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02-21-2023 | 10:01 AM
#1291
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From: West of Chi., IL
Edit: For those not knowing Turn 5 at RA, the bottom of the hill has numerous concrete barriers arranged so that you have an escape route there if you are going less than 30 mph. If you hit it at 100 plus they will send you and your car home in little pieces.
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02-21-2023 | 10:03 AM
#1292
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From: Bondville
I have a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee, white, with 110,000 miles. (I call the car Elizabeth Warren) I am the second owner. The first was a professor dad of my wife's best friend. It was kept up to 80,000 miles in a windowless garage and he never had any passengers. It really is in great shape. I replaced the front axles with CV boots, replaced the radiator, power steering pump, and pulled the both Dana diff covers cleaning things up and replacing all fluids with appropriate Mobil 1 synthetics. Not a dent anywhere. I bled the brakes a la Billman and they work without going to the floor!
The husband of that friend I mentioned is selling his 2015 Outback with the 3.6 V6 with 80,000 miles. I think I will get that much newer car and sell the Jeep despite my love for that badass vehicle. (It has taken me through deep sand and off-road for fly fishing expeditions with my friends as well as blasting through snow up at Donner Pass CA)
So, the so called NADA and KBB comes in around $3-4K which is just very low in my opinion. Another friend of mine said he almost let his go for less than $10 but wound up north of $20K!!!
How would you value the thing? Just look at asking for cars for sale and or auctions? Any seat of the pants feel for the value of this?
The husband of that friend I mentioned is selling his 2015 Outback with the 3.6 V6 with 80,000 miles. I think I will get that much newer car and sell the Jeep despite my love for that badass vehicle. (It has taken me through deep sand and off-road for fly fishing expeditions with my friends as well as blasting through snow up at Donner Pass CA)
So, the so called NADA and KBB comes in around $3-4K which is just very low in my opinion. Another friend of mine said he almost let his go for less than $10 but wound up north of $20K!!!
How would you value the thing? Just look at asking for cars for sale and or auctions? Any seat of the pants feel for the value of this?
02-21-2023 | 01:49 PM
#1293
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From: New Zealand
Serious question: How many times, if ever, have you gotten a car home with no brakes?
My first time was with my sprite, then there was my grandmothers Nova with drum front brakes. it was almost a habitual occurrence with my Renaults.
Apparently the engineers at Renault had never taken high school chemistry or studied the oxidation-reduction reaction between dissimilar metals.
There is something exciting about that feeling of your foot glide to the floor pan while depressing the brake pedal.
It's such an adrenaline rush.
although when your passengers start screaming in your ear, it gets downright annoying.
My first time was with my sprite, then there was my grandmothers Nova with drum front brakes. it was almost a habitual occurrence with my Renaults.
Apparently the engineers at Renault had never taken high school chemistry or studied the oxidation-reduction reaction between dissimilar metals.
There is something exciting about that feeling of your foot glide to the floor pan while depressing the brake pedal.
It's such an adrenaline rush.
although when your passengers start screaming in your ear, it gets downright annoying.
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02-21-2023 | 02:18 PM
#1294
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We all needed new underwear, after the car finally stopped.
02-21-2023 | 02:59 PM
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From: Medina, OH
I took an old Hairline in on trade for a Mustang I was selling. One night I was driving home and came to a light that changed. The car (a 1957 Chevy) stopped and I hit the brakes and there were none! I hit him, bounced off and hit him again. All I di to his car was brake a taillight lens. It cost me $25. My car was a little different. Both front fenders sprung out from just in front of the doors and looked like s set of wings. I had to beat them down to get it home. I used the e-brake to stop to get home!
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02-21-2023 | 04:55 PM
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I took an old Hairline in on trade for a Mustang I was selling. One night I was driving home and came to a light that changed. The car (a 1957 Chevy) stopped and I hit the brakes and there were none! I hit him, bounced off and hit him again. All I di to his car was brake a taillight lens. It cost me $25. My car was a little different. Both front fenders sprung out from just in front of the doors and looked like s set of wings. I had to beat them down to get it home. I used the e-brake to stop to get home!
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02-23-2023 | 12:18 PM
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From: Arlington, VA
02-23-2023 | 12:42 PM
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From: Foothills East of Sacramento