Tell us about your first car!

[blackahcdx]

My First car was a 81 Honda Civic Three door hatch with the HondaMatic auto transmission that u had to shift hears in. Not bad little car, bought it for $2000, then ran up the back of a commodore.

Traded it in on a Ford Ka, which i got rid of two year later. Didn't need a car then.

Then had a Diesel Gemini for a few months, then a Daihatsu Charade and now my Astra.

Next car? Will drive the new Commodore and see what thats like, maybe a HSV VXR, or Astra SRi T, or the coming RenaultSport Clio 197

[Perana]

First car I owned (and still own) is a 1979 MkII RS2000 Manual... unfortunatly its still in bits :(

First car that I owned (and still own) that was driveable was a 1971 MkI Escort 1300 Manual.. Once the generator was changed for an alternator and swapped some 13" alloys on it went alright but it's now also in bits...

[damoose]

first car 1970 toyota corona paid 200 smackers for it spent 6000 smackers on it sold it for 400 smackers and I,m still making the same mistakes 25 years later..

[max]

Well bless mah boots boys, there's a few beauties in this thread! Vauxhall Wyvern, XK Falcon, Skoda, Studebaker Lark.... Well my first was an 1957 FE Holden Special with the old grey motor. The night I got T-boned in it with a mate of mine who assisted me with several mods it had a 179 'red' motor, extractors, Lukey muffler, lowerered, 6-inch chrommies with radials and floor shift. The tow truck driver passed me some tissues as he explained to me that the Y-frame was damaged seriously and the car would be a write-off.

[OzJavelin]

Originally Posted by max

Well bless mah boots boys, there's a few beauties in this thread! Vauxhall Wyvern, XK Falcon, Skoda, Studebaker Lark....

What was wrong with my Studebarker Lark? .. 259V8 auto .. "potential Bathurst winner" .. for $300 .. bargain!!!

[max]

Originally Posted by OzJavelin

What was wrong with my Studebarker Lark? .. 259V8 auto .. "potential Bathurst winner" .. for $300 .. bargain!!!

Nothing whatsoever!!! My point was that yours and others I mentioned ****z all over my garden variety ol' FE Holden. One day before I go I'm going to get an exotic car!!! Still, first cars whatever they were, have a special place in the heart for all the adventures we had in them....

[Mr Mooch]

My first car was a 1964 VW Bug in Canary Yellow.
I put go fast stripes and stickers all over it. Could not work out why it was such a slug, until I found out the the engine was a 1958 1100cc that had more oil leaks than you could poke a stick at.
$5 a week for fuel and $10 a week to keep her in oil.
Mind you you could open a stubbie on the door latches and the little slide bolts on the doors did give the passengers a great deal of confidence.
I bought it for $250 and sold it 6 months later for $250. Traded it in on a HT GTS Monaro. Turned out of the yard in the Monaro and drove it less than a kilometer and got done for speeding. : I think the Munro had a little more poke than the poor old dub.

Mr Mooch

[Quicklier]

First car, a red 78 XC Fairmont.
Bought it for $650 in completely boring condition. The interior basically sold the whole car to me. Got the XF motor that was in it running and the C4 worked straight away! The body was straight, but a thief, two trucks and a piece of wood fixed that! I've changed the gearbox (T5) diff (2.77 LSD), full suspension (pedders s.ryder), steering wheel, intake, exhaust, wheels, tint and some decent brake pads. I love the car greatly, and can't wait to see it back on the road in its new-found glory.

Unfortunately, it is sitting in the garage waiting for some money to be spent on it.
At the moment I have to clear some c.card debt before I start. Because once you pop, you can't stop.

There are big plans for the old girl, some "modernisation" will do it wonders. Oh, and a paint and panel repair.

[bprint xr8]

My first car was an 80 XD Falcon GL. Complete go slow spec 3.3 4 speed manual. Had only done 50000km when I brought it and was still stock spec everything.

Extractors, exhaust and a 2 barrell carb of an xe got it going in a reasonable fashion.

Had a good run out though, 5 years and 150000km and never let me down.

Been many cars since then (which reminds me I must update my sig as things have changed!)

[kinksta]

my first ride was a 1990 nissan skyline, the aussie four door one. i put a huge canon on the back and pod filter. was mean sounding. got it up over 180+kms!! beat all my mates commies too. second car, well what i've got now BA!! bit of a power and ride difference!

[aualright]

[QUOTE=Perana XR8]First car I owned (and still own) is a 1979 MkII RS2000 Manual... unfortunatly its still in bits :(

QUOTE]

Loved the RS2000s...there is one near me still in great condition.

