I have a 2000 Toyota Camry V6-LE, and waiting for a Prius that I ordered a couple of months ago.

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Soli Deo Gloria

John Schultz
Member, Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Germantown, TN

"The reason why we worship God in a slight way is because we do not see God in His glory"
Jeremiah Burroughs

Paul Manata wrote:
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...and a shotgun rack. and chew stains all over the driver's side of the truck and mud flaps with the Elmer Fudd on them saying "back off."
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Elmer Fudd. Let's see...he was bald too, right?

I want a shotgun rack. I can't fit one in my Escort. Someday. HA! I was just talking about how I had to get better at goal setting!

I do love a BIG pickup truck. An F-250, a Ram...but unless gas prices go WAY down, it's destined to remain a dream...I saw a SWEET pickup today. It was about a 1980 Ford (150 I think) and it was white. Totally restored and with a souped up engine. That kind of thing always puts a big grin on my face. I have actually "chased" really cool cars, if I couldn't tell what they were. I have yet to meet a psycho that way, although it's probably not the safest thing I've ever done. But the guys are always cool about it, and they LOVE to talk about their cars...

YES! Manata's embracing his inner villain! We could probably braodcast the Smackdown on the Net...

Mary :bs2:

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Mary

Attending Cornerstone Baptist Church (Independent)
Roseville, MI
Living in Metro Detroit

[quote:99263b62e2][i:99263b62e2]Originally posted by jfschultz[/i:99263b62e2]
I have a 2000 Toyota Camry V6-LE, and waiting for a Prius that I ordered a couple of months ago. [/quote:99263b62e2]

Hey there, John,

Yeah, we talked about that, didn't we? I think you were my very first U2U...I seemed so sweet and nice back then, didn't I?

It's OK. The foreign car thing happens. I wish the Big 3 would get more competitive, but their idea of competitive is who can make the biggest SUV.

BTW, way to give the right info - "2000 Toyota Camry V6-LE" - you sound like a native!

Mary :bs2:

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Mary

Attending Cornerstone Baptist Church (Independent)
Roseville, MI
Living in Metro Detroit

[quote:7d8d92d6c2][i:7d8d92d6c2]Originally posted by Mary[/i:7d8d92d6c2]
FC. A minivan cannot outrock anything under the sun. Please hear me. A minivan is to cars what doubleknit polyester is to clothes. If a minivan were music, it would be Michael Bolton. You're still young. You have a future. If you want your future to include girls in any capacity, flee from the minivan. RUN, I tell you. RUN.
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Again, we see more of your insecuity.

1) One of my friends has a minivan. He has a girlfriend. Nyah.

2) Minivan's scream "family vehicle" and that says to girls "hey, this guy is already prepared!" And then they faint.

Makes total sense.

But I won't cast my pearls before the swine! Oooh, personal attack! That's right! Get some!

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Daniel Pope
McIlwain Memorial Presbyterian, PCA, Pensacola FL (member)
Covenant Presbyterian Church, PCA, Auburn AL

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This is pathetic. What is wrong with each and every one of you? Solomon knew what he was "saying" when he wrote, "He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity." Is this ALL you people think about? We are but wretched misers grasping at the wind! How dare us talk about the "treasures" we have in earthly goods! If you're reading what I've just written and are in bewilderment, then I have accomplished what I meant to accomplish! Just JOSH'in!

Mu HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

[Edited on 5-29-2004 by joshua]

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
Attending CCRPC, Member of TRBC
Reformers & Puritans -lllll- Puritan Pub
Board Rules - Signature Rules - Suggestion Box

In all seriousness , I drive a 1995 Nissan Pickup truck.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
Attending CCRPC, Member of TRBC
Reformers & Puritans -lllll- Puritan Pub
Board Rules - Signature Rules - Suggestion Box

I drive a '98 GMC Z71 Extended Cab ('tweaked the engine just a bit. . .) It is teal blue with dark tinted windows. The coolest car I've owned was a 55 Chevy two door. It looked stock from the side. Only when you saw the rear did you begin to get a clue. . . the duals and 14" street slicks began to give a hint to the knowledgable. Underneath it had a 350 that we bored 35 over. The cams, well, you'd have just had to hear it at idle. Packston blower. Triple quadrajets. Four speed gear box, on the floor of course. The only cars I couldn't smoke weren't street legal. I could smoke most of them on the track too.

When I see these little Japanese toys today with their buzzing mufflers, neon lights, and the bragging about their horse power from there owners I laugh. I tell them that if they want to know what horsepower is they need to get in a car that can cut the sidewalls of the rears if you don't know how to take off in it. One that wrinkles the asphalt on a hot day, literally. One that allows you to come out of the hole at around 10,000 rpm. Now, that is horsepower and torque.

