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Hey Goons So after much struggling, panicking, stalling and failing my driving test I just finally passed two weeks back and thus gained my independence to go kangarooing down the road in my first car; a mighty 2000 1.0l 998cc Toyota Yaris  Now I may be slightly biased by my excitement but I am fairly sure my little grey tub of glory is probably the best car ever built by mankind. I'm slightly in love with everything about it. The digital speedo that's sunk into the centre of the dash, the tinny little Blaupunkt head unit that I got fitted, the fact that it has such little torque that any form of hill start requires gunning the gently caress out of it. I spent two hours the other day just cleaning the thing. It's a form of madness that as somebody who has been a pedestrian all of my 27 previous years I can't quite explain. It's an old, slow little box of a car that is costing me a small fortune to insure but I seemingly can't find any fault with it; most probably because I've never owned anything else. I love it. It's my first ever car and I absolutely love it. I work admin in a pretty busy garage and it's always been a pretty good topic of discussion with the mechanics what their first cars were. Everybody seems to get a little misty eyed as they recall their first motor and all the various things that were wrong with it and the additions they made which at the time seemed incredible and now seem hilarious. Then it usually kicks off a conversation about mark 1 Ford Cortinas and everything gets a bit nostalgic and they talk about cars so old I've never even heard of the manufacturer. So I thought why not bring this question to the good folks at AI? So goons, I'd like to know what your first car was, pictures if you can and any little things about it that sucked or you loved and what that cars ultimate fate was. (since most of the mechanics I work with tell me that my 68bhp love will end up wrapped around a tree)
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Automatic notchback 240SX. Took neutral drops all day long, all it ever needed was a water pump for 100k+
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Mar 26, 2016 16:26
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1967 Buick Wildcat. 430ci engine, 360hp/475lb*ft torques. 220 inches in length. In the hands of a race-headed 16 year old, it went exactly as you'd think it would.
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Mar 26, 2016 16:32
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1999 Ford Taurus, or Three Liters of Vulcan FuryTM. Because no edge or surface should ever be flat or a straight line. Also ovals. All of the ovals. Mine was on its second transmission, at the very least, with less than 150K miles.
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Mar 26, 2016 16:32
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1981 oldmosbile outlaws supreme. 307 boat anchor. That was a gas guzzler. Blew the radiator on the drive home. Then had some bubba work by me and my dad done to some trans cooler lines. I drove that car everyday rain or shine. I delivered Jimmy John's in that thing. There's nothing like the freedoms of a first car. That car saved my life multiple times due to just being a tank. And in the end I ran the carb empty one too many times and rebuilding it was beyond my knowledge level at the time. RIP smoke tank.
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Mar 26, 2016 17:33
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I'm probably in the running for shittiest first car ever. 1989 baby poo poo tan Ford Escort 2 door. 4sp stick. Paid 500 cash in 1996 for it and had to have a guy rebuild the head and replace the headgasket for 300 bucks. Parents never helped with anything and I had to pay my own insurance which back then was 130 bucks a month or so. It was freedom though. It never needed much, was cheap to run and maintain. Replaced the clutch and front brakes on it. I only owned it about 2 years but it got passed around family and friends for at least 8 years after I owned it. It was poo poo, but it got you around. I upgraded to a 1992 Ford Escort for 2200 bucks around 1999. The drat thing was scary at anything over 65 miles an hour, I remember getting it up to about 75 once and it felt like the car was going to fall apart.
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Mar 26, 2016 17:40
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First car I drove with any regularity was a '93 toyota corolla. Base model with 250k miles on it when I got given it to use. In my first week of actually using it outside of running it once every 2-3 weeks to keep the battery from dying, it threw a rod which knocked a hole in the block and set the engine bay on fire after it became coated in oil. My mother still claims it was my own fault despite having driven it myself for less than 500 miles total. After that I had a white 91 acura legend ls that used to be my brother's that had 200k+ miles on it. It got ragged like on a mother fucker, taken off road, drag raced against anyone who would go and generally driven like a shithead teen was behind the wheel. Finally got rid of it because the starter died and I didn't really drive it enough to keep it and fix it after I got my avalanche. God I miss that car and suspect its the cause of my love for 4 door family cars. This is forever what I'll consider to be my first car. I still have the avalanche and have taken it from 25k miles to 140k. Its the first vehicle I've had that has actually been in my name the entire time I've had it in my possession.
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Mar 26, 2016 19:06
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a lovely $100 dollar vw fox coupe that screwed a full size truck in the rear end. an accessory drive belt and some fuckawful 7" headlights later it was good to go.
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Mar 26, 2016 19:47
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1987 Fiat Panda 4x4. Still got it (in storage for future restoration).El Seano posted:I love it. It's my first ever car and I absolutely love it.
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Mar 26, 2016 20:59
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See I'm kinda in the same spot as OP except I passed my test 15 years ago. Every job I've had since then aside from my first came with a van to use for whatever. As such I went a really long time without a car... I bought my first one about a month ago and it's a 1988 Toyota Supra because everyone I hang out with car wise loves old J-tin.
