Cars you've owned

[replicant_008]

What cars have AF'ers owned - how long did you have them, whether you liked them and why you got rid of them...eg

1972 LJ Holden Torana 2250 S Monza Red - I had the car nicknamed 'The Beast' for 6 years from the 4th Form to the end of University. It had a 138 ci Holden 6, three on the tree, non-power assisted drum brakes and initially had a mixture of cross ply and bias belted tires... full four wheel drifts at 15 mph on a wet road... It got the flick when I left University as it started to rust in some critical places.

1992 Ford Laser TX3i 1800 DOHC Mystique Red - My first new car with an appetite for Yoko's, a few quite little tweaks and oodles of fun. Driven every weekend for 4 years during winter for ski (round trip about 730 kms) training. Cheap finishing, light panels but a great little driving package for eating lots of miles quickly and reliably. Got to 50,000 miles and was flicked for...

1996 Ford Escort 1800 Zetec Si Radiant Red - Red 3 was bought to replace the TX3i. A cheap, economical car with great handling but lacking the grunt of the Laser (now an Escort with a Tx3i drivetrain that would have been good). By this time I started skiing in the South Island so it was essentially reliable commuting car (and the first with air-con) rather than a dawnbreaker run car. Was going to keep this for a while but the need to carry round my parents since the accident led to...

2002 Mondeo ST Colorado Red... the latest in the line of Redmobiles.

[YogsVR4]

87 Nissan Sentra (sold)
81 Delorean - Still Own
93 Shadow ES - Still Own
94 VR4 - Still Own
95 VR4 Spyder - Still Own
97 Venture - Still Own
02 Accord EX - Still Own













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[Spec2 Girl]

1990 Mazda Familia which was the first car I owned. It got me to and from work which at that point in my life was all I needed.

I then bought my FTO which was my dream car. I owned that for just under 2 years. Loved every minute of driving it. I still really miss that car.

I sold the FTO and bought my current car, the Skyline. The lure of the turbo is what made me leave my poor FTO. :o

My next car will be an R34 Skyline as I love my current one so much.

[darkness]

1976 Datsun 280z: great first car. awesomely reliable. Only thing that went wrong with the engine or drivetrain was a disintegrated clutch. (probably from too many burnouts). Did all the body work on it myself. 2.8L straight 6, 4-speed manual. also cost me barely anything to buy.

1988 Mitsubishi Galant: 2.0L four with 5speed. not a bad car but had some issues with this one. bought it because I needed a car. probably got a little conned. ended up chewing through oil. Got the flick as it was costing too much to repair. Traded it in on a.............................

1992 Nissan Skyline GTS-4: This is the badboy. Love this car. It's quick, it handles and it's stylie It's also gots lots of potential. Also the most expensive out of any of the above. I think I'll be stayin with this one for a while.

[Heep]

Originally posted by replicant_008
1972 LJ Holden Torana 2250 S Monza Red
1992 Ford Laser TX3i 1800 DOHC Mystique Red (right on )
1996 Ford Escort 1800 Zetec Si Radiant Red
2002 Mondeo ST Colorado Red

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May 2000: 1991 Ford Escort LX - Bought it 3 days before my 16th birthday, and boy did I ever want to drive it Only options on it were power steering and rear window defroster (which didn't even work anyways). It didn't even come with a cassette player when new, but had an aftermarket cassette player installed in the early 90's, and still has it now. August 2001, the car had major rust everywhere, so it went in for bodywork and a repaint in a new color (it used to be cream with black bumpers...:apuke: ). Painted in Ford 1998 "Antique Copper", which had been previously used, I understand, in the early 90's in Europe as "Cosworth Copper." Summer of 2002, the 5th gear shift fork wore out and the car would no longer stay in 5th gear, thus it wasn't highway worthy for the trip back up to Ontario for school, so it stayed at home and the new Sentra brought me here. The car has had the shift fork, shifter bushings, rear brakes, and rear brake lines all replaced in the past week, and my neighbour is currently considering buying it.





August 2002: 1994 Nissan Sentra XE - Bought the car out of necessity (because the ailing Escort couldn't make the trip up here to Ontario), but I wanted it anyways. 5-speed, like the Escort. It's always been garaged and has never had rust (quite a feat for a New Brunswick car), and, so far, is working well with no complaints from me.

