Thread: Your First Car

Originally Posted by PSI250

First car i got when i was 17, learnt to drive manual in it.
While all my mates were getting late 80's and 90s commo's etc i went for something i'd always loved!
1971 XY Fairmont.
351 cleveland, 4 spd toploader, etc was a great car to drive.


Then in the 5 years since then theres been -
the xy
XE Fairmont Ghia, straight gas turbo'd, intercooled etc
XD falcon
1978 2 door Rangie
1986 Hiline.

Still have the XE, although not turbo'd anymore, and the hiline.
More pics of the above here if your interested - http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v283/PSI250/

Cool

My first was a '79 351 XC Fairmont GXL british racing green.
The girl scared the ****e out of me I did have her off the clock (220km's) and still pulling hard on numerous occasions, that was until The local Sargent's wife made friends with my ex Mrs's which inturn gave me some unsavoury attention during the separation....

Got rid of her and used the cash to start over some where new.


Damm her power steering was the scariest part of her though to light way to light.

1974 Datsun 180B SSS (Yellow hardtop!!!).

I think my LR electrics were reincarnated from this gem.

Chris

1967 mini 850, kermit green bought for $400 that I had earn't on my Army reserve recruit camp at 17..one day on the way to Boxing training the steering wheel came completely off and I ended up in a lake.. at at 17 a damn hard car to root in, but where there was a will there was a way
second car was a series III 1973 mustard coloured Ute and I loved it...

On my 17th birthday in 1974 I got my licence. I acquired a 1968 Fiat 124 sedan about 6 weeks earlier. Top car! Had such modern things like an ohc engine, rack and pinion steering, 4 on the floor, 4 wheel disc brakes, radial ply tyres, bucket seats and an am radio; dark blue with a contrasting beige vinyl roof. WOW!!! Went real well, too! Had it 6 months: A mate was driving it and went bush, how he missed all those trees was amazing, until he hit one......and that was the end of that...

HA! Another dickhead! Admittedly I am a younger one (born 1977) but my first car was a 1974 Fiat 124CC.

Bought it before I had my license and did my test in it 11 years ago with mad russian examiner in the fur hat and all. None of my mates could drive the thing so I had to drive it illegally to go do the test. DOHC that revved to heaven, ANSA sport system that sounded like it was spitting fire and set off car alarms in underground carparks it was that boomy. Got away with absolute bloody murder in that thing. Great ocean road surf trips at 5.00am were just magic - windows down, heater on full, dash lights turned off slick shifting along listening to Beastie Boys at volume 11. It was the original rally car on the dirt too.

It's weakness was the diff. I had to redo the backlash every 6 months. Had a mate help me one time to pull the half shafts and brakes on one side to speed things up. He told me that he had done everything up. After we lost the passenger side rear wheel and sideswiped a phone pole outside a school of all places I begged to differ. Monocoque chassis cars bend once and do it well.

It was the first time I had my heart broken. One day I'd love another.

Originally Posted by Yabbie

My first was a 351 XC Fairmont GXL british racing green.
The girl scared the ****e out of me I did have her off the clock (220km's) and still pulling hard on numerous occasions, that was until The local Sargent's wife made friends with my ex Mrs's which inturn gave me some unsavoury attention during the separation....

Got rid of her and used the cash to start over some where new.


Damm her power steering was the scariest part of her though to light way to light.

Hey Yabbie, good taste.

I have one similar - 351C XC Fairmont GXL, auto, 9" lsd, disc brakes all round. Mines Gold/Brown (sleeper).
Super comfy, in original factory spec used to cruise at 160km/h + easy (and would do it all day!).

Then motor dropped valve, totalled completed motor!
Small fortune later (young + V8 + not sure what to buy = way to much spent!) - HELLO Horspower, goodbye tyres...
That was good for 250km/h (and still auto) - yep they do get light in the front end!!!

Now its just resting, body rusty, not practical to drive anymore (what fuel economy)

Originally Posted by Yabbie

i used to see this around at the eastern suburbs cruise nights in vic awhile ago, looks and sounds tough!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.....................

!st car a 1949 Austin A70.............3 nmonths and then tried to reshape it with a tree in Collie..............Tree 1 RichardK 0

Thence:
Ford Consul
57 Beetle
65 Cortina GT (new) great car
69 Cortina GT
71 Cortina GT
Capri GT
XA Falcon GT
Austin Kimberley/FJ 35 Landcruiser
Alfa Romeo 1750GTV
A succession of work cars
XB Falcon Station Waggon
XC 5.8 Fairmont GXL
76 Range Rover
Rover SD1 (biggest lemon I've had)
81 Nissan Patrol Station Waggon
Series 3 Waggon
86 Range Rover (still have)
2003 Series 2 Discovery
94 Range Rover (still Have)
2005 D3 (still have)

I think that's all

I have had a number of company cars as well but not counted.

Now I know why I am broke!