i happened to be driving through Whitehall NY the other day and what do I spy sitting in the used car lot of Hometown Chevrolet but my old 05 Cobalt coupe.
I had Shael call them the other day to see what they wanted for the old girl... 96,000 miles they want $5k.

I looked at it a little close tonight... it brought a tear to my eye. The people that have had it for the past 4 years absolutely beat the piss out of it. The rear bumper is scuffed. The pin stripes are gone. The nice Motegi aluminum wheels are long gone as are the BFG white-letters. The interior is just trashed. They smoked in the car. The floormats are missing (which is a sure indicator that it was never vac'd out). The "RS" emblem is missing from the decklid. There is a dent in the hood...

all that work i put into that car... and it's just crap now.
it actually brought a bit of a tear to my eye.

this was how she looked right before I traded her for the "SS".




one thing, i do waaaaaaaaaaay too attached to my cars.
i don't know why... I just always have.

My father about 2 years after he sold his old '79 Chief Cherokee found it at a gas station in a really bad Richard Simmons-grade pink paint job. My father really wanted to figure out what the owner is smoking.

And Samarui, my Caravan was repaired thanks to Bears for Cars and given to a single mother in Plattsburgh which is still going strong :p

My Camaro which I put so much time and care in went to shit. I had painted it ( saved up $2,500 to have it done right ). It was pretty damn clean for a 76. I traded it for a Grand Wagoneer. About 5 years later I was asked by another dealer to go and pick up a car on a repo.

It was a mess. It had been primered half assed with walmart spray bomb. The interior was filthy. And the trusty if not weak 305 was knocking and smoking like it hadn't been maintained since I traded it. I was sooooo pissed pulling it up on the trailer. Fucking piece of shit people.

I had my '85 Rx-7 for 8 years and babied it the whole tine. The day I sold it (resentfully), the kid who bought it off of me wrote it off.

Posted by bandi I had my '85 Rx-7 for 8 years and babied it the whole tine. The day I sold it (resentfully), the kid who bought it off of me wrote it off.

my 98 Cavalier, the car I traded for the 05 Cobalt, went out like that... a guy bought it for his daughter who white-trashed it hard for almost a year, and then stuffed it under a Dodge Ram dually.

That reminds me of my old CJ-5. I sold it to a fella JUST because he seemed like he could handle it. V8 powered CJ with no power steering or brakes on 33's and typical Jeep wandering steering back then needed a certain type of owner. He could handle it, but he let his wife drive it and she lost it in a turn and rolled it several times. Killed his wife, and I have always felt kinda responsible.

I can understand getting that attached. I've only gotten rid of two cars I've had, one of them by totaling it, and the other by selling...But luckily I sold it to a guy who lives 45 minutes or so away in a town I never go to, I really don't ever want to see it again. Nothing personal against the truck, I just wouldn't be able to see her with someone else.

well my sunfire is at a nearby scrapyard now, i see it everyday on its side, yes on its side. they pulled the new fuel pump and the rust free exhaust first.

my grand prix i would have a hard time getting rid of, my father died of a massive heart attack at the wheel of that car, had the presence of mind to put it in park and save my mother. so i dont drive it in winter and no one else drives it.

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! well my sunfire is at a nearby scrapyard now, i see it everyday on its side, yes on its side. they pulled the new fuel pump and the rust free exhaust first. my grand prix i would have a hard time getting rid of, my father died of a massive heart attack at the wheel of that car, had the presence of mind to put it in park and save my mother. so i dont drive it in winter and no one else drives it.

when Rick died, my mother almost immediately got rid of her S10 because there were too many memories in that truck...

cars are weird like that.

Posted by Samurai when Rick died, my mother almost immediately got rid of her S10 because there were too many memories in that truck... cars are weird like that.

I'm trying to figure out what happened to my Uncle Peter's truck; he died two months ago and from it sounds like, it was donated to the Rexford FD where he volenteered at. I was hoping to acquire it and keep it alive as I know he would of liked knowing that I was keeping it well maintained.

