Your First Car ?

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pitbike502 12/12/2011 7:36pm
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I shared a '79 Ford Currier with my brother in high school. Tough truck. First car that was all mine was an '85 Chevy Sprint. 3-cylinders...
I shared a '79 Ford Currier with my brother in high school. Tough truck. First car that was all mine was an '85 Chevy Sprint. 3-cylinders of raw speed. Going through Mission Valley on the 163 in San Diego, I had to be going 85 on the downhill so I would be doing 55 at the top of the other side. Great little car, though. Damn thing had the decency to die 2 days before I left for the Navy.
try railing that 4 cyl ranger up the rt 20 hills skippin' school to head to 'Dilla. I had the pedal to the floor going as fast as i could about 3 miles before, and the truck was usually loaded with 2 bikes and gear to accompany to juvenile punks.

i actually got a speeding ticket in Nelson once, about 10 miles before New Berlin turn off, I had it cranked doing 65 and asked the cop if it was entirely necessary to pick on little kids whose truck was re-enacting the little engine that could trying to go racing. Obviosly he didnt find me funny and dad was called..
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76 DT 100E to school, and a 66 Triumph Spitfire was the 1st auto. Stock radio was sad (positive ground) changed to a super tuner forgot...
76 DT 100E to school, and a 66 Triumph Spitfire was the 1st auto. Stock radio was sad (positive ground) changed to a super tuner forgot how I got around the lucas electronics.
My 63 Spitefire's radio didn't work either.
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YZKEN250 12/12/2011 7:48pm
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1973 Datsun mini truck. Paid $130 for it. Put in a japanese motor for $350. Lowered it and took it to Tijuana to have the interior done and body work and paint job all for $500. Threw some rims and low profile tires. It was painted Porche Raspberry and had a Kenwood deck, HK amps, and 2 10's behind the seat. Was in a mini truck club called Ground Control minis so-cal.
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1973 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with the HP 350 small block and swivel bucket seats. Fuel mileage BAH! who cared it was like 80 cents a gallon. Can't remember if it had 8 track or cassette though.

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tunedlength 12/12/2011 9:35pm
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60 Chevy short bed,
4 track muntz. Deep Purple machine head was the only tape i had for about a year..
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02 ford escort ohhh yaaaa
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wildbill 12/12/2011 9:40pm
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66 chevy II SS

built the 283 w/solid lifter Duntov cam/fuelie heads in the garage and put a muncie in place of the powerglide.
Couldn't afford a posi but, won the Senior burnout contest with one wheel and 308:1 gears.
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olddude 12/12/2011 9:48pm
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olddude wrote:
76 DT 100E to school, and a 66 Triumph Spitfire was the 1st auto. Stock radio was sad (positive ground) changed to a super tuner forgot...
76 DT 100E to school, and a 66 Triumph Spitfire was the 1st auto. Stock radio was sad (positive ground) changed to a super tuner forgot how I got around the lucas electronics.
JPT wrote:
My 63 Spitefire's radio didn't work either.
Did you have to tap on the dashpots in the winter? On the realy cool side of things the flip front end turned heads, well until that dinky engine was visable. Factory tube type header was a bonus. The cardboard trans tunnel a drawback, but the chicks still dug it.
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Nielsen277 12/12/2011 10:47pm
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My parents let me drive one of these when I was a senior in highschool... In 2008.

I'm a funny guy, so everyone thought it was awesome.
Buick_Roadmaster_Wagon

After about 2 months my mom got a new truck and I got her 04 Silverado crew cab. It's my baby! Perfect for going to the track!
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Sofa King 12/13/2011 1:27am
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1969 Camaro
Actually I bought 2 69' Camaros, but one was a parts car at the time. Now it would be a good starter car. The camaro I drove at the time had a 283 with a four speed. Which was quicky replaced by a 350 with a turbo 400 and later replaced with a 496 with another turbo 400 and 3.73 gears. I still have the car.

Wildbill, I always wanted a 66-67 nova/chevy II, someday I'll have one. I wouldn't even mind a wagon.
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66 Ford Torino, all white with a red drivers door.......8 track baby.
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63 Dodge Dart with the old reliable slant six engine. Am,FM, 8-track - I think a pack of matches came with the 8 track when I bought it.
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rocrac 12/13/2011 4:02am
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1969 Dodge coronet with a slant 6. That ole bitch had had a manual choke she was a cold blooded pain in the ass but her and I had many a good time power sliding around the Tobacco roads in Enfield CT. Oh and I can still splice an 8 track tape if I had to.



