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I found this topic in another section and thought i'd bring it here and see what you guys have owned in your life! I will start-

My first car was a '97 single cab hilux. Had a gearbox that was looser than a prositute with 400xxx km (and still didn't die) that i drove around the property and started with it on my L's but it was terribly embarassing driving it to school so my 2nd car..

My 2nd car was a slightly newer, 2 door Suzuki Vitara that was given to me when i got my red P's. Had 300xxx km and was an absolute pile of shit. Nothing ever worked in it, i usually feared for my life in daily. It would regularly stall for no aparent reason.

My 3rd car was a 93 (i think) VR commodore, odometer stopped working at 247xxx km. Had major problems with it, bought it off a family friend for $500 that claimed it had a "reconditioned engine"- I put a fully sick $1000 fusion sound system in it back when i was about half way through my red's thinking i was awesome. Now that i think about it, f*ck i was a cool commy driver... no it didn't have any UNIT or LOOSEKID stickers on it. But there was a FUSION sticker on it..

Bought my '03 V35 350GT coupe 6 months ago from Brisbane with 78,000km on the clock. Was completely stock, had a compression rod bush worn but that's all i could fault it with. Car now has 89,000km on it going strong. Love it, best buying decision i've ever made (obviously)

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1st - 88 Corolla Sedan

2nd - 92 Silvia (SR20) - Was a weapon that used to be really really fun. Did a lot of work on it and built it up

3rd - 03 V35 350 GT-8 (Georgina)

Edit - Sean, you type too much :P

Edited by Tony350

I'm 19, and I'm currently looking at the 3 cars I own :P

1989- Nissan Exa (First car).. targa top gets teh women. Got this 2 weeks before the Red P's

1993- Nissan 180SX - Turbo. Got an exemption to drive a 12psi boost 250hp car around on my green P's. - Sold being picked up tomorrow.

2003- Nissan 350GT - Bought 2 weeks ago with 66,000k's on the clock. Coupe Manual $16,500 Could not be happier right now. Still on my green P's for a little while longer.

(P.s. I'm not a rich kid or anything and lots of people must think I deal drugs by the look of how good my car is. Just happen to have an awesome place to work and I still get to do full time uni!)

Edited by some.will.seek

dont have a v series but ill chip in!

1st 1974 mini 998cc

2nd 1984 mini mayfair

3rd ford orion (shit box) drove it into the back of a vauxhall cavalier at 90 mph!

4th renault 5 gt turbo. cardboard box with a turbo.

5th vauxhall astra sri turbs'. fecking rocket

6th bmw 525i 20 inch rims yo! (lol i was 20 and thought i was gansta' it was a shit box too. 1989 model i believe. but not as bad as

7th bmw 540i terrible. again an 89 or 90 something like that. payed 500 quid it lasted a week.

8th honda civic 92 single cam vtec!

9th honda prelude 2.2 vtec import from japan! riduculous carbon fibre spoilerpost-70109-0-45635200-1347513320_thumb.jpg

10th subaru impreza jap importpost-70109-0-77132900-1347513331_thumb.jpg

move to australia.

11th my missis suzuki swift!

12th mitsubishi lancer 09post-70109-0-86125900-1347513347_thumb.jpg

13th 1973 mini clubman!post-70109-0-28023900-1347513363_thumb.jpg

14th kia cerato koup.

15th nissan skyline r33 94 "yoshi"post-70109-0-70176100-1347513392_thumb.jpg

and thats me.

1st car was a 1966 black HR holden sedan.. looked like hearse... :).. had that for 1 year until I could afford a real car.

2nd was a 1986 grandpa beige coloured Aust built R31 skyline 5sp manual - had that 5 years and sold to a friend (who drive it into the ground over the next 10)

3rd was a 1993 Maroon J30 Maxima Ti. Had that for 13 years until a broken crank shot it dead late last year.

Current 2005 silver V35 sedan - 350GT 6MT.

Wife has a 2007 white J31 Maxima ST-L.

Started with a 1990 MX83 cressida, owned that for a few years, was an awesome car after i fixed the head gasket

Then bought a 2001 Magna Sports in manual, sold that off pretty quick to buy

2002 Magna with 190.3kw at the front wheels, had cams, injectors, tune, bored to a 3.6L, Custom throttle body, exhaust blah blah, ran a 13.6 in that

Sold it to buy my 350GT Coupe :)

LIE!!!!!

