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Righto lads and ladettes,
Its time for the skeleton from the closet
What was your first car ???
Dign deep for this one,
Mini panelvan big block 850cc (about 15-16 years young)
Had week or two (unloaded before the lads found out)
Traded it for a MK1 Cortina
First regoed car
LJ Torana
186/5 speed celica box
1962 Morris 850
850cc 4 spd manual devoping 34 bhp @ 8500 rpm
Top speed 75 mph and Fuel consumption was 50 miles per gallon
Ruby Red Looked fast even at 10 mph
I drove this little beast for 60,000 miles . It rather spectacularly expired at 75 mph dropping a valve through the Piston and then breaking the Crankshaft.
Towed it to a Garage in Kyneton and traded it in for a Ford Cortina.
mmm....Mine was the fastest machine around...lol
1979 VB Commodore with the original red 202. Slow but super reliable!
It was poo brown too...lol...I looked like the biggest bogan driving this around but it never let me down!
A 1954 VW, had a great heater and that's about it, put some nail holes in the muffler to make it sound coolhttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/
Top speed was 90mph down cemetery hill in Cowra, NSW, very scary never did it again.
1977, brand spanking new Toyota Corrolla CS.
Mine was a 1983 Austin Metro (UK car) 1300cc 65bhp auto. It was only 9 years old, but as with most Austin cars of the era in the UK (salt!) it was rusted though in many places. Did many bodges on it (I was only 17), in the end the engine was only running on 3 cylinders (out of 4). Still, I sold it for about $600.
As I've got older and my income has increased, I'd like to think I've moved forward, but something has gone wrong because my cars have got older too, culminating in an 19 year old Patrol today. hmmm, how did that happen LOL!!
Oh yeah, I was single back then with no kids!!
The old HJ Kingswood Sedan. Blue with beige vinyl roof. Had custom tailshaft vibration from 60km/h and speakers that could be put on the roof for the tunes while standing on the bonnet to watch the street drags behind Powers Brewery, Yatala. Woohoo they were the days.
1972 TX Gemini. BIG 161 Isuzu motor. Lasted 2 weeks before I wrote it off and moved up to LH Turdrunner
My first car was a 1974 LH Torana SL/R (not a 5000) with a 253 & 4spd.
Man that thing was the ducks guts.
The 253 with a 4 speed was just great, I had a HQ GTS Monaro with the same combination, wow that thing flew.Quote:
Originally Posted by patch697
I have a confession to make and feel free to give me curry!!!
I also put on plastic fake chrome hub caps on the old poo brown commo....lol...I thought I was top dog for about a week and then realised I could'nt be any more of a teenage tool!!!
OOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKK.....................Next ..................lololololololololQuote:
Originally Posted by AB
We should start a confession thread...lolQuote:
Originally Posted by patch697
You can if you like but I have nothing to contribute old mate..........lolololol
XW fairmont wagon, never got it regsitered does it still count?
Oh father I have sinned............................................ ........
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Originally Posted by Finly Owner
Its ok my son but as penance for your sin you must say 50 "ALL HAIL PATROLS" before bed each night for 7 days..........lolololol
1981 Datsun 200B. Was dark blue, painted wheel centres and wipers 'hot pink'. Used to drive it over the sand dunes and down the 90 mile beach. Hey, I guess that was my first Nissan !! Well, there you go.
1977 HX Kingswood with a worked 253 small block V8 hooked up to the turbo 400 3 spd gearbox and everything else was stock. That thing chewed fuel like it had a garden hose for a fuel line but man it was a lot of fun. Traded it in for $8,000.00 in 1988 for a Ford Telstar.... What a mistake that was...!!!
1975 HJ kingswood with 253 blue in colour pride and joy...
71 VH Valiant Charger, 265 hemi, 3 speed pacer box, 3.9 lsd diff
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73 VJ Valiant regal doner car, engine & drivetrain, complete dash, alloy jelly bean mags, all donated to charger shell.
I would dearly like to say mine was a 1981 Rover SD1 3.5V8 but unfortunately was the old mans but as he was out of the county most of the year, I used it alot........ bloody great fun.
