Topic: your first car?

[xedge4lifex]

cop tyres/cop engine/cop suspension.

[CBGhia]

1963 Karmann Ghia when I was 18.  The gas pedal would stick while driving it and I would have to keep tapping it in order to un-stick it.  While showing the car to my co-workers, I got in and started it.  The pedal immediately got stuck and I let off the clutch causing the car to jump the curb and smash in to the wall.  Then a couple of months later while parked in my parents’ driveway, someone rear ended it.   I drove around with it in this condition for a while until one night while cruising (yes, cruising) I saw a friend who had started doing auto body and offered to repair it very cheap.  He did a magnificent job and I drove it around for a while more until one day while in the twisties and listing to “Hey You” by the Scorpions, I went into a turn a little too hot, slid over to the next lane and ended up hitting the side of a mountain.  Retrieved the battery which was resting about 5 feet up the hill, pulled the fender far enough away from the tire so that it wouldn’t rub and drove it home.  Had it parked in front of parents’ house again, but this time with a For Sale sign on it.  Got a call from a girl with a very familiar name and voice who came down to see it, only to find out that she was my girlfriend from when I was like 13.  She took the car, I took the cash and I never saw her or the car again.  I still think about her…..the car that is.

I have a 69 Ghia now.


My first car car was a 74 Super Beetle.  It started a life long love of old VW's, and it made me never want a "fat chick" bug (thats what we call super beetles and bay window busses in the VW world) ever again.  Since that time I have never gone without an aircooled VW. 

That is a beauty! Is it two tone?  Looks like a darker shade on top.

Yep,  Two tone and the bumpers match the top/ matches the wheels/ maybe too matchy matchy.

[Gordon]

1985 Toyota Celica GTS Hatchback

Don't have a picture of mine, but this is exactly what it looked like, with the addition of limo tint. 

I mowed lawns for years, and bagged groceries and bussed tables starting at the age of 15 to save up for it.  Bought it at the beginning of my senior year in high school.  I loved that car.  A year and a half later while at Texas Tech in Lubbock, I blindly pulled out of a parking lot in front of a lady driving an old Buick.  I totaled both of the cars and separated the cartilage on the left side of my sternum, which still causes me problems 17 years later.   

[weekend_junkie]

I miss my 1985 Chevy S-10 Blazer.  It had a 2.8 V6 with a 5 speed manual trans, 4wd.  Oh, what fun I had with that little pig.

[mark]

cop tyres/cop engine/cop suspension.

one of my high school buddies had a '74 Monaco ex-CHP that was a twin of the one in the movie.

cop alternator.. cost a fortune to fix that Leece-Neville beast.

cop brakes.. couldn't throw just any old wheels on.

cop tires.. only had a couple burnouts left.

cop shocks.. wear out too.

it was gas-guzzling fun for a while though.

 

[axehole54]

1985 Toyota Celica GTS Hatchback

Don't have a picture of mine, but this is exactly what it looked like, with the addition of limo tint. 

I mowed lawns for years, and bagged groceries and bussed tables starting at the age of 15 to save up for it.  Bought it at the beginning of my senior year in high school.  I loved that car.  A year and a half later while at Texas Tech in Lubbock, I blindly pulled out of a parking lot in front of a lady driving an old Buick.  I totaled both of the cars and separated the cartilage on the left side of my sternum, which still causes me problems 17 years later.   

Don't suppose you had a Chev dualie like that one behind it?

[petercb750]

Pete, if your reading this, ask Maxine if she remembers Dave Dunstall.
He's the guy that put the 1600 into the Morris.
Had a ton of fun back then.

Yeh mate she says she does remember him, and said she thinks he also had VWs. Sheesh, it's a small world.