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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: midnight Target on August 27, 2002, 11:43:25 AM
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Texace's thread about his $1400 prelude got me thinking about the good old days when just starting the car was an adventure.
Do you fondly remember your first car?
I drove a lot of "cheap" cars, but my 1st one was actually pretty cool.
It was a 1974 AMC Gremlin. Puke yellow with a straight six and 3 on the floor. I mounted the 8-track player to the floor too. That car was so ugly it was cute.
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Good thread!
My first was a 1961 Olds with a 442 dropped in it, with straight pipes. At age 14 I had a Farmers permit, allowed to drive during daylite hours, within 20 miles of home. Well, I took it out at midnight one evening and got pulled over by the cops, slap on the wrist (I was going to visit a girlfriend). That car had some serious power. Jet black too.
Here's a pic of a 61 olds Dynamic 88 (mine was black and a 2-door though)
(http://dynamic1961.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/christiescar6.jpg)
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'93 Honda Civic. Had it for 3 years. Stick shift.
Every once and a while, normal key ignition won't start it.
Gotta get out and push it to a rolling start.
Love the stick... if the key don't work, pushing it to speed and jamming it into first will.
-SW
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My first car was a '72 VW SuperBettle convertible with 12,000 miles, bought it in '85 for $4,000.
10 years, 1 slashed top, 2 wrecks, and $7,000 worth of repairs later I sold it for $2,500 with 93,000 miles. :D
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first car was a hand-me down.
Peugot with a, woooo, sun-roof. lol.
it was great in HS.. used to race it on dirt roads :)
ended up drunk (dun) and straddled over a ditch with the tires not touching the ground.. then once I got out of that.. I ran here out of oil. so much for that puppy.
Then.. I got a GTO.. treated her with respect!
my buddy had a Super bee.. together we ruled the roost..
ahh. fond memories.
BRING BACK REAL MUSCLE CARS !!!
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1978 GMC Suburban. It was an ugly rust brown, and it was fun as hell to slide around corners during the winter... In retrospect, I'm not sure how I never hit anything, and am a little horrified at how I used to drive it... hehe
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77 Mercury Colony Park Station wagon (HUGE) with a 4bbl. 460. I had many a drag races and won many of them too. Bought a 96 F-150 Eddie Bauer 4x4, should have kept the Mercury. Sold it for $100.
Karaya2
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'64 Triumph Spitfire. I sold it when I found out it was a dweeb ride.
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:rolleyes: whew!
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My first car was a 68 GTO, I was 17 and had stars in my eyes and knew nothing about cars.
I had been looking for months and finally saw one in 1992 for 3400bucks (this was a the very top of the muscle car craze where even junk was selling for big bucks).
It was primer yellow, had a 400, with a turbo 400 auto tranny. The AC didn't work. It had 4 bald tires, a cracked windshield and front suspension that was literally falling apart. It needed new brakes, all four drums where bad. It also had a crack in the radiator.
I was working for 4.25 an hour and paying 150 a month for insurance. The brake job cost 650 bucks, that took me months to pay my parents back for.
I didn't even have the keys to the doors! lol I had to buy a new lock set and install it.
One day when it ran and was drivable(rare) I drove to the end of the street and the brakes failed, and I hit a little yellow (handicapped kid bus) messing the front bumper and right fender up. This revealed the bond. Image a car with bondo on every body panel, and over an inch thick in some spots! YES! an INCH!!!
Oh the good old days!!
:D
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1969 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible.
428 4bbl, 400 trans., power steering., power brakes, climate control a/c, 8 track. I later installed a 350 4bbl and drove it over 100,000 miles. I still kick myself for selling that car.
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68 olds 442. sure wish i had it now.
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Ozark
Wow nice!
What happend to the 428?
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1976 Chevy Maibu...complete with rust and large dents. Cost me $500 CANADIAN dollars. My first year insurance cost $1,500:D I drove that thing for almost 4 years...put oil in it once and water in the rad twice.
When I drove it to the junkers the only thing wrong with it was that it needed new brakes. I gave it up because I had bought a Mustang.
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LOL Odedipus!:D
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Ozark takes the prize (so far).
I've seen one of those bad boys crusing the streets around here on perfeclty clear days. The guy absolutely will NOT take it out if there's a chance of inclement weather.
it's a beauty.
