Thread: Your First Car

1977 Series 3 LWB... was dads it was garaged with a lazy donk... repaired and given as a 19th birthday present.

Never really needed my own car in perth public transport and a Mountain bike or doing DD in other peoples cars did me pretty well

but I was hooked from about 8

learnt to drive our 2A when I was 9, used both feet on the clutch & the hand throttle
first road car was a Datsun 1600.
first 4wd was a 1L sierra - poor thing

Dan

1972 ford escort p/van with a 1100 engine that lasted a week then i put a big block 1300 in it had some great times in that car (know what i mean)

1974 Series III 109 hard top (where it all began). Basically stock.

My father and his mate half owned it each and we used to go camping in it growing up. They re-built it when the chassis rotted out I then bought his mate's half share when I went to uni.

During wet weather I pulled quite a few people out of dodgy University of Qld carparks but since I don't drink I was unable to really capitalise on the rewards for this service. I also had my first prang in it when some bozo did a U-turn in front of me travelling at 60km/hr. When the ambulance arrived they didn't realise that the Landrover was one of the vehicles involved. The other guy's car (a Holden Gemini) was bent into a "V" shape and the Landrover only had a broken grille and busted headlight. When my dad arrived to collect me (the Landrover was not drivable since the unseen damage was a bent chassis rail) several onlookers commented that they should get one for their kids to drive to uni in.

1965 toyota corona , rolled it 2 months after i got it.

repaired and back on the road , clocked it at 105mph (170 kph) coming back from old surfers paradise drags ..sh*ts were trumps , never did that again.

took it on the sand at rainbow beach before people even knew the place existed, on way back conked out crossing a washout and settled down to the subframe, took 2 professional fishermen daisy chained army blitz and old land rover to skull drag it out ...tore off the exhaust system so we drove from Rainbow Bch to Brissie with a straight out of exhaust manifold...what a hoot when youre only 20 yo.

we tore the seats out, stripped up carpet and hosed her out....no worries.

in 1969 i drove it to Darwin and left it in a guys yard for 12 months while i worked on Arhnemland.
when i came back, 4 flat tyres, seized brakes and clutch, and covered in black mould. after shelling out a small fortune in repairs , drove back to Brissie and sold it 2 yrs later.........not a skerrick of rust....they built em good in those days....sigh!

1st car: Series I Land Rover (1957) died of cancer in the chassis
2nd car: Series II Land Rover (1961) in storage
3rd car: Holden Barina (1989) SHE wanted one... so it doesn't count - sold it as soon as I could
4th car: Freelander (1998) looked after by the in-laws
Now I drive a company VW Golf ... no comment please

hmm, first car,,

part owners of,

3 standard 10's
3 A40's including a Ferina, one with no doors and dual rear wheels!!
1 "58 Vauxhall,
1 Ek wagon (stuck in 1st)

first registered
'68 Cortina
GC galant
Chrysler L300 (NEW!)
Datsun 1600 (First tow car)
yes I towed the 1600 race car with another 1600,,
all you Diesel owners will cring when I tell you the TOW car had 48 mll webbers!!! (good for spares though)
HQ ute, (6)
'83 SWB Patrol (6)
SBR Isuzu (6)
'72 Fairlane (V8)
CL Chrysler Regal Wagon(6)
Bedford LWB with a Mustang V8!
'93 Rosignol BUB91 (V8)
'01 BUB002 (V8)

add 3 or 4 dirt bikes

and 3 or 4 road bikes (Americas Cup anyone?)

and a 1600 off road race car from '86 to '00
yes the same one! dont laugh cos I didnt hit anything---


and you guys wonder why I own a V8

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/