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After a thread in the Vic section I'm actually curious to know about your first cars. Were they turbo or non-turbo? Simple thread, please vote and feel free to tell me what it was! :D

Mine was a 1979 VB Commodore - Was a nice mint car too. Sold for 4k-5k with no rego or RWC!

2 - 1996 R33 S2 GTSt

3 - 1999 R34 GT-T

4 - 1979 Datsun 240K (current)

4 - 2010 Audi A4 (current)

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Kids these days.... !!!

Erm... if you defined a 27 yr old electrical engineer as a kid then yes I am a kid.

I've been saving up after graduating in 2007 and taking public transport all this while to buy the car. Having said that I drive my dad's corolla and civic in Singapore before I came here to finish my uni. So technically the 33gtr is still my first car I bought using my own money.

My 1st car is my current car. Slug box R33, bought it 2 weeks after I got my Ps.

B4 that, the 1st car I have driven was my mum's old 91 VN commodore then a 02 Camry, that I used for my hours on Phase 2 L.

My first car was a 1984 toyota camry

Second car was a 1995 Mazda 626

Third car was a RX7 Series 4 13BT

Fourth car/current car is a 250rwkw 1993 r33 gtst

all cars owned have been manual

91' mistu lancer, 5spd fwd FTL had it for a few weeks was a perfect daily but I wanted....

92' Nissan Silvia (SR20DE) 5 spd and loved it to bits great little thrasher kept in pristine condition and had a genuine nissan aero kit aswell, ah the memories

1st car: Turbo Nissan Exa (on L's)

2nd car: KE70 corolla (RWD... Loved it!)

3rd car: Series 2 RX-7 with EFI 12A Turbo built by Dyson Rotary

4th car: R32 GTST Skyline (Current)

Sometimes wish Id kept the rotor!

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