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Nash Metro. It would do 40MPH. (down hill)
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ozark that's a sweet ride
my first was a '69 mustang w/351w eng 4bbl carb headers the works was quite fast stayed in trouble with the law enforcment types . after 2 years and a license suspention that was about all she wrote for my stang.
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1953 Oldsmobile Delta 88. That wes definately the P-47 of cars.
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I think that Olds was probably 'bigger' than that Jug.
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Learned to drive in a white 1965 VW Beetle. It's still one of the most fun cars I ever drove.
My first "personal" car was a 1975 Buick Apollo (Buick's version of the Chevy Nova) with a 350 engine. I owned it for 4 years and it was still running 12 years after I sold it. Fun car to drive on a curvy road.
Regards, Shuckins
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(http://www.rockymountainclassics.com/images/152rm03.jpg)
The men were men, the sheep; nervous.
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love those shoebox fords hang.
My first was a 1950 Austin a50 sedan. I was 15 and I stuffed a big ol continental six and plymouth toplader trans with a narrowed plymouth rearend in it. the whole car weighed less than 2000 lbs and with 2 2 barrels and split exhaust it would run 16 flat at fremont drag strip. the engine was so much longer than the old breadloaf sized 20hp austin engine that the front seat had to come off the rails and be pushed into the rear seat a ways.. it had "semephore" turn signals... they poped out from the door post and blinked.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
... it would run 16 flat at fremont drag strip.
lazs
Funny how technology has come along way...in your day flat 16's were dang fast for a back yard car...today, a common commuter car with 1/3 less HP will turn flat 14's. Heh!
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
Ozark
Wow nice!
What happend to the 428?
My brother still has the old 428.
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rip... in '65 it was enough to win H/gas allmost every week. And....Not too many commuter boxes running flat 14's tho at the drags... it's a little different there than at the magazines test track (the same magazine that has full page adds for said commuter toejambox). Mustang 5.0's were running mid 14's as were subaru wrx's last week in Dallas.
now... 11 second street cars are not uncommon and 12 second daily drivers are even more so. Course..... I had all of about 200 dollars in the old austin.
lazs
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1965 Pontiac Tempest, auto 3spd, with a 327 V8, no airconditioning. Mine was this same color, with a blue vinyl interior but without the hood scoop and "GTO" on the grill. It was a rust bucket when my dad got it as a gift from the widow of a former law partner. Spent my time on bondo trying to do the body repair myself, spent my Summer job earnings taking it to a body shop to get it done right. It met its demise a year after "completion" when I was rear-ended by a dude in a panel van. Car was still driveable, but the insurance company didn't want to fix it so they totalled it out and gave me the cash.
Spent the adjustment money on a 1969 LeMans with a black vinyl interior (big mistake in Florida). Rust and high gas prices caused me to sell that for a profit, which was used to restore a 1977 Triumph Spitfire (now THAT was a fun car). Six months later I gave the Spit to my brother and bought a 1975 Pontiac Firebird with a 4spd Hurst package, 350 engine, twin exhaust, rims, and rear deck spoiler. My brother crashed the Spit and rust killed the 'bird.
After that, it was a Saturn SC2 with 5 speed tranny, rims, etc. for 5 years, then a '93 Civic for 3 years which was a project car until I became a homeowner and needed something big enough to carry home a sheet of plywood, a lawnmower, and the other home necessities, so I got the SR5 4runner that I'm driving now. The 4Runner sure doesn't brake and turn like my hopped-up Civic. :cool:
Sometimes I actually miss those old GM vinyl seats that made my back sweat.
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Heh, from what I've seen out at PRW (Formerly SIR), the mags are very conservative in their publication specs, the cars actually run a bit faster than whats published, but again, weather, humidity, track temps have alot to do with that (Speaking stock class here)
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First car? Sadly, a hand me down Dodge Reliant....aka K-Car.
Used to watch the Dukes of Hazzard growing up, so I thought I'd jump the K Car too. Well,them things come down HARD. Shoved the engine up 7 inches from the impact....that was my first experience at an autobody shop!
Moved on to a 1988 Dodge Dakota Sport from there, then on to a Saturn SC2/Coupe. Still driving the Saturn, had it 7 years, thing wont die and runs good.
