What vehicle(s) do you drive?

[Nevada West]

jersey guys dream date.

Well, now you're just plain run out of steam.

[Geoff]

A friend of mine used to have a fleet of Volvos. While my P.O.S. Ford Maverick was in the paint shop one summer during college after I'd fixed that year's Burlington, VT road salt cancer damage, I drove around his Amazon wagon (122) for a week or so.



My Maverick had bucket seats lifted out of one of his more modern Volvo parts cars. His P1800 was cool to drive around in but it looked way better than it drove.

[Geoff]

I will say that when I used to spend a lot of time in Stockholm doing stuff with Ericsson, the cab drivers who had Volvos all bitched about them. They were pretty consistent that if your cab company really cared, they ran Mercedes and that Volvos were complete junk.

[thorski]

A friend of mine used to have a fleet of Volvos. While my P.O.S. Ford Maverick was in the paint shop one summer during college after I'd fixed that year's Burlington, VT road salt cancer damage, I drove around his Amazon wagon (122) for a week or so.



My Maverick had bucket seats lifted out of one of his more modern Volvo parts cars. His P1800 was cool to drive around in but it looked way better than it drove.

The ford maverick came with the slant inline 6 which was pretty much an indestructable trouble free engine, hardly a p.o.s.

[SnoBrdr]

What type of Car and Model do you drive And do you like it

08 Tacoma 4x4 yuse it just for snow trips.

07 Corolla, use it for everything else

78 Honda Gold Wing

73 Harley Electra Glide

Love them all.

[Big Bob]

A friend of mine used to have a fleet of Volvos. While my P.O.S. Ford Maverick was in the paint shop one summer during college after I'd fixed that year's Burlington, VT road salt cancer damage, I drove around his Amazon wagon (122) for a week or so.



My Maverick had bucket seats lifted out of one of his more modern Volvo parts cars. His P1800 was cool to drive around in but it looked way better than it drove.

The ford maverick came with the slant inline 6 which was pretty much an indestructable trouble free engine, hardly a p.o.s.

Wasn't the slant 6 a Chrysler product, not Ford??

[SnoBrdr]

A friend of mine used to have a fleet of Volvos. While my P.O.S. Ford Maverick was in the paint shop one summer during college after I'd fixed that year's Burlington, VT road salt cancer damage, I drove around his Amazon wagon (122) for a week or so.

My Maverick had bucket seats lifted out of one of his more modern Volvo parts cars. His P1800 was cool to drive around in but it looked way better than it drove.

The ford maverick came with the slant inline 6 which was pretty much an indestructable trouble free engine, hardly a p.o.s.

Wasn't the slant 6 a Chrysler product, not Ford??

Yes. Ford only made a straight six, decent engine but nothing like the MOPAR version, which was about indestructible.

[thorski]

Straight 6- yes my bad.
Both indestructable

[Geoff]

Straight 6- yes my bad.
Both indestructable

Yep. That 200" straight 6 happily went 150,000 miles. The 3-on-the-tree transmission ran trouble-free, too. You had to tune the sucker every 3000-5000 miles but I got pretty good with a timing light and dwell meter. Everything else about the car kind of sucked. A true rust bucket. I replaced the brake lines in it a couple of times. The drum brakes needed rebuilding all the time. I had rear wheel bearings let go a few times and had to scrounge half-axles in junk yards after the old one got destroyed.

[thorski]

Straight 6- yes my bad.
Both indestructable

Yep. That 200" straight 6 happily went 150,000 miles. The 3-on-the-tree transmission ran trouble-free, too. You had to tune the sucker every 3000-5000 miles but I got pretty good with a timing light and dwell meter. Everything else about the car kind of sucked. A true rust bucket. I replaced the brake lines in it a couple of times. The drum brakes needed rebuilding all the time. I had rear wheel bearings let go a few times and had to scrounge half-axles in junk yards after the old one got destroyed.

Were you in vermont at the time and that is what caused the rust? Because my brothers maverick did not have a rust problem and was quite fast as i remember.

[SnoBrdr]

Straight 6- yes my bad.
Both indestructable

Yep. That 200" straight 6 happily went 150,000 miles. The 3-on-the-tree transmission ran trouble-free, too. You had to tune the sucker every 3000-5000 miles but I got pretty good with a timing light and dwell meter. Everything else about the car kind of sucked. A true rust bucket. I replaced the brake lines in it a couple of times. The drum brakes needed rebuilding all the time. I had rear wheel bearings let go a few times and had to scrounge half-axles in junk yards after the old one got destroyed.

Were you in vermont at the time and that is what caused the rust? Because my brothers maverick did not have a rust problem and was quite fast as i remember.

Fast only if it had the v8 option available in 71.

[Geoff]

Were you in vermont at the time and that is what caused the rust? Because my brothers maverick did not have a rust problem and was quite fast as i remember.

Yep. I graduated from UVM in '80. The car went to Stratton on weekends for a couple o' years in High School, too. It also sat at the beach all summer so it never really got a break from salt.

I had the 200" straight 6. 120 hp with a 3-on-the-tree manual transmission in a stripped 2-door 2600 pound car had OK performance for the day but it was hardly a muscle car. The 250" 6 and 302" V8 probably performed better but with that suspension and brake design, it could also probably kill you quickly. At 60 mph on the Boston central artery, you'd jump a half lane every time you hit an expansion joint.

[thorski]

[icedtea]

is that your woman?

[thorski]

No more like dream car/girl. I'm not into the vampire guys in volvos like JG.
I drive a 1997 ford F150