I was driving around the other day and by chance I ran into the very first vehicle I ever owned. I knew it was still kicking around the area, I only sold it a little bit more than a year ago. It was a cherry red metalic 1995 chevy S10. Regular cab short box 2wd with absolutely no options of any kind (not even tilt steering) and of course, the glorious 2.2L 4 cylinder, and a 5 speed behind it. It wasn't a performance peice by any means, but if you kept the accelerator mashed to the floor until the shift light came on, it went pretty good. It had no tach, just a shift light to tell you when to shift for "best fuel economy", or in that case when it hit redline.

Over the few years that I owned it, I had done some modifications. I had some ARE Outlaw II rims with some 255/60/R15's stuffed underneath it. I had also installed a CB radio, alpine stereo, and a custom hand built aluminum shift ****. I machined the inside of the shift **** out and installed a light in it that was hooked up to my headlight switch. When you turned the headlights on and all of the dash lit up, the shift pattern on the shifter lit up as well. It was pretty cool for a highschool kid.

Anyway, as I followed my old truck I started remembering all of the fun I had owning it, and it was almost heartbreaking seeing the shape that it was in now. I was wondering if anyone else out there has had that happen to them, and also if you just want to tell a story about your first vehicle post on here. We have all winter to read while we wait for spring.

here's a pic of the old beater

 

You drove that to school didn't you? I remember seeing it driving around.

Man that goes back a few years lol.

Dont know if you remember Bryon, but I drove the blue FC in highschool. My very first car. All the teachers hated me for doing burnouts in the parking lots.

 

I did drive that truck to school, but I only bought it in grade 12. You may have seen it cruising around though. I made that shift **** in Snerchdog's manufacturing class too. I don't remember the blue FC, but I do remember you bringing a black FB into the shop at school one day. I think I was in grade 10. You were adjusting the carbs, and if I remember right didn't that car have a side draft carb setup on it?

 

Heck yes, side draft SK Racing carb.

Snerchdog's class was great. hahaha we invented the name snerchdog lol.

 

That car was awesome. Kind of makes me want to get an FB and paint it black and tint the windows.

 

I had a similar style experience, but is was the complete reverse. In the summer of 2004 I picked up a 1986 Audi 5000 Turbo Quattro Wagon as my Winter car. It was a tank that was rough around the edges... but I loved it.




Anyway, I fixed up a lot of the mechanical ailments like wheel bearings etc, but there were a ton of electrical gremlins and cosmetic issues I was indifferent about at the time. It was my winter car and I treated it as such, but it really never let me down and I loved driving it in the snow. Anyway, when I moved out to BC I sold the car to a guy just outside Ottawa who told me he intended to fix it up and use it as a daily driver. I was skeptical but it was his problem now.

Last year my Dad happened to run into the guy - and he was driving the Audi! As he told me he would, he fixed almost everything on the car from the A/C to the temperamental vacuum operated diff locks. The car looked great and he loved it - it had been given new life and I couldn't have been happier.

 

..to the OP..I never knew that Installing a CB was classified as a "modification"..(haha!)..Breaker,breaker!..(squawk s Tires!)

 

True enough, but on that truck it was an improvement. I was 17 and I liked Smokey and the Bandit. What else can I say.

 

That's awesome, those Audi 5000s are a pretty cool car. One of the guys I go to trade school with had one as his winter beater. It was exactly like that, same colour and everything. At first I thought it was his but he lives in Kitchener. Anyway its good to hear that the car is in good hands.

 

I had gone through like 10 cars in my highschool years but the most memorable one to me was a 1984 50th Anniversay 300ZX. Originally my buddy had asked me if I was looking for a sports car, I said sure, he told me his dad wanted 2 grand for it. The car had basically sat for a number of years but everything was still perfect mechanically. Much like the rest of them though, it was completely rotted underneath, the outside didn't look too bad though.

Anywho, I didn't want to pay 2 grand at the time so I didn't take it. 6 months later my buddy's dad tells me I can come pick it up because his dad just wants it gone. So I did just that. Original owner had owned it for the first 15 years of it's life and then passed it on to my buddy's dad.

I owned it for 3 months, had tons of memories with it, I loved it. I ended up getting rid of it as a deposit on my '62 Studebaker Lark lol. I didn't mind at the time, the Studebaker was badass and the Z was rotted anyway.

At the time I had also met another chick that owned the exact same car. It was by mere coincidence, there was only 300 of them made for Canada, mine was #28, her's was #42, and her's was absolutely MINT.

So fast forward 3 years to last October, and my girlfriend of the time told me she misses the car (me and her started out in highschool, and the Z was a big part of us lol). So I went on a mission to find another one. The one's in the States were too far and none really met my standards as far as condition goes unless they were in the $20,000 range lol. Couldn't find anything for months, then I go on Craigslist one day and see one. I recognized the picture, it was the girl's car who'd I met at the time when I owned my first one! We got talking and she said she was selling it, told me she wanted $6,000 for it, so come April of this year, I had grabbed it. My chick's bday was in June, and I surprised her with it on her birthday by picking her up in it and reliving some moments so to speak lol.

I've still got it right now even though I'm no longer with that chick lol. Still, it was all worth it none the less and I love the car and plan on keeping it as long as I possibly can. It's in storage at the moment sitting next to my 10th AE FC :P

Here's a couple pics of the new one:

 

Guys, I wish everyone had their name in their sigs...

Is that you, Ian, with the 300ZX?

 

Nah, I'm Faris :P lol