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In 1981 I received a 75 VW Scirocco, with a Weber carb. It was an Arizona car with no rust but cracked vinyl and cloth seats that had aged about 200 years in the sun. Turn on the fan and dust blew out the vents. It did zero to 60 in 9 seconds (not bad for 1471cc) and did a mean 4-wheel slide around a corner (and did it often).
Mechanically it was fine. It was the first year for the model and had an electic system that was certainly "beta" grade, but except for an easily replaced motor mount, thermostat and water pump it was in fine shape.
By my senior year I had bondoed a few minor dings and one good-sized dent, primed and sanded the entire car, added a front air dam and got a shiny coat of silver paint to replace the faded silver it came with. I got a "new" set of leather seats from the junkyard, had an Alpine stereo and discovered that if you took out the full-sized spare in the trunk you could put in a sheet of plastic, add some ice and a plastic garbage can lid and have a nice party cooler.
Then one hot and distracting day, I lost track of what was going on at a stoplight and got t-boned by a 78 Buick. No injuries, but the car was totally destroyed.
Charon
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Looked just like this. Needed work which I loved doing =)
When I got back from the war and went to buy a car I went to the lot looking for like a small VW golf or something..
but I saw that beauty and when I saw where the gastank access was located i was SOLD!
(http://www.justchevys.com/pics1955to1957/5639.jpg)
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Got me one of these soon after the Gremlin. Mine was blue with black top. Tough as nails and the positraction was almost like 4 wheel drive.
1968 International Travelall - (The original SUV)
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Aha! You are a (were a) sinful SUV driver Midnight! ;)
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those numbers don't mean a lot where I live...
8500'+ sure makes for an oxygen-starved engine.
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Ozark
He has the 428 in a car or in his yard? lol
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Aha! You are a (were a) sinful SUV driver Midnight! ;)
C'mon man... That beast got almost 15 miles per gallon!!
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Damn good thread.....
1969 RS/SS Camero. This was a damn fun and fast ride. Held on to her for about 20 years. All my cars have been pre 1970s except for 2. I had a 1971 Monte Carlo and now drive a 1996 Corvette coupe 6 speed black on black.
I bought the 69 Camero for $2,500 CDN. Was looking for another but went for the Vette instead. A 1969 RS/SS goes for about 20 to 25k CDN now a days and im getting to old to put the work into it i used to be able to do.
Dog out.............
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My first ride was also my dad's. It was a 1965 CJ 5 with a 327cu out of a 1967 Corvette, complete with the aluminum heads. My dad put the engine in it in 1967. He and my grandfather had to cut out the firewall and rebuild it so the distributor cap would fit. ;)
When I got it, it had a Turboshift 400 in it. Before that it had a 4 speed. The thing would pull the front tires off the ground in 4wd-low in the sand.
It was ok as long as you remembered to have it pointed straight when you stepped on the gas :D
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1969 VW Type III Squareback
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Originally posted by Wardog
I had a 1971 Monte Carlo
I had a '72.
Bright pimp-orange with a full white vinyl top,
4 barrel carb on a 350cu small block with glass packs.
Rocket rims m60's on the front and m50's on the back plus air shocks.
example;
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First car was a '79 VW Scirroco parents bought me when I was 15. They sold it when I was busted smoking dope less than a year later. Got a '73 superbeetle several months later. Ran a red light while driving drunk and got T-boned. Nobody hurt bad, car totaled. Couple months later bought a chevrolet citation :) Sold it and bought a '73 beetle as a junior in high school. I worked on it for 9 months, chopped the top, shaved the mouldings, door handles, etc etc. Had it looking good. Drove it for 2 months the summer before my senior year of high school. Taking my buddy home one night ran off the road and barreel rolled it in a ditch. Nobody hurt, car totaled though. The sick and twisted story gets better from there. :)
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'77 Ford Fiesta.
Had it for all of three weeks. What a piece of crap that was.
That was my first Ford. After my second Ford there isn't ever going to be a third.
I now own a Toyota.
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66' Chevy Station wagon, metallic green with a perfect exterior and 283 motor. Unfortunately, it sat in storage while my brother in law was in VietNam, and the interior was throughly eaten by rats. He at least gave to me free(in 1972), though, and I put another 100,00 on it from the original 30,000. I don't even remember what happened to it.
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1994 Chevy Lumina
Havent owned a foreign car ever.
