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>>> I just turned 53 today. I've had the GTS since I was 28. I've had the
>>> Supra for 6 years....got it for the dirt under the wheel wells. The
>>> Scion? If I'm going to buy a Japanese car, I WANT a Japanese car! Love
>>> the looks, and except for the FWD, it's reminiscent of the GTS. >>>
>>> Traded one of these for it. Still kicking myself for nit just paying the
>>> extra $600 they gave me for it and keeping it. It was a GREAT car! >>>
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>> Happy birthday. Nice looking car. Chrysler does a great job with their
>> leather look materials and it's a rather sporty-feeling seating position
>> for such a big car. My guess is that you'd have to spend a great deal of
>> money keeping all those electric accessories in the interior working. No
>> matter, I would have paid you more for that one than any dealer ever
>> would. That's the breaks.
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> I should have kept the darn thing!
> Leather interior, all the bells and whistles (including the car phone...)
> Moon roof, power everything. I think you can tell by my line up that I am
> not an American car fan. But this handeled as well as a Celica GTS I had
> at the time. This was a freebie from a friend who bought it, parked it for
> a year and never drove it. He had a job where he had to drive more fuel
> efficient smaller cars, so he gave it to me.
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> After I fixed what was wrong with it, I should have given it back to him,
> but I traded it for basically nothing.
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> I was selling used cars at the time, and a guy rolled into the parking lot
> just on inertia. He had a Subaru wagon, an '88 or '89, and he was on his
> way to get the alternator replaced when it just quit. He had enough ooomph
> to pull into our place.
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> While he was on the phone he kept looking at the LHS, and then he came in
> and said, "Hey! That's MY car!"
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> His parents were professors at Emory U in GA, and bought the car brand
> new. Any time it hiccupped it was in to the dealer, and for maintenance,
> oil changes, etc. Babied all the way. His father died and Mom decided the
> car was just too big for her, so she gave it to him. He dorve it for about
> three months and sold it (should have kept it, from the looks of the S00B...) >
> I had a Grand Voyager AWD at the time, and I figured it was easier for me
> to do my own repairs on the van than to pay someone to fix the LHS (it was
> kind of a maintenance nightmare...) so I kept the van and traded the LHS.
> The van broke about 4 months later..
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> I still cry myself to sleep at night...it really was a great car.
> And for me to say this about an American car is something!
I guess the HLS's reputation precedes it and a lot of folks view the car as unreliable and expensive to fix. My guess is that you made the correct decision. OTOH, I'd get one if the price was right. :-)
> BTW, NEVER a problem with the tranny, because it always got fed ATF+3 or > +4!
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