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    Re: The most important factor when choosing a car

    Bill D- yeah, I wish I still had my first car...or any of the first few for that matter. I`m sure it gives you a *lot* of pleasure still having it.
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    Re: The most important factor when choosing a car

    Quote Originally Posted by Bill D View Post
    My Cadillac is (unfortunately) hiding from the world in the garage because there aren’t any shows to take it to but when it did attend it won first in its class.

    If I were ever buying that car when it was new thirty years ago, I think I would’ve passed because it has some annoying features but hey, it was my first car and I was over the moon when I did get it.
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    The most important factor when choosing a car

    Let’s see if these go through
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    Re: The most important factor when choosing a car

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    Hopefully those went through
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    Re: The most important factor when choosing a car

    Quote Originally Posted by Bill D View Post
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    Hopefully those went through
    Awesome Caddy! I have a 91 Deville with about 55k miles. Was my grandfathers and I was using it in Boston as my daily driver for school. But it was a Chicago car and the rust is too bad underneath, so now it`s another project for me to work on.
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    Re: The most important factor when choosing a car

    Quote Originally Posted by m54daboll View Post
    Awesome Caddy! I have a 91 Deville with about 55k miles. Was my grandfathers and I was using it in Boston as my daily driver for school. But it was a Chicago car and the rust is too bad underneath, so now it`s another project for me to work on.
    Lots of luck! It should be a fun project. My car has 121K+ on it. I think it had 110K on it when I got it.
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    Re: The most important factor when choosing a car

    Chiming in late to the original question, I`d have to say:

    Driving engagement, power, style - but not without COMFORT.

    If I can`t fit in a car (I`m tall), or if it hurts my leg or butt, I can`t buy it or enjoy it, so I`d have to say without COMFORT, there`s nothing.
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    Re: The most important factor when choosing a car

    Some classics—especially Corvettes—-IIRC,are tough on tall people. I bet modern German cars are fine though.
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    Re: The most important factor when choosing a car

    Even though I`m only 5`9", I`ve had a terrible time finding cars that I`m not "too tall" for. My head was crushed against the headliner of many cars I had planned to buy and I`ve posted before about seldom fitting with a helmet. Add that to often needing a telescopic steering column, and for a while there I simply couldn`t consider a whole lot of cars I wanted.

    Another one is having room between the steering wheel and my thighs. Surprising how many cars were problematic for me that way; that`s why I couldn`t H&T, or really even drive, my wife`s RX7.

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    Re: The most important factor when choosing a car

    Quote Originally Posted by Bill D View Post
    Some classics—especially Corvettes—-IIRC,are tough on tall people. I bet modern German cars are fine though.
    I have noticed that I fit into the Audi loaners OK. For ages I was too tall...even with the old V8 Quattros, I fit in my `93 OK but could *not* even come close in my dad`s earlier one even though they`re awfully similar (which is why I never bought a V8Q new). Don`t know what they changed, but it made all the difference, wish I`d known about it back then.

    EDIT: I`m trying to remember....but I don`t *think* I had trouble fitting in my `77 `vette, doubt I`d miss it the way I do had it been a problem. (Now those "gotta touch surfaces that show" doorhandles *were* a problem for me..)

 

 
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