First Car?
03-20-2023 | 07:48 AM
#41
Roll’n Thunder
Joined: Oct 2009
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From: Pilot
While true, if you answer such questions with personalized answers you may speak freely. First vehicle- Jeep. Now for when used for verification, it’s what I called it between 4 letter tirades when things weren’t going well. In the cyber age you bring up a great point, but it can be used as an added benefit for even stronger protection with a hacker using the wrong answer.
03-20-2023 | 08:28 AM
#42
Line Holder
Joined: Jun 2016
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1967 Buick Wildcat. 430ci V8. Red with white landau top.
My grandfather bought it new in ‘67 who sold it to my uncle who sold it to me for $100 in 1984. It had seen better days when I acquired it. Took me all of two months to trash the tranny trying to do burnouts to impress my friends.
Next up was a 1967 Chev C10 pickup, $600. In-line 6 cylinder, 4 speed manual with a granny gear. Cab corners completely rusted out and I had to carry a gas can in the back to prime the carb to get it to start on cold Minnesota winter mornings. It had a factory installed manual choke on the dash but it wasn’t enough.
Good memories.
My grandfather bought it new in ‘67 who sold it to my uncle who sold it to me for $100 in 1984. It had seen better days when I acquired it. Took me all of two months to trash the tranny trying to do burnouts to impress my friends.
Next up was a 1967 Chev C10 pickup, $600. In-line 6 cylinder, 4 speed manual with a granny gear. Cab corners completely rusted out and I had to carry a gas can in the back to prime the carb to get it to start on cold Minnesota winter mornings. It had a factory installed manual choke on the dash but it wasn’t enough.
Good memories.
03-20-2023 | 08:43 AM
#44
All is fine at .79
Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 4,486
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From: Paahlot
Second car was a 1988 Toyota Diesel.
I kinda sorta knew the guy who sold it to me and he’d bought an Audi.
So one day he’s on the interstate doing the speed limit at 70 and I pass him in his old car doing maybe 105-110 ish.
it would take about 5-6 miles at full throttle to get it up to that speed.
Had a second key made so I could keep it running and lock the door when going into the video store on cold winter evenings.
That was a little car with massive amounts of understeer as the only thing heavy being the engine was over the front axle.
Frontwheel drive too, that kinda sucked.
I kinda sorta knew the guy who sold it to me and he’d bought an Audi.
So one day he’s on the interstate doing the speed limit at 70 and I pass him in his old car doing maybe 105-110 ish.
it would take about 5-6 miles at full throttle to get it up to that speed.
Had a second key made so I could keep it running and lock the door when going into the video store on cold winter evenings.
That was a little car with massive amounts of understeer as the only thing heavy being the engine was over the front axle.
Frontwheel drive too, that kinda sucked.
03-20-2023 | 08:49 AM
#45
Line Holder
Joined: Oct 2021
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1973 Camaro built to the hilt. Biggest issue was burning up valves (should have put high compression heads) and the old fashion dual point distributor. A $20 taped to the dash stayed there through four gears. Biggest regret was letting it go.
03-20-2023 | 09:53 AM
#46
Can't abide NAI
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Mine had Manta parts on it because for as beautiful and German as they were, the iron began to revert back to oxide faster than the “Heil Honey I’m Home” sitcom got canceled, featuring Hitler and Eva Braun juxtaposed with Jewish neighbors.
If I had only known about superleggera then I could have gone for “superleicht” as it rusted away.
03-20-2023 | 10:28 AM
#48
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 3,470
Likes: 634
From: NYC 7ERA
First car? 1980 Checker Marathon with a Olds 350 Diesel and a Turbo 400 trans.
I turned it up quite a bit. I was going to GM's engineering school at the time (GMI in Flint, MI)
30mpg with 8 guys in it. Not super fast but torque fir days.
First truck was a 63 GMC 1/2 ton with a 305 V6 (GMCs didn't run chevy engines then) with a Powerglide.
Also had a truck that started out as 2 82 F-150s spliced together, rotted rear frame on one, frontal collision on the other, cut and spliced the frames. Then I got a 79 bronco with a rotted body that I put the 82 cab and nose on, and cut the bed down to 5 feet.
400 V8, C6 trans, NP205 T case, 9 inch with a locker, dana 44 posi in the front. It would go anywhere. At 5mpg.
I turned it up quite a bit. I was going to GM's engineering school at the time (GMI in Flint, MI)
30mpg with 8 guys in it. Not super fast but torque fir days.
First truck was a 63 GMC 1/2 ton with a 305 V6 (GMCs didn't run chevy engines then) with a Powerglide.
Also had a truck that started out as 2 82 F-150s spliced together, rotted rear frame on one, frontal collision on the other, cut and spliced the frames. Then I got a 79 bronco with a rotted body that I put the 82 cab and nose on, and cut the bed down to 5 feet.
400 V8, C6 trans, NP205 T case, 9 inch with a locker, dana 44 posi in the front. It would go anywhere. At 5mpg.
03-20-2023 | 04:46 PM
#50
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Nov 2020
Posts: 2,907
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From: Enoch Powell Enthusiast
This seemed a whole lot cooler back when I was handed the keys and sternly told to "be cautious".
Drove it into/out of a ditch when I was rocking out to a "Walkman" cassette tape, powered with AA batteries, with foamy headphones.
I believe it was to the official movie soundtrack of Top Gun.
Subsequently had the carpet flooded out when I parked it outside the arcade and a storm passed through, flooded the parking lot, and I achieved my best score playing "Gorf". Carved my name in a video game, as it were.
(Pilots are dorks.)
Zero to 60-ish in under 20 seconds.
Drove it into/out of a ditch when I was rocking out to a "Walkman" cassette tape, powered with AA batteries, with foamy headphones.
I believe it was to the official movie soundtrack of Top Gun.
Subsequently had the carpet flooded out when I parked it outside the arcade and a storm passed through, flooded the parking lot, and I achieved my best score playing "Gorf". Carved my name in a video game, as it were.
(Pilots are dorks.)
Zero to 60-ish in under 20 seconds.
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