So what was your first car?
 

mowed lawns to pay 1500 for it.
it was nothing but trouble, but i learned a hell of a lot from it.

Feel free to bash, but then you have to post your own.

No hate here. That's the best way to go in my opinion. Start with something that needs wrenching on it, and it'll make a man out of you quick.

My first car was a '90 Dodge Spirit with no paint, a three-speed automatic, and all its get-up-and-go got up and went long before i got it.

My miata :D

See below. Worked my butt off in high school to get it built.

My last miata was my first car, it suffered a somewhat typical fate of a first car. But I learned a lot from it(both in the mechanics of driving and of the car). Now I need to follow savington's footsteps and work my ass off if I ever want to see my current car boosted.

1994 honda civic 4-door that was already beat to shit... cliche i guess but i learned a whole lot from it.

then i sold it for only 500 less than what i paid after i continued to beat it, made out like a bandit

1988 civic 4wd wagon with a d16z6 swap. I loved that car. Swap did not make it very fast but I drove them stock before, and vtec makes it much better(though the sohc vtec is hard to feel). The low first gear could get that bastard to crawl up some pretty impressive inclines(for a civic)

I had it lowered on coilovers for a while, and then lifted(like a half inch maybee) with accord springs and shocks, and 65 profile tires. I liked it better lifted. I could beat the shit out of that car when it was lifted.

if I had the cash I would buy it back from my friends brother and turbo it tommorow

'81 Volvo 2dr
4spd w/pushbutton overdrive

It was the "surf pig". There was probably 1/2" of sand on the floorboards when it finally blew a headgasket after 200k miles and we got rid of it. What a tank!

1994 Dodge Intrepid. It was a POS but it turned on and went, most of the time. Finally it needed to much work to make it worthwhile to keep so I got the miata.

63 Ford Falcon. Had to put metal lids to various stuff to cover the holes in the floorboard. 2 speed automatic.

my miata is my first car..

4WD Geo Tracker. Disgusting to look at, but it had what I needed: drop-top for summer, 4wd for winter.

Bah, you guys have it easy. My first was a 1974 Gold Duster. Slant 6 (no power), 3 speed automatic. Handling was massive understeer with a sudden and unpredictable transition to massive over steer. 4 wheel drums, so it didn't stop worth a damn, either. Learned to drive it like I stole it, so when I finally got a decent car (1981 Toyota Celica), I could keep up with most people with better cars.

The Miata is a weekend toy, and my 7th or 9th car, depending on if you count the ones I bought for the wife.

1966 VW Beetle, unreliable as hell, a bit rusty, but I love(d) that car.

92 Mercury Marquis

1992 16v GTI and scored an old AMS blower for it. That car was fun.

1974 Camaro, 71 LT1 350 with a 3.08 Posi. Hard to get off the line but the 150+ MPH top speed was scary in a car that old.

Mark

1993 Mazda MX-3 GS. It was fun to drive and the 1.8L V6 was nice. I riced it out a little, then a girl in an SUV hit me @ 50mph while I was sitting at an intersection.

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1983 ford escort L. had it for five years. that car had the DNA of a rock crawler and dune buggy in it. it'd been on the Pismo Beach dunes more than once. It held 9 people comfortably. very comfortably if you consider 2 women on your lap comfortable.

Net cost of ownership over 5 years excluding gas and flea market subwoofer? under $100/yr. $600 purchase price and sold with a blown head gasket for $250. It blew chasing a porsche on mothers day one summer. aw.

1970 Oldsmobile 98 LS Holiday Sedan
455 CID :fawk:

still have it, though it's pretty much just collecting rust these days :(
More or less, just waiting on the right tub to drop the motor into...

Technically my first car was an '89 Saab 900S. However, I bought and sold it before I got a license, so it doesn't really count. I bought it with a supposed blown tranny, and it turned out just needing a $4 shift linkage! WOO!

Really my first car was a '91 Audi 200. 1 of ~1100 in the US. 5 cyl 20v Turbo motor that later powered the S4s. It was wicked fast and a whole lot of fun. Unfortunately, it leaked and repeatedly fried ECUs, which gets to be $$$$ when there are no motor parts available for the car anywhere.

This is a picture with my buddies Turbo MX-6

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79' Ford Fairmont. 2.3L of fury, 68hp. Wow! Back then it was a good thing to bring us back and forth to HS, women digged the 4 doors:jerkit:.

Oops for got hot pic

93 4 door civic automatic tranny, that never broke down even when i went off-roading at top speed (105mph)...that car was a trooper

First car was a '61 TR3A I sort of inherited from my brother when he stepped up to a car that was actually worth more than the parts it needed. It ran pretty well a lot of the time, and it required more time and patience than a wife. But it taught me all about carburetors, ignitions, bearings, and stuff.

1980 rx7 anniversary edition

My first car was a 197? Peugeot 504 diesel. The paint was so oxidized, that if you touched it, it would transfer burgundy dust onto you or your clothing. It was quite the chick magnet.:giggle:

1972 Nova SS...350H.O. 350HP and 375 Torque. 4spd Manual...best car to learn how to drag race..err...drive in. A guy I went to high school with drove a 1965 Galaxy with a built 390 and another one (our friend) had a 1969 Swinger with a 440 pushing 600HP...with drag slicks it would slip just by touching the pedal..

1993 Mazda MX-6 LS, 2.5 V6, 5spd I bought it when i was 15 from junkyard and had bad axles and no title. Had no rev limter? and went through 2 engines before sold it.

I got everyone beat for the car most likely not to get you laid in high school.

1976 Chevette. This was a special edition and had the following features:
White paint
Simulated wood paneling, via peel and stick vinyl shelf liner. I shit you not, this was factory.
Lime Green carpet and white vinyl seats.
Smelled like dog.
Floor was held together with sheet metal and rivets.
4 spd manual that popped out of reverse unless you held the shifter.
Used a cable for the clutch, which the car liked to consume.

Bought for $300 had to put in a release bearing. Sold for $250 5 years later.

Learned to drive sideways in this car, long before drifting became a "sport". Well it was in the winter ...

Dude, I learned to drive in a Crown Victoria Country Squire wagon with bench seats and laminated woodgrain sides. :)

Did it smell like dog? :)

Maybe we should start a support group? Wood Paneling Survivors? WPS. Or I Lost My Virginity Despite My Car? ILMVDMC.

I feel your pain.

69 jeep commando
I remember doing sheet metal & rivet floor repair on my pal's vega - we used "for sale" signs collected for free around the neighborhood. :D

my miata :)

1987 Buick Park Avenue. 3.8L V6. Bought it off my parents on my 16th birthday, and it was a damn tank. Pretty comfortable with the plush leather seats, all digital/touchpad dashboard, and had a decent sound system stock. Later found out that I'd occasionally miss having a bench front seat and back seats. :naughty: Didn't do a thing to it, and never had an issue out of it. Met it's fate when a delivery van pulled out in front of me from a gas station and stopped completely.
Was promptly replaced with my first RX7 - 1986 GXL.

'90 Honda Civic hatch with a 4-speed manual.

Awesome car, beat the shit out of it daily. I used to put $10 in gas in it and that was enough to drive around all day for two weeks.

Paid $1900 and only had it for a year. Got $2500 from the insurance company when some old guy failed to yield.

That $2500 got me a rusty '87 rx-7 turbo.

'67 Volvo 122S Sweet ride..LOL
My neighbor had a P1800.. Oh the lust...

1981 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Diesel w/sunroof it was amazing and perfect. Parents bought it brand new before I was born and kept it. Gave it to me 21 years later. Spun brodies awesome and you could hold it on the floor for hours on end. Wouldn't do more than 90 with a little downhill but it got good gas mileage for a big beast.
Looked just like this one.
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1976 Datsun 280zx

91 eclipse gsx, i wasn't really suffering

94 probe GT, man i loved that car. still have it, still thinking about re-building it

turned into this
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4th gear wheelspin FTW!

2005 vw gti 1.8t, had for about 6 months then traded it in for an 06

I drove my dads 1992 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight for a little bit before I bought my Miata at 17. Almost three years later I have gone through over 8 other cars, the Miata is the only one that I still have.

99 miata which i turboed... i was 16 when i got it and im 18 now

1981 Plymouth Champ LS twin stick (8 forward gears and 2 reverse. Think of it as a dual range 4 speed) . Looked real similar to this: http://jalopnik.com/cars/mitsubishi/...bay-232571.php

4-1 headers and an Ansa exhaust back in 1987. 105MPH on the flat. 130+ going downhill (on non-speed rated tires....)

After 3 months in a clapped out Bug, my first real car was a 1971 Mustang Mach 1. It had a 351 Cleveland with a Hurst competition shifter and it would do a 5.8 0-60 and a 13.8 quarter at 104. It wouldn't stop or turn, but man it would go. It was a fantastic high school car that no high school kid should have been allowed to drive. It was akin to handing a loaded machine gun to a toddler.

BTW, if you saw the original "Gone In 60 Seconds," my car was the same as Eleanor. It looked pretty much like this one: http://www.gatewayclassiccars.com/di...3&location=STL

Primer black Chevy Monte Carlo with SS nose and truck. Low output 305, 2004R with shift kit, headers, intake, holley carb, 150 shot of nitrous, etc. Built it when i was 15, drove it when I was 16, blew the engine at 17. 150 shot on a 155 HP 305 is way too much nitrous but it was fun for 3 weeks, lol

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1990 Eclipse.. NON TURBO :(

It's been sitting in the driveway ever since I got the Miata. Stupid POS.

1989 supra, non-turbo. still driving it today as a Daily beater.

97 eclipse GS that my parents had me the key and said I owed them $7k
The girls loved it, I hated it was an auto.
Sold if for $9k
drove around a 94 mazda V6 truck will I hunted down my 95 GSX, girls hated it(for some reason) and so did the muscle cars kids at my school cause I was faster then them, lol.

1991 Buick Century. With the ugly azz burgandy pimptastic interior. I crashed it then got a 944 Turbo that had 185K miles, and was primer grey with a front right red 1/4 panel..

First car, 1966 Pontiac GTO, post coupe, tri-power, mucho rust
Second car, 1967 Firebird, 455, mucho rust
etc

1967 MG Midget $300 in 1972. Way before digital cameras so I don't have any pictures to share.

Back in 1979 I bought a 1974 Oldsmobile Omega for $300. It was a 2 door with a Rocket 350.

It came pre-dented so I didn't have to baby it. My senior year in high school I got into an accident that was the other guy's fault. I got $642.70 from his insurance company!

NICE! :bowdown:

i had a 94 jeep grand cherokee with white-walled tires :noob:

1963 Falcon Ranchero. It was a one owner. And beautiful, Wild hippy girls loved it. Guys always made fun of the powerful 160 6 cyl. It was supossed to have 80 hp. I think it was running on 25hp. I would have to turn it over until it drained the battery, and right when you thought you were screwed, she would fire everytime.
It died on every left turn. Spiratically changing to dying on right turns every once in a while. It used a quart of oil every 30 miles. Or should I say blew it out the tale pipe. I wouldn't drive it on the town strip due to the excessive smoke streams it left behind. I added no smoke every 3 days.
It slowed down on every hill.You couldn't kill it as long as you added oil.

The front suspension was so gone that we added 6 spacers to each front coil spring. When I would hit bumps hard, they would pop out and hit the inside of the fender. I couldn't keep a donut ring on the exaust. It always sounded like a jeep and back fired.

No a/c, and last but not least, if you ever had to hit the brakes emergently, OH DEAR LORD! It would try to spin donuts.
I loved that car. The fastest I ever had it was 73 mph. She was wound out tight. It probably took a full min.

Some guy bought it and put a pinto motor and auto trans in it. He was stupid. He should of put a 302.

71 Buick Skylark. Zero rust. Bought it for $100. Blew the motor and the PO felt bad, so they sold me a 68 Pontiac Tempest 2 dr for $100. Blew it up. Put another motor in it. Blew it up. All this before I turned 16. We could drive 20 miles each way to school when we were 14. I'd like to have both of them back now.

they also made a 260 V8. my dad had one. awesome car. til someone rammed it and totaled it.

1993 mercury topaz auto 4cylinder POS!

I always wanted one with the v8. They said the 260 was a great motor.
I loved the Ivory knobs on the dash, soft bench seats, cue ball shifters, and chrome instrument panels. Few cars have style and chrome like that anymore. I can't believe they are not more popular.

The drivetrain will interchange bolt for bolt with a 64-66 mustang. When Ford built the mustang they used the Falcon drivetrain to save cost. It is easy to beef them up. I just didn't have the cash with that big $5.25 hr from Lowe's. Lol.