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mattmacklind
mattmacklind SuperDork
4/23/10 7:11 a.m.
volvoclearinghouse wrote: (picture isn't mine, but is a dead ringer for it!) What did _you_ drive to celebrate the planet?

I drove the same car-no pics at work so I borrowed yours. Its my daily (1984).

Powar
Powar Dork
4/23/10 8:50 a.m.
procainestart wrote: I drove the white one, which can get 33 mpg on the highway. Of course, if I weren't so a lazy, I would've ridden my bike...

You should update your reader's rides. I'd like to see more about these.

Same goes for all of you other slackers...

DaveEstey
DaveEstey New Reader
4/23/10 9:11 a.m.

Took a 2hr road trip. Test pipe, burns oil, turns 4,100rpm at 80mph and I held it there for most of the trip.

Went through a quart of oil..

Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
4/23/10 10:14 a.m.

I picked up a new water bottle

Paul_VR6
Paul_VR6 Reader
4/23/10 11:04 a.m.

Mine's white but it's close. I can almost get 16mpg out of it. Almost.

volvoclearinghouse
volvoclearinghouse New Reader
4/23/10 11:56 a.m.
mattmacklind wrote:
volvoclearinghouse wrote: (picture isn't mine, but is a dead ringer for it!) What did _you_ drive to celebrate the planet?
I drove the same car-no pics at work so I borrowed yours. Its my daily (1984).

Yours probably has the alloy wheels, then. I forget when they changed...but I have an '82 240D that has the alloys.

mattmacklind
mattmacklind SuperDork
4/23/10 12:35 p.m.

OK, so I got off my arse and looked up a pic on photobucket. Its lunch, so good a thing to do as any. Its an 84 300D turbodiesel, and of course an absolute screamer. Really need to go easy on the throttle, you know, it can get away from y ou before you know it.

Photobucket

oldsaw
oldsaw Dork
4/23/10 1:10 p.m.
DaveEstey wrote: Took a 2hr road trip. Test pipe, burns oil, turns 4,100rpm at 80mph and I held it there for most of the trip. Went through a quart of oil..

What material did you use to fabricate the lower, front spoiler and how did you attach it to the bumper cover?

Oh, and back to the topic at hand, I drove a '96 Sonoma - "greener" than most its' vintage as it sports two new cats and easily passed emissions testing two months ago. The gas mileage still sucks compared to either of the Hondas, though.

Ian F
Ian F Dork
4/23/10 2:56 p.m.

The same car I always drive.. my TDI... in honor of Earth Day, I made a point of doing a good, hard, 'foot to the floor' merge onto the hwy... leaving those behind me choking in a cloud of soot.

(j/k... although I did drive the TDI... )

EvanB
EvanB GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
4/23/10 3:04 p.m.

I was responsible and rode my motorcycle

I need to put an updated pic up, it looks much better with the flyscreen on.

fastmiata
fastmiata Reader
4/23/10 3:39 p.m.

Pontiac GTO The miata smell more like a violater with the big injectors, RX7 VAF and walbro fp but still gets 30mpg except when running the Dragon at WOT.

evildky
evildky Dork
4/23/10 10:01 p.m.

Photobucket

skierd
skierd Dork
4/23/10 11:13 p.m.

Same thing I ride every day:

Now with more thump (and emissions) thanks to the new pipe.

DaveEstey
DaveEstey New Reader
4/23/10 11:38 p.m.
oldsaw wrote: What material did you use to fabricate the lower, front spoiler and how did you attach it to the bumper cover? Oh, and back to the topic at hand, I drove a '96 Sonoma - "greener" than most its' vintage as it sports two new cats and easily passed emissions testing two months ago. The gas mileage still sucks compared to either of the Hondas, though.

Plastic garden border stuff trimmed up and some L brackets with self-tapping screws. Bottom is reinforced with a 1/16" thick aluminum band in the middle. Total cost: $22

Claff
Claff New Reader
4/24/10 12:34 a.m.

It's fairly responsible motoring, complete with the intoxicating new car smell

Will
Will HalfDork
4/24/10 7:35 a.m.

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