My first was a 1970 Capri with 2.0 Escort motor + weber carb. White duco with black vinyl seats - 4 speed. Immaculate until written off after 3 months by another car illegally turning across a T intersection. Fibreglass guards everywhere (as British cars of this vintage had major rust issues)..!!

Bought for $4,400 in 1989 and sold 3 months later as a wreck for $900.

[xdclevo]

Mine was an XD 302 cleveland at 17. I still have it now, but it grew into a 351c.

[irsa76]

1971 Triumph 2000 auto sedan. White with red leathercloth trim. Cost $500 and spent a day with the NSW Police going over it to make sure it was legit as it didn't have a chassis number stamped on it, yet the there was one on the compliance plate. Seems someone forgot to do something. Had a habit of spewing coolant from the water pump, impellers where rusted through, and boiling the fuel in the carbies. Only stopped once when a carby needle got jammed because it some how had been bent. Took it to 100mph and spat the rear main seal. Pulled it off the road to fix it and found that the body was twisted in the rear. Still have the injection I bought for it in the shed.

[OldManGhia]

1972, got my licence in a Morris 1100 cost me $220. First Ford was a Pommie 2 door 1970 Cortina 220?

[Gilesie]

1968 Hillman Hunter Safari,
Given to me by my mum after she bought her 2 year old 76 Xb falcon.
I then proceded to destroy this car so that I could buy my 73 xb falcon

therefor I blame my mum for my addiction

[Turbot]

My first car was given to me by my uncle. I was 16. Car was an LC Torana 173 three on the tree. Wasnt old enough for a license yet but having a trail bike and living on the out skirts of Sydney I knew all the tracks around town without out having to hit the tar and the nearest police station over 20kms away. Well my parents at the time also used to visit my other uncles every second week end so as you could imagine I was out in the LC sideways round every trail and track round town chasing the bikes.
On the weekends the parents were home I was usually changing the clutch plate or break pads, couldnt afford new ones of course but the local wrecker used to let me have 1/2 worn ones for next to nuthin.
So the whole time my parents had no idea the car was road worthly and getting flogged every second weekend (never bent it :-), they just thought I was fixin it up for when I got my licence, until recently I'll explain soon.
So having grown up with a trail bike whcih I bought my self for $150 Suzuki RM 80 and bits fell off every where , my tool kit was race tape and wire and it flogged a mates YZ 80 a lot newer with race head etc LOL, he was peeved.
Anyways of course when I did get my L Plates DAD was hanging on for grim death heading down galston gorge with a supposed learner LOL.
Oh getting back to My parents not knowing anthing Until recently, well their currently in the process of moving house and upon pulling out the entertainment unit, their laid 2 fines stuffed under the cabinet many many years old faded and hardly readable.
Comin home one day with a short trip from dirt to home in the Torana I came head to head at an intersection with the boys in blue and well not sitting much higher than the sterring wheel they wanted me to pull over, ROFL any ways thats another story, I did evade them BUT the buggers caught up with me later hence the fines, which back then were only $30 unlicenced $30 Uninsured $30 Unsomething else.
Spent then next few months paying em off so the parents wouldnt ever find out, and here we are 20 years later and THEY STILL FOUND OUT LAST MONTH !!!!!
Bwahahahahaha

[HOON69]

sadly in a way but not really my first ever car i bought with my own money was:
a LC and LJ torana 4 cylinder manual/s
green(yuk) and white
loved the old MPH dials and they went well for what they were.

gave them up for a yamaha 250 (biggest mistake)and have bought mostly fords ever since :P

[Mark^^]

Mine was a Holden Torana LJ GTR-XU1

[samftr]

I had a mitsy sigma gh wagon bought it for $500 bucks, it had an auto 2 litre in it and was air conditioned (it still worked, haha the ea couldnt boast that) the paint was pretty much in spotless condition and it was quite a clean and straight car. it was terrible on fuel and dad and i found it had a 180 holley on it (stuck inside the stock air filter assembly) and the accelerator pump was stuck on...

40 litres of fuel to go to rollingstone from townsville and back LOL

well i rolled that out at savannah in townsville at 80k/hr - tell that story another time, i drove it home too. no one injured.

the old man is still driving around with parts of that car in his wagon. It was a great little car, damn glad i didnt buy a vn or a poo box hyundai excel.

[Hotwire]

First car was a 1975 GC Galant 4 door. had the 1600 saturn engine with single solex carby, 4sp on the floor. Was a good car, spent many hours fixing little problems. I also know the pain of Auto Choke locking throttle at 100% in peak hour traffic :

was a good car that kept me going from on my L's at 16 to 18th birthday when I bought a 1 owner XD "S" pack with 4.1, 3sp Auto and 105,000km on the clock in 1998. That was my first Ford.

