Thread: What was your first cars?

Well quiggers, cars = transport and transport is via 4 or 2 wheels.


licence at 17, same date as my birthday.

1. morris minor ,750 or 850 can't remember ,had 2 doors
1a Yamaha CT 175
2. FE holden
3 Holden HJ Monaro, (the original batmobile) 308
4 Toyota T18
5 XB Falcon wagon.

theres five to start, with, unlike some, I keep mine for a few years.



john

I am on my first owned car!!

An 1977 SWB series III. It is 10 years older than me, he will be 30 in november! Great old landie, look forward to many more years of service. I have had it since Dec 2005.

bisho

Originally Posted by p38arover

1960 - 12 years old, I bought a Morris Z trayback ute for 5 pounds (in Calamvale). I picked strawberries for months to raise that - I received 6d per one-gallon tin (5 cents/5 litres).

It cost me another fiver for the battery.

Imagine this as a wooden traybacked ute:



My next car, at 15, was a Renault 4CV.



When I was 16 I bought a 1938 Vauxhall Model J 14hp and drove it unlicenced and unregistered from Brisbane to Sydney (in 1964).


Ron

Yet you dob in others who do the same

P's at 17 in 1970
1st car 1960 VW Beetle (1969)
2nd car 1970 Fiat 124AC Coupe (1973)
3nd car 1969 VW Kombi (converted to camper by Dad and I) (1973)
4th car 1970 Fiat 128 2 door sedan (port, polish and cam) (1975)
5th car 1969 Fiat 124 Stn Wgn (125 1608 Twin Cam, with the standard
4.4 diff it went like poo off a spade) (1979)
6th car 1983 Datsun 720 Dual Cab 4wd (bought new and still don't know
why) (1983)
7th car 1976 Fiat 128 coupe. (1986)
8th car 1981 Land Rover Stage 1 V8 Stn Wgn (hooray) (1987)
9th car 1976 Datsun 180B sedan (don't ask) (1990)
10th car 1991 EA Falcon Stn wgn (I know!!) (1994)
11th car 2000 Ford Laser Hatch (2000)
12th car 2003 Mazda 323 Astina Hatch (2003)
13th car 2006 Land Rover Defender 110 (bought new) (2006)
14th car 1957 Land Rover Series 1 SWB (2006)
15th car 1964 Land Rover Series 2A SWB Ex Mil (2007)
16th car 1957? Land Rover Series 1 LWB (to be picked up) (soon)

Bloody hell, what an effort of memory.

Originally Posted by rovercare

Yet you dob in others who do the same

Yes. I was 16 then - I'm not any more - and neither was the person who had lost his licence.

Ron

My Cars

1967 HR Holden sattion wagon 163 cubic inch motor 3 speed manual column shift
1976 Ford Escort 4 door, 1.6 litre 4 on the floor
1981 Mitsubishi Express Van 1.6 litre 4 speed column shift
1984 Nissan SWB 4wd 3.3 litre TD 5 speed floor shift
1970 Valiant Ute 253 3 speed column shift
1990 Holden Rodeo Space Cab (still owned)
1998 Nissan GU 4wd 2.8 TDI 5 speed floor shift
1993 Range Rover 4wd 3.9 litre 4 speeds automatic

Work Cars

1986 Ford Falcon
1988 Commodore Wagon 5 speed manual
1990 Nissan GQ 4wd 3 litre 5 speed floor shift manual
1994 Holden Berlina
2004 Mitsubishi Verada

1. XY 250 2v
2. EJ wagon
3. HR panelvan (should have kept this one)
4. HR panelvan
5. XW falcon 351

Full liscence in 1989
First cars were

1 Austin 1800 Mk2
2 Valiant (Never had it on the road)
3 Datsun 240K
4 Datsun 1600
5 Datsun 260C coupe

Learnt in a Hilman hunter station wagon. and holden HD X2 station wagon.