This "my" first car. I drove the family hand me down vehicle up until I was 18, so this was the first vehicle that was in my name. It was a 97 Ranger driven by one retired guy from Washington to here in the winters before I bought it. It had the 4.0L and I put a MAC intake and a 3" Flowmaster exhaust on it. It was a very beastly V6. Once it got to 75k miles it started having alot of problems, and gas prices were going up so I got rid of it. I kind of regret it now, as it was paid off and I miss having a truck sometimes.

 

I'd have to actually dig up physical photos, since it was before the days of everyday digital photography....

 

I'd have to actually dig up physical photos, since it was before the days of everyday digital photography....

Hahah thats exactly what I thought when I first read his idea.

 

Yup.... those pics of my Celica are scans! I miss the old California blue license plates with yellow letters... you don't see them around much anymore.

 

 

<3 my car

 

Here's my first car (Gizmo), my 03' MINI Cooper S (yes I paid for it):

Those are old pictures... I don't have pictures in it's current state, but it's stickerless and badgeless, and I have a Magnaflow exhaust now, oh yea... and some new dents in my bumper curtisy to my mother backing into it!!!

Current Modifications:

Exterior:

20% Tint All-around
Tinted Tails
Tinted Reflectors
Painted Black Repeater Lights
Black Beltline
Debadge
ALTA Shorty Antenna

Engine:

ALTA CAI
ALTA Catless Header
M7 16% Reduction Pulley
M7 Oil Catch Can
Magnaflow Exhaust
Vaccumm Gain System (VGS)
LOTF Engine Damper

-Cody :thumbup:

 

How about a pic of almost all of my cars? Not pictured are my first couple cars as I have no pictures on the computer of them.

MISSING
1988 Ford Bronco II 4x4
1988 Nissan 200SX XE
1977 Chevrolet Camaro

On with the pictures...

OLD CARS
1988 Chrysler LeBaron Turbo

1985 Dodge Charger Shelby Turbo

1993 Ford Escort LX

2003 Chevrolet S10 XCab 4x4

2006 Hyundai Tiburon (for a week )

After the week with the Tiburon, I got my S10 back ... stupid bank. And began the search for another car. And that's when I ended up with the Focus.

CURRENT CARS
2006 Ford Focus ZX3 SE

1989 Plymouth Voyager Turbo (The Project)

 

Only pic I have online right now, I'll try to upload more later. My Trusty 92 Civic LX Sedan right before I sold her after I got my SVT Focus.

 

I WISH I had pics of it.

1973 Mustang Coupe Grandé
Medium Yellow Gold
302cid, 2V, V-8, 141 hp


This isn't mine, but the pic is very close:

 

Wow, Ron, an OG!

 

 

1990 Plymouth Acclaim

then
1990 Jeep Wrangler
1999 Dakota Sport
2002 Ford Focus (tribal)
2001 Ford Focus (Mellow Yellow)
2004 Ford Focus (RS)



wow alot of you had nice first rides, my car needed a towel over the battery so it would not arc with the hood, no a/c am/fm only and the car had a whole 80whp (no money to fix it or fix the battery either)

 

The 1977 Toyota Corolla

That thing was a POS fo sho!

From there, an '89 Civic LX 4-door, a 1988 Toyota Van "The Van from Japan" it had a refridgerator in the center console! Then on to the '94 Escort LX and finally the '02 Focus. Now I've got an '01 Celica and an '07 Rav 4 in the stable too. (Toyota fan much?)

 

First car I bought myself was a 1968 Mustang coupe w/ 289 2bbl kept it for a year and the motor went. Sold it to a guy who bought it for his daughter because everybody else in the family had a Mustang and she needed one too. (Must be nice!) They rolled up with a covered car trailer and loaded it up and took it away!

Second car I bought was a 1968 Mustang coupe. Total P.O.S.!
Electrical system was a disaster - I couldn't have the headlights and wipers on and then turn on the heater because the car would die on the spot! Sold that beeyotch quick!

Third car I bought was a 1967 Mustang fastback. Had it for a few years but it was a money pit and had to give it up when I had my first kid.

I also had a '73 Cougar, ' 73 Comet, then several Escorts and now I have a 2007 Focus ZX3!

 

1998 F150 XL 4.6L

 

I don't got pics of my '95 Civic and '96 Camaro, but I had help from my parents when paying for those. So technically that really ain't my "first" car.

