MOPED ARMY

I drive a 83 Totota tercel, for work (delivering pizza), and for winter transportation (It gets pretty cold in Colorado). But I only drive my car if I absolutely can not ride my scooters or mopeds.

hell yea the El Nino is cool- topless and room to haul stuff.

It's a 1970(?) Oldsmobile 442. It's a close relative to my 1974 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser

My cars aren't nearly as reliable as my Ped has been. I have had in the past year, the following cars:

1993 Plymouth Colt (Same thing as a Mitsu Mirage) Brother Got It when I bought my Jeep... The Colt was totaled two weeks later by a guy that hit it head on going 70mph on the wrong side of the road....

1976 Jeep CJ7... this was my favorite 4 wheel vehicle to date. I loved it. It had a 304 V8 and was awesome offroad... sold it because I couldn't afford the 13mpg it was getting... I miss it so much

1988 Ford Festiva-- shitty car thay was given to me by my uncle... it looked like shit, but ran real well, especially for having 214000 miles on it. I put 16000 miles on it over this past summer. It finally died last month, after a radiator hose blew on it, I said to hell with it, and drove it the rest of the way home, praying someone would hit me so I could collect something on it. Good car though....great gas milage when it didn't leak it all out.... I beat the living hell out of this thing...

1985 VW Golf--- still sitting in my yard.. I have a new motor for it, just haven't gotten around to it yet..... Great little car... more performance than you think from the 1.8

1992 Olds Achieva (same thing as a grand am)... this car has a Quad4 2.3 motor and a 5speed tranny.... the Quad4 is a good motor if you take care of it... has some punch... Just got this last week....

1974 honda cb125s which is a little 125cc bike, and my 1968 firebird 400. heres a pic of it while i had it torn apart

I drive a 1984 Saab 900 Turbo.

I am kind of embarassed to tell you this, I didn't realize all of the "rides" I had until you asked this question.

I've got an old Sear's Freesprite 10 speed bicycle, a 1976 PUCH Maxi w/a 70 cc kit & biturbo, a 2001 Derbi Atlantis w/hp exhaust kit, a 1971 Purple pearl Honda 750 Chopper w/Trapp pipes, pumper carbs, a mild cam, and a triple springer AEE front end, a 1986 Bright Red Corvette convertable w/white top (mostly stock except for a thermo runner chip & flowmaster pipes) , my late father's 1988 Lincoln Town Car, recently repainted Platinum Pearl w/a new blk vinyl top (70K on clock) [license tag OLD MONY], and a 2000 dark blue Chev 3 door 4x4 short bed Silverado [license tag FE HIP - because I had a total hip replacement]. Oh yeah, a Long 360 Tractor w/a bucket, a John Deere 245, and a horse drawn farm wagon (don't have the Belgium to pull it yet so I tow it behind the big tractor for hayrides).

Rich

Well, scary to think about, obviously I have a moped, but it's the racing camino that I posted up here a while back, just got a rare melossi carb for it!

Then I have a old KC100 which I bought for an X to get her bike license on, which was in mint condition, but I haven't seen it since I lent it to my brother!

A Bandit 1200, with 1216 wisco kit and stage three dyno, plus other major engine mods, etc.

Subaru Impretza turbo, relatively cheap speed that scares the hell out of me when I get to let run wild on the mountain roads of my home town in Wales.

I have a 1989 Buick Reatta with 53K miles that mostly sits in the garage. I only drive it in good weather and NEVER in snow.

i'm w/ ree ... car's a money pit. for the cost of maintaining a car, payments, plus insurance i can leave fancy free. imagine: average cost of a car is something like $5k per year. what for? to go to the corner store? to go to the movies once a week?

i gave up my car in 1995 when i was in college at 19 yrs old. w/o a car ... i could eat at restaurants whenever i was too lazy to cook (and i don't mean mcdonalds). i could go to the movies whenver i wanted (you always go w/ friends, right, someone has a car). i could buy anything i wanted (books, cds, clothes, impulse items). it was about $5k a year extra in my pocket.

when i go to chicago, i take the train. the $50-60 round trip ticket ends up costing me less than paying for gas and parking to get there. and i don't have to pay the year-round maitenane costs.

to put it bluntly: unless you live more than 5 miles away from your job, there is no need for a car. heck, if push comes to shove you can rent a car pretty cheap. my youngest brother also gave up cars and loves it. it costs him about $20 to rent a car and visit my parents from college. that's almost how much he'd have spent on gas going back and forth. and he avoids university parking fees, etc.

if you have a car, ok. but there really is no need for a car. there's probably no need for a moped either, to be honest. but they're just so much fun! ;-) if you want to own a car, justify it on aesthetics or sheer desire to own one, do not try to rationalize it as a necessity.

just my rant against the big three ...

Well,guys,I live in woodsy southern Ohio and a lot of people NEED a truck to haul their coal,gravel,and wood along with any materials for home improvement.NOT to mention how nice a truck is to carry your mopeds and pull your camper.Now I've got an F-250 HD with a 460c.i.d. engine which will pass everything but a gas station.HA! I've got an Aerostar `Eddie Bauer' 1993 which is nice for vacation,and my wife is blessed with a SMOOTH-riding Mercury Grand Marquis.But lately I'm puttin' more miles on the `peds than the Aerostar.Ain't that great?

2002 Volkswagen Jetta Wagon & 1998 Volkswagen Golf.

1973 Honda CT90 "Trail 90" & 1963 Honda Dream 305 motorcycles.

1977 Garelli SuperSport XL moped.

Oh, and a homemade "go-ped" (it's one of those Mongoose scooters from the '80s with a Bug Bike Machine motor over the rear wheel).

_wal