Does anyone know whether I could find my old cars? If I'm lucky they're rusting in junkyards. I have VINs. Before I die, I'd like to travel the country to visit my relatives' graves, and my former homes, workplaces, and cars. And hire a private detective to find my old friends. And write my biography. (I'd do that, not him.)
my mom had several Cougars including a 69, 71 and then I bought her triple black 1972 convertible that I only kept for a short time as it was difficult to put a sound system in it, lol.
...when I had my convertible TR6s I wasted a lot of money trying to make the sound system better...but the acoustics of convertibles was terrible back then and no matter how I tried, it still sounded like a cheap transistor radio with a freight train in the background.
Same company nowadays. Of course, you look at how they are today and you have to tip your hat to them - they make some excellent reliable cars now (and rumors are that some of them, like the Stinger, are also lots of fun to drive).
For my job in 1985 I had a Nissan Sentra with a stick. It was ok. The company decided to lease this Hyundai which was really bad. Kia,'s I believe came after. I understand that Hyundai owns Kia. It,s remarkable how the Koreans have put quality into their products. You and I are from the last Century so we know how cars once were easy to repair and better in the superficial damage department too.
nstall / When I had the FIAT ,I was the first in my neighborhood to install boom boxes. Two 10 inch guitar speakers in hand built cabinets. I blew out my tape deck because of the wrong impedance and no pre amp. No matter how loud you played the Allman Brothers, you still had a shit ball car to show.
Did you have problems with the motors in the hide away headlights? Back in those days I drove a 64 Olds Dynamic 88. That car could crash into guard rails and you could drive off as I experienced on my prom night at 4:30 in the morning.
Many years ago we went to Cyprus and the rental car was an old Hyundai Excel (remember these?) and went all over the island - instead of going through the coastal road we decided to go through the Trodos (mountains) because that's where the Cyprus WRC races are and I wanted to drive them - took about 8 hours on gravel roads in the middle of nowhere to get to Paphos. Decided to go to visit the Andromeda statue at the edge of the island - about 2 hours from the nearest city (Paphos) - and after spending a lovely morning there - came back to the car and the clutch cable (yes, they used to rent manual cars in Cyprus) broke. We found a payphone and got through to the rental company. About 4 hours later they came and picked us up with a replacement car (you guessed it, another Hyundai Excel). I am just thankful the clutch cable broke at a remote place that had a payphone. I might still be roaming the interior of Cyprus herding sheep now if it broke in the Trodos.
My wife is Korean so I know that full well. It's just that the Kia came out first and the Hundai which came out later was a bit upscale from the Kia. We actually looked at buying a Kia back in the late 80s but it didn't come with power steering back then and my wife is small and needed power steering so instead I bought her a new Volvo 760. We were driving home from an annual medical physical exam when some jerk broadsided us and totaled the car. I believe it was the solid construction and unique safety features that saved my life, since we were hit in the driver's door and I was driving. My wife had to go to the emergency room but I was fine.
...lol, I actually tried to use a small pair of Peavy monitors in my TRs...the distortion only got louder.
