What Vehicle Do You Drive When Wearing Your Flight Jackets.?

[ZuZu]

Best truck in the world for oldass me. 2007 Toyota Tacoma- no electric windows, door locks, no gizmos of any sort. Manual transmission, 4 wheel drive- I was told by an auto dealer that it's the preferred truck of the Mexican cartels! I've had many pickup trucks in my life- including some classic Fords and Chevys but this guy beats 'em all IMO.

 

[Pa12]

Best truck in the world for oldass me. 2007 Toyota Tacoma- no electric windows, door locks, no gizmos of any sort. Manual transmission, 4 wheel drive- I was told by an auto dealer that it's the preferred truck of the Mexican cartels! I've had many pickup trucks in my life- including some classic Fords and Chevys but this guy beats 'em all IMO.

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Couldn’t agree more.

 

[coolhandluke]

Sweet !!
Looks like the stang from the movie “ Gone in 60 Seconds” “Elenor”.

Thanks

I was going for a '67 GT-350 look. Eleanor was built on a '67 GT-500, so there's a lot of similarities.

 

[coolhandluke]

Speaking of which, we just made it back home from a Sunday afternoon drive in the T-Bird. Daily driver is the 2020 white crewcab 4x4 F-150 Lariat that's outside the passenger window.

 

[Micawber]

Yep, mine will be off the road now until spring. Just starting it up each week and pulling out the garage and back again to keep everything moving and stop the ethanol even in E5 slowly eating stuff, even though everything has been purchased or made ethanol proof..

Ah ethanol, hmmm. I only use E5 and add neutraliser to the tank when laid up over winter yet the modern, ethanol safe, diaphragms in the rebuilt fuel pump gave up the ghost back in September. Fortunately I was not far from home so was able to nurse it back to base, albeit very slowly. Stripping it down I found the multi layer, ethanol safe diaphragm had perished and split.

 

[stanier]

Ah ethanol, hmmm. I only use E5 and add neutraliser to the tank when laid up over winter yet the modern, ethanol safe, diaphragms in the rebuilt fuel pump gave up the ghost back in September. Fortunately I was not far from home so was able to nurse it back to base, albeit very slowly. Stripping it down I found the multi layer, ethanol safe diaphragm had perished and split.

All we can do is try, but also be careful. Everything on mine is supposedly ethanol proof and I use a neutraliser but I treat it as if one of that was the case. The fuel we have now sadly

 

[Thomas Koehle]

2018 Mercedes X-Class Pickup truck for walking the dogs and hunting wearing a nice and cozy MONARCH from @Chandler …

 

[Pa12]

All we can do is try, but also be careful. Everything on mine is supposedly ethanol proof and I use a neutraliser but I treat it as if one of that was the case. The fuel we have now sadly

Yes, the gas is crap and causes all kinds of problems. I can still find the odd station with ethanol free premium but it’s hit and miss and expensive. I used to mix it with 100LL avgas in my Se5a but I always tested it first.

 

[CK90]

Speaking of which, we just made it back home from a Sunday afternoon drive in the T-Bird. Daily driver is the 2020 white crewcab 4x4 F-150 Lariat that's outside the passenger window.

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Great photo and cracking interior, Coolhand. I have to say and please do take this as the compliment it's intended to be, you mentioned your 40th Birthday??

Man, you don't look even close to 40. That's the gift of eternal youth my friend!!

 

[Pa12]

2018 Mercedes X-Class Pickup truck for walking the dogs and hunting wearing a nice and cozy MONARCH from @Chandler …

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They must not export them here as I’ve never seen nor heard of one. Isn’t it amazing how all new vehicles look so similar these days? I remember when you could tell at a glance which manufacturer built a vehicle. Even if you didn’t know the model, you could recognize the manufacturer.

 

[coolhandluke]

Great photo and cracking interior, Coolhand. I have to say and please do take this as the compliment it's intended to be, you mentioned your 40th Birthday??

Man, you don't look even close to 40. That's the gift of eternal youth my friend!!

No worries CK! I get it all the time. I'm 42. Just imagine if I still had my hair.

 

[B-Man2]

2018 Mercedes X-Class Pickup truck for walking the dogs and hunting wearing a nice and cozy MONARCH from @Chandler …

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Sweet !!
I don’t think we have them here in the US .

 

[Happy Hooligan]

My everyday is a Tacoma, but I drove this for years as my daily (A2 and all). Now it's mostly taking a vacation in the Garage.

 

[coolhandluke]

My everyday is a Tacoma, but I drove this for years as my daily (A2 and all). Now it's mostly taking a vacation in the Garage.
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Original paint?

 

[Pa12]

My everyday is a Tacoma, but I drove this for years as my daily (A2 and all). Now it's mostly taking a vacation in the Garage.
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Nice shape. Un restored?

 

[Smithy]

My buddy has one and is in a miata club. Blast to drive.

Didn't know that you had an MX-5 Pa, great fun cars.

I had one back in 2006/2007, imported directly from Japan (as we could do in NZ so you got all the extras and no limitations on anything) so with the bigger 1.8 engine. Mine was quite substantially chipped up with the electronics and I cut out the catalytic converter and put a straight pipe in as well, which made it sound like a 60s Italian racing car.

Had loads of fun with that car...

 

[Pa12]

Didn't know that you had an MX-5 Pa, great fun cars.

I had one back in 2006/2007, imported directly from Japan (as we could do in NZ so you got all the extras and no limitations on anything) so with the bigger 1.8 engine. Mine was quite substantially chipped up with the electronics and I cut out the catalytic converter and put a straight pipe in as well, which made it sound like a 60s Italian racing car.

Had loads of fun with that car...

No , I don’t have one, but a buddy of mine does. I have owned a couple Pontiac solstice’s over the years. Also a very fun car. But my back is too old for little sports cars nowadays. Gets embarrassing trying to get in and out of them. Not a “cool “ sight