Memories...

I was helping an old friend out with clearing Civic parts out from under his folk's place. Amongst assorted panals, engine/gearbox stuff, I came across a numberplate:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/number_plate.jpg

I instantly recognised it as the plate from my very first car:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/first_civic.jpg

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/first_civic2.jpg

Nothing too exciting, it was just a '73 (yes, '73 even though official records list the 1G as '74 to '79, it's ADR plate listed '73) 1170cc SBC Civic.

Learnt how to drive on it - thrashed the hell out of it and then it turned into a restoration project - unregistered, the plates must never have been handed in.

The stories that car could tell :)

The RTA have been informed of your find and the fine is in the mail.....

Kind of prompted me to look for a few other pics of cars I've owned.

2nd car was a '74 Datsun 240K GT hardtop. 2.4 liter L series straight 6, a beast for its time.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/240k1.jpg

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/240k2.jpg

The 240K was the predecessor to the Skyline. Fun car - we got it over 220 km/h on Castlereagh road.

Number 3, the "Bumblebee"

Go figure where the name came from ;)

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/bumblebee.jpg

After a respray (IPEC yellow of all colours :rolleyes: )

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/bumblebee2.jpg

More tomorow I guess - damn coffee kept me awake but I'm bushed now ;)

Awww...how cute...have to scout the old photo albums see if I can find some pictures of the old 1st gen's my cousins used to have...talk about multi colours...they used to have every colour under the sun.

"The barge" - 1979 Holden Statesman DeVille - yuck :(

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/statesman.jpg

My baby - "Cujo"

Originally built by a friend, then rebuilt by me - this is the one car I never forgive myself for selling - sigh

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/cujo1.jpg

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/cujo2.jpg

Do the mags look familiar?

I can't find pics of the others - SLR, Scorpion, Triumph and the Celicas - plus the turbo Civic not to mention the 2G white civic and the gray and white 1Gs that were just runners :( I don't even know if I took any).

Oh well, second most recent car, the GL Civic - right after I'd sunk 3 grand into new wheels and tyres and lowered suspension.

Right before I got the SiR

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/gl_civic.jpg

First picture of the SiR - 20 minutes after I bought it.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cuchulainn/memories/sirquart.gif

If people look closely, you can see the tyre/guard clearance... or not ;)

nostalgia ain't what it used to be.My first car was a Mini!"woody"station wagon,rust everywhere,'IFFY' warrant,and all of bmc's inherent faults...but the water leak though the firewall was countered by the big holes in the floor....:D Rubber cone suspension..every bump=:eek: :eek: !

hmmm...will have to try and find some pics of my 3rd gen.....

complete with marvin the martian :hehehe:

Did I mention that I had "Mr Doo-Bee" clipped to the rear-view mirror of the black and yellow 1G? Not to mention the mandetory Garfield suction capped to the window :p

I had marvin the martian stickers on the side windows....

and on the rear window..under the normal Honda words, had "with attitude" :p

at one stage lang also bought me a B.I.T.C.H sign to stick on the back window...

I won't tell you guys what the letters stood for :p I'm sure you have seen them....

also had a bumper sticker which read 0 - bitch in 2.5 seconds :p

that was my favourite....

along with my at one stage "dancing dog" on the dash, and my Mr Potato Head :p