[Richard Curtis]

Current project car -- 1989 Merkur XR4Ti -- rebuilt from a $700 wreck... new engine, interior, paint, wheels, tires, brakes, sensors, etc., etc. A rough estimate of about 250 hp (stock is 175). 12,000 miles over past four years since the rebuild, most of which I did myself. This is my fourth XR. I only wish I had pix of all my previous cars: 1985 Mustang GT, 1970 911T, 1965 Olds 442. This is first time I've uploaded a photo; I hope it works.

[Clarke]

The wife knows where these pictures are, they were in an old album. I sold the Midget and my Yamaha FZR when my wife got pregnant with our first daughter. We are coming up on 12 years of marriage, can't remember if the wedding pictures are in an album or not. If not maybe I could put them in an album for our 15th! I also have a '73 Midget that I bought last year, but have not had time to mess with yet. It need everything, but believe it or not the floors and rockers are totally solid.

[}{arlequin]

Originally Posted by Richard Curtis

Current project car -- 1989 Merkur XR4Ti -- rebuilt from a $700 wreck... new engine, interior, paint, wheels, tires, brakes, sensors, etc., etc. A rough estimate of about 250 hp (stock is 175). 12,000 miles over past four years since the rebuild, most of which I did myself. This is my fourth XR. I only wish I had pix of all my previous cars: 1985 Mustang GT, 1970 911T, 1965 Olds 442. This is first time I've uploaded a photo; I hope it works.

that's cool.... i knew a guy in boston that piece by piece 'imported' a cosworth rs motor from the uk and then assembled/installed it into his 'x-rAti'. w/ a few uprgades he had 300 to the wheels. in the mid 90's... fast as fcuk


here's my last one before i got the p-car... need to scan pics of older rides...

[bull30]

Here YUGO:

[slbates]

First pic is my Hurst SC/Rambler, second is my 81 SC daily driver for 5 years and third is my 996 daily driver since 2001.

Other notable rides: 69 MG Midget with a 1275, 70 Mustang, 76 Jeep Renegade 304 (with enough HP to shear rear axles), 1988 Daytona Turbo Shelby, 1987 Mustang GT

[turbo23dog]

My first Porsche was a 67 912. I bought the car in 1994 and it had the 5 gauge dash and 5 speed 901 trans which were nice options that made the car feel and look like a 911 until you hit the gas. I actually bought the car back from the guy I sold it to, and owned for about another year. I already had a 73 911T Targa at that point so I sold the 912 again and moved on. All in all, a very fun car that was a somewhat inexpensive start to Porsche ownership.


My 73 911T Targa is the blue car. I sold this locally as I went through the process of buying a house here in NOVA. The car still exists in the area.

The 912 is the white car and I think it is also still local to NOVA.








The black car is my currently owned 1989 Merkur XR4Tti Turbo 2.3L and a 5 speed tranny. It basically sits until it gets dusted off and taken to shows... normally parks next to Richard Curtis' Red XR in the same row on the showfield.

[Seltzer]

Here’s my list…..I’ll try to dig up photos later.

1. At age 14 (this was 1964), I bought a Cushman Eagle from my older brother when he bought a ’53 Ford Flat-head 8. In Kansas, where I lived, you could drive to school or work at age 14. He then had the Ford painted, put moon hubcaps on it, removed the front grill.

2. At age 15, I bought the above Ford.

3. On my 16th B-Day I bought a ’61 Austin Healy “Bug-Eyed” Sprite. This was my high school car and a lot of fun. It had a huge 950 cc engine which meant in Kansas on some of those long hills (there actually are hills in eastern Kansas) I might slow down to 40 MPH.

4. My senior year in high school, anticipating needing something to drive to college on the Interstate other than my Sprite, I bought (actually ordered) a ’68 Chevelle Malibu with a 327 and a four speed. My mother offered to pay for bucket seats but I declined (for dating reasons). Actually in Dec ’69 I married my high school sweetheart so the bench seat served its purpose (and no, we did not have to get married). In retrospect, I should have kept the Sprite.

5. In ’72, with the above Malibu with over 100,000 miles on it, we bought a ’72 Old’s Cutlass Supreme. That car was our graduate school and Air Force car. We put 140,000 miles on it.

6. In ’76, after I got out of the Air Force (with one kid), we bought a used ’73 Pontiac Le Mans station wagon. This was our first ‘second” car. I guess we were in the big time. Great car…kids slept in the back (before all the seat belt / chair seat requirements). We put 100,000 miles on it.

7. We traded the Malibu in on a one year old Toyota Cressida. I think it was an ’81. That too was a great car.

8. I had an old uncle die around ’85. Out of his estate, I ended up with a Chrysler Le Baron. It was an ’75 (I think) with maybe 8,000 miles on it. We sold the Le Mans to my father-in-law (for a price of $500).

9. In ’86, I sold the Le Baron and bought an ’84 280 Z Turbo. It was a great car but had an automatic and a digital speed-o that maxed out at ’85 MPH.

10. ’87, things got crazy. I traded in the 280 Z Turbo on my new ’87 Targa (which is my DE car with 170,000 miles on it). My wife (still married) decided she needed a bigger car than the Cressida, so we traded it in on ’87 Cadillac Coup De Ville. Strangely that was a very good car. I think we put 75,000 miles on it.

11. While commuting to DC (which I did for ten years in the ’90s), my wife called me up to tell me she sold the Cadillac and bought a new ’94 Ford Explorer. We had been looking at a Toyota Camry and when I left town that week, that is what I thought she was going to buy. Long story short is that she called me up that weekend and said instead of the Camry, she bought an Explorer (Eddie Bower edition I might add). At the time, I had an apartment around Dupont Circle and then out for a jog the next morning to see what an Explorer looked like. I finally found one and called my wife, “So you traded a Cadillac in on a truck?”

12. We drove the Explorer until ’99. Then we bought a ’99 Toyota Fore Runner Limited. That too was a good car. Unfortunatley, it had only a six and once we moved to DC (in 2000), my wife eventually decided we need something with more power.

13. So we bought the ’04 Cayenne S.

14. Then because I did a bunch of suspension stuff to our second car (the ’87 Targa), she announced that she could no longer drive the Targa. I have to admit, it is a fairly physical car to drive. So we bought an ’97 Boxster from her boss’ friend --- as a back up car. Thus we had three Porsche’s.

15. Then a couple of weeks ago, her boss (who owns the vet clinic where she has a hobby joy) called me to say that he knew I liked his ’02 Turbo and he had decided to finally sell it (10,000 miles). So I bought it.

16. Now we have four Porsches.

17. Did I fail to mention that I also this year bought a part of a car trailer and now am seriously considering having the Targa’s engine rebuilt this winter and converting it to a much more dedicated track car. Someone told me about the slippery slope…….but what can I say.

[VaSteve]

OK, I'll play.

1979 Corolla, my first car. I stuffed it under the back of a pickup truck in the snow and my friend and I pulled the radiator support/frame out by tying a rope around his bumper and pulling.

2004 BMW 325xi (Euro Delivery)



2004 Pacifica (kid/crap hauler)




1980 BMW R65



not pictured: 1973 Mustang (rustoration project), 1986 Escort, 1990 Stanza, 1995 Altima SE (the sport edition ) 1999 Cherokee

[}{arlequin]

it actually looks very good when you clean it up

[BillJ]

Originally Posted by }{arlequin

it actually looks very good when you clean it up

That was my second car exactly with the black/red combo. LOVED that car and was always getting into trouble with the cops and had 3 radios stolen out of it during my tenure.