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**godfather** · 10-10-2005, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by CoventryCat86

Sorry 8-5-8, I was trying to hijack KevinWHoecker's thread!

Wow look at all this free time you have to tell us about your car history CC...

Sooooo, how's that lottery coming along

http://www.cigarsmokers.com/showpost...&postcount=186

**CoventryCat86** · 10-10-2005, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by godfather

Wow look at all this free time you have to tell us about your car history CC...

Sooooo, how's that lottery coming along

http://www.cigarsmokers.com/showpost...&postcount=186

GOOD POINT!!

I REALLY should get off my butt and get going on that........

**CoventryCat86** · 10-10-2005, 11:16 PM

When I was in college, I bought a 1963 Chevrolet Impala convertible

just like this one:

I paid $600.00 for it. I had to put a quarter panel on it and paint it. Mine was maroon. I wrecked it when a deer ran out in front of me in the fall of 1983

**CoventryCat86** · 10-10-2005, 11:18 PM

I had two of these when I was in high school. 1964 Chevrolet Bel Air station wagon:

One was light blue, the other was aqua.

**CoventryCat86** · 10-10-2005, 11:35 PM

OH, I forgot to tell you about my 1979 BMW 733i. I bought it in 1993 for $3500.00. It had 135,000 miles on it. I forgot about this one because I still have it!

Mine is "Bronzit" or a copper color. They only came with four speeds but someone had put a five speed in it before I bought it. I think is has 220,000 or so miles on it now. I can't remember because I had to change the speedometer. It came from California so it was rust free at the time. It's starting to show its age now and I don't drive it much anymore. It's probably not worth restoring so I don't really know what I'm going to do with it:

**8-5-8** · 10-10-2005, 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by CoventryCat86

OH, I forgot to tell you about my 1979 BMW 733i. I bought it in 1993 for $3500.00. It had 135,000 miles on it. I forgot about this one because I still have it!

Mine is "Bronzit" or a copper color. They only came with four speeds but someone had put a five speed in it before I bought it. I think is has 220,000 or so miles on it now. I can't remember because I had to change the speedometer. It came from California so it was rust free at the time. It's starting to show its age now and I don't drive it much anymore. It's probably not worth restoring so I don't really know what I'm going to do with it:

*drools* I'm a sucker for a BMW of any age

**CoventryCat86** · 10-10-2005, 11:42 PM

You've all already heard about the Jaguars but too bad, you're going to hear it again anyway.

In 1999, I bought a black 1986 XJ6 for $1,500.00 to "fix up" BAD IDEA, the car was a piece of garbage so I bought another one in 2000 (a grey one) and restored it. I paid $900.00 for it on eBay. I bought it sight unseen on eBay becaue it was a California car and I knew it would have no rust.

It had a blown head gasket and it had 152,000 miles on it. I used the black one for parts to fix this one. It came out so nice that I now pretty much only use it for car shows. The restoration was completed in 2002:

The car just turned over 180,000 miles this year when I drove it down to Richmond, VA for a car show three weeks ago.

Last year, I bought another one exactly like it, same color for $300.00. It needed some work but the black one provided all the parts I needed to fix it. A friend of mine who manages a body shop is painting it for me. It should be ready for sale next year.

**CoventryCat86** · 10-10-2005, 11:47 PM

I should post a picture of what's left of the black one!

It's just a shell of its former self, no engine, no rear end, no front end, no nose

Just about ready for the junkyard but it has paid for itself three times over in parts.

**CoventryCat86** · 10-10-2005, 11:54 PM

So, in January of this year, I go to a guy's shop in the local Jaguar club to get some parts for the other grey one I'm fixing up. He also sells used Jaguars. He's asking $4,500.00 for a 1992 XJ6 that has 163,000 miles on it. Books value is $5,500.00 but the car has a few stupid little problems that he doesn't want to bother with so he tells me he'll sell it to me for $2,500.00 knowing I can fix the problems and maybe make a couple of bucks reselling it. This car is so nice, I'm having a hard time letting go of it. Mine is blue:

Jaguar changed the body style to this in 1988 and they looked like this up until 1994. Most Jaguar lovers think these aren't as nice looking as the 1980 - 1987s BUT they have a completely different engine and transmission which is technologically superior to the older models. This car runs and rides like a dream and get 20mpg around town. I'm having a real hard time wanting to let go of it:

**8-5-8** · 10-10-2005, 11:55 PM

CC... I have to say... I've always been a BMW man, but after seeing one of my residents' 2003 S-type I have fallen in love... I've been looking for an older Jag or even a newer one... forgotten all about wanting an M3

**godfather** · 10-10-2005, 11:19 PM

Originally Posted by CoventryCat86

GOOD POINT!!

I REALLY should get off my butt and get going on that........

Well now that you know...carry on with memory lane....be careful Abanda, may get excited with all your posts...

**CoventryCat86** · 10-10-2005, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by godfather

Well now that you know...carry on with memory lane....be careful Abanda, may get excited with all your posts...

LMAO!!! "memory lane"

**CoventryCat86** · 10-10-2005, 11:24 PM

THE FIRST CAR I EVER DROVE

My parents white 1968 Chevrolet Biscayne station wagon:

This is a photo of an "Impala" the Biscayne was the strip model, bottom of the line with a 307 ci engine NO TRIM and only two tail lights one each side instead of three.