This is "the fleet" our 1973 MGB and our 1967 Datsun 1600 roadster. We had both sports cars plus two daily drivers when we got our first house- and only a one car garage. My wife bought the Datsun before we were married and she called it "the breadbox" because the hood had a very straight edge like a breadbox. We sold the Datsun about 1983. About two years later a college student called us to say the Datsun had a dash fire from a stereo installation gone bad and did we want to buy the car back?
After many disasterous experiences with the '81 Chevette- broken second gear, messed up computer, engine breakdowns, we had enough of Chevys (we don't even say the "C" word anymore). We went to Fords and got an '85 Escort. I liked the Escort, and after a few years traded it in for an '83 T-Bird. I wanted a 5.0 V8, but settled for a V6 with overdrive. Nice and smooth, but really bad in our upstate New York winters. Slid just about everywhere.
To get a better winter car we traded the T-Bird for an '89 Ford Tempo. I was driving a lot for work so it was a great car for us. The Tempo was the first car I hit over 100,000 miles in.
I then moved to a '91 V6 Plymouth Acclaim I bought from my parents. It had low miles when I got it but I took this car to 105,000 miles. After things started to get unreliable mechanically and I had to take the bus home from downtown, I bought the '96 Dodge Stratus. Later we gave it to our daughter for her 17th birthday!
