BS: Middle age crisis cars

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Little Robyn
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 03:44 PM

Hey,hey!
I'm back in my Cabriolet!
I drove it to work yesterday - no problem.
It still puts a smile on my face tho' I kept the lid up.
It's winter still down in this part of the world!
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: kendall
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 06:13 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jul 10 - 01:21 PM

A friend of mine is having an auction on August 7th. Somewhere around 100 cars including a 1925 Pierce Arrow, two Rolls Royce, three Mercedes Benz, and many other makes and years.
Of course I'll be there.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: robomatic
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 07:45 PM

I'm saving up for a Prius for my mid-life Car. After all, I'm an engineer. The display rocks!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 07:35 PM

Jacqui says it's ugly

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 04:44 PM

My friend wants to sell me a 1957 Chevy Bel Air.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Gurney
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 08:29 PM

"Gave that up for sanity..." Is that a religious festival? I've heard of 'giving things up for Lent.'

Good idea, though, a Festival of Sanity. Providing it's MY sanity.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 05:48 PM

Gurney... I don't have a wife anymore... or any girlfriends. I gave that up for sanity some ten years ago. Maybe an old car might be the way to go.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Gurney
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 05:29 PM

So do I, Gnu, but the wife doesn't like me to talk about them.....

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 05:28 PM

Hmmmmmmm, Capt'n... I always thought of you as an A-Model'r... You know, big roomy back seat fir the womenz... *grin*...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 05:18 PM

Kendall. Ya can't drive two at once. I tried it years ago and got into deep shit. Actually, it was four, but that sounds like braggin... about bein stupid, really. But I have fondle memories.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: kendall
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 04:48 PM

With what? a hand grenade in the back seat?

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 01:53 PM

How about fixing this one up, Kendall?

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: kendall
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 01:25 PM

I've been fighting the urge to buy a 1924 Model T Ford.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: GUEST,Phot at work
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 03:43 AM

As far as I'm aware the only car the Queen actually owns, is a Land Rover Defender, the ultimate classless car! Plus you get to see over the tops of the hedges and see more than you can from your average euro box!

I really must get more work done on mine and get it back on the road!

Wassail!! Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Gurney
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 02:50 AM

Patsy, perhaps he fancied himself at 'horse' events.

Landrovers to the fore, there. You can snarl up in a Lamborghini, or swoosh up in a Roller, but Landrovers are in the best parking spots.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: GUEST,Patsy Warren
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 09:00 AM

When my ex-husband went through his mid-life crisis he got it into his head that he must have a Land Rover like a real lord of the manor. Don't get me wrong I liked it too it had a thermometer and nifty guage to check sea level, but to use only in the middle of the city centre of Bristol? I am just relieved he didn't get a Gun dog to set the look. On the other hand it might have been better company!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 08:06 AM

Reckon we all jsut past that mid-life stuff, Capt'n...

Don't matter... Cool cars are cool cars no matter how old 'er young ya' are... When I moved to Page Country I was struck by the number of geezers who drive around in their 40s and 50s cars... Lotta of 'um...

As for the Dodge??? Not exactly a mid-lifer but a nice car none the less... I especially like the grandma's quilt front seat cover... Real homey...

As fir me??? I kinda see myself in a '53 Ford coupe...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 07:51 AM

Not much interest here.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 06:40 PM

Sure I wanted the Nissan ZX but with 2 kids and driving less than 3K a year, I got an ol Caddy.
Having a cartoonists bent, I removed the Cadillac emblems and lettering and replaced it a chrome front hood Peace sign that makes it look Mercedesesque. With the remaining chrome letters from the park Ave and the deville, the back of the car now reads "keep parked"

The carbon footprint of the used car will be less than buying a new Prius since the energy of manufacture will not be exceeded by the caddy's fuel usage for the next 8-10 years.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Little Robyn
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 04:26 PM

