Your Old Cars

[ontheranch]

Post pics of your previous rides. If you have pics...

This comes from going thorough my photos and remembering how much I miss driving the 32. Then a week after we sold it, the guy wrote it off

My First car was a KB Laser Ghia, wide dragway splat type rims that made it look tough. I think at one stage I even made eyelinds for it out of silver tape.... Hahaha, I was 16... LOL no excuse really.

Drunk driver slammed into the back of that at a stop sign at Tea Tree Plaza and wrote it off, then I got a KF Laser which I sold to my mate when I got the Skyline.

So thats my story!

Whats yours....?

[Damo_R34]

This thread will be a 56k killer.

I started my driving life in an TP magna, sub, hubcaps, cannon, fark that car was the bomb.

Decided that jap was where it was at, and bought my S13 from Melbourne. Still on my P's at the time. Need moar height? I ended up getting lower springs for the front, that thing handled quite well for stock!

Then i got a full time job, and decided to buy the love of my life. Got it through private sale, might have even been advertised on here, cant quite remember.

then it evolved a bit:

[CRoNic...]

Owned this on and off, along with my mate in the picture:

3" straight pipe into a 4" cannon. No resonators, no cats, no mufflers, nothing.

Shot flames, was louder than a monster truck and back-fired like gunshots all the time thanks to a hole in the manifold.

Survived 2 defect stations, 4 RBT stations and numerous times being pulled over. Never defected.

BUT it did receive 4 noise complaints:

Revving car for backfire and flames in underground Marion carpark - $174 fine (undercover cop).

Revving down the street - neighbours complaint

Revving through a Macca's drive-thru - managers complaint

Revving out the front of the house - mums complaint

It was so loud. Kye would know alllllll about it.

Was loud until the exhaust actually ruined the engine, not enough back pressure or something and burnt out the valves. It dropped 4 cylinders and also blew the head/numerous coolant hoses.

It was towed away by the council after his neighbours complained about it sitting there for 4 months.

[Carbon 34]

3 Datto 1200 coupes, 2 turned into SCCA road racers built with a12/a13 engines ,10k redline on pushrods? and dual webbers using the nissan racing blueprints, you could buy from nissan parts dept at the time.. worth a fotune now I bet, explained how to gut a 240Z for struts etc, and how to cut frame and invert springs to lower it. faster then a 911 of the time. light as a feather

70 opel gt, bright orange with black stripe and wide mags, bought in 83 from finding it in a field sitting for a long time, original owner died in vietnam war

all the rubber was dried out, leaks galore and sand in fuel tank from kids

74 CJ5 jeep soft top, painted ferrari red, corvette 5.7 liter small block, 500hp, glasspacks out the sides= big flames , 8inch lift axles remounted under springs(instead of over) plus a of lift kit on top of that, with 5.36 (if I remember right) gears in dana 60 axles off a International harvester truck that increase track width by nearly a foot on each side?, 44 inch tall mud tires,, 3 spd stick shift,, beast!!! pulled the wheels up off the road on take off if you floored it,, had to refuel daily..lol.....drool matty31..lol had so much twisty power it broke the frame in half in 3 spots

72 corvette coupe, 5.7 liter sprint car engine and chrome sidepipes, fast car but fell apart on command, sidepipes on a vette sound so nice

13, 79-83 RX7's, 2 road racers setup for SCCA racing, the rest fixed up and sold for profit, 1 for 11 years and 520,000 miles on it, never left me stranded

ford f250, parts truck

69 licoln continetal tank!!!, drove when rebuilding my RX7 for 4 months, sanded down to metal and removed everything in the car for respray.

99 mazda 626 lx

2000 dodge V10 extended cab 4x4 truck, highly overrated , ford f250 V10 better to drive

90 I think ? Black peal Mitsu Galant VR4/Monte carlo, 2000 made with gold plaque on dash with numbers, EVO running gear

84 toyota 4X4 pick up truck, converted to convertable, 4 inch lift, 36 in tall mudders on it, removable hard top. 3" dual tube body bars and roll bars, painted custom pearl white and metalic blue stripes

in oz

89 skyline r31

2001 skyline r34 gtt

93 supra rz,545hp 85k woth of goodies in it, show car

98 commy VT R8 look alike, GTR v6

2007 camry work car

think that covers it from age 14 -43 pretty much..lol 35mm photos in USA still for most

[Madaz]

Lol Dan

my first car was a s1 rx7 extractors only 4port 12a the thing handled like it was on rails

then i had a heap of datsuns like

120y panel van

stanza

200b sx

r31 skyline s3

r33 skyline gts4

[RubyRS4]

After a long history of datsuns: 120Y (stocker), 180B (L20 twin webbers), 1600 (L20 twin webbers), 200B (stocker), 200B(SX) (worked motor - cams, twin webbers), 200B wagon (SR20 supercharged), 1600 wagon (CA18DET) ...

