Jessica 0 #26 August 24, 2002 It was a 1985 Toyota Corolla, champagne and brown colored (sounds gross but was really pretty), sun roof, power locks and tape deck. It had 100,000 miles on it when my parents bought it for $2,000. God, I loved that car. I used to have a 20-minute commute to and from high school, and I spent it tooling around the farm-to-market roads in that cute little thing.Skydiving is for cool people only Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #27 August 24, 2002 1985 Cutlass GT, with the 3.8 litre V6, bucket leather seats, Console shifter... Sweet ride. I bought it for $500, sold it a year later after the timing chain broke for $100. _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #28 August 24, 2002 >It was a 1985 Toyota Corolla, champagne and brown colored Yeah! 1985 Corollas rock! As you might guess, my first car was a 1985 Toyota Corolla (a stationwagon). I drove it about two years before I sold it to my step-brother to get money for skydiving...Erno Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #29 August 24, 2002 Quote Here in Slovenia, there are still a lot of these cars on the roads today. It was made in 1990, my parents bought it for me in 2000, and it had only 42000km. It costed incredible 250$ at that time. just wondering how much $250 is worth in slovenia??? i know the ecnomy might be a little diffrent there and am just wondering... wow sis made a post.havn't seen here here much latley...hi.... my 5th car was a 84' 318i....i loved it, bough it for 200 and drove it all around europe...even picked up benw, skreamer and moose in it at the amsterdam airport to go to texel...... but my very first car was one i paid for my self at an auction..a 81' el camino... i had to put a new exhaust, and parkes on it and it only lasted me 4 months but damn, i lovethat car... if i'm ever welthy enough to have to cars i'll get another one in good shape just to drive for plesure.........as for right now i'm driving the first "new" car i've ver bought myself a 99' hyundai elantra gl....just got it off the lot on wednesday.....i like it and it's very reliable to get me to faraway dz's........just wish it could tow a hardside camper but the 100lbs toung weight max and 1000lbs may trailer weight makes it sorta hard to do.... ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #30 August 24, 2002 '66 chev 1/2 ton. 300 inline 6, 3 in the tree shifter. original bed rotted off and had been replaced with a wooden one. both trailing arms on the rear end had broken and had been welded, but one had broken again. as a result, if you were following me you could see the whole passenger side of the truck. it was so bad that i could make a right turn into a driveway, but a left turn required lots of advance planning. am radio, but couldn't use it because i replaced the spark plug wires with ones i made from clothes line and the interference rendered it useless. there were holes in the floor so you had to position your feet just so to avoid a shower if it was raining out. and just to make it offically canadian, the body mounts had rotted off and had been replaced with hockey pucks. i loved it!"Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stacy 0 #31 August 24, 2002 1986 ford taurus for $450. drove it back and forth to college in ithaca and philly, racked up the miles quickly. drove it until it literally stopped in the middle of philly one night. then i got my new one, 2001 elantra. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lummy 4 #32 August 24, 2002 Quoteand just to make it offically canadian, the body mounts had rotted off and had been replaced with hockey pucks. OMG.. ROFLMAO@bunky...I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blondeflyer7 0 #33 August 24, 2002 Thats funny the first car I owned my parents let me have there new Ford Tempo and I totalled it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slotperfect 7 #34 August 25, 2002 1969 Buick LeSabreArrive Safely John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dbattman 0 #35 August 25, 2002 1987 LeBaron sedan. Paid $1500 for it with 108k miles. Drove it through college adding a quart of oil every 150 miles (bad ring). My sister took it over when I graduated and it finally went to the Volunteers with about 145k. Tore the engine apart a few times with my Father putting in pistons and rings and stuff. Then I bought another 87 LeBaron and drove it through my job and graduate school till I gave it to a coworker with 125K in 2000- I couldn't even sell it for $500. He dropped in a tranny and its still going- it even pulls a small trailer now! Then #3 was, you guessed it, a LeBaron! Got a ragtop this time, emphasis on rag. I can buy a new top for $150 on the internet, put I'm only on my third roll of duct tape at $3 each. But I'll tell ya, I'd never go back and choose another one for that first time. The time I spent with my Dad in the garage was, as they say, priceless. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerdood 0 #36 August 25, 2002 1969 VW Beetle. Narrow eye Baja kit, stinger exhaust, Porche transaxle. 1600 bored out to 1800, dual carbs/intakes. Just about every trick in the 1980 JCWhitney book! 3 working instruments, in order of importance: speedometer, horn, wipers. No backseat, just a padded deck back there. Very useful for a 16 year old! Was primer gray when I got her, and I had every intention of painting her fire engine red, but the kids at Summer's Best Two Weeks had other intentions: we taped over the windows, and I let 'em have at her with spray paint, including flourescents. They were quite, um, "creative"! Drove it around like that for another year or so, much to the consternation of my parents and all the other "normal" people in the neighborhood. But, hey, it always got me to the DZ! And most times it got me home! If not, there were plenty of fellow jumpers who would help me out for a beer or two, which I wasn't old enough to buy 'em. But, that's another story ... Ebbster "If God wanted us to stay on the ground, He'd have given us roots" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindsey 0 #37 August 25, 2002 I had a '74 yellow convertible bug. :) Lindsey-- A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whatme 0 #38 August 25, 2002 My first car was, I believe a 78, powder blue Bobcat I bought for $100 and my mom and dad estimated they had spent $1000 (including tags) to have my brother(not kreg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites ltdiver 3 #39 August 25, 2002 1969 blue Dodge Dart with a white vinyl top. Slant 6 engine that was the best motor ever built! 300,000+ miles on it when I 'sold' it to my sister when it was 22 years old! Still ran great! Loved that car, as I could work on it myself without the need of a computer or mechanic. My favorite class in college was Auto Engine Rebuilding, which I got an 'A' in when the engine I rebuilt from the ground up actually worked! Ah, the smell of grease! ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites indyz 1 #40 August 25, 2002 1996 Dodge Stratus. Got me where I wanted to go. Three weeks ago today some drunk (as in three times the legal limit) idiot ran across the oncoming lanes of a highway, climbed the median, then ran in front of me So now I don't have a car. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #41 August 26, 2002 1970 Camaro. Dark blue, 350/375HP, would Smoke just about any production car except Ferrari and lamborghini at the time. Ate corvettes and Mustangs for breakfast. Once raced a BMW M3 down the freeway. He could only do about 147. So, I sat just in front of him for about 10 miles until he blew something and it started pouring smoke. Top speed.....Unknown....My speedo only went to 150. I'm guessing somewhere around 160-170. I never got one speeding ticket in that car. Of course.....running from cops on back roads was a sport when I was young and REALLY STUPID!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jfields 0 #42 August 26, 2002 1968 Plymouth Valiant "Sport" Puke green, automatic, P.O.S. It had an indestructible slant-6 engine, with a cracked exhaust manifold, but I understand that most all of them had that. Still ran great. My parents bought it for like $300, and my brother and I thrashed it for about 4-5 years. We never changed the oil, just kept adding more when it got low. We sold it for nearly what we paid for it, at which time it had around 200k miles. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Marz 0 #43 August 26, 2002 QuoteIt was a 1985 Toyota Corolla, champagne and brown colored. That was my first car too! Then a Honda Civic, and now a Subaru WRX. I Loooooove the Rex! _________________________________________ Did I just kill another thread? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Ricx 0 #44 August 26, 2002 My first motor was free and was a Ford Fiesta 950cc Popular plus! cheap, chearful, broke down every week ( still cheap to repair! ) and was full of hols etc.. bashed it about a bit until I got a Ford Escort Ghia. which lasted 4 weeks, some guy jumped in the motor out of his head and wrote it off for me! I'd left the key in the car along with three birds! Would have thought the three of them could have stopped him!! Damn pissed off but looking back, but I'm glad I got rid of it. although not in that way. A couple of weeks later on the way home from the the pub a couple of my mates spotted the Ghia badge on the ground where the car was crashed and grabbed it before I could, they spent the rest of the summer taunting me with it and taking the piss!! Good on em!!! I'd have done the same. I then progressed to another Escort, car number three. Then an vaxhall astra, then back to a white Orion Ghia! all complete rust buckets but they all drove forwards most of the time. picked up an fiesta XR2 until I found sometihng that I liked... but driving a XR2 is really good fun when it's worth 5 quid so i played with that for ages. I'm now selling my latest car after 2 years of owning it. It's a 306 XSi 2Ltr, gas shocks,lowered, split rim alloys, all the sporty extras!! this car loves roundabouts, it still amazes me, even when you pack 4 passengers in it :-))) Anyone want to buy it??? it's in autotrader!!....cause then I can buy my own rig!! Yipee!! the bidding starts @ £2200! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Unutsch 0 #45 August 26, 2002 just wondering how much $250 is worth in slovenia??? i know the ecnomy might be a little diffrent there and am just wondering... At that time 250$ would equal around 70.000 Slovenian Tolars (yes, tolars, not dollars), less or more. One would make maybe 18 jumps from 4.000m for it. Todaj, 1$ = 237 SiT, a jump from 4.000m costs 16$. Check out the site of the Fallen Angels FreeflY Organisation: http://www.padliangeli.org Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites miked10270 0 #46 August 26, 2002 Hi there, First car was a 1970 Ford Escort Twin-Cam! I would have probably killed myself in it if I'd ever got it to run properly. It cost me £200 back in 1977 and I sold it on a year later for £100. Funny thing - I fancied one again a couple of years ago but they've gone up in price a bit (£14,000!!). My other "memorable" car was an Audi Quattro I ran for a few years without killing myself or blowing it up . More than could be said for my old Lancia Intregale. Now I'm running a landrover 110 CSW Diesel. I keep telling myself that it's still a turbocharged 4WD but it's just not the same. Mike D10270. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Deuce 1 #47 August 26, 2002 Absolute chick-magnet. 1976 Volkswagon Rabbit, 4 door, Puke-green. KOME radio sticker in rear window. Pioneer cassette stereo with state of the art Jensen coax speakers. Beige shag carpet throughout. I drove this car while wearing angel's flight pants. Yeah-baby! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bbarnhouse 0 #48 August 26, 2002 1979 Datsun 210 sedan........brand new. Had it 29 days and I got hit by a drunk driver. Talk about a total.......head on. Damnit I missed the football game! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites wceviper 0 #49 August 26, 2002 My First car was a 1971 Malibu, it was a 4 door with a big block 396 under the hood. Got it when I was 17, thrashed it till i was 21, then sold it. It was a good and fun first car. I learned many lessons about driving while owning it.You may push me around, but you cannot win! You may throw me down, but i'll rise again! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites moodyskydiver 0 #50 August 26, 2002 My first peice of crap to drive was an '83 Chevy 3/4 ton truck. (Can ya tell I'm from TX? LOL) But now I have a new toy!I'm drivin' a '99 Chevy Silverado(1/2 ton). "...just an earthbound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 3 Next Page 2 of 3 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. 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ltdiver 3 #39 August 25, 2002 1969 blue Dodge Dart with a white vinyl top. Slant 6 engine that was the best motor ever built! 300,000+ miles on it when I 'sold' it to my sister when it was 22 years old! Still ran great! Loved that car, as I could work on it myself without the need of a computer or mechanic. My favorite class in college was Auto Engine Rebuilding, which I got an 'A' in when the engine I rebuilt from the ground up actually worked! Ah, the smell of grease! ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indyz 1 #40 August 25, 2002 1996 Dodge Stratus. Got me where I wanted to go. Three weeks ago today some drunk (as in three times the legal limit) idiot ran across the oncoming lanes of a highway, climbed the median, then ran in front of me So now I don't have a car. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #41 August 26, 2002 1970 Camaro. Dark blue, 350/375HP, would Smoke just about any production car except Ferrari and lamborghini at the time. Ate corvettes and Mustangs for breakfast. Once raced a BMW M3 down the freeway. He could only do about 147. So, I sat just in front of him for about 10 miles until he blew something and it started pouring smoke. Top speed.....Unknown....My speedo only went to 150. I'm guessing somewhere around 160-170. I never got one speeding ticket in that car. Of course.....running from cops on back roads was a sport when I was young and REALLY STUPID!