As Hang eloquently put it:
"you are supposed to buy american and squeak about it, not buy japanese and gloat"
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Japanese cars can be just as bad.
I had a 78 Toyota truck and that thing was the worst pile of crap I have ever owned. It never ran right, leaked gas, had a crappy cheap interior, it was just junk. Burned oil, about a quart a week and it only had 70k on it!!
Modern American cars are very close or better in some cases then foreign stuff. Give me a Chevy truck of any kind over a used beercanmobile Toyota any day.
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My first "car" was a 1988 Plymouth Horizon. The color vaguely resembled candy-apple red, the front bumper was bent, the back bumper, wait, there was no back bumper, the interior cloth was hanging from the ceiling, it had 98,000 miles on it, would go 85 mph (theoretically), and had 4 cylinders. I drove it for 9 months before the transmission fell out it while I was driving down the highway. It didn't even have an 8-track player in it....just an old am/fm radio. The heater worked great, though.
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1982 Opel Manta, 2.0 135HP, rear drive, 4 speed manual. Same body/color as on the picture. Look so old now and looked so cool at the time ... sheeesh!
A ball to drive in Rally racing... I was racing it a lot on unofficial races in the countryside. I ended up blowing up the engine. I had the longest "jump" record at the time at "the bridge" hehehe :D
Ahhhhh ... being young and stupid w/ur first car ... priceless.
(http://www.mantaclub.nl/manta201.jpg)
The Manta was a ture pleasure to "power drift", pretty stable and "forgiving". Got me a couple of girls at the time while keeping my body repair bills low.
(http://www.mantaclub.nl/manta002.jpg)
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My 1st car was a 1976 Chevey Monte Carlo I bought it in 1979... All black, 454 with a 4 barrel. It had a hood that was about eight feet long. It would smoke the tires at the drop of a hat. I sold it on a Monday, the kid lost control and totaled it Tuesday night.
From that I went to the first brand new car I ever had.... A 1980 Pinto. LOL!
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I'm still drivin my first car. I bought my 89 iroc-z in 96 for $4300. 6 years and 26k miles later I still drive it everyday. I've done a few mods but it still only runs high 13's in the 1/4. It handles much better now than it used to though.
Overall its been a pretty good car. Not the most reliable, but cheap and easy to fix.
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1970 VW Super Beetle, $600. I painted the doors, hood, trunk and fenders black and white 6’ checkers, all else red.
1 of 14 bugs that I have owned 1957 - 1974.
Also 7 Karman Ghias, 59-74 (some convertibles
7 Busses, 63 – 72 (63, 64, 65 Deluxe w big sunroof_
1 Squareback,
1 Fastback
1 Rabbit convertible 1982
1 Quantum
1 sandrail
1 1965 Mercedes
4 Saabs 72 – 84
7 Volvos 60 – 86
1 Fiat Spyder 1970
1 Fiat 500, 1960
2 Fiat 128s
1 Audi 4000
1 Mazda RX-7
1 Toyota Corolla
1 Honda CVCC
1 Mazda pick-up
1 Chevy Monza
1 Chevy Luv
2 Dodge Darts (Batmobile)
3 Dodge vans
1 Ford 250
1 1954 Ford 4 – door
and probably some others…
eskimo
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Ah, my first car...got it in 1981, before I could even actually drive it. My dad sprung for it.
It was...(drumroll)...a screaming yellow 1976 Datsun B210 two-door. Yup, the famous "Honey Bee", except it didn't have the lame black "Honey Bee" graphics. It was just...yellow. Very yellow. Lemon yellow. And when it was clean, the driver's side door *almost* matched the rest of the car.
It wasn't a rustbucket, aside from a little body cancer starting up in the wheelwells--those '70s riceburners were hell for that. Mechanically it was very sound, with a 1300ish cc (I think) motor hooked to a four-speed transmission. No A/C, no power anything except brakes, black vinyl seats (and weren't THOSE wonderful in a hot Virginia summer), crap-ass AM/FM radio.
The thing had about 16 gerbilpower--OK, maybe more like 50-60 hp, whatever. I found a list a while back that had 0-60 times on it...B210 4-speed was good for 17+ seconds to 60, 21ish for the 1/4 mile. Whee. The curb weight on the registration was 1800 pounds. This thing was made out of fancy tinfoil--trust me, my SA was REAL good in that car. Most of the time, that is.