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Mar 26, 2016 21:37
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cursedshitbox posted:a lovely $100 dollar vw fox coupe that screwed a full size truck in the rear end. post/user av combo my first car was a 1986 Toyota Celica GT with a stick and the weird-rear end 2S-E engine, an 8 valve with primitive fuel injection that was only ever sold in the ST/GT Celicas in North America in 1986. Super weird little engine that made like 90hp and 115ft-lbs of torque, but it was such a light car it was plenty fast for me. That car only lasted 6 months before a combination of ancient, dry-rotted tires and slick switchbacks took it from me. I replaced it a month later with a 1986 Toyota Celica GT-S.
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Mar 26, 2016 21:51
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skipdogg posted:I'm probably in the running for shittiest first car ever. I can beat that. Primer gray Chevy Celebrity. 4 cylinder auto, natch.
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Mar 26, 2016 22:17
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1988 Corolla 1.3 DX sedan in baby blue metallic, 1295cc, 75hp and 100Nm of carbed SOHC 12V fury, and probably the most grandpa first car ever. It brought new meaning to the phrase "stripper model", as it didn't bother with such decadent features as a rev counter, power steering or even a clock. It was lovely.
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Mar 26, 2016 22:33
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1987 Camaro RS 2.8 liter "MULTI-PORT FUEL INJECTION!(r)" I bought it with 75,000 miles on it in '92 for around $3,500 from a Ford Dealership. Drove it until I had around 250k-275k miles on it. The ladies that bought it ended up being friends of somebody I met in 2006. They drove it until it had 350k miles on it and it ended up getting t-boned in an intersection where everybody was able to walk away. It was also the car they drove off in for their civil union honeymoon and I was able to be there for their actual marriage when they could legally get married. They also miss the car. It's funny how the universe works sometimes.
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Mar 26, 2016 23:19
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Wow, great timing for this thread! My mom just found a picture of my 1989 S-10. It was my dad's old work truck that he gave me, and I did all the paint and bodywork myself at the age of 16, in my high school vocational auto body class. It had the 4.3 V6, short bed, short cab 2WD, with 4.10's in the rear. The wheels are Keystone Klassics, 15x7 up front and 15x10 in the rear, Cooper Cobras on all 4 corners. Exhaust was a Cherry Bomb, haha. (e- in this pic it had the old tires still on the rears from when I bought those two) Sorry about the poo poo quality, I lost all my pictures, and she had this one from when she needed to take one picture before developing. The red you see is actually lipstick pink. I miss the old girl, she hauled so much rear end. In the late 90's this thing used to hang with a Camaro or Mustang until they started running away in the top end. Stoplight drags it was like a sawn off shotgun. 
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VikingSkull posted:Wow, great timing for this thread! My mom just found a picture of my 1989 S-10. It was my dad's old work truck that he gave me, and I did all the paint and bodywork myself at the age of 16, in my high school vocational auto body class. It had the 4.3 V6, short bed, short cab 2WD, with 4.10's in the rear. The wheels are Keystone Klassics, 15x7 up front and 15x10 in the rear, Cooper Cobras on all 4 corners. Exhaust was a Cherry Bomb, haha. (e- in this pic it had the old tires still on the rears from when I bought those two) That's cool as gently caress.
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Mar 27, 2016 00:00
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Nice try at social engineering a common security question, chump.
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Although I briefly had a hand-me-down from my parents I (regrettably quickly) wrote it off so I'm not counting it as mine This was the first car I actually chose and paid for  1990 Honda Integra XSi sedan - Japanese market model with a B16a and ludicrously short gearing. I lowered it (or course) and put on some k-rad 90s alloy wheels and a big stereo but aside from that I stayed pretty stock in the time I had it. I did end up taking it to a bunch of places where I shouldn't have (the picture was taken at the end of a very rough 20km dirt track) but it never once complained, and only real issues I had were the fuel pump relay going bad and a bunch of leaks into the cabin. Still miss the little thing despite it being gone for the best part of a decade (and getting taken off the road entirely shortly after I sold it)
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Mar 27, 2016 03:59
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I wish my journey into AI was off to a better start.
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ultimateforce posted:I wish my journey into AI was off to a better start. at least people who dont know about cars would like it just cause it's a ragtop here was my entry (not mine but representative), a ford taurus in rental car white (it was in fact an ex-rental)  by the time we passed it on the interior was covered in cigarette burns and sharpies from idiot people i ferried around like a dumbass. needed a new compressor while i had it, in the 3 years following the next owner had to replace it 2 or 3 more times. it was as 90s american car as it gets but honestly the front bench seat was awesome and i kinda miss having that kind of space. E: mine had the ~~DOHC~~ duratec V6 and shockingly it had the same power/weight ratio as my MSP. you'd never know it though, the ax4n was about as peppy as eeyore on quaaludes. and good god the suspension float, the sway bars on those do nothing. Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Mar 27, 2016 |
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A 1983 Mazda RX-7, got it in 1996 with 103k miles. Drove it until 300k miles on basic maintinance, a carb rebuild and 2 clutches. Body rusted out around the drivetrain and last i heard the 12a was still running. Best car ever.
