The official "car thread"

[pooker]

Ok so we dont break any rules and so i dont whore out another persons thread this thread will be maintained to just i dunno tell us something interesting about cars or chit chat or show me pictures. i dont care

i will start

i notice Hobs said some bad things about dsms and it leads me to believe he doesnt like them or has had a past experience , please explain :evil:

[Fish-Bait]

what's a dsm?

[pooker]

Diamond star motorsports in short

Most of the time if you ever see a starion , conquest, colt, galant , you will hear them referred to as a dsm.


They are a fun four cylinder car to mod, but there is not many in mississippi that even run. I had to go to kentucky to get mine , well i should say one that doesnt suck.

its a 92 gst they made two versions of the 1990-1994 eclipse/talon/laser body style like mine

the fwd - gst /tsi /rst

and awd -gsx/tsi awd/ rst

it was a very popular car back in the day, the motors made 190bhp and 185 ft/lbs of torque

and in 1989 when they hit showroom it was very popular because back then seeing that out of a 4 cylinder turbo was impressive

The conquest/stario was a pre 1990's dsm , powered by a 4 cylinder turbo rwd , excessively slow but people still buy them to mod, the tranny will bolt up to any 4g63 motor (class of motor name for the eclipse/talon/laser) making a nice rwd project.

Then there was a rare car that many people never notice or see, mitsubishi revealed the galant vr4 from 1990-1992 i cant remember the numbers right now but I now round about less than four thousand were made

they were powered by the typical , 4g63 awd, they are often alluded to as mitsubishis first evo

i dont feel like talking about other things right now though cause im bored so later

[pooker]

hey hawkeye post a pic of your truck i think i remember saying you had a beasty one :kekeke:

[Hob684]

pook, my buddy from highschool has a 95 GST that he got for cheap and the thing hauls...


but everytime he goes to do soemthin to it or make it faster he runs into odd problems that should be easy fixes but aren't.


as far as the crankwalk and stuff, thats just issues i've heard from www.homemadeturbo.com and www.turbod16.com (d16 is the honda 1.6L that is in most 96-00 civics. ) pretty cheap to boost... plus if you blow the block they are cheap to get b/c everyone on www.honda-tech.com is going w/ the DOHC.


Rock out with your SOHC out.

[carsalesguy]

DSMs are notorious for oil problems- hence you see so many dodge/chrysler/mitsus with bad smoke comming out the pipe

[Fish-Bait]

Me and my buddies have Ford escorts 4 cyl. We go to Hub City and drag race when they are open. I always kick their asses though because I have and Escort "L".

[pooker]

i rock a taurus now and noone wants none 0-60 in five minutes i cook bagels while waiting :kekeke:

[Fish-Bait]

Mine was a Steven Wright joke....that dude never smiles.....Once he bought some powdered water....when he got home he didn't know what to add...

[RGDoherty]

Once he drove to Canada with a friend for 11 hours.......They only had one casette......he can't remember which one......when they got to the border the agent asked if they had anything to declare, and the looked at each other and said "war?"

[TheKing]

http://www.autoseekandsell.com/userimages/F100.jpg

this was my truck growing up...except it was candy apple red and had bigger tires

[Fish-Bait]

My first vehicle....four cyl 5 speed. We bout it for 2500 dollars and it had 50k miles on it when I got it. Same color scheme too. 1985 model. You could hide beer in the back seat...behind the armrest.

to whomever bought my car. There are 3 ea. 16 oz Old Milwaukee's Best in the red can behind the backseat armrest.....hehehe..They are approximately 18 years old now....

[pooker]

interesting looks like the king had him a gaz guzzler and fb had him a gas saver , enemys?

[TheKing]

interesting looks like the king had him a gaz guzzler and fb had him a gas saver , enemys?

my assumption is fish-bait didnt have a ton of choice about the car...in which case i wont hold it against him

however if he did have a choice about the car

then yes...we are enemies

[pooker]

i had a fourcylinder but it got negatives, full wot estimated mpg was 5 . so me and you are not enemys because i say so.

