Memories...

Setanta · #1 06-29-2002, 12:18 PM

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:

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

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

B16a4me · #2 06-29-2002, 12:33 PM

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

Setanta · #3 06-29-2002, 12:33 PM

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.

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

Setanta · #4 06-29-2002, 12:41 PM

Number 3, the "Bumblebee"

Go figure where the name came from

Setanta · #5 06-29-2002, 12:44 PM

After a respray (IPEC yellow of all colours

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Setanta · #6 06-29-2002, 12:49 PM

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

Spunkymonkey · #7 06-29-2002, 04:36 PM

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.

Setanta · #8 06-29-2002, 08:02 PM

"The barge" - 1979 Holden Statesman DeVille - yuck

Setanta · #9 06-29-2002, 08:05 PM

My baby - "Cujo"

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

Do the mags look familiar?

Setanta · #10 06-29-2002, 08:14 PM

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

Setanta · #11 06-29-2002, 08:21 PM

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

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

taranaki · #12 06-30-2002, 05:51 AM

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....

Rubber cone suspension..every bump=

!

Spunkymonkey · #13 06-30-2002, 05:53 AM

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

complete with marvin the martian :hehehe:

Setanta · #14 06-30-2002, 06:42 AM

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

Spunkymonkey · #15 06-30-2002, 06:50 AM

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

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

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

I'm sure you have seen them....

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

that was my favourite....

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

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