Oh no! I just took a 4700-mile roadtrip in my Chevy Cavalier wagon, but I only went as far east as Colorado. If I'd known that you had a station wagon, too, I would have driven all the way out to Florida instead. Maybe we could have made a few passes down the drag strip at PBIR; my car doesn't have your 110-horsepower V8, but it's a few pounds lighter so it probably would've been a good race.
Oh well, maybe next year.
Everyone should have a station wagon in their stable. Now make that 577 horsepower, fastfwd.
Wicked fast, and well balanced.
Aunt Mark
pss. I have taken my old 2005 MINI Cooper S to PBMS (formerly Moroso) a few times. I even took a few "behind the wheel" tracking courses with the pro's. What fun!
Killer!
I come to all party's prepared. SDR will be riding "shotgun". Eameshead and Riki will be in the back seat with the vodka and love . I'll drive. Bring it on.
fondly,
Aunt Mark
ps I will still be wearing pink...or at least at the beginning.
pss. currently4 cars, here (I've thinned the heard).
1 the big benz wagon aka Ford Granada on steroids
2. a new entry level BMW 3 series sedan (335i)
3. My best friend, ( 2005 MINI Cooper S) with a bit of John Cooper DNA added
4. An older SL Pagoda (1971) seldom driven.
oh...and an older Ford Ranger XLT pickup truck...I think
Thank you Spanky.
I plan to place the plaque strategically over the missing tiles in my bathroom that I still haven't got round to fixing.
P.S Mark your AMG is disgusting.....can I have a go in it please? I have a Beemer with 220 BHP which is enough.
P.S.S The old original 60's doors in my house are all Mahogany..I'm very proud.
Mark, I'm down to three:
1. The big new(ish) British Racing Green non-Cavalier non-wagon.
2. The 21-year-old British Racing Green Honda of which I believe you're already aware, now with 300K trouble-free miles.
3. The Palladium Silver [wife doesn't like green as much as I do] crosstown rival to your 3-series.
My big car against your big car. Loser has to buy Cdsilva's Mitsubimmer prototype, winner gets his pick of the loser's little cars -- that SL isn't green, is it?
I will wear black, of course.
Hello fastfwd!
Your stable sounds to be quite well equipped. None of my machines will ever see 300K on the clock...my god, very impressive build quality on those classic NSX's. Now, I'm totally up for the challenge..either drag strip, or track...but you can't have my old MINI. Nope, so I'll trade you cdsilva's Mitz. for a decent bottle of vodka.
your friend,
Aunt Mark
oh, and I went to this exibit yesterday at the local museum. SDR should have been along, but he had to have his eyebrow waxed...or something.
http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/local/the-rides-of-their-liv...
Rde12,
I'm guessing the irony of your above response is completely lost on you, as the whole purpose of this thread was commentary on threads like yours. Since you haven't gotten it yet, I'll explain further.
There are many people who drop by this forum and post questions about a piece of furniture they found that they think is important or valuable because it looks like something well known which is important and/or valuable. Then when regular contributors to this forum reply that the offered piece is most likely generic, the original posters often don't accept the answer or get upset that the forum does tell them what they want to hear.
There is little chance that your sofa is teak. It could be from Yugoslavia (there were similar sofas made there that resemble yours) or it could have been made in the U.S. The majority of sofas that look like yours are some type of stained hardwood. Yet rather than accept good responses from the forum that your sofa is not teak, your response was a defiant "it is teak." Hence my BMW response in your thread. If it makes you feel better to think your sofa is teak, then by all means, continue to do so.
In the late 90s I had a 1985 black and silver Chevy El Camino Super Sport with the ungodly (296?) big engine for a year or two… it was great for taking loads of debris off of my hillside to the dumps, and the kids in town all thought it was pretty cool. But eventually it started smoking out the street with oil smoke whenever I started it up, and smelled like gasoline when I would gun it.
I am pretty sure it wasn't teak though.
As a teenager, I bought an early TWO cylinder 700 cc rear-engine BMW for 200 bucks. It had NO front seat. It sounded like a Greyhound bus, and was just about as fast. I used an old camel stool for a front seat for one whole summer. I remember installing a ridiculous hood ornament on it. It would barely hold me, SDR, Riki and Mark (and his ham) on trips to the ocean.
Also had a cool little SAAB with the flywheel that would freewheel by design.
There were others.
I used to have a station wagon but then this happened. There was no teak in the car but the car itself was Swedish. Does that count? And two of the set of Tapio Wirkkala shot glasses that were in the wayback were shattered---waah! I walked away with just a bump on the knee.
And no, Aunt Mark. The shot glasses were not in use at the time. Maybe when I got home, though.
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