When I was stationed at Sembach AB in West Germany from 1988-90, my first car was a 1978 VW Derby. The VW Foxes remind me of that car. The VW Derby was based on the VW Polo, which was a smaller car then the VW Golf. It was a 2 door coupe, with a 1.1 liter water cooled engine, FWD, and a 4 speed manual transmission. I only kept it for a year, before terminal rust sent it to the scrapyard with 166,000 Km on it. These cars were never sold in the US market.  ... View more

https://youtu.be/MhqxDuoBaXc I decided to make a video of my entry... ... View more

Here is my entry for Concours De Lemons 🍋   1985 Dodge Aries wagon with a 2.2 liter and factory 4 speed.  Spent way more money on it then it was worth to make it road worthy.  It was entered in the 2020 Amelia Island Concours De Lemons as my “Plan A” car. Sadly it couldn’t make the trip so I bought my 1973 Ford Country Sedan wagon instead. A virtual contest makes it easy for this wagon to attend.                ... View more

I like this, I’m going to go out on a limb here. What if this was done has a “kit” car? ... View more

Growing up, we always had at least one pickup truck in the family. My Dad would drive a pickup to work. At first it was a clapped out 1954 Chevrolet, then a 1963 Ford F-100. This was in the 1970’s. We could only afford one car payment so Mom got the late model Station wagon, and Dad would drive beater pickups. In 1979 my Dad got a new job and one of the perks was a company vehicle a 1976 Ford F-150 long bed with the Ranger XLT package. He drove that for many years as we started a family business (convenience stores) he started driving cars for a daily drivers. We always have kept a pickup around because it comes in handy in our business. We usually used compact trucks like Toyota’s, Nissan and Mazda along with a couple of S-10’s over the years. When Dad retired he bought a used 99 Toyota Tacoma extended cab 4x4 . He passed away in 2017 but we still have the truck.  ... View more