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My first car was a 1980 Malibu.  I gave it to my older brother when I got to law school and he turned it into a 600 hp race car, pictured below.
The tires on it suck, and the only time he really got to turn it loose this year it wouldn't hook up.  He still ran a 11.99.  New slicks in the spring should put him into the mid-10's.  
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/jaked1166/bu.jpg)

Also, my brother every year builds a Toyota Tundra and gives it to the guys at OCC.  The deal is if they get his truck on the show, he'll get them a new one next year for free.  Last year, his white Tundra was on the Terence Man episode.  Here is the truck he built for them this year.  Rick drives it and took all the stickers off it.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/jaked1166/occ.jpg)

My first car was a 1986 Dodge Colt (in 1996). Hatchback, 4 cylinder, auto. Ugly brown - no pics :(

I've also owned:

1986 Dodge 600 - Grey, 2 doors hole in floor
1986 Ford Crown Victoria Wagon - Ugh.
1986 Dodge Aries - Brown, 4 door
1886 Chevy Celebrity - Dukes Of Hazard style doors, grey
1989 Chevy Cavalier - blue, 2 door
1980 Pontiac Trans Am - Black, t-top, auto.
1989 Ford Tempo - Red, auto, 4 door
1989 Ford Thunderbird - red, 2 doors, auto
1989 Chrysler LeBaron - Red, sunroof, 2 door
*1990 Chevy S10 Blazer - 4.3 V6, 2 door, blue, 4x4
1991 Plymouth Acclaim - 4 cylinder, 4 doors, blue
*1997 Dodge Dakota - 5 speed, V6, Club Cab. Lots of mods.
*2002 Hyundai Accent GS - 5 speed, 1.6, hatchback. Current vehicle.

I think that is it - atleast all that I can remember right now. I've driven a lot of cheap beaters.  :thumb: The ones with a * were bought for more than a $1000..hehe. Most of the other ones were only a couple hundred bucks, the rest were between free and $800.

What, no Chevette?

I've had:

1980 Malibu, pictured above
1993 Ford SHO
1997 Jeep Wrangler with 33's and a winch
2005 Scion xB with 18" Racing Hart Evolution GT-5's

Next car:

WRX STI

My true first car......

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/Blazinjr/1981ESCORT.jpg)

I had my senoir pictures taken with it.

That is a solid look.  You know, long sleeve shirt, tie, shorts, penny loafers.

I bet you got boy band ass back in the day.  :lol:

Didn't you love the 80's???

I've had:
1975 Maroon AMC Pacer from 1988 through 1991- weird car, but I loved it.  Perfect highschool car.
1975 Pale Blue Chevy 3/4 Ton Pickup from 1991 to 1993 - ate fuel like mad, blew smoke, general pain in the butt.  College rig.
1993 White Ford Festiva from 1993 through 1995 - tiny!  42mpg no matter how hard I flogged it.  Took out the rear seat and put in an amp and 12" kickers.  My mom still drives it.
1987 Tan-ish BMW 325i from 1995 to now.  I love it, but it's expensive when it breaks.  Only 210,000 miles on it (I put 160,000 of those on it myself).

Quote from: Jake DThat is a solid look.  You know, long sleeve shirt, tie, shorts, penny loafers.

I bet you got boy band ass back in the day.  :lol:

Didn't you love the 80's???

That was a pull over Windbreaker, no tie jacket was unzipped, I was wearing jean shorts, and regular tie up shoes?

This picture was taken in summer 1992  :nana:  before going into my Senior year.

I was just takin' the Mickey out of you.  Photo is kind of grainy.

I was wearin' clown shaZam! back in 1992 (summer before my senior year too).  

Nothing like being 31 years old and still into turner cars, huh?  :lol:

My wife says she is raising 3 kids instead of 2 :mrgreen:


grainy because it is a picture of a picture ;)   and I can't scan it because it's too BIG. :dunno:

Here is another senior picture......  before you all say what color the shirt is it was orange and dark blue and when I got the pictures back it looked well you see :x

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/Blazinjr/seniorPIC1.jpg)

My first was a POS 1992 Toyota Tercel  STICK SHIFT...I was the coolest girl in high school for knowing how to drive it...

Now I have my 1999 Chevy Malibu aka grandma car

but the coolness balances out with my GS now

I want a scion!!!

