What Was Your First Car???

[xm_coupe]

Originally Posted by Bayvu

Brand new black 1977 XC Sundowner panel van 302 V8 4 speed, twin turbos. Became The Black Knight, murals by John Evans of Vancraft.

Was this at any stage a mobile knock shop? My dad and uncle had spoken about it before haha

[RG]

My first car was an '88 VL Commo Wagon, a red one. Had an issue where it wouldn't start if it was on a hill with the front passenger side on the lower angle and I went through 4 autos, 3 diffs and a head along with a huge amount of other "little" things, like the time when the tail section of the exhaust fell clean off when I went over a bump. The time the indicator stalk broke twice in a night was interesting too, first time my highbeams were stuck on (it was night) and the second (an hour later, I was a fair way from home) the damn thing snapped clean off so I had no indicators. Got rid of that after 12 months, it had 350k on it by that time.

Funniest bit is I replaced it with the EL i used to have but I got screwed by the dealer, they wouldn't fix a heap of little things like stone chips. On the way to swap cars the old VL decided it didn't like it's auto and spat it, went and picked up the EL and used it to tow the VL to the yard. You should have seen the dealers face

[mowog]

It was a Mini K 1100 panel van... After I crashed this the mechanicals went into a Mini Cooper I found that had no engine or gearbox. (1978)