2007 Dodge Ram 2500

This is the first truck I have owned in a very long time. It is a gas powered 4x4 3/4 Ton unit that has a 5th wheel plate already installed and ready to go.

We plan on using this to tow our 5th wheel camper around the province and anywhere else we think we need to be.

2014 BMW M235i

This is the first car I ever bought new.

If you aren't familiar with this car, youtube search on it. It is an amazing car and is as close as it comes to the soul of the infamous 2002.

It has been described in articles as an amazing dance partner and I can attest that this is an amazing car that I intend to keep for a very long time.

2000 BMW 540iA

Affectionately known as Cosmos, this 2000 BMW was bought as a project/parts car. It was not running when I bought it and towed it home.

I spent a lot of time and a fair chunk of change getting this car up to an almost perfect running condition. The odometer was still lying and the traction control system was still off-line as I grew tired of putting parts on the car even though this car seriously went like hell.

Ended up trading this off on the M235i above. No regrets...

1998 BMW 540iA

Meet Fin.

Fin is short for "Finally it's mine", a name my spouse has given this garage queen of a car.

Fin has quite a bit of history and some of my blood on him. When I bought Fin, it only took me an hour to break him. Gunned him on the highway and blew the top neck off the radiator. Apparently, this car has not seen rapid acceleration before me :) Now he lives next to the M235i and is lady driven and loved.

1995 BMW 525i

Meet Oma.

She is our old reliable girl. We also broke her when we first bought her but that wasn't our fault. She has a GM transmission and that was the problem... The transmission failed about two weeks after we bought her and about 3 months later, I finally bought a used one and she has been a good girl ever since.

This car has needed very little maintenance in the years we have owned her. Everyone loves Oma!

1990 BMW 325i

I really need a good photo of this car as it was my first bimmer and it was a great car.

The photos here are when it got hit by an idiot saskatoon driver. Spent a lot of time getting to know the technology and mechanical stuff as those Germans' do do things different...

The classic E30. Great nimble cars. My new M235i reminds me a lot of this car just with the feel and the way it just begs to be driven hard.

2004 Ford Freestar

Bought for $200.00 on the back of a tow truck, we put a used SGI salvage engine in this thing and got a couple years out of it when it was finally hit and written off.

It had more than 400k kilometres on it when we sent it away but was a pile of crap right from day one.

This picture was not our van.

1990 Dodge Dynasty

This was my spouses car and I got to drive it from time to time so will list it here too.

Did nothing to this car except sold it to make room for the 1990 BMW 325i above.

Also not a pic of the car that we had.

The Caravans

Details

1985 1989 1994

Everyone must have a caravan at some point in their life. Easy to maintain, I will give it that. Good for hauling kids around which we did often.

1985 Chevy Suburban

This beast was bought for the sole purpose of hauling a camper, which we did several times.

Being a Chev, the rust was coming in strong and the tranny was pooched so this thing ended up hitting the road on a trailer for parts.

1985 Grand Marquis

Super soft ride but our example had a worn out engine. Could have accelerated better if we could have pointed the blow-by out the back.

Had for about a year I think.

1981 Mustang

Belonged to the ex at the time. Used for a couple of years. 200 cid 6 cylinder was a potent beast... not.

1980 Buick Park Avenue

Had this car for a couple of years.

Moved to Saskatoon and within a month, had to replace the timing chain.

Had a 2004R transmission and the infamous 307 olds V8. Was a great old car for sure.

1981 Yamaha RD350LC

This bike scared me bad once. Only once.

This pic is close to what mine looked like.

This is a 350cc 2 stroke that i bought when it was not running well. Needed a set of plugs. Once the new plugs were in and it sounded right, I dawned a helmet and went for a rip. Felt pretty normal until 6000 RPM and then WOW! 6 to 9500 RPM happens in a moment and I almost fell off the back as I didn't expect the violence. After driving for a few weeks I was more than used to wringing this bike out and had it up to 160+ kmph.

Innocenti DeTomaso

This is one of those cars that I still wish I had. 3 cylinder turbo engine and a 5 speed standard trans.

This was an absolute blast to drive. At one point we had all 4 kids and the wife at the time in this car. I think it was a trip to the hospital but we all fitted in ( at the time LOL)

Buick Station Wagon

We inherited this car from Uncle Clarence (ex wifes uncle).

I don't remember the exact mileage but it was really low.

1985 F150 Ford

Was a pretty clean truck. Bought when my customer decided that he didn't want to rebuild the AOD transmission.

1972 Barracuda

Probably the car I had the longest.

Was my mopar machine. Bought with a 318, I soon found all the parts I needed to put in a 1969 440 6 pack and auto trans.

Eventually built up the engine until it was no longer a daily driver but too crazy. Followed a 511 HP build up and probably ended up making 450 HP.

Would keep up to my buddys 13 second Nova so I guess that was ok.

1972 Mercury Cougar

Don't remember much about this car other than it has a 351 2V clevelend engine.

Went pretty good from my memory.

Bought as a write off from SGI for $250.00 way back in ... 1981 or so...

1976 Ford Courier

Got a few years out of this truck. Memory says it was a pretty good truck. I do remember getting Bob Close to fix the timing chain on it and I do remember when it stalled out when the chain broke. Good times...

1970 Ford F100

Not even an F150 but this was a great first vehicle. I think I had this for about 4 years. We used this with the band and travelled everywhere with this. All the way from southern Alberta to Yellow Knife NWT.

Many fond memories were made with this truck. I don't even remember who I sold this to.