After HS when I worked at a detail shop, we had an account with Rasmussen BMW. This was my dream car for years..... 1988 BMW M5
Not so much nowadays from what I understand. They have been dumbing down the cars for a while now becoming a luxury brand instead of an enthusiast brand. They used to make some real nice cars, but I am not certain they have any advantage over Audi or Mercedes now. At least Mercedes still races at the top levels of Motorsports, not that too much of it trickles down...
Aren't the new ones unreliable as shit? All kinds of things going wrong. I'd love to get a BMW, just scared of the ownership costs.
I have no idea...I've dated girls who've had them back in the day..Benz and BMWs.....I'm a Toyota or Nissan guy ...Toyotas frickin' last....my son is a Subaru guy...BMWs I've driven were great...tight transmissions...great suspension...great engines..quiet...the Mercedes I drove were clumsy, didn't corner well, had lots of creaks and moans...shitty gas mileage and noisey engines...would never own one...also in the shop getting something fixed with overpriced parts all the time....no idea about new German cars
I knew that car the instant I saw it. My aunt and uncle bought nothing but Ramblers. Not sure about the early 50s when they may have owned a Nash. The last car I remember them owning was a Javelin, probably some time in the mid to late 60s.
Why are people now saying muscle car when motor trend and other auto magazines most often referred to them as Super cars Back in the late 60s and early 70s?
Not sure, Lanny. But another classic I owned and was the car that I traded in on the AMX was, get this, a white GTO convertible. [ducks, and runs for cover]
Dad had a 1979 Camaro RS, like this except the colors were reversed. https://images.app.goo.gl/NpxQjQ3jDYG8rxPE7
You'd better run for the hills. A GTO for an AMX? What were you thinking or were you even thinking? The GTO was my main dream car out of a bunch of dream cars.
Camaro was one of my favorite cars. I told you about the '68 with the 4 speed Hurst close ratio shifter that my brother had. Did you see that post? I think it may have had the 327 but definitely not the 350, which is too bad. I was amazed that he got no tickets. I got a shitload of tickets just driving my '69 four banger Volvo with an engine that was barely 100 cubic inches. It even had a .426 rear end which is pretty damn low. I once had a race in that car with a Vette on I-5 headed North just past Wilsonville. I had pedal to the metal but all I could get out of her was 100 mph. As he was cruising past me I looked over and he was smiling so I smiled back knowing he had another one of my dream cars.
I remember when I was 17 and working on a job in Atlanta with my father. He said son, those bulldozer drivers make $5 an hour. Brick layers were making $3.50/hr. My father made $5/hr. as the boss of a crew. He said he was concerned that I might operate a bulldozer making $5/hr. and be so satisfied that I might never return to college. At that point I quit thinking about operating a dozer and put all my efforts into college. Wasn't enough, though. Still got drafted. To this day I'm not quite sure what happened but I think the registrar's office made a clerical error and that changed my life.
...I got lucky...my draft lottery number was 353...never served, but in retrospect, looking back, I wish I had...getting married at 19 was a dumb move.
Those AMX's with the high horsepower 390 were pretty quick cars as I went up against one with my 427 Cougar and I was surprised how quick it was. He got the same view many people got though and that's a view of my taillights.
has anybody else noticed that Sly has not participated in this thread. I guess tires are the only part of a car he's interested in