The B210 got me through my first year of driving, but tragically, in February 1983, I had a brainfart and pulled out in front of a Ford Courier pickup doing 40 mph. He clipped the front end, smashed the battery and radiator, put a "V" in the front bumper and moved it over a foot to the right, and shattered the headlights and grille. Amazingly, my dad got it fixed and back on the road, but sold it and got me a 1978 Datsun 510. Even more amazingly, I didn't get a scratch. (The 510's still running in my hometown...tough bastard of a car.)
First one I ever bought for myself was a brand-new '88 Toyota Celica GT-S coupe. Not a super-fast car (2.0L, 135 hp) but good-looking and fun. I traded it in on a '91 Eclipse GSX Turbo...now THAT thing kicked butt. 195 hp out of 2 liters, full-time AWD, it was a WRX 10 years before the WRX came out.
Now I drive a big wheezing Dodge Ram pickup. God bless the Amurrican pushrod V-8. :)
PS: I always wanted my best friend's first car...his parents' surplus '66 Fury III. Faded copper paint, 318 V8 4-bbl, pretty fair condition all around. You could park my B210 on the Fury's hood, just about. We used to joke that it'd seat 8 and sleep 6 (2 on each seat + 2 in the trunk). There was just something about that aircraft carrier of a car that I loved. Maybe it was the fact that (a) it had working A/C and (b) I didn't have to twist my fat bellybutton into a pretzel to fit in it. :)
PPS: I found this picture of a '76 B210 on the Web. Mine was much cuter. And yellower.
(http://www.avonhill.com/thumbnails/sedan_imported/1976_Datsun_B210.jpeg)
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Eat yer hearts out. This was my second car, got it for 175 bucks. She had the J2 option.. three two-barrel Rochester carbs and special intake manifold, air cleaner, throttle linkage and head gaskets. The compression ratio was raised to a lofty 10.0:1 from the standard 9.5:1 ratio, which was fairly high. All Factory. Pumped that 371 V8 from 270 hp to a lil over 300.
She'd do a hunnered and thirty, no sweat a'tall. The beast had power everything, even auto headlight dimmers, and an air-bag suspension, and a back seat that that was more comfy than the big red couch. Some awful fond memories of that car.. I mourn the day I traded her..
1957 Olds Super 88..
(http://www.57heaven.com/Images/oldsmobilesuper88conv.jpg)
..for this... my third car... a 68 Torino 390 GT. Collected 3 speeding tickets the first week I had it. Damn thing would just flat out MOVE. Comfy car, for a Ford, did my first 'coast to coast' in it. No trouble punchin it up to 120mph+ .. it made a damn good roadcar. Miss this one too.. but not as much as I miss that Super88. ;)
(http://www.jason.fletcher.net/yourcars/jenyard.jpg)
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my first car was an mr2, i just love that car too much that i didnt wanted to sell it so i gave it to my dad (he ask for it ). I liked that car so much i bougt another mr2 91 turbo that is now 3 years on the shop :mad: (damn mechanics) now i have a subaru impreza
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'75 Cutlass Supreme, 350/4 Barrel
Cobra
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in 1986....
A 1975 brown and gold Mark 2 Ford Escort
Tronsky
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'74 plymoth fury, fairly ugly, fairly fast, very heavy.
my brother built the engine up for me (he had totaled my actual first car after I'd driven it less than 1 mile).
I got a whole 2 miles to the gallon. I don't think it even had a carborator, just a monkey under the hood throwing buckets of gas into the engine.
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'72 Chevy Impala I got by trading a motorcycle I'd won at the county fair. It was a piece of crap, but it got me through that first year! After that, it took Mighty1 through his first year in a car.
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Hey hank! Can't believe... My second or third car was a 57 chev strippo... I couldn't afford a hot small block for it so I went to the wreking yard and found a 58 J2 olds with tri power... I shoehorned it in and used a "transdapt" adapter to go to the chevy drive line... no back seat... 2 dr post.. car was pretty quick and sounded really neat.. People in the know would look confused when they heard that big olds engine with shaved heads rumbling in that little chevy coupe. It was a real sleeper street warrior. Also had a 47 chev coupe with a J2 motor and BM 4 speed hydro. Valve train was weak in the old big block olds motors tho.
lazs
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Originally posted by eskimo2
2 Dodge Darts (Batmobile)
eskimo
That's hilarious! I can see you being a hit with the chicks in that baby. That's some pretty creative car tuning you got going on there.
