what was your first car/truck

j-ten-ner · January 26, 2014

My very first own car was a 1982 Ford Sierra 1.6L, four banger, 75HP.

I loved this car. Drove as comfy as a Cadillac.

No guts but still good enough for the Autobahn (top speed 165km/h after 20 min or so... ).

I have to look if I can find a pic but here is one what looks the same.

so long

j-ten-ner

Imcrazy · January 26, 2014

a 1995 Ford Escort LX Sedan it was greenish blue, paid $2500 for it in like 2001. Some broad hit me in it about 6 months later, I got $2500 insurance settlement for the purely cosmetic damage, just a bashed up fender and driver door, bought a donor car of the same color for $350, swapped the door and fender over and had a free car lol. I was a STUPID 18 year old kid and beat the CRAP outta the thing and the transmission blew up on me after about 18 months of ownership. I learned alot from that car.

06pirate · January 26, 2014

1st car: 1966 Plymouth Barracuda, 273 V-8, 4-speed. Bought it in September 1973, I was 18. Totaled it December 27, 1973, it when I hit a telephone pole sliding sideways through a turn at 70 MPH.

2nd car: 1965 Sunbeam Alpine MKIV. Bought it spring of 1974, wrecked it, fixed it, wrecked it, fixed it, wrecked, it fixed it, sold it.

3rd car: 1976 FIAT 124 Spyder. Bought in 1978. Drove it, fixed it, drove it, fixed it, fixed it, fixed it, fixed it, fixed it, fixed it, fixed it, fixed it, fixed it, got fed up, sold it.

4th car: 1974 Ford T-bird (the BIG one) 460 V-8, 8 miles per gallon. Bought in 1979 with 80,000 miles on it just for fun, drove it, drove it, drove it, drove it, drove it, drove it, drove it, sold it with 218,000 miles on it. Traded it for the next T-bird, but sure hated to see that boat go.

5th car: 1984 Ford T-bird, 3.8 liter V-6, bought in 1986 with 52, 000 miles drove and drove and drove, only replaced head gaskets, drove until 2006, when it succumbed to a dashboard electrical fire, at 256,000 miles.

6th vehicle/1st truck: 1990 Toyota 4x4 X-Cab, 3.0 V-6, 5-speed manual. Bought 1990 with 58,000 miles on it. Still driving it (seldom) with about 360,000 miles on it. Runs fine. Original engine, trans, and rear brakes.

7th vehicle/1st motorcycle: 2003 Kawasaki Concours. Bought in 2005 with 7,600 miles, now has 58,000 on it. Still have it, running strong.

8th vehicle/2nd truck: Brand-new 2007 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 X-Cab, 4.0 V-6, TRD Off-Road. Bought February 2007. Kept it 5 months, 6,000 miles. Hated it. Traded it in for the GMC.

9th vehicle/2nd motorcycle: 2007 Suzuki V-Strom DL650: Bought new 2007, still going strong at 36,000 miles. They will have to pry this bike out of my cold dead hands.

10th vehicle/3rd truck: 2006 GMC Sierra SLT 4x4 X-Cab, bought in June 2007 with 25,000 miles (traded up from the Taco). Still running good at 125,000. few minor issues. Love it.

CrRdz · January 26, 2014

2002 Silverado

When i got it

Now

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skyhighhooker · January 26, 2014

87 s15 jimmy! Bought it with a 2.8L dropped in a 305 with a holly carb edelbrock intake hurst shifter electric fans holly fuel pump, camero rims, damn I miss that truck!!

Likarok · January 26, 2014

1967 Camaro

AdrianZ71 · January 27, 2014

My first car was a 1999 Volvo S-80 Sedan T6. This car had 2.9L twin turbo charged I6 engine. It was a very nice car and pretty fast too (I used to go 90 mph to 100 mph on my way to school almost everyday my senior year, need less to say I was never late). Despite that I hated it because the damn car always needed something fixed on it! I really wanted an F-150 or Sierra 4x4 for my first car and the F-150 I eventually got was awesome not to mention the Sierra Z71 I have now is probably the best vehicle I've owned.

grampadirt · January 29, 2014

'56 Chevy wagon.265 v8,three on the tree with manual overdrive,paid $275.00 for it.Beat the hell out of it then sat in the back yard.My dad junked it while I was in 'Nam.

beetle · January 29, 2014

My first truck was, strangely enough, a 1963 GMC. I invested in interior, paint and re-chroming and transformed it into a nice looking truck. 305 C.I. Hercules V-6 with dual glass packs sounded sweet.

