Mat wrote:
In my 40 yrs of car ownership I have owned and driven: (x) yrs owned;
[xxx,yyy] xxx = purchase price, yyy = selling price

1. 65 Plymouth Fury III (1) Junk [$700,0]
2. 73 Merc Capri (2) a little better than Junk [2600,2000]
3. 76 Pontiac Firebird (2) Junk [5000,5000]
4. 79 Pontiac grand prix (14) Junk [9000,1300]
5. 90 Acura Integra (17+) Best by far and still going strong [12,000,n/a]

Total cost net of trade ins: $21,000

Estimated total cost of repairs (over 40 yrs) $2,500

Needless to say I do almost all work myself

All cars were driven approx 12k/yr

Let's see if I can remember, all were used, I never bought a new car
in my life,
First car a 54 Nash Rambler the ultimate POS
and then,
56 chev.
55 chev. V8 (with wonder bar radio!)
63 chev Nova SS (got drafted when I had this one)
61 Corvette (College years and got married)
1949 chev pickup (back up for the corvette)
67 Camero
65 Imapala SS
61 Chev Pickup (torsion bars in the front!)
67 Malibu SS
68 Datsun Station wagon (pink and found a bong in it)
68 Chev Biscane (a donor car for the Malibu) (got divorced)
72 Pinto (I wrecked it)
70 Comet (a good simple car, lots of miles put on it)
69 Datsun station wagon
66 Chev Caprice (found a baggie of grass in it)
73 Chev Impala (the biggest car I ever owned)
73 Monte Carlo (totaled in a wreck, not my fault, broken ribs hurt!)
72 Toyota Corolla (28 mpg! and found several roach clips in it)
74 Toyota Corolla station wagon (non running fixed it drove it)
76 Datsun 280Z put over 100K on it. Had it for over 20 years, kid drove
it through his college years.
81 Datsun 280 parts car
74 Datsun 260 non running but I drove it home
73 Toyota Corolla station wagon
81 maybe a 82 Chev Caprice 4 door (POS)
70 Ford Courier (Mazda) bought to fix and drive
72 Ford Courier (Mazda) bought to fix and drive
78 Ford Courier (Mazda) bought to fix and drive
80 Datsun Pickup bought cheap to sell, ran OK
82 Datsun King Cab bought it to fix and drive, my kid in the Marines at
the time showed up and drove off in it, said he'd bring it back in a
couple of months, never saw it again, never got paid for it either.
80 Ford 1/2 ton pickup
78 Corvette Silver Anniversary (POS but it held it's value)
85 Honda Accord (repaired auto trans and put 130K mile on it)
85 Toyota (inherited it with 40K on it put over 100K on it)
Currently
98 Toyota Camry maybe drive it 6K a year
94 Mazda Pickup (Ford) probably drive it 2K a year
I'm sure I missed a few. I don't drive much any more, now retired.
I think at one time I could have taken a chev small block V8 apart and
put it back together blind folded.