Unfortunately my actual 1st car was a poo brown 1984 1ltr Austin Metro (UK) and the biggest bag of crap that money could buy, had it for 3 years and failed its MOT with out fail every year due to rust in all the wrong places (which got welded up to pass the MOT's) and broke down constantly...... always had to make sure I parked the car at the top of a hill as the only way to start it was to bump start it. It then became my younger bros first car, I sold it to him for 150 quid............. bargain at half the price hahahahahahahaha
1953 dunnowot. And how do you like the serious look on my face?
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[QUOTE=the ferret;44216]1953 dunnowot. And how do you like the serious look on my face?
Ferret...If you had that car now it would be worth quite a bit... they are a collectors item now.
My first was a "BMW 520 E12" in yellow, 1979 was its first reg. Most mates had mk2 ford fiestas or mk3 ford escorts, so was way cool. Cruising Southend-on-sea seafront at the weekend was fun then, when I was 17.
However was stolen on new-years eve! By then 6 months later had been in 7 accidents, broke exhaust manifold clean off, bent every panel badly, most lights cracked, rust every where, bumpers gone and one window put through by a granite kerb stone, the grand canyon running down the sump and the gear box 2” higher than the factory put it.
Never seen a yellow one again.:jawdrop:
my first car (back in 2003) was a 1977 Valiant CL Regal Wagon 318 with 727 torqueflite.. i went through 7 diffs & a gearbox in that thing !
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the first car that I drove with the driver's license in 2001 was Citroen BX `90 model
What happened to it?Quote:
Originally Posted by veeate
1977 Daihatsu F10 with Ford 2L transplant that spentr more time off the road than off road
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And while that was being rebuilt/repaired (which equated to about 2 of the 3 years I had it) I'd pinch the old boys G60 with 302 Windsor transplant
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i sold about 3 years ago.. it just kept costing me money and it wasnt cheap to run,... plus the rust had started to come back thru the newpaint job so figured it get rid of it while it still looked tidy...Quote:
Originally Posted by Finly Owner
the funny thing was i was on my way to take sum photos for the for sale add & i lost a wheel going down the freeway which total crushed the rear qtr panel..
my first was a 1976 HJ holden royal plumb in colour and lots of chrome added, a pioneer quad sound system, headers 2nd stage 2" straight through with 1x hot dog looked cool, sounded welll ............like a elongated fart lol , i was king of the road back then,
(strewth memories) now i feel old ........lmao
My 1st was an LJ torana gtr lookalike the old man said it was a real stump puller..................... but 4weeks later the stump won and poor torrie went to torana heaven. Got a LX sitting in storage now though waiting for my mid life crisis.............but the troll wont get its teeth outa me hahahahahahahahahahaha
lol, my Metro was exactly the same. Rusty sills, front and rear cross members. Spent my whole time trying to disguise the fact that that they were full of filler to get it through the MOTs! Worse still, I later got a Montego rust bucket. Tried welding that, but the metal was so thin it was impossible. Love the Rover V8s though, had one in my 1973 Rover P6, can't beat the sound! The SD1 was my dream car for a long time!Quote:
Originally Posted by clunk71
HAHAHAHA NICE TO SEE YOU DIDN'T LEARN AFTER HAVING THE METRO................. i ALWAYS WANTED ONE OF THOS OLD p6'S AND i ABSOLUTLEY LOVED THE sd1 THOUGHT i WAS THE DOGS BO***X DRIVING THAT AROUNDQuote:
Originally Posted by boggy2006
Nice XA tail lightsQuote:
Originally Posted by XLR8
Double buggerQuote:
Originally Posted by veeate
Yup, XA supplied the tail lights, seats, motor, trans and centre console. Bluebird donated the steering wheel and switch assy while Rambler supplied the twin headlightsQuote:
Originally Posted by Finly Owner
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There was a car in the pic ? I can only see mullet, flanny and tight jeans. I'm in lurve !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Finly Owner
mine was an old 1971 TA Holden Torana kermit green what a beast that was...........NOT drove that for about 6mths and it fell to bits
Not sure of the make, as I picked up a few all at the same time - they were all definitely made by HotWheels though!!!! LMFAO!!!
A 1990 Nissan Pulsar Vector - 1.8 litres of unadulterated freedom!!!! For 11 weeks anyway until it was written off ... EDIT: then I bought my first patrol - 1990 4.2 TB42 trayback - that's when the love affair started!! LOL