Share your car history

[rakfint]

So,

I always find it interesting to see what cars people have had in the past, I feel it can tell a little about why you drive what you do now & why you love it. If nothing else, it gives a little insight in to what takes up a big part of our every day lives.

If you don't have photos of the actual cars you drove, just post similar ones from google hehe.

[rakfint]

I will start. (sorry to the Honda haters, i've had quite a few)

First up, my 1997 Honda Civic. This was my first car after I got my license.. back then it was still cool to have clear tail lights and crappy decals on your car, so I did just that. I chose to get in to debt to purchase this car as I wanted something newish & reliable.


I became obsessed with the car no matter how average it was, lets be honest, we've all done that with our first cars! I soon grew an interest for driving fast & joined car clubs.. where this happened late one night on a windy road in the middle of nowhere.. and yes, i lived!


After this nasty accident I didn't want to rush back in to the car scene so I bought something i knew my brother had wanted forever as we both had learned to drive in one. A 1976 Mazda 323.. This thing was pretty mint, granny driven, i loved it.. until it was stolen from the roadside one day







I felt I was ready to get back in the car scene, and with a pretty good insurance pay out i decided to upgrade from my 97 civic so I bought a 96 Integra, a MUCH nicer car as far as quality goes.. Drove this car for a few years until it had high kms, I sold it for 5k before it caused me any issues.



I spent most of that 5k on a holiday to Thailand with some friends... when I came back, i was in need of a car but had not much money to do it.. I found a 1987 Honda Civic, this became my back yard project. After about 1 year of ownership, I decided to move to Canada, I didn't want to sell the car in the off chance I had to come back home so I gave it to my ex girlfriend to drive around in, once I had decided to stay in Canada, I made her pay me for it haha





After 4 months jobless in Canada I was super short on cash so I decided to buy something I knew, another old civic.. picked her up for $500 which was about 1/3 of what I paid for mine back home... i LOVE how cheap cars are over here.



I drove this around on temporary permits for a while until I landed myself a good job. So good in fact they decided to take pitty on the old civic and give me a company car, a 2003 Honda Civic Coupe





After a year of hard work and driving around the Company car i decided I wanted a project car, something to call my own, so I was looking at buying a 91 Miata.. after sharing these thoughts with my work, they decided to instead give me my 'dream car' something I never thought i'd own, or at least not until i was 50 and going through my midlife chrisis, my baby, my 03 Honda S2000



Now.. the moment you have all been waiting for. The Festy.

I got this as I started to get an itch for a project car again, seeing as I couldnt tinker with my work car, and well, why would i? That & I wanted to teach my girlfriend to drive in a car that was small, good on gas & not my S2000.





My plans for this car has developed and changed, I now hope to do a BP swap, set it up for handling and do some track / slalom work in it.

The End.

[Zanzer]

84 Mercury Cougar
84 Mercury Cougar XR-7 Turbo
78 Bronco
79 Bronco
76 Fiat Spider 124
96 Mustang
98 Mustang GT
97 F-150
96 F-150 4x4
85 F-350
96 F-450 Rollback
63 F-100 Unibody
2 93 Festivas
94 Suzuki Katana
98 Sportster 1200 Custom
74 Sportster
68 Sportster
69 Sportster

I think that's everything up to this point. That's a lot of pics so I'd better skip that part :mrgreen:

[okk9488]

2001 mitsubishi eclipse I am plannin on selling it soon to get something else..

I also got a 1990 ford festiva, I havent gotten it on the road but I dont want to do all the work if it cant be standard so I was plannin on selling it too to get standard.

[DrMaxwellEdison]

'77 VW Rabbit + what's in my signature....

[navdoc101]

Lets see: '60 White Ford Falcon; '62 white Ford Galixie confertable; '67 white Mustang, '65 white
Falcon; 67 blue Toyota Corona stationwagon ; '72 black Toyota Celica; '82 green Hyundia Excel; '70 Chevy C10 short bed; '72Toyota Tacoma; '01 green Tacoma stepside; '02 gold Tacoma; ''93 green Festiva. I think thats all:laughing2: Oh there was a VW Rabbit & a VW pop top Camper in there somewhere. Both that Vdub orange color.

[thered56]

87 Mazda 626
84 Audi 5000
89 Acura Integra
87 Jeep Comanche
90 Oldsmobile Cutlass
87 Ford Ranger
78 Ford F150
77 Ford F250
77 Ford F250
91 Ford Festiva
92 Ford Festiva
88 Ford Ranger
92 Ford Festiva
89 Honda Accord

That's off the top of my head. I've probably missed something. I picked up the 626 as my first car 8 years ago and I wish I still had it, perhaps I'll buy another one day.

[NovaSS]

A short list of some of the "neat cars" I have or have had in the past

1963 buick , 401 nail head ( sitting behind my parents barn, first car)
1955 chevy, 327 SBC ( sold)
1965 Nova SS 283, 350, 383, 427 and now looking into 540 ( still eats money )
1988 Festiva SHO swap ( another money pit)
1970 Torino Brogham, 429 CJ 4 speed one of 3 made ( got totaled sitting in front of my house in 1985 , sold engine and tranny rea is in the Nova )
1969 / 1970 Fairlady Z ( japan version of 240 Z) car number 000144
1970 Opel GT ( project car havent started)
1968 GTX ,440 car shell ( May sell )
1976 dodge aspen ex police car ( lots of fun, got totaled by ex wife)

[Charlie1717]

1) 1997 Mercury Mountaineer
2) 1997 Plymouth Neon
3) 1991 Ford Festiva L
4) 1979 Ford Fiesta Ghia
5) 1992 Ford Festiva GL

[rakfint]

haha nice.. some of you guys have had quite an impressive line up of cars!! No Photos at all though?

[inkswitch]

heh compared to you guys i am a noob, But my first car is a ford festiva i like odd things and yeah the festy just picked me

the day i got it, a month be for my 21st

for 800 bucks i was just happy it would start

i did clean it, damn it was eating at me till i did

the seat i need to get the "slider" for ect ect

its my first car that iv had and i am going nuts on it only the best for it kind of nuts

[villageidiot]

1964 4 door nova
1970 chrysler imperial
59 studebaker lark (first driver)
84 ford ltd 2
69 vw westfalia
2003 focus
94 nissan sentra
15 different toyota trucks
2005 ranger edge
2007 ford e150
2008 jetta (wifes car)
2009 jeep jk wrangler 4 door
2009 nissan versa
1990 festiva
1991 festiva

[lanemeyer14]

89 Accord
92 Prelude
92 Corrado SLC
91 Crx
96 Civic hatchback
93 Prelude
93 Prelude (H22 swap)
90 Festiva
91 Festiva
00 Civic hatchback
00 Miata
00 Civic hatchback (bought back from insurance co.)
93 Festiva

[aglatfe1]

1987 Dodge Aries
1989 Ford Festiva

[M3NTAL]

87 Mustang 5.0
88 Mustang 5.0
90 Mustang 5.0
92 Mustang 393 stroker
94 Mustang 331 Stroker
86 Mustang 289 K Code
96 Mustang 4.6
99 Cobra 4.6
02 Harley F150 Black
00 F350 7.3
02 Harley F150 DSG
91 Capri XR2
90 Blazer