How many new vehicles have you bought?

[Triplegreen500]

And cars are being stolen left and right around here. My 96 Dakota is pretty nice still and I'm getting a bit skeert to leave it in a parking lot so it gets to sit more. I'm about to go to HEB for a pick up and was going to drive it until it just rained....and of course it's clean. Beater time again.

Not cars around here...just cats (catalytic converters). HUGE run on them lately. Glad all mine are either a) too old to have 'em, or b) diesels

 

[patrick66]

Brand-new, off the lot, I've bought four. All Mopars. Two Dodge pickups and two PT Cruisers.

Speaking of catalytic converters...yesterday, one of my co-workers had his stolen from under his car AT WORK, in broad daylight.

I'm on vehicle number #821, currently, which is my '69 Dodge D300 truck. Bought my first car at age 12, and drove it home the three miles or so. Owned 25 cars and three trucks before I got my license at 16.

Longest I've owned any car is the 41 years I've had my '66 Coronet 500.
Shortest time is approximately 60 minutes...and tripled my money!!!

 

[Photon440]

Shortest time is approximately 60 minutes...and tripled my money!!!

Maybe you should have kept it two hours then, and gotten even more.

 

[eldubb440]

none

 

[patrick66]

Maybe you should have kept it two hours then, and gotten even more.

Funny story - I was riding my bicycle one day and spotted the '50 Ford Club Coupe for sale in a driveway. Didn't quitee have my license yet. It was a V8 car with overdrive. Baby blue with a perfect interior, with dual glasspacks and wide whites. Pretty damned car! Seller wanted $500 for it, and in my youthful exurburance, I said "Sold!" I rode like hell home and dug into my "car fund", which had about $600 in it (I was 15), and that was a fortune in the mid-'70s. Rode like hell back to the car. Gave him the money, got the title, loaded my bike up and drove that puppy home!

I unloaded my bike and then did what any kid does with a "new" car - wash it! I had finished the job when a guy pulled into the driveway..."wanna sell that old Ford?" I forgot to remove the For Sale sign. I said "Sure, I'll take $1,800 for it!!" He hemmed and hawwed and shot me $1,200 as a counter. Nope! After a few minutes, I asked the guy "how much do you have on you right now?" He pulls out some hundreds and fifties and counts. "I've got $1,500 on me right now." I stalled for couple of seconds and said "well, OK, I'll take it!". So, his son was with him. The man got in the Ford, his boy followed him out, and I made a grand in minutes.

Just after the guy drove off, my Dad pulled in the driveway, and asked "Who was that?" Told him what I did, and he said "I had that car's very twin in 1954! Kinda wished you'd kept it for a few more minutes!" He congratulated me on my fine business acumen. I was pretty proud of myself!

 

[451Mopar]

They are all new to me when I buy them
Truth is 4:
1995 Ford Contour 4-cylinder - Learned not to buy Fords with that car, so many recalls..
1997 Chrysler Concord LX 3.5L - Was a very good low maintance car for over 200,000 miles. Around 230,000 the transmission started leaking.
2005 Dodge Ram 3500 5.9 Cummins - Still my daily driver, not too many issues, and getting 23.7 mpg commuting to work and back.
2012 Kia Optima SX 2.0L Turbo - Wifes Daily Driver. Pretty decent, but now around 130,000 miles and need struts, and turbo replacement.
Co-Signed on the kids 2010 Hyundi Tuscon 2.5L. It has been really dependable for her, and she really dosen't take good care of it.

 

[Triplegreen500]

'50 Ford Club Coupe

Dammit. I forgot my '49 Coronet Gyro-Matic in my list. Grr...

The job you did on the Ford was similar to my Volare...coworker said "you need this car, you're a Mopar guy". I don't want your grandmother's car. "My HOA is on my case about it sitting there. How much money in your wallet?" It was like $27 or something. "You just bought a car". '76 Volare /6 factory air. 90 degree weather it would blow 39 degrees out the vents at idle. Drove it, buffed it, put cop wheels on it, replaced the muffler. Mowing grass one day, a guy in a PT turbo pulled into my drive. "You wanna sell that Volare? My kid's turning 16 and needs something slow and safe!" It's kinda my daily driver right now....really like to keep it... "I'll give ya $2500 for it".

Lemme go get the title.

I should have kept it.

 

[747mopar]

1 and is was the best deal I've ever gotten, still don't understand it but haven't bought another new one since. 2001 Dodge Dakota, went to the dealership hoping to talk them down on a low mileage Dakota that they were asking $12,000 for and left with a brand new one for $10,000. It was the SXT model, regular cab, 3.7L with a 5 speed standard.. loved that truck. 200,000 miles later I traded it to a guy for pouring the concrete in my garage.

