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RickC Sniper 01-20-11 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1578581)
My absolute favorite was my 1973 Buick Estate Wagon. Nine passenger Porche. Tank. Urban Assault Vehicle. 455 CID/4 barrel. Simply a kick butt car to have in my college days. She could carry a keg or two! :03:

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1578584)
AVG, I've heard that those things were freaking indestructable.


They have won a lot of demolition derbys over the years. :ping:

Betonov 01-20-11 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1578618)
Pics pics! :DL

you got it :DL

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...26_38933_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._1510884_n.jpg

kbak303 01-20-11 03:22 PM

just traded my 2007 Charger...kind of missing it already, since my commute vehicle became my wife's Hyundai

worst one I miss....1987 Jeep Grand Cherokee....white, beige leather...bit bigger tires nothing major...it'd go anywhere and it did alot of things...

AVGWarhawk 01-20-11 03:44 PM

Who makes this car? Looks like a Suzuki!

Betonov 01-20-11 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1578699)
Who makes this car? Looks like a Suzuki!

Reanult, the french to be exact. Yeah, it looks like a lot of micro cars from the 90's. the first ford fiesta and the peugeot 106 are like twin brothers of the clio

Penguin 01-20-11 03:50 PM

This was the first Pengu-mobile, an 1988 Opel Corsa (mine was white):

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5...nt20080131.jpg

I had to sell my beloved 1980 Yamaha XT for it :wah:, I needed a ride for the wintertime and my new job had a longer commute. I couldn't afford them both :cry: She was painted all in black, I still miss her.

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4...xt250g1979.jpg

Thunder 01-20-11 04:09 PM

Had this for about six years , when i was unable to ride bikes, did her up and she was good fun,
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6641/30102008027.jpg


Sold her, now i've taken this
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6145/08052009125.jpg



and made this.
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/7325/p1020771b.jpg




The car was fun, but....:D

Gargamel 01-20-11 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1578596)
Those Izuzu's were underrated. So was the Mitsubishi Montero IMO. Just cool little trucks.

yeah, most people grouped them with the sidekick and RAV4 type vehicles. The Amigo's were more like a hard top jeep. Huge tires, Wide and short wheel base, good mileage, strong engine (I recall mine being a 3.0 4 cyl, which is huge).

AVGWarhawk 01-20-11 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Betonov (Post 1578703)
Reanult, the french to be exact. Yeah, it looks like a lot of micro cars from the 90's. the first ford fiesta and the peugeot 106 are like twin brothers of the clio


Oh yes roger that. The hood emblem...I recognized it but could not put my finger on who it was manufactured by. We had a similar car built by Renault here in the states. Just very familiar to me. :up:

Rhodes 01-20-11 05:04 PM

Land Rover Freelander of 1999! It's a great crap LR but I miss driving it! And my parents Fiat 127 super, 900/c!

tater 01-20-11 07:08 PM

http://www.landroverranch.com/images/march9truck.jpg
^I owned this for a while. Bought it from my friend.

I like my new LR4 rover, too, and it makes more sense with kids (air con, and 3d row seat (with loads of airbags, etc).

Kaye T. Bai 01-20-11 07:20 PM

My most favorite car that I have ever owned was a turquoise 1973 Oldsmobile Toronado, purchased in early 2006 for 4,000$ USD from a guy in Missouri. Turns out, the original owner was a low-level mafia guy in Nevada during the 1970s who died in the 1980s. Anyway, it's a great and stylish car, still have it and it runs great. Not to mention, purchased for a great price. ;)

One of my favorite cars from back in the day was a beige 2000 Lincoln Navigator purchased in late 1999 for 50,000$ USD. Great car all-around, but it broke down in late 2007 and was sold to a junk/scrap yard in mid-2010 for around 900 dollars. The only downside was bad gas mileage. This didn't matter in the late 1990s and early 2000s when fuel prices were low, but into the mid-to-late 2000s, as fuel prices rose, let's say the car burned a hole in one's wallet. :(

I'm currently looking to buy a mid-to-late 1970s Cadillac Eldorado right now, but with the economy being the way it is, it's been hard to find one at a low and reasonable price and in decent condition.

My dream cars that I would love to have for all time would be a 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, and a 1996 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport.

