What is the SLOOOOOWEST car you've ever driven?
01-29-2005, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by ecobb993
Mike,
Shows how my memory is failing. That was '65; FOURTY years ago and the car was, at that time, newer than my 993 is today. But I could drive all month on 2 bucks worth of gas!
Shows how my memory is failing. That was '65; FOURTY years ago and the car was, at that time, newer than my 993 is today. But I could drive all month on 2 bucks worth of gas!
I was born in 1968 and at least I can now breathe a little easier knowing that it was "before my time". My GF is giving me enough grief over that as it is
01-29-2005, 06:41 PM
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It has to have been by 1979 Diesel Rabbit...my wife's commuter car years ago.
01-29-2005, 07:09 PM
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In 1967 my brother and I bought a 1964 VW camper (it had a gas heater in the back). In August 1967 we drove from our home in NJ across the country to San Francisco then to Tucson where he was in college. In Western PA on I-80 downhill we topped out at 75 and then crawled up the next hill at 40 while everybody passed us. We drove at night across the Salt Flats in Utah ... I became expert at drafting semis to maintain 65. The engine threw a rod at 125000 miles while I was in college in Colorado in 1972.
01-29-2005, 10:47 PM
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Slowest Car: 1982 Toyota Tercel. I think it could do 80 mph........falling off a cliff!! Good, reliable car, though. But, definitely had to lean foward going uphills.
01-30-2005, 01:21 AM
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My first car, a 10 year old 1963 Alfa Romeo Giulietta spider. 1.3 liter engine, and rings worn so bad we thought the needle on the compression test gauge was frozen.
Even after a summer-long overhaul in a friend's garage, it was a slow moving car. Not so good at cornering either, but because her lines were so beautiful all that could be forgiven. Even if my dates did have to help me push start it....
Chip
Even after a summer-long overhaul in a friend's garage, it was a slow moving car. Not so good at cornering either, but because her lines were so beautiful all that could be forgiven. Even if my dates did have to help me push start it....
Chip
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01-30-2005, 02:46 AM
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I see I share with some...MB 240D but another is my mother's VW diesel vanagon. It was killed in an accident. I was driving to her home to see her new MB when I was t boned by a drunk driver in a Supra. He hit the wheel otherwise he would have sheered the car in half.
Had I been in my car I would have been DEAD! BTW - I had a 75 914!
Had I been in my car I would have been DEAD! BTW - I had a 75 914!
01-30-2005, 09:42 AM
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MB 406 Van me and my Motocross buddies shared.
First of all it was a diesel with that old "window" where you actually saw wire getting heated and once it was red enough (from the heat), you'd start it up.
Anyways, with that car we went to various MX tracks and we had a "cruise control"... We placed brick on the gas pedal and that was it! Speed varied, depending on the elevations, from 30 mph to abput 50, if really big downhill we probably went about 60...
But wait! That's kinda fast actually for that MB... When the engine was cold, it really was slow, once when we started our trip from our garage, I accelerated as hard as the thing would go, and this one student/hippie with his 30 years old "grandma bicycle" accelerated faster than us... Even he was laughing out loud!
Yep, that thing was slow but lot of fun otherwise!
First of all it was a diesel with that old "window" where you actually saw wire getting heated and once it was red enough (from the heat), you'd start it up.
Anyways, with that car we went to various MX tracks and we had a "cruise control"... We placed brick on the gas pedal and that was it! Speed varied, depending on the elevations, from 30 mph to abput 50, if really big downhill we probably went about 60...
But wait! That's kinda fast actually for that MB... When the engine was cold, it really was slow, once when we started our trip from our garage, I accelerated as hard as the thing would go, and this one student/hippie with his 30 years old "grandma bicycle" accelerated faster than us... Even he was laughing out loud!
Yep, that thing was slow but lot of fun otherwise!
01-30-2005, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Adrienne
A 1965 Beetle, still owned by my dad. It's all original, too.
He just recently pulled it out of storage, put new tires and brakes on it and drives it around town.