I totaled the Maverick about a year after I got it. Driving home from a school event at night in an ice storm, skidded off the road at a turn on my street and in doing so went over a big rock/boulder at the end of someone’s driveway that was staked into the ground with big steel spikes. Tore the front suspension up big time. Chalked that one up to inexperience.
A few years later when I was first married I got the Pinto as a hand me down. Car was bought new by my Dad for my Mom, who thrashed the heck out of it as she was known to do. Older brother got it next. He proceeded to run it into a very tall curb after a night of drinking, hitting the curb so hard it bent the front of the subframe. He sold it to me shortly after, which is when I discovered that the damage was serious enough that it would eat a pair of front tires in about 1,000 miles. I bitched big time over this, so he ended up paying to have the frame straightened, which afterwards it was perfect. Drove it for a few more years then sold it and bought a VW Type III fastback. -D > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] This Is Total Insanity > Date: April 26, 2018 at 11:15:12 AM EDT > To: Okie Benz <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> > > The problem with the '70s cars is that they were used up by the time I came > around. My dad bought the Comet new and from a longevity standpoint it was a > winner, I was replaced by the Vega when (literally) a door fell off. That > would have been '82 or so, I was pretty young. > > The Pinto was worn out by the time we got it, check the gas and fill the oil > worn out. It was replaced by the Lynx which was garbage. The Vega was > replaced with the Tempo which eventually became a decent car. It had some > kind of failure that made it not run WHEN IT WAS NEW! For reasons I don't > understand my dad fixed it rather than making the dealer take it back. It > lasted 10 years anyway, I sold it for $200 after I graduated high school as I > didn't want to put floors in it. > > -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
