Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

8mpg isn't meant to be "practical."

Let's leave "practical" to the guys still trying to keep the dream alive sporting a jack-ed up Honda Odyssey with Cragars in the cul-de-sac with 3.2 kids en route to soccer practice. :)



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Fine then. That’s a low 10 second car(probably? Whatever, it’s fucking fast) and will smoke anything up to 3x what it cost. And wagons are cool. You dumb boomers just grew up in an era where all the wagons were terrible
That chick is hot.
I like em with the muscley bits
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I was at a BMW dealership in Seattle in about 1977, dropping my brother off to get his car warranty checked. They had a beat up ('57 ?) 300SL Gullwing sitting in the back. I asked them how much they were asking for it. They said $7,000.00. I think I had about $5K at the time and probably wouldn't have had too much of a problem scraping up another $2K.

Didn't do it. Last thing I was interested in at that time was "a project car"..... :rolleyes:
I got to change spark plugs on one of these and drive it around to our service drive. This pewter/dark red is probably my favorite Merc color combo ever

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Except in 1978 my brother and I could afford to use our own money from working hourly jobs to buy a drivable 10 year old Mustang with a 302 and 4 speed. And could afford to buy aftermarket performance parts to make it really go.

Can you do that now? Filter that.
Before I was 25 I owned 3 chevy trucks, 1950-1953, one was a 3/4 ton with all the wooden racks you could put on the back, never paid more than $250. for any of them........That was then, this is now any one of those trucks, running as they were would sell for at least 10K now...........
 
...more 'station wagon' that was far from terrible. :cool:

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I love em !!!!
Apologies in advance if I am doing something wrong regarding protocall.....And I don't have pictures.
What about the Olds VISTA CRUISER? My dad had two of them, the first of them was the same one on that 70's show. When he had the first one I wasn't allowed near it. I was driving a '51 Chevy Panel truck, by the time he got the second one I was off to parts unknown....
 
If y’all want to spend some time running down the rabbit hole of car restoration and mods, check out this ‘55 wagon build I’ve been following for 12+ years… this guy builds his own tools, to make the tools and dies to create perfect body panels, etc.

Unreal level of craftsmanship…think he’s actually getting close to completion now:

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