A 1972 VW Super Beetle. My Dad still has it, only 250,000 miles on it.
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A 1972 VW Super Beetle. My Dad still has it, only 250,000 miles on it.
How cool. My 9 yr old wants one..Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrowka
They are good cars, especially if you want to learn to work on something.
Mine gave me fits at first but I eventually sorted everything out; old VWs break sometimes but were designed to be repaired, not thrown away.
1974 Renault 4 still using it and still runs like a dream
How many miles on the clock???Quote:
Originally Posted by CraigGardiner
1985 space ship call FORD GRANADA
98000 miles
1983 ZK Fairlane, white, 6cyl, 76,000km 1 owner back in 2003. Paid $1000 registered for a very tidy unit but being an unappreciative kid I didn't look after it as well as I should. Dropped in a 302 in 2004, which was fun while it lasted and kept it up until last year when I ripped out the good gear and sold the remains to the wreckers for $100. I now drive a tidy, 1 previous owner XE Falcon that the Fairlane's parts have found their way into, so in a way the old girl lives on lol...
1972 XA Ford Falcon. 3 on the tree. Converted it to 3 on the floor with a speco kit. Geez I loved that car....
1972 VH Chrysler Valiant. Got her for $350 in the early 80's. She was missing her windscreen wiper motor ( which I didn't notice until I was on the freeway and it poured down raining). Had velvet velour thumb tacked on all internal panels. Girlfriends door couldn't open from the inside. I had to car dozens of water bottles to feed the radiator. I was 17 living away from home and absolutely broke, so could never fix her up, but she went on and on and on. I still have fond memories of that car.
Old VH, 265 hemi not doubt.
No, it was a 245, with a 3 on the tree shift.
Fiat 128. Didn't look too flash but gave the Ford Escorts a run for their money (Escorts were very popular 1st cars in UK).
man that model would be worth a fortune now and good on the gas to boot lol so how many miles to soul did you get ?????Quote:
Originally Posted by the ferret
what bet did you loose to get the hair cut LOL good look thik i had that look for while then i got strait agin lolQuote:
Originally Posted by XLR8
now that i have taken the piss out of a couple its time for me to come clean,,,,,, 67 dodge phoenix 318 heavy duty (so the air cleaner said) with 3 speed auto great for the drive in fit 4 in the boot just had to remember to let them out followed closely by a xw falcon 302 windsor first bike was a ducati 860 gt the lows point in auto ownership was a sigma station wagon so very sad.
The old Sigma, well show us some photos of the Sigma and the mullet mate...hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by hekarewe
admiting to it is this putting the evidence out there,,,,,, no a hope in hell!!!!!!! ROFLMAO nice try bud!!!! the sigma was shit brown the mullet had a demarkation line across the back to dyvide the short from the long LOLOLOLQuote:
Originally Posted by AB
e30 bmw 320i great car but learnt todrive in swb s2 landy
1976 HJ premier sedan lowered,253 3 speed tri-matic,245/50X14 on the front and 265/50X14 on the rear.
Nice where is it now?Quote:
Originally Posted by chester
Tim
Wish i knew mate, sold it to buy first 4x4,Brought it when i was 17 sold it at 19.should have kept it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finly Owner
yep shoud aQuote:
Originally Posted by chester
My first car was a suzuki LJ50 4x4 3cylinder 2 stroke engine.
cost $3750.00 brand new ,saved all my coin when left school working as apprentice mechanic for suzuki dealer in 1975.
had to get my old man to drive it home cos i didnt have a licence yet.
EK Holden Sedan... wasn't a thing on it you couldn't fix with either a 1/2 by 9/16th Spanner, Screwdriver, Garden Hose, Vice Grips or 2 feet of Fencing wire.
