Stories of cars or owners.

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  1. General S'mores

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    ...Dillon Bernard. He was a serious, yet quiet truck driver from Orlando. The C-20 was decent for cargo delivery, but in 1982, he decided it would go better to a more "sophisticated trucker", so he sold it to his best friend...
     
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    ...Barry Fineman, a carpenter who needed a cheap truck for the job. He used the Chevrolet in this role until 1993, when his son Ryan turned 16, and Barry wanted a nicer, newer truck. Ryan got the truck for his 16th birthday and...
     
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    ...he accepted it. It was a decent dated truck that was still drivable. He decided to recolor the vehicle and clean off the rust of the vehicle. But in 2000, he also wanted a newer truck as well, and then the truck went to his high school friend...
     
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    ...Kendall. He was a mechanic's apprentice, and did a bunch of needed repairs on the C20, while also swapping a 454 and 4WD into it. It was his shop truck until 2005, when it was sold to...
     
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    ...his uncle, Calvin. He found the car fun and enjoyable for the time he had it. But in 2011, he finally started going ill. He decided that the truck shall be sold, and the new owner of the C-20 would be...
     
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    ...farmer Joe Porenere. He still owns the C-20, despite now being parked inside a barn on long term, rarely used.

    NEW STORY: Martin Stefan Müller
    In 1964, he got his first car, a 1958 VW Beetle in his home at Dortmund, Germany. He drove it everyday to his university, when he was studying mechanical engineering. In 1966, he was graduated from the university and got a job. He then sold a Beetle and got a...
     
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    ...BMW 1500. It was more spacious and nicer than the Beetle in his humble opinion, and he kept it for a while. In 1980, the BMW started to show it's age, and the engine started to have minor mechanical issues. He decided to sell off the BMW in place of a Porsche...
     
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    ...911 Carrera 2.7 from 1977. The return from RR layout, and also, the performance and the reliablity made him loved the car. In 1978, he was married to his wife Heldi, and he needed a bigger car, so he bought a...
     
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    ...'75 Mercedes Benz 450SEL. The sedan was a miracle for his wife, while he considered it a fun luxury German vehicle around their side of Berlin But in 1982, he moved out of Germany into Niagara Falls, Canada due to the local controversy and threats around Berlin by Soviets. His car couldn't be brought to Canada though, so he and his wife found their first non-German vehicle: a 1981...
     
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    ...Chevrolet Camaro V6. The Camaro was fast, sturdy and inexpensive, so he liked it.
    Later in 1983, he managed to get the Mercedes Benz imported to Canada and the car was still in his hands today.
    In 1985, he upgraded the Camaro to a V8 from a 1969 Camaro SS, and he briefly raced at road tracks with the car.
    In 1992, he sold the Camaro for a Japanese 6-cylinder sports car...
     
  11. MrAnnoyingDude

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    ...a Toyota Supra Turbo. It was a good blend of day-to-day reliability and performance, but two years later its owner purchased a 4-door car for errands anyway - a Subaru Legacy wagon. Both cars were used by him until 1997, when they were replaced by a sports sedan - a...
     
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    ...top-spec Nissan Maxima. He loved the car, especially the VQ30DE V6, which originally produces 189 hp, then later upgraded to 220 hp thanks to improved internals. In 2004, he sold the Maxima for a new car, which is an Audi...
     
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    ...S8 from 2002. The running costs of Audi's top-of-the-line sports sedan were quite understandably high, but its owner did not have that much concern for that.
    Still, when it was 2009 and time for a new car, Mr. Müller started looking for some cheaper to run sports sedan, preferably Japanese or American, and bought a...
     
  14. MRA

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    ...TT coupe. Although he regretted his decision to sell his Maxima, he decided he needed some bargain-coupe fun. Luckily for him the TT was in 3.2 Quattro guise producing an output of 250bhp, 30 more than his Maxima. It was coupled to a DSG transmission and could hit 0-60 in 7 seconds. He however wanted a Japanese performance sedan from the Nineties. In 2007 he settled for a...
     
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    ...80s Taurus SHO. It was a good performance vehicle for Stefan and his wife, and even now they still have it, along with his imported old Merc as well.
    NEW STORY: 2008 Dodge Ram 3500
    In August of 2008, a former employee of Metlife was looking for a decent daily truck he could use for a bit. The 3500 fitted him well, but on January 2nd, 2010, he was hit brutally by a bus in Queens. He died 2 days later, and the Ram was then up for sale for 1 day, until a new buyer who was...
     
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    Ol Rodney. He always wanted a Ram 3500 ever since they were launched in 2008.
    Having lived in Texas he used to drive a similar pickup before buying the Ram. It was a...
     
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    (This is a story about the car, not the owner JSYK)
    ...He gave the car some boost with a turbocharger, and kept it for 3 years. But in 2013, he decided to sell it in place of a upcoming Silverado. The next owner would be accountant...
     
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    ...Sherville Metcalfe. She was rather disappointed with the Ram's performance and wanted a 4500. So we also bought a performance upgrade which was a ...
     
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    ...Kyle Daspers, who wanted a "weekend warrior" truck. He uses the Dodge to pull a boat trailer, and still owns it, although is thinking about buying a newer one.

    New story of an owner - Jose Borranga:
    Jose was born in 1954 in Tijuana, although in 1958 his family moved to Los Angeles. It was the city where he joined a Chicano gang in 1969, and got his first car, a worn 1962 Ford Anglia, in 1970. However, he was dissatisfied with such a small car, and after completing a decent drug deal in 1972, he bought a bigger, yet still relatively cheap, used car - a...
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    Paragraph-long posts, bringing detail from purchase to sale, like the ones written up to thsi date, are strongly advised.
     
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    (What, Ford Anglias are only available in Europe, how did it come to LA?)
    1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS with a straight-6. The car was light and agile, and later he also installed a supercharger on the car in 1973 to create more power and improve the car's performance. In 1976, while he was doing a drug deal, cops came and he drove the car away. He was later caught, and the car was impounded. But 2 days later, he escaped from custody and stole a new car to escape, an Oldsmobile...
     
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