myn was a 87 gxl with 30k on the rebuild turbo2 rearend for $1500

 

Mine was a blue 1986 GXL. Bought it with a blown motor when I was 15, and had the motor rebuilt. Unfortunately I crashed it a few months after I got my licence. The body damage was looking like it was to expensive to fix so I resurrected my parts car instead which was a red 86 GXL.

 

'87 Auto GX -> 86' GLX-> Deprun's FB-> 90 dakota->91 Tercel->88 Vert->95 Neon->'04 Rx-8 Gt

 

1978 Chev LeMans, 305 V8. Sucked gas but a tank. Got totalled, do not ask.

Next buy was a mint 81 "S" model (in 1986 mind you) and I was hooked. On my 7th RX-7 now.

 

My 1st car I bought was a 1970 Torino GT, Grabber Green with a 351 Cleveland in it. It had US slot mags and sport slats on the back window! The story ends sadly, 1st my hottie girlfriend said it was between her and the car (tough choice....NOT!) then a week later the car got written off!

 

2 door 1986 Acadian. Have no idea how many kms we put on it. It was finally stolen out of a high school parking lot one winter night after 5 great years. We used to have some... ahem... adolescent indulgences and I modified the car to accomodate them. The Mode Select Panel was affixed to the ceiling above the mirror and could switch off the brake, reverse and marker/license plate lights. Another one did recessed red interior lights...





A friend in high school would borrow his father's Lada Niva for us to get around in. It wasn't the easiest car to be a passenger in, either. lol It was one of these:




Swear to gawd, it was louder inside that thing on the highway than a rotary with a straight-through exhaust.

 

My first car that I'm still driving as my DD:

1987 Plymouth Reliant, got it 3+ years ago, has a total of ~140 000 kms to date.

I bought it off my Grandmas-friends-Mother when it had about 100 000 km.

I have a feeling her time is almost up though. Just not running the same lately, need her to run 4-5 more months!

 

Man, that was a loooong time ago. My first car was a 1977 VW Scirocco. It was a lime green (viper green to VW) with factory recaro seats, a bullet proof four speed manual tranny and a crapped out engine. Cost me $900 at the time and this was the car that started my love affair with cars. I was a poor student back then, so I had to learn how to fix every broken thing on that POS. This car started me on the tuning road that I'm still on to this day.

I miss that car...

 

1968 Mustang GT convertible.

 

1962 Morris Minor...Was a great little car

 

Right...... Morris Minor

 

I know some of you have heard this before, but my first car was a 1964 Ford Galaxie 500. It was 11 years old when I got it and it needed a ton of body work and suspension work. It had the 223 Silent Lash I-6 and ran like a train. No speed but would go forever. It was Wimbledon White with a black fake vinyl roof (FAKE VINYL!!!!!) with a red interior.

In the style of the day it was jacked up about 6 inches in the rear and 3 in the front. It had Crager cast aluminum 5 spokes and Playboy Astro Gt tires front and rear. I replaced the seats with a set of buckets from a Biscayne and a Indy floor shifter. I split the front pipe with a y-pipe and ran dual Hush Thrush mufflers with hockey stick side dumps. It was the loudest 6 you have ever heard. It also had the reverse teardrop hood scoop that was the fashion as well. With the 6 it would do about 90 mph flat out or creep up to about 95 on the long run down the hill from Mosport. Weirdest thing was that the inner roof liner would pop down at exactly 80 mph if you left the windows open and whack you on the top of your head.

Got bored with the 6 so I built a 351 4BBL Cleveland motor for it. First Motor I ever built. The car ran great for about a month and had so much more power that I had to add some Screaming Eagle yellow slapper bars on it and replace the rear tires with some Mickey Thompson Indy Profile G50x15 tires. As the car weighed about 4,000 lbs it hooked great and was a strong 1/2 a block car. Grenaded the motor 1 night when I missed 3rd and buzzed it to about 10,000 rpm. Had a bad rod knock after that and I moved on to my other cars and sorta back burnered the car until my dad got pissed and sold the car to a scrap yard. The owner of the yard replaced the motor and drove it for years.

Man I still miss that car. To show how pathetic I am, I still have dreams where I still own the car and I wake up all ready to go out to the shop and work on it. Weird. Its the only car I ever dream about and I have had a few.

Eric

 

My first car was a 89 Nissan Sentra, 1.6L Auto, such a pos, but I put something like 75k on it in 3 years, hit many trees with it, many ditches. Those were the days.

 

Heres a list (in order) of cars I had legally licenced for the road:

86 RX-7 GXL
89 VW Fox station wagon
87 Isuzu Trooper
86 VW Golf (gas)
85 RX-7 GSL-SE
88 RX-7 GX
91 VW Golf (diesel)
93 Subaru Impreza
86 Dodge Ram 100
90 RX-7 GX
93 Dodge Caravan
91 Protege GT
87 RX-7 Turbo (RHD)
93 VW Jetta (diesel)
92 B2200

And those are just the vehicles that I actually drove.....and I've only had my licence for 4 years.

 

First was in 1980. The car was a '73 Chev Impala Custom (concave rear window) 2-door. Mostly stock, 350 CID L-48 small block with a 4-barrel Rochester carb. Big-*** rear seat, all the better for ******** or for passing a dube around between six or seven (or twelve) stoners. Cheech and Chong would have been proud.

Stereo was an 8-track that pumped out a steady supply of Aerosmith (Toys in the attic), April Wine (Harder, faster), The Cars' debut, Boston's debut, AC/DC (highway to hell) and just about anything by Pink Floyd.

 

Lots of interesting history.

Mine was an 86 VW Scirocco I bought when I was 15. Had some minor damage on the corner, so Dad and I bought a junker 82 and cut the piece we needed and welded it to the 86. Had fresh dark red paint afterwards also. Back then in the late 90s, 110 hp was huge to me lol, well for a VW that is.

 

Hehe I had all those 8-tracks in my Gremlin, Brett.

My first driver was a 1962 Plymouth Belvedere with a slant-6 and push button gear selector.

My first bought car was in 1972...it was a 1968 Datsun 510 4-door. Great little car.

For the rest of the '70s, I drove the Gremlin for a year, then a few 1968 Chargers, which I wish I still had.

Didn't get a rotary till 1998, but a buddy had an RX-3 back in 75, which had the best stereo in high school.