First vehicle

Post your first ride, that has a motor. No bicycles smartasses.

1994 Toyota Tacoma 4x4, 4 inch lift with 33x12.50's, 22re motor

Great truck, awesome in the woods. It's slower than hell though. oh well.

2005 Scion tC. All it has for now is an engine front strut tie.

Once I have payed off insurance and other things coming to almost a total of $1000, I will hopefully be able to put some engine mods under the hood from working a lot. I'm ready to bank some serious money and just save up though.

first car was a 98 escort zx2, until my bro totaled it.  like that, but tan


the first car i didnt share with my bro was a 98 Olds Silhouette

 
my first motorized ride was an 87 honda spree



Edited by evillepaintball - 22 March 2008 at 2:15am

Car I learned how to drive stick in.

Current car that i am putting more money than I payed for it into to get it running again

First car i owned.

1988 Dodge Shadow ES Turbo. (had it from 1998-2000)
Had the 2.2L 4cyl turbocharged engine.  I had the wast gate locked off and mad up an intake for it with a K&N filter.  It also had a cat back Flowmaster exhaust.  That little ugly car could really move but i put way more money into than i should have.  Still it was fun seeing my buddys face when it left his 1985 Camaro sitting (305ci V8).




Edited by BearClaw - 22 March 2008 at 5:44am

You did say first vehicle.

This was the first thing I was given keys to and let loose in:

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Mine is a '69 Long Bed Chevvy. I did have pics of it along time ago... and I don't really feel like unbury them.

A lot of you seem to have some reasonably nice first cars. That seems odd to me. I thought most first cars were junkers, until they could afford, and obtained the sense to take care of, something nicer.

My first car was practically given to me by my grandfather. It was a 1987 Ford Tempo. It was BROWN. Not just brown, but the ugliest shade of brown that a car company had ever applied to a motor vehicle, then that particular color aged for 12 years in the sun before I had acquired it.

It had power windows, but the passenger window wouldn't go down. If you put the driver's window the whole way down, it wouldn't go up, and you had to remove the door pad to gain access to the door's internals and manually push the window up.

If you would put more than a half-tank of gas into the car, it would leak. So, I would have to stop on my way to work almost daily, to pump 2-3 gallons of fuel, so it was never full enough to leak out. Parking with the back of the car slightly uphill would also ensure that gas would not leak out of it whilst parked.

I drove the car during the summer after my high school graduation, before having a minor fender bender, which broke a piece of the suspension, and we decided that it wasn't worth repairing. Not long after that, I bought my first car, a '97 Cavalier, which seemed like a Rolls Royce after the Tempo.

I have been a good child to my mom and she decided that me having good grades and not getting in trouble, I deserved more than a junker. So we decided on the scion tc and I have never been happier with the choice. My mom also likes it compared to her weak jeep liberty when she gets to drive it whenever I need her car for some reason.

1971 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser.  350 Rocket V-8.  Looked like this except it was blue with rusted out fenders. 

http://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/1971_Olds_Vista_Cruiser. html