#4438306 - 09/11/18 01:55 PM
Re: Your first car
[Re: LB4LB]
|
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 12,488
MarkG
Veteran
|
Veteran
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 12,488
The Bayou
|
<Follow-up to above experience> Enjoying coffee with my parents this morning (one of life's simple pleasures that I no longer take for granted) and we were reminiscing about my first car. They wanted me to wait until I saved enough money to buy something decent, but I was too hardheaded and had to have my own wheels NOW! They remember not wanting to loan me the money until their mechanic looked it over, and it was surprisingly in reasonable shape mechanically (although only 7 years old w/140k miles, IIRC - my current 2008 Honda Element EX w/160k+ miles is still in *great* shape). The couple of times it broke down was probably my own fault. I kept it clean and maintained but I also abused the snot out of it.
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in Gives way and suddenly it’s day again The sun is in the east Even though the day is done Two suns in the sunset, hmph Could be the human race is run
|
|
#4438309 - 09/11/18 02:23 PM
Re: Your first car
[Re: LB4LB]
|
Joined: Apr 2016
Posts: 519
Roudou
Member
|
Member
Joined: Apr 2016
Posts: 519
French countryside
|
Nothing exiting for me, as you can still see a lot on European roads. Yes i know, I'm a baby Between 2003 and 2005, I drove my grandma's 2000 Peugeot 206. Not really liked it, a 1100cc 60hp engine, lack a bit of power for busy roads outside cities. But it allowed me to go on week-ends and hollidays with friends, and to go to my work. In 2005 I bought what I call my first car, a 1996 Renault Megane, 1600cc 90hp. Not a jet, but enough power to be comfortable with. Peugeot 206, not my grandma's one, but exactly the same. Renault Megane, again not mine, but same color and model, except that mine had painted bumpers.
|
|
#4438321 - 09/11/18 02:49 PM
Re: Your first car
[Re: Alicatt]
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 13,215
NH2112
Veteran
|
Veteran
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 13,215
Jackman, ME
|
Great little car and I drove it all over the UK, and once managed to get 17 people in it and drove them from Thurso to Castletown after a country dance.
People were a lot thinner back then. So was I! It was scary driving the van the 5 miles to Castletown, the road was fairly straight … well it was really one long straight with a corner at either end and a big steep hill down and up in the middle, the car would not track straight at all. A couple years ago a friend and I (and her dog) took my Jeep up the Mt Washington auto road to the summit on a nice August day. Mt Washington is the highest peak in the northeast at 6288’ (1917 meters), and there’s an 8 mile road to the summit that's like something out of the Roadrunner - dropoffs, no rails or walls, etc. Weather blew in within 15 minutes of our reaching the summit and it went from around 60F/15C & sunny to 35F/2C & pouring rain in the blink of an eye. The auto road was closed to traffic going up, and a couple & their dog who’d hiked the mountain would have been stranded, so we gave them a ride down when the weather cleared a bit. We picked up another 2 hikers a few hundred yards down the road, for a total of 6 people and 2 dogs in my Jeep. The trip down the mountain wasn’t bad, I just kept in it 1st or 2nd gear to avoid needing to brake, but once we got on the 55mph/90kmh White Mountain Highway at the base it handled very badly from all the weight in the back and I was limited to maybe 40mph/65kmh. We brought them to where their rides were at the trailhead for the eastern approaches, we were going that way anyway and making them get out and walk 3-4 miles from the bottom of the auto road wouldn’t have been cool.
Last edited by NH2112; 09/11/18 03:45 PM.
Phil
“The biggest problem people have is they don’t think they’re supposed to have problems.” - Hayes Barnard
|
|
#4438324 - 09/11/18 02:59 PM
Re: Your first car
[Re: NH2112]
|
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 5,534
Alicatt
Hotshot
|
Hotshot
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 5,534
Ice Cold in Alex or Eating in ...
|
A couple years ago a friend and I (and her dog) took my Jeep up the Mt Washington auto road to the summit on a nice August day. Mt Washington is the highest peak in the northeast at 6288’ (1917 meters), and there’s an 8 mile road to the summit that's like something out of the Roadrunner - dropoffs, That sounds great, love doing those mountain passes and such. My Range Rover wasn't even a week old when I took the wife for a drive in the Alps 2800m (9186ft)) when we got to the top sitting in the October sun sipping morning coffee at the top of the Stelvio Looking down the far side:
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil Sons of the hound come here and get flesh Clan Cameron
|
|
#4438539 - 09/12/18 03:33 PM
Re: Your first car
[Re: LB4LB]
|
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 2,760
BD-123
Old Scroat
|
Old Scroat
Senior Member
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 2,760
Naunton Beauchamp Worcestershi...
|
High pucker factor driving on that road I wager Alicatt! First car for me was a Citroen Ami; a 'luxury version' of the 2CV, probably one of the ugliest cars ever conceived. I thought the brakes needed inspection. After jacking the thing up to what seemed a 45 degree angle before the front wheel left the ground ( marque savvy owners use 2 jacks, one for the body and another for lifting the wishbone) my consternation on removing the wheel, no brake drums evident! After buying a Haynes Manual to solve the mystery, discovered that it had discs adjacent to the engine block under a load of tin can ducting.