[kidrocket]

1990 integra GS
1975 volkswagen beetle
1999 civic Si

[Ssom]

I'm still on my 1st- 1990 Volkswagen Jetta 1.8 GL- a stonking 90 bhp all to my self- and the only "Luxury" feature is Central locking, a shitty blankput radio and a towbar - You have seen the pics- but I am going to take some better ones before I go


As for my next one- I'm already saving up for a Mk 3 Golf VR6

[sarujin]

1990 Honda Civic Hatch, 96hp (6 more then moss!!!). It has no features but steering and brakes. The car doesn't even have electronics anywhere, except my new stereo.

But this car I want to last till the end of Uni, then I'll buy something nice.

sarujin

[Ssom]

Originally posted by sarujin
1990 Honda Civic Hatch, 96hp (6 more then moss!!!)

Me thinks the Jetta needs 100bhp now :finger4:


Also is your Civic's steering Power Steering??? Also what trim level is it???

[sarujin]

haha Power Steering, what the hell is that? My civic doesn't have power steering. Power Steering freaks me out, it makes the wheel to easy to turn.

Trim level? Well the gear stick comes out of the carpet, but i do have 5 seats. Its a basic model civic, NZ new of course.

sarujin

[Moppie]

Originally posted by sarujin
haha Power Steering, what the hell is that? My civic doesn't have power steering.

I want your steering rack!!!!! BADLY! I need some feel in the steering to match the rest of the chassis.





anyway cars:

1st Car: 1978 Datsun 100a Cherry. :ylsuper 998cc and 63hp of FWD Nissan grunt! Actualy the last incarnation of the old British Leyland A series engine from the MGB, Mini, etc etc etc etc in a 700kg 4dr japanese tin can body with 4 wheel independant suspension. Thats right a 4dr car from the 70s with 4 wheel independant suspension and it only weighed 700kgs. Got it from my grandmother at the end of 5th form.
Used to blow away FTGT Corollas from the lights, (untill we got up to 50kph that is) and as you can imagine it had absolutly beautifull handling. But top speed was limited by valve bounce to 140kph. (I can do that in 3rd now)
Great little car, its a shame Nissan replaced it with the Pulsar and then the god damn Primera, talk about taking a technological step back in time. Both of them used a fucken log for a back axle.


2nd Car, replaced the Cherry a week before the end of 7th form with a great classic 6 cylinder brit. One Nelson assembled 1973 Triumph 2500TC.
Again 4 doors, and also red, and also with 4 wheel independant suspension. (from a car orginaly designed in the early 1960s, and released in '63 :finger: ->Nissan ).
Not as agile as the old cherry, but then it weighed twice as much, and with a top speed of over 180kph it was a hell of a lot faster.
The car stayed orginal for about 18months, then I decieded that it needed to go a bit faster. 3 weeks after I got it the wheels were replaced with some 15 inch mags, and these now had the crappy Firestones replaced with some nice Yoko's (start of a love affair). The frount suspension recieved struts from an S model, and it was totaly rebushed frount and back. Then out came the engine and g/box. Both were totaly over hauled, and the engine recieved an up in compression, and some nice tuned length headers.
WOW! did it go better, and a long trip round the South Island saw it hit 180kph with more to go, but my balls getting to small.
Then it cracked a piston. To much Compression, and to many ignition faults.
Out came the engine agian, and this time the head was heavily ported and matched to a custom cam, with some large 175 Strombergs from a Lotus Twin Cam engine.
On a Dyno it showed 150+hp up from 105hp stock, and a huge 250+lb/ft of torque. Thats as much as an 80s era 308 chev.
Not bad from an old 50s designed 2.5L inline 6.

Anyway the car managed 57sec laps around Taupo, only 1sec off a Lotus Cortina, and provided me with plenty of fun, and some very fast and very smoth cross country drives. Lets just say it sat very comfterbly on the ton, and I felt young and invinceable.

