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Ive only bought 2 cars, on my own, in my life, I just turned 25, my Dodge Avenger and now my 02 35th LE. I owned a 79 F-100 that my father handed down to me when I turned 16.. it was a farm truck.. stripped with nothing in it, brown paint, not even carpet. Over a couple years time in high school I turned that truck into a bad ass ride, which of course included a new aquamarine blue paint job. Was in a 2 page "retro rides" article, along with a couple other trucks, in Jan 98 Sport Truckin magazine.
I bought my Avenger about 5-6 years ago. When I bought it I was into car audio. I spent $8K on car audio and had no desire to make it fast, I used to compete in car audio. Stock it came with a 2.5L V6, automatic, only had 163hp/170tq, and did the quarter in an embarrasing 16.5 or so.
Over the years Ive done a lot to my car.. I show it now and occasionally race it at the track. My Avenger is now currently the fastest 2.5L V6 Avenger in the nation. Last time out I ran a 13.7@102 in 100* weather and spinnin the tires on the bottle... that time beat my friends Sebring, same as Avenger, with a 3.5L, on the bottle, swapped into it by a tenth.
I know its not eye candy to some of ya here... but Im proud of what Ive accomplished with it.
Take the time to look around my link below to see how I transformed this slug into a car that runs decent times now and gets the respect from the V8 guys at the track.
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Your Avenger looks cool...it's obvious you've put alot of time and work into it.
My other vehicle is a 97 Jeep Wrangler Sport. Just got it about 3 months ago, and retired the Hawk to clear weather. It is the first time I've ever had two vehicles!
-------------------- Dave Smith, Proud Owner of...
2002 Black T/A Firehawk #202 Posts: 45 | From: Rock Hill, SC | Registered: Dec 2001
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My wife's daily driver is a 1998 Cadillac Catera
My son's 1994 S-10 SS
My 2000 GMC Sonoma
My Ranger
And my daughter's 1999 Z24 that I bought her after she graduated from high school that I cannot find a picture of. Just bought a 1990 Suburban a week ago too.
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Right now I have the 02 Camaro SS, a 96 Impala SS, a 95 Dakota pick up which is my daily driver and the wife has a 99 Monte Carlo. Then there's my 68 Camaro SS/RS L78 that I purchased in July of 1968 and it has a little over 16,000 miles on it. There's a long story for the reason for the low miles on the 68, probably to long and boring for here.
Along the way there has been a lot of other cars, some fun some not. My all time favorite was a 66 Chevy II L79.
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...in addition to the 2002 TA Hawk, have a 1991 Formula SLP350 Firehawk clone, a 2001 Blazer ZR2 4 x 4 (the ZR2 model has a unique frame, 3" wider track, a 3" body lift and off-road suspension components from the factory) and the wife drives a 2001 Mitsubisi Eclipse GT...
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I've got my 1995 Midwest Conversion s-10 that is my daily driver and then I still have my 1st car, a 1987 Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe. Haven't driven her too much this summer though.
I also have a '62 Austin Healey Bug-eye that is in the restoration phase.
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In the sig! The Tahoe and Ranger are new...we just traded my wife's 2001 Mustang GT convertible for the Tahoe a month ago and bought the truck the same weekend.
-------------------- Mark H.
Whoever said you couldn't run away from your problems obviously wasn't driving an SS. Posts: 942 | From: Santa Barbara and Ventura, CA | Registered: Feb 2000
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2002 SS -- my baby 01 Jeep Grand Cherokee -- my work beater 89 Volvo 240DL -- my son's car (hand-me-down) 72 Cadillac Coupe de Ville -- my dad's pride 'n joy....for sale to a good home...
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1998 Camaro Z28 (in process of buying single turbo kit from QMP) 1997 3/4 ton 4x4 suburban (SS Hauler) 1996 Camaro SS
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My wife drives a 2003 Ford Explorer. Oh, the shame!
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The former owner of: 2000 Onyx Black SS #2,778 A4, T-Tops, ASR, 12 Disc CD Changer, grey cloth, no SLP options Mods: Loudmouth exhaust, SLP Strut Tower Brace, SLP Bolt-on Sub-frame Connectors, SLP air lid w/Powershot filter, SLP smooth bellows, 35th LE wheels, SS floormats, tinted windows, and painted calipers Posts: 322 | From: Fort Polk, LA | Registered: Feb 2002
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2004 Volvo XC90 T6 AWD 2002 Camaro SS LE 1996 Eagle Vision TSi 1994 Corvette LT1 Coupe 1990 Toyota 4Runner
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Just bought the wife a new 03 limited Jeep liberty. Waiting for my 04 2500 Dodge Ram Cummins HO loaded truck to come in. Should be hear next week
And my baby....
-------------------- Brian
2001 red SS Convertible #5479 out of 6332 CME, Grill, Chrome 10 spoke, Dash plaque, Cover Absolute Speed 5.3L stg. 2 heads, comp 978 dual springs, ti retainers, AS ported ls6 intake, AS ported 78mm TB, TR224/.564 114lsa, TTS headers,gmmg exhaust,and more.... 409/382 rwhp/rwtq tuned Posts: 216 | From: Western NC | Registered: Apr 2002
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If I knew how to post a pic here, I could show you the first three. The other two are projects in progress.
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quote:Originally posted by XthHawk: Here are my two:
10th Hawk
Jeep Wrangler Rubicon
Nice Rubi 10th Hawk.........and I love the Safari doors!
Beside the Hawk, I drive this during our cold Canadian winters.......
Here's my list of cars that I've owned; - 1979 WS6 T/A - 1988 Grand Am SE - 1988 Jeep YJ - 1994 Grand Am GT - 1997 T/A - 1995 Jeep YJ (still own) - 2002 Firehawk (still own)
Steve.
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