Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous

stickguy

what year and model is it? we can just google it!

stickguy

should have gone all the way with the town car, and stuck the 6 speed manual in it.

stickguy

I have never heard of this before, but I absolutely love it.

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/r4o4JXBL/1994-ford-fiesta-xr2i

and looks like Hoovie must need to raise some cash. This is a pretty cool car, but I think my wife would hate it. especially after finding out how much it cost.

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/rbPPLMny/2021-beck-spyder

now this thing is wild. QB should find one! Wonder what the wife would say if I cashed in the Maverick, and replaced it with this thing?

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3yGLvYMR/1994-toyota-liteace

ab348

oldfarmer50 said:

Not anywhere I shop. Maybe Aldi’s. We have stupid plastic bag ban here in NY and I guess you have to pay a nickel for paper. I saved a few case of plastic bags from my farmer’s market days so I don’t have to play that game. I’m old enough to remember paper bags being banned to save the trees.

I guess the trees need a better lobbyist.

Just look at this to see what we have to put up with these days in Canuckistan:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/phase-1-of-canada-s-single-use-plastics-ban-comes-into-effect-this-month-these-are-the-products-on-the-list-1.6189050

corvette

Many of the take-out containers I've seen lately are marked "dishwasher safe," I wonder whether that makes them exempt from some of the bans, since they're theoretically no longer "single use."

mjfloyd1

Over $17,000 price drop since 9/2022

https://www.curryautocenter.com/used-city-2021-Tesla-Model 3-vehicle-5YJ3E1EC6MF082508?edmcid=767198&edminv=5YJ3E_1EC6MF082508&utm_content=5YJ3E1EC6MF082508&utm_campaign=edmunds_ad_solutions&utm_source=edmunds&utm_medium=referral&utm_term=used_6078eb45e4b053343b9b0df8&mktas=mlb15&mktad=23852060962440429&mktsrc=fb_Facebook_Mobile_Feed

corvette

Encouraging MPG result in the Maverick. Started and ended at my house and went to a wildlife refuge and back. Mostly interstate driving up to 80-ish, and some driving on two lane highways at lower speeds. The powertrain continues to impress.

jmonroe1

@stickguy said:
I have never heard of this before, but I absolutely love it.

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/r4o4JXBL/1994-ford-fiesta-xr2i

and looks like Hoovie must need to raise some cash. This is a pretty cool car, but I think my wife would hate it. especially after finding out how much it cost.

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/rbPPLMny/2021-beck-spyder

now this thing is wild. QB should find one! Wonder what the wife would say if I cashed in the Maverick, and replaced it with this thing?

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3yGLvYMR/1994-toyota-liteace

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That should work. No more climbing into the bed to get your cargo.

jmonroe

qbrozen

stickguy said:

what year and model is it? we can just google it!

p2804 of this discussion, about 6 or 7 posts up from the bottom.

jmonroe1

@ab348 said:
Just look at this to see what we have to put up with these days in Canuckistan:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/phase-1-of-canada-s-single-use-plastics-ban-comes-into-effect-this-month-these-are-the-products-on-the-list-1.6189050

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Yeah but you have free health care. So there’s that.

jmonroe

stickguy

I have had runs that long that calculated as much as 33 on the TC. It really is impressive for the size and configuration of it.

explorerx4

@corvette, On ice, stability control is going to be of limited use, even less so on less than optimal tires.
Panthers were designed to withstand rea end collisions up to 75 mph.

tjc78

I’ve owned three Panthers and driven at least 15 different ones either of family members or as rentals.

I’ve never felt unsafe in one at all. They had all speed traction control on most models since the 90s that helped in slippery conditions

I was rear ended in my 04 during a heavy rain storm by an F350 towing a trailer. I was slowing down and he plowed into me while I was still moving. The car stayed straight with only minimal damage. The truck had more damage than I did.

dad23

Michaell said:

breld said:

I finally got what people were talking about through the context. So, it has become customary to pay a quarter (or more) to use a cart at a grocery store?

That hasn’t made its way to Colorado yet, as far as I know. And we don’t pay the nickel or whatever for bags yet either.

True, but I just read where all eggs in Colorado must be from cage free chickens, starting 1/1/23. Will likely bump up those prices.