Here is a pic of my first car that I fully paid for - and it's paid off too! Yep it's my Focus.

 

1981 Jeep CJ-7

"Iron Duke" 4-cyl engine with manual trans so it was basically gutless. :lol: I got it before I had my license and did some small mods......REALLY small mods.....like the KC lights. Otherwise, it was pretty much like that when I bought it and when I got rid of it. Damn I miss that Jeep!

And that is a 16 year old Ataru in the driver's seat circa 1990 :lol:

 

first up.... 1990 mazda B2200 (and some ghetto children:lol: )

then there was the 1988 Toyota Camry I bought for $600

and last but not least, the Focus

 

I don't have any pictures of my actual van, but it looked just like this except is was dark blue. Believe it or not i DID pay for this all by myself! It ruled!

 

dont have pics...but it was a 1991 pontiac boneville...maroon inside and out...bench seat...steels...man...thing was a tank...maybe i can find pics of it later...

 

meet victoria

and yes that is an intercooler, and yes that is a saturn, and many a time did i rape exotics. 400+ in both catagories.

 

Well, my first car, a 1992 Mitsubishi Expo LRV had a K&N filter with modified airbox, 2.5" cat back, and a very-loud super-turbo-style muffler. However, i have no photos of it anymore.

However, here's my first "real" car that wasn't my parents: a 1999 Sentra SE Limited. These had the SR20DE in them, and mine was next thing to a lemon. I had a lot of fun with the car, though. Jim Wolf POP charger, Stillen (then later Hot Shot) header, custom 2.25" cat back, KYB AGX shocks on Eibach springs, 16" wheels (I had 17s at one point), tint, stereo, etc.

 

Hard to find a good pic on the net, but my first car was an 82 VW Jetta 4 door. It was a hand me down from my parents.

My first car that I paid for was an 87 Mustang LX 5.0. Neither pic is of the actual vehicle.

 

I'd have to actually dig up physical photos, since it was before the days of everyday digital photography....

+2

i tried searching google for a pic of something similar, but a search for a 1971 Ford F100 came up with nothing but a TON of Buick pics. go figure.

that truck was a total piece. 360 V8 (good ol' FE blocks), C6, 9" rear. the truck had been hand-painted Caribbean Turquoise, but was obviosuly originally white as any door jamb would tell you. interior was a light/dark green Tijuana tuck-and-roll job, even on the dash. the cab was rusted so bad around the rain gutter that there were holes going THROUGH into the cab behind the sun visors. but wait, it gets better....

we bought the truck off a San Diego PD mechanic who bought it off the SDPD auction block. apparently, the reason the SDPD had it was because it had been confiscated at the border from some drug runners. these trucks came with (2) fuel tanks; one behind the seat and one underneath the truck. the one underneath the truck was missing, and there was a trap door underneath the seat. apparently, the tank had been confiscated as evidence because the smuggles were using it to hold the drugs. they had cut a hole in the tank that they could access from the trap door in the cab :lol: my dad and i didn't realize this until we were driving the truck home and noticed we were getting a ton of outdoor noise and exhaust smell in the cab. we 'fixed' it with a sheet of metal and some pop rivets. :lol:

the truck never ever ran 100%. if you were coming up to a light that was about to change and went from braking to hitting the gas, it would die 75% of the time. to start it, i had to reach up underneath the dash and push the Neutral safety switch over bc the rod that went from the shift selector down to the switch had long since disappeared. the truck had no sway bars, so every corner was an 'experience'. the gas gauge didn't really work, and neither did the odometer, so i just got in the habit of filling the truck with $10 every other day. the $70 stereo i had Fry's install would die if you dared to touch a button, so i was stuck listening to the soundtrack from Wayne's World for 2 years straight. it sucked, but it was freedom. i was known on my HS campus for driving that truck, mainly because no one else drove such a piece.

but, i look back fondly on that thing because of the memories. spending countless nights working on it with the old man, breaking it the next day on some dirt roads with my buddies, 'screaming' down the highway at 80MPH, catching air daily over one of the major intersections..... good times :thumbup:

cars since:

90 F150 (good memories from the good times in the back. queue porn music)
02 Focus ZX5 (taught me that even a slow car can be dangerous if not driven right)
89 F250 (first vehicle bought entirely on my own. my uber-dependable vehicle. i love her)
04 GTO
79 Suzuki GS1000 ($1000 lesson learned in what NOT to buy as a first bike)
03 Suzuki SV650s