Stout, to design the 1912 model Pioneer as his first major project. Stout later went on to form the Stout Metal Airplane Company which designed and built the Ford Trimotor.
  AMC started in 1910 but closed production in 1914 due to the onset of WW1 and mainly competition from the Ford model T. My vehicle has the original Monarch engine and transmission. It is the only AMC Pioneer survivor of any year made. William McIntyre did open a factory in Indiana from 1913 to 1914. He stretched the wheelbase by four inches and changed the seating arrangement from two side by side bucket seats to one bucket seat and a rear bench seat. He renamed this version the Imp. There are two Imp survivors. One is in the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum.
  You can view many photos of my cyclecar if you Google "1912 Pioneer cyclecar". The selling price is well below the appraised value. Maybe you know a serious collector or museum that might want this rare vehicle. If so , please send me a PM. Thanks, Barry.

I love the Pioneer! That's my sort of car.
I have a mate in Australia who has two McIntyre high-wheelers, which I assume are a distant relation to your car?
Good luck selling it, I am sure someone will give it a good home
 

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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #41 on: May 22, 2015, 11:29:39 AM »
OK here are the cars I've had over the years...
1974 Chevrolet Nova
1987 El Camino SS
1977 Caprice Classic
1981 Impala
1985 Cavalier Convertible
1986 Monte Carlo SS
1995 Lumina
1995 Buick Roadmaster Station Wagon
1995 Pontiac Grand Am
2002 Monte Carlo SS Pace Car
2003 Monte Carlo SS
As you can see I bleed Chevrolet!  With a couple of other GM cars over the years. 
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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #42 on: May 22, 2015, 12:10:14 PM »
I've only owned 2 cars, a 1972 MGB Roadster which I restored and owned for 10 years - sold to pay for my pilot's licence.....



I drove that car through France, Germany and Holland, and visited Verdun with it....I'd love to get another....my 2nd car is my current 2007 Hyundai Sonata. Boring but practical....

Then there's my bike, a 1978 Ducati 900 GTS which has been in storage for the last 7 years in North Carolina until I can get down there to get it. I've owned it since 1985 and brought it over fron the UK. It, too, is totally restored - or was when it went into storage, no idea what condition it's in now...







Not sure if I should sell it - it needs to be used and I don't have the time or money to go and get it....

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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #43 on: June 12, 2015, 07:03:12 AM »
On Saturday I will be exchanging Rachel the Rover for Jennifer the Jaguar.

She's a 2007 S-type XS Diesel. 2.7 litre, twin-turbo, 204HP 6-speed auto with all the bells and whistles. One previous owner, full service history etc.

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Re: What's your set of wheels.
« Reply #44 on: June 12, 2015, 07:32:21 AM »
Excellent Squiffy, you will be very pleased with the S Type, been driving mine for nearly 8 years now, a beautiful car.

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