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KowP - I suggest u stop bagging Sunny's :( I still have mine! In fact I drive it almost everyday day to work and back (1hr drive - one way)

Tis a lovely silver beast thats never missed a beat. Was my first car ......in fact the damn thing will prolly outlast me!

My first car exploded...complete with fireball and stuff...it was a proton persona. Started from the battery compartment somehow. Insurance company labeled it under 'disaster'...it took them a while to think of that. Luckily the car died quite a while before it caught fire. Didn't hit anyone, just died on me n exploded.

'88 Laser...sold it to a little old lady :(

she brought a male friend along to check it out, and he commented how it had good tread.... the tyres were nearly bald!! I just agreed and kept my mouth shut lol :)

I used to still see it heaps after i sold it cos she worked at a Harvey Norman near my work :) She even left the surfie sticker i had on it lol

my first REAL CAR..had some before but P.O.S..

was my r30 which i just sold *wait for it* $500 2.4 ltr 5 speed in alright nick,300zx mags,just a sad day and its gunna be sold unless i can find a buyer near A.C.T willing to change my mind $$$..

*cries*

Originally posted by Obseshn

Still have my first car.  

http://www.syndicatemotorsports.org/cars/corolla.html for some pics

off topic you aint from tuggy in A.C.T are you..:bahaha: just seeing your pics looks familiar,used to live in canberra,thats all..
Guest outlawskyline

A 1974 canary yellow carolla, u couldve ran it off the line!!!, it was a car at the time!! until i didnt give way on a roundabout and got t boned by a red pintara, alot of fond memories in the old girl, it was my older sisters, then mine, then my little sis, my little bro didnt get the chance as it has retired to a farm

Originally posted by hoon69

off topic you aint from tuggy in A.C.T are you..:bahaha: just seeing your pics looks familiar,used to live in canberra,thats all..

yeah cool i thought it'd be local,yeah i watch syndicatesports site regulary,but yeah ..

BACK ON TOPIC:my first car is now still my 1st car it failed to sell,phew in a way,but hey im still looking for the cash,but yeah i might bring her home to qld and keep her...make her into a sleeper,i think,*winks*..:bahaha:

My first car was a 1979 Toyota Carolla SE. the thing went hard at first, but when you had to have 2 guys hold you back in the gravel to do a burnout, there is something wrong there.

then a ford laser 84 sports, then a nonturbo silvia. and finally the best car, a SKYLINE! :):D

1978 TE Cortina, fieces brown 4 speed manual. Never ended up getting registered but served as an excellent get-around-in-the middle-of-the-night-in-a-country-town kind of car. Was sold to bogan for panels for his stacked 250 Cross Flow Cortina, also featured in fieces brown.

Then:ZA (I think) Fairlane 302, also never registered

1979 Sigma Wagon, complete with Dukes of Hazard Racing stripes and 69 on the bonnet. Many a road trip.

1993 VP Crapadore V6, fried the auto with mates holding up the back to do a burnout.

1993 Silvia Qs, why I didnt just get a turbo I dont know?

1997 Fairmont Ghia, Tickford susp and kit, Simmons rims, was a tag job though

1993 R33 200kws at rears

1987 AE82 Corolla

1993 R33, should have just kept the old one...

1989 R32 GTR sitting Japan awaiting DOTARS ruling on 15 Year rule.

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