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First car I drove: 2001 Dodge Ram 2500 van (the clubvan with windows and seats, not the free candy van.) First car I owned: 1996 Jeep Cherokee 4.0L auto 4x4 I had more than my fair share of adventures in each one, and ultimately they both went to the crusher due to blown transmissions and body rust+damage making them unworthy of further repair.
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First car I drove: 1978 Buick Electra Limited. 150k+ miles on the original 400 SBC. It was probably a very luxurious road boat when new, but 19 years of zero upkeep plus a PO who believed that if anything cracked or tore on the interior, duct tape was the answer resulted in one ghetto trash luxobarge. Royal blue with a white landau top, but the day my mom got into a wreck and ripped the front bumper off we discovered that it had been wrecked previously, and was mostly made of bondo. (The other guy was driving a brand new '98 S10, and the wreck pretty much hosed up his whole front clip.) It made somewhere around 7 mpg, was a complete pig, and I miss it. First car I owned: the Truck of Theseus, my grandfather's '75 Chevy Scottsdale. By the time I got it, there was only a handful of things still original on the truck, and by the time the junkyard got it there was maybe the frame (I say maybe because it was originally a shortbed, but my grandfather at some point decided he wanted a longbed, and lengthened the frame). Originally tangier orange, but actually every color of the rainbow rattlecanned to hunter green. Originally with the 350ci/TH350, by the time I got it it had a 292 I-6/TH400, and by the time the crusher ate it it had a 383 stroker/700R4 that never worked right. From the day of purchase to the day of destruction, it moved less than 100 miles under it's own power. First car I owned and drove: 1985 Buick Somerset. Iron Duke-powered, maroon, invincible. I only ever had four problems out of that car: the heater core cracked (bypassed with a piece of pipe, kept driving), the driver's seat broke (swapped the passenger seat over, kept driving), the fan controller quit (hardwired to a switch on the dash, kept driving), and the digital dash liked to go on the fritz (smack it with a fist, kept driving). That little car saw many roads that 4x4s feared to tread, pound after pound of Oklahoma ditch-weed, more used condoms than the AVN convention (sadly only about three of my own, the rest belonging to my "best friend" who liked to gently caress his girlfriends while I watched), and more buffoonery and tomfoolery than you can shake a stick at. Died of a cracked head three weeks after I graduated high school. rndmnmbr fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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Mar 29, 2016 08:55
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My first car was a little red 1985 Toyota MR2 my folks bought for me in 1997 for 1200$. Naturally aspirated I4/5sp manual revved up to 7 or 8k (if memory serves). It had 148k mi and was an absolute loving rocket. I drove the absolute dogshit out of it until it died of horrific HG failure in 1999. RIP little buddy.  Not mine, but it was identical to this one.
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Mar 29, 2016 13:02
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First car I drove: 1978 Jeep Comanche. First car I owned: 1982 Toyota Corolla. I loved this car, but it literally rusted away out from under me.
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Mar 29, 2016 14:31
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You're triggering my jeep autism badly because there was no such thing as a 1978 Jeep Comanche, they started in 1986. Either you meant a 1987 and I'm jealous, or you meant a 1978 J truck and I'm even more jealous.
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Mar 29, 2016 15:27
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A red 1990 Ford Corsair manual sedan. No power steering, no air conditioning, but an aftermarket stereo and headers and it was the best. Tough bastard too. Survived a cracked head and a t-boning. Ended up costing me about 3-4 times the amount of money I paid for it in repairs. Eventually the transmission fell apart and I couldn't justify holding onto it any longer.
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Mar 29, 2016 16:14
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First car I drove was a 95 Plymouth Acclaim. My dad's commuter he drove into the ground. Transmission exited this world not so gracefully not soon after. The first car I owned was a 1992 Nissan NX2000. Manual, SR20DE, factory limited slip, T-Tops. Goddamn that was a hot little car for a high school kid. I'm surprised I didn't die owning that thing.
