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I will never forget my first car!

I'd like to see yours!

These 'snaps' I dredged up from 1970...

Enjoy!

Chrome wheels were IN.

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Pinstripes were IN

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Matte black panels were IN

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Smiths gauges, new cassette radios, snooker ball gear knobs, leather steering wheel covers were IN

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Any hoon had to choose between Weber, Delorto, SU etc and carry the new Lynx manifold home in a bus - lol

And these are the exposed pods you'd not want to smoke a fag nearby - lol

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Night-time shot with the state-of-the-art Minolta SRT 101 with Rokkor lens

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50mm Rokkor f1.2 big sucker to be exact

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Minoltas back then were used by Trent Nathan, son of rajab Snowdon etc. Some photographers used to even scavenge Rokkor lenses to stick on their Nikons.

Believe it or not!

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My first car - 1993 R33 GTS. Since I sold it 2.5 years ago, it has since had 4 owners, before finally coming to a rest with a now good friend who's looking after it.

This is how it looked when I sold it:

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Sadly it was crashed yesterday :( Thankfully no one was badly hurt and the car is repairable.

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Jeez Terry you just brought back some memories, my first car was a 1969 datto 1600.

1.8 litre rebuilt and bored out to a whopping 1910cc, side draft webber (48mm I think) 240k gearbox which used to confuse all my mates cause reverse is where 1st should be. Stanza seats and a plywood console with a oil AND water temp gauge wow

I remember it had one of those pop up aftermarket sunroofs that use to bucket water onto me when it rained.

Dunno if I have any photos I'll have to have a look.

Man I loved that car, coincidentally it's was the same colour as my current 33. Jeez I got up to no good in that thing on the dirt roads.

I lost something on the back seat that I'll never find again ;) Good times

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First old 202 red 5speed loved the dirt

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sold it shouldnt have :( but brought my falcon and the turbo bug hit big time

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Then 04 xr6T capa flash . valve springs and supporting mods 10psi ( harder 2 get parts 4 ) so i went SKYLINE!!

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not a picture of mine but splitting image nonetheless

learnt to drive manual in the trusty ol' family workhorse corolla, 1989 model so just two years younger than me, sold it only a few months ago. was really like a part of the family since we had it so long :thumbsup:

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First car, at least it had an RB

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Put a rebuilt engine in with a slightly bigger then stock Cam, Painted engine bay + Engine. Was nice, fairly proud of it, but the Skyline is nicer to drive, faster, more reliable and looks alot better

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First car, at least it had an RB

Put a rebuilt engine in with a slightly bigger then stock Cam, Painted engine bay + Engine. Was nice, fairly proud of it, but the Skyline is nicer to drive, faster, more reliable and looks alot better

Very tidy VL!

Here's mine - a 1989 Prelude 2.0 Si - the first production car with four wheel steering!

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Smiths gauges, new cassette radios, snooker ball gear knobs, leather steering wheel covers were IN.

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Love the dashtop tacho. Looks a bit like the lap timer / stopwatch on the new Porsches with the Sport Chrono Pack (expensive option):

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here's mine, 1984 Nissan 300ZX, Z31 NA. Was my pride and joy, spent way to much on it, shopping list went something like, 2 engines, 2 gear boxes, 3 clutches, 2 diffs, to start with. Learnt most of what I know about cars on this machine.

Had a custom jap rubber front bar (came rolled up in a box!), side skirts, shaved off side bump stops and welding over seams to give it a cleaner look, then painted with a Corvette burnt orange. was VERY bright!

Desperately needed to be lowered, but I sold it and picked up my skyline before I did.

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