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Posted by: messix Apr 27 2006, 09:10 PM

mine was a '69 nova 2dr, then a '75 monza hatch back v8,morph'd into a 400hp street rocket.

Posted by: jasons Apr 27 2006, 09:14 PM

I had a 76 Olds Delta 88, 4 door aircraft carrier that was a parental handmedown. Then I got what I really wanted, a 74 VW Bug.

Posted by: TROJANMAN Apr 27 2006, 09:16 PM

'81 VW Scirocco


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Posted by: JB 914 Apr 27 2006, 09:17 PM

1977 GMC Sierra 3/4 ton PU with inline 6. it was a tank and i beat the crap out of that truck till i blew the motor.

Posted by: Hammy Apr 27 2006, 09:17 PM

'73 914 still is

Posted by: sixnotfour Apr 27 2006, 09:18 PM

1964 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Spyder coupe.
164CI aircooled , turbocharged, Tach, Boost,Cylinder head temp gauges , hydraulic lifters
autocross special had to rebuild the engine before my dad would let me drive it. great fun for 3 years untill valve seat fell out.

Posted by: drewvw Apr 27 2006, 09:21 PM

72 ghia convertible with no floors. Still got it too (now with floors)

Posted by: pib Apr 27 2006, 09:22 PM

'62 bug with a ragtop...

Posted by: 914forme Apr 27 2006, 09:26 PM

73 Karmann Ghia Coupe May She Rest In Peace

1600 Dual Port engine stock street sleeper. Stock Body on the outside, but I did here up right underneath.

Bilstien shocks all around, 3/4 sway bars front and rear, polly bushings. 944 brakes front and rear, 914-6 5.5" x 15 steel wheels running the VW hub caps. Would piss of a many driver with that car. Loved smashing Vettes into the corner and watching them disapear in the rearview. That is until we hit a long straight, they would some how catch back up. But you knew you got them good. to have your doors blown off by a ghia had to be a pisser. Latter on she got a 1.7L 914 Type 4 then a 1.8L then a 2.0L. Made it that much more fun, I really miss that one.

Posted by: edwardb33 Apr 27 2006, 09:28 PM

1973 Mini 1000

Posted by: Mueller Apr 27 2006, 09:31 PM

bought a '67 Mustang when I was 15....bought a Datsun 510 at 16, had them both at the same time for a while....coolest kid at school for few weeks

Posted by: Twystd1 Apr 27 2006, 09:36 PM

1966 Chevy Malibu. 283 with slip and slide. (Circa 1970)

Won it in a pool game.....

Got drunk one night and lost it....

I wonder where it is?????????????

Oh Man.... Did I tell ya I don't miss the seventy's?

Posted by: Qarl Apr 27 2006, 09:38 PM

Easy...




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Posted by: rcrgrl Apr 27 2006, 09:38 PM

black 73 914 1.8 w/ overbore of some sort. threw a valve, rebuilt the engine, drove it to colorado & back to so cal. sold it for nothing. god i miss that car!

Racer Girl

Posted by: messix Apr 27 2006, 09:41 PM

do we have a girl wrench in our midst

Posted by: Hammy Apr 27 2006, 09:42 PM

Posted by: rcrgrl Apr 27 2006, 09:46 PM

Girls rule !!

Posted by: Qarl Apr 27 2006, 09:46 PM

Yeah... yeah... chicken legs... I know... I was a lanky teenager with lots of zits.

Still have the zits!

Posted by: jim_hoyland Apr 27 2006, 09:57 PM

1952 VW split window. 25 hp, non-synchro with fabric sun roof, and Zeigerfingers ! Paid $400

Traded up for a 1965 VW Van

Posted by: MW 914 Apr 27 2006, 10:03 PM

76 2 door Chevy Nova. It had a 305, AC and auto transmission....probably still running perfectly somewhere today. Sold it to buy a convertible Ghia.

Posted by: rick 918-S Apr 27 2006, 10:05 PM

1958 Lincoln Capri. Mine was dark orange with a black painted roof and a grey tweed fabric interior. We used to cruise with ten people shoulder to shoulder. 30 years ago...


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Posted by: Gint Apr 27 2006, 10:09 PM

67 Charger, around 1977. It still had the 426 HEMI tags on the side of it. The PO had taken it out and put it in his truck. He replaced it with a 383, which was no slouch either.

Posted by: sixnotfour Apr 27 2006, 10:14 PM

Might wanna find that one, Barrett$$$$$$Jackson

Posted by: Lou W Apr 27 2006, 10:14 PM

I had a 1958 Corvette, I bought it in 1972 for $90.00. All that was there was a frame and a body from the firewall back. My dad and I cut the body in half and put a new front end on it, built a 327 sbc, 2 1/2 years later, I'm hotrodding around Glendora, raising all kind of hell.

Posted by: TeamAxisRacing Apr 27 2006, 10:14 PM

1984 Mazda Rx7 Gsl with tthe 1.1 liter carbed motor. pimped it out to 140 hp wasnt enough, threw 10k at it and put a 1.3L turbo motor from japan and programable efi

... you can see my dads 76 914 off to the side too lol


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Posted by: Jerry Apr 27 2006, 10:21 PM

Mine was 1967 Dodge Dart ---- God how I hated that "car" Thankfully, no photos of it. I could tell you a million stories about that car........

