Should I just buy it???
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Topic: Should I just buy it???
Posted By: Don(MI)
Subject: Should I just buy it???
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2019 at 9:20pm
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Ok so heres the back story.... My ol truck is getting old. Had it for years and lots of miles now under its hood. My sweetie pie has been after me to get new wheels...or something nicer anyways. So here's my thought. A convertible. Yep, my price range for a newer car is around 6-8k. Not much but I can work with that and it gets me to work no problem. And keep my old truck for when I need it (hauling dead deer and the lawn mower and whatever baby needs hauled). So why a convertible??? So we can have fun on the weekends. Drop the top, sun on your back and wind in your hair. Sounds good to me anyways. Drive to the lakeshore and wherever lazy summer days take us. My girl loves beach days. Also, I want this car to be about everyone else. Not just me. I want to throw the keys at my dad and say "Go take mom out for an ice cream". Or stop by and pick up grandma or grandpa, and take a drive. Something they will enjoy too. A fun car. So I found one I like. Pontiac Solstice. It's not big, it's not burn the rubber off your tires fast. But It looks fun. And I love how the styling looks like a corvettes little brother. I am looking at the turbo charged GXP version. That's what I been thinking. Fits into my budget too...I just figure anymore life is too short not to have fun. What would you do? ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2019 at 9:38pm
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Well I think all that snow and cold weather has gotten to you. Buy it! You will regret it if you don't. The only drawback is not being really able to enjoy in the winter. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 9:43am
| I'd say no but that's coming from a guy that has three covetable taking up room in my shop. When I lived in upper Michigan my convertible sat for 8 months every year. |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 9:44am
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Buy it Don. I and my family have 9 two seater and one four seater convertibles and have been enjoying them for years. I've been driving my '54 MG for 50 years and many thousands of miles both in Canada and U.S.! (Although not very often in the winter!) Daughter and son-in-law and grand kids all have them. Good family fun, and yes, it's fun to hand the keys to someone and tell them "take it for a run and have some fun!" |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 12:21pm
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You need a Jeep with the removable top.🙂 ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 12:23pm
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Seems I have my 65 Olds Cutlass Supreme Convert (442 optioned) setting in garage and also it seems about 12 motorcycles also - convert seems to set and some bikes get used more often . Oh and the fishing boat I have been going to use for last 15 years has not seen any water except for when it rains or the snow melts that is in it . ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 12:54pm
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What the heck Don, have you ever heard "You're not getting any younger"! Memories or regrets,,,,,,,,,,,you decide. Should be an easy decision. OH,,,,,,,,,,and if you're ever in WI, stop and take me for a ride.... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 1:13pm
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funny this should come up...I was wondering if my 58 Willys 4WD PU was still above ground .....then I got thinkin an FC-150 would be a nice ride.... sorry, OTM( Old Timer's Moment)... Yes BUY it, if you can afford it.... One request, post a picture ! Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 2:35pm
| Go for it and keep pickup for winter use. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 11:33pm
| yep...Stan is right! I have the Willys Jeep, top off it, and then you can go park where others can't...no one to bother you and might gits sum too! |
Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2019 at 6:13am
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Buy it !! Pontiac will be a classic someday. Wife said that we needed a more fun car than our 2004 Bonneville GXP went she turned 65 so we looked at a Solstice. Found it a little tight for my 6' body so ended up with an ORANGE 2011 Camaro SS convertible. Old people need to have fun to! ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2019 at 9:50am
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OOoohhhh Calvin, I want one of them!! And you got the BEST color! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2019 at 11:25pm
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When I was in Ohio last summer, I bought my uncles red 1991 Mercury Capri two seater . He had given it to his daughter but she seldom drove it so she decided to let me have it. I drove it home and around the neighborhood until the temporary license expired. Looking forward to cruising around this coming summer. So, my advice is BUY IT! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2019 at 8:56am
| my old lady spotted one of them Pontiac roadsters at a dealer in IA one day. we stopped and I climbed in, but then I couldn't gits back out of it. had to kinda fall over and the pull my self out, the salesman was laughing his... off! they sure are cool looking! |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2019 at 9:31am
2007 Solstice 1991 Capri  ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2019 at 10:32am
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You'll need a wind screen behind the seats or it will be an uncomfortable ride. Personelly I would never buy a car with a turbo. Just too much to go wrong. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2019 at 11:47am
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gee shamey I was thinking the same thing, cept I'd NEVER be able to get out unless forklift was overhead to pull me up !! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:08pm
  Or we need to add the push up seat from your super recliner too. Old guys just need to be more resourceful.
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chaskaduo wrote:Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2019 at 1:29pm
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Yup, that's my Capri, except for the custom wheels and spoiler. Fun little car to drive but I sure missed cruse control on the trip home, my foot was killing me by the time I got home. Those Solstice and the Saturn version are nice cars. They used high pressure water to form the body panels. Should become a collector's item.
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2019 at 2:12pm
| When I still wrenched for a living had a old customer sold off his farm right in the heart of St. Peters MO, BIG $$$$$$$. Bought he and his missus one of the New at the time Dodge Viper, he drove it in for us to service as he did not like the customer service at the dealer. That was one of those I could get in but had to fall out to get out of. Could always tell as they arrived, major wheel burnout, then all you could hear was the cackling from he and his wife as they laughed so hard. Got the seventh ticket at eight months, traded it in on a new dodge pickup his wife could drive as he had lost his license, had gotten his last ticket going for BBQ in KC, was just under three hours as he drove. |