Thread: Your First Car!

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Martin, please lay off the mullet jokes for those of us who still sport them! We're just fashionably impaired...

I wish I had enough hair to grow a mullet.

Originally Posted by Martin103

I bet you have a pic of you in that car with your mullet!

Sadly not mate.
My wife would even go so far as to say luckily

But this one, from a few years later, was posted on Facebook by a friend (?) of mine, so that belongs to eternity now.

As this is a thread about cars, what you see the rear end of is my 4th or 5th car. A 87 Chevrolet Astro.
So, in short, a crappy hairdo and a crappy car

Originally Posted by Birnando

I just about spit out my beer when I saw this pic! Bjoernar, that belongs on the front page

Anyone good at Photoshop so we can add in his golf pants?

01 Mazda Protege. Just like this one without the spoiler.

1st car: A yellow 1974 Datsun 710-manual steering and brakes, no A/C. I had to start it sometimes with a screwdriver on the solenoid. Had a lot of good times in that car.

2nd car: 1967 Red VW Beetle-What a car! No heat, it might have been capable of 55 going downhill with a tail-wind. But it had that classic Beetle mechanical cricket sound!

Originally Posted by Wullie

Hot 283, three speed MANUAL (because automatics are evil )

Bucket seats, tucked and rolled interior. Complete with Confederate Battle Flag on antenna.

Wullie...do ya still have it!!! I had one just like it...Adobe Beige/Sierra Gold 2 dr Hardtop...even had the vaccum ash tray from the factory! Had a 56 Nomad and a 57 4 door St Wag. LOVE them 57 Chevys !!!!

Originally Posted by nessmuck

Wullie...do ya still have it!!! I had one just like it...Adobe Beige/Sierra Gold 2 dr Hardtop...even had the vaccum ash tray from the factory! Had a 56 Nomad and a 57 4 door St Wag. LOVE them 57 Chevys !!!!

Sad to say, nope. Wish I did. A lot of good times in that old bucket. I outran the cops in my town and every town around mine at one time or another. That dent in the fender hump was from an ol boy's head. I don't remember what we were fighting about, but when I rang his bell on that fender, he got out of the mood to keep fighting.

Sold it right before I left for Nam. Found out after I got back from Nam that the clown that bought it wrecked it and killed himself. Sad end for a glorious old ride.

My very first own was a third- or fourth-hand 1984 Ford Fiesta with a 1.1L engine and a second roof. The previous owner had bought it from the pre-previous owner after the latter one had flipped the car over in an accident. Sadly i have no photographs of the car but the memory remains, and a very fond memory it is. Good times indeed!

I feel a great deal of pity for anyone born after 1970, for they had little opportunity to have a real first car...you know, one with horsepower and character. Chargers. Goats. Plymouth Fury. AMX. T'Birds. Real rolling steel.