Lance, regarding bovine terminology:
I guess we'd better come up with a poll to see what everybody things the proper answer is.

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We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lawrence Underwood, Jr.
Pastor - Providence Family Fellowship / Mobile, Alabama
My Blog - Imprimis

2000 Dodge Grand Caravan
2000 Honda Civic
1994 Ford Ranger

Dream truck: Ford F250 Crew Cab

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Patrick
OPC
MDiv, RTS Jackson.

"He does well, that discourses of Christ; but he does infinitely better, that by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ." Thomas Brooks.

[quote:fe18079274][i:fe18079274]Originally posted by pastorway[/i:fe18079274]
2000 Toyota Tundra

A foor door truck with a Land Cruiser engine, the highest safety record, best gas mileage and best emissions, best reliability, best resale value, and best ride of all trucks...and that is not just my opinion!

Phillip [/quote:fe18079274]

nice truck indeed! my dad has a tundra, and he loves it dearly... he drives the heck out of it, but has never had any problems...

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Ace Browning
Married to "Sue" Yeunsuk Lee from Seoul, S.Korea (absolutely the sweetest wife in the world)
Church Affiliation: grew up in SBC, Texarkana, AR
Currently visiting Park Cities Presby PCA - Dallas, TX
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[quote:df27596a3d][i:df27596a3d]Originally posted by jfschultz[/i:df27596a3d]
I have a 2000 Toyota Camry V6-LE, and waiting for a Prius that I ordered a couple of months ago. [/quote:df27596a3d]

hey Germantown! i have some friends/associates in Germantown named the Chandlers...

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Ace Browning
Married to "Sue" Yeunsuk Lee from Seoul, S.Korea (absolutely the sweetest wife in the world)
Church Affiliation: grew up in SBC, Texarkana, AR
Currently visiting Park Cities Presby PCA - Dallas, TX
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[quote:491785a3c5][i:491785a3c5]Originally posted by LawrenceU[/i:491785a3c5]
I drive a '98 GMC Z71 Extended Cab ('tweaked the engine just a bit. . .) It is teal blue with dark tinted windows. The coolest car I've owned was a 55 Chevy two door. It looked stock from the side. Only when you saw the rear did you begin to get a clue. . . the duals and 14" street slicks began to give a hint to the knowledgable. Underneath it had a 350 that we bored 35 over. The cams, well, you'd have just had to hear it at idle. Packston blower. Triple quadrajets. Four speed gear box, on the floor of course. The only cars I couldn't smoke weren't street legal. I could smoke most of them on the track too.

When I see these little Japanese toys today with their buzzing mufflers, neon lights, and the bragging about their horse power from there owners I laugh. I tell them that if they want to know what horsepower is they need to get in a car that can cut the sidewalls of the rears if you don't know how to take off in it. One that wrinkles the asphalt on a hot day, literally. One that allows you to come out of the hole at around 10,000 rpm. Now, that is horsepower and torque.

Lance, regarding bovine terminology:
I guess we'd better come up with a poll to see what everybody things the proper answer is. [/quote:491785a3c5]


now THAT's what I'm talking about!!! if i could just have any car in the world, i'd take an original 1966 Carol Shelby 427 Cobra!!!!

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Ace Browning
Married to "Sue" Yeunsuk Lee from Seoul, S.Korea (absolutely the sweetest wife in the world)
Church Affiliation: grew up in SBC, Texarkana, AR
Currently visiting Park Cities Presby PCA - Dallas, TX
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[quote:8bbd6ed02e][i:8bbd6ed02e]Originally posted by FrozenChosen[/i:8bbd6ed02e]
[quote:8bbd6ed02e][i:8bbd6ed02e]Originally posted by Mary[/i:8bbd6ed02e]
FC. A minivan cannot outrock anything under the sun. Please hear me. A minivan is to cars what doubleknit polyester is to clothes. If a minivan were music, it would be Michael Bolton. You're still young. You have a future. If you want your future to include girls in any capacity, flee from the minivan. RUN, I tell you. RUN.
[/quote:8bbd6ed02e]

Again, we see more of your insecuity.

1) One of my friends has a minivan. He has a girlfriend. Nyah.

2) Minivan's scream "family vehicle" and that says to girls "hey, this guy is already prepared!" And then they faint.

Makes total sense.

But I won't cast my pearls before the swine! Oooh, personal attack! That's right! Get some! [/quote:8bbd6ed02e]

FC, If you want to convince yourself that a minivan is a cool car, go right ahead. You are TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY WRONG, but delusions can be fun.

