First cars!

[MiketheSnow]

@Bones said in First cars!:

@MiketheSnow said in First cars!:

54 this November still waiting on my first car purchase

Sweet ironing board tho

[nzzp]

Bought for the Undy 500, old school

[Catogrande]

@nzzp Cortina MkIII 2000E?

[Bones]

@nzzp my bro had one of these in silver, loved that car.

Even better when he was on tv1 news standing in front of the open bonnet on welly motorway amidst flooding and stacks of cars having to crawl around him.

[Toddy]

@Catogrande said in First cars!:

MkI 1300XL Ford Escort. Pale metallic blue. Loved it. Wrote it off spectacularly.

Nice. Mine was a MkII. I wrote it off spectacularly too.

[Catogrande]

@Toddy I rolled mine, what did you do?

Edit: Nice pic. GL by the looks of it. 1.3 or 1.6?

[Toddy]

1.3. Rolled mine too.

Was a great first car. I remember driving down the motor way and changing into 3rd when the fucking gear stick came completely off. Clutch was fucked by the time I got home.

[Bovidae]

@antipodean My first car was a Laser as well. 1983 metallic gold colour.

[MajorRage]

85 Familia. 3 door, 3 speed with a beep at 105kph.

Cracking little motor, in our fam for 15 years snd never had any trouble. Close to 4K rpm at 100kph tho so pretty shit in fuel for a 1.5. Used to blast over the kaimais no problems and would do mean burnouts when the road was wet. Oh for simpler times.

[booboo]

@Bones said in First cars!:

My first car in aus, loved the magma, louvre and all.

Pretty hot huh?

[Bones]

@booboo

The timing of buying that car coincided nicely...

[booboo]

Mitsi Cordia 1800 5 speed (Not turbo).

[Smudge]

I was a late starter on the driving front. Had my learners from 17 to 24, then finally got around to getting my restricted when I moved to shitty small towns. Dad then decided to buy me a car for Xmas. I believe he got a light brown version of this 1986 Mitsubishi Tredia for $500.

It lasted a year before the gear stick would just drop out of 5th gear into neutral. I replaced that with a 1993 Honda Ascot Innova which was an absolute cracker of a car.

[Bones]

@Smudge that is you bro! Although I reckon an old brown Volvo might be better...

[Smudge]

@Bones said in First cars!:

@Smudge that is you bro! Although I reckon an old brown Volvo might be better...

Imagine me rocking about the hill suburbs of Wellington in a brown Volvo and a matching Nordic jersey. Massively sexual.

[Bones]

@Smudge just...don't shave.

[nzzp]

@Catogrande It was a 1.6, Mk III. Not my pic - grabbed one off the net, but that colour and coke bottle shape. Rear bench seat you could lift out, golden!

After it got to the end of its life, wound up in one of these. From the Great White Shark to the Flying Wedge

[Bones]

After the mighty shuttle I ended up with one of these beasts in metallic blue. I really did style it up when it came to cars.

[mariner4life]

@Smudge said in First cars!:

@Bones said in First cars!:

@Smudge that is you bro! Although I reckon an old brown Volvo might be better...

Imagine me rocking about the hill suburbs of Wellington in a brown Volvo and a matching Nordic jersey. Massively sexual.

Sex offender bingo

[mariner4life]

I didn't own a car until I was 25

And it was a fucking Daewoo. Treated that thing with the utmost contempt. It eventually got traded in for $500.