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.
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Macro, I also had a Trabi as a first car. Not a green one though, mine was either the "Egg White", or the "Off White" non-option. I think the waiting time for the green "combi" one was a few years longer at the time 
Fuel cap under bonnet. "Carbon fibre" - well, not quite. It was any discarded fibre VEB could lay their hands on, and cheap resin.
It suppose to be yellow on the picture, but anyway my indeed was the next more advanced version with things like "economizer" - fuel consumption gauge and halogen lights, electronic ignition.
Hard to believe but really you could load this car with 1000 kg and pull next 1000 in the trailer, that how well build they were, Trambi
I think time will come that next generation of modern cars will be molded from composite plastic too. So Trambi was visionary and should assure patent. Then collect royalties from McLaren.
There were also more similarities to modern F1 - for example requirement to rebuild engine every 10,000 km.
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!!!
no pics , but...... 1967 HR Holden wagon , 161 motor , manual . they were a fantastic vehicle .
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.
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Here's another of my old slides. In 1968 it was Leonara's hearse.
If you were a surfer in those days, an old "woody" was the vehicle of choice.
This would have been perfect, but they didn't want to sell.
you'll be pleased to know the town put in the effort to restore it and it is still the town hearse!!!!
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
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Mine was the blue version of the green, make that grey
Hi Ian,my parents had the 58 model in green,they owned it for over 30 years and the car I learnt to drive in.In the end it was given to their mechanic to ensure it had a good home but I took the very rare bonnet emblem off as a momento .It goes about one third up the centre chrome strip.I have only ever seen one other in my life.My first car was a 72 VW kombi camper non poptop .
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Here's another of my old slides. In 1968 it was Leonara's hearse.
If you were a surfer in those days, an old "woody" was the vehicle of choice.
This would have been perfect, but they didn't want to sell.
you'll be pleased to know the town put in the effort to restore it and it is still the town hearse!!!!
Thanks for that Yachty, I had nightmares about it ending up on a tip somewhere.
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
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but I took the very rare bonnet emblem off as a momento .It goes about one third up the centre chrome strip.I have only ever seen one other in my life.My first car was a 72 VW kombi camper non poptop .
A beetle Akim! I'd always associated you with an F250 and Robby Naish. Total rethink. I recall there were quite a few of those bonnet emblems around, but I'm older than you. My mate had a 58 model, bigger windows the power went up from 36 to 40hp. Early days of the power race.
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
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A beetle Akim! I'd always associated you with an F250 and Robby Naish. Total rethink. I recall there were quite a few of those bonnet emblems around, but I'm older than you. My mate had a 58 model, bigger windows the power went up from 36 to 40hp. Early days of the power race.
The emblem was only on Beetles delivered to Sydney and some in Canada.Some German Beetles had a similar one but made of aluminium and had wings.
The F truck is now gone after 20 years and I now have a better windsurfing van than Robby Naish. Seats 6 people with the kids 2m back behind the driver(much more peaceful for the parents and spread far enough apart they can't kick each other) and behind them room for 15 boards and all the rigs.
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
then i realised i couldn't get to the water quickly enough so i bought a fordsubishi expressovan
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then i realised i couldn't get to the water quickly enough so i bought a fordsubishi expressovan
Arriving at the water you sudden realised that your fordsubishi couldnt carry any gear.
So your expressovan could get you quickly home again.
Pointless...
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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 was expecting a picture of her cleavage.
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 !
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couldn't drive it until I found a job to pay for the petrol....
that's tough! especially if mum lets dad have a pub!
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