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Originally posted by Karnak
'77 Ford Fiesta.
Had it for all of three weeks. What a piece of crap that was.
That was my first Ford. After my second Ford there isn't ever going to be a third.
I now own a Toyota.
My wife had a mid-80's Thunderbird - the first generation it was brought back by Ford. I can still hear Jackie Stewart's voice in the commercials talking about the aerodynamic properties of the styling alongside the rear fender and trunk providing downforce (total bunk, which goes to show that race car drivers will do whatever their corporate sponsors tell them to do).
We called that car "The First and The Last", because it taught us to never trust Ford ever again. That lesson bore us well when we avoided buying the Ford Explorer when it first hit the streets in the early '90s. Three things are guaranteed in life: death, taxes, and Ford doing a corporate cover-up of a faulty design because it'll cost more to fix than to settle in court.
We now own a 4runner and an Xterra.
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Didn't really belong to me tho.
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1985 Dodge Aires wagon
Most fun I've ever had in the latter part of my high school years was in that car.
Now I have a Saturn SC2. A minor upgrade but I can't fit 10 people into it like the aires could.
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I had a 1981 Chevy Chevette, what a POS. It is the worst car I have seen listed here so far except for maybe Karnak's 77 Festiva.
Got a 2 year old mustang GT convertible now.
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First car was a 1962 Ford Galaxie 500, 352 4 bbl auto. It was a handmedown from the parents. Sold it and bought a 66 VW Beetle and rolled it within a few months. My final car of high school was a 1964 1/2 Mustang ragtop, 289 2bbl 3 speed. It was light blue with a white power top, ac, and a rally pac. Bought the car for $1200 and it looked brand new. Sold it 2 years later pretty trashed out for $200. I'm still kicking myself ;)
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TPI, post a pix of yer mullet!
Never to be forgotten like the rest here, my first car was a 1972 AMC Hornet. Green 4 doors of pure love rocket. Straight 6. Bought it for $60, in 1983, the muffler was gone and the brakes were gone, but it had a 8-track that was just so impossibly loud, and awful. “The Great White Buffalo” distorted never sounded better. Parents upgraded the sure death flaws for about $100 more, and off I went.
No it didn’t have straight pipes, I legally got my license as I was 16, and wasn’t out grabbin Ho’s at 14 after midnight like a true stud, and arrested like a Rebel without a Clue. (Damn DRip, you always make a laughable, I mean hard act to follow. I feel so inadequate now. I coulda been a badass kid)
What a piece of toejam. Loved that thing.
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So is that how you attracted your Mail order bride Creamo? LOL! What country you order her from Creamo!? LMAO! Hehehehehehe! Damn, I *knew* it was the Gremlin Mind Trick!
Say, if your mail order bride is damaged in the mail, can you return the unused part for a full refund?
(http://terrisfun.com//toons16/bride.jpg)
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Quite a list Eskimo... here's mine:
65 Bug
67 Squareback
69 Squareback
70 Chevy Blazer
71 Chevy Blazer 4x4 (2) (*)
74 Chevy Pickup 2x4(*)
77 Rabbit 2dr
78 Chevy Pickup 4x4
82 Scirocco
82 Jetta 2dr
83 Jaguar XJ6
84 Jetta 4dr
86 Audi 4000SC Quattro
92 BMW 525I
92 Pointiac Grand Prix (Richard Petty LMT edition)
93 Nissan 300ZX
96 Caravan
2001 Integra
2002 Jetta
2002 Mini Cooper (*)
(*) denotes cars/trucks I still have.
I love it when Rip compares his 80 Audi to his 2001 BMW. If he'd had my 86 Audi and my 92 BMW his oppinions on things might have been completely different.
AKDejaVu
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Akdeja
You have 2 71 BLazers??
Nice!
you must like them. how does the back window work? is it just like a camper shell? It looks like it would be easy to break the latch?
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A complete list?
74 Gremlin
68 International Travelall
75 Mercury Capri
72 VW Fastback!!
75 Honda CVCC
65 Chevy Nova
70 Mercedes 220D
74 Plymouth Duster
86 Misubishi Mirage
91 Mazda 626 - Great car
97 Mazda 626 - POS
99 Chevy Malibu
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my first:
(http://auto.consumerguide.com/images/autoreview/med/02803041990002MED.jpg)
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Philippines DRip, the Philippines.
