What was your first car?
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Originally Posted by KeithMajkasays,Jan 11 2010, 09:25 AM
At the time I lived in Park City, UT which gets around 350+ inches snow/yr and we had a relatively steep (and oddly curved) driveway, so that probably had something to do with it.
The luggage compartment lid (like a hood) flew up then off on the freeway and sailed neatly through the passenger side windshield of a moving van in back of me. (The moving van driver was freaked.)
The front end would start shaking uncontrollably for no apparent reason and I'd have to hit the brakes hard.
The steering would come loose from the steering box and I could spin the steering wheel with the car going in a straight line.
All the wiring in the car caught on fire.
I had to take off the distributor cap and sand the points before I could start it up in the morning.
I went through about 15 batteries.
The brakes failed in an intersection and I T-boned a camper with two really old people in it, knocking it on its side. All their clothes, dishes, etc. flew out the back and into the street, only to get run over by heavy traffic.
I fried several clutches.
The mount holding the driver's seat broke, for no apparent reason, and It fell into the back seat with me on the freeway.
The engine caught on fire twice because the carburetors were flooding with gas.
A wheel coming off (three times) for no apparent reason.
The distributor wires were forever popping off the spark plugs.
This doesn't count any of the stupid things I did to it as a kid, like spinning it out down a hill in the rain and into the mud, driving through the garage door drunk (twice), getting chased by the cops after a drag race and getting caught hiding under a pile of magazines.
Or the things that weren't my or its fault, like a lady losing control of her car and crashing into me in the rain, a motorcycle rear ending me and throwing the rider over my roof and hood (he wasn't seriously injured), a bus backing into me, a bag of cement getting dropped on the roof from the third floor of a construction project (fortunately it was parked).
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1990 Dodge Daytona, Shelby Turbo
I liked that car only because it was my first car. It was a monster money pit, costing many many thousands of dollars over the course of its lifetime. Replaced the engine, turbo, repainted it, replaced the exhaust, intercooler, radiator, A/C issues, repalced driver seat (power seat!), and so on, and so on.
Even with a new engine it used to overheat constantly so I'd drive around with the heat on full blast to keep the engine temperature down.
I liked that car only because it was my first car. It was a monster money pit, costing many many thousands of dollars over the course of its lifetime. Replaced the engine, turbo, repainted it, replaced the exhaust, intercooler, radiator, A/C issues, repalced driver seat (power seat!), and so on, and so on.
Even with a new engine it used to overheat constantly so I'd drive around with the heat on full blast to keep the engine temperature down.
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Originally Posted by JonBoy,Jan 11 2010, 01:13 PM
1994 Volkswagen Golf. Went through a flex coupling on the exhaust every three or four months but otherwise took a pretty good beating.
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Originally Posted by ace123,Jan 11 2010, 11:42 AM
89 chrysler new yorker. 
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Mine was champagne color with the landau top. I instaalled 2 rockford 15" DVC woofers with a Sony Mobile ES amp. It was pushing about 135-140 db. STUPID.
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Originally Posted by marc8358,Jan 12 2010, 05:37 AM
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Hey Chubbie, I bought a 1988 Toyota 4X4 pickup new in 1988 and still have it. Only 65K original miles. Climbed many rocks in the Sierras with it.
My first car was a Bugeye Sprite but it didn't run, so my first running car was a 1958 Dodge. Yeah laugh, but it was the 2nd fastest car in my high school my senior year (had a semi-hemi engine) and it only cost me $100.00!
My first car was a Bugeye Sprite but it didn't run, so my first running car was a 1958 Dodge. Yeah laugh, but it was the 2nd fastest car in my high school my senior year (had a semi-hemi engine) and it only cost me $100.00!