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November 30th, 2008, 05:36 AM
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| Not A Dude  Joined: Nov 3rd, 2008 Last Online: 08:29 AM Location: F'dale, Washington Age: 17 Posts: 247
Car: 1995 Pontiac Sunfire. Rep Power: 6     |  My little Sunfire =] I can haz car. =] I just got my license this October, and my parents were kind enough to..."lend" me a car. All in all I just say its mine. Its nothing special, but I plan to buy it from my parents when I can so it'll officially be mine. And then I'm going to go crazy and add some nice things to it.  until now this is my first baby.She's a 1995 Pontiac Sunfire SE sedan, 2,189 cc 2.2 liters 4 in-line front transverse engine with 89 mm bore, 88 mm stroke, 9 compression ratio, overhead valve and two valves per cylinder, puts out 120 bhp (as of right now  ). She's not much on the power, but she's good on mpgs. 24 mpg city / 36 mpg highway - this we're talking from a car that's already 13 years old. That's pretty impressive, methinks, seeing as my mom's Mustang gets nearly the same as that and its only 2 years old!   I know those pictures aren't the best but that's essentially my car. Always cold and covered in ice. Parents make me park her outside the garage, like she's a bad dog being scolded.  She's had some troubles in the past, we bought her used in 1997 and she was my mom's until March when mom got her new Mustang. The only reason we got that Mustang is because poor old Sunny broke a timing chain and dad didn't have time or money enough to repair her fast enough. But by the end of summer she was working again and just in time too, cos I took my license test in her (both of them cos I failed the driving portion once ) and now she's mine.  She's been crashed twice before, too; mom's fault. Mom's a bad driver, I'm not. I take good care of my Sunny. God knows when I'll get another car, if I ever do  , so I damn well better make my Sunny last...I'll post more pictures when I can. If anyone's looking to invest in a new car I say go for a Sunfire cos they're good cars. No single car is perfect and there's always going to be some sort of problems with whatever car you choose to buy. Doesn't mean its always the car's fault, though  so give the car a break once in a while...they deserve it as much as we do
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November 30th, 2008, 06:43 AM
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 Joined: Aug 16th, 2004 Last Online: 08:06 AM Location: Corona, CA Age: 28 Posts: 3,451
Car: 2005 Scion xB Rep Power: 60  | Dude, did you use a webcam or something to take those pics? |
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November 30th, 2008, 08:01 AM
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| Not A Dude Joined: Nov 3rd, 2008 Last Online: 08:29 AM Location: F'dale, Washington Age: 17 Posts: 247
Car: 1995 Pontiac Sunfire. Rep Power: 6 | Quote:
__________________ "The star that shines twice as bright, lives half as long." -- RH. Some say she owns a stripey shirt just like James May... | |
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November 30th, 2008, 01:46 PM
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 Joined: Jan 11th, 2007 Last Online: 03:43 PM Location: Adelaide, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 2,744
Car: Holden Commodore VS Rep Power: 42 | Given those pics, I've never seen a more ill-fitting name for a car...  |
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November 30th, 2008, 10:17 PM
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| Not A Dude Joined: Nov 3rd, 2008 Last Online: 08:29 AM Location: F'dale, Washington Age: 17 Posts: 247
Car: 1995 Pontiac Sunfire. Rep Power: 6 | Quote:
I need to get a picture of her stuck in a snow drift. Now, that would be hilarious. Doubtless it'll happen too, once it snows here...
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December 1st, 2008, 12:01 AM
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 Joined: Aug 17th, 2006 Last Online: 09:59 AM Location: North Vancouver, BC, Canada Age: 18 Posts: 1,022
Car: Civic Si, Lada Niva Rep Power: 17 | My friend had one of those. It got stuck in second gear (well, all the other gears didn't work, yes standard trans) and we had to drive home from work all in second gear.
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December 1st, 2008, 12:15 AM
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| Not A Dude Joined: Nov 3rd, 2008 Last Online: 08:29 AM Location: F'dale, Washington Age: 17 Posts: 247
Car: 1995 Pontiac Sunfire. Rep Power: 6 | Quote:
Anyway, my sunny is automatic, which is good for me cos I'm not use to a manual yet.  after all I did just get my license a couple months ago. I have more pictures of sunny I just went and took today - they were done with my camcorder's photo option, which isn't very good. I'd use my digital camera which is better but I have no way of charging its batteries right now So until then this is as good as it really gets...      
