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Old 01-21-2012, 02:13 PM   #1
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Zen - you were half-right - that is to say, the dealer was wrong about mine. It is just a 2.5TS Impreza wagon - no outback - BUT, i did also snap a photo (to come later) of another car just in my own parking lot that clearly IS an impreza outback.
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Old 02-03-2012, 12:28 AM   #2
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Zen - you were half-right - that is to say, the dealer was wrong about mine. It is just a 2.5TS Impreza wagon - no outback - BUT, i did also snap a photo (to come later) of another car just in my own parking lot that clearly IS an impreza outback.
I leave it as an exercise to the viewer to decide which fagmobile is mine.
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Old 01-21-2012, 03:50 PM   #3
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I'm spamming yer fread:

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Your price: $12,495!


every once in a while, I get excited about a car we trade. That's a good one right there. I met the guy that traded it. He was ...fastidious. He bought a Juke....after what sounded like some thorough research, comparing it to the Mini Cooper and the new GTi. Back in 06, i was seriously considering buying a GTi just like that one up there. was torn between Red and White. .... but I decided that I'd kill it in 4 years, with the miles I drive (33k/yr) and still owe 10K. So, I kept the demo(s)
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Old 01-21-2012, 04:32 PM   #4
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6-speed manual transmission? Wow! The most I've ever driven was a 5 speed. That thing must zip!

When I was 17, I inherited my Dad's 57 Chevy Biscayne, fins and all. I loved that car! Back then the Front Range of Colorado wasn't nearly so populated, and I could drive 90mph all the way to Denver on Interstate 25 and hardly see another car.

If you want to have fun with a Suburu - either 4 wheel or all wheel drive - there's nothing like Wolf Creek Pass in mid to late May just before all the tourists start coming. The curves on that pass are so sweet to drive in a little Suburu that will stick as tight as a tick to the road. One time years ago, I was driving over Wolf Creek and encountered first one other Suburu and then a second one. The three of us fell into a little convoy, over taking slower vehicles one at a time and then falling back into formation again and speeding over that Pass faster than most folks would ever dare to drive it. When we hit Pagosa Springs at the bottom of the Pass, we all smiled and waved to one another and went our seperate ways. That was a great day to be alive.
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Old 01-21-2012, 11:23 PM   #5
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That's a '59, Sam.
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Old 01-22-2012, 12:06 AM   #6
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Heh! The only other person around here to know the difference between a 57 and 59 Chevy. But are you sure? I could swear the one my dad let me have was a 57. But it definately had fins like the one pictured. Either way, I'll always have fond memories of that thing. Gas was what? 25 cents a gallon? Who cared if you were driving a gas guzzler? My, how times have changed.
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Old 01-22-2012, 12:19 AM   #7
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No MBA designed that thing.
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Old 01-22-2012, 12:34 AM   #8
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Old 01-22-2012, 02:30 AM   #9
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Yeah, I'm sure. This is my '57.
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Old 01-22-2012, 11:00 AM   #10
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Yeah, I'm sure. This is my '57.
That looks like a Chevy Bel Air to me, not a Biscayne. Bel Air's were slightly less outrageous in the fins department. Look at the huge fins on my Biscayne pic compared with your Bel Air's more modest ones.
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Old 01-22-2012, 11:42 AM   #11
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The Biscayne was made from years 1958-1972 , according to Wikipedia. Also, the picture they show of a 1958 model looks more like Bruce's Belair pic. If you scroll down a little there is a picture of a 59, which looks like the one you pictured with the extravagant fins.
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:55 AM   #12
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I took a leak in wolf creek..... pass.

Sounds like a country song.

I used to have a picture of that.

... there should be a T shirt


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Old 01-22-2012, 11:55 AM   #13
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Sam, Sam, Sam...
This is Bruce you're dealing with here.

I'd believe him if he said the woman I call Mum wasn't biologically connected to me.
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Old 01-22-2012, 12:39 PM   #14
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Cellar rule #7: Do not argue Chevy minutia with Bruce.
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Old 01-22-2012, 02:43 PM   #15
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OK, OK, OK - I'll concede that my Chevy Biscayne must have been a '59, but I won't back down on the Belair thing. Bruce's pic was of a Belair NOT a Biscayne.
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