Posted by: gklinger Apr 27 2006, 10:27 PM

1962 Mercury Comet - 144ci 6 cyl, 2 speed auto. Couldn't get into trouble with that one... Totaled it after 9 months, bought a 1953 Ford milk truck stoner-mobile. Plenty of trouble there. Ah, the sixties...

Posted by: SirAndy Apr 27 2006, 10:39 PM

'72 VW-Beetle, 1302, 1600cc, 50hp, half-automatic 3-speed stick with no clutch, factory turquoise metallic with retractable roof ...

that was a fun car!
Andy

Posted by: Gustl Apr 27 2006, 10:39 PM

1985 Opel Ascona C 1.8 E




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Posted by: one914racer Apr 27 2006, 10:43 PM

BMW 1800 Touring


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Posted by: Hammy Apr 27 2006, 10:48 PM

Is that like a hatchback version of the 2002?

Posted by: siverson Apr 27 2006, 10:48 PM

'74 914 2.0 - now the 3.6

-Steve

Posted by: malaga_red75 Apr 27 2006, 10:49 PM

914, the way im sure we all wished it to be...
mines a 75 1.8

Posted by: one914racer Apr 27 2006, 10:49 PM

yup

Posted by: VegasRacer Apr 27 2006, 10:50 PM

My dad gave me the old family car when I turned 16. A green '68 Plymouth Fury III.

A week later I traded it in as the down payment on a '67 Austin Healy Sprite.
It took me another week before I got my 1st speeding ticket.

Posted by: lapuwali Apr 27 2006, 10:53 PM

1978 MGB, bought in 1984. Scared me off British cars for 20 years. The single Zenith carb disassembled itself daily, it had gaping rust holes behind the doors (after only 6 years!). Sold it off to a guy who bought it to part it out in 1987.

Posted by: Series9 Apr 27 2006, 10:57 PM

1971 VW Type III Fastback.


........my second was my first 914.

Posted by: Midtowner Apr 27 2006, 11:08 PM

1975 VW Rabbit. Mediterrainean blue with White interior. I hear VW is bringing the Rabbit name back again.

Posted by: effutuo101 Apr 27 2006, 11:12 PM

A 1964 Ford Falcon Futura Coupe. V8 260 that my Grandfather sold to me. My great uncle bought the car brand new. It is still in the family.

Posted by: Rand Apr 27 2006, 11:17 PM

1970 Datsun 510.

I had free reign in my Dad's shop, and got to do all the work myself... Flared the rear fenders. Painted it. Put an L18-SSS motor in it with dual sidedraft Webers.

I bought a complete performance suspension package for it, and the Friday before the weekend I was going to install it..... Got tail-ended by a drunk driver and totalled it!!


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Posted by: jimtab Apr 27 2006, 11:20 PM

My dad bought me a car when I graduated HS in 1965, I asked for a triumph....I guess I was the only one who DIDN'T know they made a pos called the Herald...didn't even have the sport 6 engine...I blew it up quick and the lot traded me for a 58 vw van....much better.

Posted by: Toast Apr 27 2006, 11:23 PM

Oh you bet cha.

1971 Buick Skylark in baby-sheeat green.
Nickname: The Booger
Broke down for the winter on the first snowfall. (no joke)
Did not off-road very well. Front end to heavy. Probably due to the 350 engine.
Could fit 13 passengers uncomfortably and still max the speedo at 110 mph. (Don't ask me how I know this. )

Posted by: bernbomb914 Apr 27 2006, 11:27 PM

my first car was a 29 model A when I was 14. had 36 cars while in high school. bought and sold cars all the time then.

Bernie

Posted by: Hammy Apr 27 2006, 11:30 PM

36?!?! Anything else special?

Posted by: messix Apr 27 2006, 11:32 PM

he probly had a few brass age cars back then

Posted by: grantsfo Apr 27 2006, 11:40 PM

74 Mazda RX2

Posted by: Toast Apr 27 2006, 11:42 PM

Yea, like the Flintstone mobile.

Posted by: Michael N Apr 27 2006, 11:43 PM

1967 Sunbeam Alpine with a Toyota 20R engine Purchased for $600.00

Posted by: cbenitah Apr 27 2006, 11:56 PM

1973 super beetle. dark purple wit no interior

Posted by: WaideS Apr 27 2006, 11:59 PM

1971 Ford Short box pickup
3 on the tree, 302
NO A/C - Phx

Changed it to a automatic with a 390, with a/c within a year

17 y/o fun, fun, fun

Posted by: eg914 Apr 28 2006, 12:04 AM

My first car was a '69 Nova, 4 door, 307, auto, "the Tank"
I traded up to my second car - '68 type III variant, slower but noisier.

Posted by: carreraguy Apr 28 2006, 12:07 AM

'53 Chevy. Great memories of drive-in theaters (remember those?) and the big back seat!