[TheKing]

all that effort put into a 4cyl just to try and keep up with a solid v8

sigh

i mean...i drive a four banger chevy truck now but i dont put any effort into it and im not jaded as to its position in the speed heirarchy

ive always driven like a bat out of hell but i baby this truck and putt putt around in it like a paw paw

its cause i know it cant go fast...so im not even gonna try and pretend

[pooker]

who said i was trying to keep up :p

i wouldnt ever waste my time on a regular four cylinder :kekeke:

[Kddn]

My first vehicle....four cyl 5 speed. We bout it for 2500 dollars and it had 50k miles on it when I got it. Same color scheme too. 1985 model. You could hide beer in the back seat...behind the armrest.



I thought I remembered it being powder blue...that was a LONG time ago, you are sooooo old!

[Fish-Bait]

my assumption is fish-bait didnt have a ton of choice about the car...in which case i wont hold it against him

however if he did have a choice about the car

then yes...we are enemies

Parents split...I drove back and forth from Petal to P'goula every other weekend and numersous times in the summers....that thing could get about 30 mpg at 60 mph. specially ifn' you put premium in it.....o.k. my next vehicle...

1990 model s-10 with 2.8 liter v-6 5 speed. Candy apple red. Here is a pic of one like it.....no camper though...regular cab 2 wd.

[pooker]

uh oh looks like you two know each other :kekeke: :love:

[Fish-Bait]

I thought I remembered it being powder blue...that was a LONG time ago, you are sooooo old!

what about those beastie boys......???:laugh:

[Kddn]

You have no idea Pook! Hahaha...JK, yea we know each other!:clap:

[Kddn]

what about those beastie boys......???:laugh:

On cassette!! Brass Monkey...:clap::clap::clap: Love it!!!!

[pooker]

so what cars do you drive kddn

[pooker]

brass monkey


that funkey monkey

[Kddn]

so what cars do you drive kddn

Toyota Sequoia Limited 4x4...cause that's how I roll (and it ain't my hubbies either!)

[Kddn]

but if I have a need for speed I have buddies that will let me drive their stangs down at the strip!!!:clap:

[pooker]

good now we are getting somewhere and in light of this thread i want you to hit your husband in the face while taping it, and giving out a war cry. then go pose on the toyota and look across the road at the nissan dealership and be like , ya i know you want this.

[Kddn]

good now we are getting somewhere and in light of this thread i want you to hit your husband in the face while taping it, and giving out a war cry. then go pose on the toyota and look across the road at the nissan dealership and be like , ya i know you want this.

You are insane!!! :laugh:

[IGID]

The conquest/stario was a pre 1990's dsm , powered by a 4 cylinder turbo rwd , excessively slow but people still buy them to mod, the tranny will bolt up to any 4g63 motor (class of motor name for the eclipse/talon/laser) making a nice rwd project. Back in the day when I lived in Jackson, I terrorized the streets in a red Conquest TSI. Your right about being somewhat slow in stock trim, but I put a boost controller on it and increased my boost from 7psi to 13psi and a pipe and it turned into a screamer. Those were the days.

[carsalesguy]

good now we are getting somewhere and in light of this thread i want you to hit your husband in the face while taping it, and giving out a war cry. then go pose on the toyota and look across the road at the nissan dealership and be like , ya i know you want this.

that must be why we traded 2 of them in in the past 3 days. must be cuz they saw the armada

[Kddn]

that must be why we traded 2 of them in in the past 3 days. must be cuz they saw the armada

I was looking at an Armada when I bought my Sequoia...nothing personal I just preferred the Sequoia!

[carsalesguy]

here's my first car:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o141/paulsanchez1/bluecomitandjeep.jpg
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o141/paulsanchez1/DSC00779.jpg

and yes, i still own it. it's a 1990 mitsubishi precis. NOT A DSM. it's really a hyundai, but don't tell anyone.--

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o141/paulsanchez1/DSC00764.jpg

and yes, that is 66703 on the odometer

[Fish-Bait]

that must be why we traded 2 of them in in the past 3 days. must be cuz they saw the armada

My cousin' bought an armada or leased it or something...after he paid for the gas he was like.....dam...screw this gas guzzling behemoth. Then he went and got an altima....or maybe a maxima..I dunno. Fact is Nissan pickups and SUV drank some gas dawg.......ooooooooowwwwwweeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[carsalesguy]

I was looking at an Armada when I bought my Sequoia...nothing personal I just preferred the Sequoia!

i know that the "real truck" look and feel sometimes doesn't win over the whole "i'm a pansy" things out there.