It is not possible. :action-smiley-069:

Lulz.

I'm 19, and I'm currently looking at the 3 cars I own :P

1989- Nissan Exa (First car).. targa top gets teh women. Got this 2 weeks before the Red P's

1993- Nissan 180SX - Turbo. Got an exemption to drive a 12psi boost 250hp car around on my green P's. - Sold being picked up tomorrow.

2003- Nissan 350GT - Bought 2 weeks ago with 66,000k's on the clock. Coupe Manual $16,500 Could not be happier right now. Still on my green P's for a little while longer.

(P.s. I'm not a rich kid or anything and lots of people must think I deal drugs by the look of how good my car is. Just happen to have an awesome place to work and I still get to do full time uni!)

I'm jealous! you've been JDM loyal your whole life! Aha i'm the same, turn 21 tomorrow and driven shit boxes my whole time during my p's until now.

dont have a v series but ill chip in!

1st 1974 mini 998cc

2nd 1984 mini mayfair

3rd ford orion (shit box) drove it into the back of a vauxhall cavalier at 90 mph!

4th renault 5 gt turbo. cardboard box with a turbo.

5th vauxhall astra sri turbs'. fecking rocket

6th bmw 525i 20 inch rims yo! (lol i was 20 and thought i was gansta' it was a shit box too. 1989 model i believe. but not as bad as

7th bmw 540i terrible. again an 89 or 90 something like that. payed 500 quid it lasted a week.

8th honda civic 92 single cam vtec!

9th honda prelude 2.2 vtec import from japan! riduculous carbon fibre spoilerpost-70109-0-45635200-1347513320_thumb.jpg

10th subaru impreza jap importpost-70109-0-77132900-1347513331_thumb.jpg

move to australia.

11th my missis suzuki swift!

12th mitsubishi lancer 09post-70109-0-86125900-1347513347_thumb.jpg

13th 1973 mini clubman!post-70109-0-28023900-1347513363_thumb.jpg

14th kia cerato koup.

15th nissan skyline r33 94 "yoshi"post-70109-0-70176100-1347513392_thumb.jpg

and thats me.

Damn that's an impressive history. For a second i thought your 12th car was a ride on mower LOL

Damn that's an impressive history. For a second i thought your 12th car was a ride on mower LOL

i did live in rural queensland! haha!

yea its not bad, i forgot i had a 2005 mgtf that i bought when i was stationed in germany. that ended up in a lamp post.

it was great in england so easy to buy and sell cars and they where so cheap!

in fact im missing loads! i had a celica 92 at one point as well!

and an opel calibra i bought in germany that the wheel fell off of! good times.

Edited by Plattsy

Hahahaha! damn, i actually hope i don't end up owning that many cars in my life.

it was pretty fun actually, buy em cheap work on em a bit then sell em on for profit.

over it now tho. im not selling my line'!

it was pretty fun actually, buy em cheap work on em a bit then sell em on for profit.

over it now tho. im not selling my line'!

Sounds like my old pommy neighbour, he used to buy beat up shitboxes from the wreckers/auctions and fix them up a bit then flog them off to some poor bastard. Haha.

Sounds like my old pommy neighbour, he used to buy beat up shitboxes from the wreckers/auctions and fix them up a bit then flog them off to some poor bastard. Haha.

Sean is that you?

haha! jokes.

Started off with a 71' LC Torana, 4 door 1800cc.

Then moved onto the R31, series 2 4 door.

Then my first import was an R33 GTS25T coupe'.

And currently I have the V35 GT8.

Bit of a pattern forming with the last 3 cars.

Great thread.

1. 1976 TA23 Celica

2. 1985 RA65 Celica 2.4

3. 1978 VW Kombi Van

4. 1996 Barina GSI

5. 1990 MR2 Turbo

6. 2005 Mazda 3 SP23

7. 2008 Mazda RX8

8. 2001 Mitsubishi Triton Ute

9. 2010 VW Passat R36

10. 2001 300GT

11. 1989 Porsche 928S4 (the car I have always wanted).

Edited by reverseworm

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