And, the cost for natural gas just doubled in December. Everybody is complaining about their utility bills this month.

When we took one of the boys up to Fort Collins for school, we had gone to Target for supplies for his dorm room. The clerk asked if we wanted bags and I said of course we do. She proceeded to pack them pretty full. After checking the receipt, they had charged us .10 per paper bag, apparently they have a city ordinance banning plastic bags!

qbrozen

Ok I’ll attempt some freeze frames of the video. Exterior is darned near perfect, like the Nissan. Anything noticeable in pics is just dirt and dust. One broken foglight lens is all we could find. The missing trunk badge was found inside the car in good nick. The big question was the seats that had nasty covers on them. What we found underneath is so much better than expected. Perfect condition sport seats in a blue camo. Pretty cool.

qbrozen

I fell in love with this while I was there. Wish I knew more about it. Obviously modded. Had recaro-like seats, stick shift, and other goodies you can see in pics.

nyccarguy

cdnpinhead said:

But the best part is that all these people can vote.

Explains quite a bit.

Who was it that said: "it doesn't matter who casts the votes, but who counts them."

corvette

@qbrozen - I love that Astra! It looks excellent, especially considering its age.

qbrozen

corvette said:

@qbrozen - I love that Astra! It looks excellent, especially considering its age.

If it had a stick, I'd find my son something else and keep it for myself. haha. Even with an auto, it is really nice. I'm a little jealous that my kid has a far nicer car than my 17-yr-old self could have ever hoped for.

nyccarguy

corvette said:

@qbrozen - I love that Astra! It looks excellent, especially considering its age.

+1 - nice car!

stickguy

I bet it’s going to be the only Opel in the HS parking lot!

Like the truck. What make/model was that?

qbrozen

stickguy said:

I bet it’s going to be the only Opel in the HS parking lot!

Like the truck. What make/model was that?

I can only say a Land Rover 110. Did they make a 4-door pickup version? I have no idea. I'd imagine they did somewhere. Could be it was modded from an SUV, though.

qbrozen

https://classicoverland.com/the-land-rover-defender-110-pickup-4x4/

tjc78

Love it Q!

qbrozen

“Nope, I didn’t feel nuthin. Keep drivin.”

mjfloyd1

Should be able to push those cows out of your way😂

tifighter

What is this for, again?

kyfdx

tifighter said:

What is this for, again?

One doesn't need a reason...

stickguy

going to make touch parking at the mall a lot more interesting.

and just going to guess, that is not going to help MPG or handling any.

qbrozen

It is like carrying one more shell in a tank. Ain't even gonna feel the difference.

I also put on new horns. After a Beetle came within a couple of inches of my fender while towing my son's car home, and I could only "meep" at him, that mod quickly moved to the top of my list. New is not an air horn, but I'd equate it to an '80s Chevy 1500 van horn sound. Enough to mean business.

Sidesteps, 1000w inverter, and 2 overhead TVs are sitting in the garage. Trying to do a little at a time when I can. The grille guard happened today only because they delivered it this afternoon and I had no place to store it.

jmonroe1

@qbrozen said:
Ok I’ll attempt some freeze frames of the video. Exterior is darned near perfect, like the Nissan. Anything noticeable in pics is just dirt and dust. One broken foglight lens is all we could find. The missing trunk badge was found inside the car in good nick. The big question was the seats that had nasty covers on them. What we found underneath is so much better than expected. Perfect condition sport seats in a blue camo. Pretty cool.

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Eeeu, it’s green is your son color blind?

jmonroe

qbrozen

not everybody is ready for old-man gray.

jmonroe1

@qbrozen said:
not everybody is ready for old-man gray.

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I guess I asked for that.

jmonroe

au1994

qbrozen said:

“Nope, I didn’t feel nuthin. Keep drivin.”

I like it. Needs some lights on it.

