What was your first car?

[kazbah]

Now I REALLY want!!! I'd love to see that run the 1/4 mile at Eastern Creek. Give everyone a shock!!! With their bloody WRX's and 300ZX's let them see how a REAL car goes!!!

My Uncle used to ralley his Cooper S in Ireland.... Had an absolute ball of a time doing it too, those little buggers stick to the road like glue..

I'd love to aspire to a Cooper S but I think when I have finished paying for the kids education I wont be able to afford one so I might opt for a Mini Moke.... Another of my Mini favs. GO THE MINI!!!!

[jonowong]

hahaha with a roll cage that thing must be impossible to get into...!!

[Bennoz]

Hehe, yep once your in the thing, your IN.

Used to run it at the Creek in the mid nineties, but I wasn't up against Rex's & 300z's. It was RX3 Capellas, Mustang back Celicas, Twin Cam Corollas & HQ Monaros!

[kazbah]

Hehe, yep once your in the thing, your IN.

Used to run it at the Creek in the mid nineties, but I wasn't up against Rex's & 300z's. It was RX3 Capellas, Mustang back Celicas, Twin Cam Corollas & HQ Monaros!

And???????????????? how'd it go??

[Bennoz]

Sorry!

Best run was a 12.89 @ 126mph on slicks.

I ran out of road, rpm, gears and clean undies. The little bastard would not go a day over it. Needless to say the LT Torana than ran a 13.36 next me was in shock. That particular engine lasted less than 5000kms...

I have the slip framed & on my office wall!

[FTO338]

eheheh this remind me of the OVA version of City Hunter where the main character use a Mini to out run GTR and the like.....

Man thats one beast you got there Bennoz

[Bennoz]

And from such humble beginings! My grandmother bought it new in 1969 from the corner of Pacific Hwy & Fullers road, Chatswood - Now a Toyota dealership - was a BMC dealership!

[kazbah]

And from such humble beginings! My grandmother bought it new in 1969 from the corner of Pacific Hwy & Fullers road, Chatswood - Now a Toyota dealership - was a BMC dealership!

She must have been rich!!!! And she graciously left it to you in her will?? I wish my grandmother was as hip!!

[Bennoz]

LOL

We've gone from everyones first car, to my mini, to how hip my grandma was... Hehehe, way to Hijack my own thread!!

[kazbah]

Hmmmm, I suppose we did get a bit of track.... So come on peoples tell us about your first cars so we can drag this thread back into line...... Its been fun though

[akumi]

My first car was a GTR R32.
Then instead of power i went for looks that's why i got the fto. I get more attention in the FTO than the R32.

[BuCkEt]

Akumi......you've gotta be the first person I've EVER heard say something like that.

[paladin]

i think ill put in my time line with a little jab at each

Alfa romeo 90 fr 2.5lv6 - gotta love the body work i did to it! original commodore, genuine 60km version!

fiat regata 100 sie little 1.5l -- fuckign unbrakable! never broke a thing unlike every other car i have owned! and i probibly owned it hte logest. though traveling over 80 in it was pretty scary!

alfa romeo 75 -- 3l dohc v6 -- lottttssss of grunt and lotss of fun ! classy car... pitty about the external plastic fuel cap! (no cover)

Mitsubishi Magna 2002 sports 5spd tip -- very comfortable car, miss the space, dont miss the back end sliding around corners on stock tyres!

shared a nissan exa 88 for a while... probibly the most broken car i have ever seen spent about 6k on parts ! still got some nice bits like the cf bonnet though

Mitsubishi fto gpx 5spd manuel -- funnest sexyest car i ahve ever had, not as comfortable as the alfa 90 but pretty good ! pitty about blowing a engine and the dreded center consle palstic!

hope my next car might be a mini cooper (current none s model) the way fuel is going... or a EVO if i get lucky!

[akumi]

hahahaha Bucket i know what you mean!!! a lot of ppl goes up hill and get better cars, i'm the reverse. But i still think the FTO has something that the GTR doesn't . Don't get me wrong but when it comes to power, GTR is king but FTO definitely attracts a lot of attention esp when it's in bright yellow. That feeling i can't get from a GTR. Sigh i wish the GTR engine is in the FTO. Then it'll be FTO GTR lol.

Or maybe put EVO engine in FTO and = but that costs too much.

[msbchi]

1969 : Triumph Tiger 100 : 500cc of throbbing crutch sprung hub 40 inches of sore arse rode with the Monarchs call me psycho

..69 : BSA M21 500 single with a chair found it stripped and dumped behind a servo pushed it from Ormond to home in Mentone and rebuilt it after replacing LHSide crankcase where the only I>D> nos were stamped : hey it's jail-bird

1970 : a 1955 VW Combi ; just call me moondoggy dude

..72 : 1960 Dodge Pheonix lowered 13 in Mickey thompson's stripped of body chrome and resprayed metalic midnight blue, 318 V8 (blew off my mates Sandman:: Yikes it's the Fonz

..74 66 Vaxhaul Victa picked up for $50 as a reposession ; hey grandad move it

..75 : 1948 Ford Prefect crank start 10 hp side valve motor 2candle power headlights drove it to Sydney and back (took 4 days to get there) far out hippy-man

..75 to 95 Lots of crap Holden FCs Fords Magnas etc hmmm It's Mr Mediocracy.

..95 Ducati 900 GTS Ahhh the power hey I'm alive! back from the dead,

2002 still got the Duck but fell for the FTO

[msbchi]

1980 ; 1957MGMagnette concourse original still have it. some cars you never sell. wish I knew that before I sold the Pheonix

[jonowong]

my first car was handed to me by my aunt in mid 2002, it was a
1991 FORD Laser GLi 1.5L with no power steering or airconditioning, it hard trouble starting in the mornings i had to push the gas pedal a few times before it started... and then i had to rev it for 30seconds or it would just turn off... but i loved that car, i dunno why but it i remember it was fun to drive, i preferred it over my dads 95 commodore...
but then one night at a sleep over party my friend decided to borrow it, without asking and when 1XX down a street, he was a L plater, with less than 5 ours driving experience, and wasnt use to not having power steering a slight bend and he lost it, crashed into 2 parked cars turn the car around and smashed it head on into a tree! he and his passengers walked away from it fine, but my car caught fire and was written off!

but then with the money they paid me back and my savings i now have a FTO GPX...!! but ive realised its very hard to maintain being a student and all