First cars. Where are they now?

[MartyRX2]

HG coupe non GTS 186 column auto. Sold to guy in Broadmeadows in 1998. Turned into orange GTS mockup with 454 and was spotted doing a wedding a few years ago by a mate still with original plates.

[1320ft]

78 Mazda 323 door, I bought of a workshop, had 12 months rego, extractors, 2" system & aunger challengers. All for the pricely sum of $950.

Ended up spinning a bearing one night on the way home & just decided it wasnt worth fixing, as I had been eying off a sigma turbo. Gave it to the neighbours son for $100.

[McVLt]

1976 ZG Fairlane 500 with a 302, Column shift auto!

Damn it was a good first car. Sold it to some crazy bloke who planned on building it up with a crazy 351

Good times

cool story

[itsnotagsr]

'81 E21 318 3 spd auto. Sahara Beige with brown interior.

Dodgy Parramatta Prestige wreckers sold me a nice retrimed interior, E30 rubber boot spoiler and some other replacement parts.

Used to do mad helis in the back paddock when the parents were away and kept up with my mates AW11.

[Fraud]

Bright yellow RB gemini. got knocked off the road by a cabbie, about a year later I fixed it, then drove it for another few years, loaned it to my sister for a few years while I would occasionally use it for khanas, and the first PF hampton day (which it survived).. I didn't treat it particularly well, but it always dutifully served its purpose, and aside from lacking a lot of power, and aircon, it was a good car to me.

then one dya my sister got a getz for cheap and didn't need it anymore, and she decided that i wanted to give it (ie. $0) to my cousin who was about to get her p's and move from nowra to wagga and wanted to be able to get around/come home in holidays etc.. This seemed like a good and noble cause so i went along with it.

Then, in what I perceive to be a fairly ungrateful series of events, my cousin decided she was incapable of learning to drive a manual car, which roughly coincided with her inheriting another car from another family member, and so she sold my gemini to a friend for $400. I don't think she ever actually said thankyou to me directly (probably/possibly to my sister, I wasn't there when it was handed over), and she got her dad to email me and ask me to change the name on the notice of disposal instead of having to do the legwork herself. I was pretty shitty about all of this - surely if someone gives you a free car, and you decide you don't want it, the first thing you do is say "do you want it back?"... Around about that time, 13's for $1300 was starting, and I would have had a go at it if I still had that car sitting around. not only that, but WHERE IS MY FUCKING $400???

Anyway, I actually saw it a couple of months ago sitting in the St Johns College parking lot at Sydney uni. I'm guessing it still belongs to my cousins friend. I've still got a key somewhere, surely under the circumstances it'd be legal for me to take it back?.. It was somewhat comforting to see that its still getting about though.

[Marlin]

Q. First cars. Where are they now?

A. Burning in hell I hope. I sold the cunt of a thing when it/I broke its 10th, yes, TENTH fucking gearbag. Motherfucker cost me thousands each time. It didn't just smash gears, it put the cunts through the case!

I learnt many a lesson with that car, one being.... "thou shalt not rape and pillage until off apprentice wages".

[kyle_b]

My first car (the folks got for me and my sister) a 90's Mazda 121 bubble, canary yellow. It lasted 4 months and then a massive hail storm came and wiped it out ( thank fuck)

[Race Spec]

Picked up a stock red Mitsubishi Cordia GSR Turbo back in 1998, and was one of the first in the country to drop a DOHC 2.0L VR4 motor under the bonnet. Back in the day (circa 2000), it squeezed out 150fwkw's and used to destroy brand new WRX's (as well as Jap imports) and HSV's best offering at the time :D

I owned it for a decade and threw a shit load of money at it- to me, it had a lot of sentimental value hence why I held onto it, but it eventually got defected. I decided to part it out- I pulled the motor out and sold a stack of other parts back in 2008, and sold the fully engineered rolling shell for $3K.

The guy who bought it off me finally got it back on the road only recently.

A pic back from 2000...

[ferdie]

shorty 40 landcruiser

in the shed, currently putting a 1gzfe-t into it...

[Marlin]

Good one Rog.

[Race Spec]

Good one Rog.

lol, it was only a matter of time!

[Bren]

78 Mk2 4 door Escort. Bought it of a cousin for $200 with a few months rego left on it. Thrashed the fuck out of it for those few months. Rego ran out so my parents took it to their property and we were going to fix it up a bit (it was a shitbox) and get it rego'd again for me to drive around Toowoomba. They decided a better idea was to give it away, for free, to my grandma's next door neighbour so that he could make it in to a race car. Thanks mum

No idea where it is now, but still friggin love Esky's, and one day I'd like to own a decent one. One day.

[Valkyrie]

1974 Toyota Celica which I purchased at Christmas time in 1995. I fitted a 2TG ASAP and cut the springs with a grinder in auto class:rotflol: So awesome in red with a black interior!

The car has had a 4AGZE fitted and I am hoping to get it back on the road this year.

[big_pete]

78 Mk2 4 door Escort. Bought it of a cousin for $200 with a few months rego left on it. Thrashed the fuck out of it for those few months. Rego ran out so my parents took it to their property and we were going to fix it up a bit (it was a shitbox) and get it rego'd again for me to drive around Toowoomba. They decided a better idea was to give it away, for free, to my grandma's next door neighbour so that he could make it in to a race car. Thanks mum

No idea where it is now, but still friggin love Esky's, and one day I'd like to own a decent one. One day.

This is my story.

I had a 79 Esky 4 door, poo brown, sand belted paintwork, cost $250, was a shitbox in every way except it was a 2L manuel and was a hell of a lot of fun.

Brother ended up taking it to sydney and it died not long after that and he sold it for $100. Wish I still owned it.

[Bren]

At least yours was a 2L. Mine was just a 1.6L. That often wasn't running on all cylinders :rotflol: