Thread: Your First Car!

Great thread!



A TC Cortina, 2.5L engine (six cylinder) with a Toploader four speed gearbox. Extractors (headers). Rust. Won a drag race with a Chevy Impala once. You could zoom along at 70k's and drop it back into second and drop the clutch and do excellent diff locks. I broke the rocker shaft doing burnouts up in the hills. I had some great times in this car listening to Led Zep on the tape deck. Once when doing a burn out the whole right hand side of the exhaust, including the muffler, fell off. I casually got out, picked it up and drove off. It was a while before I fixed the exhaust, mainly because I liked how it sounded with only one muffler.

By the time I had finished with this car I had smashed up all four corners, and paid the insurance fees to have it fixed, it was full of 'bog' when I sold it; even the chassis was rusted. They are quite rare now.

I don't have a picture of the second car; that was a Chrysler Valiant Charger. I took that up the freeway the week after I got it 'to see how fast it would go' and shredded the back tire; I didn't have a spare. After I got it towed home it sat on bricks in the street for a few months and then I sold it and got this next one.



The Holden Statesman was a V8, 308 I think, automatic. A bit slow on the uptake but once you got it going it'd move along very nicely. Once I accidentally went straight through a round a bout when someone was chasing me (we used to like hassling people, getting them to chase us in their cars). As you can see by its wedding photo, it had a hard life. It was all downhill from there, really

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Great thread!


Once I accidentally went straight through a round a bout when someone was chasing me (we used to like hassling people, getting them to chase us in their cars).

Mine was a 69 Pontiac Bonneville. Rusted out POS but fast. If I went on a date i would take my wet towel from the shower with me to wipe the seats down once I hit the tared road. You could fill the car up with dust going down the gravel roads but that is another story!

One source of fun was to cruise up a lovers lane with lights off and about 20ft away turn on the high beams. Laugh at the commotion in the car and follow them for a bit until we got bored. One time this big son of a gun jumped out and we figured it was best to leave. Took me a good 15 - 20 miles to loose him! I never was worried that he would catch me except I might run out of gas.

Originally Posted by 32t

Mine was a 69 Pontiac Bonneville. Rusted out POS but fast. If I went on a date i would take my wet towel from the shower with me to wipe the seats down once I hit the tared road. You could fill the car up with dust going down the gravel roads but that is another story!

One source of fun was to cruise up a lovers lane with lights off and about 20ft away turn on the high beams. Laugh at the commotion in the car and follow them for a bit until we got bored. One time this big son of a gun jumped out and we figured it was best to leave. Took me a good 15 - 20 miles to loose him! I never was worried that he would catch me except I might run out of gas.

Ha! we used to hassle the skinheads until they chased us, used to fill the car up with bricks in case they caught us. After that we'd drive up into the hills, drink apple cider, smoke (but not tobacco) and throw molotov cocktails on the road. I'm sounding like a was a real hoon! I guess I was!

mine was a 96 mercury sable. still drive it. never had one issue with it. great car to me! ill try and post a pic later. cant find one right now

Wow, this brings back memories.

My first car was a Daihatsu Compagno Spider. My family called it an "Itsy Bitsy Fally To Bitsy Kwickly"

1.6 litre O/H cam sporty first car. Fun and reliable first car. Followed by a Ford Falcon GT, then a Porsche 911 Targa Sportomatic.

Originally Posted by Mike12345

The car I drove in high school, a 1962 Rambler Classic:



The car I drove in college, a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle:

The Rambler is similar to what I learned to drive on. My dad was a big American Motors fan. After HS I got a Fiat 850 Spider, After that VW Transporters, and Beetles through the 70's

My first car was a 87 Chevy Cavalier. I got it when i was 16 and newly licenced. I drove that car into the ground. The body was so rotten that as soon as i hit 60km/h the doors would start to make a flapping noise, Sound alot like a hellecopter.
The refused to die at the end. I stopped putting oil in it and had bets with friends when the engine would sieze but it never did.
Parked it for a year when my mother yelled at me to get it the heck out of her driveway. It Started up first try with no oil. Drove it to the wreckers.

Loved the car.

Bought my first car for $300 when I was 20 in 1968. A 1959 VW beetle. There was no gas gauge, when it started sputtering because you were out of gas you reached down under the dash and turned a lever to kick in the auxiliary gas tank. Totaled it on the way home from a topping out party after finishing an ironwork construction job.

Didn't anybody have a Hudson, a Nash, or a DeSoto?!?!

my first was a 85 Chevy Fullsize Blazer 3 speed with the low creeper gear ...