Blew a head gasket out shooting... drove it back to Wagga with the cap off the radiator and a garden hose into the cabin. We drove along and kept topping up the water from a supply of Coke Bottles (real ones scabbed on the side of teh road) via the hose and topped up ourselves from the slab in case we ran outa water and had to use.. well.. you can imagine it can't ya
Snapped off the gear lever... (Racing changes in a column shift aren't pretty when your pissed)... Vice Grips
Crappy fuel (I was an apprentice so clean fuel from a bowser was a luxury)... strip clean and reassemble the Carby (about 15 minutes)
Gears? Optional, only ever had all 3 until the Sat Night Drags Racing Change incident (stupid Hillmans) after that it was a lottery but could usually find 2
How cool is that!Quote:
Originally Posted by TROL007
And I hear your driving skills haven't changed with your Troll. hahahahahahaQuote:
Originally Posted by the evil twin
Tim
1964 Mk1 Cortina, paid 90 bucks for it, it was painted Mission Brown house paint with the proverbial 6" brush. I called it Shake Rattle and Roll... coz thats what it did down the road. Had it for 3 months the front left wheel fell off (loose wheel nuts... who woulda thort...) so I traded it on a 10yr old HG Kingswood, that was a very tidy 1 owner car... was! 14 mths later it was a wreck, every 4 wks (and almost to the day) something would happen to it... ahhhh them were the days LOL.
After that post it got me thinking how many cars have I had... so after writting them down and adding it up, if i haven't forgotten any, i've had 23 cars in 30yrs... still got 2 of them :)
Hey, I think there is 1 or even maybe 2 threads you can list your cars.. Is a good read and would love to see your list.Quote:
Originally Posted by AussieRoadHammer
Can some-one post link for me ?
This is one of them; http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...highlight=carsQuote:
Originally Posted by katwoman
And this is the other; http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...ighlight=owned
Tony
My first was a 1922 Chev 4 I was looking at it in a driveway on my way home from school and the owner came out and said if I took it away I could have it, so I grabbed a few mates and we pushed it 3 miles to a mates uncles place, he was away for a while and the mate was looking after the garden. After nearly breaking my arm trying to crank start it (someone had swaped the plug leads, we ripped off the guards, doors and bonnet and painted it up with old house paint and brush, the wheels were multi colour witheach wooden spoke painted a different colour. We used th fire it up and take it for quick spins areound the side streets after school (I was the eldest at 14) The law finally caught up with us when one of the guys waged school for the day and was driving all over the place and got caught, the car was conficated and sent to the tip. My first registered and licenced car was a 1939 Willys overland I bought for 39 pound 10 shillings in 1961 and wrote off about 6 months later I replaced that with a 1950 Peugeot 203 which I did a lot of work on and it would beat most of the Holdens and Ford Zephers that were around then.
Keith.
Sorry no photos.
Sounded very cool speedway
1952 Humber Super Snipe. 6 Cylinder 4 litre side valve. Black of course, with a glass partition between the seats and drop down dickie seats in the back facing backwards.
Battery had one cell stuffed, so used to start it with a crank handle. The thing was built to be quiet and even had a muffler between air cleaner and carbeuretter, so after starting it one day and thinking it wasn't running, I put the handle back in and woke up about 20 feet away.
Took about 300 yds to stop it at 60km/h as it also needed brakes, tyres etc.
Looked a treat with surf-racks on the top, 6 or 7 boards on the racks and 6 or 7 of us inside drinking on the way to Aldinga Beach. Loved that car, but after I hit the parent's 2 week old garage, I had to get rid of it.
You should see what those spring steel bumpers do to tin garages even at parking speed.
you forgot high tops lolQuote:
Originally Posted by katwoman
i always been a 4B man, my first car was a 1997 Holden Frontera, i lifted it, put 31's on it and some other slight mods. had to replace the rear wheel bearings once, it worked out cheaper to replace the whole rear diff assy as the individual bearings were about $700ea. i killed it in 2008 when i tried to drive through lake jindabyne... what was i thinking lol
1st Car, Triumph Herald, a bit like this one
http://www.hapico.com/02_24th/AIR/He...200_saloon.gif
1 st 4WD Toyota Bundera 2.4 petrol a bit like this one
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum.../2012/01/6.jpg
My first car was a 1974 RX4 4 door Mazda 13B Rotary with a big 4 barrel ......... Damn that was Fun!
HJ premier 253 v8 trimatic , highway ratio diff , british racing green colour . nice cruiser of a car . very fond memories .
1989 EA Falcon S Pack
http://nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/pb...e/IMG_3681.jpg
(non-painted front bar was from when I hit a wallaby)
It was kinda reliable, only let me down a couple of times and was stuff that you'd expect to go wrong of a car that age. The engine was worked up a fair bit, it went hard as nuts. I really liked that car, but it was just far too expensive to run, it cost $90 to fill up and would get 400kms out of a tank. The Patrol is cheaper to run than that!