A list of my driven cars, be they daily drivers or just cars I had for giggles. I'm not going to list the projects that didn't go anywhere, cars I fixed and sold that were not registered in my name or cars just bought for parts:
Starting in 1988
1980 Chevy Monza: $900, learned many valuable lessons from this purchase, as the unibody pretty much cracked in half. I vowed to learn about cars and not get suckered again. Before this point cars were appliances to me.
1886 Cavalier Z24: This was purchased in1989 for $4500. Despite my earlier vow, I still had a lot to learn. The speedo and odometer would randomly switch to Km/h and stay that way. I had to disconnect the negative on the battery terminal and reconnect it X times to get it to set back to MPH for a while. Died when rolled on the Taconic Parkway in '92 due to driver fatigue, I learned another really valuable lesson there.
1985 Pontiac Grand Prix: Purchased in '93 for $250 from my parents after not having a car for a while. Compression entropy caught up with it in '96, and I parked it and bought the car below. I gave it away after it sat at my grandmother's house in NY for a few years after I moved to NC.
1982 Chevy Cavalier: Purchased in '96 best $100 I ever spent, bought it from a college buddy leaving the country, sold it for $110 in 98.
1988 RX-7 SE: Purchased in 1998 with 119k miles on it, it also had compression entropy after going another 65k miles on the original engine.
1987 RX-7 Turbo: Purchased in 1999 as a project, this car was fun when it was running right. Sold in 2010 for three times what I paid for it, and about 1/2 of what I had into it.
1995 Dodge Neon: Purchased in 2002 when the '88 RX-7 got wonky, traded for car below in a three person deal (my little brother needed a car, my parents had a mini-van they were not using)
1997 Caravan: "My" car, but my wife drove it since the AC worked in it and the AC in her car didn't.
2006 Mazda 3 5 door: My wife drove this, too. I was still stuck in her Cavalier.
2007 Jeep Liberty: Bought for wife after we had a second child and I could no longer drive the 2006 Mazda 3 with a rear facing car seat on the driver's side . I sold her Cavalier and took over the 2006 Mazda 3.
2005 Mazda 3 5 door (5 speed): HEY! A 5 speed car the same color as the one we have, with less miles on it. I traded them the 2006 with the auto, paid them the Doc fee and took this one home.
1989 BMW 325i: Some jerk hit my Mazda in a parking lot, and it was going to take 3 weeks to fix. I was going to pay out of pocket and rather than rent a car, I just bought an E30 and drove that.
1989 BMW 325ix: I bought this while visiting my grandmother in Albany, NY and drove it back to NC. Sold it after starting to get it into good order and realizing I was not going to be satisfied until I dumped about $4000 into it.
2004 Forester XT: Current driver, sold the Mazda 3 because I needed something to pull my boat that wasn't my Jeep so my wife wouldn't be stuck without a car when I was out fishing. Yes, this is how resistant my wife is to learning to drive a manual transmission.
1995 VW Golf: Rallycross project. I'll list this since it runs and is insured at the moment. It didn't pass inspection yet, so it doesn't have plates. I have to wire in a new 3rd brake light and rig up some kind of horn.
Current projects:
1995 NYG Neon Coupe (2.4 swap in the works)
These are all running/driving cars that I owned for at least 24 hours and drove at least once before selling.
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