3rd car: While the Triumph was lots of fun, and fairly fast, but I wanted some really fast, and pure. Like a Lotus 7. Unforunatly I could only afford to own one, or run one. But not both. So I settled on a Lynx Twin Cam kit car. One of the last of 50 made by some local Kiwis, its uses a Triumph Herald chassis with the rails inverted for strength, and is powered by an old 8v twin cam 2tge and 5sp from an old Toyota Celica. Or I should say was. The independant (<- note this) rear end from the Herald was never designed to work with that sort of power (about 110hp) and the diff completely lost all contact with the material world.
Hence the car is now sitting in a lock up awaiting some $$ to fit a 4agze (super charged engine from MK1 MR2 ) and Datsun 180b LSD.
Im thinking 180hp plus 700kgs 6inchs off the ground no roof and no doors should be a bit of fun. :ylsuper
(oh yeah, it was running on some Yokos, which I sold to my Father)


4th car: Sadly the Triumph couldn't live for ever, it died from Cancer about the same time my last Grand Parent did, and she was nice enough to leave me some $. I could have put them into the Lynx, but I needed something reliable to get to Uni and work. (she told me I had to buy a car with the money)
So I baught a 1990 SiR Civic. At the time I thought it was a nice japanese econo box which just happened to have a high redline, and made me smile when it hit the limiter on the test drive.
Oh how stupid I was. After about a month of driving it like the grannys shopping cart I thought it was I began to learn a bit about it. Some resurch on the net showed it to have 160hp. Not bad I thought, especialy for a 1600cc Jappa. Then I learned it only weighed 1040kgs. Hmmm 160hp isnt a hell of a lot, but when combined with 1040kgs it makes for a very nice combination.
So I started to wind it up a little. Began to explore the red line.
HOLLY SHIT! below 5,000rpm its a moderatly quick shopping cart, above 5,000rpm and Hondas extensive F1 history, and long motorsport heritage become apparent. And the best thing is the enginers didnt skimp on the chassis mods either. Up untill last year there wasn't an Aussi V8 made that could catch me in a straight line, and there still isnt one that can keep up through twistys. As for the other Jappas, well I have yet to find anything with 4cyl from the same year that is faster, and its only the much more modern and Turbo'd Mitis EVOs and Subi WRXS that really are a lot faster. Things like GSR Lancers and GSX Famillas in stock form are a joke, and I wont even mention non GTR Skylines.

It turns out the only thing my Civic shares with all the lesser models below it is some interior trim, and the basic body shape. Thats it.
Everything else, Frount and year subframes, brakes, all the suspension, engine, g/box etc are custom made or adapted from other Honda's.
The car is designed to be raced on weekends, and has an almost perfectly neutral suspension set up, and bigger brakes than most 4dr familly cars to show for it.
Oh yeah, it also has 4 wheel independant suspension and curently rides on Yoko's. :sun:




phew.
I guess if you managed to read through that then must love cars as much as I do. :smoker2:

[tazdev]

1987 Mitsubishi Mirage - The car I learnt to drive in. Parallel parking between a 44 gallon drum and the tractor in the paddock .

1989 Mazda 121 Funtop - a good little car to get me to tech each day and to the beach on sunny weekends (with the boards sticking out off the roof:sun:

1990 Toyota Celica GTR 4WS - my first "real" car (even if it was an auto) the four wheel steer made it so easy to park. I would probably still be driving it today had the Auto Transmission started playing up. I took it to the car fair and sold it to some Asian kid fresh in the country so he could drive to Uni (somehow I don't think the car would have lasted much longer )

1991 Nissan Skyline GTE-x - my current car, I love the shape and how it drives the only thing lacking is MORE POWER and an LSD. So I am now trying to save to purchace my next car (Nissan Skyline GTS-4):frog:

[kris]

Damn, you people are novel writers.

1967 Chevy Impala - still own
1970 Porsche 911T targa - now own
1986 Pontiac Trans Am-Night rider!
1986 Nissan Truck - still own it.
1987 Nissan Pulsar
1990 Honda Civic Si - still own.
1991 Honda Civic DX
1991 Infintiti G20
1991 Mustang - Still own
1994 Infiniti G20 - Still own
1999 Infiniti G20

[Heep]

Originally posted by kbslacker
Damn, you people are novel writers.

1967 Chevy Impala - still own
1970 Porsche 911T targa - now own
1991 Mustang - Still own

And why have we never heard of these cars in your possession before? Or am I the only one that didn't know you had them......

[S Brake]

I think those are his dads cars or something like that. I don't really own anything, I just drive a toyota truck. but I am saving up for an SVT Contour that i plan on buying in 3 years.