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Mar 29, 2016 16:27
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A 2001 Peugeot 307 with a 1.4 engine. As with many Peugeots of that time it was actually pretty sharp to drive, if not quite sporty and with the high spec interior it aged really well. The gearbox died and I sold it to a mechanic who sorted it for his son 
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Mar 29, 2016 16:52
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A 1992 Ford Tempo. Drove it for about a year. Rear ended someone the first week I had my license (not badly, just cracked the grill). It met its end going around a curving on-ramp at too high a speed for the rainy conditions. Used to push it out of the driveway and down the street, then start it up and go to my girlfriend's at night. Memories.
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Mar 29, 2016 18:08
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Drove - 78? Tr7. POS but cool at the time. Makes me appreciate reliability Bought for me 84? Wolfsburg's edition VW cabriolet, red gray striped leather. Fun car, more than I deserved. Great beach car. Bought- 93? Subaru SVX two toned black top dark cherry body. Loved that car so much,.killed it due to stupidity but it was a magnet for trouble. Learned to never love a thing.
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Mar 29, 2016 18:32
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Technically I had a 92 Saturn four door thing, though I never really drove it aside from when I bought it off some weird Russian guy for $75. I think every panel was a different color, and the interior was in absolutely terrible shape. After selling it to a friend, I found out that it was also terrifying to drive at more than 60 mph, though that didn't stop him from taking it almost 200 miles down the freeway every day for a couple months. My first real car was a manual 93 Ford Probe SE in seafoam green, with most of the clear coat gone. That car only ever worked correctly when we actually needed it, as opposed to my GF's 96 Jetta which NEVER worked when we needed it. Even considering that it was only working right half the time, I still love that car and regret selling it to this day. The little 2.0l engine was great on gas and felt pretty zippy, the seats were a lot comfier than I ever would have expected, and I still love the body style. AND now I'm looking at Craigslist to see if I can buy another one for stupid cheap...
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Mar 29, 2016 22:03
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skipdogg posted:I'm probably in the running for shittiest first car ever. Buttmuffin II blew the headgasket driving down to Charlotte. Good times.
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Mar 30, 2016 00:38
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My first time behind the wheel was a N body 1993 or 4 Skylark coupe. First car: 1977 Ford Granada  No pictures but this was the same car and color but mine was more primer and rusted out fenders and whatnot. Had a mechanical clock that didn't work and a bench seat that wasn't comfortable and a  2bl carbed 302ci V8 with a thundering 125 or so HP. While I owned it I remember looking at a world car book in the high school library and seeing the European Granada and getting mad that the north american looked like it was from the stone age whereas the European late 70s one looked like it could've come from the 80s.I didn't have it very long as it was destroyed when I ran a stop sign and a first gen Taurus hit me from the side. KennyLoggins fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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Mar 30, 2016 08:15
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kastein posted:You're triggering my jeep autism badly because there was no such thing as a 1978 Jeep Comanche, they started in 1986. Either you meant a 1987 and I'm jealous, or you meant a 1978 J truck and I'm even more jealous. *googles real quick* It was a J - truck. I thought all Jeep pickups were Comanches.
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Mar 30, 2016 14:35
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KennyLoggins posted:My first time behind the wheel was a N body 1993 or 4 Skylark coupe. Other grandfather drove nothing but Caddys until he passed. The story as he told it was he bought a Buick in the late 60s in which the rear axle fell out of the car a few days after he bought it new so he switched to Cadillac and never looked back. Monster V8s, he'd have an employee of his rip out the emissions stuff and hoon as only a grandpa can do (punch it if ever anyone pulled away faster from a green light than he).
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Mar 30, 2016 18:14
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CannonFodder posted:1986 Pontiac Sunbird, black on the sides and primer down the middle. It was named Buttmuffin II because Buttmuffin I was totalled in a rear ender. You and Saga with his Chevy Celebrity win. Buttmuffin is a great car name. The '89 Escort was named 'Otis' after the guy we think owned it before us. Found some paperwork in the car with the name Otis on there and it stuck. The only other car I ever named was my SRT-4, someone called it Sneezy after I put a BOV plate on it, and that stuck as well.