[Kddn]

Let me be more specific...the Sequoia had all the options I wanted and the Armada didn't and since I want everything yesterday I went for the Sequoia...I love it though!

[Fish-Bait]

i know that the "real truck" look and feel sometimes doesn't win over the whole "i'm a pansy" things out there.

kddn...keep in mind he was promoting toyota' just a few months back....

[carsalesguy]

it was more than a few. and before that it was honda and mazda lmao

[Fish-Bait]

lol'n and stuff over here dawg. rofl'n and stuff...don't eat all the fish tonight and finish farting your couch to death.

[Kddn]

kddn...keep in mind he was promoting toyota' just a few months back....

Now I see the light...I love my Sequoia! It was what I was looking for when I ran across the deal on the Armada, a little bit more cost but well worth it!

[carsalesguy]

oh, and i failed to mention that i have the window stickers to that car also-

[Kddn]

good now we are getting somewhere and in light of this thread i want you to hit your husband in the face while taping it, and giving out a war cry. then go pose on the toyota and look across the road at the nissan dealership and be like , ya i know you want this.

What do ya think FB...how do you think that would go over!?!:laugh:

[Fish-Bait]

What do ya think FB...how do you think that would go over!?!:laugh:

I dunno, I think you can kick hubby's butt. :kekeke:

[carsalesguy]

that means don't do it

[Kddn]

not to take over Pook's thread but he is injured right now however, he will get better...better just leave that one alone!:laugh:

[Fish-Bait]

You beat his ass didn't you.

[Kddn]

You beat his ass didn't you.

You know it!!!:rotflol:

[TheStereoGuy]

My first car, 1989 Ford Tempo, bought from my aunt for $1500 in 1996. Had 72k miles on it and was leaking oil from some place. I had to put a quart in it every morning before school. If I came to a stop for more than 2 minutes, I had to shut it off to stop it from overheating and blowing out the most awful thick white smoke that lingered for half an hour. Looked like the car was on fire. One day, in front of school, traffic was backed up, and the radiator exploded. They had to flag buses around me, I stayed in the car letting the smoke hide my identitiy. :smt086 When dad came with his truck to tow it home, I had him call me in sick, and went home with him.

After we got the radiator fixed, I drove it to a friends, and didn't put oil in it, on the way there and back there is a bood mile long stretch of straight road. On the way back it was smoking out the tailpipe with a trail that had to be a half mile long behind me. I floored it on the straightway, and at just over 40mph ( took near the end of the straightway to get there ) it locked up. :laugh:

[pooker]

My first car was a 1990(?) geo tracker got it circa three and a half years ago when i was round-a-bout 15 and a half, very good great gas milage car. Put you could tip that thing over with one hand hahaha , got it for 900 or a little bit higher. even had a sony radio boy did i think i was ho0t stuff haha.

[Hob684]

my first truck was a 1985 toyota pickup 4banger w/ 5sp.


I learned how to drive a stick with that truck on a PIPELINE in the RAIN. my dad was plantin some rye grass just after a sprinkle and he said i could drive around while he disked up the field. bought it for $500 with 270k on it and drove it from Enterprise to Decatur twice a week while at EC. I've still got it for yard work and if i put a few minutes of love into it it'll crank. Somethin's wrong either in the trans or rearend b/c it screams like a banshee if you get over 20mph. I swear you can hear it for about 3 miles.

then i bought my current 97 Civic that i got for $7k with 55k on it in 2003 off a ford lot. its got 127k on it now and i'm lookin to get a newish chevy in a month.

[dream member]

My first car was a 1996 Ford Contour...got hit and totalled it the first month...ugh!

[TheStereoGuy]

My first car was a 1996 Ford Contour...got hit and totalled it the first month...ugh!