Posted by: So.Cal.914 Apr 28 2006, 12:11 AM

1955 Oval window Bug

Posted by: Grngoat Apr 28 2006, 12:21 AM

1970 Pontiac GTO - bought in 1989 for $1500. Still own it, wouldn't sell it for the world. I love that car. Love my 914 too. They're different, but somehow very similiar. Just fun to drive.

Posted by: bondo Apr 28 2006, 12:21 AM

My first car was a 66 baja bug. I did alot of wrenching on it, but by the time I got my license I had upgraded to a 67 Mustang (coupe, I have since upgraded again to a fastback). Looks like Mueller and I have more in common than just too many projects.

First car I drove: 1967 Maserati Quattroporte. Rebuilt the Webers on that beast too... The nice thing was if you forgot where a part went, you had 3 other carbs to refer to!

Posted by: skline Apr 28 2006, 12:22 AM

Mine was a 1963 Dodge one ton pickup with 8 lug wheels. The only custom wheel was the old Jackman rims in white. It had a 318 wit the 3 on the tree and with the camper shell, I could take half the school with me. Those were the days.

Posted by: craig downs Apr 28 2006, 12:39 AM

I really wanted a 914 but I was into motocross back in the mid 70s, so my 1st was
a 73 Ford Courier small truck. I beat the hell out it and it just kept going. Then in
10/77 I got my pride and joy a 75 914. I had it for a month and I let my girlfriend
use it while I was at work and she decieded to get drunk and go for a joy ride and rear ended someone. Insurance wouldn't cover it because I wasn't driving. Fixed
it myself and still have it today.

Posted by: guiltless Apr 28 2006, 01:02 AM

1971 Mercedes 250 4-door. I had to start it with a screw driver. I could only have it after I did a valve job first. Did everything in the garage except the machine work. That car had 315,000 miles on it before it got rear ended.

Side note, first engine rebuild... 1968 bug when I was 13. I have been hooked ever since.

Posted by: Andyrew Apr 28 2006, 02:46 AM

First, second, and third (as far as the dmv is concerned)

are 914's..

the second one is in a box in my shed.. the third one was sold with 5 other 914s by Jim Cooper to some guy...

Still got my 914.. yesindeedy...



http://members.rennlist.com/dan10101/914/914picts.htm
Old pics....

Come quite a ways in 3 years...

Posted by: sj914 Apr 28 2006, 03:48 AM

First car was a '72 914. RIP

Posted by: pfierb Apr 28 2006, 04:48 AM

1949 Ford V-8 coupe with smitty mufflers and red tartan plaid seat covers.....Loved that car and what a sweet sound it made accelerating....so you think 914s rust out!!!!

Posted by: redshift Apr 28 2006, 05:16 AM

1975 Malaga red teener.


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Posted by: jim912928 Apr 28 2006, 05:29 AM

A Datsun Roadster...this is a pic from 74 after I fixed it up....paid 500 bucks for it and my dad thought I was crazy!




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Posted by: Vacca Rabite Apr 28 2006, 05:43 AM

Hope this is not a double post...

98 VW Golf. I got that car new right out of college when I got my first "real" job.

This is the only pic I have of it at work. Its from a camping trip to Ft Fred state park in sept 03. Special because it was the first camping trip that Erin and I took together when we started dating. It was a good weekend.

Zach


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Posted by: 72914S Apr 28 2006, 05:48 AM

1961 Simca

Posted by: HarveyH Apr 28 2006, 05:50 AM

First car I drove regularly was my parents 61 Studebaker Hawk. First car of my own was a 69 Triumph GT6
Harvey

Posted by: elocke Apr 28 2006, 05:50 AM

'63 ragtop bug off my friends sister for $75. Floors were so rusted both seats sagged till they hit the door posts. Wouldn't pass inspection so I got a '69 bug for $350.
Paid $400 for my '70 914 3 years ago.
Ed

Posted by: ejm Apr 28 2006, 05:52 AM

'57 oval window Beetle for $175

Posted by: Bertus Apr 28 2006, 05:58 AM

74 Audi Fox, then a couple years later 75 914, 1.8L.

Posted by: blitZ Apr 28 2006, 06:32 AM

67 Pontiac Catalina, total barge mobile. Had a lot of fun with it, load it up with friends and take off to the beach for the day. Never left me stranded.

Posted by: fitsbain Apr 28 2006, 06:38 AM

1980 Chevette

Posted by: ptravnic Apr 28 2006, 06:51 AM

A 1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme...At least it had a spacious back seat...

Posted by: robby750 Apr 28 2006, 06:55 AM

1970 Javelin SST. I can't believe I have no pictures of my first car, but it looked just like this minus the stripes. I bought it in 1974 when I was 19 years old. Sure wish I had kept it when I see what they are selling for now.


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Posted by: drewvw Apr 28 2006, 07:01 AM

Javelins are great, always liked those cars. Its interesting to see the percentage of 914 owners that started out with a VW.

Posted by: rmital Apr 28 2006, 07:07 AM

Ford Maverick with a '302'...very fast.

....but quickly gave that to my Dad and got a '72 914. It was only about 7 years old then and the battery tray was already gone. What a great design....