Which Scion?  XA, XB, or TC?

Quote from: BlazinjrHere is another senior picture......  before you all say what color the shirt is it was orange and dark blue and when I got the pictures back it looked well you see :x

HOT ANKLES!!!   those shoes must have smelled sooo bad b/c you never wore socks with them!  ....and PS  Freddy Krueger called and wants his shirt back :lol:

Just give me a few years and I'll have embarrassing pics like that too

They did not smell that bad.....  put powder and rarely used to wear them.  I had like 5 or 6 different pairs :mrgreen:

Amanda, you probably don't know about "tight rolled" jeans?  That was a good look.  I went to an "80's Party" 2 weeks ago.  Tight rolled jeans, stone washed, of course, pink polo with the colar popped, and a tan Member's Only jacket (which cost me like $18 at the thrift store).

If the pictures were taken about 4  years earlier I would have looked like Don Johnson off of Miami Vice :roll:

Now you look like Don Johnson off Nash Bridges. :lol:  

Just kidding!  Look out!

:guns:

I had a 85 Jeep Grand Cherokee...irritated me cause it was a POS, sold that got an 85 camaro, somehow ended up with a 96 lumina (beats out every other grandma car but my brother has now attempted to "pimp it"), and I just bought an 03 spyder.

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My first car was a 1985 Nissan Pulsar, silver...  Bought it from a friend for $100.  All 4 tires were bald, different brands, and three different sizes.  The spedo didn't work (it had an estimated 240k miles on it), only one head-light opened, the tail lights were out, the trunk leaked, it was randomly dented, and it smelled like pizza.  It ended up killing three transmissions and got towed to the junk yard.  Looked just like this (except the wing window was made out of duct tape and the quarter molding was gone):
(http://www.cloudelectric.com/Images/ConversionCars/Pulsar85.jpg)

Then came the '69 Beetle...  Bought it from a friend for $120.  It didn't really run and pretty much everything in it was broken in one way or another.  A trailing arm and 1/4 shaft was bent, so it drove kinda side-ways and wobbled.  Mostly rust, all but the driver's door and rear fender were dented...  Including a huge dent in the roof.  It was Dark Blue, Light Blue, Tan, White, Black, and Gray...  I lent it to my Bro-In-Law and he wrecked it up some more...  I sold it to a friend (who still has it) for $50.

Then the '79 Wagoneer.  Bought it from a friend for $1000.  It ran like a champ, but it got 8 MPG.  That's not a typo...  It really got EIGHT MPG.  It was a dark burgundy/wine color with the fake wood on the sides.  Someone T-Boned me in it and 6 months later their insurance paid $3500 for the repairs.  I figured they were going to total it, so I stopped maintaining it...  By the time I got the money, it ran like total crap and needed a lot of engine work...  So, I sold it to a friend for $100...  Then they sold it to a different friend of mine for $100...  That guy didn't ever check the oil and he ceased the engine.

Then the '94 Ford Exploder...  Paid blue book at a dealer and put about the same amount into it since then.  Still have it.

1976 Olds Cutlass wagon.   350 4-barrel.  Gas hog.   Shaggin' wagon.  :mrgreen:

1981 Plymouth Champ (Dodge Colt in disguise).   Little thing would MOVE when you needed it to.   Great mileage.

1986 Dodge Colt.   No. Power. At. All.   :x

1988 Dodge Ram 50 Pickup.   By Mitsubishi.   Metallic blue, extended cab, chrome rims, raised white letter tires.   I just loved that truck, until it developed a habit of stalling while making left turns across busy traffic.

1988 Buick Regal.  White.  Pimpmobile.  Respectable V-6 power AND 30 MPG on trips.

1994 Saturn, 4-door.   Went through alternators every 30,000 miles or so.  Dent-free door panels made the car look great even after 135,000 miles.   Original transmission and A/C!

2000 Nissan Frontier.   75,000 miles so far.   Zero complaints, but I wish it had a bit more power.

With the exception of the Oldsmobile, I've kept all my cars well past the 100,000 mile mark.

my first car.... 69' Nova 396 SS.

