What Kinda Car Gets You Around The Galaxy

[Xorren Hedrasii]

I don't know if this has been asked before...I dont think it has, so I think I will. We all know that there is something in your garage besides your Jedi Starfighter. What is it? Is it a truck, a car, or mebe a motorcycle? Tell us about it! Any good war stories about your particular ride? Let's hear those to!

BTW: I have a 1994 Buick LeSabre. It's a bluish colour. Not the greatest car in the world but I'm sixteen and it was a gift from my parents and I love it to death! About 2 months ago I was run off a small country road and hit a mailbox with the mirror, the whole thing didnt come off but the mirror popped out, so I used some silicon gasket glue to put it back together. It's not in there even near straight, but it keeps it from flying around by the wires that go to the adjusting mechanism. Then about a month ago a deer came right up beside me and I swerved into a ditch that was four feet deep and dented the driver door pretty well, and removed some molding from the driver's side rear door. Then I also have a red 1986 Honda Nighthawk 450. Its a good little bike, has no trouble doing 80, so its just what I want for now, until i move up in the world. The only thing wrong with it, is that it has a small dent in the gas tank, but it really doesn't matter to much. So there you have it a quick (mebe not quick) rundown of what gets me around the galaxy.

[ayanabashu]

An appropiately name car, a saturn.

It's my brother's, I'm watching it till he gets home from Korea.

[Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar]

I have a 1992 Oldsmobile Silhouette mini van. Appropriately it looks like the space shuttle. It ahs all sorts of Lego mini figs on the dash board and Lego mini ships. It also has Rebel insignia on the side back windows and a lightsaber decal on teh back windown and is now sporting JDIMOM license plate!

I am such a geek....

[Xorren Hedrasii]

you're not a geek you just have done to your car what we are to scared to do

[ayanabashu]

jedimom said:

I have a 1992 Oldsmobile Silhouette mini van. Appropriately it looks like the space shuttle. It ahs all sorts of Lego mini figs on the dash board and Lego mini ships. It also has Rebel insignia on the side back windows and a lightsaber decal on teh back windown and is now sporting JDIMOM license plate!

I am such a geek....

Didn't I see a photo somewhere of your dash? Something involving an overturned grain truck, I think?

[Don Solo]

we still need to figure out some wings for your van... er, shuttle Jedimom;)

[Starkindler (The Naked Jedi)]

OK!!
NOT MY CAR,
but I'd drive it if it were!!!

[Leda EmBorr]

Wow... I'm getting ideas! I love the lightsaber holder!


What's my other vehicle?

[glow=orange,4,500]JEEP![/glow]

Proudly adorned with (what else) Jedi Starfighters!

[JediKai]

THAT is Obi-Shawn's www.shawnandcolleen.com/shawn/index2.html car....he's a Road Squadron www.roadsquadron.com/main.html member from Southern California.

He drove it out to CIII:
public.fotki.com/Kait/star_wars/celebration_iii_thursday/shaunxwing.html

public.fotki.com/Kait/star_wars/celebration_iii_thursday/shaunxwing2.html

public.fotki.com/Kait/star_wars/celebration_iii_thursday/shaunxwing3.html

MY car is a 2002 Prius.
public.fotki.com/Kait/kate/prius/side.html

[Schph Gochi]

I drive a 1994 Screaming Red Jeep 2dr...

but...

I also have a 1964 GTO that I have had since 1969....
it is mint....modified....and one of the things that has influenced my life more than anything else...long story..

[kivaanzion]

Right now I'm driving a 1997 Grand Am in racing red.

I bought it in 2003. It's been great and just recently I had the brakes redone which was the first major repair job.

However my luck with cars before this one has been a nightmare. (Long but funny story ahead)

First car of my own was a 1992 Chrysler Dynasty. Total POS. Got it in November 2000.

In March of 2001 I suffered a serious injury at work, and had to be taken to the hospital for surgery (I nearly cut my left thumb off- I'm AOK now). So I left the car at work in the parking lot (I work at a supermarket). I was released from the hospital at 8:30pm and decided to pick up my car the next day.

At 12am I got a call from the police department saying that they have my car; it had been stolen, and they caught the robbers (three punk kids). My car had to remain in the impound for three days while the insurance inspector came down to assess the damage. Then another four days in the shop to complete repairs.

I got my car back on a Monday.

Saturday the same week, my car was stolen out of the parking lot at work again! Middle of the freakin' day at 5pm! I couldn't believe it!! I immediately reported it to the police.

I thought my insurance was going to give me the run around (so it was stolen again huh? ), but they treated me better than the first time around.

This time I got a call three weeks later: my car was found about 75 miles away. I had to drive to that city to sign the release form to have it towed back to my home town. When they got it to the shop, they told me the car was a write off. They had driven it until the engine seized. The insurance actually gave me about $300 more than what I paid for it.

So I ended up getting a 1993 Ford Taurus for about $2800. What a mistake.

Had to replace the rad first.

Then the waterpump went.

Then a bizarre thing- the car would not start unless I fiddled with a connection wire in front of the rad. I would shove my snowbrush down there and wring it back and forth- it would start afterward.

Put in a new battery- seem to work at first, then it started doing it again.

Had the alternator replaced- didn't fix the problem (although I did need a new alternator).

Replaced the starter. No luck there.

I decided to live with the problem. In April of 2003 the head gasket finally went. My car was spewing gas like a smokescreen from a James Bond movie!

It was then that I bought the Grand Am at a local GM dealership. They asked me if I had something to trade-in. "Yeah I've got a 93 Taurus." I said.

"Can you get here on Monday, say 5pm?"

"Well... I can get it here."

They told me they would give me about $550 for it without having seen it first.

The day I had to take the Taurus to the dealership (about a mile and a half drive), I was praying the whole time, "just don't stall baby... just a little further... ok I can see the dealership... were almost there..."

I pulled in, and the car was smoking like an out of control barbecue. I could see the guys in the window of the dealership staring in amazement at me.

I went into the dealership and sat down in one of the offices. In the hallway I could hear two of the employees talking to each other: "Did you see that (bleeping) car pull in?!"

All I could think was, "It's your car now!"

[Solinbeb Newau]

Currently, I'm driving a 2000 Chevy Blazer.

Before that, a 1998 Chevy Malibu.

Before that a 1985 Firebird & a 1985 Oldsmobile Delta 88...


Though, now I'm looking at the Chevy Equinox

[Starkindler (The Naked Jedi)]

1994 Gold Dodge Intrepid.
A bit of battle damage, but not much.

[lazlototh]

'05 Mini Cooper S with a stuffed Ewok copilot

It's blue with a black roof and black hood stripes...

[ayanabashu]

lazlototh said:

'05 Mini Cooper S with a stuffed Ewok copilot

That's the only species of copilot that fits in one of those things. Well, maybe an r2-type unit. LOL