Dato 1600, my first three cars total cost $1600 1st one only $150
Magic little car loved em more than my girlfriends.....trips back from spot, mossies, windmills-**** any where with gravel always meant sideways stupidity!! Thought I was Carlos saines crossed with yuha kankankonen
I want another 1 but the bastards are now all around $10,000 fully sick track units
Dato dato dato dato ( 1st one got a red sticker, 2nd plenty of yellows and n0 3 tangled with a bus!!
Will dig up a photo if I can
Love this thread.
First Bike, I was 10yrs old maybe? (not mine in pic)
Paid $240 and it was pretty clapped out in hindsight, bald tyres and sprockets gone and engine dodgy. My dad stuck washers in the muffler to restrict the outflow pipe to quieten it after neighbor's farms complaining about me riding it all day. One day I did speed runs flat out up n down the dirt road at the back and when I was turning round, all this molten metal poured out. She was back to herself after that.
First car @ 17 (not mine but close). $1400. 2 litre, twin webber carbies, lovely sound when the 2nd carbie opened up under foot flat.
One day the gearstick fell off and I drove home 50ks in 2nd gear, waving traffic past with gear knob.
Another day the starter stuck on and the battery plates were all bent towards each other by time I got one terminal undone.
Gearbox was rooted, and everything else.
Finally found out the kiwi that sold it to me never transferred it into my name (despite getting me to sign forms, promising to do it monday, right next to my work, etc) or out of the wreckers name that he bought it off. He got it running, got dodgy RWC, flogged it off, and used the cash to run home. I got a lot smarter about buying cars after that.
End of the day, still have a sweet spot for a 2ltr Escort - there's a reason they're highly prized as a rally car.
Geez that brings back memories Ian. My first car was a 56' Vdub with big tyres and a dicky seat. Learnt to drive in Curl Curl beach carpark. Bought it off my mum and the poor old thing went through hell. Surfboards, too many people, major repairs etc. But it lasted for ages. Thanks for that!!!
I have held off posting but here goes - seems things in the post are not in the order I had hoped but hopefully I will get better at this.
First car Ford Prefect 1946 and cost 45 pounds back then, this photo is not mine but similar, I think mine was beige. This one is for sale at $8,000 - a bargain At the time I think I was 18, then 18.5 for the next.
So while I am at it here is my second car 1953 FX Holden at 60 pounds - again not my car, mine was black and I painted the rims black as well. I was very trendy then.
still looking for my pics of my 69 dodge ute(VF valiant) god awful slant 225 absolute rustbucket, then a mini moke which my lady loved , so we had to get a hiace camper
Warwicki an FX or FJ was my preferred option, (to be like the rest of my mates). But the old man vetoed it, said he didn't want an old bomb sitting in his yard, insisted I get something a bit newer. After my Triumph experience he relented and I got an FC panel van. After that, he only ever bought Holdens.
My first car, 1500 beetle, pride and joy, pictured here in cactus @1975 on the way for an adventurous years trip to WA up to Geraldton, great fun car although crossing the Nullabor the only cars at the side of the road were burnt out VW's, but it made it and cruised around the Gerro area in search of some great waves and had a ball over there....
Not quiet as cool as one of those hearses but not a bad 1st car. Maybe 3 years old when i bought it. Definitely from a time when WRX's had heart and soul.
Geez did it (and my wallet / license) cop a beating
DATSUN 1600 was my first
I got a year of total abuse out of mine, particularly that lefthanders track, really took a few years off the car
then a XL Falcon - got a year out of that
then a VW Fastback, got a year out of that one too.
then a landscruiser trayback - totally indestructible, but sold it in Alice Springs, to a lady who hooked $5k out of her cleavage.
hers a pic of someone elses from the intramanet
I had one of these, but not the one in this picture... I don't think it was 1 dog either
I called it "Rochelle"... I figured that was a good name for that kind of car...
It used to get a few laughs witth 3 boards stacked on the roof and passenger side filled with sails to the dash
Soon as I had my licence I asked my dad if I could have a car, he said :" how much have you got ?" I had 350 $, he sold me his rusty subaru ute, with an empty tank and took my 350$... couldn't drive it until I found a job to pay for the petrol....
lasted years, using as much oil as petrol.... sold it when it went over 300 000kms
still miss it !
not this one, but one like it. this ones probably in better condition.
1984 toyota corona
bush bashed it
took it over jumps
rolled it (slow motion onto its side trying to round a corner in rally mode)
it was a car, but it was more than a car it was a wagon
a 2wd 4wd, people used to be dumbstuck at how we ended up in some of the places we got to
a home, lived in it for two months straight on the south coast till my dad refused to hand in my dole form for me anymore
a lifestyle, nothing said derro surf bum more than a 1984 toyota corona packed with boards dogs and leaking bong smoke
a dutch oven, probably spent more time as a dutch oven than it did as a car
a pizza delivery vehicle, best job i ever had (sorry if your pizzas were cold and squashed)
a get away car, no further details for fear of incriminating myself
died a lonely death wrapped around a pole in sydney after being abandoned by a mate who borrowed it to drive his mum to the shops but who ended up picking up a load of the boys and heading a few hours north to the casino, it started raining, the corona had no wipers, lights or brakes
they crashed it and walked away from it..
the corona didn't deserve to go out that way
My first car HT Holden Wagon 186 with 2 speed Power glide had a white roof and sun visor when I got it only sold it two years ago with a small block 350 & Turbo 400 had that for 25 years