I did it!
Earlier this year I swapped my sensible automatic family car for a Mazda Cabriolet - a little sports car.
It's a 1989, is rather well used and it's a manual but it looks like this!
It seems as if they're only available in Japan or NZ unless you import them yourself.
I really enjoyed driving it to work and around town but since I had the health change and 2 ops a couple of months ago, I can't change gears with that arm!!!
So I've had to use Mitch's old automatic Toyota and leave the Mazda for him.
Maybe in the summer.........
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 03:57 PM

If there are any flies on that girl, they are paying rent.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 01:34 PM

When Becca was very young I asked her what she wanted for Christmas. She said "A red Mustang." I said What would you settle for" she said, "A blue one."

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 01:26 PM

My "Change of life car"

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: GUEST,Patsy Warren
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 10:01 AM

No that only happens if someones describes a motorbike. Big, black, chrome and ..........!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Gurney
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 12:57 AM

Well, Richard, I've come to suspect that Tam is 'one out of the box,' as we say in the Antipodes.
It just means a person who is an individualist. So, maybe.....

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 06:48 PM

Not usually. Check your meds.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 02:37 PM

Micca.... pant pant...


can a girl get an orgasm just from the description of a car?


Not a car....


THE CAR!!!!

Subject: Lyr Add: MID LIFE CRISIS
From: GUEST,bert
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 11:18 PM

Here's a mid life crisis song. 'Sposed to be a husband wife duet. Wife's part indented.


I wanna have a mid life crisis
but if the truth be told

        You can't have a mid life crisis
        Darling You're too old

I wanna drive a bright red sports car
with a pretty young blond for a date
I wanna have a mid life crisis

        You've left it a bit too late
        You coulda had a crisis at Forty
        or even at Fifty Five
        If you'd wanted a mid life crisis
        You should have done it while you're still alive

I want a pick up truck with monster wheels
I want to be stacked up with sex appeal
I want tattoos on my arms and chest
A Harley and a black leather vest
I want to let my hair grow long
I want to get to Nashville with this song
I want a Cowboy hat and belt and boots
I want a hand tailored white silk suit

I wanna have a mid life crisis
but if the truth be told

        You can't have a mid life crisis
        Darling You're too old

I wanna drive a bright red sports car
with a pretty young blond for a date
I wanna have a mid life crisis

        You've left it a bit too late
        You coulda had a crisis at Forty
        or even at Fifty Five
        If you'd wanted a mid life crisis
        You should have done it while you're still alive

I wanna drive a bright red sports car
with a pretty young blond for a date

        Spoken:
        Enough about the blond,
        get your saggy butt off of that couch
        and take out the garbage.

Spoken:

Ok. Ok. But how about a sports car?
What do you think about an Aston Martin?

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 07:04 PM

For me it was the apple green Micra with the sunroof, electric windows and 5 forward gears.....

Wondering whether to celebrate the end of working life crisis with a Juke?

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Micca
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 04:33 PM

Tam, It was immaculate pale blue with a slightly cream coloured (not stark white but more mellow colour) beautiful!! and looked just like Beccas picture, except for the colour!!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 04:18 PM

Tam,

I asked for one for my 8th birthday. I'm still waitin'. :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 12:57 PM

Becca

Since I was about 14 I have been in love with 1966 Stang convertible too. But I want a baby blue one with white leather interior.

sigh....

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Zen
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 12:22 PM

Nissan Micra... my middle age crisis is buying nice instruments so I don't have any spare money for a better car!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 12:09 PM

Yeah, Becca... She's a nice one, fir sure...

What is a hairdresser car, anyway???

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Micca
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 12:07 PM

Becca, at a very low point in my life (in the throes of my first divorce) One of those cars ,in powder blue, driven by a very beautiful hapa-Hawaiian girl (a cousin of my sisters in laws) picked me up and took me out for the day driveing me around Oahu HI to Hanauma Bay. It gave my morale an incredible boost. I have always loved them since, listening to American pie and singing along on the Kamehameha Hiway passed Pearl Harbour!! Happy days.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 11:55 AM

Is that the 1954 definition of "hair"?

