Category Cars

A guy at work was selling his Corvette that he had bought to race, but after he made a few minor modifications to it, and before ever racing it, Ford came out with the Shelby Cobra. He would have been…

I have met several people who also owned 2002 tii cars, and all of them say that they wish they had never sold their car.  I liked it a lot, but it was time for a bigger family car.  I…

At about the same time I was offered the opportunity by my good buddy Kerry to buy his car.   This car was the second most special car I ever owned, second only to the blue Corvette.  A Mercedes 500 SEC…

2 more BMW’s I replaced the SEC with a red 1997 BMW 540i.  I bought it used from the dealer with the excellent BMW used car warranty.  It was a very nice car, comfortable, fairly quick, great handling.  But after…

When I was in fifth grade we were living in Los Alamos New Mexico.   Access to the town was restricted to people who lived there or had a need to go into the city, and everyone who did had a…

As a college graduation present my parents bought me a new red Volkswagen.  They actually did this as I began my senior year at the University of New Mexico studying electrical engineering.  I guess they had faith in me that…

Tigger was a black 1947 Ford pickup with cream colored trim that my father bought used when we bought the place on the Rio Grande.  It had a flathead six cylinder engine that probably put out about 100 horsepower.  My…