Posted by: watsonrx13 Apr 28 2006, 07:23 AM

First car I learned to drive was my Dad's '67 Morgan Plus 4 Plus (only 50 ever built). First car I owned was a '69 Karmann Ghia convertible...

-- Rob

Posted by: dagdal1967 Apr 28 2006, 07:27 AM

1976 Dodge dart Swinger....

Posted by: Tobra Apr 28 2006, 07:33 AM

1979 Convertible Super Beetle. Being in California, no engine mods or it would not pass smog. Put disc brakes on it, sporty springs, poly bushings when I did the ball joints and tie rods. Man did that car handle. When I went to sell it to buy this 914, Mom bought because she liked it so much

Posted by: rhodyguy Apr 28 2006, 07:49 AM

fresh out of the army. i too had a dastsun roadster, 67' SPL311. back into a society that included women, com college, and a sporty little red car. life sure was fun.

k

Posted by: Spoke Apr 28 2006, 07:50 AM

White 1962 Chevy Bel Air handed down from my Aunt to my Dad to me. Car was a rust bucket when I got it. Straight 6 with 3 on the column. I was 15 at the time and didn't know how to work the clutch. Fixed the rust holes with bondo and upgraded the sound system with an 8-track tape player.

Pic below is not my car.

Spoke


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Posted by: markb Apr 28 2006, 08:00 AM

55 Ford Fairlane. 272 V8, 3 on the tree. Paid $100.00 for it. Finally had to get rid of it when 2nd gear blew out. I was driving my Mother home from the grocery store when it went, so my Dad couldn't say I was hotrodding it. Got 65 Tbird from my Grandfater for $450.00 after that. I still miss that car.


BTW, my Dad had a 56 MG A, and then a Datsun Fairlady. He was crazy enough to buy these in pairs, so I "had" a 60 MG A, and a Datsun 2000.

Posted by: jet1 Apr 28 2006, 08:05 AM

75' 1.8L 914 when I was 15.

Posted by: itsa914 Apr 28 2006, 08:07 AM

Dad's old work truck back in 1983. A 1976 Datusn Pickup, 4 speed, no Ac, no power steering or brakes. I deat the shit out of it and it kept going. It had 400,000 miles on it, more rust than metal but it was fun. Dad sold it and I got a 76 Nova Concourse had it about 1 1/2 years and it was totaled by a lady that ran a red light. Replace with a 1975 Vega, pulled the 327 out of the Nova and well.......

I worked for ITT tech in Ft Wayne while attending their EE program. Spent 8 hours working in the Autoshop tool crib during the day and attend school at night. The Auto tech instructors helped me with the Vega and I would fix eclectroincs for them & their friends.

Posted by: Rockaria Apr 28 2006, 08:21 AM

My first was a 72 914 1.7. That was back in early 1980s sumthin...

Posted by: Ferg Apr 28 2006, 08:31 AM

First car I got when I was 16 1987 Ford Tempo Sport.
First car I actually bought on my own 1992 Geo Metro



It's a wonder girls even talked to me

Ferg

Posted by: spunone Apr 28 2006, 08:40 AM

Wow that was alooooog time ago .Mine was a 53 willys milatary jeep .Striped her down and painted it Bright yellow for 19.95 buy good old Earls .Only put in 2 transmissions .

Posted by: Headrage Apr 28 2006, 08:51 AM

1958 VW van. 6 windows with hawaiian curtains covering all of them.

Posted by: bmunday Apr 28 2006, 09:02 AM

Scout... These things are build like a tank.. Mine was red and white, removable hard top. Wish I still had it...


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Posted by: jasons Apr 28 2006, 09:10 AM

Here is my Scout II. Wish I could afford gas for it. Since it gets about 9 MPG, it sits except for Home Depot Trips. One in the background was mine also.

Posted by: Brew Apr 28 2006, 09:13 AM

1965 Toyota Landcruiser w/ Chevy 327. LOUD and Quick as hell up to 85 mph.

Posted by: jgara962 Apr 28 2006, 09:26 AM

1980 VW Rabbit. Put in a 1.8L GTI engine with a G grind cam and five speed transmission. Had euro bumpers, no back seat, full Autopower cage, suspension, etc, etc, etc. A great autox car

Bought a '96 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS which had about the same horsepower as the Rabbit, but weighed at least 1,500 pounds more. Eventually sold the Rabbit a few months later to help pay for my wife's engagement ring.

I used that fact to help with my reasoning to buy the 914 last year

Posted by: Porcharu Apr 28 2006, 09:29 AM

71' Ford LTD 2 door, red. I added huge sway bars, KYB's and big Goodyear NCT's. Amazingly good at freeway on/off ramps. Then I added a mild cam, headers, big carb and a redid the trans and added a shift kit. Silly thing would do 80 in low gear and eject cassette tapes when it grabbed 2nd. It was alot of fun to drop it into 1st on the freeway and pass people.
Then a perfect Vega GT, a 67' Mustang that my dad still has, a cool Fiat 128 coupe.

Posted by: turboman808 Apr 28 2006, 09:32 AM

first was a yellow 72 triumph spitfire. Car sat in a feild for years before I got ahold of it. It was plauged with all sorts of problems and I finaly gave up and got a fiero gt.