I owned a few V6 Magnas, before I was silly enough to buy one of these:

But then I wised up and bought this:

Which turned into this:

And for the sake of it (and most people wouldn't be surprised), here are my other toys I've owned:

My R1 before sadly written off by p-plater in a commonwhore:

The mighty TLR ... 8 years on and I still own it:

My old RS250 race bike:

My GSXR race bike:

My CBR turboed drag bike (almost complete):

My Brutale (hello Nene)

[BIT SUS]

previous ride before my stag was this beast:

1998 Subaru Forester

non turbo 2L, but worked off its tits making 114kw at all four

1276kg, handled like a go kart

Shortened ratio rally gearbox

to many handling mods to list

lowered 6.75"

GC8 WRX front end conversion

did all the work myself.

I miss this car's handling sooo much!

I'll have to spend big $$$ on suspension mods to the stag

*cries*

[rhys5169]

bought this car on my L's, she was a bit ruff carby was on the way out so turned intoa project car through yr12 and most of my degree at uni. i would have loved to done alot more but such is life when your a full time student working any chance you can get.

start off with how it looked when i bought it with a good clean, some project shots and the final specs/pics when i sold it.

Fuel injection:

- sierra manifold

- VS commodore injectors

- madrel bent cold air intake

- Vl turbo fuel pump

- custom surge tank

- Wolf version 3 ECU w/hand unit

- sierra electronic dizzy

Head:

- skimmed

- ported (large)

- larger valves (large)

- RL31 cam

- double valve springs

- chemically stripped and cleaned

Bottem end:

- rebuild original bottem end

- compression ratio 9.5:1

Exhaust:

- 1.25" pacemaker extractors

- 2.5" mandrel bent exhaust

Suspension:

- standard shocks

- king spring 1.5 inch springs

- reset 2 inch leafs

- new nolathane bushes front & rear

Wheels:

- 15 x 7 inch superlites

- front: 195/50/15

- rear: 205/50/15

Interior:

- standard RS seats (re-foamed/padded)

- standard rs dash

- Momo steering wheel and gear knob

- pioneer deck w/ 2x6"s and 2 6x9"s

and now im onto this,

[scandyflick]

started my driving career in a tp magna, still have it, over a million kays in the family, only on its second engine (granted, second head for this engine also) and second transmission, neither of which were reconditioned before fitting, its a piece of shit, but its a tank.

bought the celsior after the magna killed its first engine, was also a piece of shit, but in somewhat better condition, and it looked sick. the exhaust in that picture was replaced a few weeks later with a 'custom' 2.5" from the cats back into a jun x-pipe finishing with 2 resonators as tips. spent entirely too much money on it, got sick of cars and sold it.

it lives in paralowie or something now, its lived a hard life since ive sold it, if i see it again ill have to take a couple pics.

now ive got an s14.

[AndrewJZX100]

oooh I love these threads I've had 18 cars in 6 years

Heres my list, will include pics of the ones I have pics of. 56k go and take a round the world trip or something

HJ Holden premier look alike. Heap of shit, drove it once and thought nah I need something less tank-like.

KE55 Corolla. Yellow beast Rocked dirt slides in this for years. Cut my teeth on car control with this thing.

GC Galant. Shitbox. Had a 1600 so was a little quicker than the rolla. Continued to practice car control in this for a while.

AE86 Sprinter. First semi-decent car. Spent heaps on it - 4AG conversion, coilvers front and rear, TRD diff etc etc.

KE55 Corolla. Bought to get around in while the engine conversion was getting done in the AE86

A31 Cefiro. stock RB20DET auto. Had it for 3 weeks then realised if I'm going to have a tubo car it has to be manual

KE30 Corolla. Shitbox. Killed it in 3 days then sold it to a mate for fk all

180SX. First turbo/manual car. Heaps of fun, spent a few grand on engine mods but still wasn't that quick.

KE70 Corolla. bought to get around in whilst importing the Chaser.

80s Mazda 626. Stacked the rolla sliding so got this off my grandma for nothing. Engine was fked so didn't have it for long.

MX73 Cressida. Ghetto cruiser. Custom coilovers, 14x8s, twin pipes. Looked gangster as but gave me heaps of trouble.

JZX100 Chaser. The Chaser finally arrived after 7 months. This was my ultimate dream car (whilst being realistic) and lived up to every expectation I had (surpassed many as well). This was the first JZX100 to be driven on Mallala EVER Swapping it for the following 2 cars was the worst decision ever (in hindsight) but looking at them you can see why I did it

JZX81 Mark II. ah yes, the Kids Heart/HKS drift car. Weapon of a car, nothing more to say. Only had it a few months as I lost my job not long after I did the swap but still had some fun with it.

MX83 Cressida. Part trade along with the Mark II to use as a daily. was a Grande with leather and LSD but was in pretty shit condish. Thought I killed it 3 times but it just kept going, good old 7M-GE

R32 4door. Good car. Was great fun to drift. Put it into a cliff street drifting but didn't mess up the way the car drove so kept punting it around for a while until I got too worried about it getting done and having to fix the damage properly.