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Mar 30, 2016 19:15
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1971 beetle. With an aftermarket rolls Royce hood. That was cracked and had been bondoed and cracked and bondoed. Dad bought it for 300 bucks from the mechanic he took his rabbits and fiat 128 and my sisters beetle. No front bumper so I found a 5 inch diameter pipe. No seat belts. Drove it for 3 years, at times commuting to work 37 miles with three other guys. I learned about brakes. Good little car; I t boned a lady in a 79 cutlass and that was the end. That was also when I learned about seat belts, broke my femur and some hand bones, good times.
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1979 VW Polo, bought for the princely sum of £20 (that's what the scrap man offered my Dad's mate for it). 875cc of pure German horsepowers. Spent nine months taking it to bits and repairing it while I learned to drive. Also learned a lot about what the various oily bits on a car are supposed to do, along with how not to respray a car (ProTip: Don't use rattlecans). It broke down once, 200 miles from home on the M11. Was fine one second, completely dead the next. Coasted it over to the hard shoulder, lit a cigarette, and thought "well, I'm hosed". Popped the bonnet, quick look around, and the centre ignition lead had fallen off. Plugged it back in, and it started up fine. Ran perfectly after that until the inevitable rust saw it condemned by the MOT man. Bastard. I loved that car.
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1992 Plymouth, Acclaim. Bought it in 2006 for $1200. it had 49k miles when i bought it, and I sold it at 160ish 2.5 years later. I drove the hell out of that thing and only replaced the battery, alternator, and fuel pump. When I bought it, it had a small oil leak. When I sold it, I lost about a quart every 1/4 tank.
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First car driven - Dad's 1960 Austin 'Seven' Mini. I'd driven tractors already but the Mini was a great learning tool, plus forced you master double declutching, heel and toe braking, using a choke, occasionally having to hit an electric fuel pump with a screwdriver and other dark arts.  First car owned - a 1988 VW Golf Mk2 1.6 CL, which was being given away by a friend of the family. The clutch had gone, the Pierburg carb was ruined and it had a massive rust hole across the driver's door under the window seal. Did the clutch, rebuilt the carb and found a good door off a scrapyard car that was (almost) the same shade of off-white. Only then did I actually get insurance quotes for a 17-year old guy with a 1.6 Mk2 Golf. IIRC the highest was £4500 per year, for a car that was worth £500 at most. So... First car owned and driven - a 1982 Land Rover Series III 88-inch Station Wagon. Bought with a very dodgy MoT ticket and a spare canvas roof+sticks set for £730. Immediately sold the soft top for £200. Rebuilt the engine (62 naturally-aspirated diesel horses!) and the gearbox, fitted new springs and did some chassis welding. I did about 8000 miles per year for three years in that thing. Lots of off-roading too. It chomped through propshaft UJs like i don't know what and I forget how many times I rebuilt the brakes due to either lovely quality wheel cylinder seals or continually oozing hub seals letting oil onto the shoes before I bit the bullet and rebuilt the front axle.  God, that thing was a ropy, rusty dog of a 4x4. But I loved it and it taught me a lot about cars and spannering!
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B-Body supremacy.  '85 LeSabre. Olds 307/200R4. Leather. Climate control. Everything was power but the engine. Nearly no rust (like, less rusty than all but 2 of the cars I've owned). CB radio. Air cleaner lid flipped over because it sounds cool. And it had a serious aversion to block heaters, it would spit one on the ground about every 9 months or so. Killed by a stereo thief- smashed a window, car flooded, I was out of town and it sat in heavy rain long enough to cause massive mould and electrical issues. I actually had it looking pretty good up until I decided to pull the Landau top because it looked like it was holding water and causing rust issues- it wasn't. I miss her. First car I drove was a 1992 Tercel (unless you count heavy equipment, because I actually got not bad at operating a '70s Clark halfton forklift prior to the car) That was brief, I actually learned to drive in a 95 Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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 Not mine, but bears a staggering resemblance. Few highlights: Model was the most stolen car in the UK - thieves could steal it with a screwdriver quicker than I could start it with a key Bought from 'Nobby & Dick's Used Car Emporium - Bargain Basement' for £500 cash, no receipt. Garage forgot to tell me that they had just fitted new brake pads and not bedded them in, just before I hit London rush hour Only when I got it home did I realise that the wheel trims on the left were different from the trims on the right Bit of external trim were held on with household glue Fuel gauge was broken, so used trip meter instead Bits of the dash would fall off on speed bumps Was as appealing to the opposite sex as a colonscopy.
