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Yay! It seems that I have a functional car now...

#1 The Journalist

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Posted 09 April 2007 - 09:12 PM

Basically, see topic description, but, yeah, after being carless for longer than I wished to, I found an old Acura Integra whose owner was moving and didn't need.

Also, I needed something interesting to say for my 7,000th post. Oh wow. Just, oh wow.

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#2 Mackilroy

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Posted 09 April 2007 - 09:16 PM

How much did you pay for it?

And I'm only 2,795 posts behind you.

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#3 moonunit4eva

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Posted 09 April 2007 - 09:56 PM

I think in the price you should include how much you dumped into that Cadillac that doesn't run.

Whatever happens..happens.

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Posted 09 April 2007 - 11:19 PM

My 1983 Toyota Starlet finally quit. Had somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 miles on it (the odometer and gas gauge didn't work) and hadn't had an oil change in about a decade. It's too bad as its 47 mpg would have been useful when the bomb hits. My '01 Pathfinder's 15 mpg on premium fuel probably won't get me as far and my current backup car (91 Mercury Capri convertable) gets surprisingly poor mileage as well (maybe 19 mpg).

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#5 The Journalist

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Posted 10 April 2007 - 12:49 AM

Mackilroy, on Apr 9 2007, 07:16 PM, said:

How much did you pay for it?

And I'm only 2,795 posts behind you.

$450. Hopefully its oil leak isn't a terribly large problem....

Indeed. I better start posting faster....I mean, better.

moonunit4eva, on Apr 9 2007, 07:56 PM, said:

I think in the price you should include how much you dumped into that Cadillac that doesn't run.

Heh, another several hundred. Quite more than I've put into the Integra....

And it will run...it just uses as much transmission fluid as it does gasoline...

Speaking of which, does anyone have a transmission for a '79 DeVille that I can, uh, borrow?...

Pufer said:

My 1983 Toyota Starlet finally quit. Had somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 miles on it (the odometer and gas gauge didn't work) and hadn't had an oil change in about a decade

What happened? Just everything that was working decided to fail similtaneously (this seems to happen to cars of that age...)?

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#6 dude3

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Posted 10 April 2007 - 12:54 AM

Is the bug still out of order?

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