New members, why do you come here only ot sell your car?

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New members, why do you come here only ot sell your car?

Reply #15 – March 20, 2008, 11:09:35 AM

Of course, then you have the real nutty ones, like us, who are raising our kids with a love of these cars.
5 out of 5 of our children want a Cat or Bird as their first car.... how cool are we?

BTW, my kids also listen to 'our' music..... so do their friends.... oh and one of their friends just bought a 95 Cougar because it looks similar to ours and he loves ours. When he got the chance, he jumped at it, so we might have a tag along for Cat Jam this year.

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Reply #16 – March 20, 2008, 11:18:46 AM

I don't really have any special love for any of them. I just like them I guess. I also like it because I know so much about the things I can tell what the hell the weird noise is when I'm 400+ miles away from home.

Don't ask my girlfriend if I love the car. Lies I tell you! LIES!

*Runs to window to look out at car*

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Reply #17 – March 20, 2008, 11:55:30 AM

We were all new once, and we are all still here.
Tbirdsps is a good example of a new addition..

As with most "statistic's" you can get whatever you want.
If "Most people show up and then sell there bird's" is what you want to see.. then that is what you will see..

it's a matter of perception

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Reply #18 – March 20, 2008, 03:13:23 PM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;209973

That might be true... if these cars were fast. Fact is, they're not. Not even close. The slowest car available for sale nowadays would probably run rings around an 80's T-Bird and still get 35-40 MPG while doing it.

These cars are about style. They can be made fast, yes, but style is their main selling point. Problem is that their style doesn't jive with most young people. Yes, I know, this board has several under-20 members, but most people under 20 years old would rather be in a Civic with a fart can and an aluminum extension ladder bolted to the trunk pretending to be a spoiler. Most young people driving a T-Bird or Cougar do so because they're "stuck with it" - it was willed to them, or given to them by a family member, or they bought it for a few hundred bucks as a first car. Many end up growing to love their old, slow-but-pretty American iron, but most end up resenting the car because it isn't "trendy" and selling it to us nut cases that actually like them so they can buy a Civic just like their buddies.

I've said it before: These cars are actually victims of their own styling. They look great, yes, but people that actually want old cars want cars that look old. They don't want a 20+ year old "classic" that looks like a late 90's car but performs like an early 80's one.

I agree. Almost all my friends that see pics of these cars look at me like im crazy and hate them. I love them to death, Id trade a brand new BMW, in all seriousness for a nice turbo coupe.
I hate ricers...

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Reply #19 – March 20, 2008, 03:20:53 PM

I agree with Jim.

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Reply #20 – March 20, 2008, 03:40:37 PM

It could also be that his site is easier to find now on a web search as well. There were plenty of those kids around 5 years ago. Around here there were probably more than there are now. I haven't seen a fox catbird for sale around me--or even in the want ads--for months. The only one was the guy with the black '87 who posts here once in a while. Before that it was nothin' for a good 5 months...

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Id trade a brand new BMW, in all seriousness for a nice turbo coupe.
I hate ricers...

So a BMW is rice then? You ever sit in a 335i 2 door with the convertible hardtop? Sweet car! That turbo coupe would have to be in perfect condition....

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Don't ask my girlfriend if I love the car. Lies I tell you! LIES!

*Runs to window to look out at car*

We know you don't love it. You LUST after it:hick:

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Reply #21 – March 20, 2008, 04:27:10 PM

No BMW isnt rice, I just HATE the BUTT ugly things they create. Theres only a few i would own.
I would much rather have an American car. Only lux cars I would DIE to have are the porsche SUV in the s package, and the land rover range rover HSE supercharged.

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Reply #22 – March 20, 2008, 04:41:24 PM

Quote from: V8Demon;210048

So a BMW is rice then? You ever sit in a 335i 2 door with the convertible hardtop? Sweet car! That turbo coupe would have to be in perfect condition....

