Ron Ott's Past Cars Page

Ron's Past Cars Page

It seems that if your a male, your required to put a picture of your car on your homepage. I try not to be so testosterone driven, I feel that a car is just a tool, not a chick magnet, or an extension of a persons manhood, but just a tool. Every car I've ever had, I beat the crap outa. It dosen't take long before the paint is chiped, or the windshild cracked. I just don't get upset over that kind of stuff, but I figured what the hell. So here are pictures (some are not of my real autos, I don't love them so much that I snap pictures and sleep with them. Some of these are close pictures, of what I had, that I ripped off the net.) of my last cars, and my current one. I don't have a bunch that I try to fix or crap, I just have transportation. I like small black sports cars so...

1982 Camaro

Thought I was hot stuff in this car. It was the last year that they made that body style. I thought this car was great when I first got it. I drove the tar outa it. The first thing that went was the speedometer. It only went up to 85mph (energy chrisis, remember?). I busted that as soon as I got it. After a while everytime I shut the door a part would fall off of it. The stupid thing got more miles going up and down in the repair shop then on the road. I had at lest three accidents in the thing. Finely I got sick of putting money in it and traded it in on the next p.o.s. The cool thing was that I left a note in it with my phone number and asked people to call me before they bought it from the dealership. I got three calls, before I told the last guy to destroy the note, and the price kept dropping. What a hunk of junk.

JOKE:How can you tell your going to a bad party? ANSWER:By the number of Camaros parked in the driveway. I went to www.camaro.com to find a picture on my old Camaro. The first thing on their web site is how to search for parts. These things must breakdown alot. When my heater fan motor blew, they had to remove the whole fender well to get at the stupid thing. I put so much money into that pit. Yes that's me sitting on the hood. The girl standing beside it is my sister. The picture was taken at Christmas time in Michigan.

1990 CRX

Mine was red and it didn't have a sun roof. This was a cool car, I like how its shaped like a bullet. I drove it to hell and back. When it's clutch went, I decided to trade it in. It was paid off, and I hated the red color. The best thing that happened about this car, is my friendship with Bill. He had an 1989 white CRX HF at the time, and these cars don't let you know that you left the lights on. So I accidentally left the stupid lights on at work one day. I came out and the car was dead. I was about to call my girlfriend to see if she could come and get me, but Bill showed up and introduced himself. He jumped my car, we started talking, and became good friends. My car had real cool rims that had red accents, so they matched the body of the car. I never had an accident in it. I just wore it out.

1992 CRX

This was my dream car, a black CRX SI. It came standard with a sun roof. I will never not have a sun roof, because of this car. I hate convertibles, you always have to stop to put up the top, or it takes to long, but all I had to do was press a button the the roof closed. I put 100,000 miles on that sucker before I had too many troubles. I only had to replace the clutch once. I really loved the car, until it started to leave me stranded. I replaced the distributor cap on it, then it died. I replaced the whole distributor, then it died. I had it towed to where they replaced the distributor, they fixed it for free, then it died. I drove it to Indiana, and it died. I had it fixed there, then it died. I pushed/towed it to the Honda dealership, and bought a new used car. I was sick of the same problem that never seem to get fixed. That's the worst nightmare about a car, never finding whats causing the real problem and always fixing the symptoms.

The only accident I hed in this one was that I took out a deer. I just barly hit it on the back legs with my passenger side front. Talk about being lucky, well for me, not the deer.

1995 Pralude

Now I got this bad boy. Of course mine doesn't have the silly number on the side, but it's black and has a sun roof. This car moves faster then my Camaro did. Maybe because my Camaro had all the gas saving stuff. When I bought the car, the dealship sold me what they said was the best warranty. It's covered for 100,000 miles. I already took it in because the cool to heat slider was stuck. They fixed it for free. Then when we had that huge snow storm in Jan of 1999, I turned on the defrosters and went to find a snow shovel to dig it out. When I got back the heat of the defrosters cracked the windshield. Honda won't cover that. Oh well, I guess it's just another p.o.s. I really like the way the back of these cars look. At first I didn't like the huge tail lights, but after I put on my license plate frame, It looked pretty cool. I'm very happy to own a car with a tail fin again. I think it makes it look real sporty as I pass people.

After writing this up, I realized that, I loved every car I had until it started to give me problems. Maybe I should trade them in sooner, or stop fixing them after I had them five years. The only thing I do know, is that I love my new car, but in a few years, I'm going to hate it!

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created: 5/15/1995