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: romanyman
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 11:16 AM

bobert why do you like hairdressers cars ?

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: GUEST,becca72
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 10:13 AM

When I get to middle age I want this one:

isn't she lovely?

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 08:06 PM

Richard, Richard, Richard...

What am I gonna do with you???

I mean, yeah, there are plenty of nutballs out there who drink a few too many and end up trickin' out boring Volvos to go down a 1/4 mile track really fast... Like who cares, mah man???

We're talkin' midlife crisis here... Not tricked out drag cars...

Google up '34 Cord here... That is what we are talkin' about here... Not 11 second drag cars... Mid life crisises is about womenz and they don't want to ride nowhere in a tricked out Volvo drag car... Or any Volvo, for that matter...

Now here's a few more hot cars for the mid life crisisers:

The new Dodge Charger is hot...

The new Camaro is hot...

The new Mustangs are hot...

These are babe's cars... You wnata a mid life crisis then keep the heck away from Volvos, no matter how fast or slow they are...

Jus' MO, of course...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 07:54 PM

When I get to middle age I'll tell you.

Dave MacKenzie (age 62)

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 07:42 PM

I really have no crisis.... I have This. It has done almost everything I really needed for 16 years. (And, it has curtains.... and 3 interchangable seats in back. I have slept in it, carried massive loads in it, used it for temporary storage and dared little sports cars to challenge me for lanes. 5 more years...please.)

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 06:11 PM

Boring Volvo
Another boring Volvo (witha v8 in)
A boring OLD Volvo
All Volvo (but not from the SAME Volvo)
16 valve turbo running 11.8
578Hp at 6300rpm, over 500Hp from 5200 to 7700rpm
Look where the speedo gets to!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: romanyman
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 03:07 PM

And for after mid life , my old chevy monster truck, with mahoosive don chepeck tyres, a 8 inch body lift and matching suspension lift, oh i wish i never sold it. Even though mr plod hated it, the old girl passed mot after mot,

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 02:03 PM

and for after middle age?

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 12:11 PM

Yeah, if I could do it any way I wanted, a Cord or a Bugatti would surely fill the bill...



A

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 07:07 AM

Okay, we have Amos and Kat who are ready for the mid-life crisis... Hondas, as Joe found out, won't get you to first base...

BTW, Kat... The Miatas aren't really all that expensive... You can find a nice used one for less than $5000...

The '34 Cord??? Different story... But a real classic raodster...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 01:57 AM

In 1999, I was 51, single for seven years, and not having much luck with my love life. So, I bought a red, two-door 1999 Honda Civic. I think it reminded me of a very attractive woman who drove a similar car....but I didn't get to first base with her.
Three years later, I fell in love with a woman with a child, dogs, cats, and a Volvo station wagon; got married; and settled down. As with most of my cars, the hot little Honda ended up in the hands of a teenager - my stepson. But this is the first car I've given to a teenager, that hasn't been trashed in six months.

-Joe Offer, who never was comfortable having a middle-age crisis-


....but sometimes I wonder what happened to the very attractive woman with the red Civic...I never even got up the courage to ask her out.....

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jul 10 - 11:51 PM

I wouldn't want one of these, but my Rog's friend drove up from AZ just to talk to the folks who custom-build Flying Miatas. I didn't see any up close and he didn't buy one, but it sure looks as though these folks have fun with their expensive cars! And, they are just up the road a ways from us.:-)

A long time ago, I stood right next to a 1934 Cord and fell in love. I cannot find a good picture of one from that year, but this one isn't too bad: clickety.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle age crisis cars
From: Bobert
Date: 17 Jul 10 - 10:30 PM

Thank you, Amos!!!

That's what I am talkin' about!!! A 45 foot schooner!!! Not a friggin', ahhhhhhh, Volvo!!!

Get with the program here... This aint a geezer thread...

B;~)