Did you just call me a pig?! Because I'm pretty sure that a GIRL from Detroit could take down a GUY from Pensacola...

If I keep this up, I will never be able to travel anywhere! I've already been banned from Dan Diego County...

Josh,

Solomon didn't grow up in Detroit. If he had, he would have understood completely. Just this morning I was out with my aunt, buying flowers for my pots, and I saw an old Caddie (I'm going to say 1953-54-ish). My aunt tried to tell me it was a Chevy. Then she looked closer and agreed that it was a Caddie. She was alive in 1954 (I wasn't even close) but I knew the car and she didn't. The difference? She's from Chicago; I'm from Detroit. My mom says I could name every car on the road as a toddler. There's something in the water here.

Mary :bs2:

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Mary

Attending Cornerstone Baptist Church (Independent)
Roseville, MI
Living in Metro Detroit

[quote:26179ca0f5][i:26179ca0f5]Originally posted by LawrenceU[/i:26179ca0f5]
I drive a '98 GMC Z71 Extended Cab ('tweaked the engine just a bit. . .) It is teal blue with dark tinted windows. The coolest car I've owned was a 55 Chevy two door. It looked stock from the side. Only when you saw the rear did you begin to get a clue. . . the duals and 14" street slicks began to give a hint to the knowledgable. Underneath it had a 350 that we bored 35 over. The cams, well, you'd have just had to hear it at idle. Packston blower. Triple quadrajets. Four speed gear box, on the floor of course. The only cars I couldn't smoke weren't street legal. I could smoke most of them on the track too.

When I see these little Japanese toys today with their buzzing mufflers, neon lights, and the bragging about their horse power from there owners I laugh. I tell them that if they want to know what horsepower is they need to get in a car that can cut the sidewalls of the rears if you don't know how to take off in it. One that wrinkles the asphalt on a hot day, literally. One that allows you to come out of the hole at around 10,000 rpm. Now, that is horsepower and torque.

Lance, regarding bovine terminology:
I guess we'd better come up with a poll to see what everybody things the proper answer is. [/quote:26179ca0f5]

Lawrence,

You are the official Godfather of this thread. You just gave all these chilluns an education! I would be willing to bet that we have some googling going on right now... I don't think I've ever seen a Chevy from that era with duelies...Of course I don't have to tell you that the Mopars in the Chrysler muscle cars went up to 440...Are rebuilt cars a big thing where you're from?

You take the cake! And thank you for not making fun of my lack of livestock knowledge...

Mary :bs2:

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Mary

Attending Cornerstone Baptist Church (Independent)
Roseville, MI
Living in Metro Detroit

Mary, you'd have to catch me first. And I've got a nasty long stride.

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McIlwain Memorial Presbyterian, PCA, Pensacola FL (member)
Covenant Presbyterian Church, PCA, Auburn AL

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[quote:61f904fcab][i:61f904fcab]Originally posted by FrozenChosen[/i:61f904fcab]
Mary, you'd have to catch me first. And I've got a nasty long stride. [/quote:61f904fcab]

So you're basically saying you would run away...okeydokey then.

Did you ever tell me who the pic in your avatar is?

Mary :bs2:

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Mary

Attending Cornerstone Baptist Church (Independent)
Roseville, MI
Living in Metro Detroit

It's Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek.

No, I'm not an ST fan.

John Calvin was born in Picardy, France, and one of the early derogatory names for a Calvinist was "Picard." Haha, I rock at puns.

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McIlwain Memorial Presbyterian, PCA, Pensacola FL (member)
Covenant Presbyterian Church, PCA, Auburn AL

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ARGH, I wasn't logged in and I lost my long post!

I've got a '99 F150.

However, I have been looking at the Ford Escape gas/electric hybrid. It's pretty cool, gets 35mpg. The trick is that when you're at a red light, the gas engine stops and the electric motor kicks in. It's got a 330v Nickel-metal something battery that is large and flat and is warrantied for 8 years. Plus, when you hit the brakes, the vehicle recaptures the energy from decelleration and recharges the battery so you never have to plug it in. Pretty cool.

I used to be all about having fast cars or big trucks, but now I'd much rather have a safe and fuel effieient vehicle.:wr50:

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Steve
Heritage Baptist Church
Mansfield, TX

Steve,

I HATE it when that happens...

Yeah, we could start a thread that goes: you know you're getting older when...

I am still undecided about those hybrids. From what I hear, they're new enough that getting them fixed practically requires a second mortgage. I'll be the one who waits until they are the equivalent of the $42.99 DVD player I bought at Meijers.

