What's your street car? (Page 6 of 7)

1979 Canadian version.

Guess it's time to post one of these up

My first car, still drive it occasionally although I am considering giving it the Lemons treatment, it's just getting too old. Autocrossed, rallycrossed, drift events and whatever else I could do to it has been done, jumps and top speed runs at bonneville included. It's not a fast car but for some reason doing any kind of performance driving in it is just too fun. I remember the first time I hit an autocross in it, people said it was like living in a 70's cop chase movie. Even when I drive the miata I still end up missing this car in some way. It always seems to come back for winter beater duties.

The turbo 1990 miata, used for autocrossed, more recently drift events, and whatever else. It has been stuck in the garage for a while now, the style bar is gone and a lot has changed.

I've had a bunch

1982 Toyota 4x4 with big tires
1982 toyota Corolla
1984 Nissan Pick up
1978 malibu
1955 chevy truck
1971 camaro
1974 Camaro
1978 Toyota pick up
1987 Toyota Turbo excab 4x2
1971 opel Kadett wagon
1982 dodge colt
1983 dodge colt
1986 Chevy truck 500hp 40" tires
1985 Honda Prelude
1962 Oval window bug
1967 Baja Bug
196? 23 window bus
1966 21 window vw bus
1969 Camper Vw bus
1987 Toyota corolla
1975 Chevy suburban
6-1964 vw Bugs
1987 Bronco
1988 bronco
10-1985 Toyota  reucks and 4 runners
10-1984-90 toyota 2wd pick up
1981 Athey street sweeper
197?Triumph tr6
10-88-95 Honda civics
1957 Chevy truck Ratrod
1996 Dodge Cummins 2500 4x4
1999 Dodge Cummins 4x4 400hp 900lb trq
1996 Chevy 2wd diesel
4-1994 Honda Delsol
6- 1988-91 CRX
2-1995 Ford F150 4x4
PISMORUNNER  1/3 SUBURBAN 2/3 tOYOTA 4RUNNER
1-1985 Toyota rock buggy on propane
1982 Gm truck w/HUMMER replica on it
2001 P71 cop car
1993 Taurus SHO
1994 Taurus SHO
1990 Tempo 4x4
1991 m bENZ 190
1991 300zx TURBO sTILLEN 400 HP
1987 t-BIRD
1994 T-bird
1994 Jeep cherokee
1990 Jeep Cherokee
2002 Jeep LIberty Blue Camo SEMA vehicle
1999 Suburban baby hauler
1977 Camaro
1978 Trans am w/ 472 olds 500 hp
4-1980's Blazers
1995 7 passeger Limo
2006 F550 4x4 money make lemon hauler
1995 bmw 525

Got like 20 stories/diary /fact  of a street sweeper .I'm a loser .

Fact every Real World on MTV had a street sweeper footage .

I had a Street Sweeper company. During the busy season I would drive that everywhere I went in case I  got a call for a Job . RHD and LHD  RHD is fun when people tailgate and then pass you and you roll up to stoplight next to them and stare at them or knock on there window ,freaks them out.

Sweeper had chrome parts and 200w stereo  and a top speed of 45 mph on flat grounds
made $75 to $125 an hour

Fact -Crazy street traffic rule/law after 1 am was allowed to drive opposite way down road when sweeping. Right when the drunks are leaving bar .
One Time a drunk came towards me and I was on opposite side of road and he jumped the curb and drove down sidewalk.
 
  One time I was next to Highway 99 in Modesto ,ca. and was cleaning upa 3 acre lot that was a burned up pallets .So when cleaning this up I was using water for dust control not enough though.It looked like there was a fire with all the dark dust and was listening to radio and the DJ said there was a fire off 99 so I called the radio staion and told DJ no fire just me . After that job I looked like a chimney sweep guy.

My street I lived on was really clean.

I drove a street sweeper with a buddy to saskaatewan Canada that was interesting in itself drove thru Yellowstone and told the rangers we got called to clean up after that big Geyser.

The worst thing about driving the sweeper is you drive everywehere looking in the gutters haven't driven one in 10 years and still watch the gutter.

Whereabouts in Orlando do you live? I'm over by UCF and always up for a beer and some racing jibber-jabber....

I'm only 19, so not much in the way of auto history, but
1978 Chevy Bonanza C20 (2wd, longbed)
1991 Geo Storm GSi (32mpg, 225000 miles still goin)

*turned 16, got license*
1996 Ford Mustang GT (head swap was first experience working on cars, did by myself with chilton's manual)

1995 Mazda Miata  (tried to kill me on tuesday)

My dad bought the Chevy new back in 1977 when he was building houses in missouri. He sold it to his dad when he moved to California back in the 80's and it sat in the barn for 20 years, occasionally coming out for ranch duty. In 2006 my dad and sister flew out to missouri and drove it back to California along route 66- it only had 72,000 original miles. I live in the country and used it to put around before I had my license. The mustang is my daily driver in South Carolina, where I'm going to college; the Miata and Geo (dad's old commute car) trade off daily driver duties here in Cali.

UPDATE:

RIP King... RIP

94 300ZX 2+2 + tree = dead

92 300ZX slicktop + oil starvation = dead

92 slicktop on the left, 94 2+2 on the right. The white one belonged to my friend Tony who sold it to my friend Kevin, who wrecked it... so no cars in this photo are alive today.

I drive but don't own the Rice Rocket Racing 83 280zx. 85 mph + racing incident = pit maneuver -> gymnastics routine on the dirt outside of turn 8 at Thunderhill = dead.

89 Isuzu I-Mark RS Handling by Lotus

Why yes, I can tri-pod

and a 99 Mercury Sable LS Wagon

I've never cared to take pics of it, but it looks like this but in worse shape.

Thunderhill. about a 3 to 4 hour drive north of Laguna Seca.

Currently:

67 nova SS (owned since 1981)
82 cj 8, (ford f150 drivetrain, including the 9" w/ a d44 out of a ramcharger)
99 camaro ss (11.8 sec bolt on car)  Sees RR duty mainly now
00 Z28 convertible
08 tahoe
07 9-3 sport combi
88 s10 w/ plow
lemon bird turbo coupe

Im only one year behind you at 23, but my list is relatively short...

start out with my 1st car, which has been retired to parts car

1989 325iX (AWD) - what a pile, but i loved it.

The german theme continues...

Next in the german stable is a 2000 M-B C280 - just over 100k miles on this one. My Daily driver.



here it is at Road America!

even took it to an auto-cross!

The real car - 1984 325e - 254,601 current miles




like new!



David Hobbs signing the dashboard !

Magnaflow muffler is the only mod

Current license plate. Cant do with that generic crap

Getting ready for Road America!

Glamour shot

Video section

C280 - autocross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_96UgNbd9qE

325e at Blackhawk Farms Raceway (on-board)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJJ8Uv9PX14

325e at road america  (3rd car in video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1o4KFwbRSg

325e at road america
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyLtgI0fQY0

325e auto-cross at joliet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5gk1oE0Nhw