70s LA Lancer. Bought the morning after I stacked the 32. 90% of the body was covered in rust but it still went alright for what it was. Can't complain for $300

S13 Silvia. Stock CA18DE auto. Slow as a wet week but heaps comfy and in good condish.

S13 Silvia. RB20DET and 5 stud, stock everything else though. Drives well, kinda like the old CA one but can actually go up hills

Pictars!

Edited March 26, 2009 by AndrewJZX100

[Dohmar]

My first car was an r31... loved it to bits, was my introduction to modding. Didn't get to do much tho, only rims, lowered suspension, rampod and an auto to manual conversion and a $1200 boss engineering 4.11:1 LSD.... was on LPG too and ran really nicely..

was written off when i hit a patch of oil outside bianco one wet night... did a 260' spin into a bus stop...

After that it was a VN holden, piece of shit, dont even want to think about it..

Then the GTR

[CRoNic...]

You're such a car whore Andrew

[SHYGRL]

Mine Have Been:

VK Commodore Wagon

VL Calais

Toyota Celica

MKIII Toyota Supra 7MGTE

Nissan 180sx CA18DET

Nissan HR31 GTSX

Toyota Soarer 1GGTE hi mount single turbo conversion

VL Calais Turbo

VP 5 Speed

Nissan 1VIA CA18DET

VS Commodore

N13 Pulsar with CA18DET

Honda CRX

TH Magna 5 Speed

R32 Skyline

Trying to find some decent pics of some of the better ones

Edited March 26, 2009 by SHYGRL

[Import S13]

drove around in my parents 2002 toyota avalon for awhile, then

i picked up my first s13 while i was still on my L's. sr20det, exhaust and some sus bits. had that for stuff all time (no i didnt write it off haha). i think my mates the only one that has some pics of it.

then i was carless for close to a year i rekon till i bought the r32 from the same importer i go the s13 from. dead stock and really healthy car, then i went abit nuts onit and spent more then i should of. but its a well known car now and will be one of the best achievements that ive ever done. went through alot of changes till i finally settled on what i wanted it to look like.

sold that after i fought with myself over getting rid of it or finishing it off and bought a cheap daily, ae92 corolla hatch. its gay and shit but its only for a short while till ive sorted a few things out after ive moved into my own place this year.

in the mean time to keep me out of trouble ive bought another s13 with a mate of mine. its ruff and tuff and its what a jap sports car should be to me haha. its hardly ever driven on the streets as we just drift it at lala. (thanks to skandyflick-Dave for the last pic)

should have a new car by the end of the year though. still trying to figure out what i want though

[shy_s6]

i think SAU will crash if i put pics of all my cars up :s

25 n counting..

meh ill put a couple up...

Edited March 26, 2009 by shy_s6

[HOSTILE]

Heres a couple of my old cars.... had seven R31s, 2 Alfa Romeos, 2 V8 commos, laser, corolla, pulsar, R32 and now 32GTR.

Yes there is a car there LOL

[DamageInc]

After begging and begging my parents to let me get a jap car i lost the battle and bought a VT Berlina,

i was trying to buy a blue 180sx with a ca & 5 stud conversion as i wanted to spend money on it and mod it up , but seeing as we've been in

a serious car accident my parents weren't fond of me getting a car without an air bag.

after getting it i decided i needed some doof doof , so me & dad spent a couple of weekends installing this

was funny as driving down rundle street in the car with the system up and watching the ethnic people at cafe's turn around and go "oh my god , thats HeKtiK" .

eventually i got sick of this car , i wanted something that handled better and had a bit more power so i ended up trading my commodore for a gts4 skyline.

this thing was mint as , stock as a rock !

took my best mate out to look at it with me and his jaw dropped when he say it , ill never forget the day i saw this baby pull up!

after washing it and waxing it i decided i wanted some awesome pics of it , got another mate out with his camera and we set off to take some pics

eventually i got sick of this car and wanted to turbo it and convert it to 5 stud but i couldn't afford it so i decided to sell it and take out a loan.

which leads me to where i am today...

bought this in may last year after seeing that it had everything i wanted , i remember first driving this thing and getting blown away by the sheer torque and power it packed ,

for those that dont know , it had an rb26dett conversion

after a few months of driving it , the 26 decided to let go one night when i was driving easy , this threw me off...

day i got it

the power house

after it sitting in the driveway for many months i finally found a helping hand and decided to start working on it with Tony (FOOLBOOST)

started off like this

soon enough we had the 26 out

and now the engine looks like this

once the orange beast is going again ill be happy

end.

[SLED]

lol shy s6 constable Neil is gonna be knocking on your door soon me thinks.

[shy_s6]

i do claim it was a private road 8 years ago.....

[ISC-Performance]

-r32gtst

-r32gtst

-180sx

-Mark 2

-180sx

-S13 silvia

-R32 GTR

Edited March 26, 2009 by ISC-Performance