Oceanstorm on 30/4/2022 at 00:27
My BMW 1999 E39 528i
New Zealand new in 1999 (I got it in 2012), 280,000km and still going strong :cheeky
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https://imgur.com/a/fl18O6E) https://imgur.com/a/fl18O6E
edit: not sure why this isn't working, selected image and set the imgur url but it isn't showing so I've placed the url above.
Tocky on 30/4/2022 at 01:27
Nice car. I usually just click the "get share links" and then click the BBC code for forums and never even use the image thing here. I just paste.
I did get to missing the goat and looked for another to no avail. Eventually I found a 69 Lemans convertible that had a seized engine. The body was straight and the old guy had it just sitting in a field out back of his shop with the top down and immobile. I knew I had to rescue it. The inside would rust in no time if I didn't. You can't let a car like that be in the open and die so I bought it and pulled it home. I parked it in the old barn and pulled the plugs to dump diesel fuel down the cylinder heads hoping to get them to unlock. I used a pull bar on the cam and worked it back and forth but it had no give. Getting nowhere there I instead put a battery in it and with the help of WD 40 and a 2x4 got the top up and locked. It was a good top, good electrical, and the hydraulics not as bad as I thought. The radio even worked. I figured to let the pistons steep in the oily diesel and it might break loose someday. Over the next five years I would try and cry several times.
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https://i.imgur.com/Vo9bk2n.jpgAgain that isn't it but looks like it save for the rims because mine had the original PMD rims. Mine had a white interior and even that wasn't in bad shape. I didn't have the money to replace the engine and a bank won't loan money on that sort of thing. Everything I had was going into just living then. I've never been well off or even more than step or two ahead of poverty my whole life but somehow I've gotten most of what I've wanted out of life. Not this time. It sat.
Then I was talking to Bill, the old guy who sold it to me, one day and he asked about it. I owned up to simply having it under cover. He said he had sold his place and moved to town and had the funds to take another crack at it and would I sell it. I thought about it sitting there not getting what it needed and him saying he was going to fix it and said yes. He gave me twice what I paid for it. I saw him many times after as he had opened a used car lot and body shop in Pontotoc but I never saw the car and never asked because he didn't volunteer the info. It would have broken my heart if he had said he parted it out. He did, however, sell me the newest car I've ever owned, a 96 Camero with only 2000 miles on it for half what it was worth.
This is it-
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https://i.imgur.com/9AxeCEs.jpgAlso my daughter before her Junior dance. I recall not long after I got it pulling out of Wendy's in Oxford and punching it to see what it would do and it went sideways in a burn out. Totally unexpected. The thing was like a go-kart with a V8. You had to climb in and out of it like one too it was so low to the ground. Hug a curve like a politician on a blonde though.
Tocky on 30/4/2022 at 02:54
I sort of gave up fixing them after that. I love them. Ever since I saw my weed dealers 67 convertible and he took me for a ride in it. Pontiac has always owned my heart and part of me died when they went under but life is expensive and I knew I could not do them justice and do right by family. It had gotten so time consuming and expensive. Parts were so hard to find. One of my neighbors got one like my 69 but blue then drove it in the Toccopola parade a few years. He has a whole pasture and side yard devoted to old stuff but that one he has under a car port. I asked him once would he sell it and he priced it at $5000 which is a damn fine price. I knew from that that he was pricing it to sell to me. He knows I love them. He hasn't driven it in years. Likely mice have eaten the wires by now. The gas is gum and the tank will have to be drained and lines blown out. I've thought about it. I still do. But I've spent so much money and time on family that things fall by the wayside easier now than when I was young.
My son has become quite the mechanic from helping dad though. He way out strides me in that. We worked often on his 64 Comet when he was a teen. Yeah, I never took a picture of that either unless it happens to be the background of something. I'll keep an eye out.
