A Horse With No Name

I was this ayem...it was pretty darned good, actually....

He's certainly not feeling any now....

I would so rock that van...and with four rear wheels, I bet it would tow like a banshee too, although you'd need more than a 318 to move a boat or a race car or a backhoe. NEAT find, thanks for posting this WMJ!

We need some rainy weather around here...supposed to rain tonight but it ain't gonna.

Were I to get a bike, I think I would get a Harley Sportster 1200. I like smaller, more nimble vehicles, and I like speed. Local HOG group is a great bunch of people, and it would be a cool way to get out and do social events.

Thanks...my wife and kids will appreciate it when I am listening to them.

The only VW I could really see buying is either GTI or DI Golf, IIRC both are built like German cars and built in Wolfs-burg. See, I don't think the sheet metal is thin. Thin would be the Mitsubishi Outlander which has a very tinny sound when opening and closing doors. As for the interior, I think its ok. It's not the most sexy interior at all, but everything is put together well and works. I do hope the rumor of a 1.8T for the Passat comes true. I have a friend who is like the rain man of everything VW and he says 1.8 T is coming to Passat for sure...we will see... The whole Fusion feels super well built to me. If I could force myself to buy a normal 4 door car and it wasn't going to be a Verano, the Fusion would be a high choice for me.

But yeah, don't think I want to see her over restored either.

Heck, just drop Ohio plates on her and call it done man....she looks better in that second link than half the cars on the road around here...

It can be very traumatic. I had a good friend when I was a boy, his name was "RED" Ray, he was an engeneer for the Nickel Plate Road/Norfolk and Western-Now Norfolk Southern. He was running a train in 1962 and killed a young woman who ran the crossing gates in a VW Beetle. You can't stop a train on a dime.... I knew him around 1982...twenty years later, it still really bothered him, although there was nothing that he could have done. When I was 14 or 15 (also around 81 or 82) I saw a train hit a young woman driving a small car (Chevy Vega). Train was going 55-60 miles an hour at the time....dragged the car a quarter of a mile. She lived, it wasn't pretty. A few years back, (about twelve) my sixteen year old daughter was 4 years old. We lived in a house that faced the railroad tracks, and another young woman (teenage girl) ran the lights and got struck by a train, car caught fire. Daughter ran and got my wife, who called 911....the girl made it....daughter was really bothered by it. About ten miles up the track the same damn train struck a man walking down the tracks and almost killed him. Friend of mine that works for the railroad said that day at work REALLY bothered the guy at the throttle of the train...

I think Colorado has something like that, but a buddy of mine in Denver nearly killed himself several times the first year after buying a Kawasaki Ninja a few years ago...he'd had previous experience w/ a 50cc bike back home in India, but the Ninja was a bit more of a handful.. My brother had several British bikes in the '60s-70s, took off about 20 years from riding after a couple bad accidents, but in the last 15 years has bought several older Yamahas and Hondas...rides the backroads of rural Ohio, seems to have a lot of fun doing it. I've never ridden a bike, but wouldn't mind trying one sometime..though I think I'd prefer a Boxster or other small open sports car. Having ridden and then given the choice of my wife and kids or my bike, I gladly gave up the bike to be around for the kids and wife. Bikes are great when your young and single, but as we age and get slower responses, I like more steel around me now. I agree....plus with a small sports car, I can easily have a radio, a beverage, a top if things get wet, hot, or windy, a place to haul real luggage, and I can drive it in the winter. Still, having ridden motorcycles, there is NOTHING like a motorcycle for fun. But I have a wife and kids also, and I want top be around for them.

Cool, Cubical...and wild looking Riviera...

For some stupid reason I've started watching this show Dexter on showtime, which is about a serial killer. You shouldn't let your eleven year old daughter walk into the room right when a graphic murder scene starts... right now my wife is snuggling with above mentioned eleven year old up stairs so she doesn't have night mares...

Some grandmother in South Carolina got arrested for having those hang from her Miata...

I don't think so, but I could be wrong...

That is a sweet design....

I've gotten addicted to this show called Dexter that is on showtime....this is a Dexter style car....

I need a ride in your passenger seat, sir!

Your originally from Ohio dude...camo and a gun rack FTW. Thinking black hood, some of the black wagon wheels, a lift and 35 inch Monster Mudders and black tube bumpers... This is cool... You might enjoy some modifications on your jeep, Cubical....

A woman was struck and killed on State Route 315 when I was driving to work Monday...the accident scene was not a pretty site. I do not ride a motorcycle, but both my wife and I like to ride bicycler, and car to bike things are scary that way. Hopefully the guy in new jersey who struck a 15 year old kid is going to jail for a long time.... And yeah, every time I think about getting a motorcycle someone I know is hurt or killed on one. Working as a corner worker at Mid Ohio several years ago and flagging/course working motorcycle races convinced me that maybe I liked 4 wheels better than 2. A Miata is probably as close to a motorcycle as I am gonna get in this life time....

'blu, that's good to know, as I do like the diesel version of this car.

Ughhhh....hate to hear it. Here in Ohio we don't have smog and nothing is enforced....at least in central Ohio. IIRC both Cleveland and Cincy have smog.... Then again if it is paid for, it could become a dedicated track car. Lots of things can happen when it doesn't need to be street legal.

Wish I could be there. Not going to be in action again myself until the end of the month, Dayton Corvette Group is racing over at Kil Kare, and we are probably going over. http://www.corvette-troy.com/SpeedEvent_12_July.htm