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What was your very first car?
Discussion started on 19 Mar 2014
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Pulaski
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Pulaski
Posted on 13 Mar 2014, 20:08
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Boomhauer
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Boomhauer
Posted on 13 Mar 2014, 20:08
1987 Plymouth Reliant
Had a bench seat.
Had a bench seat.
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AmerLisa
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AmerLisa
Posted on 13 Mar 2014, 20:09
1967 Mercury Cougar, dark green and definitely a cool car for a 16 year old girl. My dad and stepmom gave it to me and I had a pretty fantastic summer driving that car (with friends in tow) to the beach. Of course I could put $3 in that car and have plenty of gas... 
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Nutek
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Nutek
Posted on 13 Mar 2014, 20:09
850 Mini. The one with the partial floor option.
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Vimto
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Vimto
Posted on 13 Mar 2014, 20:10
Jees you guys had new fancy cars,
my first was a black 1960 Morris Minor 1000, license plate XVJ 931 on the old style black and white plates, bought it in 1971 for 150 quid, the 3rd party fire and punctures insurance for a 17 year old was almost the same as the car cost.
I found out a year after owning it that the fuel gauge was actually off by 1/4 when my mates and I took it on holiday and I filled it up for the first time and it only went to 3/4, so I could have actually driven it below E had I known. Petrol only cost 33p a gallon in those post decimal days but all I could afford was 3 gallons a week on a lowly apprentices wage.
my first was a black 1960 Morris Minor 1000, license plate XVJ 931 on the old style black and white plates, bought it in 1971 for 150 quid, the 3rd party fire and punctures insurance for a 17 year old was almost the same as the car cost.
I found out a year after owning it that the fuel gauge was actually off by 1/4 when my mates and I took it on holiday and I filled it up for the first time and it only went to 3/4, so I could have actually driven it below E had I known. Petrol only cost 33p a gallon in those post decimal days but all I could afford was 3 gallons a week on a lowly apprentices wage.
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dakota44
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dakota44
Posted on 13 Mar 2014, 20:10
First car was a 1950 Ford 4door sedan with a flathead V8. Bought it from a guy in the barracks in Guantanimo Bay Cuba when I was stationed there. I was 18 at the time. Saw the car sitting behind the barracks and for two months it never moved. Found out who owned it and asked why he never drove it. He said he had backed it over the edge of the road on JPJ Hill and after it was pulled out it never ran again. Told me it had no motor mounts and the engine sat on two short pieces of 2x4. As soon as he told me that I knew what was wrong with it and gave him 50 dollars for it. Went down, opened the hood and, just as I suspected, the piece of flexible fuel line between the carb and the metal line had broken when he backed it over the hill. Replaced it with a piece of rubber hose the same size and drove away.
The left bank water pump (it had a left and a right bank pump) was ****ed and had to fill it with water before I drove it. Many a night at the enlisted club, well full of beer and driving all over the base, run it out of water and then all the oil would burn out and it would stall when I was shifting gears and start again when the next gear engaged. In the morning I would pop the trunk, take out 4 quarts of oil and fill it up, add water, and she would start right up. Smoked like hell, but ran great. Couldn't kill it. Drove it for more than a year like that. Loved that car. When I got transferred I just tossed the keys to a new guy in the barracks and told him to have fun.
The left bank water pump (it had a left and a right bank pump) was ****ed and had to fill it with water before I drove it. Many a night at the enlisted club, well full of beer and driving all over the base, run it out of water and then all the oil would burn out and it would stall when I was shifting gears and start again when the next gear engaged. In the morning I would pop the trunk, take out 4 quarts of oil and fill it up, add water, and she would start right up. Smoked like hell, but ran great. Couldn't kill it. Drove it for more than a year like that. Loved that car. When I got transferred I just tossed the keys to a new guy in the barracks and told him to have fun.
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Hebe.
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Hebe.
Posted on 13 Mar 2014, 20:11
A red Polonez FSO - no idea of the year but it pretty much lost most of its body parts in the 1987 hurricane - next car was a mini metro!
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ChatterStatic
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ChatterStatic
Posted on 13 Mar 2014, 20:11
Chieftain tank closely followed by a Challenger tank and a 432 was the occasional run about and I have lost count with how many different land rovers I have driven.
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Pulaski
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Pulaski
Posted on 13 Mar 2014, 20:12
I'm gonna take a guess that that wouldn't stop it being driven away. 
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MrWeeze
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MrWeeze
Posted on 13 Mar 2014, 20:13
I used to go rowing past the Vickers building. Holy crap that was a long building!