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Ashton S.
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Here are a few that you don’t hear about any longer.

My family was a diehard GM family for decades. Our family fleet consisted of mostly Buicks and Cadillacs. Despite my protest of being open to any make and model, I subconsciously inherited this brand loyalty, and spent my money on 2 deVilles, a Seville, and an Intrigue in the 90's and 2000's. I always claimed that I

If I remember correctly, “Gatorbacks” were an actual model of tire made by Goodyear back in the 80's. They were called Goodyear Eagle GT Gatorbacks, and they were considered very desirable by the IROC-Z Mustang GT crowd when I was in high school.

I owned an Oldsmobile Intrigue with the 3.5L “Shortstar.” It was a gutsy engine with a lot of torque, but it ate transmissions. Mine had 3 transmissions in 40,000 miles. All paid for by GM which may have been one of the reasons it didn’t get used in more applications.

I owned an 1984 Seville when I was in my early 20's. loved the way it wafted down the interstate. Loved the styling, loved the comfortable seats. Unfortunately the HT-4100 V8 was a total dog of an engine and when it started losing compression a 20 year old’s budget was not sufficient to keep it running.

Easy Answer. 1986 Subaru XT Turbo in that electric blue color with the silver body cladding. to my teenage eyes, it looked like.... The Future.

If the air blew cold, and there were no warning lights on the dash I would have gone borderline “Nice Price”. Those issues, combined with a seller with an attitude trying to claim mint condition makes this a solid No Dice.

Close....

Is it sacrilege to say that at this price, I would rather have a well sorted Ferrari Mondial Carbriolet over the Dino? Can you get them for the same price?

The Canadian provenance combined with the small bubble of rust put me into borderline CP territory. If I had to have a Saab GMT360, I’d certainly try to find one South of the Mason Dixon Line that didn’t spend a decade on the salted roads of the great white north first. 

My love of any daily driver vehicle is tempered by real world pragmatism. Once I feel a car is no longer reliable I will start the search. It might be a major transmission repair, it could be an A/C that is starting to blow cool and not cold. It might be an odd thunking sound in the suspension. I have gotten to a

20 years ago it was Simpsons parody. Today it is reality. The times they are a changin’.

2 years ago I bought a car that can run on either 87 or 93 octane gasoline, but makes more horsepower on 93. At the time of purchase, I told my wife I was going to run regular in it, and didn’t care about the extra power. There has been only 1 tank of 87 octane ever run in the car since I bought it and that was a week

I’ll admit that it has been a very long time, but I am fairly certain it was 318 cubic inch V8. Calling it a Hemi may not have been accurate.

I owned a 1979 Chrysler Cordoba. It had a Hemi that made a laughable 135 horsepower. It had opera lights. It had a landau roof. It got 16 mpg. It wasn’t a good car, but it had personality. It had presence. Which is more than I can say for my present daily driver, a 2016 Ford Edge.

Nissan Executive: “Wow that Murano Cross Cabriolet was a total disaster. We lost a fortune on that project.”

I was searching all over for that image! Lincoln’s Lincoln was a post in Jalopnik a few years back.. I couldn’t find it.

Easy... Lincoln MKT in Black... Lincoln MKT because it has the most headroom of any vehicle Lincoln makes, 40.1" He needs that for the stovepipe hat.. and black because it matches his waistcoat...

Here we go...

There are so many older cars that I would have been totally embarrassed to purchase new, but would drive now with a delicious sense of irony if I could find one in mint condition. Cadillac Allante, an early 2000's Thunderbird, a C4 Corvette.