Sailor Steve 01-20-11 10:22 PM

My first car was a '63 Ford Falcon van

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...g?t=1295580217

My favorite was the '65 Chevy panel truck; looked like this one

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...g?t=1295580266

UnderseaLcpl 01-20-11 11:55 PM

What a great thread! Nice to see so many great cars and first cars. Except for Steve's. His is totally lame. :DL

I jest, of course. My first car was some kind of blue Ford tractor, assuming that counts. I don't know how old it was, just that my grandfather used it for work at some point. It ceased to function long before I was old enough to work the gears. I'd post a picture but it would be a terrible waste of ones and zeros.

My next vehicle was a horse, and I am proud to say that I still own one today. It's a black and brown 93' Morgan. The grass mileage is terrible and it's a compact, but it handles superbly and the acceleration is great. Also, it's a total chick magnet. Well, not for me, but for guys chicks are attracted to.

My first real car was a 1979 Triumph Spitfire.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...tfire-1500.jpg

It was just like this one, but without the hood decal. I looked like an idiot driving it because the thing was really tiny and my head pushed up the convertible cover a bit, but nobody cared because it looked like a Porsche, and many people didn't know what it was. Also, it was very, very slow on the top end. These things have only a 4-cylinder engine (non-GT), they accerlerate quickly because they are light, but they have no guts. Also, they are designed impossibly poorly. Were it possible for an engine or drive system to be designed in such an awful way as to have the removal of any component require the removal of three others, I would swear that this car managed it.

kiwi_2005 01-21-11 01:12 AM

First car was a Holden Camera 1969 302 V8. Metalic blue

2nd car was a Ford Cortina! :yeah: Beaut cars.

Then a Ford Falcon ute, then a crappy Holden Berlina what the hell was I thinking buying that piece of junk.

Onkel Neal 01-21-11 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Armistead (Post 1578555)

My favorites were a 66 Charger, 69 Ford Torino..429 Cobra Jet, 69 Chevelle..wrecked it. and a 72 Charger, 440 mag, also total loss street racing.... Don't think I paid over 2K for any of them, course that was still some money.

Wow, you're cool. I loved the Torinos, even the latter model ones with the smog motors. I had a 70 Cobra Torino, a 72 Gran Torino Sport (like the Clint Eastwood movie) and a 75 Gran Torino Starsky & Hutch edition.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._1665835_n.jpg


Wish I still had them, now you cannot get a decent Torino for less than $20,000. :wah::wah::wah:

PS: Love the Honda, Thunder !

kranz 01-21-11 04:18 AM

my first car after passing the license exam. (Alfa Romeo 145)
http://republika.pl/blog_lu_3362602/...r/alfa_145.jpg
ofc I didn't have all that fancy spoilers and indicators in the wing mirrors.A pretty good car but very expensive in maintenance.

Gammelpreusse 01-21-11 05:36 AM

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2792/...79838f11dc.jpg

First car, though in a worse state then shown in this pic when I got it (but with the same dull grey, hehe). Put a lot of work into. Back then I had a friend with a garage, which made the upkeep pretty easy. Sadly I had to sell it when I moved. But the heck, I was the star of every parking lot.

Sledgehammer427 01-21-11 06:06 AM

I don't have any memorable cars...I've only had three under my name since I got my license, two of those are the same model and make.
my first car was a 1993 Eagle Summit with a 5 speed standard. I made a point to get a standard shift car as my first.
This isn't MY car...mine was a darker grey in the body color but it was in about this same 'going-to-fall-apart-any-second' condition
http://www.reidonly.net/summit/images/P1050899.JPG
Then I drove a white 1992 Oldsmobile cutlass supreme SL for a while. it had a 3.1 liter V6, and one night I hit a patch of Black Ice and sideswiped a telephone pole less than 200 yards from my house. I held the hood and cried waiting for my dad to spot me out of the ditch. I'll admit that I loved that car.
I went back to the Eagle for a while, then, something incredible hhappened...I got anoter Olds. This one was better, a 1995 model with a 3.4 liter DOHC, in this shade of red. I tore apart the 1992 to fix everything on it. I've replaced the entire cooling system, fixed the drivers side door handle which broke off, the rear brakes corroded and I replaced them with the help of my dad. I replaced the starter by myself, the front struts were broken when we got it, we replaced those, dad and I. believe it or not it still drive it after I picked it up with 375,000 miles on the Odometer
http://www.specialtycarcompany.com/c...7-4-06_092.jpg

EDIT: Forgot to add the irony...Right after I got the new Olds, I bought an air freshener for it. The name of the scent? Black Ice.

Kaye T. Bai 01-21-11 06:46 AM

Oldsmobiles rock! :yeah:


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