Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
Had mine for 10 years, too. I got rid of it instead of my ex. If I only knew...... I loved taking the top off, the doors off, fold the windshield down and off I would go! Loved it!!!
What was your first car?
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Had mine for 10 years, too. I got rid of it instead of my ex. If I only knew...... I loved taking the top off, the doors off, fold the windshield down and off I would go! Loved it!!!
Messy1
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Post a pic of your Land Rover if you can, Njaco. I'll dig out some of mine and post them later this week.
Becca
Staff Sergeant
Good Lawd..first, it was a 63' Plymouth Valiant convertable. Put it in a ditch and got a hole in the gas tank, THEN my brother took it over and got it taken away. Then a Honda Elite 150 scooter. Yes, I was THAT gal. 
My senior year, my friend's prom date wrecked my beloved scoot. SO, I bought a Datsun B210 hatchback, for $200. Bright yellow, she was... it had a smiley face painted on the hood, it came WITH a yield sign AND a 6pack of Budweiser.
My senior year, my friend's prom date wrecked my beloved scoot. SO, I bought a Datsun B210 hatchback, for $200. Bright yellow, she was... it had a smiley face painted on the hood, it came WITH a yield sign AND a 6pack of Budweiser.
JugBR
Staff Sergeant
Negative Creep
Staff Sergeant
I had a Vauxhall Nova Swing 1.0. Sadly this was in the days before digital cameras and my mum doubler exposed the only pictures I had of it. Put in a stereo that was worth more than the car, fitted a 'performance' air filter and stuck go faster stripes down the side.
I drove it at every opportunity and managed to crash within 2 weeks whilst trying to 'powerslide' round a corner. It broke down all the time, kept cutting out in traffic and the tailgate kept coming open. It was a slow, rusty, unreliable and bad handling peice of rubbish. But it was MY piece of rubbish, so I loved it. 6 weeks after passing I managed to park it into the back of a 4x4 driven by a rather big and angry gentlemen. After that it went to the great car park in the sky
Rust in peace B246 JMX
It looked a lot like this, except in a white/rust 2 tone
I drove it at every opportunity and managed to crash within 2 weeks whilst trying to 'powerslide' round a corner. It broke down all the time, kept cutting out in traffic and the tailgate kept coming open. It was a slow, rusty, unreliable and bad handling peice of rubbish. But it was MY piece of rubbish, so I loved it. 6 weeks after passing I managed to park it into the back of a 4x4 driven by a rather big and angry gentlemen. After that it went to the great car park in the sky
Rust in peace B246 JMX
It looked a lot like this, except in a white/rust 2 tone
Mine was a Chevy Vega two-door with automatic transmission but manual steering. The great thing about it is that it was MINE (although it was a hand-me-down from my older brother)! And in high school, that's all that mattered. What was not so great about it was that blasted manual steering. I wasn't quite the buff Greek God I am now (OK, half-Greek God), and sometimes it was all my skinny teenage arms could do just to wrestle it around a corner. It was however painted in a cheerful, bright red. What happened to it is when I upgraded to a Buick Skyhawk (brand-new, no less) my financial advisor (aka my Dad) sold it to some poor soul. Believe or not, I once got it up to 90mph on a road around a semi-abandoned auxiliary U.S. airfield near where I lived. At least I think it was 90 - it certainly felt like 90 the way the car was about to shake apart. Ah, memories.
Venganza
Airframes
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Sounds like fun, Venganza! It's always good when it FEELS like you're doing 90, or more!
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lesofprimus
Brigadier General
My first car was a 1977 Dodge Charger SE with a 360 motor, 6 pack carbs, bored 30 degrees over with 4:11 gears in the ass end.... It ran fast 13's at the 1/4 mile track and almost killed me....
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
That looks like a beast of a motor, Les! percentage wise, there must be more engine than car!!
My first car was a Triumph 2,5 PI MKII. 1972 mod.. Whish i never bought it,, cost me a half fortune to get on the road.. but very fun to drive fast .. at 160 km/h the tail down,nose up, when tip 165 the nose come down lower than the tail.But the electrical system and fuel injection from LUCAS................LUCAS the man who discover the dark.........
