What was your first car? Post stories and pictures.
Mine was a 1997 Ford Taurus. Now the 1997 Taurus all had one thing in common, defective transmissions. This was the only issue I ever had with it, and other than the car hoping on neutral at red lights, it wasn't that big of a deal.
This car was pimp, I don't use the word 'pimp' all that often but this car definitely deserved it. You had so much leg spaced, compared to my buddies who all had VW Jetta's and Ford Ranger pick-up trucks. This bad boy was the ultimate cruiser, the Willy Nelson of cars and was as comfortable as the thought of using Queen Latifah as a pillow. The best years of my life rolled along with that Taurus, and I truly miss it.
What was your first car?
Posted Apr 9, 2010, 3:20 PM UTC
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My first car was a 1984 VW rabbit. I traded 2 chords of firewood for it, then pulled it out of a pond. I pulled the plugs, cranked it, water shoot about 20 feet up, put the plugs back in, then drove it for another hundred thousand k. the previous owner had done a bit too much jumping in it, so the struts were basically shot and even the springs were broken. I took one strut from a Gold, another from a Diesel Jetta (both front) and modified them so they would fit on my car. I had to cut them so the car would ride level, but it still cornered to the left like a stock car while almost tipping turning right.
The next 5 years I used it as my mushroom car - meaning I drove it about a hundred km on deactivated logging roads every day in the fall, hitting the bumps fast so I didn't feel them. I rerouted the exhaust above where it was because it got pinched off repeatedly, and had to constantly patch my gas tank.
When I went to college I took it, and discovered that the previous owner had also had it at the same college, where the car had a reputation. The fact that I started it with a screwdriver (after my mom threw away a pair of jeans she thought was trashy with my keys in the pocket) and that the doors locked by putting your fingers in where the door handles used to be were perceived as cool to everyone, although school plant services told me they never wanted to see me driving on the lawns (?). I was stopped by the cops four times the first winter, once for pushing my car with the lights off (it was out of gas and had a dead battery), once for having nine passengers, and once under suspicion of having my license plate tied on with bailing wire (it was actually tie-straps) which to my knowledge is not a crime. I eventually sold it, and it was stolen from the new owners and found on its roof in the middle of a wheat field. RIP Jaqueline Rabbit. We miss you.
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