Well, if you would slow down. Should change your name to MsSpeedingTicket. How many times you done had to go to the police station??

[pooker]

i totaled a z24 wonder if anyone remembers those turdacular cars , old school also not the newer looking ones

i got a reckless driving ticket along with no car , and about two people claiming whiplash when they were barely bumped

[dream member]

Well, if you would slow down. Should change your name to MsSpeedingTicket. How many times you done had to go to the police station??

I've actually been wanting to ask some of the law enforcement fellas....what is an "extensive driving record"?

I've been pulled over about 15 or so times...

[Amoeba]

Well, if you're going through Petal, just wear something low cut. You should be fine.

[Hob684]

i consider my 3 speeding tickets and "failure to stop for traffic device" an excessive record...

1. 84 in a 65 - $30 traffic school
2. 65 in a 55 - $190 i think
3. 72 in a 70 - $182
4. i supposedly "rolled" through the stop sign on Hwy 45N at Scooba. $167 later... I call BS b/c I saw the cop when i was pulling up to the sign. I don't think the 5% on 5% tint + exhaust helped any. And my sister undoing the "quiet" mode on my stereo while i'm talkin to the nice occifer. i hate that guy.

[Amoeba]

My first ride was a black '74 Nova Coupe. Great car. 350, Edelbrock aluminum intake, Quadrajunk 4-barrel, mufflers sawed off and tossed in the trunk. No horn or radio, but it didn't need either. You could hear me coming from a dozen blocks away.

Cost my grandmother $775, and she took me at my word that it was a good and reasonably safe car. The truth, however, that it was a drag car I got from a dude down in Wiggins. I don't know about now, but back then, drag racing in Wiggins was an every night thing. Even the local cops got into the action.

This car was all top end. You could almost guarantee a win if it was an 1/8 mile race. But in the quarter, when that sucker sat down, it would peel the whiskers off your face as it flew by.

I killed it on Old Richton Rd in that damned S curve. This was one of the few days when there wasn't a cop sitting there. I was just learning to drive, and had previously had problems keeping that car under control. I hit the S at about 90, was all the way into the left lane as I came around the first curve...and, naturally, there was a car coming. I hooked hard right, then snatched back left. This put both the dummies riding with me into my friggin' lap. I struggled to untangle my leg so I could hit the brakes, but I...hehe...stomped down on the wrong pedal.

Needless to say, when I hit that elderly couple's yard, I was wide open. Their yard has a small hill, then a drop-off, then a cement driveway. I hit that hill, went airborne for what seemed like forever, then nose planted that car into their driveway, bending the frame, snapping the battery cables, and essentially graduated my first crucial driving lesson.

It was kinda funny, though. They had some of those wooden geese things in their yard. I turned them into toothpicks as I came through. When the cops got there, they asked the old man if he wanted to report any damages. He glanced over at his wife picking up the splintered geese, smiles, and says "Nah. No damage done."

The old dude was cool about it. I'll give him that. He said that he's had several people fly off that curve into his yard, but never had one land so close to his doorstep.


Well, I ended up getting a ticket for no DL. In court, the judge asks me if the charge was accurate. I told him it was. He asked if I had my license yet, and I told him no. He asks me why. I replied that I had no car. He frowned and said "Well that's a lame damn excuse." "Well," I said. "It's the only damn one I've got."

The mood turned sour after that.

[dream member]

Well, if you're going through Petal, just wear something low cut. You should be fine.

Too much pride to flirt my way out of a ticket...I don't play that way! :)

[dream member]

i consider my 3 speeding tickets and "failure to stop for traffic device" an excessive record...

1. 84 in a 65 - $30 traffic school
2. 65 in a 55 - $190 i think
3. 72 in a 70 - $182
4. i supposedly "rolled" through the stop sign on Hwy 45N at Scooba. $167 later... I call BS b/c I saw the cop when i was pulling up to the sign. I don't think the 5% on 5% tint + exhaust helped any. And my sister undoing the "quiet" mode on my stereo while i'm talkin to the nice occifer. i hate that guy.