And her names Cathy. Pretty terrific woman.
(http://aci.net/ck/catintake.jpg)
The last thing you drove that was that tight and 23, indeed, had straight pipes.
Those 'ol floppy 40 year old mufflers are squeak, aint they? Makes you wanna play games and post alot.
Seems she's going to be "In Boeing" a lot longer than you too.
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1980 tercel. Closest I could find a pic to it was an 82, they spiffed it up a lot by then.
(http://www.rtpnet.org/~teaa/tercel/start/tercel-front-1.jpg)
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1967 Saab 3 cylinder two stroke. An absolute blast, but ya gotta remember to put in 2-stroke oil. Seized it up in '72 and bought a Datsun. That's prehistoric for Nissan :).
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1984 Mazda B2000 Pickup
My dad upgraded to a new vehicle when I was almost 16, and I got it when I turned. Silver paint with a white canopy.
I sold the canopy (wasn't cool enough), then got the truck painted (black w/gold metallic flake) at Maaco (took it back no less than 8 times to fix problems), and installed a tonneu cover. A few years later I decided to soup it up (LOL), so with a friend's help we yanked all of the california emmisions crap, installed a new holly street racing carb (a friend at a local chevy parts counter located it for us), installed a header (yeah, we found a header for an 84 Mazda 4-banger!) and a new stainless 2" exhaust (minus, catalytic converter, of course) and a new mean (pansy) sounding muffler.
To top it off, I put in bucket seats from an 85 camaro that were way too big for the small cab, then sold it off to the dealer for $500 (who in turn surely sent it to the local wrecking yard) when getting my 96 S10.
(http://images.autotrader.com/images/2002/8/23/106/986/154296131.106986456.IM1.MAIN.565x421_A.565x377.jpg)
SOB
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ROTFLOL Creamo-o-tard! Desparation when it meets in the middle...LMAO!!!!
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Rip, are you letting your son post on your account, or is a grown man actually typing up these posts? Please say it's your son.
SOB
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LOL, Please say Creamo is letting his mail-order bride post (Still LMAO at Creamo!)
Hehehehehehe! Well, I had him squelched, decided to take a look at his "first car" post, noticed he's still obsessed with me, so I took a cheap shot (Sorry, Im STILL LAUGHING! ROTFLOL!) and re-squelched Cream-o-san. :)
No worries, Creamo treats me like crap, back at him, got it SOB? ;)
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Yeah, whatever you say Rip. I know you both have deep feelings for each other, and for whatever reason have chosen to express them like second graders would. Soon, the seemingly unfriendly banter won't be enough, and you'll have to go to each other. I think y'all will make a nice couple...I'm just trying to find out who will be the reciever. :D
SOB
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I have those same feelings for you SOB. I do think our relationship is more on a 6th grade level... like the time you sent me the e-mail that said "are you coming down to Salem this weekend? Check yes or no:"
AKDejaVu
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LOL :D
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10 year old 1949 Ford flathead convertible, puke green. Cost, tax, license, title and transfer was less than I paid to fill the van this morning.
2nd was a 1965 Buick Special convertible, custom ordered with a 355 wildcat engine, and 4 speed tranny, bronze metal flake. I drove it for over 30 years. Should have it still, but alas, someone offered me about 3 times what it was worth and ...... I still miss it.
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Pretty girl Creamo.
I just wish you and Rip would see that you really love each other though.
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'72 Buick electra 222 sky blue
455 positracksion
one of the last cars made that didnt have a vertical member separating the front and rear windows !!!!
fast ashell for a boat that big!
box;)
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In 1978...
For $1000 I bought a '65 Mustang 6-cyl, automatic, one-owner 35,000 miles!. Couldn't believe I was spending so much for a car.
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(http://home.satx.rr.com/suvorov/1rstcar.jpg)
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I owned a 1980 buick reagal, best ride i ever owned.
but it got smashed by a festiva and i had to scrap it.
now i own a 1968 ford falcon (like the one below) but mine is pea soup green.
its a 200hp, stright6
(http://home.attbi.com/~falcon68/graphics/falcon5.gif)
i also own a 1989 mustang (winter beater)
and a 1961 austin london taxi