Sandman6472

We need better pics of that Opel please. In 1977, I got one of the first 1976 Japanese Opel's, a blue 2-door coupe and it was probably one of the worst vehicles on the planet, bar none! Got it as a used vehicle with 7K on it and from day 1, the a/c kept blowing up & it continued till I sold it. the auto tranny fell out on the on-ramp at Palm Beach Lakes Blvd. on my first day of training for the postal service. On my way home, the tranny pieces literally fell out of the car and I had to pull over! My dad lent me the money to get it fixed, this was on December 27, 1980. In January, one axle broke, fixed that, and then another one went a few weeks later.
By February 1st, traded that piece of garbage for an ex-rental, a 1979 Datsun B-210 hatchback and never looked back! I know that Opel would've been a money pit so I cut my loses sooner than later. Looking back, probably should've kept my grandpa's 1967 Olds Cutlass Supreme 4-door for another year and saved some more money. But I wanted something newer, and smaller, being 21 and all.
So, please send some better pics as I'm very curious to see how the Opel line progressed once the Japanese took over the brand.

qbrozen

Japanese? Opel is a German brand that was owned by GM since the 1930s. Did you have one of those weird Isuzu ones? I guess you might consider that Japanese GM with German badging.

This car is strictly Opel/Vauxhall, which is giving us a bit of a problem in the parts area. Not that we haven’t found them, but it is taking more research. We’ve been resorting to getting numbers off the OEM pieces and cross-referencing. But even that is not foolproof. For example, someone put those awful dual-electrode NGKs in it. We could not find a published OEM replacement on this side of the pond. I wound up looking around my garage and found a few unused sets, one of which matched up in size to what we needed. They worked. Looking for wires has been futile, but they aren’t terribly special. They look like many others out there, particularly older Miatas and Camrys. So we’ll pull one and poke around at the store to see if we can match it up. Probably do the same for the air filter. We did locate an oil filter on amazon, but it will take a month to arrive. I’ll wait for that one and go match that up at the store so we know for future use.

stickguy

1976 was the first year of the wonderful Opel by Isuzu. I had a 1975 Opel Manta, last year of the German version in the US. Now that was a mistake!

stickguy

for your parts, is there any kind of Astra forum to join for advice? odds are like you are finding, there are alternative parts from US models to use, just not easy to figure out the swap.

I saw some videos from the Car Wizard where they put some Kia Ria parts (fuel pump) into an older Ferrari. worked like a charm, at about 1/100th the price! Plus many cheap Ford parts swap onto a Range Rover or Jag.

explorerx4

Does CDX mean it's a diesel?

qbrozen

explorerx4 said:

Does CDX mean it's a diesel?

No. CDX is a trim. It is just a peppy little 115hp/125ft-lb petrol 2.0 w/ motronic MFI.

oldfarmer50

stickguy said:

I have never heard of this before, but I absolutely love it.

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/r4o4JXBL/1994-ford-fiesta-xr2i

and looks like Hoovie must need to raise some cash. This is a pretty cool car, but I think my wife would hate it. especially after finding out how much it cost.

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/rbPPLMny/2021-beck-spyder

now this thing is wild. QB should find one! Wonder what the wife would say if I cashed in the Maverick, and replaced it with this thing?

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3yGLvYMR/1994-toyota-liteace

I seem to recall seeing a Ford like that being done on Wheeler Dealers but I could be wrong.

I’m surprised that Hoovie sold that Beck. It seemed like it was in the works for a long time.

That Toyota could be a nice mulch hauler for your new house.

oldfarmer50

ab348 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

Not anywhere I shop. Maybe Aldi’s. We have stupid plastic bag ban here in NY and I guess you have to pay a nickel for paper. I saved a few case of plastic bags from my farmer’s market days so I don’t have to play that game. I’m old enough to remember paper bags being banned to save the trees.

I guess the trees need a better lobbyist.

Just look at this to see what we have to put up with these days in Canuckistan:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/phase-1-of-canada-s-single-use-plastics-ban-comes-into-effect-this-month-these-are-the-products-on-the-list-1.6189050

I notice that absent from that list are covid face masks. I read an article that claimed that the masks are in whole or part made with plastic and are discarded willy-nilly into the environment where they break down into micro plastics.

kyfdx

oldfarmer50 said:

ab348 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

Not anywhere I shop. Maybe Aldi’s. We have stupid plastic bag ban here in NY and I guess you have to pay a nickel for paper. I saved a few case of plastic bags from my farmer’s market days so I don’t have to play that game. I’m old enough to remember paper bags being banned to save the trees.

