quasi
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Date: July 07, 2009 02:16AM
Don’t laugh, it’s paid for, didn’t cost much when I bought it five years ago with low mileage on the odometer, and has more than earned it’s keep, especially in the aftermath of hurricane Charley when I had to haul all my tools and pull my trailer everywhere. I use it like a truck so it truly is a truckster - and it’s only 28 years old.
woberto
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Date: July 07, 2009 02:43AM
Yeah yeah yeah, what's under the hood old man?
quasi
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Date: July 07, 2009 02:47AM
5 litre V8 with a 2 barrel carb. Has enough power to get the job done but still gets reasonable fuel mileage, at least when it's not lugging that trailer around.
FrostedApe
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Date: July 07, 2009 05:44AM
It's the fake paneling that really sets the whole thing off. My parents had one, but I was just a kid so I don't remember exactly what it was. It was when Dad was on his 20-year "GM-Only" kick, but that's as much as I can narrow it down. Early 70's. It had over 100k when he traded it in.
90130_
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Date: July 07, 2009 06:27AM
Mom and Dad hauled all of us around in an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser Wagon, late 1960's vintage if I recall correctly. I thought the skylights were pretty cool.
woberto
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Date: July 07, 2009 07:31AM
Options were limited in Australia when it came to wagons.
The Kingswood was our family car, similar to this one.
Soon after came similar crysler & ford wagons.
quasi
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Date: July 07, 2009 12:55PM
I didn't set out to do it but over the past 30 years or so I somehow managed to have had three wagons with that fake wood paneling which I really don't care for. It just worked out that way. At least my friends all know it's me when they see me drivin' down the road in something fairly unique. My first and favorite "woody" wagon was an International, a binder thank God, which I bought in 1978. It was five years old and as I recall my payments were $49 a month.
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Oh yeah, my last car was a minivan which I really loved and miss. So sue me. It was a Mercury Villager which is actually a Nissan Quest and had 230k miles on it when I sold it.
Mrkim
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Date: July 07, 2009 01:49PM
These days I'm herdin along an 05 Ford Freestar minivan that my Mom had bought to deliver mail with. With big slider doors on both sides and a rear lifting back door this thing is the easiest vehicle I've ever seen for loading and unloading machine parts, tools, groceries etc. and even manages a decent 20mpg while doin it. It came with a set of shelves installed along each side in the back over the rear wheel wells. Though I've removed one set. I left the one on the drivers side where I carry spare fluids, gloves, a roll of shop towels and all manner of other lil stuff that comes in handy, my aluminum floor jack, a nice lil Husky tool set and a small 110v air compressor, all of which has come in handy from time to time.
My lil Mitsu Mirage is sittin out in front of the shop awaiting duty when gas starts its next "spiraling into the stratosphere" climb again
woberto
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Date: October 02, 2026 04:44AM
google street-view from June 2011 still shows this old beast quasi, and the September 2023 view shows some crazy dude on a ride-on lawnmower.
quasi
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Date: October 03, 2026 11:29AM
Yep, 2023 they caught me on my lawnmower and my hurricane modified fence.
woberto
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Date: October 04, 2026 01:09AM
Idalia?
quoth the wiki;
"The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season was the fourth-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record
with 20 named storms forming, tied with 1933. Among them,
7 became hurricanes, with 3 reaching major hurricane strength. "
quasi
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Date: October 04, 2026 09:23AM
It was from Ian's direct hit in late 2022. Lots of damage creates a shortage of materials to rebuild. What took decades to build up an area takes a while to put back together. There are major rebuilding projects that aren't finished yet.
woberto
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Date: October 04, 2026 10:44AM
Was you Ma still around then?
I seem to recall her place got damaged once and you told us.
quasi
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Date: October 05, 2026 08:01AM
That was hurricane Charley in 2004, another direct hit. She passed away in 2013.
woberto
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Date: October 05, 2026 09:36AM
Oh my God we're old...
But this is the one I was thinking of.
quasi
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Date: October 07, 2026 08:44AM
The rebuild of that is much stronger and has withstood the more recent hurricanes.
