Your first car - what type was it.

[underdog]


1981 Dihatsu Charade, except it was "Canberra Raiders" Green.

cost me 650 bucks and a case of beer.

came with 4 NEW tires, and 11 months rego.

ah the snotbox. memories!

 

[biggest_tigers_fan]

My first car was a vh commodore that i paid $230 for.it was red,had grass growing on the carpet,needed to be flat towed home,and when i was trying to kick it over it went bang

 

[Marshall_magic]

1994 Honda Civic, still driving it now (got it right before I started uni in 2009). Had some big issues with it in the first 6 months (who thought a used car salesman would be dodgey?), but since then it's been going alright now. It's a bit of a bomb, but I still love it. Silver car with lots of sun damage to the paint, hence I've nicknamed it "silversun"

 

[alien]

At one point I became aware that my Gemini key unlocked and started most Gemi's of a similar vintage and much fun was have moving them to other parking spots etc.

you're a menace to society!!!

 

[happy_tiger]

1978 Holden Gemini.

Great car, an utter death trap but alot of fun.

At one point I became aware that my Gemini key unlocked and started most Gemi's of a similar vintage and much fun was have moving them to other parking spots etc. Than there was the time the drivers seat mount tore through the rusting floorpan. Not enough metal to mend it so a bag of firewood stuffed behind the seat held it in place

Had a similar experience with a latter car I was to own Had EB Falcon which I had dropped off to local Ford dealer to have serviced . I told them if a gave them a free feed would they drop it back at my work in the arvo . Sure enough guy arrived with car and picked up free feed . About to go home go out into carpark to find my beloved car had been stolen . Rang the police and they came down to get descriptions etc and just as police are leaving I see my car heading towards the store so ran out onto road to stop them and its the Ford guy . Sure enough what had happened you may ask . Well the push button has set off the doors to another EB and he had driven the other one and left it in the carpark . When I rang the Ford guys about this they had heard of it happening only twice in Australia . Whatta are the chances hey …

 

[cktiger]

Wonderful 1963 EJ Holden wagon bought early '72.
Put a mattress in the back and got my mum to sew some curtains.
Funny thing in those days told her it was in case had too much to drink and needed to sleep in it,
When you get older you realise she knew all along lol
To all you younger guys- no breathaliser then , the sexual revolution and no aids.
We all drank , drove and had fun with women … what a life!

 

[alien]

I just made a similar thread to this, that was locked…. lol.

there's a difference between talking about your first car and your first root :laughing:

 

[alien]

Mine was also a rust bucket, but most of the rust was in the boot. I found out after going shopping one sunny Saturday morning, and buying 14 x 1.2kg cans of Chum to feed my dobermann for a fortnight. I put the bags in the boot and they promptly fell straight through the floor of the boot and onto the road.

:laughing:

i hope there wasnt a car right behind you

 

[Chris]

Mine was a 79 TE Ford Cortina. Ahhh the memories of driving it to my uncle's house on Friday afternoon and having the motor out, re-built and put back in by Sunday. Did that 3 times and changed a gearbox too. Snapped a tooth in one of the cogs trying to do a burn out in reverse hahaha. I did everything humanly possible to that car and it lived past my tenure of 4 years. I ended up trading it in for a 1991 Nissan Exa.

 

[alien]

My first car was a vh commodore that i paid $230 for.it was red,had grass growing on the carpet,needed to be flat towed home,and when i was trying to kick it over it went bang

the person u bought it off must have been doing this –->--> :roll

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

My first car was a 90 VN commodore. Had it for seven years and until last year when I bought my brand new VE.

It took a lot to part with that car, she was good to me during my apprenticeship when i had little money and she lasted so long where all my mates either traded up or wrote off their first cars within six months.

She now resides with my grandparents up in Deepwater, my grandmother uses her as a runabout in and out of town.
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I'm thinking about buying a VE Omega, without the spoiler - they look mean as.
Hopefully a white one but not too picky on colour, as long as the price is right.

I love my VE, it is truly a work of art for a mass production car.

If you do get one, get it in the Metallic Wildfire (Tiger Orange.)

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

My first car was a vh commodore that i paid $230 for.it was red,had grass growing on the carpet,needed to be flat towed home,and when i was trying to kick it over it went bang

The tow home probably cost you just as much.

 

[The_Shiraz_Tiger]

1972 VW beetle. Speedo in miles so I put masking tape on it to show km/h. the heater in winter was the hot air vented through from the motor. Ahh, love those fumes. Starter motor broke and of course I had no money to fix it so I had to make sure I only ever parked on a hill so I could clutch start all the time. Good times, good times.

 

[spearby]

my first car was 1940 v8 ford i would like to have it now . when i sold it i got 80 pound for it in 1962

 

[Spartan117]

White 1988 Holden Astra (Pulsar)

1.6 lt, 5 speed manual. $4100

Did so much in that car….

 

[happy_tiger]

White 1988 Holden Astra (Pulsar)

1.6 lt, 5 speed manual. $4100

Did so much in that car….

Elaborate please Spartan

 

[tigerbenji]

My first car was a Hillman Hunter & one of them won the london to sydney rally, i think i bought it. Was maroon in colour & cost $1900 in 1970, car ate clutches & leaked from the front windscreen, yep what a car. I now have a Holdden ss sedan v8\. Give me that v8 power baby.

 

[Juro]

My first car was a hand-me-down 1976 toyota corona, mustard yellow. I have some very fond memories of that car, like doing about 140 over the Mooney Mooney Bridge when the whole car started shaking like crazy. My mate in the car started doing his best Scotty impersonation: "It's no good, cap'n. She can't take any more!"

 

[Peaches]

My first car would have been my parents falcon wagon. By the time I got it, the odometer stopped a fair while ago on 184,000 kms, the transmission was slipping straight up a little when it was cold and the fuel gauge was not one to be trusted. It was going alright till I went under a ute. It was never the same after we fixed it at home.

Since than, I brought a 98 Honda CRV. The only issue is sometimes the drainage plug from the sunroof clogs up and it will leak which can result in the drivers door and seat being wet.

 

[jezz]

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th cars have all been fiats, then bought an xr6turbo for the missus (but recently traded it in on a triton for work purposes and she hated the thing!). Then bought an original 1969 fiat 124 sedan, and now I am building a 124 wagon with that many modifications I have absolutely no idea when it's going to be finished! My "toys" include a 124bc sports sedan, and lately built a fiat 132 race car that is almost to improved production specs.
As for what I have done, well let's just say I don't bother buying lotto tickets cause I used up all my luck in my first few years, did some absolutely STUPID stuff in those early cars.
Yeah I know, effing fiats. I build em for a living, everything from a straight engine build to full blown race/rally cars