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Pretty much every car I've owned until recently was crap. Of course having to drive Mom's wagon with the "wood" on the sides to high school was embarassing at the time, but at least I had the satisfaction of knowing I didn't own it.

Unfortunately I did own a Chevy Sprint in college (the predecessor of the Geo Metro). It had a 3 cylinder engine (yes, I said 3). It wasn't in bad shape...until I had a little accident. I lost the back bumper cover and put a dent in the middle of the front bumper, so that both ends of the bumper bowed out a bit. Of course I didn't carry anything but laibility insurance on it, so I couldn't afford to fix it. My dad decided to help out one day though by building me a bumper cover for the back ... out of wood, painted black with reflector stickers on it! :yikes: "Pimp My Ride" hillbilly style.:up:
 
1983 pale blue ford escort named affectionately "tort" get it - escort - tort hatchback design - no AC no FM radio - had to have a "boom box" in back seat to listen to music - bumper fell off at one point - can't exactly pinpoint when
tort was donated to the American Kidney Association as tax write off was better than trade in:)
still miss tort:)
 
I loved my first car...a 1983 Pontiac Grand Prix. She had T-tops and gold honeycomb wheels. My parents had bought it when I was 5 years old (in 1987), and I bought it from them for $1000 when I turned 16. My friends affectionately nicknamed her "Ghetto Cruiser" and "The Love Boat". Unfortunately, she burned oil badly...I hated it when we were stopped somewhere, and we would suddenly be enveloped by a cloud of blue smoke. :lol: She was a fun car though.

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just seeing the title of the post made me want to put "your mom"

...but having the worst humor in the universe, i decided against it. In fact, telling you these things now just proves how crazy I am to be here replying.
 
I got my first car when I was 16 (1990). It was my grandparents car and they gave it to me when I was 15. It sat in our driveway rotting for a year. It was a 1976 hideous tan/yellow Buick Skylark. It was a two door and the doors weighed a ton. There was literally no floor for my feet. It rusted away. My dad had to put layers of old license plates on the floor and then a bunch of floor pads. When I went over a puddle my feet got wet. :| Let's just say I had a trunk full of extra shoes and socks for rainy days. There was no radio. It made a really loud noise until the engine warmed up. I could only drive with a 1/2 tank of gas at all times because there was something wrong with the fuel system so I was at the gas station just about every other day getting gas. I had to put the car in park at a long stop light and step on the gas so the car wouldn't die. And the best part of all was I was a HUGE Kiss fan so the entire back of the car had Kiss stickers all over it and the side windows in the back had Kiss window clings. :rolleyes: The car was so noisy, bright in color, and then those ridiculous stickers I had all over the place, you could see and hear me coming a mile away. :reject:

I wish I would have taken pictures of it but I don't think I ever did.
 
madamadam said:
just seeing the title of the post made me want to put "your mom"

...but having the worst humor in the universe, i decided against it. In fact, telling you these things now just proves how crazy I am to be here replying.


Grandpa?! What are you doing posting on Interference?:scratch:
 
1983 chrysler New Yorker - milky white, leather interior . I'm sure it was a great pimp ride back in it's day but we owned it in 95. The damn thing wouldn't quit stalling. That was the most embarassing thing. No mechanic could figure out why it stalled. Hated that car.:grumpy:
 
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All of my cars have been beasts.... some of you may not know what kind of car I am talking about, but here goes...

84 Mitsubishi Scorpion, Coupe
86 Nissan Pulsar Hatchback, Turbo model
84 Mazda 323, Sedan
Now I own a 93 Toyota Townace Van, I love my car, I go camping in it heaps:wink:
 
when i was 8, i had a scooter. not a motorpowered thing or one of those things that were popular a couple years ago, the front wheel was about half the diameter of a normal kids' bike, and the back wheel was like training wheel sized. and it was blue, with a white and yellow checkerboard pattern on the part where you'd stand...

i got some wrenches and plyers and took it apart when i was 10...
 
I have only ever had 2 cars:

This was my first car, bought when I was 19. It looked like this when I got it:

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and this when I was finished with it:

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I really really didn't want to sell it but I needed the money to fund my RTW trip a couple of years ago.

My second car was a boring Ford that looked like this one:

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My first:
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Buick Skyhawk
(I'm so glad there's no Skyhawk on the album as it would have reminded me of this crappy thing)

Of course mine wasn't as all new and shiney as this one. 180,000 miles on it when I got it ( :huh: I had no choice in the matter :huh: ). One of the motors on the headlight flip thing broke and it looked like the car was always winking.
Every time it rained the belts would slip and the power steering would go out. After about 10 attempts to fix the problem, the repair shop told me not to bother coming back. The thing finally blew a head gasket and I somehow managed to sell it for $300. Those were crappy days...
 
1973 Buick Century, dark yellow with a brown vinyl top :reject:
It was nicknamed "The Beast". I had it when I was in high school living in Alabama. I had to go start it and let it run for 15 to 20 minutes before I went anywhere in the morning or it would stall out on me. Remember, this was AL, it wasnt even cold!!! LOL
 
bammo2 said:
I have only ever had 2 cars:

This was my first car, bought when I was 19. It looked like this when I got it:

homeryellow2.jpg


and this when I was finished with it:

homer.JPG


I really really didn't want to sell it but I needed the money to fund my RTW trip a couple of years ago.

My second car was a boring Ford that looked like this one:

OE52WUD.jpg
Beautiful work on the bug! Too bad you had to give it up! I like the Ford - I don't think we have that model around these parts.
 
In college I used to ride a crappy old three-speed bicycle with wire basket in front. :reject: I didn't have a car, so it came in handy when I had to go anywhere off campus, such as to the store.
 
My first car was a 1972 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus. I bought it off my parents for $250. I was a very very very fast car. I ended up selling her for $500 when I couldn't afford the gas or insurance :sigh:

One of my favourite B-52's songs 'Planet Claire':

She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light

:D
 
1979 Caprice station wagon, very ugly, gray, black and rusty, no headliner, horrid cracked red interior, made a flubbflubbflubb noise everywhere I went. I used to haul my kids around in this thing .When it finally passed away were were stuck at a gas station and had to be towed home. It was sent to the junkyard and I didn't even get any money for it:tsk:
 
My current and only is a red 1989 Holden Camira. I'm on my second motor. :shifty:

The front passenger side corner is held together by the same 100mile an hour tape [I don't know what it's called, that's just what we call it!] they use on the V8 Supercars like if they've had a bit of a prang during a race and need to have their spoiler taped to the car or something so they can get back out there racing.

It's a little embarrassing, really. :|
 
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