Messy1
Master Sergeant
Cota1992
Senior Airman
1969 Ford F-100 with a 390, we called it the Gunship due to all the crap we got into with it and in those days in California in the back country it was still common to have the gunrack filled and I normally did.
The Good
The thing was a beast, It would go as fast as you'd dare push it, it had that great bench seat (Big enough for drive in fun with my best friend and two petite girls with out getting too crossed up), it had 1/8th in steel on the inside of the door panels, when they cut the holes for speakers they wore out three drill pits, a .38 round bounced off the bed and didn't dent, Got rear ended by a drunk in a toyota at a light and he was totaled, I lost a marker light. The mufflers were only that by name ( My Dad heard me coming off the freeway three miles away one night) and I could bulldoze this beast through rush hour and holiday traffic and nice imports like Jesus's own motorcade, it could take out 25 feet of McDonald's metal handrailing in reverse (Long story involving my brother and the choke)
Everyone always invited me to thier bonfires and cookouts, you could look down into the girls cars and tons of other things I won't menton even though the statute of limitations is long gone...
Great truck, I bought it for $1,000 with 45,000 original miles when I was 18..too many good times to even think about in it...and the best part was that ugly faded ford green paint was invisible on the cop radar for some reason, I used to joke I could barrel roll it through a flaming hoop over ten school buses and not get noticed...
The Bad
The only power the truck has was the gas pedal, you could break a sweat on a winter day parking it, which may be why I always had oversized popeye fore arms, lol.
That and the 8 miles a gallon or so (The way I drove then) got spendy on what I was making those days.
The End
I drove the balls off it and when it got to be up in the two hundred thousand mile range I traded it in for a new truck for work, I wore everything out on it including the window and door latches.
That was a sad day the last time I saw it on the lot as I drove away in my new truck.
Good times
Art
The Good
The thing was a beast, It would go as fast as you'd dare push it, it had that great bench seat (Big enough for drive in fun with my best friend and two petite girls with out getting too crossed up), it had 1/8th in steel on the inside of the door panels, when they cut the holes for speakers they wore out three drill pits, a .38 round bounced off the bed and didn't dent, Got rear ended by a drunk in a toyota at a light and he was totaled, I lost a marker light. The mufflers were only that by name ( My Dad heard me coming off the freeway three miles away one night) and I could bulldoze this beast through rush hour and holiday traffic and nice imports like Jesus's own motorcade, it could take out 25 feet of McDonald's metal handrailing in reverse (Long story involving my brother and the choke)
Everyone always invited me to thier bonfires and cookouts, you could look down into the girls cars and tons of other things I won't menton even though the statute of limitations is long gone...
Great truck, I bought it for $1,000 with 45,000 original miles when I was 18..too many good times to even think about in it...and the best part was that ugly faded ford green paint was invisible on the cop radar for some reason, I used to joke I could barrel roll it through a flaming hoop over ten school buses and not get noticed...
The Bad
The only power the truck has was the gas pedal, you could break a sweat on a winter day parking it, which may be why I always had oversized popeye fore arms, lol.
That and the 8 miles a gallon or so (The way I drove then) got spendy on what I was making those days.
The End
I drove the balls off it and when it got to be up in the two hundred thousand mile range I traded it in for a new truck for work, I wore everything out on it including the window and door latches.
That was a sad day the last time I saw it on the lot as I drove away in my new truck.
Good times
Art
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Messy1
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Good story Cota!
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Screaming Eagle
Senior Master Sergeant
Me and my tested the falcon one day, 195km/h we got it up to, even dad was impressed! Oh BTW the AU falcons also top out at 180km/h as well!
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Heinz
Captain
I've only nudged 120km+ in our little 07 barina ( daewoo lanos )
Wind noise at 80 is bad enough
Wind noise at 80 is bad enough
Screaming Eagle
Senior Master Sergeant
My mate also had an old camira, 80 and upwards she would start to get the speed vibrations, but that would stop after 120!