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #42 August 26, 2002 1968 Plymouth Valiant "Sport" Puke green, automatic, P.O.S. It had an indestructible slant-6 engine, with a cracked exhaust manifold, but I understand that most all of them had that. Still ran great. My parents bought it for like $300, and my brother and I thrashed it for about 4-5 years. We never changed the oil, just kept adding more when it got low. We sold it for nearly what we paid for it, at which time it had around 200k miles. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marz 0 #43 August 26, 2002 QuoteIt was a 1985 Toyota Corolla, champagne and brown colored. That was my first car too! Then a Honda Civic, and now a Subaru WRX. I Loooooove the Rex! _________________________________________ Did I just kill another thread? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ricx 0 #44 August 26, 2002 My first motor was free and was a Ford Fiesta 950cc Popular plus! cheap, chearful, broke down every week ( still cheap to repair! ) and was full of hols etc.. bashed it about a bit until I got a Ford Escort Ghia. which lasted 4 weeks, some guy jumped in the motor out of his head and wrote it off for me! I'd left the key in the car along with three birds! Would have thought the three of them could have stopped him!! Damn pissed off but looking back, but I'm glad I got rid of it. although not in that way. A couple of weeks later on the way home from the the pub a couple of my mates spotted the Ghia badge on the ground where the car was crashed and grabbed it before I could, they spent the rest of the summer taunting me with it and taking the piss!! Good on em!!! I'd have done the same. I then progressed to another Escort, car number three. Then an vaxhall astra, then back to a white Orion Ghia! all complete rust buckets but they all drove forwards most of the time. picked up an fiesta XR2 until I found sometihng that I liked... but driving a XR2 is really good fun when it's worth 5 quid so i played with that for ages. I'm now selling my latest car after 2 years of owning it. It's a 306 XSi 2Ltr, gas shocks,lowered, split rim alloys, all the sporty extras!! this car loves roundabouts, it still amazes me, even when you pack 4 passengers in it :-))) Anyone want to buy it??? it's in autotrader!!....cause then I can buy my own rig!! Yipee!! the bidding starts @ £2200! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unutsch 0 #45 August 26, 2002 just wondering how much $250 is worth in slovenia??? i know the ecnomy might be a little diffrent there and am just wondering... At that time 250$ would equal around 70.000 Slovenian Tolars (yes, tolars, not dollars), less or more. One would make maybe 18 jumps from 4.000m for it. Todaj, 1$ = 237 SiT, a jump from 4.000m costs 16$. Check out the site of the Fallen Angels FreeflY Organisation: http://www.padliangeli.org Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miked10270 0 #46 August 26, 2002 Hi there, First car was a 1970 Ford Escort Twin-Cam! I would have probably killed myself in it if I'd ever got it to run properly. It cost me £200 back in 1977 and I sold it on a year later for £100. Funny thing - I fancied one again a couple of years ago but they've gone up in price a bit (£14,000!!). My other "memorable" car was an Audi Quattro I ran for a few years without killing myself or blowing it up . More than could be said for my old Lancia Intregale. Now I'm running a landrover 110 CSW Diesel. I keep telling myself that it's still a turbocharged 4WD but it's just not the same. Mike D10270. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 1 #47 August 26, 2002 Absolute chick-magnet. 1976 Volkswagon Rabbit, 4 door, Puke-green. KOME radio sticker in rear window. Pioneer cassette stereo with state of the art Jensen coax speakers. Beige shag carpet throughout. I drove this car while wearing angel's flight pants. Yeah-baby! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bbarnhouse 0 #48 August 26, 2002 1979 Datsun 210 sedan........brand new. Had it 29 days and I got hit by a drunk driver. Talk about a total.......head on. Damnit I missed the football game! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wceviper 0 #49 August 26, 2002 My First car was a 1971 Malibu, it was a 4 door with a big block 396 under the hood. Got it when I was 17, thrashed it till i was 21, then sold it. It was a good and fun first car. I learned many lessons about driving while owning it.You may push me around, but you cannot win! You may throw me down, but i'll rise again! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moodyskydiver 0 #50 August 26, 2002 My first peice of crap to drive was an '83 Chevy 3/4 ton truck. (Can ya tell I'm from TX? LOL) But now I have a new toy!I'm drivin' a '99 Chevy Silverado(1/2 ton). "...just an earthbound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