Posted by Agent Skelly I'm trying to figure out what happened to my Uncle Peter's truck; he died two months ago and from it sounds like, it was donated to the Rexford FD where he volenteered at. I was hoping to acquire it and keep it alive as I know he would of liked knowing that I was keeping it well maintained.

my mom's S10 is rotted out, but still has the Daytona S/R white-letters I put on it two weeks before she traded it for her Silverado.

As little as Stephen King knew about cars, Christine did a *fantastic* job capturing the essence of the driver-car relationship and the way cars hold memories... albeit in a twisted way.

Christine is such a great movie. I want a Fury. Red. With a remote starter.

Posted by bandi Christine is such a great movie. I want a Fury. Red. With a remote starter.

She was a 4 door in the book. I want to see a updated version of the movie. But I'm sure hollywood would screw it up and turn her into a Honda Accord.

I was thinking about that myself, I mean... what 20 year old car has that kind of character nowadays? Nothing.

Posted by jeepdave She was a 4 door in the book. I want to see a updated version of the movie. But I'm sure hollywood would screw it up and turn her into a Honda Accord.

Fury's were not available in a 4 door.
Belvederes were.

Posted by Samurai Fury's were not available in a 4 door. Belvederes were.

Its Steven King. Didn't say he was an expert

Just that its described as a 4 door in the book. I'll take one of each please.


What car in the past 20 years do you think would work Sam? Lincoln Town Car? Chrysler 5th Ave?

How many Belvederes did they destroy making the movie though? If I remember it was around 20.

Posted by jeepdave Its Steven King. Didn't say he was an expert Just that its described as a 4 door in the book. I'll take one of each please. What car in the past 20 years do you think would work Sam? Lincoln Town Car? Chrysler 5th Ave?

As a Christine remake/replacement?
nothing.
Nothing has that much ugly style to it.

there are some movies that can't be remade and I think Christine is one of them.

How many Belvederes did they destroy making the movie though? If I remember it was around 20.

it was around 26 and classic Mopar enthusiasts were irate about it. The Fury was not really a classic car, especially not 58. 1958 was kind of the swan song for tailfins and all those cliched styling cues that Detroit had pumped out between 1954 and 1960. The Fury was, using eyes from the period, a train wreck.
BUT, the Fury was a pretty limited and rare option package from what I had gathered.

http://en.wikipedi...wiki/Plymouth_Fury

from wikipedia Stephen King's Christine Although the 1958 Plymouth Fury is identified as the car in John Carpenter's adaptation of the Stephen King novel Christine, two other Plymouth models, the Belvedere and the Savoy, were also used to portray the malevolent automobile in the film. Total production for the 1958 Plymouth Fury was 3,018. Several Fury models were destroyed during filming, but most of the cars were Savoy and Belvedere models dressed to look like the Fury.[2] Several statements about the car in the book version were factually incorrect for the 1958 Fury, referring to features that were found on the Belvedere model and not on the Fury. Some of these include: * "rear doors" (Christine is referred to as a four-door, but the Fury was only available in a two-door model until 1959) * the automatic transmission (called a Hydramatic in the book—a GM transmission; Chrysler Corporation transmissions were called TorqueFlite) * "gearshift lever" (refers to the transmission shifter; all 1958 Chrysler automobiles with automatic transmissions used push-button drive). Another slight inaccuracy was shown in the film version of Christine: In the scene where Leigh chokes on a hamburger, Arnie is locked out of the car and can't help her. The door lock button clearly goes down by itself, yet these cars did not have lock buttons. They required the door handle to be rotated counter-clockwise to lock them. However, the author did note that Christine was "a special order", which could explain these inconsistencies. Also, since the car is possessed by a supernatural force (the previous owner in the book and an unknown force in the movie) it is possible that the car could do just about anything it (she) wanted. Another possibility to explain the inconsistencies could be the fact that the novel takes place in one of King's universes for the "Dark Tower" multi-verse, in which other objects based on real world items have some details that are inaccurate in comparison.

Posted by jeepdave She was a 4 door in the book. I want to see a updated version of the movie. But I'm sure hollywood would screw it up and turn her into a Honda Accord.

i saw turn christine into a cimarron, the kids wouldnt know what they were talking about