NO dude see heres the deal. Messed up people like Mason (and I too) see TWO things. American Iron.....and everything else. Imports of ANY country of origin ricer or not get lumped all into the same bag which is labeled " i wouldnt drive if someone paid me to drive it". NOT defending this position, just rationalizing it. Maybe not even that...EXPLAINING it anyway :hick:

Yes I am extreeeeeemely intolerant.

And Mason hit it on the head just as I was posting that....they look hideous. I like early-late 90s bimmers. They just haaaad to mess with it. Dumbasses.

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Reply #23 – March 20, 2008, 04:45:13 PM

right!!
I mean Id LOVE a m3, but they new they have, its all like a bubble of uglyness.
id take a gas sucking classic car, over some underpowered, wrong wheel drive, ugly thing they pass off as cars(not directed at BMW)

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Reply #24 – March 20, 2008, 05:05:06 PM

Quote from: ZondaC12;210067

NO dude see heres the deal. Messed up people like Mason (and I too) see TWO things. American Iron.....and everything else. Imports of ANY country of origin ricer or not get lumped all into the same bag which is labeled " i wouldnt drive if someone paid me to drive it". NOT defending this position, just rationalizing it. Maybe not even that...EXPLAINING it anyway :hick:

Yes I am extreeeeeemely intolerant.

And Mason hit it on the head just as I was posting that....they look hideous. I like early-late 90s bimmers. They just haaaad to mess with it. Dumbasses.

THis is the way i look at it as well, i would die for a 95 M5 but then i would just end up turning it into a Mafia Sentinel (From GTA3). I loved my cougar since i was 5 when i was 5 I said Grandma when can i drive that, fast foward 14 - 15 years and I was. I should be again soon too i got a decent job so i can get the stuff repaired that needs be.

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Reply #25 – March 20, 2008, 06:07:06 PM

That's a neat story. Cool. Sounds good, she's waitin for ya! Hope it all works out, tough to go without it for that long.

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Reply #26 – March 20, 2008, 06:38:20 PM

I haven't seen a lot of new people selling cars. It's more, people that have a problem to fix. once they get it fixed it seems you never see them again until there's another problem.

As for me and my cougar. I sold a mint 78 monarch with 60,000 miles on it. I saw an 87 driving around and said I wanted it. The body lines and curves were something that most other cars didn't have. (I call that style) and today I still think of it the same way. It's still has what other cars lack.
My 03 monty is a lightning bolt compared to our cars. but after you sit in one, you beg to get out. It's more uncomfortable than a pair of FILA shoes.
My wife even says, "there's nothing like the ride in a cougar. you never realize that you're going that fast, until you look down."

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Reply #27 – March 20, 2008, 09:22:20 PM

i would drive any car that anyone gave me. BMW or otherwise. At the same time, I like the cougar's and bird's cause they fit me. Litterly. I'm about 6'5" and drive a neon everyday. Its almost painful...

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Reply #28 – March 20, 2008, 10:00:40 PM

Hmmmm. Lemme show you how sill that sounds. And remember, I myself am biased towards American vehicles, but I will keep my options open.

Quote from: Nobody...This is a mirror image of what Daboss said

NO dude see heres the deal. Messed up people like Mason (and I too) see TWO things. Imports.....and American Garbage. American Cars from ANY American manufacturer get lumped all into the same bag which is labeled " i wouldnt drive if someone paid me to drive it". NOT defending this position, just rationalizing it. Maybe not even that...EXPLAINING it anyway

Yes I am extreeeeeemely intolerant.

Now explain to me after reading the above, how this is rational? Just because it's an import doesn't mean it's rice. Just because it's made in America doesn't mean it's

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It's more uncomfortable than a pair of FILA shoes.

Wow!!!!! That must be uncomfortable!!!!!:hick:

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Reply #29 – March 20, 2008, 10:03:29 PM

I'm Canadian. Until Bombardier or Magna starts making cars they're all foreign junk to me :hick: