OT -- Who had a Hotrod / cool car as a teenager, And how did you obtain it? Options

[Brad Roberts]

Duh.. my first car was a 71 Yellow and Black 914!! rockin a 1.7 at age 15.

It belonged to a neighbor. He had a hot daughter that I wanted to meet. She went to a different school. I walked up and knocked on the door and asked about the little car in the driveway that never moved. I knew dad had T4 engine parts and access to everything I needed if it didnt run.. Told my mom about the car and that the guy wanted $1200 for it. It ran but something was wrong with it (Nov. 1985) That Dec. for Christmas she gave a Porsche key fob with a Porsche key on it. She had bought it for me with her money and my lawn mowing money. I promptly pushed it up the street with some friends into our garage.

The next day I started the 914Club...LOL



B

[kconway]

I had a 1962 Cal style VW bug w/1911 and polished Fuch's...stolen from the driveway 6 months later. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) Mom & Pop purchased as a HS grad gift @ age 17.

With the insurance settlement, I bought a 74 1.8 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Scott S]

I had a cool car - and I didn't even know it for 2+ years. I wanted an 83/84 GTI SOOOOOOO BAD, but that was in 83/84 and not even remotely in my price range. My dad was doing business over seas and decided to bring home a new body style 1985 Audi 5000 turbo. He called and said that the sales person had a very nice 1978 golf (Rabbit) that he would sell for 2200.00. I only had 1600, so pop fronted me the rest - however I was not allowed to to anything other than wash it until I finished paying him back.

I was a bit bummed when it arrived - it was a metallic light green, with a green interior. It had the 13" Scirocco wheels and what I thought at the time was a really dumb front spoiler - it was nothing like the GTI I wanted - even though some bone head had put a "Golf GTI" badge on the back and a silver "GTI" badge on the gill inbetween the old looking round headlights....

Yep, it was a 1.6l euro spec GTI. Unfortunately I found this out after I had installed the US spoiler/fender flairs and the 14" snowflake wheels.

Those dumb spoilers I removed were a-pillar fairings and the deep duck bill air dam. I will see if I can find a picture....

The carcas of the car still resides in a Durango CO junk yard (Mac's) after an unfortunate encouter into a ditch. Would love to have that car back.....

[i love porsche]

when i was 13 i got a 64 plymouth barracuda from a guy i knew who had it sitting in his driveway...i just had to mow his lawn for a year, it ran..but needed work...so i ended up selling it

[Thorshammer]

Had a couple in my early years. First one was a 1963 MG Midget, with a 12 a rotary and rx 7 five speed. Had problems with rear ends, but fixed that with the Mazda rear end. Used 13 inch dirt track tires cause they were soft enough. it was a rubber bouncy ball Raced a 427 cobra from 0-100-0 and lost by about 10 feet.

Then a 68 VW Bug with a type four rabbit rod 75x103 with 48 idas. I left ALL the chrome on and ran some 7 inch wide rear wheels. We used to get 215 65 15'sused off of Camaros from the Goodyear tire store pile. Worked well after you heated em up.

Then came the teener 2.0 appearance group. crashed in the left front, two tone primer, put in the 75x103 motor but with 44 idfs, and off to the races we went. Would run with a five liter Mustang back in the day.

Erik Madsen

[BMITCHELL]

First car was a 1928 model A coupe with the top cut off. Had a 324 old's
engine with a dual range hydro. I was 17 and paid $200 for it in 1963,
had to push it down the street from a friends house. I belonged to a car club but did not have a car and had to have it. My dad was really pissed at me for buying it. Got it running and took it to the first day at school without my parents knowledge. Got a ticket for just about everything. No horn, fenders, etc. was 2 pages long. Dad took away my license for six months. Live and learn.

[Pat Garvey]

I was a Mopar guy. Because the family "gave" me the 1960 4-door Dodge, with a push button trans & a 318. I won't even go into the things I did to that "beer wagon".

Traded it for a '65 Dodge Dart, owned by the son of the Cincinnati Sheriff. Small block V8 (273 cubes) & a 4 speed (rare in '65). Had t bored out to 309 ci, balanced, shot peened & equipped w/Edelbrock dual quad manifold, headers, dual quad AFB's (forget the CFM's), blue streaks & slicks on the street.

Ran mid-13's & got 4 mpg (positive linkage). Ugliest car I've ever owned.

I'd kill to get it back!

[rick 918-S]

My first car was a fire orange with a black top 1958 Lincoln Capri. It had a 430 ci. motor. I got in a race with a 1970 Mustang once. We were side by side as we crested a hill. All of a sudden there was a cop standing in the middle of the of the road directing traffic into a side street for a vehicle safety check! We were doing like freaking 90 + ! He dove out of the road. When I looking in the rear view mirror He was standing up shaking his fist at us and yelling like he was about to have a coronary! I sold that car very soon after.

Next I bought a 1970 candy apple red Ford Ranchero GT with all the GT stuff including the strobe stripe, mat black shaker hood, hidden head lights. There was a spacer block between the from lower ball joint and the spindle to Lift the front gasser style, Crager SS wheels and N50/15's on the rear, and yes... the 429!

The photos aren't mine but close.

[914-8]

I had a very cool car as a 16 year old.

A Willow Green 914!

[So.Cal.914]

1967 GTO 400ci HO

Restored my 1955 VW and traded straight across.

[Katmanken]

1967 Karmann Ghia convertible with an engine that Jake would have been proud of.

Somebody hit and totaled my bug with the rolled and pleated interior, and my Dad and I found this car at a lot in Pompano Florida. It ran like shit as we left the lot, and once we got a few blocks away, I did a jiffy tune on the carb with my knife. That sucker smoothed out and drove pretty good. Detuned the carb before driving back on the lot and offered $500 for the crappy running car.

A new carb, a decent tuneup, a header, and I had a 16-18mpg lumpy idle torque monster that would lay rubber in two gears. Once the engine was sorted out, I had to put in a new LUK 200mm transporter extra hevy duty clutch to handle the torque.

Rev it up to 1800RPM, pop the clutch, and it was like getting rearended by a runaway semi. Car would shudder, loose lids would clang, the frame would flex, the stickshift would slam forward about 3 inches and richochet off the dash, the tires would be spinning and it would just leap forward.

Yup, quite a car. Those convertibles have a low CG and handle pretty well.

Ken

[GaroldShaffer]

In 1984 my 1976 Nova Concourse was totaled by a old lady that ran a redlight. My dad took the insurance money and bought me a 1975 Vega GT. I wasn't to happy until dad told me (not in front of my mother either) that it had a small blcok chevy with a 9 inch ford read end and traction bars. He paid $800 for it, was told engine had a bad oil leak. I was going to school at ITT tech in Ft Wayne and I also worked for the school in the tool crib for the auto shop class (I was in the EE program). I drove the car the 2 1/2 hours from my parents to the school, next day brought it in and put it on the rack. The "bad oil leak" was caused by a missing oil pan gasket, put in a new gasket no more oil leak. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap56.gif)

The car had a automatic trans, it was a blass to drive down RT 30 and punch the gass going 65 MPH and have the tires smoke (IMG:style_emoticons/default/burnout.gif)

I have a picture here somewhere.

[BarberDave]

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At 15 i bought a 1934 Ford 2 door sedan, old flat head had frozen and cracked the block. Out it came in went a new flat head ,Offie.heads,duel stromberg carbs ,Belond headers. hydraulic brakes, chopped 3 inches. this took about a yr.
Loved that car, more than life it self was the coolest car at school. Got me layed the first time.
Sold it 3 yrs later( dumest move I ever made) it was around this part of the country for the next 30 yrs. or so. If i ever find it I will buy it back ,but small chance of that. Oh well I can dream. Dave (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif)

[914Sixer]

In 1970 I got to Germany via the US Army for the 3rd time (my dad was a lifer). I purchased a 67 911S. For the next year I got to try the autobahn out to the max. I went to Nuremburg Ring 3 times. Fast times

[TimT]

First car was a 58 Beetle,

Second car was a 66 Mustang

Third was a 70 911T

first at 16

second at 17

third at 18

Ive had 911s ever since,

got the 914 in 2002

and a bunch of trucks for daily drivers

current 2003 F250 PSD

[jd74914]

My first car was the 914 that I'm almost finished restoring now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) I bought it when I was 15 and started working on it (well, at that point working was a relative term). The real rush started last January when we finished our monster garage. I rebuilt everything on the car within 5 months and did almost all of the rough body work just so I could show it for my senior project. I ended up working on the thing for 6, 7, 8 hours a day to get close to completion

The kicker was that the rebuilt engine was just put back in 3 days before I had to show it, and it was first just run 5 minutes before the ride to school. I hadn't had time to put the muffler on so it was deafening to rev, but she somehow started about 3 dozen times during my demonstration. I take that as a testimate to VW engineering.

Anyways, I finished all of the bodywork and now she gets painted this spring.

Now I get to move onto my second major project . . . the restoration of a 1950 Ford F-1 shortbed that was rodded in the 50s with a 1953 Olds 303. In the late 70s my dad added a 4 speed F-6 (IIRC) dump truck transmission because he kept killing stock ones. I can't wait, but that all comes when finals are over in mid-December.

[iamchappy]

My first car was a Red 1961 Austin Mini Cooper, my second was a Copper with white racing stripes up the middle 1968 390 AMX(this was a fast car in stock form) it was faster than my brothers 69 SS396 Nova from a rolling start. The Nova's best 1/4 time was 12.29 but if we had a 30mph start I must of caught him between gears because I could jump out a couple of car lengths and he could never catch up I cant tell you how many do overs we tried. My third was a new 1973 Phoenix red 2.0 914.

[bernbomb914]

I just attended my 55th highschool reunion last weekend. so my cars were a differant generation from most of you kids. I had 36 differant fords during highschool some very cool ( yellow 36 conv with a carson top)some As with v/8 60's but the nicest one was a 32 roadster that turned 147 MPH at the dry lakes and 105 in the 1/4 mile on gas. these were all flat head v/8s it those days.

Bernie

[GWN7]

First car I owned was a 65 Pontiac StratoChief 4 door 283 auto. I bought it because it had a bench seat for going to the drive-in with the gf. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

The second was a 62 Falcon wagon that came with a 6 standard. I put a 289/271 hp with a C4 trans and a 8 1/2" rearend. Hooker headers. Painted it Caddy Blue and tinted the windows Blue. Sold it to neibour when I bought my first 68 Camaro. He forgot to put anitfreeze in it and the block cracked. I bought it back and stripped the parts off it. Some I still have.

[a.mistak914]

I bought a Tangerine 2.0 Liter a little over a year ago and am now putting a 3.0 liter in it. People at my high school love it!