1st cars

[insanekiwi]

My first car... the most unreliable car ever!!

1997 MGF VVC
British racing green....

TF 160 throttle body
K&N 57i intake kit
Front carbon fibre splitter
Lowering knuckles
Competition HT leads

Engine and variable valve control unit rebuilt due to cam gear falling out at around 39000km. This happened twice during my owner ship.
Headgasket failures are very common on these cars also which I didn't get chance to suffer!

Being midship great handling and awesome in summer nights..... was real nice looking back in 2000, but not looks a bit dated...

Had lots of fun in that car

[PeterHBne]

"still, the tyres are so skinny its easy to fish tail in the wet even at low speeds"

Thats what I loved about my Corolla - flogging the arse off it felt like you were going 160kmh. Used to love going up to the council dump dirt road after work and perfecting my doughnuts, handbrakies and high speed (well, relatively) reverse to firsts. Used to go through a set of rear tyres every 3 days sometimes.

[RhysQ]

Red 1995 Holden Barina City 1.2L

all 33kW and 86Nm of it....haha.

i bought it with a set of 'fully sick' CSA 14" rims.

after i had a bit of a prang i got the body colour-coded which made a huge improvement to looks (anything helped that car). along with that i debadged it and removed side decals.

this was my big stereo car in which i custom made a 15" sub box to fit the whole boot, which was filled with a Sony X-Plod 15 'pentagon series' subwoofer, attached to the box was a Coustic Monoblock Amp, Stinger competition wiring (0 gauge power cable), and then up front i had a VDO Dayton 52wx4 head unit and JVC competition splits.
i went in a sound-off in Rockhampton and pulled a 132dB if i remember correctly, which was ok i suppose for a single 15" on a small monoblock.

other mods included a K&N flat panel filter, custom made CAI, and Holden Sports exhaust.

this car was so much fun on the mountain runs (except going uphill ).....very good on tight corners as well.

[pixl]

79 Ford Escort

It ran on 3 cylinders and if I was lucky, the 4th might decide to kick in. Max speed was about 88km/h, so freeways were out of bounds.

There's a road that I use to take home that consisted of about 400m down hill (about 20 degrees) and close 200m 45 degree uphill. It was a 50km/h zone, but there was no way that car could do it. I had to doing at least 70 if there was to be any chance of me making it up the other side.

3 speed auto and you could open up the car door with a 5 cent piece, but I still loved her.

[Bubu]

My first car was a 1977 Mazda 323.

It had 13B bridgeport engine built by Bill Nabham, with 48mm Webbers and an RX7 5 speed box. Simmons wheels, half cage, and very stupid looking bonnet scoop. Cant remember all the details now it was a while ago.

The Polo GTI is my first VW and my first Euro car.

[mscabrio]

1968 Beetle. Sometimes it would go and sometimes it wouldn't ...... Only mods was to rip off the original steering wheel and add a tiny SAAS sports wheel. ...... What on earth was I thinking?????

[Piotr]

My first car was a 1988 silver Honda CRX. It was an awesome car, I had it lowered 15 inch alloys, extractors and sports exhaust. Lots of fun only weighed 890 kgs great power to weight ratio. However insurance premiums caused me to sell it.

[balkanac]

My first car was a 1982 Toyota Supra 1GEU with a 2L I6 and a 5-speed W58 gearbox. It was lowered and a 2.5" pipe all the way with 2 hotdogs. Sounded pretty good. I loved that car. In the end it was giving me problems with electrics, ran on 5 cylinders for 10 mins and then the 6th one would kick in. Noone knew what the problem was

[STV4SYT]

My 1st car that i bought was a 1988 MR2 T-Bar (AW11) i still have it in my dads garage and it runs and is roadworthy, though its back in Ireland still. Before that i drove a couple of dads cars, little Nova, 95 Corsa (barina), Clio, etc.

The Corsa had the old 1.5 Turbo Diesel lump in it and it got an absolute flogging, its still running around with the same wheels i put on it all those years ago.

First Brand new car i bought is the current Golf, always bought 2nd hand and was also fortunate enough to have had a good run on company cars over the years.

[gareth_oau]

my first car in 1981 was a 1978 Escort 2L Rally Pack.

the fact that I had to wait at the dealers to collect it because it wouldnt start and they were waiting for a spare to come in - should have been a sign of things to come!!

Anyway, the car had been rebored 40thou oversize, high compression pistions, fully blueprinted cylinder head, racing cam, full exhaust/extractors.

It even sat on 235/50/13 tyres which looked monster

From a reliability perpective it was a dog, but it was just sooo much fun to drive!!

i kept it for 7 years before starting a family and buying something a bit more family friendly and reliable (original Corolla 4AGE twin cam hatch).

however, this Escort really helped me to define my car fanaticism, and I've absolutely adored performance cars (and spending $$$ on them) ever since

[GT3]

maybe my first car sounds bogan, but I was 19, silly and just HAD to get it out of my system ...
VH interceptor, too many mods to list, eg 360 V8 stroker, 780 double pumper Holley, turbo 400/B&M quick shift, straight 3" bathurst exhaust, Billsteins on (back then) 17" black BBS rims etc etc. It hammered !!! Eventually cops/EPA discovered it and took it off the road. It was fun while it lasted..

[VW Convert]

Mine was (wait for it) an Austin A99 Westminster, think it was about a 1959 or 1960 model. Big tank of a thing, 3 litre six cylinder with twin 1 ¾ SU carbies, 4 speed column shift with O/D on 3 & 4 and unusual for it’s day had disc brakes on the front. It was finished in what looked like battleship grey primer and had leather trim (worn out like the rest of the car!) but was a very comfortable thing to drive actually.

It was blowing a bit (more like a lot) of smoke when I bought it, dealer said it needed a tune up…….yeah right! It actually seemed to use more oil than petrol but went like the clappers. It was capable of easily breaking the old ton (100 Miles per hour or 160Ks) and of course in those days of prima facie speed limits one could do so (perhaps) legally on some roads.

One of it’s more interesting features was that it had vacuum operated windscreen washers and because the engine was so worn out they would only operate under extreme deceleration!

I ended up towing it to the tip and buying a 998cc Mini Cooper that started a long lasting love/hate relationship with Coopers and Cooper S’s.

Cheers

George

[Celestine]

Blitzen: you're spot on with the tree. Car suffered servere understeer when I entered a corner at low speed and the back end started sliding out after I tried countering it but by then I was too close to a tree already

[Vr6_Dog]

1994 Alfa Romeo 33 Boxer 16V QV...Lasted about 10 months before meeting its demise..
This is it before I picked it up..

[blutopless2]

1968 Beetle. Sometimes it would go and sometimes it wouldn't ...... Only mods was to rip off the original steering wheel and add a tiny SAAS sports wheel. ...... What on earth was I thinking?????

more mods than that.
it was a semi auto... so when that died we had it converted to manual and upped the motor to a 1600 tp.