| 1980 - 1984: | 1973 JF1-Pale Green Dodge Charger. 318 2-barrel. I beat
the ever-lovin' crap out of that poor car. Granted, I was even more ignorant
than I am now - I was only 16 - but there's really no excuse for how
poorly that car was treated. Some of the more stupid stunts I
pulled:
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| 1983 - 1986: | 1979 Metallic Frost Blue Chrysler Cordoba with the
Corrrrrrrinthian leather interior. 318 2-barrel. This car was
a repossession that I picked up for a reasonable amount of money.
Unfortunately, the thing always smelled like cigar smoke and the headliner
had little black polka-dots all over it where the smoke had penetrated the
vent holes. When I left the Air Force, this car was
repossessed from me for non payment. Ironic, eh?
My favorite story about his car was the time I was driving "down the hill" from Victorville to San Berdoo - a long, downhill, wicked grade road where your car will accelerate to in excess of 100MPH just by coasting. I started to smell something funny and my engine light came on. I coasted down the rest of the hill and pulled over to the side of the road to let the car cool down. The longer I sat, the worse things started to smell so I got out (not a wise thing to do with cars whizzing past at 80+) and looked under the hood. I didn't see anything unusual, so I looked under the car. My catalytic converter was glowing white hot, and had actually started a small grass fire under my car. I pulled up a few feet to stomp out the fire and I ended up waiting a good half-hour before it cooled off enough to drive again. Of course, I never did change the catalytic converter. Who's got money for that kind of crap? I have more stories than you can shake a stick at surrounding this poor car though. Check out this Air Force story, or my St. Joseph story. |
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| 1984 - 1985: | 1969/1970 Charger. Parts car. 1970 front clip on a 1969 body. Never amounted to anything, and never ran. | |
| 1985 - 1990: | 1973 (GM) Charcoal Ontario Gray Charger SE. | |
| 1989 - 1990: | 1973 GK6-Bronze Metallic Charger SE. Parts car. Man did my mom hate looking at those things sitting in her front yard. | |
| 1991 - 1994: | 1976 Dart. | |
| 1997 - 1999: | 1996 Chrysler Sebring JX convertible. | |
| 1997 - Present: | 1970 Plum Crazy Challenger. This baby has her own page. | |
| 1998 - Present: | 1998 Dodge Neon | |
| 1999 - 2000: | 1999 Dodge Durango | |
| 2000 - Present: | 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser Limited Edition |