 

[Ron H]

Back around 1990, one of my employees had to get a rental car as his company ride was broke down. Somehow he ended up with a 5.0 mustang telling me what a blast it was to drive. I exercised my authority giving him my co ride for a day so I could drive it. It had been a while since driving a car with some balls and lucky I wasn't pulled over when I tromped on it out of the office parking lot as a cop was coming in the other direction. I looked at the speedo and was doing close to 80...well I always liked speed; at the time my old ride was in my garage in many pieces and our company cars were all 4 or 6-bangers...

 

[ACME A12]

10.
One motorcycle. Mine, and I'm only counting street bikes here.
Four trucks. One for the wife, three for me.
Four cars. Three for the wife, one for me.
One SUV. Hers.

 

[Budnicks]

'50 Ford Club Coupe

I had a 51 Ford Tudor, Bussinessmans Coupe
I made, into a 49 Ford Pro-Gas racecar
(49 hood, bullet grill & trunk lid)
got the body out of a rice field in Sonoma, by Sears Point Raceway
I used a Chris Alston Chassisworks pro-comp/55 Chevy chassis kit
fabbed everything else

nevermind the dates they are when I did digital conversions
of the org. Polariods

Ed 'big daddy' Roth asked & made a tee-shirt out of it,
when it had the 526cid Blown Inj. Milodon Hemi
at the old Oakland Roadster Show mid 80's

 

[patrick66]

Glad to see I'm not the only Mopar guy that likes the old Shoebox Fords!

 

[Budnicks]

Glad to see I'm not the only Mopar guy that likes the old Shoebox Fords!

yep one of my all time favorites 49-51s Tudor/Custom
49 & the Buss. Coupes are my favorite

 

[gtx6970]

A few.
1988 Dodge Lancer ES.
2000 Ram 2500

A few minivans.

And our most recent.
2016 Chrysler 200S. Wifes car. Still own it and it is going no where for quite a while.
Only has a little over 60k miles and has been near perfect....(.knocks on wood )

 

[WileERobby]

At least a dozen, or so.

But.. only about 2 or 3 for myself.

 

[Triplegreen500]

10.
One motorcycle. Mine, and I'm only counting street bikes here.
Four trucks. One for the wife, three for me.
Four cars. Three for the wife, one for me.
One SUV. Hers.

Well...if we're counting bikes, I can add three new to the list, and....six used.

 

[Thrashingcows]

Wife was talking to her brother who is a Bank manager, and he told her about a couple who has racked up almost $250K in new vehicle depreciation debt! Seems they want a new vehicle every year or two, but refuse to consider leasing them so they just keep absorbing the depreciation...

 

[RSZ28]

NEW
65 Belvedere II-4speed
68 Torino GT auto
71 Pinto -married
77 TBird
89 Caravan
91 Escort GT
94 Dodge Shadow V6
94 Ram
98 Volvo
2006 BMW
2009 BMW
2011 Silverado
2013 BMW
USED
1932 Pontiac sedan 55 Buick Roadmaster engine
1934 Dodge coupe rumble seat
1936 Dodge coupe
1941 Plymouth coupe
1953 Mercury HT
1961 Impala conv- traded in on Belvedere
1965 Belvedere II currently working on
1970 Z28 I restored, first place Camaro National 2014
1976 Dodge truck got from father
2000 Plymouth Breeze from aunt

 

[Cranky]

Glad to see I'm not the only Mopar guy that likes the old Shoebox Fords!

When I was 13 I found a 51 Ford 2dr sedan for 50 bucks. Running but the flathead V8 was smoking and the interior was shot but the body was perfect and dad said he wasn't gonna have no junk Fords sitting out in front of his house. He hated Fords because they hated him lol. Couldn't find anyone that would keep it for me. Had to do that with a go cart once too. Already had it but kept riding it on the streets and dad took a sledge hammer to the motor. All he did though was drive the spark plug through the head and I had it running the very next day I'm glad the piston was down at the bottom when he did that.

 

[Richard Davis]

I had a job that required a lot of windshield travel. I would refresh my vehicle about every 3 years. This is my list of noteworthy new vehicles.

82 ALFA GTV-6
85 Mazda Rx7 - SP
86 Mazda Rx7 - Turbo
93 Jeep Wagoneer Limited
94 Chrysler LeBaron Conv (wife's car)
98 Mazda Millenia S
2004 BMW 325i
2012 Challenger RT Classic - Christine
2017 Charger RT
2019 Challenger RT - Scat Pac