The MiniLee.... My first Car

[hubeerjw]

This really wasn't my first car, but it was the first one that I owned outright. It is a 1980 Plymouth Champ and it has a 1.4 L with a manual transmission with a 4 speed... actually it has a high and low so there was really 8 different gears. I rebuilt the carbs and got over 40mpg on it! I spraypainted the car - Krylon Orange and put 0.1 on it since it was 1/10 the size of the real general lee. I just came across this picture and thought I would share... oh, and yes it had the dixie horn and I did jump it with all 4 wheels off the ground at the same time. Anyone else have pics of their first car?

 

[naughtyG]

My first car (in France, 1984) was the Peugeot 104 GL. In maroon, it was a 4-door hatchback grossly underpowered by a 1.1 litre engine. Total POS. :biglaugh:

My first car (in UK, 1986, driving on the left) was the Austin Mini Van, in that very blue, just nowhere as shiny (t'was a '73). Hilarious car, and actually great in the snow. :rofl_200:

Sorry I could not find pics of my actual cars, although looking thru some old photo boxes I may just find some LOL..

 

[gamorg02]

this was mine:

http://www.edmunds.com/pictures/VEHICLE/1993/Isuzu/3182/1993.isuzu.pickup.5596-396x249.jpg


not exact pic obviously.. '90 isuzu pickup. they were even too lazy (isuzu) to give it a real model name aside from 'pickup'.
haha

 

[Shuriken]

Don't have a pic, but I'm still driving my first car..... '84 CRX with 290k miles. 1.5l, carbureted, still pulling around 42mpg on the freeway. Best vehicle I've ever owned.

 

[one2dmax]

Not really driving it but I still have the first car I learned to drive in. No pics at the moment. 68 Camaro RS/SS with our LS6 454 engine in it. I'm not really sure what my first car was??? I had a bike I rode before I got a car of my own and I still have it too - 83 seca turbo. I think my first car was a 69 428 pontiac bonneville convertible which I still own too.

Sean

 

[dkw0417]

I will have to look for pics but my first car was given to me after my Mom stopped driving it and it sat for 2 years. It was a Full size 1989 GMC Jimmy with a 350, 410 limited slip diffs front and back, not sure on the transmission, 32" tires, and no lift. It was a tank and sat at the perfect level in my opinion. I got real good at changing U-joints with that truck, and it had over 300,000 miles on it when I got rid of it. Replaced that with a 1993 Ford Lightning in 2000. I wish I still had that one but it got stolen and wrapped around a telephone pole. Bastard didn't get caught but he had to have been hurt from the look of the truck. Then a 2003 Jeep Rubicon and now I drive a 2007 Tacoma.

 

[maxcruiser]

Don't have a picture of it, but my first car was a 1964 VW bug - baby blue, bone stock - got it from a friends grandmother - car was mint - I included a pic of one similar that I found off the net.

Mike

 

[COP RUNNER]

HEY , hubeerjw , THIS IS YOUR 666TH POST , THIS IS THE SIGN OF THE DEVIL ! ANYTHING YOU WANT TO TELL US ? " LOL ":rofl_200:

 

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My first car was a '84 (i think) Nissan Sentra. 2 dr hatchback. Picked it up for about $1k with the money I made from being a stock boy at the local grocery store. The car was a POS. First stick I ever drove. Learned how to drive a stick on the way home from purchasing it LOL. Didn't take too long since I was used to a clutch n shiftin from my dirt bikes. After that a 88 CRX 5spd (fun to beat on), 87 Isuzu trooper (not good for 4 wheelin, no ground clearance, but had fun beating on it) 69 cutlass with a 455 (still got it, anyone want to buy my basketcase of an Olds?), then marriage and boring cars like the 99 saturn sl2 and the 05 pacifica (just as big a POS as my first car I think, had issues since day 1 with it)

The olds is the favorite. It was brute torque with a 445ci, a healthy cam, offenhauser intake, 3.73 rear, th400. It wasn't a screamer like a built smallblock chevy 350, its power was from 3500-5500 RPM. I never bothered trying to make it hook up with fear of tearing up the 10bolt rear. There is a cheapo air bag setup in the rear coils to help plant it for launching but I never used it. Plus, it was always fun being able to burn off the tires at will.

 

[Frosty72]

This was my first ride, 65' 350ci two speed powerglide, no power streering or air conditioning but I loved that truck. Got it from my dad at the end of my sophmore year. It had faded paint and hail damage but I still thought it was the coolest thing ever. So I saved up and got a paint job and my dad redid the wood in the bed, shoulda kept it!

This is the only picture I could find, so there I am, all 135lbs. in 1990.

 

[Bill Kratzenberg]

Don't have a picture of it, but my first car was a 1964 VW bug - baby blue, bone stock - got it from a friends grandmother - car was mint - I included a pic of one similar that I found off the net.

Mike

Mike,
That reminds me of my white 67 bug restored.
I was the lead car in a volkswagen bug wedding, i drove the bride and groom to the reception with 12 other bugs.
Needless to say the couple loved vw bugs... lol

 

[vmax190]

my first was a 71 dodge dart demon, 340, craiger ss, n50's, air shocks, 9" grant steering wheel, hurst shifter, a back window full of speakers, the perfect 70's car.

 

[Bawls]

My dad's first car was mine too . 1972 Mercury Comet GT. 351 windsor and a worn out c4 with a shift kit. The engine was built in 1982 and has about 5 trillion miles on it lol. Still has an old single plane intake and a 600 holley and will run low 8's in the 1/8th. One of these days I'll restore it and have it looking the way that it should. I drove that, a 1990 suzuki samurai that I traded a 300 weatherby mag for and built my own lift kit for, and a silver 1989 toyota with 4.88's lockers front and rear, and a 4" lift on 35's.

 

[maxout1200]

My first car was a 1964 chevrolet Malibu SS. 283 CI Munci 4 speed. I bought it used in 1972 with 51,000 miles, Mint condition ,Always garaged. I paid $750 for it. The hub caps are worth more than that now. I let it go for $650 about 2 years later. Yeah I'm that old.

 

[Hatter]

My first car was a '77 El Camino, 350, 4 bbl, auto, bought in 1987.

I wish I still had it.

 

[Bill Seward]

1964 Corvair Monza. This is a shot from the web. Funny thing is, mine was the same color, and had the same type of stick-on racing stripe...

 

[user 773]

1966 Mercury Comet Caliente Covertable - 390ci - C6

Absolute blast of a car... Sold it because it needed $150 in exhaust work... :bang head:

I'll have to look around for pics from the old Kodak 110...

 

[Bawls]

Something like this? Here's the car that I put out in the 1st round of the Pinks race.