Meanwhile here is my wife resting halfway back from our ride to Panama city, Fla. We followed a storm down there and thought that was bad getting rained on so much. The storm was a blessing. The heat on the way back drained us and let us know that. I recall on the trip down pulling into the carport of an empty house for sale during a heavy down pour and a starving cat came to us starving also for affection. I wanted to take him with us but knew it would be impossible on a bike. There were no stores anywhere but there was a biker bar so I went in and asked if they had any food. Nothing but Slim Jims so I bought a handful. She looked at me so weird. This guy comes in sopping wet and trailing water to buy Slim Jims for a cat. The cat didn't even eat them. He just climbed all over our leather loving us. I felt so guilty leaving him. If I had it to do over I would zip him up in my jacket and take him. I thought of him many times over the years and wanted to change that. My next life for sure.
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https://i.imgur.com/Gs7rfvu.jpgThat bike was my third and very stable. There is a story behind my buying it too. I saved it from being sent sent over seas to Saudi buyers. I'll tell of that another time though. You could not shake it off the middle stand. And by shake I mean fuck.
rachel on 30/4/2022 at 10:34
Quote Posted by Oceanstorm
My BMW 1999 E39 528i
New Zealand new in 1999 (I got it in 2012), 280,000km and still going strong :cheeky
Inline Image:
https://imgur.com/ymow6Nx(
https://imgur.com/a/fl18O6E) https://imgur.com/a/fl18O6E
edit: not sure why this isn't working, selected image and set the imgur url but it isn't showing so I've placed the url above.
The E39 is in my opinion the best looking 5 series BMW ever made. I just love the looks, aggressive but subdued like a shark waiting to pounce. For the longest time I was looking at used E39 ads and almost pulled the trigger a couple of times... great design!
Gray on 2/5/2022 at 23:32
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hopper on 4/5/2022 at 06:49
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superpass on 6/5/2022 at 15:43
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Oh yeah, they've changed quite a bit over the years... I'm still miffed they no longer do the incredible hydraulic suspension that the brand was famous for, it was absolutely without competition in that regard...
The C4 is a bit reminiscent of the GS, though, which was not my parents' first car but is the first one I remember:
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And thus ends this bit of historical review of Citroen family cars ;)
niiice review !! but the DS cars is worth mentioning. This is the very essence of Citroën's family and luxury models today.
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rachel on 6/5/2022 at 22:13
I don't disagree but my grandpa's DS was waaay before my time, I never knew it ;)
Great tidbit of trivia about the DS, the way its suspension and exceptional handling characteristics were credited with saving the President's life in 1962, an incident depicted in The Day of the Jackal:
[video=youtube;l8-3J0aZL8E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8-3J0aZL8E[/video]
On 22 August 1962, while Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry functioned as a lookout, de Gaulle's car (a Citroën DS) and some nearby shops were raked with machine-gun fire. De Gaulle and his wife and entourage escaped, uninjured. After the attempt, holes from fourteen bullets were found in the president's vehicle, one of which barely missed the president's head; another twenty were found to have struck the nearby Café Trianon; and an additional 187 spent shell casings were found on the pavement. De Gaulle was said to have credited the unusual resilience of the Citroën DS with saving his life: even though the shots had punctured two of the armoured tyres, the car escaped at full speed.
Tocky on 10/5/2022 at 04:30
Shortly after I got the 66 Lemans I got a 1950 Chevy small window truck about like this. It was only $4oo bucks. I wanted the split window 65 Corvette he had but I hadn't the funds even at $8000 then which would be about $75,000 now. I had so much opportunity and so little funds. It ran but only 55 mph tops. The wipers were vacuum driven and hilarious in the rain for an inability to shed water. My dad bought it off me for a debt as a kindness but he enjoyed it. His friends would always try to buy it off of him which amused him. Well that's an unexpected stab to the heart.
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https://i.imgur.com/YbLcpmF.jpgAnyway it doesn't have to be a car you show. Here is an old pic of me at my work truck. My old route manager had this sign made just for me because of something I said. I think I wore that leather for five years straight.
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