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fierosound
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MAY 15, 11:07 AM
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82-T/A [At Work]
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MAY 15, 04:49 PM
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That is such a nice looking car.
I hate to even say this in here... but I remember back in the late 1990s... like 1998/1999... I was living in an old South Florida town known as Davie. It was much different then, kind of a dump, to be honest... most of it was old and run down, and I won't get into the rest. But the town is now super wealthy. There's even a 1/2br condo complex that was called "Marlborough Estates." That condo complex was where all the prostitutes, drugs, and dead-beats with rap sheets lived. In the dead of Summer, most of the condos had their doors open because people were too poor to run air conditioning, or they had the power shut off because they didn't pay the bill. Now, that dump is filled with tech students and young adults. They've renamed it to something fancy, and everyone there has Teslas and Porsches... which is totally wild.
Anyway, that's setting the stage for what I am about to say...
There were at least 3 or 4 Fiero Indys that I used to see around that town. One that was owned by this older lady who smoked all the time, she was much much older, and always hit on me (I was 19, it was weird), and I'd see her at the gas station and the Farm store because she had a Fiero and I had a Fiero. There was this other guy who I used to see driving a different one (which had one of the front fenders replaced with a red fender), and he would drive it around, always with a beer in his hand... I never stopped to talk to them. They both lived in the trailer park (which no longer exists anymore, and is now luxury condos for one of the several colleges there). But I saw both of those Indy Fieros, including two others, in the junkyard at U-Pull-It later on in the early 2000s. All of them were complete... a little worn here and there, but all complete. It kills me to think how few of them there were, and yet these just kind of... you know... made it through the ranks until it ended up in the yard, and now they're crushed.
Of course, the one in the Mecam auction is pristine... and these were not. But damn, they were such good looking cars back in the day.
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css9450
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MAY 16, 08:12 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
I hate to even say this in here... but I remember back in the late 1990s... like 1998/1999... I was living in an old South Florida town known as Davie. It was much different then, kind of a dump, to be honest... most of it was old and run down, and I won't get into the rest. |
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That's right by Plantation, right? I was always amused by that name.
I had a college roommate who was from Plantation and he went to Nova H.S., a name I only remember because my first car was a Nova. His family had money, though; while I had a rusted-out Nova that wasn't even safe to drive, his first car was an immaculate 1964 red Mustang.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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MAY 16, 09:56 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by css9450:
That's right by Plantation, right? I was always amused by that name.
I had a college roommate who was from Plantation and he went to Nova H.S., a name I only remember because my first car was a Nova. His family had money, though; while I had a rusted-out Nova that wasn't even safe to drive, his first car was an immaculate 1964 red Mustang.
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Haha, yes, it definitely is. I don't really know why it's called Plantation. When you do a search for Plantation Florida in Bing, it literally takes you to a website that shows pictures of plantations, as if it belongs to Plantation, FL. The pictures are all from plantations from Georgia and South Carolina. I've lived here off and on since 1996 (in the neighboring town called Cooper City), and I've never once actually seen a plantation in the town of Plantation. As far as I know, if any of them actually existed, they'd been torn down decades before. Based on the Wikipedia site, it doesn't seem like it has anything to do with a "plantation."
But yeah, the thing with Davie is that it was always very lower income, with a few ultra-wealthy areas. It's mostly changed now... all ultra-wealthy, with a small middle-class, and mostly upper-middle class. You have a few holdouts that don't yet realize they can sell their homes for 10 times what they paid for them... but mostly it's all Porsches and Teslas.
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johnyrottin
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MAY 16, 01:53 PM
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Crap!!!!!!! Im catching this too late. How much did this one go for?
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infinitewill
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MAY 16, 07:18 PM
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On the block now, $19.000 but this does not include the 10% buyers premium [This message has been edited by infinitewill (edited 05-20-2024).]
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CoolBlue87GT
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MAY 17, 07:52 AM
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Anyone know what it finally went for ? Checking site, I can't tell.
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fierosound
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MAY 17, 08:42 AM
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