[8pAc]

First car i owned was an 87 sigma gl 5 speed and man that thing kicked some serious ***. It was a 2.6 litre and i lowered it and fitted a nice basic sound system to it. Used to smash my mates vk off the lights. Never had any major dramas with it. in the 4 years i owned it i went through 2 altenators and replaced a bent steering arm and a distributer cap.

Best part about it was it was RWD. So sad i sold it, i should of kept it as a bit of project track car.

[NAK302]

i was 16 when i bought my first car, about 6 months before i got my liscence. it was a 1968 XT Fairmont 221 ci six with column shift 3 speed auto, red with cheviot 14x7 jelly beans. unfortunetly being young and stupid i did some very silly things in that car. my first mechanical problem with it was when i cooked the poor bugger and cracked the head across one of the valve seats. a trip to the tip with my old man revealed an old XY, so we removed the head off it, took it home and reground the valves and bolted it on to my motor. trying to impress some sheilas resulted in breaking both engine and transmission mounts which meant the motor would jump around when accelerating. after a couple of months of this crap the v8 bug hit when a mate had a Fairlane he didn't want. from memory i got the whole car (minus tranny) for 100 bucks. at the time i had no idea what a windsor or cleveland was, but a v8 was what i wanted. funnily when i pulled the six out none of the engine mounts needed unbolting. i ordered a c4 from Darwin for a clevo so no surprises when it turned up it didn't fit. thats when i found out earlier W's had 5 bolt bell housings. once again a trip to the tip and would you believe i found a tranny sitting in the dirt under another old Fairlane. it bolted straight in, filled it with fluid pushed the car back and forwards a few times and away it went. that tranny was still in it 6 months later when i over revved and put a valve through number 8 piston. i then sold it to a bloke who stripped and barred it, put a six back in and raced it on dirt speedway.
25 years later i still wish i had that car to treat it with the respect it deserved.

[Bucket]

My dad took me to an Auction in 2002 To get my First Car...a 96 Hyundai Excel GX 1.5EFI with 80,000K's It had Air, Steer etc...My mates called it "Cutesy" to bag me out so i named the Car Andrea (after the Corrs Lead singer)
A GREAT econo-box...Travelled between Paterson and Newcastle 4 Days a week for $45 a Tank...600K's to a Tank It was tough as nails (engine wise) and never had anything go wrong with it except replacing the Bushes
Sold it last year for a bloody good price too!
I learnt to do hand brakey's in it too...*sniff* *sniff*

[samftr]

Originally Posted by 8pAc

First car i owned was an 87 sigma gl 5 speed and man that thing kicked some serious ***. It was a 2.6 litre and i lowered it and fitted a nice basic sound system to it. Used to smash my mates vk off the lights. Never had any major dramas with it. in the 4 years i owned it i went through 2 altenators and replaced a bent steering arm and a distributer cap.

Best part about it was it was RWD. So sad i sold it, i should of kept it as a bit of project track car.

I just sold a white 87 GN to a mate of mine, owned a couple of vns in it too up till round the seventy mark or so. aye karumba it had some poke, 2nd gear spinnys :S fantastic car for six hundred bucks, goes better than the ef off the line too (better gearing ) busted a diff on the first day i had it and the clutch was roo ted it was an ex telecum car with 140,000 kays on it, good to see its still getting around too.

Also had a ge galant/first pov pack sigma with a saturn motor in it and the four speed, damn that car was unbreakable. went for nearly 23 years before needing a new motor in it. been rolled rear ended etc but it was like an heirloom LOL

[bArNsY]

I had a 1980 XD Falcon GL Bright Yellow, it was a 4 speed manual with only 3.3L 6 in it.

Paid 50 bucks, spent $1500+ to get in RW condition....they have a very large back seat : : lol
the only difference is that I have a newer car!

Memories: Going off roading in Anglesea and getting the car airborn and snapped the bonnet arm off the support, car stoppped and me and a mate had no reception on our phones!, luckily the car started shortly after! and cornering on gravel roads without knowing there was a 15m drop if we stuffed it up on one side (never done that since)

[chief]

First car was a 1983 Mazda 626. The car was older than me. It had rust holes so big I could fit my hand through. Anytime it rained footwells flooded. The boot could be open with a 5c piece of any key. The front window could be opened by putting your hands on the glass then pulling down. Mechanically it wasn't much chop either.

[thunderoo]

Mine was a datto 180b manual 4 door.....bought it for $200.00 with 6 months rego. I owned it for 3 years....i drove it everywhere, drove my mates around, flogged the living daylights out of it.....it never let me down. My biggest problem is that ive been sitting here for 10 minuites and i still dont know how i parted with it LOL ......old age, one day ill remember.

[maxpower182]

Mine was a 1990 model volvo 740. 4 spd auto it went ok. Good slow car for learning