What is your cage?

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Here's my cage....

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LOL! It's a 2002 Pontiac Grand Am GT. About 70,000 miles on it. First car I've ever owned that wasn't a total beater besides my first car which was a 1986 Chevy Blazer back in high school. I only have this thing because my grandparents passed away about 2 years ago and my mother already had a car, so she gave it to me. Yup, that's right, my granny drove a GT. She would NOT drive any old lady car! :)
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Looks like you'd get similar mpg to me in that, or possibly even less with all that snow on it :)
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This was my mint condition 1981 Honda Civic 1500 wagon with a 1.5L CVCC and a 3-speed Hondamatic. It had only 59,000 original one owner miles. This car ran like a top and even had ice cold AC. I used to drive it to local auto shows and it even landed me a spot in Intersection magazine (auto publication overseas) when they were doing a special article on all generations of the Honda Civic

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I then found a very nice 1983 Honda Accord SE (although it wasn't low mileage... had nearly 180k on the clock when I bought it) and decided to sell the Civic to a collector in the 1st-2nd gen Civic club and "upgrade" to the Accord. This was a really nice car... it drove like a dream! The SE was a rare top of the line edition in the U.S. I ran it to over 200k miles and it never skipped a beat. This car had a 1.8L CVCC engine and a 4-speed automatic. Features included power everything, cruise control, power moonroof, leather interior, and a digital clock that also displayed the month, day and year.

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This was the daily driver... a 1996 Honda Accord EX (2.2L with 4-spd. auto) that I drove to almost 300,000 miles having to do nothing more than just basic routine maintenance. When I lived in Michigan for 2 years, I used to drive this car 2,400 round trip miles to Florida and back every other week. She never let me down.

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And here is my current car, a 2006 Honda Accord EXL with the new K-series 2.4 and 5-spd. auto. This car currently has 126,000 miles and is following in the footsteps of the 96!

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I also owned a 92 Prelude Si for a short while as well as a 1993 Honda Accord 10th Anniversary.

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I carry keys for four vehicles on my key ring. The bus belongs to the church. Wife and I drive down to the projects to pick up kids for Sunday School. The van is my multi-purpose vehicle which is boring enough to send me on a search for something funner to drive - hence, a motorbike! The car is my wife's commuter. And the bike is my consolation for being saddled with a van.
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That bus looks like a converted truck rather than a purpose built bus?
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It's a purpose-built bus. Here in the USA, lots of our buses and large freight vehicles are built off of converted truck chassis. It's quite common. We see that type of bus above more commonly than the standard bus with the engine in the back.

In fact, almost every school bus in my state has the same engine and front-end as that bus. :lol:

Itsahonda - You've certainly had quite a few Hondas. I'm young enough that I've never seen a gen1 Honda Civic that I can remember. The one you owned looks pristine for the age though.
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That's what I meant, its built on a truck chassis.
Hereabouts buses have specific chassis and are very different from trucks.
Usually the engine is in the rear and there are pronounced front and rear overhangs.
The Volvo B9L is a popular design:
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maddiedog wrote:I'm young enough that I've never seen a gen1 Honda Civic
I'm not, I remember them quite well, also the Datsun Cherry.
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The large touring buses and transit buses are often built on that platform you showed.

What's a Datsun? :P

My dad's oldest car that I can remember was a first-generation Nissan Altima. I think Datsun became Nissan years before I was even born. :lol:
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Datsun was a car brand of Nissan Motor Co.
Nissan dropped the Datsun name in the early 1980s.
My favourite Datsun was the 240Z, its a classic now.

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The Datsun Cherry 100A came in a variety of guises, saloon, estate and coupe but this shape is my favourite:

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Those little Datsun Cherries were my favourite cars when I was a kid. Also Honda Zs

A mate had an early 240z that I used to borrow. Not when a kid obv. You couldn't half get the back end to slide out on roundabouts. Later versions, 260zs etc were pathetic in comparison
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gn2 wrote: The Datsun Cherry 100A came in a variety of guises, saloon, estate and coupe but this shape is my favourite:

The car?
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Yep, that as well.
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I think those were called the Datsun B210s over here...
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gn2 wrote:Yep, that as well.

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This is the first Honda I rode in. My best bud's dad bought it new in about 1970. Even as just a kid, I don't remember the back seat being a comfortable place.
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Urbanian wrote:This is the first Honda I rode in. My best bud's dad bought it new in about 1970. Even as just a kid, I don't remember the back seat being a comfortable place.

Well I've got wood

how much would you pay for one of those time warped to the here and now
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gn2, typically rear engine chassis are used for larger capacity busses carrying more than 50 passengers. The smaller busses commonly use a front engine chassis. Our bus has 30 seats, and is one of the larger front-engine chassis used. This chassis is also common for school busses which carry more passengers, but have no allowance for luggage. Busses with fewer than 25 seats usually drop down a size and have a nose identical to my van, but a heavier taller suspension.

If the church got a larger bus I would have to upgrade my driver’s license.
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Urbanian wrote:
If the church got a larger bus I would have to upgrade my driver’s license.
Don't worry, Allah will provide.
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Over here if you have a full PCV licence it counts for any size of bus.
So if you did a PCV test in a 30 seater you could then jump straight in a 150 seater bendybus.
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