I guess the trees need a better lobbyist.

Just look at this to see what we have to put up with these days in Canuckistan:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/phase-1-of-canada-s-single-use-plastics-ban-comes-into-effect-this-month-these-are-the-products-on-the-list-1.6189050

I notice that absent from that list are covid face masks. I read an article that claimed that the masks are in whole or part made with plastic and are discarded willy-nilly into the environment where they break down into micro plastics.

Who wants medical waste recycled?

oldfarmer50

corvette said:

Many of the take-out containers I've seen lately are marked "dishwasher safe," I wonder whether that makes them exempt from some of the bans, since they're theoretically no longer "single use."

A while back Enterprise gave us plastic water containers as a sign of appreciation. I put it in the dishwasher and it melted into something that looked like the inside of a lava lamp.
I guess that was a single use plastic.

This year was much better. For appreciation day they put out a huge spread of donuts, cupcakes and candies that few of the diabetic old men could eat.

ab348

oldfarmer50 said:

I notice that absent from that list are covid face masks. I read an article that claimed that the masks are in whole or part made with plastic and are discarded willy-nilly into the environment where they break down into micro plastics.

My favorite part is that retailers can sell packages of flexible drinking straws for use by the disabled, but they have to keep them behind the counter and are not allowed to display them. Cripes!

ab348

Ram recalls 1.4 million pickups globally over tailgate issue:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chrysler-parent-stellantis-recalls-14-million-pickup-trucks-over-tailgate-issue-2022-12-13/

At least they aren't actually falling off...

oldfarmer50

kyfdx said:

oldfarmer50 said:

ab348 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

Not anywhere I shop. Maybe Aldi’s. We have stupid plastic bag ban here in NY and I guess you have to pay a nickel for paper. I saved a few case of plastic bags from my farmer’s market days so I don’t have to play that game. I’m old enough to remember paper bags being banned to save the trees.

I guess the trees need a better lobbyist.

Just look at this to see what we have to put up with these days in Canuckistan:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/phase-1-of-canada-s-single-use-plastics-ban-comes-into-effect-this-month-these-are-the-products-on-the-list-1.6189050

I notice that absent from that list are covid face masks. I read an article that claimed that the masks are in whole or part made with plastic and are discarded willy-nilly into the environment where they break down into micro plastics.

Who wants medical waste recycled?

So it’s better to let it flow into the ocean?

kyfdx

oldfarmer50 said:

kyfdx said:

oldfarmer50 said:

ab348 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

Not anywhere I shop. Maybe Aldi’s. We have stupid plastic bag ban here in NY and I guess you have to pay a nickel for paper. I saved a few case of plastic bags from my farmer’s market days so I don’t have to play that game. I’m old enough to remember paper bags being banned to save the trees.

I guess the trees need a better lobbyist.

Just look at this to see what we have to put up with these days in Canuckistan:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/phase-1-of-canada-s-single-use-plastics-ban-comes-into-effect-this-month-these-are-the-products-on-the-list-1.6189050

I notice that absent from that list are covid face masks. I read an article that claimed that the masks are in whole or part made with plastic and are discarded willy-nilly into the environment where they break down into micro plastics.

Who wants medical waste recycled?

So it’s better to let it flow into the ocean?

You don't have landfills in NY?

corvette

I'm surprised Hoovie sold the Beck, since he had it custom built, that seemed like one that would be part of the permanent collection. It also looks like he took a bath--the 2021 pricing I found said a rolling chassis (which I think is what he got) is $44,715, which would not have included the Subaru engine nor paying the Car Wizard to install it.

stickguy

he did get content out of it. He hasn't done a video on selling it yet (usually he sells a few at a time) but I am sure he will eventually.

might be cheap for what they cost, but still seems like a lot for what it is (just a toy that will rarely get used). Probably a lot of fun though, for the really wealthy crowd!

sounds like he missed selling high on a bunch of stuff, with collector car prices taking a beating (I have heard Ferraris especially). Wonder if his Lamborghinis are down a lot too?

not that we likely would need to run a go fund me for him, if he decided to take the entire collection to the auction and cash it all out.