I agree completely with what [MENTION=63923]Hotdogr[/MENTION] said. You've done a great job and will be amazed at how much easier life becomes when you aren't surrounded in monthly payments! I would add one thing to his advice, especially since you mentioned you'd like to keep your car for a while: save up a repair fund for your car. It doesn't need to be an astronomical amount of money, but somewhere between $1,000 and $2,000 will keep you covered for most repairs. Furthermore, if you have any additional relatively small debts (credit cards, student loans, etc), you could use the cash you're saving from car payments and roll it towards your smallest debt. Once that debt is paid off, roll all of that into the next smallest debt, and so on. If you keep at it, you'll soon be completely free and won't owe a dime to anyone. Can someone say "freedom"?
Slip down to I-80 and there are plenty of stretches to test that 140, take your radar detector. I've traveled that road many times and between Laramie and Evanston smooth sailin'. lol
Have a 2002 Chevy Silverado 2500 4x4 266k miles and wouldn't hesitate to drive it to California 1480 miles. Paid off in 2006. Also my bang around a 1993 GMC half ton, 4x4, 227k miles, Dependable. Paid off in 98'. 10 years of no payments, almost heaven.
My daily driver is the same old 99 Silverado that I've had since it was new. 310k miles so far. Other than that. I have an 05 Ultra that I bored stroked and cammed with stage V heads, baker six speed, open air element with true duals. Hillarious when that nearly thousand pound monster smokes crotch rockets. Just finished building a 99 Heritage softail for my wife and inbetween working on my son's El Camino and the insanne hours I put in at work, my boys and I are bobbing out an old knucklehead to raffle off at this years hospice ride.
I'm a gearhead too, so are you suggesting that a highly modified V-twin might be able to keep up with a bone-stock, showroom-direct 200HP, sub 450 pound liter bike? I have both a liter supersport as well as a V-Twin bagger. I'm now out looking for a bit more comfort than the supersport but more spirit than my cruiser. I've been looking at Bandits, CB1100 (underpowered IMO), the Vstrom 1000, FZ09. I need to try one of the new GSX S1000's but I don't buy brand new bikes. When I want a comfy cruise then I hop aboard my bagger. When I want a spirited ride it's the supersport but the problem is the uncomfortable ride getting to the twisties. So, a naked bike or Vstrom has become appealing and I don't want a sport tourer.
Who said anything about a bone stock liter bike? Some people are just faster than others. Hell. I raced a guy on a GXR that was super proud of his bike when I still had my old raked Pan 80. Granted he didnt know how to ride. But the look on his face after loosing off thr line and in the turns to a 70 year old bike was priceless. Ive rode liter bikes and I've rode American cruisers. I can have just as much fun on my Ultra as any bike ive been on. And not feel like I got gang (*)(*)(*)(*)ed by a family of gorillas.
Supersports are a blast on twisties but AWFUL on the ride there. That is why I'm probably going to sell the CBR and replace it with a "naked" bike. I find myself riding the cruiser more due to comfort but I scrape the floorboards all the time. As for cars, I've restored several F bodies including one that I killed 2 transmissions and 1 rear end before biting the bullet and paying for stronger stuff. I raced a Mopar A body but eventually moved to GM F body due to costs. Due to less aftermarket support it is more expensive to race a Mopar. I wasn't doing a back-half car so there aren't as many options for suspension components and everything had to be "adapted".
Just got a new car. A 2017 Chevy Malibu Premier. I love it. 0-60 in 6 secs; 250hp; 260lbs torque All electronic safety equip: auto following cruise control; lane keeping; auto braking; auto parking; auto high beams; auto wipers; backup camera Android auto 19" wheels Moon roof over front & back seats Everything voice controlled http://www.chevrolet.com/malibu-mid-size-car.html
No, they sold them everywhere but to be fair most of them were in the junkyards within 3 years of manufacture.
Whoever said cars have to be practical? Also if you can afford to spend $50,000 on engine upgrades to make your car faster, you usually don't care about how much gas costs. I am so tired of people, when they see a vintage car like a 1973 ford Galaxie, and they ask how many miles per gallon it gets. I tell them if they have to ask that, this is not their type of car.
If the transmission has synchros, double clutching is not necessary. If they don't, like my 1963 Plymouth 3 speed, they you have to slow down or stop. My transmission has synchros going into second and third, but not down shifting back into first.
New car. 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid. It's like playing a video game trying to keep the car in the green, and annoying as hell if you're behind it.... The good news is that 1k miles in, it's averaging just over 46 mpg.
My list? 1963 Plymouth Fury 1963 Plymouth Savoy 1965 Buick Wildcat 1969 Chevrolet Kingswood Station Wagon 1972 Ford LTD 1974 Dodge Dart 4 Door 1975 Dodge Dart 2 Door 1981 Impala 4 Door - Will Be Police car 2000 Dodge Durango - Just to pull the car trailer when needed I am on the hunt for more, always.
Sorry, my hands typed what it was. My question was what is a 1991 Twin Turbo 380zx 19,000 miles which is the car the other poster said he had.