Posted by: nocones Apr 28 2006, 09:42 AM

1972 Volvo 142S. Mustard Yellow.
BBS-look wheels, koni shocks, swaybars, webers, flowmaster exhaust
That little tank was pretty fun to drive. Lots of interior space and suprisingly quick once it got rolling.

Posted by: rdauenhauer Apr 28 2006, 10:02 AM

Im embarassed to say, an 1965 Plymouth Valiant Slant 6 punch button auto
Ugly as they come and Slooooow. I inherited the car from my mom and rarly drove it as it dragged down my social standing at HS.

Posted by: Travis Neff Apr 28 2006, 10:11 AM

1971 Datsun 240Z

Posted by: Demick Apr 28 2006, 10:14 AM

1969 Plymouth Valiant


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Posted by: KELTY360 Apr 28 2006, 10:16 AM

1964 Triumph TR4, great sound through the gears. First time i got the rear end out I thought I screwed up. Then I found out that's what they like to do and i became a slidin' fool. Throttle steering became a survival skill. Very fun car but I wasn't so good a wrench. Switched to a '66 Mustang 2+2 and then bought a new '73 1.7 teener after the Army was done with me.

Posted by: KaptKaos Apr 28 2006, 10:34 AM

'82 Datsun 200SX Coupe, two-tone blue.

Posted by: horizontally-opposed Apr 28 2006, 11:08 AM

Ditto.

pete

Posted by: 1bad914 Apr 28 2006, 11:20 AM

1971 Mach I Mustang, 351C built motor, about 6 mpg, traded it even for a 72 Beetle, could not afford the gas back and forth to college. If you can believe it they were even in value at the time. Bright yellow, the back window was 4 feet long, but was like looking out a 4 inch window when lookng thru the rear view. Fun to drive!

Posted by: JOHNMAN Apr 28 2006, 12:24 PM

Everyone was so old when you guys got your first car.

My first car was a Kettcar. I must have been all of 4 or 5 when I got it.

It was a pedal car....

Posted by: tyler Apr 28 2006, 12:25 PM

Me Too: 1949 Ford convertable - Dual exhausr - Douglas steel pacs - milled heads - triple strombergs w/progressive linkage - reverberator rear speaker - spinners - nosed & decked - all primer - fender skirts - rear seat open to trunk for $1 per carload drive in movies.
Price in 1958, $150 (earned for picking New England apples at 25 cents a bushel).

Posted by: i love porsche Apr 28 2006, 12:43 PM

1964 plymouth barracuda
273 V8 with the pushbutton auto,
got it at 13, for mowing a friends lawn for a year, sold it on ebay for 1200 a year later, so i never really drove it other than parking lots, then i got a 93 integra from my uncle with a stick, that i drove...


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Posted by: /L. Apr 28 2006, 12:52 PM

My 1st car was a 1961 VW bug and that was in 1966. But my step brother got a 1962 yellow 356, he was in jr college. Of course I was jealous I know what a brat

Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 28 2006, 12:55 PM

ok first car. the 914
second car... another 914
third car - flared roller from jenny's brother.
fourth car. 90 vW passat (der Crappenwaggen!) POS
now i have a 2001 nissan frontier quadcab.

oh! and i had a 59 edsel wagon with a 400 cube v8 that i sold to get the 914 painted

Posted by: JmuRiz Apr 28 2006, 12:56 PM

First car or first car I bought?
First car - Geo Prizm GSi
First car bought - Audi A4 (second car was the 914!)

Posted by: lapuwali Apr 28 2006, 12:57 PM

Ebay existed when you were 14!!?!

(slinking off, feeling very old...)

Posted by: sjhowitson Apr 28 2006, 01:10 PM

1976 Plymouth Satellite Wagon. Back in the good old days when cars were metal and you could put 10 of you friends in it and you could still get a keg in the back. Big 383 Sky blue with fake wood on the side.

Posted by: Goge Apr 28 2006, 01:12 PM

Yellow 72 bug. Sheet of plastic in the passenger footwell to hide the hole, sealed with that black asphalt gunk, whats-it-called... Roof Patch??

Followed by a '63 Ghia, then another bug, then a '72 squareback along with a '63 Notchback 1500S (or was it a '65, I forget). After that my current '72 914 and various boring waterpumpers.

I could kill myself for selling the Notchback... was I brain-dead at the time? It had a freakin' factory sunroof! What a dumbass I was/am.

-Todd

Posted by: mharrison Apr 28 2006, 01:29 PM

Let's see....

The first driver was a 1974 Electric Blue Plymouth Volare station wagon. It was my Mom's before I got it.

The first car in my name was a 1974 Porsche 914!

Posted by: Brian Mifsud Apr 28 2006, 01:44 PM

'69 Beetle "hand me down"
'70 1.7 914 First Car I bought....

