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Author Message   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 02:57 pm:    I travel for my job...a lot in the autumn and winter months...and having just returned from a 10day trip where I was driving/renting a Pontiac Grand Am--the Rover felt like HEAVEN! I must admit, that little car was pretty comfy...roomy and a hell of a lot of fun to drive...however, it's NOT a Land Rover! I certainly missed her...was like coming home (literally!). Anybody else ever feel like this?!   Blake Luse (Muddyrover) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 03:06 pm:    when my tensioner pulley went out i had to drive my girlfriend's pontiac sunfire. After about a week of driving that car and getting weird looks from people I drove my truck for about an hour when i got it back and almost slept in it   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 03:22 pm:    Yeah, funny thing is...I got LOTS of looks in the Grand Am. If I was single maybe that would be fun...but I enjoy being in my Rover and considered a snob again! Hahaha   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 03:25 pm:    Hey Blake...I was in AL for that trip! Men there SURE are FRIENDLY!   gp (Garrett) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 04:12 pm:    Pontiacs in general make me a little ill. and the grand am really is up there on my list of most disliked and ugliest beasts. i mean ok.....slap some NASCAR stickers on and a nice airbrushed unicorn on the front license plate and you are set. ok....i am being a little harsh, but i do know what ya mean. i mean the whole time this clusterfuck was happening with my rear driveshaft i was driving my parents spare car.....a jeep cherokee. ugh. it was not a fun week. i felt like i was driving a matchbox car. i mean it was quick and all that, but tiny and just not my style or comfort. yeah my truck is much slower and gets much worse mileage, but i like steping up into my truck and having to actually pull on the door.....not yank it with my pinky and have it slam really hard. ok....i am rambling now. sorry. least it makes you appreciate what you have. "Pontiac.....we built excrement!!"   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 04:22 pm:    Yeah, I did really like the speed sensitive steering...but it's the kind of car you could see driving for one maybe two years and then getting rid of it. I can't see it lasting much more than that...the build quality just isn't that great. Lots of cheap plastic on the inside. I could hardly turn my Rover this morning though from the tight steering and then I smiled...ahhh....a real solid vehicle! A friend said to drive a Pontiac Grand Am you needed to be named Donna and be from West Virginia. In some ways...true....in others...not. But it's still funny! I drove a 2001 Jeep Cherokee Limited and it was fun...but SMALL! And the loudest idler I've ever driven including all my diesels! HA!   gp (Garrett) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 05:11 pm:    i think the name Crystal is more appropriate. frosted big hair and white keds!! ugh.....don't get me started on white keds. i have been known to lose all bodily functions.   Glenn Guinto (Glenn) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 05:43 pm:    LOL... -glenn   Gregg Smith (Discogregg) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 05:54 pm:    I Love Pontiacs!!! I also love 4X4's! That is why I am buying the new Hummer H2!! It has the mediocre off road performance I enjoy and all th e plastic I could want!   gp (Garrett) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 05:58 pm:    oh god no. those make me sick and i think i just lost my appetite for the next few days. ok they might have been cool on jennifer grey in the movie Dirty Dancing, but that was years ago. please......ladies......don't wear these. it's like the male equivalent of wearing a Members Only jacket. stop the insanity!!   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 07:31 pm:    You couldn't pay me to put on a pair of those...however, my fiance's sister often wears them.....yikes! What is a "Members Only jacket"? Saw an H2 this week in Mobile, AL...YUCK! It's a big box...and people call Rovers boxes. Sheesh.   Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 07:40 pm:    Uh, Sus, are you serious? Just how young are you? You don't remember when everyone had a "Members Only" jacket? Dang, and my Vans look like Keds for guys.... There's a couple of H2s around here already, yick.... Pontiac: Has to be made in '76 or earlier to be interesting (last year of the Pontiac 455...)... old Firebirds (not new things).... -L   Gregg Smith (Discogregg) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 07:48 pm:    I have a problem. I have this recurring dream that I am trapped driving a 1985 Trans Am and all I am wearing is a Members Only jacket and a pair of white keds!!! Did I mention that the jacket was pink satin and the keds were leather?? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!   Rob Davison (Pokerob) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 08:08 pm:    well a pink satin jacket is better than a tan members only jacket that got washes with red towels and turned pink.   Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 08:09 pm:    Reliving a personal memory there, Rob?? -L   M. K. Watson (Lrover94) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 08:09 pm:    could you imagine a world where everyone thought and drove like Land Rover owners? mike w   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 08:13 pm:    You mean GOOD Land Rover owners, Mike. Saw the typical yuppy family in one today at the Burger King...I wouldn't want everyone thinking like them! I was looking at the Rover, ready to wave...they didn't even look at mine! Les, The name sounds vaguely familiar but I can't picture one....and yes, I'm a bit on the young side. Comparatively speaking.   Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 08:17 pm:    http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/fashion/fa1614.php -L   Gregg Smith (Discogregg) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 08:23 pm:    Ahhhhhh I the flash backs are coming!!! Those jackets and really bad music from the '80s. I liked the leg warmers though!!!! Crap did I say that??? I meant on the women I swear!   Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 08:25 pm:    Gregg, I bet you still wear parachute pants..... -L   M. K. Watson (Lrover94) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 08:30 pm:    yes sus there is us and the rest of them...... mike w   Gregg Smith (Discogregg) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 08:55 pm:    Shhhhh! Leslie! I don't actually wear them! Well around the house some but I am actually saving several hundred pairs I got at K-Mart back in '85. I know that fashion always comes around again so between those pants and my 650 Members Only jackets I will be in fat city soon!   Mel A. (Krawlrovr) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 09:11 pm:    I feel your pain Susannah. I had to drive a Grand am for 2 weeks because the Rover was in the shop (again ). The car felt like it was mass manufactured. It didn't have a "feel." Which says that it is a souless car. The Disco on the other hand has character and soul. It felt so good to drive my Disco. When I first got in it, it felt unusually tall, I tought that it had the lift I've been longing after on it. But it didn't. Oh well...lift or no lift, Disco's are just awesome!   Rob Davison (Pokerob) Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 09:35 pm:    members only ware is shappy chic here in the 'burgh. the sad truth is they are still a very common sight. rd   Peter Carey (Pcarey) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 01:12 am:    You guys are obviously doing something wrong. When my Disco broke, I drove my Range Rover. What?? Everyone doesn't have a spare rover??? pwc   Rob Davison (Pokerob) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 10:05 am:    disco broke? rd   Greg Davis (Gregdavis) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 10:21 am:    Yes Sus, whenever I drive my wife's car (or anyone else's). When she parks on Friday her car doiesn't leave the drive again until she leaves on Mon morning. Of course, that's why my warranty will run out on the way to MAR, and it's just an '00! Oh well, that's the price we pay for our love.   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 10:49 am:    YES! I remember those!!! I KNOW my grandfather still wears them! Now the 80s fashion was one of a kind...this repetition of flower girls and hippy chicks is fine with me but if we ever flashback to flashdance I will be frightened. Off the shoulder sweatshirts with the neck cut out, leg warmers, scrunch socks and tretorns and even tight-rolled jeans...good god what were we thinking?!   gp (Garrett) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 10:55 am:    and lets not forget acid washed jeans. dayum they looked hot on Alyssa Milano in Who's the Boss years ago. and i still dig the huge ass Ray Ban Aviators with gold frames!! sweeeeeeet.   David Caton (Catonincarolina) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 11:19 am:    Easy there Mavrick!!!   gp (Garrett) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 11:49 am:    "Pull some of the pilot shit Mav!!"   Paul D. Morgan (V22guy) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 11:55 am:    Charlie: "You mean to tell me you were in a negative 4G dive with a Mig-29? What were you doing?" Maverik: "We were uh cummunicating..." Goose: "You know; the middle finger...oops I hate it when i does that."   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 11:56 am:    What about "Smoky and the Bandit"...is that too old? But that is the perfect image in my mind....wasn't it a Trans Am?   Bryan Crosby (Bcroz) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 12:30 pm:    The only thing worse than parking my Rover is having to garage my MG for the winter. The upside is in the spring it's like getting a new car to drive. Guess I really dont fit into the "having" to drive something else, it's a constant mind battle to decide which one to drive when the weather allows.   gp (Garrett) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 12:53 pm:    not too old at all Sus. that is who i wanted to be for many years and still today i would like to have some of that. i mean nothing like a 6.6 litre trans am to kick some ass in. there is a freaky dude in town that has a pristine white one and he parks it out in front of the college bars in town hoping that some day an cute little co-ed will jump in and ride shotgun. then again i have thought about doing that in my truck. haha. but i am pretty sure that silver kick ass jacket burt wore had bloodlines from the members only company. almost like one of those silver emergency blankets. "there is no way that you came from my loins!" "daddy...my hat blew off!"   SOLO Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 01:04 pm:    WOW I'm going to run home and check my closet to see if my members only jacket still fits. Bring back off the shoulder sweatshirts!!!! LOL Larry   Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 01:17 pm:    Dang, I'm gonna quit going to lunch... I haven't seen my black Members Only jacket in years... it "may" still be somewhere at my parents, but I doubt it.... hopefully was tossed, or made into something useful like a chew-toy for the dogs... I found a pair of those Aviator Ray-Bans in an old box of books the other day... I just may have to bring them to MAR for ya, Garrett! And I did have a black Trans Am w/ T-tops while I was in high-school. Pontiac 400, gold trim, honeycomb wheels.... it's a wonder I lived to make it to college..... -L   David Caton (Catonincarolina) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 01:34 pm:    I feel the need for speed!   