Dad's Poor 5er.

[Secret Chimp]

Wow.

Better than "ur car is gay lol"

[GoCougs]

When you say extract, do you mean that someone indeed tried to steal it?

Steal/tow/move, etc., that's kinda what I'm seeing. Imagine trying to rotate or slide the car laterally out into the street. If the wheels don't slide, I could see a something giving in the suspension, and I would think that the front suspension is more fragile than the rear.

[Raghavan]

Look at all those BMWs in the shop! Typical German car quality. 




What happened? Did your dad drive you to the Prom with a FAT CHICK? 

[deesea]

potholes?

potholes are t3h gay...it literally snapped the tie rod on the sc0rt

[TheIntrepid]

potholes are t3h gay...it literally snapped the tie rod on the sc0rt

Don's used 'sc0rt FTL.

Nick's 'sc0rt FTW

[Eye of the Tiger]

potholes are t3h gay...it literally snapped the tie rod on the sc0rt

Escort tierods are pretty wimpy. My 'sc0rt has a bad tie rod. The right front wheel feels like it's going to fall off if you grab it and shake it.

[deesea]

I know BMW will never admit to this, but could it just be a case of American roads meeting an underengineered suspension?

American roads > Canadian roads.

[deesea]

Escort tierods are pretty wimpy. My 'sc0rt has a bad tie rod. The right front wheel feels like it's going to fall off if you grab it and shake it.

I'll make sure to give that tire a good kick or two at beaverrun.

[Eye of the Tiger]

American roads > Canadian roads.

I dunno about that.

[deesea]

I dunno about that.

when i was down in Florida, the roads were pretty nice...very smooth, Boston Mass had reasonable roads as well, but uhhhhhh..Toronto's roads are t3h shit.

honestly, theres a Tim horton's near my house, and theres a fucking pot hole thats like at least 20' in diameter, and the thing is half as deep as the length of my leg.

[Eye of the Tiger]

when i was down in Florida, the roads were pretty nice...very smooth, Boston Mass had reasonable roads as well, but uhhhhhh..Toronto's roads are t3h shit.

honestly, theres a Tim horton's near my house, and theres a fucking pot hole thats like at least 20' in diameter, and the thing is half as deep as the length of my leg.

The roads down south are nice because they don't have real winters down there. Boston's roads aren't so great, and Toronto never seemed any better or worse to me

[Raghavan]

Salt eats up the roads.
Everytime we go skiing/snowboarding up in the mountains, the roads are so crappy.

[CALL_911]

Steal/tow/move, etc., that's kinda what I'm seeing. Imagine trying to rotate or slide the car laterally out into the street. If the wheels don't slide, I could see a something giving in the suspension, and I would think that the front suspension is more fragile than the rear.

Yeah, that's what he was thinking.

[CALL_911]

Look at all those BMWs in the shop! Typical German car quality. 




What happened? Did your dad drive you to the Prom with a FAT CHICK? 

Claudia's a fat chick?

[deesea]

Claudia's a fat chick?

Zing.

[TheIntrepid]

Claudia's a fat chick?

Nice.

[the Teuton]

+1
My final years of highschool and my first year of college were in a 79 Wagon. 

I swear that thing had 2x the horsepower offroad than it did on pavement.

Same color as this one, just not as tricked out:

I can only imagine how much fun you had with that thing.

[AutobahnSHO]

I can only imagine how much fun you had with that thing.

You can try. 
Wyoming.
3ft tall snowdrifts + a car that is FRONT wheel drive OR TRUE FOUR wheel drive.  Donuts in forward OR reverse!!
Dirt trails.
A BIG Green light on the dashboard that lit up when you tossed it into 4WD. You didn't even have to push the clutch in!!!
--Passengers always knew to make sure they were buckled up and had an Oh S*** bar in their hand when that light came on.  :-)

I've looked at finding an old one to restore, just for fun, but they are IMPOSSIBLE to find anywhere- just too ugly and clunky for people to care about them....   :-(

PS-
It takes a lot of speed and/or bumpbs to jump a (60ish?) HP car w/ 4 people in it. But we did. Several times.  :-)

[the Teuton]

You can try. 
Wyoming.
3ft tall snowdrifts + a car that is FRONT wheel drive OR TRUE FOUR wheel drive.  Donuts in forward OR reverse!!
Dirt trails.
A BIG Green light on the dashboard that lit up when you tossed it into 4WD. You didn't even have to push the clutch in!!!
--Passengers always knew to make sure they were buckled up and had an Oh S*** bar in their hand when that light came on.  :-)

I've looked at finding an old one to restore, just for fun, but they are IMPOSSIBLE to find anywhere- just too ugly and clunky for people to care about them....   :-(

PS-
It takes a lot of speed and/or bumpbs to jump a (60ish?) HP car w/ 4 people in it. But we did. Several times.  :-)

Where are you in this great nation?  There's a website that specializes in pre-historic Subarus, and I've seen a few of them up for sale on that site.

[AutobahnSHO]

Where are you in this great nation?  There's a website that specializes in pre-historic Subarus, and I've seen a few of them up for sale on that site.

Pre-historic sounds about right.
I'm in Maryland this week, Afghanistan next.  :-)

But the family will be here until next summer, I'm on orders for moving to Washington State then.

And my family is in southwest Wyoming, close to most of Utah, and the wife's family is in NH, close to Vermont or Maine.

[CALL_911]

The insurance agent is checking out the car tomorrow, and my dad says we should get the car back either later this week, or early next week. He's looking forward to that.

[AutobahnSHO]

 
Good to hear- although it seems to have taken a little while.

Take a spin for all of us.. 

[TheIntrepid]

Take a spin for all of us.. 

He isn't old enough to have a license.

[AutobahnSHO]

He isn't old enough to have a license.

Well he can still prod dad to go "faster faster!" and hold on then, can't he?  :-)

[TheIntrepid]

Well he can still prod dad to go "faster faster!" and hold on then, can't he?  :-)

Good idea. Doesn't work on my dad though, he drives 5 over the limit, and sometimes up to 75mph on the highway.

[AutobahnSHO]

Good idea. Doesn't work on my dad though, he drives 5 over the limit, and sometimes up to 75mph on the highway.

hehehehe
My dad and mom came to visit last week- we drove down to NC they flew to Norfolk, VA then drove to the beach house.

They left, then we drove home- we called and dad asked how my drive was- I told him the HOV lanes allowed 75, he asked and I told him the limit was 65mph but EVERYONE around here drives 10over. 
"So that's why EVERYONE was passing me" he says...  :-)

Dad usually drives 5over back home (Wyoming) but said he was watching the limit closely because of the nazi VA cops...

[TheIntrepid]

Dad is a pro driver but he slowed down because right after I got my license, he said this on the way home from the DMV:

"Don't drive how I drive, drive how I tell you to drive."

He knew I'd start to drive lke him anyway so he slowed down.

[CALL_911]

It's coming back on Wednesday!!!!! Man, I miss it.

[r0tor]

Claudia's a fat chick?

thats just wrong 

[TheIntrepid]

thats just wrong 

I know! Claudia's MY prom date!