Hmmmm 28 in a 20, 75 in a 55, 67 in a 55, 40 in a 30 and some others...I've never asked...my avg is going to be 10+ whatever the speed limit is...I've slowed down now that gas is so high...I can't afford to blow the tank quick! :) However, when I'm running late to work - 90 it is.

I got a ticket for the 28 in a 20 and then 2 in one night - the 40 in a 30 and crossing the yellow line...it was late and I was the DD...as I was adjusting the seatbelt in my friend's car...a Gulfport cop thought he would be neat and get the chick drinking and driving; needless to say, I don't drink. Oh well...he was a jerk anyway...the rest weren't so bad.

I got pulled over in Biloxi a few weeks ago...I didn't realize the SUV behind me was a Biloxi cop...dammit! He told me he was just giving me a warning, but he didn't realize I had an "extensive driving record"...I guess I'm quite the criminal! lol

72 in a 70!!! HAHAHA

[Hob684]

72 in a 70!!! HAHAHA

ha ha ha.. it was the friday after thanksgiving and i was headed south on 59 above laurel. Big ol trooper. Told me to step out of the car and come to the back. I thought i was about to get tazed or somethin. Then my wife couldnt' find her uptodate ins card. :ohnoes: He said he would be "nice" and not give me a ticket for the ins after about 20minutes of rippin my wife's purse open and searching every nook and crannie for that thing.



pissed me off. OH! he also wrote the wrong phone number on the ticket to call AND the wrong address. it was a Ellisville PO box so i called the Town hall/whatever it is and after about 2 days of run around i finally got the right people.

did i mentioned this whole ordeal pissed me off?

[dream member]

ha ha ha.. it was the friday after thanksgiving and i was headed south on 59 above laurel. Big ol trooper. Told me to step out of the car and come to the back. I thought i was about to get tazed or somethin. Then my wife couldnt' find her uptodate ins card. :ohnoes: He said he would be "nice" and not give me a ticket for the ins after about 20minutes of rippin my wife's purse open and searching every nook and crannie for that thing.



pissed me off. OH! he also wrote the wrong phone number on the ticket to call AND the wrong address. it was a Ellisville PO box so i called the Town hall/whatever it is and after about 2 days of run around i finally got the right people.

did i mentioned this whole ordeal pissed me off?

hahaha - that's a bad day...and would definitely give you a bad taste in your mouth.

"Do you know how fast you were going?"
"65"
"63"
"But isn't the speed limit 65?"
"Yes"

I think I got the numbers right...anyone know the movie I'm talking about?! :)

[Hob684]

hahaha - that's a bad day...and would definitely give you a bad taste in your mouth.

"Do you know how fast you were going?"
"65"
"63"
"But isn't the speed limit 65?"
"Yes"

I think I got the numbers right...anyone know the movie I'm talking about?! :)

somethin about liters of cola, snozzberries, and now i'm freakin out.

"does this look like spit to you?" "yeah" "Fk it"

[Amoeba]

Double baco cheeseburger. It's for a cop.
What the hell's that all about? You gonna spit in it now?
No, I just told him that so he makes it good.

[mac]

My first car was a 1978 VW Rabbit. http://home.earthlink.net/~dogruel/photos/cars/DSCN3491a.JPG

Mine was uglier than this. It had spotty tan paint. It didn't have a radio or first gear, and one day when I hit a bump in the road, the rearview mirror fell into my lap. My dad traded an old boat and a cb radio for it. It was a shiddy car. But when you're 15 and it's all you've got, it's pretty cool. I spent lots of time going up and down back roads in that thing.

[dream member]

somethin about liters of cola, snozzberries, and now i'm freakin out.

"does this look like spit to you?" "yeah" "Fk it"

Double baco cheeseburger. It's for a cop.
What the hell's that all about? You gonna spit in it now?
No, I just told him that so he makes it good.


:smt118:laugh:
AWESOME!!! :)

Need that burger spit free! :)

I like my car now, but it needs a new paint job!

[TheStereoGuy]

I've actually been wanting to ask some of the law enforcement fellas....what is an "extensive driving record"?

I've been pulled over about 15 or so times...

That would be your extensive driving record.

[dream member]

That would be your extensive driving record.

But I didn't get tickets for each of them...