I'm in the paper!

[GMan]

Probably showing my age here (or lack there of?) but my best/favorite vehicle was a 67 Chevy Impala convertible. Body was rough, replaced the top and had to renovate the hydraulics to get the top to work, but boy was it sweet! 17 years old when I bought it, but the motor was still strong. Can't beat an old Chevy small block. Wishi I still had it.

My second favorite was my 70 Impala. Re-built the engine in that baby and used it for trailering our boat for years before trading it in on a newer vehicle. Still regret that decision.

Rob... still wishing I had either of them...

Rob,

I had a 66 SS 396 Cherry Red and a black rag top. FUN set of wheels.

[Pleater]

I had a BSA A10 mororcycle with Watsonian double adult sidecar and used to carry the kit of a folk singing duo in it.

I often strapped drunken folk singers onto the roofrack - I didn't mind taking them home but the outside of the sidecar was more washable than the inside.

Those were the days.

[Panache]

That's a ripper of an article. Nice buy on the mustang. Great your wife supported your dream there, but then dissed you nationally, well now internationally. shallow indeed!
So how's it running?

Well Star is Nora Charles to my Nick so its her job to take me down a peg, but with lots of love and a lovely smile. Also I can't complain about her dissing me internationally because I wrote the article.

My '95 Ford Mustang GT convertible runs very strong. It has a Flowmaster exhaust and makes wonderful (or awful depending on your point of view) VOOM VOOM VOOM noises. It's a thing, it's a machine, and it's a possession.
In the great scheme of things material objects aren't really that important...


however...

On a beautiful day, when I don't have any responsibilities, you will find me driving down the road in my rumbling wonderful Mustang convertible blasting Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher", The Beach Boys' "Shut Down", or Billy Idol's "You don't need a Gun" with a smile on my face and contentment in my soul.

Cheers

[ozmeath]

Got it made, got it made got it made.... awesome. Good tunes for the Mustang.
Sorry if it sounded like i was having a go before, it was more out of curiosity. hell we all could do with dose of reality check every now and then. And if our considerable other cannot, then whom?
And have you sampled any early (pre '76) zz top in the stang yet? Context can make all the difference in the world.

[Cawdorian]

Amazing, now we know we're also a bunch of gearheads who wear kilts.

My first sports car was a 59 Austin Healy Sprite complete with all Lucas electrical devices. In my later years I have graduated to bigger and better things, drove a C-4 Vette for 17 years, now driving a C-5 Vette.

Wizard, I do envy you, I love the E-Jags.

[cessna152towser]

Best car we ever owned was a 1979 Morris Marina in harvest gold which Ann owned when we first got married. It eventually got uneconomic for us to keep it roadworthy and we passed it on to Ann's cousin who restores classic cars. Sadly someone stole it from him and wrote it off. I also had an old Land Rover which was rough and ready but great fun, but only did 18 miles per gallon and eventually became unreliable. Now we have a modern French Renault Kangoo Trekka, small 4x4 which is more practical. One of my friends has recently purchased a 1965 London Routemaster bus, which despite its large size and having seats for 64 passengers actually does 12 mpg, and I was away for a trip with him on it yesterday - now that's a vehicle that sure turns heads, whether in town traffic or bowling along the slow lane of the motorway at 40mph.

[Jerry]

I'd say the best car I ever owned was a 1967 Mustang which I purchased new.

[Panache]

.... awesome. Good tunes for the Mustang...
And have you sampled any early (pre '76) zz top in the stang yet? Context can make all the difference in the world.

Ozmeath,

You know its funny about my music. In the 80's I was absolutely into New Wave (Adam Ant, Duran Duran, David Bowie, etc.). During the early 90's had a slight brush with Country/Western music (I was into C/W dancing) , 50's rock and swing music (also did West and East Coast swing dancing). The last 7 or so years I have been really into classical music and the crooners (Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald). Now when I got the Mustang none of my cds really seemed to fit the mood of cruising along in a muscle car. So I started getting some more appropriate music. Its been fun discovering the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, The Rolling Stones (before they became a corporation), Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, Queen, and CREAM! I'll have to look into some ZZ Top.
The only tunes I remember from them are "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man". The latter of course describes all of us gents here at X-Marks the Scot.


Cheers