OT - What was your first car?
First car in the books!! Had to cop that foreign! #Porsche #BlackOnBlack
A photo posted by Nik Stauskas (@nikstauskas11) on Apr 17, 2015 at 12:51pm PDT
I was not as lucky as Nik, my first car was not a brand new Porsche. Mine was a 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan mini-van - absolute chick magnet. What was your first car?
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My first car, then, was my dad's 1965 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser station wagon, as he no longer needed it as the family car. Metallic blue, 350 V8, skylight windows, a real party wagon!
Looked like this:
First car I bought myself---new, too--- was a 1973 Olds Omega 4-door. It was the Oldsmobile version of the V-6 Chevy Nova. I loved that car, drove it for several years before selling it, and saw it numerous times on area roads for over a decade after I sold it. This is what it looked like,
except that mine was orange, of all colors!
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Where in the back seat I saw boobies for the first time.
April 17th, 2015 at 11:05 PM ^
where you with anyone at the time....?
it looked very similar to the Mustang. 2.3L I4, 5-speed manual. Only blew out the clutch one time. It was carbureted; to prevent it from stalling in the winter, I had to brake with my right heel and rev the engine with my right toes. It was so bad in the winter. My dad sold it when I was in college.
April 17th, 2015 at 11:07 PM ^
but still the same car. she called it 'the crappy'.
Lots of good memories with it. Had my first kiss in it, got to second base in it and never had any major mechanical issues with it. I ended up selling it to my little sister when I eventually upgraded.
1972 Caprice that was rusting out on the bottom but ran like a champ.
I loved that car.
April 17th, 2015 at 10:36 PM ^
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2002 Chevy Prizm. No A/C in that thing only fuels my dislike for the summer.
It cost $500. It was a stick shift and the previous owner had let someone drive it who didn't know how to drive a stick, so first gear was destroyed. The other four gears worked fine, though, and the car ran very reliably for four years (until I ran a stop sign and got t-boned by a Buick SUV).
Being an old two-door, the doors sagged terribly. Opening them required a lot of effort pulling them up before they'd swing out. I got used to it, but once when I took it in for service I ended up getting a call from the frustrated mechanic who couldn't get the door open. When I told him he had to lift it pretty hard, he said he'd pulled the tires off the ground and it still wouldn't open. Fortunately, he did get it open eventually.
I really liked that car.
My first car was a 1991 Lumina that was manufactured during a moment in history when General Motors toyed with the idea of not using primer when when painting sheet metal. It was red with unfinished spots and looked like a bad imitation of a Twister board. That being said, apart from the fact that the A/C compressor suffered from a case of shitty bearings, it was an OK car.
My first car was a 01 Dodge Stratus R/T. I still have it, dont drive it as much but i love that car.
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Looked exactly like this, and had a "tweaked" 455 that you could hear a half-mile away.
a year later, I was "upgraded" to this yellow piece of crap.
1973 Vega (Kammback)
It did NOT have a 455.
It had an anemic 138 inline four that produced a whopping 72HP
This was my primary high school car, and as you can see, it was quite the lady-killer.
The Vega received praise and awards at its introduction, including 1971 Motor Trend Car of the Year.[1] Subsequently the car became widely known for a range of problems related to its engineering,[2] reliability,[3] safety,[4][5] propensity to rust, and engine durability. The engine in development became known in-house as "the world's tallest, smallest engine" due to the tall cylinder head.[13] Its vibration, noise, and tendency to overheat were rectified by 1974.[9]
April 17th, 2015 at 11:09 PM ^
in the way back machine...
April 17th, 2015 at 11:40 PM ^
(see what i did there with the whole farmer thing & the extra melanin . . . ok nevermind)
My 3rd (and well-loved) vehicle was a 78' Caprice Classic. It was built to spec to be a police cruiser, but somehow the assembly line painted it black, added a plush red cloth interior & and an 8-track player.
My father got it from a plant auction for 1/2 the would be sticker price.
By the time I got it (84) it had 100k on it.
It finally died in 91' with 390,000 miles.
April 17th, 2015 at 11:59 PM ^
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April 18th, 2015 at 12:44 AM ^
a high mileage vehicle?
at least, that is how i am taking it. and it is advisable to be slow to take offense in any case.
since I'm not qualified, I'm still offended by his ignorance tho...
of some of this. my dad picked up a '67 convertible caprice coupe (blue, black top) that somebody had ordered and couldn't take. well it looked like any other caprice, but the special part was apparently some factory ordered engine - my guess is a 427 with all sorts of bells and whistles (i was too young to know). anyway, that car was so fast it would literally whistle. oh how i wish we'd somehow kept that one.
and my mother had another GM product that had some 500+ cubic inch monster engine dropped in it. i don't know how, but that thing could smoke tires in any gear pretty much, and it was an automatic.
All white, 455 cu in engine, front bumper was a foot deep, seated about 20. If there wasn't enough space to park, I would ease that bumper up to the car ahead of me and push it forward. Hand me down from my parents 1979, sold it for $100 in 1983. FWIW my next car was a Toyota Celica, had it for the next decade.
I had a 69 Chevy. Seriously.
International Harvester Scout. It was awesome. 78 or so?
New in 1976. Nissan for you youngsters.
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April 18th, 2015 at 12:05 AM ^
I've got a 74 260Z now. Fun cars!
This was back in 1978.
Rocket 350 4 bbl.
It moved.
It liked gasoline a lot, too.
I'm old, I know.
67 ford galaxie 500 fastback. Practicatly neighbors. Not this car but it was this color:
1995 Buick Roadmaster. She was a beast.
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