it's sunday, time for automotive confessions

sometimes I have dirty thoughts about an 3.5L ecoboost swap into a foxbody.

In reply to captdownshift:

That's not a dirty thought, that's a reverent thought. Pretty sure you can skip church this morning.

I have a 911, a CTS-V wagon and a Civic Si, but I put more miles on my truck than the other three combined.

I frequently look at little commuter cars and wonder how well a transverse drivetrain might fit in the back.

mazdeuce wrote: I have a 911, a CTS-V wagon and a Civic Si, but I put more miles on my truck than the other three combined.

I have a similar issue. I also have a corvette, and my tags expired in july 2010 and have not renewed them because I didn't feel like it.

I prefer my corolla over my ms3.

I'm seriously thinking of buying a new/newer car. I think new cars are for losers who can't build.

However, it would be cheaper for me to buy, say, an '09 STI or a new Sonic RS or a E46 M3 (why are they all convertibles? Not complaining about the SMG though) than it would for me to rent a place to work on my existing cars. Which is a major crisis for me since new cars by definition are not as good as old ones.

Yeah, my tastes are that varied. I want a 400hp/500ft-lb AWD monster, and I want a fuel efficient hot hatch with a sub-1.6l engine, and I want OMG ITBs AND RPM. I recognize that these are mostly mutually exclusive but I'll take whichever I grab first. Oddly enough, my existing cars that I need to rent space to finish are: an AWD wagon with an engine that should make about 300hp/400ft-lb, a '83 GTI which invented the hot hatch, and... an RX-7 on poor man's ITBs.

(But new cars are disposable. I'd feel AWFUL about driving the Quantum in the winter. A 6 year old Subaru? A 10 year old BMW? Not so much. Heck, they don't seem to even rust)

I've owned at least 4 daily drivers in the time that I have owned the underware I just put on.

In reply to captdownshift:

I have similar thoughts, only using the 2.3 Ecoboost...

bgkast wrote: I've owned at least 4 daily drivers in the time that I have owned the underware I just put on.

I have underware that has outlasted 20+ cars. I think its time we both bought new underwear.

Junkyard_Dog wrote:

bgkast wrote: I've owned at least 4 daily drivers in the time that I have owned the underware I just put on.

I have underware that has outlasted 20+ cars. I think its time we both bought new underwear.

You need to build cars out of whatever Hanes is using.

The miata isn't the answer (for me)

Knurled wrote:

Junkyard_Dog wrote:

bgkast wrote: I've owned at least 4 daily drivers in the time that I have owned the underware I just put on.

I have underware that has outlasted 20+ cars. I think its time we both bought new underwear.

You need to build cars out of whatever Hanes is using.

I need to build cars period. Just updated a build thread by buying another car. New career direction should help out immensely. That's my confession:

I bought another Chevette but haven't worked on the two I have since February.

I have a Porsche 928 that's been driven about 3 times this year. I have a wagon that's faster, more comfy and just easier to live with.

By the time I get it repainted I'll have put $5,000 into my CRX this year. Yes, that includes damage after a stolen car hit me on the freeway and caused me to hit a nearly stationary Civic at 60 MPH, but still...

(How it survived - using the three cars in front of me as the crumple zone, sending all of them to the scrapyard. I broke my sternum. The insurance company will present a bill for $114,000 to the guy who hit me once we find him.)

I have a strong attraction to front engine Porsches...any pics, Oldtin?

I have 2 cars with no license plates and roll cages. I have 2 more with out of date inspections. I need to get rid of all of them.

I'm sick of cars.

I'm glad some one changed underware. All I could think was semper ubi sub ubi. My own confession is if I had an RX 7 Fd to go with my RX 8 then I could continue to DD the RX 8 and not feel compelled to buy a Prius or something.

Out of all the vehicles I've owned, I fantasize about another 2wd 5spd Ranger the most.

(And I probably had more fun in that than any of the 4x4's I've owned)

After reading through some of these posts, the classified sections might see some action.

Ive been looking at boring 4 door fwd cars too DD because i have no desire too work on my truck.

In reply to The_Jed:

At 31 I have only had 4 cars, and the only "performance" part has been a set of bugger bushings on neon #2.

I fantasies about using adaptive cruise to draft a semi or box truck on one of my drives to Boston.

In reply to oldtin:

Wow! Looks nice!

ebonyandivory wrote: Out of all the vehicles I've owned, I fantasize about another 2wd 5spd Ranger the most. (And I probably had more fun in that than any of the 4x4's I've owned)

That's what I daily drive, and look forward to something new...you in the market?