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Post by helenabear on Jun 1, 2024 17:20:31 GMT -5
More like with the Ohio State band we met through a friend. We rode the bus together from Columbus to Indy and after marching in a parade, having dinner at Hooters, and a kiss by a port-a-john, the rest was history Hooters and a kiss?! Whoohoo!!! No lie. That's very much who we are now still LOL |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jun 4, 2024 21:05:14 GMT -5
 Getting so close! 299! Transmission has been acting pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty good. Don't trust it to go out of town anymore, though. |
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Post by brp on Jun 5, 2024 8:15:40 GMT -5
Wait! 106° F? Yikes!
Cheers.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jun 5, 2024 8:43:48 GMT -5
Well I should have made a note under the picture...the entire time we've owned this car, when it should show "outside temp" it is actually more of an "under-hood temp" so if you sit with the car running, you can watch the temp creep up. If you are rolling on the highway it's fairly accurate, or if the engine is still cold in the morning. But in this pic I had been driving around slowly with the a/c on, waiting to get the odometer to roll over to 299,000. In reality it was probably 85 or something outside.
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Post by brp on Jun 5, 2024 8:47:08 GMT -5
Well I should have made a note under the picture...the entire time we've owned this car, when it should show "outside temp" it is actually more of an "under-hood temp" so if you sit with the car running, you can watch the temp creep up. If you are rolling on the highway it's fairly accurate, or if the engine is still cold in the morning. But in this pic I had been driving around slowly with the a/c on, waiting to get the odometer to roll over to 299,000. In reality it was probably 85 or something outside. Sounds better. We were just in Northern Minnesota (and I think you're not far from that area) and it was actually quite nice weather-wise. Mosquitos, OTOH, were a different story...
Cheers.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jun 5, 2024 10:12:52 GMT -5
Well we are south-east corner of the state, bordering Wisconsin and Iowa, and no stranger to mosquitos here either. Stepped outside just now to adjust something and a mosquito was after me...
What were you doing in northern MN?
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Post by brp on Jun 5, 2024 12:44:28 GMT -5
Well we are south-east corner of the state, bordering Wisconsin and Iowa, and no stranger to mosquitos here either. Stepped outside just now to adjust something and a mosquito was after me... What were you doing in northern MN? We were visiting family (mrs. brp's cousins) in Grand Marais. Very fun town.
Cheers.
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Post by Brian5581 on Jun 8, 2024 17:40:57 GMT -5
Hooters and a kiss?! Whoohoo!!! No lie. That's very much who we are now still LOL Sounds excellent to me. Well food could be improved, but nice views at least… |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jun 10, 2024 22:57:37 GMT -5
The old Volvo, last couple days, the blower motor for the heat and a/c decided to fail. I pulled the old one out and it appeared to be original. But it was difficult to turn by hand.
Not wanting to spend the money they wanted for a new good one, I remembered that long ago, I had a late-80s Toyota Camry Wagon. I had bought a new blower motor for it, but the car went to the junkyard before I put the motor in. 15 years later, I find it in my garage, still in its little cardboard box...looks fairly similar to the "made in France" one that was in the Volvo. (which, to be honest, was probably a copy of the Asian ones which were themselves copies of old Delco ones from Chevy) Anyways some time doing modifications with the grinder and cutting and bending etc and I have a new fan installed and spent zero dollars. Yay!
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jun 13, 2024 21:04:02 GMT -5
New toy!! In my driveway!!  |
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Post by helenabear on Jun 13, 2024 21:29:59 GMT -5
I wanted one of those! They were pretty awesome compared to now! What are the details?
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jun 14, 2024 8:30:04 GMT -5
It's a 1998 Honda cr-v, nearly 220,000 miles, runs and drives well with various small things to fix, I paid $2000.
Interior is in awesome shape! And very little rust outside which is surprising given it's a Minnesota car.
We have been looking for another car for a few months, the Volvo (our main car) won't last forever. We were looking at two-year-old cars for like $20,000, then a few 12-year-old cars for $10,000, then I saw this thing and we decided to go for it. If I put a little money into it and we have it 3-4 years or whatever, we would be under $1000/year, and if I can keep it long enough to get it down to $500/year I will be very happy.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jun 14, 2024 8:35:38 GMT -5
I keep seeing it out the windows of the house and I keep thinking it's the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder I had for many years and many adventures, now sadly gone: (pic borrowed from the internet)  |
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Post by helenabear on Jun 14, 2024 10:40:44 GMT -5
It's a 1998 Honda cr-v, nearly 220,000 miles, runs and drives well with various small things to fix, I paid $2000. Interior is in awesome shape! And very little rust outside which is surprising given it's a Minnesota car. We have been looking for another car for a few months, the Volvo (our main car) won't last forever. We were looking at two-year-old cars for like $20,000, then a few 12-year-old cars for $10,000, then I saw this thing and we decided to go for it. If I put a little money into it and we have it 3-4 years or whatever, we would be under $1000/year, and if I can keep it long enough to get it down to $500/year I will be very happy. Sounds awesome! We did similar with a Civic for my kid. 2006 with 170k miles for $2500. If it runs for 3 years we'll be more than happy. I almost bought a 2000? CRV at one point but hesitated. Eventually bought a 2008 and wished I had gotten the previous model or the one before. The third gen just wasn't a favorite of mine Used car prices still seem to be quite high around here. I know a lot of people who normally would buy two or three year old cars have on the buying new simply because the price difference wasn't enough to make used worth it. |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jun 15, 2024 14:23:01 GMT -5
Used car prices still seem to be quite high around here. I know a lot of people who normally would buy two or three year old cars have on the buying new simply because the price difference wasn't enough to make used worth it. Yeah, prices are high here, too...I can't believe what people are getting. I lucked out on this one: Wife works at a place that is large enough to have their own classifieds listings on an internal page, and she's been sending me stuff home. So this was a guy who's had it since 2008 and he "inherited" a much newer car from an older relative, so something had to go. He lives on farmland, and he said "Five cars is too much." I have six cars! At one time I had seven hee hee. I like the way this 1998 model is old enough that it doesn't have any of those shenanigans like auto-shutoff at stoplights and cylinder deactivation and all that junk they do now. And it has a normal automatic transmission, not a CVT. And it has that spaciousness that came with '80s Japanese cars! And my body seems to fit those old Toyota and Honda seats very nicely. |
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