Before that a 67' Bronco Cobra jet 289. Was anything but a car. :lol:

since the Nova....two Camaro's, two El Camino's, three VW bugs, a Toyota Hi-LUX with the bug eye t/s, GMC 1500, GMC Jimmy(K5), Two Kenworths, an Autocar and now my Nissan frontier.  (not in order)

:dunno: I think I missed some :oops:

90 Festiva
81 Escort
86 Escort
87 Escort SW
93 Escort GT
94 Escort LX
78 Pinto
88 Ranger 302
94 Ranger Splash
98 Ranger
76 Mustang
78 Mustang
80 Mustang
83 Mustang GT t-top
85 Mustang
88 Mustang LX 5.0
83 S-15 4x4
77 C-10 1/2 ton  2wd
94 Firebird
95 Firebird TransAm LT1
92 Z34 5spd
96 Accent
99 Accent
98 Elantra
01 Spectra GSX
04 Optima LX
04 Civic EX
98 Plymouth Neon
88 Daytona
98 Cherokee Sport

I think I forgot a couple.... :dunno:   I thought I had around 32 :dunno:

:mrgreen:

'84 some sort of POS Pontiac...bought for 50 bucks, drove it home 45 miles on 2 flats and 2 spares...In the rain, with 1 headlight, rotting headliner falling in my face, and no heat.  It is now at the bottom of a swamp somewhere in central Minnesota with the fluids drained out.

'75 Chevy pickup, lowered, 2WD, 3.73, shortbed, shaved up, 454, shift kit...bla bla bla, wasted too much money on it...going to take a major bath when it finally sells...if it ever does.

Anybody interested?

Quote from: un1261an Autocar

Good taste in "automobiles".   :mrgreen:

What model?

The family owns all the rolling stock here, so technically I've never owned a car.  So It's kinda hard to say what my first was.   :lol:

my first and only car is an 86' GL Escort with the optional 2.0L CAT turbo diesel matted to a 6speed. I've since added the GT''s body work [for an 86' it was hot back then the GT's looks...] and I put on a set of celica wheels that's as far as i'm going with my "pimp job" which is sick considering it looks like an import rice burner until you hear it idle LMAO :cheers:  can't beat it tho at 52mpg highway and it has 300k miles on it and goes as strong as day 1. Then I just aquired a 90' Ford Ranger with a blown crank bearings and probably a stuck inteak valve. what can I say I bought it for $100 and hauled it away and it's currently up on jackstands next to my FZR600 with the motor out and up on the engine stand....

AS a side note anyone of you who drive and AUTOMATIC arn't diriving :nana:  :nana:  :nana:  :nana:  :nana:

My ride was a '79 VW Rabbit w/ diesel engine

48 hp in a 2000 # car!
but it got 50-55 mpg when driven conservatively!

It had about 90-10 weight distribution which made it a great snow car. I had a ski rack I salvaged from a dumpster. We would leave school, drive to ski resort for "night skiing" then pray that thing would crank at midnight in the freezing cold. Get home around 2 and get up for school!

I loved passing jacked up toyotas that were stuck on ice/snow and flipping em the bird.  :nana:

Out of all the cars that I have owned only these were automatics....
98 Cherokee Sport
04 Optima LX
77 C-10 1/2 ton  2wd
88 Ranger 302
78 Pinto

First was my 86 Chevy Cavalier - POS 2.0 liter, auto, ate alternators like candy (one very couple months) Sky blue, 2dr.

Then...
89 Ford Tempo - Midnight blue
89 Olds Cutlass - Gold
89 Jeep Comanche - Red, manual 4 spd
94 Saturn SL2 - Maroon, manual 5 spd
95 Saturn SL2 - Teal, manual 5 spd
94 Cadillac Deville - champaign
01 Saturn SC2 - Black, manual 5 spd
95 Pontiac Firbird Formula - Red, LT1, 447hp at the rear wheels, manual 6 spd
04 Chevy Trailblazer EXT - Charcoal, 4x4
04 Jeep Grand Cherokee - Silver, lifted 4x4

69 chevelle convertable , 11.5:1 383 -  400hp 12.50 e.t.
67 camaro (still own, being converted to drag car)
77 firebird (350sbc 14.00 e.t.)
84 daytona turbo (wired waste gate shut so it was always under boost,  
                          had to install solid motor mounts,  blew axles apart
                          at least once a month)
80 something ford tempo (family car, hated it)
89 grand prix se  
84 camaro
91 s10 blazer 4x4
96 firebird
91 s10             (still have)
70 chevelle ss  (still have)