Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Cars we have owned, was: Just A Car Geek

(continued)

Wow I need to show your lists to my wife, She's always thought I was out 

of control on the car purchasing front...

Mine:

1976 Dodge Charger, sold it to a dude and had the police ask me about my 

"car" two years later when it was found somewhere in Detroit...

1983 Grand Prix (Survived many years of UP Snow, sold to another student)

1995 Z-28, two 1/2 years and it shook itself apart...  Or that might 

have been my driving...

1998 BMW 328is  I went Yuppie, traded it for the M3 after a year.

1999 M3 I went racing, miss this car most out of all the ones I have 

sold.  Seriously the best all-rounder money can buy

1999 Mazda Miata, wife's fun car

1991 Ferrari 348ts I really went nuts with the DE's in this thing, 9000 

miles 85% on race tracks in 1 1/2 years, more real driving than most F 

car owners do (or are able to do) their entire ownership, M3 was the DD, 

was going to leave it in the ghetto per Clyde but someone bought it from 

me instead.  Miss this one's sounds and the fact it could scare you 

pretty good if you f'ed up.

2001 Corvette Z06 Got tired of being passed while racing, once I had the 

SM I traded this for a Porsche to force me to take the SM to the 

track....  Had an off at 110+ in this one once...  That left a mark.  

Faster than everything in its day/Model Year.

1993 Mazda Miata.  My first real race car (Spec Miata)  400 hp down to 

110...  Teaches you how to really drive.

1999 Audi A6 (Wife's unstoppable car)
2002 Porsche Boxster...  Very Yellow, and I miss this one a bunch.
2005 Toyota 4Runner (wife's new car/tow vehicle)

2001 M3  Had a second kid, needed the back seats, Boxster had to go...  

Sold last June after it started getting very leaky, miss the Eisenmann 

exhaust sounds...

2008 VW GTI 4-door (current DD), my first VW and first FWD car, so far 

its awesome

2005 Corvette Coupe (current track day/toy car) was going to be a Lotus 

or another F-car but it was a too good to pass up deal on a an 

essentially new Vette with a warranty to 2012... I'll probably keep this 

one its pretty solid, what happened with your C6 Jim?).

One of these days I'll spring for another F car, but its definitely low 

on the priority list, in all honesty they have not turned out cars that 

are super interesting to me lately (Really can you even get a manual in 

a new one anymore?), the only one I would really want is an F355 

coupe...  The new Mas GT and 8C are far far prettier than what Maranello 

churns out these days.

Mike

Rick Lindsay wrote:

Yea Jim!  You're on par with me!  I go through cars like, well, like that story 
about the proverbial goose...

rick

--- On Sat, 1/24/09, Jim Conforti <lndshrk [at] xmission.com> wrote:

From: Jim Conforti <lndshrk [at] xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Cars we have owned, was: Just A Car Geek
To: "rolindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 4:51 PM
At 08:11 AM 1/24/2009, you wrote:

Larry wrote,

I bet it would surprise all of us to see a list

of the cars owned by

list member at one time or another.

Let's see.

1972 Chevy Impala - gramp's old car - ended up with a
built motor
1978 Olds Cutlass - dad's old car - via gramps - it got
me to work.
1974 BMW 2002 tii - my first BMW - the kugelfischer was

replaced with 

webers (bad idea)

1971 Subaru Wagon - A junker - but it got me thru nasty
winters.
1988 Pontiac Fiero - underpowered, but fun - traded in on

the Mazda 

when I moved to Utah.

1992 Mazda Protege LX (with the fun twin cam engine)
1984 BMW 318i - traded in on the 325iS
1987 BMW 325iS - Arnold, aka Conan the Bavarian - traded in
on the 95 M3
1992 BMW 325i - ex-wife's - traded in on the '94
1994 BMW 325i - last BMW my ex-wife owned at my expense
(lol)
1995 BMW M3 - the original LNDSHRK - sold to a kid from
California
1998 Lotus Esprit V8 - LNDSHRK "the sequel" -
traded in on Lisa's 2001 M3
2000 BMW M Roadster - Yellow and black - a lease for Lisa,
and how she realized
                       exactly how big of a "car
nut" I am.

                       Wrecked by an idiot with a full-size

van 

within 6 moths. :(

2001 BMW M Roadster - SUNSHRK - BMW Individual 1 of 1 in
Sterling Grau
2001 BMW M3 - Lisa's car - it had problems from day 1
and she hated it.
               traded in on her Grand Cherokee - and was

our last BMW 

until late 2006.

2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee (Lisa's) sold to her Mom -
they still have/love it.
2003 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon - my "Rubi" -
'from my cold dead hands'!
2002 Corvette Z06 - electric blue on black - sold to a
friend
2003 Corvette Z06 - millenium yellow on black - sold to pay
for house.
2005 Toyota Prius - Lisa's - traded in on the

Highlander - more room 

for baby :)

2006 Corvette Z06 - made GM buy this flawed piece of shit
back!
2007 BMW 335i - a lease for business R&D.
2000 BMW M Roadster - another one - bought it for Lisa as
it exactly
                       matched the one I got her when we
were engaged.
2009 BMW M3 Sedan - LNDSHRK #3 - my car - Sparking Graphite
on black
2009 Toyota Highlander Hybrid limited - due here a week
from Monday.

Vehicle I love(d) the most?  My Jeep Wrangler - I was going

to buy an 

F360 2 years

ago - but I would have had to trade in my Jeep - I
couldn't do it.

Jim 

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Re: Cars we have owned, was: Just A Car Geek	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Mike Fleischer (themightytoegmail.com)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:22:33 -0800 (PST)