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December 1st, 2008, 12:21 AM
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 Joined: Dec 20th, 2004 Last Online: 01:34 PM Location: Bahrain Posts: 2,006
Car: '02 Nissan X-Trail, '06 Honda Civic EXi Rep Power: 58 | Not bad for a first car, i mean for a 13 year old car, it looks quite decent
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December 1st, 2008, 03:23 AM
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| Not A Dude Joined: Nov 3rd, 2008 Last Online: 08:29 AM Location: F'dale, Washington Age: 17 Posts: 247
Car: 1995 Pontiac Sunfire. Rep Power: 6 | Quote:
 Sunny's seen a lot. She's been crashed twice, she's had a bleeding dog stuffed in her and rushed to the vet, she's had coffee spilled in her numerous times, her entire engine's been taken apart more than once, and she's been power-slided. Not to mention, the day we got her, I was 7 years old and I spilled a soda all over myself and the back seat. Mom went ballistic.
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December 1st, 2008, 03:25 AM
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Car: 1997 Yamaha Seca II, 1976 Honda CB550F Rep Power: 132 | Quote:
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December 1st, 2008, 03:29 AM
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| Not A Dude Joined: Nov 3rd, 2008 Last Online: 08:29 AM Location: F'dale, Washington Age: 17 Posts: 247
Car: 1995 Pontiac Sunfire. Rep Power: 6 | Quote:
Hey now, be nice to my poor little Sunny, she came from an abusive home...
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December 1st, 2008, 06:30 AM
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| Joined: Nov 20th, 2008 Last Online: December 2nd, 2008 Posts: 8
Rep Power: 0  | Nice car (for what it is). Reminds me of my 1992 Cavalier... 170,000 miles when I gave here away to family; strong little bugger she was. Quote:
 Ahh, memories
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December 1st, 2008, 07:04 AM
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| Not A Dude Joined: Nov 3rd, 2008 Last Online: 08:29 AM Location: F'dale, Washington Age: 17 Posts: 247
Car: 1995 Pontiac Sunfire. Rep Power: 6 | Quote:
I still can't shake the image of walking into the garage every morning and seeing her, sitting all alone in the far corner, all broken and torn apart. I could swear I could see tears outta her little
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December 1st, 2008, 12:40 PM
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 Joined: Jul 20th, 2005 Last Online: 11:37 AM Location: Belgium Age: 27 Posts: 3,194
Car: 2004 Opel Astra 2.2DTI Rep Power: 45 | looks OK. Interior is a bit crappy though, I dunno what that colour is called I like the headlamps though!
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December 2nd, 2008, 02:27 AM
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| Not A Dude Joined: Nov 3rd, 2008 Last Online: 08:29 AM Location: F'dale, Washington Age: 17 Posts: 247
Car: 1995 Pontiac Sunfire. Rep Power: 6 | Quote:
Though it doesn't look too extremely neat in there, the seats are at least comfortable So Sunny and I had a scare today!!  A bus almost ran us over. I really do hate buses. They never signal when they're going to pull out and they never seem to check for people coming when they do go to pull out.EDIT: Oh, and maybe tomorrow I will get a nice picture of her cute little face during school. Its kind of hard to do when she's at home, because I don't fit between her and the garage and my parents would get suspicious if I were to move her just for a picture.
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December 3rd, 2008, 03:18 AM
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| Not A Dude Joined: Nov 3rd, 2008 Last Online: 08:29 AM Location: F'dale, Washington Age: 17 Posts: 247
Car: 1995 Pontiac Sunfire. Rep Power: 6 | I bought Sunny a present!!  I'm so happy now, I think I might get some cool seat covers and fuzzy dice for Christmas for her! 
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December 3rd, 2008, 03:20 AM
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 Joined: Mar 27th, 2005 Last Online: 12:59 PM Location: Boston, MA Age: 25 Posts: 2,693
Car: None; later rather than sooner Rep Power: 82 | Quote:
This sounds like a great time to start a group called "I think my car is a person". You and katwalk can be the starting members. | |
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December 3rd, 2008, 05:39 AM
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