Last edited by BD-123; 09/12/18 03:40 PM.
|
|
#4438543 - 09/12/18 04:04 PM
Re: Your first car
[Re: BD-123]
|
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 5,534
Alicatt
Hotshot
|
Hotshot
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 5,534
Ice Cold in Alex or Eating in ...
|
High pucker factor driving on that road I wager Alicatt!
First car for me was a Citroen Ami; a 'luxury version' of the 2CV, probably one of the ugliest cars ever conceived. I thought the brakes needed inspection. After jacking the thing up to what seemed a 45 degree angle before the front wheel left the ground ( marque savvy owners use 2 jacks, one for the body and another for lifting the wishbone) my consternation on removing the wheel, no brake drums evident! After buying a Haynes Manual to solve the mystery, discovered that it had discs adjacent to the engine block under a load of tin can ducting.
<Reneé> Remember ze car 'as to take a sheeps and a crate of oef across a ploughed field </Reneé> My son has been restoring a BMW E30 325iX Touring for the past year or so, and on Sunday he got it rebuilt to a point where he needed to make sure that the mechanical work was good so, with a bit of help from me we got the engine up and running again, and found out the fuel pump is faulty, he was just home there to get me to order up a new one and some other bits and pieces This is his second car and boy am I looking forward to getting a shot of driving it it is a bit better than the Ford Fiesta he is driving now. He has stripped out the whole interior and had to make a new floorpan for the rear and fill in other bits where the tin rot had set in, new sills and fenders and there was a lot of rust around where the fuel tank filler was fitted, thankfully the tank is in good condition and no rust evident on giving it an internal inspection. This is from when he first started on the renovation, new sill is on the ground beside the car.
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil Sons of the hound come here and get flesh Clan Cameron
|
|
#4438548 - 09/12/18 04:37 PM
Re: Your first car
[Re: LB4LB]
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 13,215
NH2112
Veteran
|
Veteran
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 13,215
Jackman, ME
|
Sounds like quite a project! I have one of my own I hope to start soon, rebuilding my 1990 Jeep Wrangler that hasn’t run in 6 years due to a blown engine while out mud-bogging. It took me quite some time to figure out exactly what I wanted to do with it, and I’ve settled on a Mercedes-Benz 3.0l I5 diesel with the injector pump modified for 200+HP, 4-speed automatic instead of the original 5-speed manual, narrowed Ford 1-ton axle up front and narrowed 1-ton Chevy truck axle out back, and enough lift to run 38-40” tires. Plus a few other miscellaneous mods here & there.
Phil
“The biggest problem people have is they don’t think they’re supposed to have problems.” - Hayes Barnard
|
|
#4438557 - 09/12/18 05:05 PM
Re: Your first car
[Re: LB4LB]
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 24,712
Dart
Measured in Llamathrusts
|
Measured in Llamathrusts
Lifer
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 24,712
Alabaster, AL USA
|
POS '76 Honda Civic.
While she ran, and I was happy to have her, that is all I can say about it.
I suppose I should be impressed that I nursed her along to over 150,000 miles, and that when she died it was of sudden total systematic failure. Within a week the valves gave up the ghost, the fuel pump went, and the transmission 2nd gear totally failed.
The opinions of this poster are largely based on facts and portray a possible version of the actual events. More dumb stuff at http://www.darts-page.comFrom Laser: "The forum is the place where combat (real time) flight simulator fans come to play turn based strategy combat."
|
|
#4438774 - 09/13/18 06:12 PM
Re: Your first car
[Re: LB4LB]
|
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,450
vocatx
Member
|
Member
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,450
Voca, Texas
|
My first vehicle was a 1973 Ford F-100 Ranger. Bright red,long bed, 360 with auto. It had a dealer installed air conditioner that took up the entire right side of the dash, so it had no glove box. I sold it when I was a senior in high school and bought a brand new 1982 F-100. Was the biggest pos I've ever owned, and the only brand new vehicle I've ever bought myself. Kid I sold my '73 to totalled it after he'd had it about four months.
Last edited by vocatx; 09/13/18 06:13 PM. Reason: add info
4H_V-man
System Specs: MSI 870 A-G54 AMD X4 Phenom II @ 3.4 ghz 8 Gb DDR3 1333 RAM 1 Tb Western Digital 250 Gb Western Digital 320 Gb Seagate Radeon HD 6970 graphics Thermaltake 650 Modualar power supply Thermaltake Element V full tower
|
|
|
|