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First car in 1997: 1988 Honda Accord. Manual transmission, no A/C in the Alabama heat, and that fuel pump relay issue that all Hondas of that vintage had. The Gray Thruster died rolling down an embankment in the lamest 25 mph hydroplaning incident ever.
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Apr 1, 2016 13:29
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You cannot convince me that isn't a GTA V screenshot.
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Apr 1, 2016 13:47
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Mine is known around here, I was lucky enough to get my favorite car as my first car. It was a 1965 Volvo 122s, purchased for $400 in 1987 and I drove it for 6 years and 125k miles. I also sawed the roof off of it. I pretty much destroyed it, so it came to this in 1996   Then in 2009 I bought another one. High miles, not original, but zero rust and great shape. Never gonna sell it. 
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 My sister put her car in my care while I was in HS and she was away for a couple years; it effectively became mine (I didn't have a cool plate like above). This example desperately needed new struts and rolled like a pig. It also drank fuel like no tomorrow (maybe because I kept it on boost all the time). I put new brakes on but didn't address the other issues because I was young and knew even less about actually fixing cars than I do now. Lots of fond memories of sneaking out at night to my girlfriend's apartment (she was in college) during a hot summer and sliding the tail around foggy forest roads in winter. I loved/hated that car.  First car I paid cash for was a 1997 ES300 that I bought from my mom when I was in college. I learned the Scandinavian flick on that car and took it up to 140 mph. I was rear ended in that car, had it repaired, was t-boned right on the driver side door by someone running a red light at 55 a year later, had it repaired again, then a few months later was side swiped while moving to a new city and pushed up and almost over the concrete barrier in the median of the freeway. Finally totaled the car, and I thank it for keeping me safe those three times. My family never gave cars to their offspring, but I might keep my Miata for when my kid is of age, since fun is likely to be otherwise illegal by then.  (This is the only pic that is my actual car) blk fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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Apr 5, 2016 10:36
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1982 AMC Eagle SX/4 five-speed, red metallic with black trim just like the ads. Beautiful paint, really. That thing would stall randomly while you were in gear and driving along. It leaked clutch fluid from ... somewhere, we never did find out. Didn't matter. Loved it, still want another.
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1995 Eagle Vision ESi. 3.3L V6 that was fairly bulletproof and had enough low-end torque to get this four door sedan accelerating at a fairly impressive (for 16 year olds) clip despite the poor high end performance. Redline was 5300RPM or so. It spent a lot of time around there. Somehow it never suffered any transmission problems despite the crystalline 42LE automatic and my best efforts. It did go through a water pump, a power steering pump, and liked to throw belts. It died after my dumb rear end ran it up the back up a trailer. 
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1990 Camry. Good car. Still on the road somewhere.
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1997 Seville SLS. It was given to a friend's dad who sold it to Five years later and several trips up and down the West coast, it fell victim to the infamous Northstar headgasket failure and I limped it down to the junkyard and traded it over for a $1000 California polluting vehicle check. I broke many speed limit laws with impunity, and I'm still sure it's because I'm blonde as gently caress and looked like an 80y/o man after dark. I saved the hood ornament and the now-tarnished gold keys... they're mounted up above my desk. I still miss it and on dark nights I browse craigslist and weird websites with Northstar headgasket bolt upgrade kits...  
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