Posted by: shelby/914 Apr 28 2006, 03:15 PM

1966 Ford Fairlane GTA. 335hp, 390 4bl dual exhaust, C6 auto

Posted by: "7" Apr 28 2006, 03:36 PM

1956 Chevy Bel Air - 283 & slip & slide -
Sold it for a 1967 Camaro RS - 327 - Muncie 4 on 'da floor.
Sold it for a 1969 Volkswagen van; what was I thinking??? Oh, now I remember...
(getting laid )

Posted by: i love porsche Apr 28 2006, 03:39 PM

well im only 19 now..so it wasnt too long ago...not like i HAD the car in 64 hehe

Posted by: anderssj Apr 28 2006, 04:15 PM

first car--72 914--still have it . . . .

second--'62 ford econoline former telephone company van, originally OD, "laced" with surplus CO highway department yellow paint. Drove it between CO and MN 4 times in summer of 73; I'd get pulled over and searched within 30 miles of crossing any of the state lines. Sold it to a guy in a band in MN that fall.

funny, my kids (both in college) think I'm making this up . . . .


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Posted by: John Jentz Apr 28 2006, 04:21 PM

1959 Alfa Romeo Guiletta back in '65!

Posted by: Elliot Cannon Apr 28 2006, 04:24 PM

1960 VW bug. Blue with slide back sun roof and still had the turn signal sticks that popped out when signaling. Chrome reverse rims and wide oval tires. If I hadn't wrecked it in 1968 I'd probably still own it.

cheers, Elliot

Posted by: BigDBass Apr 28 2006, 04:42 PM

My first car was grampa's 2-door '78 Ford Granada. It was rustier than anything I've seen. You could look into a saucer-sized rust hole on the fender behind the front wheel, see right through the car and out the matching rust hole on the other side. It was actually pretty fast tho. And it was the only car in the family with a tape player. I would cue up the Doors' "The End" and try to get to school (~4 miles city) before the song was over.

Posted by: Marv's3.6six Apr 28 2006, 04:54 PM

Mine a 1965 VW Squareback, white.
Gas was 23 cents a gallon
My 5'6" shortboard fit in the back with the rear seats up.
Many epic California surf trips were made in that car.

Posted by: SirAndy Apr 28 2006, 05:04 PM

my first car ...

don't remember the model, but it was red!
and a convertible!
and a chick-magnet!

that thing was *fast*

Andy



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Posted by: Elliot Cannon Apr 28 2006, 05:11 PM

I had one of those except it was a coupe.
Elliot

Posted by: ClayPerrine Apr 28 2006, 05:15 PM

1969 Pontiac Firebird named "Fred".

I got it in 1979. It had an engine block under the hood, a blown transmission, and it came with boxes of parts. It was avacaco green. I got it running after school in just 3 months.

By the time I sold it, the 350 had become a 400 Ram Air III motor, highly modified. It went through 14 automatics and 4 manual transmissions before I got one to hold up to the engine I built. Then I blew the driveshaft out of it 3 times. Lakewood U-Joints solved that. Blew the rear end out 4 times. Finally ended up with a Ford 9 inch rear end in it.

12 seconds flat in a 1/4 mile on street tires and a full interior.

Sold poor old Fred to a highschool guy a week after I met Betty.


I really miss that car.....

Posted by: rktmn247 Apr 28 2006, 05:19 PM

1971 Dodge Challenger, 225 slant six with a three speed manual on the floor.

Posted by: SirAndy Apr 28 2006, 05:31 PM

that was my second car ...

Andy


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Posted by: Pat Garvey Apr 28 2006, 05:32 PM

"65 Dodge Dart. 273 CI, bored,balanced, peened, mod'd to 315 hp (dyno), Edelbrock, Crane...all that crap. Spent a fortune, had a lot of drags, won some pinks I never collected....traded for a '65 Beetle (lost my ass!) in '67. Stupid me, I put a super-high velocity stack on a single barrell carb, retarded the timeing & could pull the front end off the ground for drags (well, in Kansas it was exciting). Drove it until '72 & traded it on my 914 (still own) & it became a dune buggy...too bad, I'd like to have it back. Though I love auto-x, could(will) never get the drag racing thing out of my system. Lots of other "hot" cars through the years, but guess what's still around - the 914!

Posted by: campbellcj Apr 28 2006, 08:53 PM

My first car was a booger green 72 Chevy Vega!!!

On the positive side, I learned my first car repair basics on that POS. You basically had to work on it every weekend just to make it to school/work thru the week!

Second car was a Toyota Tercel...night and day reliability wise but still a slow, lame handling POS too...

Posted by: trekkor Apr 28 2006, 08:59 PM

1961 Plymouth Valiant 2dr hdtp. 198 SIX

I often wish I still had it


KT

Posted by: trekkor Apr 28 2006, 09:07 PM

Just scanned the pic.

Whose that skinny kid?


KT


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Posted by: dion9146 Apr 28 2006, 09:12 PM

1952 Ford 2 door Kustom - top banana yellow with candy apple flames. Lowered, cruiser skirts, side pipes, straight six with a split manifold. Pretty cool for a 16 year old in 1983.

Then I went to college and learned about going fast around corners....it's never been the same since.

