your first car

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:18 am

I have a list of cars I've bought over the years and I think I have everything documented. Just for fun, I wanted to ask what your first car was. This may have been asked in the past, but we have new folks on board, so time to ask again...

I'll start... '66 2door Chevy Malibu, 283 w/ a 2 speed auto and no air. White over black w/ hubcaps on steelies. Always remember buying recapped tires for it. Also remember when I did my first car mod. Installed a FM converter for the AM radio. Man, getting those FM channels was boss... =)

Looked something like this, but without the nice wheels.

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:51 am

'66 or '68 Opel Kadett B Caravan:

Chad Culbertson · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:13 am

First vehicle I owned for myself and worked to get, looked just like this one but was a long bed instead of short. Had a mighty 305 with some kinda knock that never gave up despite me beating the piss out of it. Worked on a horse farm for a summer to pay for it and it had a bad TH350 transmission so picked up a used one for 150 bucks and slapped in it.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:36 am

Mine was a '84 Mazda B2000 Sport LE. It had no P/S, no A/C, no C/C, no P/W, but it did have the one thing I so desired at the time which was 3 pedals and a 5-speed! My Dad bought it brand new (he knew I wanted a stick shift) and I took over the payments after a year. I didn't hardly have two nickels to rub together at the time, but I put pretty much everything I made into adding the bling. I added chrome wheels, chrome roll bar, off road lights, mud flaps, and an Alpine stereo system that would rattle the windows. I probably washed it 200 times in the two years I owned it. I only put about 60K on it, but it never gave me one minutes worth of trouble. I traded it on a new 86 Camaro 5.0 with an autotragic, which by contrast had lots of troubles...ack! After I traded it that truck sat on the dealer's lot less than 24 hours before it was re-sold. I wish I still had it.

Sadly I don't have an digital pictures of it, but this ad shows one, but in the black/silver trim colors. Mine was the burgandy/silver paint code.

FrancisChan · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:38 am

Not my pictures, but a 1998 Ford Escort Finesse with a raging 1.6 liter 16v engine pushing out 90 BHP. Had a ton of fun on b-roads with that thing and with comfortable seating for 4 passengers I was pretty popular with the ladies on pub outings.

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Quite a powerful car for a first time driver compared to the smaller Peugeot 106 and Citroen Saxo with their 1.1 liter engines with 60 BHP. The only downside was that insurance is based on engine size and was quite expensive until I reached 21.

First car I put a K&N filter on too.

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Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:42 am

1981 Datsun 310GX. Mine looked like below, but it didn't have a panel that wasn't dented when I got it. My dad bought it from a woman that spun out on a single lane each way road and it hit the guard rail multiple times. 4 speed manual with maybe a 1.3L in it. AWESOME

I have a picture of the actual vehicle with me in the foreground in all of my geekiness. I'll see if I can find it and post it up. - AB

Jordan Normark · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:19 pm

1979 Rx-7 Not the one I had, but almost the same color and same condition as when I got it. Mine was a Carolina blue re-spray over NSCU red. Bought it from a woman out of her back yard for $500 and towed it home from Durham behind my dad's work van. Re-built the carburetor, which was by far the most complicated carburetor I had seen before, or since. Got it running and drove it through my Junior and into Senior year of high school.

RobLupella · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:24 pm

Roger McDaniels wrote:

'66 or '68 Opel Kadett B Caravan:

Isn't that still in the shop

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 6:37 pm

RobLupella wrote:

Isn't that still in the shop

Close. The one in the shop is a '69 wagon.

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:40 pm

My first car was a 1985 Honda Prelude. I didn't have an Si, but still want one badly today.

Chris Halweg · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:39 pm

'72 Chevelle
I bought it 1992 a few months after I turned 16 and kept it for 16 years. I ended up selling before my son was born to by a '94 Volvo 850 wagon. I didn't have a garage for it the last several years and the vinyl top started leaking rusting the car from the inside out. It was in poor shape by the end, but the picture below was one of my senior pictures in highschool.

My friend had a '70 Chevelle SS. He and I did swapped out my motor for a fresher 350 small block in the middle of an Iowa winter. It was so cold in the garage that the snow did not melt off the car even with a propane heater going.

RobLupella · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2016 10:43 pm

Mine was a 67 Beetle with 68 taillights. The heater worked. Interestingly the windshield washers worked off of the air pressure in the spare tire.

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

Not mine, but similar. 1995 Honda Civic EX Sedan, auto.

Worked two jobs to save up enough money to trade it in for my 1996 Integra GS-R instead, which many of you have already seen the ricer pictures of. . .

edit: wow, sorry, that's a HUGE picture.

Andrew Jonell · **Joined:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:43 pm **Posts:** 1350

Not mine, but basically the same thing:

1997 Subaru Legacy Outback back in 2006. I initially checked out THSCC because I had an AWD car and that rallycross thing looks like fun. My dad made some bogus reason as to why doing rallycross was a bad idea (I think bending an A arm), but I wasn't mechanically familiar with cars enough to call bullshit.

I had it for 6 or 7 months and traded it towards a 1996 Miata (WITH HARDTOP) in April 2007. Only then did I check out a rallycross (BMW Farm, iirc) just to hang out and spectate. Did my first autocross later that year (and somehow Mike Miller fit into the car with the hardtop on and a helmet).

These days I have bad ideas about making a Forester or Legacy Outback sleeper, but the EJ25 is a turd of a motor and the prospect of playing Subaru Legos isn't that high on the list Good Ideas I've had. I'm going to hold out and try to get a Honda Shuttle Beagle when they're eligible for grey market.

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2016 4:03 pm

ok, I had to do and interwebs look up on a Honda Shuttle Beagle. Why....

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