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[Top Secret 2]

Matt, I remember the auction you and your brothers did for "The Brown". Hilarious!

This is my first when I was 16. 1990 Subaru Legacy GT, with some STI bits. No insurance, dodgy Indian ex-owner, millions of things wrong, but it was fast and it made whooshing noises (for the bitches).

Edited September 11, 2013 by Top Secret

[Apex 693]

Simca 1000, black bonnet and widened welded steelies.

Nice one, my Opa and then Dad had a Yellow Simca 1000 too, had a lot of character.

[lord_jagganath 421]

Matt, I remember the auction you and your brothers did for "The Brown". Hilarious!

This is my first when I was 16. 1990 Subaru Legacy GT, with some STI bits. No insurance, dodgy Indian ex-owner, millions of things wrong, but it was fast and it made whooshing noises (for the bitches).

Lovely colour though!

[slybma 38]

My gem, the mighty 4k 4 speed manual

[Allanw 1071]

OK... I have a fetish for tiny cars... my First was a Daihatsu Max 360... not long after turning 14

Can't find a pic of my actual car, but it's like this (mine was the earlier "small bumper" version though):

Why "360"? they're 360cc two stroke 2 cylinder. 33HP too!

To put it in scale....

I actually brought another one a few years ago, but it had been fiddled with too much for my liking - If I could find a mint one for not too much money, I'd get another.

[nipe 1]

First one I drove was poo brown version of this:

bought for $300, sold for $300 some 5 years later;)

and then got one of these, but non turbo:

[vanossa 0]

This was identical to my first car (except mine was a 63'). The Rover 100. I was 15 and just didn't quite care for it as I could have. In 1981 I crashed it into a rambler rebel driving down Mt Victoria (Devonport AKL) full of my drunken mates. I sold it to a local (cunning old man) with a backyard garage. Seen it 6 months later looking mint. Quick cash sale and off to the pub was good enough for me, back then. The rambler was worse off...ha!

http://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/plugin...ront_resize.jpg

[Navin 180]

98 GSR for me.

So much fun at 17..

[euroriffic 607]

I had one of these

the mighty ke36 corolla! except I had hotwires on mine, same colour and height tho

[Shorty 1]

My first car - 'sh*t Brown Mini'

[qube 3570]

36Mafia

[Ultrarandom 3]

My first car ever (which my parents bought me for $1200 from a guy we know at Fairview Motors)

1990 Mazda 626 liftback, awesome little car especially for the price, except when it developed a vacuum leak and would die whenever I put the clutch in.

First car I ever bought myself 1 and a half years later which cost me $5500 and I later sold for $7500.

1996 BMW 323i M-Tech (NZ New German model in manual) on Style 65s

Edited September 11, 2013 by Ultrarandom

[M5V8 337]

Me too!!!

I had a greyish silver one.

NZ model. Went like a cut cat back in the day. Only crashed it once into the back of a 4x4.

Except I had like 4 sets of rally spotlights strapped to the front of mine.

I lost $2k's worth of spotlights in that accident!!

[westy 614]

'cept mine never looked this good.

[Michael. 2313]

Had it for a while until I was forced to sell it for a little Honda haha, the parents didn't like their 16 year old in a V8!

[nzer 0]

first car, was tidy as for $1600 manual too

[MD13 494]

eb2 civic - freedom!

[BreakMyWindow 1874]

This was actually my 2nd car. My first one was the same, except grey and stock standard. It had a disagreement with a tree, and then got put to sleep forever.

[antil33t 90]

First car I really drove was

and then I bought a Camry Prominent for a grand total of two months before someone with no insurance wrote it off for me.

Edited September 12, 2013 by antil33t

[camera doctor 25]

I had a 1961 Holden EK wagon and then a 1962 Vauxhall PAX, both before I had my licence, but the first car I owned and drove daily was the same as this :

Hard to believe I struggled to sell it to fund my S2 RX7 Should have kept both those Rotaries, worth moonbeams now

[m325i 709]

First car I had (4 speed JDM - great at handbrakes - same as my friends red NZ new 5 speed in a straight line lol)

[edit 1st car only]

Edited September 12, 2013 by Nick G

[Apex 693]

Was it a turbo, mean street cred back in the 90's if ou had a DOCH TURBO..or VR4 for that mater.

Can almost tell peoples ages looking at first cars

[jeffbebe 1559]

Can almost tell peoples ages looking at first cars

Or more specifically, what they paid for them! When I was old enough to get a driver's license you could still get a brand new E30... Just. So there wasn't much chance of picking one up for under GBP30K! Edited September 12, 2013 by jeffbebe

[_ethrty-Andy_ 2132]

really cool to see where we all came from.

Since people are posting it, the car i actually learnt to drive in was one of these, was driving it on the road and around my old man farm since i was about 12 years old. I liked it because the grill looked like one of a Hummer which were huge (no pun intended) at the time.

Like this one, even same colour, it had removable back half like this, also front widscreen folded down and the doors came off if you removed the pin so became a full open top nothing above the bonnet line etc

'cept mine never looked this good.

was expecting something like this from you!

Edited September 12, 2013 by _Ethrty-Andy_

[Apex 693]

Or more specifically, what they paid for them! When I was old enough to get a driver's license you could still get a brand new E30... Just. So there wasn't much chance of picking one up for under GBP30K!

Ah, not quite that old.. my first car was 85 Corolla GT and I paid $5,800, or just over $100 a week, that was a lot when I was on $5.00 an hour.

In contrast, my old man had a new E39 at the time and that cost $126,000.

Ironically today both cars would be worth about the same, perhaps the Corolla would actually sell for more than a E39 528i.