Posted by: jimtab Apr 28 2006, 10:16 PM

Yeah, my '58 was a "hippie van" in '65 when I went to sjsu and I had a bumper sticker that said "Don't laugh asshole, your daughter is probably in the back"...dads didn't seem to like that .....

Posted by: jimtab Apr 28 2006, 10:26 PM

Reminds me of my buddies 61 desoto wagon...so ugly he named it Melvin.... I've never been much for naming my cars but that name really made real good sense.

Posted by: J P Stein Apr 29 2006, 07:01 AM

58 Chebbie Impala, 2 door hardtop, black. 348, Turboflight (?).
50 k miles...a puff...in 19&64.
Wish I still had it to sell at Barret-Jackson

Posted by: Dead Air Apr 29 2006, 07:07 AM

'67 falcon wagon
$100


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Posted by: rickyhgarcia Apr 29 2006, 07:16 AM

1982 Renault LeCar...metallic dark blue

Posted by: wbergtho Apr 29 2006, 09:07 AM

1977 VW Scirocco

Posted by: *kennyd*914 Apr 29 2006, 09:50 AM

Silver '65 Valiant, 6 months later ... '73 914 1.7L, 3 months later '83 Subaru.

2 months later .... moved home.... couldn't afford rent + 3 cars.

Oh to be 19 again!

Posted by: kwales Apr 29 2006, 10:20 AM

First car I ever owned was a 1964 Seeblau blue VW Beetle.

Had white pinstripes, metallic blue rolled and pleated interior, wood steering wheel, black wrinkle finish dash, Empi woodgrain dash overlay, wood knob, custom door and window handles, and a rebuilt 1600 engine with headers.

Car got hit by teenagers. After a fight with a crooked claims adjuster, I bought a 1966 beetle with no engine, and a 1967 Karmann Ghia convertible with the proceeds. Bought the "wreck" back, swapped the engine and upholstery to the 1966 and sold it. Sold the 1964 shell to a couple of racing friends to become a race car ( for $1.00).

With the cash from the sales, the Karmann Ghia convertible was built into a 16-18 mpg fire breathing monster with help from my racing buddies. Raby would have been proud of that engine..

Ken

Posted by: repro914gt Apr 29 2006, 10:30 AM

'70 Austin america - Purchased for $800 in 1974. (not my pic, but very similar) Sold in '75 when I bought my first 914.


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Posted by: BMXerror Apr 29 2006, 10:38 AM

97 Mitsubishi Eclipse that I bought from my father.... Yes, I'm a young ladd... Still got it. It's my get me to work every morning car while I've got the Porsche for fun. I don't think the neighbors would like me starting the Porsche (with the blown out exhaust) up at 3 o'clock in the morning to go to work.
Mark D.

Posted by: erikstoll Apr 29 2006, 11:59 AM

91 Plymouth Acclaim - drove it into the ground till multiple belts snapped (300,000 miles on it when it kicked the can)
now have 03 Mitsubishi galant, huge pos
looking for 914 or 62 Falcon

Posted by: elwood-914 Apr 29 2006, 01:46 PM

1970 Opel GT.......lots of electrical fires.....drove that everywhere......

Posted by: Mrs. K Apr 29 2006, 03:02 PM

1966 stock VW bug with an 8-track stereo......
bought with my own money too

Some friends of mine were VW mechanics, so they would fix my car for me (teach me in the process) and I would either clean their house or sew them cool shirts...nice bartering system I had going there

Lisa

Posted by: pete-stevers Apr 29 2006, 03:39 PM

an old vw notch back...rusty and full of bondo.....

Posted by: swl Apr 29 2006, 03:53 PM

62 356B Hardtop. It was so full of rust that my dad just shook his head and walked away. I'd give vital parts of my anatomy to have it back today - rust and all!

Posted by: jd66921 Apr 29 2006, 04:42 PM

1967 Austin Healey 3000 MK III. Rolled over wreck I "rebuilt" with '63(?) body
panels with carefully matched colors. Drove it for two years and then got sucked
into a 914!

Picture didn't post? Gotta figure that out...

Posted by: 914rrr Apr 29 2006, 05:24 PM

1966 VW bug. That 1300cc engine outlasted the bug body, a '66 camper bus, and '64 Samba (21 window bus w/ sunroof). It finally died in a '66 13 window bus. It was missing / down on power. I drove it for a week or so before I took it to my mechanic. Turns out that the #3 piston broke at the ring grove and just got stuck at TDC! I've owned about 40 aircooled VW's since then.

Posted by: Seagrave Apr 29 2006, 08:36 PM

1959 AH Sprite. Bought it from the original owner (my father) in 1964 and had it until 1978. Great little car. Not much speed but high velocity, if you know what I mean. This photo was taken in 1969, a month after I got done with my service with Sam. The location is CA 101 near Bodega Bay.


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Posted by: reddog Apr 29 2006, 09:38 PM

One of the first 1965 Mustang GT's 289ci high performance 271 HP with a 4 speed... man... 16 years old an a brand new car....

