Thread: What was your first cars?

Got my licence in 1987, age 16 in Canada
First car bought was a 1974 Plymouth Sattelite Sebring Plus with a 400 high performance engine ( needed work then, never regoed - still on dads farm - looking at getting it restored)
1st car that I regoed was a 1968 Dodge dart, 4 dr, 318. Two tone - white and rust, bought at an auction for $127.50 including GST. Had to perform some surgery on the front A-arms to get it driveable. Again still on the farm. I miss that car. Drove it 1/2 way around Canada, only problem I had with it was with starter motors, a leaking water pump and a problem with the choke. Good thing about this car was most of my friends were too embarrased to be seen in it so we always took their cars - one way to save on petrol.

In 1979 we were led 2 believe there would be a world shortage of oil
Honda scamp,3 cylinders ,air cooled, 700cc`s of ball tearing muscle
Ever wondered why some ppl r cynical???
Cheers Dean.

License 1988 age 17

Learned on a Datsun 1200 owned by my parents - see below!

1) Holden Gemini 1977 (1989). Dad bought it while I was at Uni. "Does it matter what colour it is?" he asked me. "Just so long as it isn't that foul greenish cream." So guess what it was? Sold it to my sister when I needed cash - was written off in a freeway pileup.
2) Datsun 1200 1971 (1991). Bought from my parents. Had a 1200cc Sunny Jap import motor - went very well. Broke two engine mounts (dodgy setup from the replacement) while I had it, ended up a mix of brown (original) and blue from my home panelbeating, including with the back of on axe. Sold to my brother, who sold it for it's body to a mechanic.
3) Toyota Corona 1985 (1994). Got married (mistake 1), bought Corona (mistake 2).
4) Suzuki Sierra 1992 (1995). This was my ex-wife's step-grandparent's dog's car. He had a car, she had a car, and the dog had a car. The dog was finally allowed in his car, so we bought the spare one. Went lots of places, never gave trouble, got sold when our daughter was on the way.
5) Subaru DL wagon 1991 (1998). As above, but rusted around the windscreen due to a dodgy sealant.

And slotting in between the cars - 4.1 Honda CB250 1971, 4.2 Kawasaki GPX250 1990

Started driving in the paddock (from about twelve) on a series of my father's former cars - Ford T, 1923 Reo, 1931 Swift, got my licence on an Austin 16 in early 1959.
Cars I have owned:-
1. 1960-62 - VW pickup
2. 1962-63 - Series 1 swb hardtop
3. 1963-66 - Series 2 " "
4. 1966-69 - Series 2a lwb traytop (carless while in PNG)
5. 1971 - Moke
6. 1971-79 - Citroen ID19 wagon
7. 1979- - Citroen DSpecial
8. 1989-92 - Ford Laser
9. 1990- Series 2a ex-army FFR, now ute.
10. 1992- 110 County

This does not include various company cars I have had through the years, nor Landrovers I have acquired for parts. Not very many for nearly fifty years of having a licence.

John

Hillman Imp
64 Morris Mini Delux

These were the first and second cars I owned Imp cost nothing, Mini was about $100 from memory

Remembering I grew up on a farm and started with paddock bombs.

10yo to drive to the front gate about 1.5km for school.

HD Holden 3 on the tree 161-every panel had rust and dents and no floor
HD Holden powerglide 186-no floor
HR Holden 3 on the floor Impala quick shifter and bucket seats 192 stroker-should have kept it as there was not much wrong with it.
VW Type 3 square back 1600 manual-nearly caught fire several times, fuel leaks and electrical faults dont mix.
VW beatles 2 off 1 1960 and 1 1965 both more trouble than what they were worth.
XP Falcon 1965 200 super pursuit 3 spd auto Ex cop-started restoring it, put on the back burner and then all windows broken by a kid that was visiting the farm, it is now living at garden world in springvale rd Keysborough as a garden ornament.
XP Falcon 1965 170 pursuit 3 on the tree-bought as fire damaged for $50 with 3 months reg, drove it from Dandenong to Merrijig on L's and then stripped the parts I wanted for the other one and cut the roof and used it for shooting roo's.
Landrover 2a shorty ute 186 red 6 fairy OD-inherited from my Dad, I put a lot of work into it and did a fair bit of driving in it on L's but soon after getting my P's a V8 cortina came along at the right price and I couldnt resist.
Honda Life 2cyl 360cc 4 door 1972, great car, used it mainly for driving to work and back as we lived 20km out of town and it cost me $10 per week to get to work, $4.50 to Melbourne when I was earning $112 per week-Sister gave it to me when she went to Japan and when she came back borrowed it and rolled it.
TD Cortina sedan, 302V8 engineered with single rail 4spd, good for 212kmh- drove into the ground and sold.
TC Cortina, 200 6cyl 3 on the floor Wagon-Drove all around the eastern states fruit picking and all the way to nth QL, Ended up being T boned because a dodgy mechanic that I took it to left a nut off the lower wishbone when replaced because of a broken lower shock mount. I got him to do it because I didnt have time and that nearly cost me and 2 mates our lives.
TD Cortina 250 X Flow wagon-Had for about 2 weeks, broken chassis RHR and single rail locked up and wasnt worth fixing.
120Y wagon A14-Used for courier driving, had several canaries on it until they took my plates and I had to get another car.
120Y coupe-Bought to race, ended up rego'd, cage, race seats the works, no interior other than seats and dash, balanced A14 pulsar motor twin dellorto's extractors, good for mid to high 14's at calder and 1:24 on the short track.
Had to remove the cage because of a change in road rules as it was bolt together alloy and then cracks started appearing in the floor so was parked for a while.
1200 coupe, bought to transfer drivetrain from 120Y but ended up swapping for Dato 1000 coupe which was mint.
RT72 coronas x 2 neither of which got on the road, sold them and the 1000 for an 84 Ford courier ute.
Ford courier ute-bought to move into our first house and to do renovations and work transport-had holes in fuel tank and engine was smokey and had lots of cancer, retired on the farm as fencing ute and still there.
Subi Brumby, inherited as a needs more work than it's worth car and I fixed it up as cheap transport as it was on gas-ran out of reg and Ex wife forgot to pay and had no chance of getting a roady so retired to the farm where it became spares for Mums.
VL Comode-POS is all I can say
MQ Pootrol-POS never have another
Mitsub Trito, 2.6 5spd on duel fuel duel cab-great car, no power but like a Landy, didnt need much in lowrange, needed 20 acre paddock to turn around but I loved it, comfy for a truck, AM only radio-Ex ended up with it and as we were buying it off my folks she gave it back and they sold it on to my sister before I got the chance to.
Sub Leoni-Good car but too small for the family but it was cheap after the breakup as I had no money.
80 series, 4l petrol 6 auto 2" lift on 33" AT's loved it but exy to run on petrol, had it for about 6 to 8 weeks before Mrs Mcrover t boned a 1 tonner on Hallam road when he pulled out of a side street.
The Disco, 97 300tdi auto and lots of add ons, been everywhere in it, love it

1st - 1970 GTR Torana (got stuck on a tree)
2nd - 1977 SLR5000 Torana (rolled)
3rd - 1977 SLR Torana (managed to sell this one)
4th - 1989 VL Commodore wagon (stolen, got it back - never the same so I sold it)
5th - 1993 200TDi 110 Defender (dont let me start on this one)
Any pictures I have found are on my gallery site

1964 Mk 1 Cortina GT (1988) bought for $50 and a new battery off a deceased estate....bought a 440 for panels and my old man and I re-build it

1959 VW Beetle...(1990)...$150..restored it..1835 cc twin 44 IDE's...Kombi Rhino box..quick little beastie...still have original motor in shed

1976 VW Kombi Sunliner camper(1993)....3 way fridge, double bed...good fun..except the fire...

1981 S3 GS (1997)...hit a powerpole..snapped chassis....shame

1993 Saab 900 Aero...(2000).nice quick turbo luxury..last of the real saab turbo's ...heated seats, sunroof...bitch ran a red light and wrote it off on me on my way home from work.

1991 Nissan Pulsar (2002) had it 2 months and some drunk did a hit and run on it when it was parked out on the road.

had a work car since 2003 ... but have still bought...

1967 S2A Bloodbox (2205)...restored it...

1995 Daewoo Espero (2005)...missus uses to get to work...

1985 Isuzu County 110 (2006)...gets up here this week...

cheers
Paul