Society & Culture Your First Car?

[Childish Gambino]

EB Falcon.

Was a piece of shit, leaked oil and would scrape the ground if you had too much weight in it.

But the memories will last forever!

 

[geelong_sucko]

a lovely little pink car that would play disco inferno when you pressed the horn.

 

[Jesse Custer]

ZJ Fairlane

Was a beast of a car very dangerous in the wet and loved too chew the fuel, i still miss it something about the rumble of a 351 i think, the new V8s just dont sound the same..

Pulled a 351 out of one of those a few years ago, rebuilt it to mild to hot and put it in my XE with a 4 speed manual and LSD diff. Fun times.

 

[Mancey]

1976 Toyota Corona.

Best mate had the exact car. Had it jacked up in the rear with go fast stripes and mags, as well as a 4 poster bullbar. Looked fast but wasn't lol

The worst I had was a Holden Camira, the electrical system fell apart item by item.

Shit car. Most would have disintegrated completely into individual rust molecules now. Absolute bucket of a car.

Motor had the softest rings in existance too (closely followed by the Mitsubishi Colt). Put as much oil into them as fuel

Srs

lol, chick magnet.

I had a blue 86 Suzuki Sierra sorta like this one.

Loved it. Had the surfboard on the roof 24/7 and used to hit the local 4wd beach every other day. Would barely do 100kmh with the foot flat to the boards and if you had to pass anyone you needed to wind it up for about 2km.

A gust of wind would see you get half blown off the road, and the steering bushes were pretty dodgy so the wheel had about a 1/4 turn of play. You'd never fall asleep at the wheel as it took so much concentration to drive the bloody thing.

Silly old bloke pulled out of a side street in front of me in a ford lazer once. I T boned him amidships at 60k, thing just bounced off him lol.

Bent the roobar a bit, about it. Lazer was looking very sad.

Bought it with 150000 on the clock and it was nearly 300 when i sold it

 

[Byron_Clanger]

Not bad for a first (current) car if I do say so myself

 

[WA ROO]

1972 Charger
265,factory headers,500 holley,5 speed Celica gearbox,14 inch Mickey Thompsons on the back.

Used to go out looking for XU1 Toranas

 

[The Big Sticks]

This was my first car. Had it for about three weeks but got rid of it because it was a pile of shit.

Then I got one of these. It was very efficient but after two years it pretty much stopped running. Still got $200 for it though.

Now I have one of these and I'm almost off my P's.

 

[rustyg70]

1972 Charger
265,factory headers,500 holley,5 speed Celica gearbox,14 inch Mickey Thompsons on the back.

Used to go out looking for XU1 Toranas

Awesome cars.
They would have eaten most XU1s on the road.
EXCEPT when you had to stop or turn a corner.
And the good old Mickey T's. Good in the dry but super shit in the wet,
a bit like the old B/F Goodridge tyre of yesteryear.

Mine was a Datsun 180b SSS 2 door.
British Racing Green with Cheviot Armourlite rims rapped in Bridestone Eagers.(Real men smoke Eagers)
Ended up with rebored block,decent cam,ported,polished and shaved head,extractors, 2 1/4 inch exhaust
and twin 45mm side draft Webbers with ram tubes.(loads more go fast bits but CBF listing them all).
5 speed racing box and heavy duty clutch.
Also tweaked the suspension,brakes and diff.
It went like a bullet on the road(13.9 qtr mile) but it came into its own when you took it off road and hit the rally tracks.
Having 2 uncles that ware rally drivers, with one owning a wreckers yard and the other owning a mechanical workshop was fairly handy.

 

[volcboy]

It is cheating, but the second car I owned was when I moved to the U.S. (Berkeley, California) for a 'gap year' when I was 19. It was a metallic brown 2-door V8 1975 Chevy Nova, 3-on-the-tree automatic with brown tartan bench seats and whitewall tyres.

I bought it for $1 of my then brother-in-law who had been given it by his grandmother who barely drove it - it was in mint condition.

I drove it around the western U.S. and up to Canada for a year and it never gave me any trouble. Although the petrol would be unaffordable now (it was 1992/93 when I was there), man I loved that car. So totally uncool it was cool.

The first line says it all: "Nova was a sensible car when it was introduced, and it's even a more sensible car today"

 

[lincsPJ]

datsun 1600.. i still love the look of them today. vintage stuff.. ended up with too much rust in the firewall to be worth restoring properly (with 17yo income)...

so upgraded to a TG gemini after that which got me thru uni.

 

[shurg123]

1988 Magna Elite. loved the digital speedo on it. Died on the way to the 2003 Big Day Out due to a water leak causing all the oil to evaporate and the pistons to seize . Only made it halfway there and had to go the rest of the way by train.

