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My cars

Here is a list of my cars, starting with...

Not actually my cars lol​

Just kidding! These are cars that other people had that I got the benefit of driving.

2006 Subaru Forester (my mom's)​

I learned to drive in my mom's '06 Subaru Forester. I thought it was pretty good. I liked the weighty, smooth steering feel, and with my finely attuned pedal foot and aversion to mortal peril, driving in snow or rain didn't feel much different from dry pavement.

2005 Subaru Legacy (my great-grandmother's)​

When Mimi died she willed me this car, a 2005 Subaru Legacy with an automatic transmission. This was a Big Deal. I loved that car and I was not from the kind of family that gave car-sized presents. I was a very responsible, safe driver. I took good care of the car, feeding it $5 of gasoline when the orange light came on. Sometimes I looked at the dipstick and said "Yup, looks like oil!".

2005 Subaru Outback (my great-uncle's)​

This is the one I learned how to drive stick in. Totally unremarkable aside from being yet another Subaru and a bit long in the clutch.

Actually my cars​

2002 Subaru Impreza WRX Wagon​

The first car to which I held the title. You are correctly sensing a theme, but now the theme has a turbocharger, 5 manually-selected gears and a cable throttle.

I purchased it for the princely sum of All My Money ($2500) from a guy who slapped all eBay parts on it.

Yes it was STAGE 2 BRO. Yes it had a Cobb AccessPort with an OTS map. Yes it had a catless 3" exhaust from fore to aft and could be heard idling from, no shit, half a mile away. Yes there was DANGER TO MANIFOLD and it blew an exhaust valve after 10,000 glorious miles.

2009 Subaru Legacy GT​

2001 Volkswagen Golf TDI​

2005 Subaru Outback​

2001 Volvo V70 T5​

  • First Volvo
  • First timing belt job ever
  • First PCV job ever
  • First Euro I did any actual work on

2009 Subaru Legacy GT Spec B​

1994 Volvo 850​

I got a job that would require commuting. I wanted a cheap NA beater to beat. I found a one-owner 850 for $2400. As of r format(Sys.Date(), '%B %d, %Y') I still have it.

1998 Volvo V70​