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Mar 27, 2016 04:14
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Enourmo posted:at least people who dont know about cars would like it just cause it's a ragtop I've owned at least 5 convertibles in my life and they all leaked. (I am to the point that I don't even remember all the cars I've owned.)
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i'm the opposite, i've had the taurus, the MSP and the blazer compared to the other two the taurus was basically [CAR].
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Mar 27, 2016 05:23
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1989 240SX I miss that car. gently caress the recession.
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Wrar posted:1989 240SX A fine automobile.
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88h88 posted:That's cool as gently caress. thanks, it was such a little pocket knife of a truck, it even turned pretty decent
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Mar 27, 2016 06:27
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1980 Ford F-150. It was a massive pile of poo poo. Chewed through starters, alternators, and batteries like crazy, the transmission took up to 5 minutes to actually go into gear on a cold start, you'd have to take your foot off the gas for it to upshift into 2nd, and it took on average a quart of oil a day to keep the oil on the dipstick. 
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"Nostalgia" is not quite what I feel about the 1987 Ford Tempo GL Coupe I got from my sister-in-law in1993. After surviving 7 WV winters worth of salt and 2 deer strikes to the fenders in its first life, it made the 1400mile journey to the Gulf Coast and served me for 3 more mediocre years before a busted engine mount caused both manifolds to crack. (Turned out the rough "kickdown" it had was actually the engine slamming into the hood). Replaced them and somehow sold it to a grandpa and his visibly disappointed grandson. God is gracious and no pictures of the actual car survive. But it was good on mpg due to the anemic TBI and taught me much about wrenching, so...I almost miss it sometimes?
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1995 Sunfire coupe with the OHV 2.2 and 5-speed. It was pretty bad, but didn't cost much to run even when things broke. No AC, no power anything. It would start to misfire and chug up hills to the point where momentum and hope kept it going. It developed an electrical fault (probably grounding) and all the lights started to pulsate while driving. No big deal because cycling the headlights would stop it, until it didn't. I ended up giving it away. About a year later, the owner returned showing me all the work he'd done to keep it going. That was kinda neat. It was a pile of crap, but it served me well enough for the few years I owned it. Oddly enough, I stuck with Pontiac because I liked the style and red instruments and have yet to own a car without a cam in block.
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1974 Olds Cutlass "S" (not Supreme) (mine was white with a black vinyl top and regular wheels) It got 10-12mpg on a good day. I drove it for about four years.
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Mar 28, 2016 01:35
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A terrible white AU ford falcon ute with clapped out suspension and a poorly installed aftermarket exhaust.
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Mar 28, 2016 11:06
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1978 Toyota 1.2 litre Corolla. What a loving awful car. Died being T-Boned by corrective services dog handlers.
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Mitsubishi Galant VR4, Rally Spec. Not a single day went past that I didn't hit rev-limiter, owned it from 55,000kms to 120,000kms, ran 12 second quarter miles... Died when I lent it to a mate.. he blew up the gearbox and turbo in 1 weekend... Punk.
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'81 Buick Regal was my first ride - while not the fastest, it did have a nice back seat [wink]. Honestly wouldn't mind something like that now as I'm just puttering back and forth to work.
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1972 Chevy Nova sedan. 307, auto, dark green. That 307 was a pig, but it'd stretch out to every inch on that wide speedo. Brakes sucked the dong and the suspension did too. Never really did anything to it despite all the plans. The one that got away.
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Silver 1998 BMW 328is. I miss that car quite a bit. Some day I'll buy another one or an e30 and turn it into a project car.
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First car I learned to drive on was a '88 dodge caravan. The first car I ever bought with my own money that was mine was a '89 automatic CRX DX.
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1984 Cutlass Supreme Brougham. Pretty cool first car besides all the added police attention and grandma smell stuck in the upholstery (at least it was my grandma). Got stolen and came back a little while later with new wheels and a lovely little chain steering wheel.  Mine had cream colored vinyl on the back there.
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1973 Mercury Cougar Convertible. 351, FMX. An early 70's pig of a pony car, but with large port heads, an iron bbl intake, headers and a junkyard holley, it was significantly faster than the new IROC camaros and mustangs around in the mid/late 80's. King of the turds!
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quick and dirty car history. My first car was great and until this year, also my newest car. (Thumbnail gives you the TLDR experience. You're welcome) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xEqGR35y6M A camry of that gen was not just an enlarged and enleathered corolla, it was a japanese attempt at the "Lincoln town car" driving experience. It rolls and pitches like a boat, but it could shrug off any pothole , rock or even small curb like a champ. and was a great winter car too. I beat the poo poo out of it. MattD1zzl3 fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Mar 28, 2016 |
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