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robkinuk 12/13/2011 6:12am
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First car was a Mini Cooper S, the old style mini back in 1977. Was fast as hell, handled great and I had the 80 mile trip from home in Kendal to Blackpool College door to door in under the hour! and a lot of that was on B roads & urban speed limit areas.
Back then there were no speed camera's, just cops who couldn't be arsed to chase you!
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1981 Olds Delta 88. A real life Hooptie!
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My dad let me drive his 65 convertible mustang.

My first car was an 84 Nissan truck.
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fencepost 12/13/2011 8:44am
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66' bug. Shit brown with old school cheesey mags. Bought stock rims, threw a 90lb bag of cement i stole from pops and it was lowered and i was happy. Painted it twice, got it to show quality and traded it for a table saw to start my business. Still trying to get it back. My friends son has it and he races for the Porsche factory ( he said he was sending it to Germany for the mechanics to restore it for him). He will not give it up.
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65 Impala 4 door. Always had to leave myself an out, as the shift linkage would fall off every time I tried to put it in reverse.

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1966 VW bug
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lumpy790 12/13/2011 9:31am
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great topic!

My dad bought bought me a used 1970 GMC PU that was an old Contee rock quarry truck. The guy we got it from painted it Blue and rebuilt it installing a 327/350 HP from a Corvette.....Fenton mags...L60 rear tires......thing was smoking fast even with the 3 on the tree. Would pull the front tires 10 inches off the ground hitting 2nd WFO!

And yes I put an 8 track into it with an EQ / Power booster & Jensen 3 way 6x9's mounted inside the doors.

Wish I still had pictures of the old blue Yamahauler....stumbled on this picture this year in one of my wifes old photo albums with a friend leaning against it.

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Digger437 12/13/2011 10:50am
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1972 Ford Maverick, still sitting in the shed next to the mx track! and, oh yea, rocked the cassettes! LOL
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FreshTopEnd 12/13/2011 11:55am
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First vehicle my name was on title to was a 59 Chevy stepside shortbed. Purple. First car I drove around was my folks' 66 Chevy Nova. The turd model with a 230 straight six and an auto trans.
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J.F.S 12/13/2011 2:41pm
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My first car was a WV Bug, felt like a had a Porsche with a rear mounted boxer engine and all.
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Rupert X 12/13/2011 3:41pm
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J.F.S wrote:
My first car was a WV Bug, felt like a had a Porsche with a rear mounted boxer engine and all.
Dammit - I was SO betting on a Volvo or Saab. Always wrong am I.
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FreshTopEnd 12/13/2011 3:53pm
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J.F.S wrote:
My first car was a WV Bug, felt like a had a Porsche with a rear mounted boxer engine and all.
A WV Bug? I guess it was a roach . . .
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Late '70's Toyota Corolla in 1986. It was an orangish color.Smile


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Jakes Dad 12/13/2011 5:17pm
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1970 Plymouth Roadrunner 440 4 speed 3.90 gear, bought it from my neighbor buddies older sisters boyfriend. Dirt cheap he got arrested for drunk driving running from the cops and got it hung up on the rail road tracks. Took a little bit to fix the A arm damage, sway bar and shock.

15 years old 2nd fastest car in the county (Nebraska) and how I ever lived through the next couple years I'll never know. Had 2 other friends killed from cars like this.
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1993 Mazda Protege

Loved that car! Found out it died about a year ago.
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Jakes Dad wrote:
1970 Plymouth Roadrunner 440 4 speed 3.90 gear, bought it from my neighbor buddies older sisters boyfriend. Dirt cheap he got arrested for drunk driving running...
1970 Plymouth Roadrunner 440 4 speed 3.90 gear, bought it from my neighbor buddies older sisters boyfriend. Dirt cheap he got arrested for drunk driving running from the cops and got it hung up on the rail road tracks. Took a little bit to fix the A arm damage, sway bar and shock.

15 years old 2nd fastest car in the county (Nebraska) and how I ever lived through the next couple years I'll never know. Had 2 other friends killed from cars like this.
Pistol grip ?
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mtnr 12/13/2011 5:58pm
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First car with my name on it, 76 Honda civic with the 1300 4 speed. Revved out going highway speeds, but was bullet proof, bought it used from a nice Iranian guy in Va. Before that parents let me drive their 1971 Volkswagen bus and or Triumph spitfire. A friend who I went to races with totaled the bus on the way back from a race at Big Berm in Md. Oops...

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