gp (Garrett) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 02:36 pm:    yeah but did you name the car Trigger? or did you ever have a bride taking her dress off in the car? or drive for days to deliver a truck load of Coors? that's ok.....me neither, but having a 400 TA would have been kick ass. you must have had ALL the ladies. maybe a little 'Catch Scratch Fever' playing in the background?   Will Bobbitt (Rkores) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 03:37 pm:    The gold rimmed Aviators are were it's at. Some people say the look like child molester glasses, others say they the look like state troop glasses. I think I will opt for the trooper look, hahaha. The other thing that is coming back into style in the meshed backed hats, everybody is going to Good Will and buying them.   gp (Garrett) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 10:34 pm:    yeah and so are edible underwear and shrinky dinks!   Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 11:04 pm:    lol, no, it wasn't called Trigger, most people called it the Batmobile... Have to admit, it wasn't a pretty, polished one, it was pretty ugly... mostly black primer... I definitely was driving a pure redneck-mobile.... I did, however, know that if I went up County Cemetary Road at over 60 but under 70 mph, I could actually get all the wheels off of the ground and not bottom out... under 60 and it wouldn't get off the ground, and over 70, it would bottom out when it landed.... Oh, this was an itty-bitty alley that ran behind the DOT shop (past the cemetary, of course), that ran uphill, peaked, then leveled out... it was the kind of road that you should do 20mph on.... Laura and I started to date, and here I was, the guy with the beater Trans Am (with a reputation of imitating the Dukes of Hazzard when leaving the parking lot), leather jacket and Ray-Bans... all the kids she went to church with kept asking her "Does he drink? Does he smoke? What else does he do?" What was funny about it all was, I really wasn't THAT wild.... I didn't smoke, I didn't get into drugs, I just sped everywhere I went... -L   mantaray (Mantaray) Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 06:36 pm:    hey Leslie, are you a member over at yesterdayland.com or did you just go there to find that awful jacket?   Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 10:04 pm:    Not a member, lol.... I found it via a search engine.... -L   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Monday, September 30, 2002 - 11:25 am:    So I'm sitting at a football game Friday night with my fiance and his parents...and I notice that the jacket my future father-in-law is sporting says "MEMBERS ONLY" on the front. I almost fell off the bleachers with laughter!!! But I had to contain myself until my fiance and I were alone and I could explain the story. He says "oh yeah, they were really popular...I'm sure I still have one in the back of the closet somewhere!" So, should I get him to break it out for MAR?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA   Blake Luse (Muddyrover) Posted on Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 12:10 am:    yeah susannah we do have Southern Charm down here yes i said "southern Charm" lol We need more hot chicks in rovers down here though   Al Oliveira (Offroaddisco) Posted on Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 12:16 am:    Would I be labled as a Yankee snob if I said I never thought "MEMBERS ONLY" jackets were ever "cool."? Now, leather jackets or CB jackets and Vuarnet sunglasses were the shit. But I did own a pair of Ray Ban aviator glasses once.   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 09:57 am:    Al, I agree with you. I remember many other fads but somehow the Members Only jackets slipped past me...maybe they aren't LOUD enough to stand out!   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 10:27 am:    Yeah, Blake, I know ALL about Southern Charm. My family is from MS (my parents live in Biloxi) and I was raised to be a southern belle (oops--something happened along the way!), but it was funny how much attention I got down there. I drove all over the state and I swear I got hit on in every city I visited. Maybe it was the car, I don't know! ;)   Blake Luse (Muddyrover) Posted on Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 08:37 pm:    girls in rovers are sexy , bottom line i'm going to biloxi for mardi gras in February you ever been   gp (Garrett) Posted on Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 09:16 am:    tell me about it. why do you think i am dating a girl with a D2? was a no brainer. haha.   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 09:38 am:    But I don't get hit on in my Rover! I was driving the Grand Am then!!! HAHAHA I've never been to Biloxi's Mardi Gras, but it should be fun. Why aren't you going over to New Orleans instead?! Just two more hours...   gp (Garrett) Posted on Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 10:05 am:    yeah but the guys that hit on you in a Grad Am are re-res and while in the rover the guys that like you aren't as.........should we say.......obvious. or maybe it's that we are more polite. i am sure you are getting the looks. you just don't know. ya know......kinda like the ladies while i am driving my truck. haha.   Sus (Susannah) Posted on Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 10:11 am:    Understood....Of course, I'm bad about looking at the truck more than the driver when it comes to Rovers!! Driving around Alabama wearing sundresses and work suits in a Grand Am...I bet I got a lot more looks than I will at a Land Rover Rally wearing camping clothes and feeling dirty~! (NO SHOWERS!!!!AHHH)