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First car i bought, 2002 Kia Rio 5 door (wasn't old enough to drive till 2004 lol), massively stupid sound sytem and black lights in the cabbin were the only mods.

2nd car was R33 GTS-t, currently has the usual bolt onns, had the sound sytem in there for a while, now trying to sell the sytem because i'm over that scene. (still current car)

3rd car is a Maserati 3200gt 3.2 litre V8 twin turbo

4th car (future car) will hopefully be a 360 modena F1 wohooo

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First car was a Holden WB one tonner. Was a great car.

Second was a VK calais V8 - worst car I've owned by a mile.

Third was a 97' Corolla as I had to drive a fair way to work and back.

Fourth car is my current R34.

Also have a 08 cbr600, and before that had an 07 vtr250.

Next I'm hoping will be an R34 GTR

Used to drive my dads cars back home.

here in Aus:

1st - Mitsubishi Galant GSR (got stolen)

2nd - 98 nissan pulsar

3rd - 03 Civic Vti - (VTEC) hahaha

4th - 93 Nissan Skyline GTS

5th - 96 Camry (very Short time)

6th - 96 Nissan Skyline GTS25T (CURRENT)

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1st- r31 S1, 5speed, rb30e 110rwkw, (cam, headwork, full zorst, tune)

2nd- Ford Explorer 4x4

3rd- r33 gts Type S

4th- Toyota hilux 4x4 SR5

Current- Nissan Navara 4x4 STX V6 (2inch lift, Nudge bar, driving ligths, Micky T 33inch ATZ's)

Also- R32 GTR Group A Evolution Nismo Edition...... Number 219............312awkw :P

1. 1980 Ford Escort Rally Pack 2ltr

2. 1983 VH Commodore V8

3. 1988 R31 GTSX Coupe RB20DET 130rwkw's

4. 1990 R32 GTSt RB20DET 230rwkw's (Current)

5. 1997 VS SS Commodore V8 (Current)

Plus a heap of other cars that I bought and sold... haha.

Can't beat an old rally car to teach you how to drive!!!

first car I bought was a r32 gtst coupe.Learnt to drive on it too..was heapsa fun lol.Got thrashed,broken into,near accidents,LOSING TRACTION so bad in the wet lol.Sold it for $1K

Since then had two more coupe GTST and GTS4,then a R33 GTS25T coupe in white and now the gtr.

Skylines in my blood!

First Car: 89 Silvia SR20de

Second Car: 88 Silvia SR20det

My friends didn't even notice when I changed cars! >_<

Didnt know my brither was on SAU :P To be fair Leif, they were both black nuggets with loud exhausts to the untrained eye :P

My first car was a 1973 Eb1 Honda civic. 1200c of raw fury, 3/4 of the cylinders worked and it cost dad $250 with 7 months rego. Rebuilt, resprayed, retrimmed and rewired by yours truly, and sold for $450 after 12 motnsh of pizza delivery :blink:

Second and current car is a 1997 R33 series II GTS-T :laugh:

1st car 1971 HG GTS Monaro with a worked 350 Chev and 2 Speed Powerglide

nothing like learning to drive in an overpowered muscle car

that handles like something from 1971

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1) 81 GH sigma. Only a 2Lt but it got a 5 speed and better diff ratio than the 2.6 4 speed versions, plus with the rebuild it got at 100k to fix the dead rings it went almost as well as a 2.6 too :P

2) S4 RX7 Sport bought for 8.8k. Basically An NA with turbo brakes, no power options and terrible wheels. It got an s4 turbo engine dropped in it after a year as the NA died. Spent 4k on the engine swap, another 7k or so in maintenance (the entire drive line was eventually replaced) and about 700 bucks on an exhaust....

3) 32 GTSt. Ended up with an rb25 in it. This is the point where mods started to get the better of me. Must have spent close to 40k on it over the years going through different suspension and wheels and turbo kits. Ended up putting it into a wall at Wakefield Park.

4) (current) unregistered S13 track car, bought NA, now turbo

5) (current) registered S13 rolling shell, it'll get the track cars old NA engine.

1. 1992 peugeot 205 gti (sold)

2. 2003 peugeot 307 hdi. 0 - 100 in 14secs.... (sold)

3. 1996 R33 S2 (sold to gumflapper on here)

5. 2006 Golf Gti (sold)

6. 1989 R32 (current)

7. 2007 Toyota Camry (sold)

Kids these days.... !!!

You will hate the guy i met last week then!

His little sister just got bought her 1st car for her 16th birthday.

It happened to be an R35 GTR. :P

My list of fun times and age i was at the time.

1 - 1986 Corolla 1.3 Carby (15) Traded for Mitsi

2 - 1988 Mitsi Mirage Cyborg, Sold

3 - 1985 Corolla GT Sold

4 - 1991 Integra 1600 VTEC (16) Sold

5 - 1992 Prelude 2.2 VTEC, Car heaven

6 - 1997 Integra Type R (more tracked than streeted) (18) Sold

7 - 1995 Toyota Hiace (daily for the track ITR) Turned into USA trip

8 - 1998 R33 GTSt (23) Current

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