Thread: Your First Car

My first car was a Peugeot 404. All my mates drove hotted up Holdens of some description. None of them could keep up an a windy or bumpy road. That was followed by a procession of other 404's and 504's. Magic cars.

Ian

Originally Posted by FenianEel

A Leyland P76 V8 SUPER, Aspen Green, 4speed manual, dual sports system exhaust. Got it for about $500 when I was 14.
I still have it (although it is a running shell with no interior), currently taking up space in the shed on the family property on the Sunny Coast.

Looked like this (not mine though)



I bought this one in 89, and only sold it in 2004!

You have a 4.4L Rover V8 sitting in a shed and you didn't mention it to your mates? Stuff the P76, that's a good heart transplant sitting there...

Might go well in the AULRO IIa hybrid

Steve

Originally Posted by scrambler

You have a 4.4L Rover V8 sitting in a shed and you didn't mention it to your mates? Stuff the P76, that's a good heart transplant sitting there...

Might go well in the AULRO IIa hybrid

Steve

I have more than one, quite a number actually, and a few 2.6l 6 cyls as well

And huge shelves of bits and pieces, motor, pumps, wheels, doors, windows, bonnets, boots, seats, gearboxes, fuel tanks, panels, even a roof or two!!!

I have a rough IIa farm ute I'm looking at buying and thinking of putting a 4.4 in - cause I just don't spend enough on fuel

First car I bought was a 1973 VW 1600 Type III Fastback, it was red so it had to go fast.
Spent nearly every other Friday nite rebuilding something on it - 'cause it use to get a right floggin (how most young fella's treat their cars?!)
Could have the motor out in under 20 mins!!
- Motor and gearbox in about 30 mins...
Got quite good at rebuilding motors that way.
It did go everywhere, even places where 4bys never use to!
It has done Canunda dunes, and I remember passing mates 4by, cause he was too slow!!!

My first car was (please don't shoot me ) a 1983 JB Camira. A complete ****box but was damn cheap to run and I flogged the living crap out of it and never broke down. Used oil like it was going out of fashion (std Camira thing I believe), gutless E/W 1.6L carby engine and it was an auto (told you I hate changing gears, I do have a manual license though).

Bought my first Rangie (76 2 door, also got the 'Trav treatment') and traded the Camira in for $500 less on the Rangie and was lucky I got that

Trav

1972 Datsun 1600 - the best Datto built.

Sold it in 1982 to buy my Range Rover which went in 1998 for the Defender.

I tend to hang onto cars for a while.


Martyn

My first rocket was a VL Commodore 5 Speed, blew gearbox up in about a month, other than that it was great, I fitted Lowered Suspension, Tinted Windows, Exhaust System, Big Stereo etc etc wasted a heaps of money.
It was a dangerous first car, in the wet it was all too easy for things to go pear shaped. Was fairly quick too. Have owned 2 others after that, one a 5l V8 Auto bucket of crap was slower and used twice the fuel.

1978 Series 3 Game model. Payed too much and spent too much on it.

I managed to keep it going for a few years on a crappy wage but it needed more than I could give it. Just like all the other women in my life.

Eventually sold it, bought a 180 B, drove it into the ground and then bought and restored a 1971 2A SWB. So on and so forth........