Posted by: szuccaro Apr 29 2006, 10:13 PM

1968 California Special GT/CS


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Posted by: Brando Apr 29 2006, 10:28 PM

My first was a 1973 Ghia Coupe. Pearl White, Disc brake conversion, 3/4" sways front and rear, IRS, rebuilt trans w/ short-shift kit. My dad bought it with a 2370cc engine. With the dual carbs that thing ate tires and turns. With the obnoxiously loud monza styled exhaust it was a blast. We swapped in a fully rebuilt dual-port 1600cc engine which I threw some dual kadrons on. That thing still lit up the tires in 2nd gear

Wrecked it one morning after going out and gambling. I won $1000 that night, following morning lost the car

Posted by: vertigo Apr 30 2006, 08:26 AM

1935 Dodge Brothers buisness coupe.

Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik Apr 30 2006, 08:41 AM

My first car, Hmmmm, these are all my first loves.

33 Ford w/Olds motor
29 Ford Hi-Boy with full Flathead (later Chev SB)
53 Ford w/Chrysler Hemi

Tom
BTW. I am a little older than most of you, so the young ones don't know what they are looking at. Motor oil is in my blood.


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Posted by: messix Apr 30 2006, 11:58 AM

we have our Godfather.

a true original hot rodder.

Posted by: degreeoff Apr 30 2006, 01:48 PM

1970 fugly green Plymouth Valiant w/a slant 6......damn good car, the first of my 17 yrs of driving and 20 some odd autos....

Posted by: Hybrid_Teener Apr 30 2006, 03:48 PM

'94 integra. Still got it =D

Posted by: Jack Daniels May 2 2006, 12:02 PM

First car, 1970 Ford Maverick. This was about 1977 when I first started driving.

Posted by: jd74914 May 2 2006, 03:38 PM

74 914 (which still isn't on the road . . . it will drive by the end on the month )

The first car that I really drive anywhere in is my trusty 94 Ford F150

Posted by: byndbad914 May 2 2006, 04:27 PM

one of those guys that had a billion cars already... and grew up in the midwest so plenty of rust...

first car was really 3 cars, my uncle gave me two 68 Galaxy 500s (on parts and one with a 390 and C6 auto) and a 64 Galaxy 500 2dr hardtop with 289 and 3-on-the-tree that was found in a field - full of mice and such, but after sitting for something like 15yrs, a little gas in the carb and fired right up. Beat the living crap out of both cars and would shoot through ditches at 50mph with the six-four single handedly inventing "redneck drifting" My friends would be freaking out and looking back, understandably so! PO of the 64 said it would do 72mph in 2nd, so I went for it and held that 289 at valve-float for over a mile at 68mph one time!! Stupid 16yr old, but long live the 289! Ford man ever since.

Then my asshole dad kept them since he titled them in his name (needless to say we didn't have the best of relationships ), so my first official car in my name was a 70 Mustang coupe with a 302/C4. Blew it up within a year as I would do one-wheel-peels for blocks with crazy wheel hop. I drove it wide open to school nearly every day - not joking at all - at 118mph. I was absolutely nuts.

Somewhere along the line I grew up - more or less .

Posted by: carr914 May 2 2006, 04:37 PM

74 Volvo 144 GL. The 2nd Volvo spoken for. Didn't look exciting, but I drove the snot out that car. I credit driving that car in ice and snow for knowing how to slide a car around. I gave up her at about 190,000 miles mainly due no a/c and I had moved from Watkins Glen to Tampa

T.C.

Posted by: mikelsr May 2 2006, 04:37 PM

1963 International Scout with short cab. My grandfather's lumber yard owned it and he gave it to me when I was 16 or 17 (of course it didn't run very well when I got it).

Posted by: lotus_65 May 3 2006, 05:20 PM

1979/80
First car I owned was a '73 spitfire, maybe a 1600cc straight 4.

followed by a cool 2-door 1969 dart gt. 318 small block automatic, but had the coolest turn signals and badges you can imagine. i bought it from the estate of my elderly neighbor in ann arbor michigan.

i sure miss that dart.

Posted by: kpex914 May 3 2006, 05:26 PM

'79 chevy pick-up

Posted by: Jake Raby May 3 2006, 06:01 PM

There is mine lying peacefully in my boneyard...

Posted by: bd1308 May 3 2006, 06:17 PM

jake, busses.....they are calling for me.....

b

Posted by: guywan914 May 3 2006, 06:24 PM

1961 Ford Falcon, got it when I was 14 got it running did some work to it and sold it when I was 15 to buy a 1965 ford mustang. Thought I would drive the Mustang when I got my license but somebody made me an offer I couldn't refuse. When I did get my license I had purchased a 1965 dodge van with a slant six. The old hippiemobile you couldn't kill

Posted by: solex May 3 2006, 06:34 PM

75' Fuel Injected Standard Beetle.

The FI engine was too expensive to fix on a college students budget, this is where I rebuilt my first engine. It was a carburated engine with frozen pistons that I found in a friends yard. The car was ridden hard for 3 years.

Posted by: ppickerell May 3 2006, 09:52 PM

1959 MGA IN 1973. What a car!

Posted by: cooltimes May 3 2006, 10:06 PM

1951 Hudson Hornet. Maroon. Fast too.
Thought it was a 49 but just remembered it was a 51. I am 70. Senile too.