C25A1guy · January 30, 2014

I wish I still had photos of it around. It was a hand-me-down 1987 Acura Legend sedan from my mom when she got her Accord. When I first got her, the engine was in pretty rough shape (my mom had never changed the oil since acquiring the car). So, with the little money I was making doing jobs here and there, I got it running pretty good. I still had issues with sticking hydraulic lifters clicking, so that summer break, I decided to do something about it.

During that time, I picked up a used Mercedes 190E 2.3-16 on the cheap (as in under $5000 cheap), pulled the engine and transmission out and really started doing work. I knew I wouldn't really need to do any machine shop work on it so that was good. Just a good tear down and refresher. I was able to take care of all the oil leaks, upgraded the oil filter housing from the cartage style to a spin on filter style (that took many trips to a pick-a-part to find), rebuilt a automatic transmission that I pulled from a 88 Legend coupe and slapped that on. Went from the dual butterfly to a single plate throttle body off the same 88 couple that I got the transmission from. Probably a dozen or so cases of brakeclean (the old red bottle CRC formula that was awesome, not this new green can "eco-friendly" bullcrap that's on the shelves now). Basically, the only thing reused were items like the bottom end rotating assembly, cams, rockers, pushrods, valve springs, etc. I fabricated a EGR block off plate for the times I didn't have to smog the car. Relocated the battery to the truck in a ventilated Moroso box. I replaced nearly all of the suspension bushings and whatever ball joints that were dead. Also installed a new radiator. I was able to get my hands on probably the last set of Tokico shocks and struts for the car. I had Ground control make a custom coilover sleeve system for the car, new stainless steel braided brake lines, Powerslot rotors, Axxis Ultimate pads, custom fabricated cold air intake, custom Y-pipe with larger diameter pipes, custom exhaust with a Remus muffler. By December of my senior year, she was done. New paint, and what I would figure a nice, smart restomod. She sat a good 1.5" lower on Racing Hart C5 1 piece wheels, beautiful fresh dark blue metallic paint (I couldn't stand that 2-tone look), pretty decent sounding system (Alpine CD head unit, 4" Alpine speakers up front, 12" JL Audio W3 subwoofer, and a pair of PPI amps). By the time spring semester started, I had 2 great looking and performing cars. They definitely looked aged compared the the brand new Mercedes and BMWs that were in the student parking lot, but the difference was that I carried a sense of pride in my work and it showed in my 2 high school cars.

Now the story on the 190E 2.3-16. As I said, I picked it up while the Legend was torn down. When I first picked it up, the body was straight, paint was OK, but the reason why the owner sold it was the car couldn't hold a cold idle and he couldn't figure it out. Plus it would overheat. I threw in a new rad, thermostat and fans to take care of the overheating issue (once I made sure it wasn't a head gasket). Still had a cold start problem. I tossed fuel injector cleaner to make sure the injectors wasn't sticking, plugs and plug wires, vac leaks, etc. Wasn't it. It ended up being a combination of the IAC valve being bad and something else I can't remember (probably a cold start valve or something). Took care of that and she ran like a champ. I put in a new Sachs clutch kit, replaced the drive shaft donut, ATE slotted rotors with ATE pads and superblue fluid. I got a used set of C36 AMG wheels, fresh fluids and filters for everything else, lowered it on some H&R sport springs and fresh Bilstein shocks and just drove her.

Man, I miss both of those cars. If it wasn't for those 2 cars, I probably wouldn't be as mechanically inclined as I am now. And also because of those 2 cars, my tool kit went from one of those Husky 100-something piece tool kit to buying tools a la cart Craftsman (along with some specialty Snap-On stuff for the Merc).

jomuehlbauer · February 4, 2014

1987 Ford F-150 I bought myself when I was 15 for $700, spent a year fixing it up with my dad, this is how it looked one month before my 16th birthday

NitroCherokee · February 4, 2014

1987 Ford F-150 I bought myself when I was 15 for $700, spent a year fixing it up with my dad, this is how it looked one month before my 16th birthday

That is pretty, nice truck

ClutchDisc · February 4, 2014

1987 Ford F-150 I bought myself when I was 15 for $700, spent a year fixing it up with my dad, this is how it looked one month before my 16th birthday

Well you either did a lot of fixing up, or you got a really nice deal for $700! Or maybe both!