Mary :bs2:

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Mary

Attending Cornerstone Baptist Church (Independent)
Roseville, MI
Living in Metro Detroit

[quote:5c330742c5][i:5c330742c5]Originally posted by FrozenChosen[/i:5c330742c5]
It's Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek.

No, I'm not an ST fan.

John Calvin was born in Picardy, France, and one of the early derogatory names for a Calvinist was "Picard." Haha, I rock at puns. [/quote:5c330742c5]

Where was HE on the Starship Enterprise??? I remember Kirk, Spock and Scotty. And the black lady (but I can't get her name right now). I have no recollection of him at all...

And of course I am not a Trekkie, but back in the day (the 70s) there was no cable, no video games, no VCRs, no DVDs. We had to either watch reruns on broadcast TV or PLAY OUTSIDE! Actually, we were usually outside, until it got really hot. Then we would sit in the neighbor's den (they had an air-conditioned den, which was pretty swank back then) and watch reruns. That is how I was introduced to all things sci-fi: Star Trek, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone...Actually Twilight Zone was really cool.

It seems like a looong time ago...

Mary :bs2:

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Mary

Attending Cornerstone Baptist Church (Independent)
Roseville, MI
Living in Metro Detroit

Just to give you guys some idea of what it's like to drive in the Motor City...

This morning I left home around 8-ish to go get flowers to plant. I get on I-94 (which is 55 mph) and am clipping along at about 73. I'm being wary, because it's Memorial Day weekend, which apparently the cops interpret as a money making festival. And I can't exactly claim that I was just keeping up with traffic at 8 am on Saturday.

I spy a big sedan coming up on my left, FAST. Oops. Is it one of our Men in Blue? Well, I think, if it is, he's already clocked me, so I may as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb, right? The car proceeds to pass me, and...

There's a little old lady driving it! She was 70 if she was a day! She had to have been doing at least 85, since she flew by me and I was doing 73...

Mary :bs2:

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Mary

Attending Cornerstone Baptist Church (Independent)
Roseville, MI
Living in Metro Detroit

2002 Chrysler Town and Country
1999 Chrysler Sebring Jxi
1987 Dodge PowerRam

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Chris Lilly
Member
Midway Presbyterian Church - PCA
Powder Springs, GA
http://www.midwaypca.org/

[quote:e58f2dd425]...Of course I don't have to tell you that the Mopars in the Chrysler muscle cars went up to 440[/quote:e58f2dd425]

True. But, Chevy went to 454!!

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We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lawrence Underwood, Jr.
Pastor - Providence Family Fellowship / Mobile, Alabama
My Blog - Imprimis

A couple of years ago I was convinced that as a good Christian, I needed to obey the speed laws ... becuase, after all they are the law of the land regardless if they are enforced exactly at the posted limit and regardless of what I can get away with.

What did it get me? The finger at least 5 times per day. Seriously, I think that if I would drive the speed limit in Dallas I would get shot inside of a month from some crazy road rager.

I still think I should drive the speed limit, but I'm more concerned with the idiot crazies running me off the road.

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Steve
Heritage Baptist Church
Mansfield, TX

I know someone here who use to drive a Mustang, a rather worn out one at that

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Patrick
OPC
MDiv, RTS Jackson.

"He does well, that discourses of Christ; but he does infinitely better, that by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ." Thomas Brooks.

Yeah, an '82 mustang with a build '89 long-block 5.0 H.O.

Having a car that did 13s in the quarter-mile was fun, but I sure don't miss the days of 11 mpg.

Sigh, and I was just thinking about how nice it would be to have a mini-van so Kristie can go shopping while I can sit in the back and read or watch a DVD.

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Steve
Heritage Baptist Church
Mansfield, TX

I drive a red 1999 Oldsmobile Alero. My grandparents bought it for me for my high school graduation. It has a 3.4L V6 and 170 hp. I really like the way it runs and the way it looks when its cleaned up, but I've had my share of problems with it. But the good news is that I've had it for 5 years now and its only got 68K miles on it.

If I ever win the powerball or something, I'm going to buy either a Nissan 350Z or a Mazda RX8. But I will never buy an American made car ever again, unless its a Corvette.

Trucks, on the other hand... I really like Chevy trucks, especially the Avalanche. I also like those new Colorados. I didn't like the changes they made to the 2003 Silverado, which is why I would buy an Avalanche or a Colorado instead.

I've never been a Ford man, but I must say that the new F150 is impressive. Has anyone seen pics of the 2005 Ford Mustang?