First cars!
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@Snowy said in First cars!:
@Nepia said in First cars!:
My first car was a Mazda 808
Had one of those too. Third car I think. A sort of bile yellow colour.
Had no guts at all but just kept going, like most of my awful cars.
It’s like what they say about Volvos.
What’s the good thing about Volvos? They last forever.
What’s the worst thing about Volvos? They last forever.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@Snowy I would still have been weedy, awkward me.
Still awkward just fatter now.
You should see my collection of star wars t-shirts tho
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@Bones said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@Snowy I would still have been weedy, awkward me.
Still awkward just fatter now.
You should see my collection of star wars t-shirts tho
I'm stuck at six. I might move on to hoodies while the weather is like it is.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@Snowy I would still have been weedy, awkward me.
Still awkward just fatter now.
You should see my collection of star wars t-shirts tho
I'm stuck at six. I might move on to hoodies while the weather is like it is.
Careful fella, don't want your hood getting caught while you're trying to smash all the kids at climbing kids playground things.
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@Bones said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@Snowy I would still have been weedy, awkward me.
Still awkward just fatter now.
You should see my collection of star wars t-shirts tho
I'm stuck at six. I might move on to hoodies while the weather is like it is.
Careful fella, don't want your hood getting caught while you're trying to smash all the kids at climbing kids playground things.
I've got a rope and chin up bar now bro. It's the only way I can talk my way out of going for a run with the Mrs.
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@Virgil said in First cars!:
First car was a 1982 DX Corolla, man that thing was gutless. 1.3lt engine from memory but it ran on the smell of an oily rag. Rusted like anything tho, at the end the floor under the pedals rusted out. It was like a flintstone car
Yeah cool, how often do you work out at the park and how many SW T shirts do you have ? ( the latter question in particular is apt )
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Morris Minor. 800cc with the split windscreen. When myself and 2 of my mates went to get some crates (5) of flagons from in town in Whangarei we couldn’t get up the fairly gentle slope at Jubilee Park on Tarewa Rd without the two guys getting out then me reversing the old girl up the hill. Grunty it wasn’t.
Since then I’ve spent more money on cars than makes any sense.
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@JC said in First cars!:
Morris Minor. 800cc with the split windscreen. When myself and 2 of my mates went to get some crates (5) of flagons from in town in Whangarei we couldn’t get up the fairly gentle slope at Jubilee Park on Tarewa Rd without the two guys getting out then me reversing the old girl up the hill. Grunty it wasn’t.
Since then I’ve spent more money on cars than makes any sense.
£1,378.26?
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1981 Toyota Corona sedan. Sort of like this one, but maybe shittier.
My parents bought it for $4k at a local car yard when I was at University in 1994. They'd recently moved to Queensland from northern NSW so the 9 hour drive from campus had become a 13 hour drive, and they were no longer keen to do it every term break.
The rubber channels in the rear windows were so perished that they wouldn't wind down, so I removed the handles.
The heater valve would get stuck if you moved it from anything but "hell" so in winter you had to stop, pop the hood, and manually adjust it.
The boot space was shit.
Rear leg room was shit.
Spots of rust on the boot sill where it dripped when left open.
Engine was the Holden 1.9L "Starfire" which could barely generate enough power to boil a cup of coffee.
The starter motor carked it within 3 months - $250 replacement please and installed it myself with the help of a guy on campus, who discovered that it wasn't quite the same as the stock part when he cut into the firewall and thought he got a small shower of asbestos - but probably not as it hadn't been used in the industry for a few years by the time of manufacture.
Eventually the engine packed it in and my parents ended up spending another $1600 on a refurb. Maybe they should have bought the Commodore I wanted for $5K.I kept that car going until around 1998 when the brake lines for the rear started to lose compression. At that point I sold it for $50, after taking it away for a dirty weekend with my new girlfriend - now wife. Being a gentleman, i didn't tell her about the failing rear brakes (despite the loud noise they made) as we swept around bends in the dirt road above the Hunter Valley wine district.
THAT was a good weekend.
Fond memories of that car - driving around campus getting a blowie, finding somewhere to park near the ex's parent's house so we could have a quick shag. Car load of mates packed in for a trip to Canberra with ALL my shit crammed in as well.
It was a more innocent time.
