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A bit about me, I'm 24 and since I've been 16 I've had 9 vehicles:
87 nissian sentra (technically dad's) - I totalled
91 firebird (technically dad's) - Dad totalled
89 Brono II - sold at 488,000 miles! orginial engine
87? Chrysler new yorker - drove it to it's death
87 mr2 - um...don't drink and drive..
92 firebird (technically dad's)lady in tacoma hit it
91 mr2 - still have heavily modded
96 firebird - still have
00 wrangler - just bought, picking up this weekend
So currently I have:
91 mr2 t-top 5spd turbo, heavily modded
96 firebird 157,000miles current dalily driver
00 jeep wrangler 6cyc 5spd 80,000 miles
I've recently gotten into my carrier field and am making good money now. I'd like to have a work car that I can rack up 40-60 thousand miles a year on and not care. And also have a cool sporty car for weekends or for times I won't need 4x4 for work.
My original intentions were to use the mr2 as scca type car. While driving the firebird as daily driver. Well now I kinda need a 4x4, so (enter jeep) now I have 3 cars.
The mr2 I haven't touched in 6 months because work takes me out of state, and too busy on weekends to fix it. Spun rod or bearing one.... I'd thought about dropping a supercharged 1mzfe into it, I've got the cash for it but no time.
The firebird is getting high up in mileage quickly too, and while I haven't had to do any major repairs. I just look at the mileage and think it's only a matter of time.
So I'm 99.9999999% sure I'm going to sell both, the firebird for mileage, and mr2 for no time for it. I told a few friends I was considerirng selling the firebird, and they all came to the conclusion I need to pick a car and stick with it.
While I have went through alot of cars, my work (now anyways) I put so many miles on a car, not worth buying brand new ones. Just find them about 5 years old or so, drive them for 1-2 years then sell/trade off to avoid them getting too high mileage/maintenace.
I figure a jeep is easy maintenance and low costs, so this will be my daily driver/work vehicle. 100% sure on that one. (I'll see if I can beat the broncoII's record of 488,000 miles)
So I have my work car figured out, at least for a couple years.
So assuming I do sell both the mr2 and firebird, 99.999% sure I will. And if I save up through summer and into winter......calculating......I'll have roughly 40-45grand to spend on a car on January 1st, not including the sale of the mr2 or firebird.
I've been bouncing aorund with ideas of different cars to buy. I've thought of buying all sorts of cars. Everything from jag's to ponitac solstice to NSX to european roadsters to sixties cobra replica, the longer I have to think about it, the more choices I think of. I'd like something to keep forever type car. Something that will still be cool 20 years from now.
WOW, this has become extremely long, sorry to keep rambling on if your still reading this.
Anyways, to get to the point. Assuming you were me, and you kept the jeep for work, with above info what would you get for your "fun" car?
87 nissian sentra (technically dad's) - I totalled
91 firebird (technically dad's) - Dad totalled
89 Brono II - sold at 488,000 miles! orginial engine
87? Chrysler new yorker - drove it to it's death
87 mr2 - um...don't drink and drive..
92 firebird (technically dad's)lady in tacoma hit it
91 mr2 - still have heavily modded
96 firebird - still have
00 wrangler - just bought, picking up this weekend
So currently I have:
91 mr2 t-top 5spd turbo, heavily modded
96 firebird 157,000miles current dalily driver
00 jeep wrangler 6cyc 5spd 80,000 miles
I've recently gotten into my carrier field and am making good money now. I'd like to have a work car that I can rack up 40-60 thousand miles a year on and not care. And also have a cool sporty car for weekends or for times I won't need 4x4 for work.
My original intentions were to use the mr2 as scca type car. While driving the firebird as daily driver. Well now I kinda need a 4x4, so (enter jeep) now I have 3 cars.
The mr2 I haven't touched in 6 months because work takes me out of state, and too busy on weekends to fix it. Spun rod or bearing one.... I'd thought about dropping a supercharged 1mzfe into it, I've got the cash for it but no time.
The firebird is getting high up in mileage quickly too, and while I haven't had to do any major repairs. I just look at the mileage and think it's only a matter of time.
So I'm 99.9999999% sure I'm going to sell both, the firebird for mileage, and mr2 for no time for it. I told a few friends I was considerirng selling the firebird, and they all came to the conclusion I need to pick a car and stick with it.
While I have went through alot of cars, my work (now anyways) I put so many miles on a car, not worth buying brand new ones. Just find them about 5 years old or so, drive them for 1-2 years then sell/trade off to avoid them getting too high mileage/maintenace.
I figure a jeep is easy maintenance and low costs, so this will be my daily driver/work vehicle. 100% sure on that one. (I'll see if I can beat the broncoII's record of 488,000 miles)
So I have my work car figured out, at least for a couple years.
So assuming I do sell both the mr2 and firebird, 99.999% sure I will. And if I save up through summer and into winter......calculating......I'll have roughly 40-45grand to spend on a car on January 1st, not including the sale of the mr2 or firebird.
I've been bouncing aorund with ideas of different cars to buy. I've thought of buying all sorts of cars. Everything from jag's to ponitac solstice to NSX to european roadsters to sixties cobra replica, the longer I have to think about it, the more choices I think of. I'd like something to keep forever type car. Something that will still be cool 20 years from now.
WOW, this has become extremely long, sorry to keep rambling on if your still reading this.
Anyways, to get to the point. Assuming you were me, and you kept the jeep for work, with above info what would you get for your "fun" car?
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