Abedy 0 #51 March 26, 2012 Quote I didn't get my 1st car until I was 30. It was a 1986 Mitsubishi, SWB 4x4 Pajero. Pretty good you live in 'Straya. If you had showed up with a Pajero car somewhere down in the South of the US, you would have got a lot of laughs from the Hispanics The sky is not the limit. The ground is. The Society of Skydiving Ducks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #52 March 26, 2012 Quote Quote I didn't get my 1st car until I was 30. It was a 1986 Mitsubishi, SWB 4x4 Pajero. Pretty good you live in 'Straya. If you had showed up with a Pajero car somewhere down in the South of the US, you would have got a lot of laughs from the Hispanics TeHe (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abedy 0 #53 March 26, 2012 A Trabant 600 Kombi (station wagon) - nothing to compare with the impressively male cars most folks here had for their first one but at least it was way more expensive compared to your salary... The sky is not the limit. The ground is. The Society of Skydiving Ducks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,026 #54 March 26, 2012 1946 MG Bought it in 1967. I still have it. Do all the work on it myself.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aphid 0 #55 March 26, 2012 Positive earth with Lucas equipment... you have no alternative but to service it yourself ! (grin) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VideoFly 0 #56 March 26, 2012 QuoteWhen I dropped the hammer in that one ~ all I felt were dollars flying out the window! Money well spent! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
monkycndo 0 #57 March 26, 2012 Mine was a '67 Beetle. Bought it when I was working the summer down in Sandy Ego before my junior year in high school. Didn't tell my dad about it. When I got it home, he told me they were unsafe and couldn't drive it. Was sold shortly there after.Move forward 3 years and he helps find me a car so I can get around at college. And the car he found? '70 Beetle. I never did understand my dad. 50 donations so far. Give it a try. You know you want to spank it Jump an Infinity Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #58 March 26, 2012 Quote Positive earth with Lucas equipment... you have no alternative but to service it yourself ! (grin) There is a REASON they call Lucas ~ 'The Prince of Darkness'! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mpohl 1 #59 March 27, 2012 Citroen Diane. Go figure!!!:) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Krip 2 #60 March 27, 2012 Quote Quote Positive earth with Lucas equipment... you have no alternative but to service it yourself ! (grin) The is a REASON they call Lucas ~ 'The Prince of Darkness'! Same reason the brits drink warm beer. Lucas makes their refrigeratorsOne Jump Wonder Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #61 March 27, 2012 Quote Quote Quote Positive earth with Lucas equipment... you have no alternative but to service it yourself ! (grin) The is a REASON they call Lucas ~ 'The Prince of Darkness'! Same reason the brits drink warm beer. Lucas makes their refrigerators Then again... I had a Smiths heater in my TR-3A..... it actually worked... if you wanted heat in Florida in the summerIts pretty sad when you have the thing cranked.. and there is still snow blowing in thru the crack betixt the windscreen and the side curtians and swirling around your head while you are driving to school. I think those things were after market and added after the cars were built.... holy afterthought Batman. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #62 March 27, 2012 Quote Its pretty sad when you have the thing cranked.. and there is still snow blowing in thru the crack betixt the windscreen and the side curtians and swirling around your head while you are driving to school. . That's what Duct tape is forYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #63 March 27, 2012 Quote Quote Its pretty sad when you have the thing cranked.. and there is still snow blowing in thru the crack betixt the windscreen and the side curtians and swirling around your head while you are driving to school. . That's what Duct tape is for It still would not have provided any heat... unless there was a duct tape burning stove installed Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blkhwk91b 0 #64 March 27, 2012 Subaru Brat, with the jump seats in the back. Year escapes me at the moment. Good times in that little rascal. Damn near go anywhere!"Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way." - Alan Watts Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Julaynemaries 0 #65 March 27, 2012 Mine was a 1986 Honda Accord Hatchback, totally awesome. Nicknamed Hideous Honda. I used to take that beast off roading! GOOD TIMES! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #66 March 28, 2012 Nice idea for a thread, Wendy! I've never 'chosen' a car in my life. All five of mine have been cast-offs from other family members - whatever they happened to be getting rid of - and I've driven them all into the ground. Well, apart from the one I drove into a lamp post. And the other one I drove into the back of someone else's car. Believe it or not, I do still consider myself a pretty safe driver. Two accidents in 25 years - is that bad? Maybe we need another thread and poll about car crashes. Anyway, my first ever car was my parents' old Volvo 345 hatchback. Most of its problems were cooling-related - it would squirt jets of hot water through the radiator grill when I revved the egine, and in the summer I had to drive it with the heating on full blast and the windows wound down, to keep both myself and the engine from going into meltdown. It was my second car, also a Volvo, that I wrapped around the lamp post. Good brand to choose if you're going to have a crash - the bonnet crumpled nicely, and I survived with only a headache and a permanent fear of chicanes in the road. That was also the only time I've been breathalyzed by the police. Luckily I was stone cold sober - stupid rather than sozzled. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,026 #67 March 28, 2012 Quote Quote Quote Quote Positive earth with Lucas equipment... you have no alternative but to service it yourself ! (grin) The is a REASON they call Lucas ~ 'The Prince of Darkness'! Same reason the brits drink warm beer. Lucas makes their refrigerators Then again... I had a Smiths heater in my TR-3A..... it actually worked... if you wanted heat in Florida in the summerIts pretty sad when you have the thing cranked.. and there is still snow blowing in thru the crack betixt the windscreen and the side curtians and swirling around your head while you are driving to school. I think those things were after market and added after the cars were built.... holy afterthought Batman. My MG didn't have a heater when I got it. I "salvaged" one from a 1953 Morris Minor and put it in the MG. It still works (for certain definitions of the word "works"). No real problems with the Lucas electrics, though. The problems with Lucas didn't really start until the mid 1950s. The original (1946) starter motor lasted until 2010, and even then it was still working, just getting noisy. Still running the original generator (with several sets of new brushes), horns and voltage regulator. Replaced the distributor in 1968. In fact, I had far more electrical problems with a 1991 Toyota Camry.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gonzalesna 0 #68 March 28, 2012 in 2001, I got Brown 1984 Chevy S-10 V-6 Extended cab with an off-white colored bed topper. Had 50,000 original miles on it when I got it. Paint was still in good shape for it's age, the radio (the old kind where the presets were a button that made the needle jump around) still worked like a charm. I'd gotten it from my grandfather for $1 down and $1 per month FOREVER. It's the only bill I've ever had that I hope I don't ever have to quit paying. Some people refrain from beating a dead horse. Personally, I find a myriad of entertainment value when beating it until it becomes a horse-smoothie. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jackwallace 3 #69 March 28, 2012 1952 Jaguar XK 120, in 67. Got it out of a barn, with free pigeon pooh. Engine and trans were in the passenger compartment, interior was in the trunk, no top. Took three months getting it together. A guy told me, now I would know what sundays were for: to work on your English car so it ran the rest of the week. Adjusted the carbs, cam chain and fixed something in the electric system every week. But did that thing haul the rest of the week.U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #70 March 28, 2012 Quote 1952 Jaguar XK 120, in 67. Got it out of a barn, with free pigeon pooh. Engine and trans were in the passenger compartment, interior was in the trunk, no top. Took three months getting it together. A guy told me, now I would know what sundays were for: to work on your English car so it ran the rest of the week. Adjusted the carbs, cam chain and fixed something in the electric system every week. But did that thing haul the rest of the week. Some of the best engineered and best built automotive parts in the world, fall off of English sports cars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #71 March 29, 2012 Quote Some of the best engineered and best built automotive parts in the world, fall off of English sports cars. Even I thought that was funny. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyChimp 0 #72 March 31, 2012 Mine was the 1981 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royal. What a tank!!! I loved that car. Picture below Does anyone else find it funny that we made a SPORT out of an EMERGENCY PROCEDURE?!?! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #73 March 31, 2012 Quote In high school, I had access to my family's cars, but the one I drove most frequently was the 1982 Chevy Chevette. I used to joke that I drove a 'Vette. First one I bought for myself was at the beginning of my second year of college, in August 1989. It was a 1980 Toyota Tercel hatchback, 5-speed. I found this link to some photos of one that looks very similar (except for color) to mine. That weird almost Pacer-esque hatchback is what I remember most (my best hippie stoner girlfriend called it "Bulbous"). http://www.oldparkedcars.com/2010/02/1979-toyota-tercel-sr5-hatchback.html So imagine this car, but brown. And lacking the rear windshield wiper. I think it cost me just north of $1,000, maybe $1300. Most was saved from my summer job that first summer after I started college; I think my folks may have chipped in a bit as well. I drove it for the next three years till I finished college. Owning that car taught me valuable lessons about routine maintenance (in that, if you ignore it, bad things happen!). But since I worked as a driver for campus transit, I knew all the mechanics and the purchasing guy, so I eventually had 1) someone who could buy parts for me at cost, and 2) guys who were used to wrenching on buses who appreciated the variety of wrenching on cars in their down time (but using the school's garage, of course ). Replying to myself since I remembered I had a photo of the actual car! Well, it was a photo of the duplex I was living in one year, but the car was parked out front. It's partially in shadow, but you get a good idea of the bulbous back end, at least. Ah yes, my dear old car... memorialized on film forever!"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mpohl 1 #74 April 1, 2012 Rennpappe! :) I bet they are worth a fortune right now. P.S.: I still remember when one could order a Trabi or MZ thru Quelle catalog (or was it Neckarmann?). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abedy 0 #75 April 1, 2012 Quote P.S.: I still remember when one could order a Trabi or MZ thru Quelle catalog (or was it Neckarmann?). Probably both. Made a good profit from buying it cheap in the "Zone" and selling it in the Golden West but only Neckermann lasted "Funniest" thing was you relatives in the Golden west could buy you a Trabi via "Genex" - for good Deutschmark - so you as a Zoni could skip the 15 years between placing the order and finally getting it.The sky is not the limit. The ground is. The Society of Skydiving Ducks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
