Thread: Your First Car!

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

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.

Well I don't know man - most "first cars" aren't new lol!

Originally Posted by earcutter

Well I don't know man - most "first cars" aren't new lol!

I have owned 10 different cars in my time, and not one of them has ever been brand spanking new. Oh but I long for the day to own a 68 or 69 GTO.

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

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.

Have had all the above,the cars today are way and above superior than those of the past,far better suspensions,far better brakes,far better engines,far more H.P.out of smaller engines.You feel a great deal of pity?? when is the time you dealt with Carburators,Distributors,points,crappy plug wires,all has gone away thank god

1979 Plymouth Volare. It was an ex-cop car and had the 360 Interceptor engine. Way too much of a car for a sixteen year old, but I loved every minute of it.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Have had all the above,the cars today are way and above superior than those of the past,far better suspensions,far better brakes,far better engines,far more H.P.out of smaller engines.You feel a great deal of pity?? when is the time you dealt with Carburators,Distributors,points,crappy plug wires,all has gone away thank god

You know where you are right LOL!! SRP... stress, Straight lol. As in a place where really old tech is still romanticized, engaged, and pursued in it's highest form LOL!!

Too funny!!

Yeah today's cars are "better." But many don't have the personality those old cars had - good or bad. Moreover, just like new blades, when they break or begin to ware out - not much one can do.

About the only thing I can do on my new car is change the window wiper fluid. !!

Yeah my razors give me fits - and yeah they are old tech - but oh how I love them so! I bet allot oh guys feel the same way bout those old cars!

Originally Posted by Theseus

1979 Plymouth Volare. It was an ex-cop car and had the 360 Interceptor engine. Way too much of a car for a sixteen year old, but I loved every minute of it.

WOW - you don't have to say any more for me to say you are a lucky man to still be here with us LOL!!

Congrats man!

Originally Posted by earcutter

WOW - you don't have to say any more for me to say you are a lucky man to still be here with us LOL!!

Congrats man!

Let's just say that the speedometer read up to 160mph.

David --
So doing a blinker fluid flush or a muffler bearing alignment is out of your league?

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

David --
So doing a blinker fluid flush or a muffler bearing alignment is out of your league?

Seriously MLA - the only thing I am good at is... destroying cars. < - Done that many a time - and with class too LOL!!

I never was mechanically inclined.

That's OK, David. We all love ya just the same! Why, without you, SRP would never have any interesting poll threads!