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