 

[Spadge]

My first car

Nah seriously.... mine was a 1971 six cylinder 2 door LC Torana with a sun roof

 

[BotsMaster]

1987 holden calais turbo, saved up for 2 years to buy that car, worth every penny. picked it up on the 1st of april 2000, sold it 3 years later for only 1k less than i purchased it at

mine looked identical to this one, albeit the w***er number plate

I would like to own one of these one day, did you have any problems with yours?

 

[SaintsSeptember]

datsun 1600.. i still love the look of them today. vintage stuff.. ended up with too much rust in the firewall to be worth restoring properly (with 17yo income)...

so upgraded to a TG gemini after that which got me thru uni.

I sort of feel sorry for some of those who's first car is a Camry, Magna or other "reliable" transport.

No offense to them, but its not the same.

 

[dales.girl38]

I sort of feel sorry for some of those who's first car is a Camry, Magna or other "reliable" transport.

No offense to them, but its not the same.

Guilty

But I love my car - I think the first car experience is a bit different for most girls.

 

[Smoooothy]

I would like to own one of these one day, did you have any problems with yours?

the only problem i had was that it wasn't the cheapest car to run. tank of fuel got me around 450km.

other than that, it ran beautifully

traded it in for a astra in 2003, word of warning - stay the **** away from astra's, i had nothing but problems with mine (ranging from snapped timing chains - yes chains, broken window motors, headlights kept popping, air conditioner compressor blew etc etc)

 

[SaintsSeptember]

the only problem i had was that it wasn't the cheapest car to run. tank of fuel got me around 450km.

other than that, it ran beautifully

traded it in for a astra in 2003, word of warning - stay the **** away from astra's, i had nothing but problems with mine (ranging from snapped timing chains - yes chains, broken window motors, headlights kept popping, air conditioner compressor blew etc etc)

I had an older but still related Holden Calibra.
Beautiful car to drive on a fast windy road, but I don't frequent many roads like that and it wasn't so good round the city. Least reliable car I've ever owned. Stopped randomly but mostly in the wet, always going into limp home mode. Still had the timing belt which failed shortly after I had it replaced ( apparently the tension needs to be set just right , I blame the mechanic but still very finicky I think ), I would have been better risking the old one.

 

[theboxmike]

2004 BA XR6 back in 09

 

[Asgardian]

On car 2 now 2008 Subaru Liberty Wagon.

So you're subaru ....

2 cars in 8 years?

Before I was in insurance I had 6 cars, after that I had a new car every year to year & a half depending on the mileage.

Shit car. Most would have disintegrated completely into individual rust molecules now. Absolute bucket of a car.

Motor had the softest rings in existance too (closely followed by the Mitsubishi Colt). Put as much oil into them as fuel

No argument from me, stuff fell off of it turning a corner, the fuel gauge was based on a dice roll and night time driving was a lottery, sometimes the lights wouldn't work.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Shit car. Most would have disintegrated completely into individual rust molecules now. Absolute bucket of a car.

Having worked for the company that made rings for the Camira the rings were the same material/coatings as everything else.

In those days car companies would purposely run low pressure oil rings ( which are spring loaded) to reduce friction ( lucky to gain 2 Kw from it ).
If they dont get the bore perfectly round the car burns oil.

Rings also wore out if the manufacturer left abrasive material in the bore during assembly.

 

[WALL-e]

So you're subaru ....

2 cars in 8 years?

Before I was in insurance I had 6 cars, after that I had a new car every year to year & a half depending on the mileage.

One of my many alias'.

They aren't company cars so I'll be holding onto this for a while.

 

[HARPSichord]

Could be getting a 1998 Ford Festiva GLXi as my first car.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Could be getting a 1998 Ford Festiva GLXi as my first car.

Dont crash it whatever you do.

And seriously the price of used Falcons and Commodores whatever you lose in fuel you will gain in other costs.

 

[shurg123]

I sort of feel sorry for some of those who's first car is a Camry, Magna or other "reliable" transport.

No offense to them, but its not the same.

Haha I feel sorry for 8-year-ago me as well . I'm on to my 3rd car now though, a 2008 G6E Turbo I picked up for under $30k mid last year. Goes 0-100 km/h in less than half the time of the poor old Magna .

 

[Mancey]

Think a magna or camry is bad. Mate had a '79 Volvo 244. Ultimate chick magnet (not). Got it handed down to him from his Grandfather (who else would drive a 244)

Couldn't kill the thing tho. Lord knows he tried. Even used to drive it while wearing his "Volvo hat"