What was your first car and favourite car ever!

[Hayles66]

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I love it!. Drooling right now! She is a beauty! So lucky. I love cars but don't you find that every second car is a silver one? What happened to colour! You can't beat black, red blue etc...

Please keep posting!

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[Hayles66]

My first was a 1964 Chevy C10 Custom pickup, black with chrome and white interior, 350 turbo, 4-barrel Holley 4150 carb, Turbo-Hydromatic400 transmission and the obligatory red fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view mirror. It was the coolest thing in which to hang out at the chocolate malt shop after school. Even better was relaxing in a couple of outdoor reclining chaise loungers in the bed of the pickup at the drive-in theatre late in a warm Summer evening.

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I remember going to the drive-in! South Africa have them and we loved going every Saturday. We had a limit of 4 people and we used to hide any extras in the footwells!!! That takes me back. I don't think England has any of those here, too much rain.

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[JJK]

My favorite car is the one I am sitting in now. A Toyota Camry from 2008. Why my favorite, because I sit in the back.

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[Hayles66]

My favorite car is the one I am sitting in now. A Toyota Camry from 2008. Why my favorite, because I sit in the back.

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too funny!

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[Hdchiky]

Hope I'm not too late... but my first car was a brand new 1967 White Mustang with a black vinyl top. I was 16 years old and did not know how to drive. The 'boy next door' - about a mile up the road - taught me how to drive.
My favorite was my old black 1997 Toyota Camry. Today - I drive anything that will get me from A to B!!

Chiky

 

[Hayles66]

Hope I'm not too late... but my first car was a brand new 1967 White Mustang with a black vinyl top. I was 16 years old and did not know how to drive. The 'boy next door' - about a mile up the road - taught me how to drive.
My favorite was my old black 1997 Toyota Camry. Today - I drive anything that will get me from A to B!!

Chiky

Aww! You must miss that car!

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[quinconces]

A Fiat 500 - the original one, not the current model. Two-cylinder air-cooled engine, no synchromesh gears (all that double-declutching!). Gas (petrol) tank just in *front* of the passenger compartment, fabric sun roof - but what character.

Tim

I agree! It was one of my first cars as well. 1 pound to fill it up (4 gals) an able to do 200 miles per tank. The wheel of a London bus was higher than the car. Rather scary around Hyde Park Corner. I loved it

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[firedog25]

My first was a 1977 Honda CVCC (pre-dated the Civic badge), it ran big balls out until it devoured it's own oil pump.

My favorite car of all time....

Cost no object: Aston Martin DBS, not only because it's an Aston with a 6.0 liter v-12, not only because it debuted in Casino Royale, but because it has that lusty V-12 and it was created for Casino Royale and as a result made it to production because of that starring role.

Cost being an object: Mazda MX-5, no other car offers so much fun for the money paired with bulletproof engineering. Fun can be had with it regardless of year and trim, whether it's stock or aftermarket. It forgives the hamfisted and rewards the talented.

Right now I have a...

1991 Mazda MX-5, turbocharged.
2002 Subaru Impreza WRX.
2004 Mazda 6 hatchback.
2006 Nissan Titan half ton pick up.

Trying to talk my wife into letting me get an Abarth 500 when they come to the U.S. because I can park it in my driveway behind my Titan and no one would see it and think my yard is a sales lot.

 

[Hayles66]

My first was a 1977 Honda CVCC (pre-dated the Civic badge), it ran big balls out until it devoured it's own oil pump.

My favorite car of all time....

Cost no object: Aston Martin DBS, not only because it's an Aston with a 6.0 liter v-12, not only because it debuted in Casino Royale, but because it has that lusty V-12 and it was created for Casino Royale and as a result made it to production because of that starring role.

Cost being an object: Mazda MX-5, no other car offers so much fun for the money paired with bulletproof engineering. Fun can be had with it regardless of year and trim, whether it's stock or aftermarket. It forgives the hamfisted and rewards the talented.

Oh, if you are going for money no object, bugatti veyron! No contest

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[firedog25]

Oh, if you are going for money no object, bugatti veyron! No contest

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For me it's the Aston, the Veyron is a nice exercise in engineering, but I prefer the timelessness of the Aston. Even if the engine is basically two 3.0 liter Mondeo engines welded together. For actual engines I prefer Italian motors more than anything else, they have such a distinctive sound to them, so much soul regardless of size, displacement, and configuration. Not manic like a Japanese engine (although the MX-5 comes close!), not lazy like an American engine, not industrial like a German engine. If you think about it, engines are like living things, they breathe, consume, and excrete, but Italian motors actually SOUND like living things.

 

[Hayles66]

My hubby is a James bond freak so he agrees with you! Or Jaguar e-type

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[firedog25]

Actually if I had my choice of ALL time cars it would have to be the TVR Speed 12. Something about a car that spins it's wheels in every gear, the TVR Speed6 engine was amazing by itself, but the 12 was two of them bolted to a common crank so it made double the noise. Absolute aural sex in my opinion, match that to the exclusivity of the car itself... one road registered unit created by cannibalizing the race cars... and the badge of TVR makes it a highly desirable car. I've had the opportunity to bid on various American TVR's here, a couple of Griffiths (original 60's models) and some 80's shit boxes but I've never done it seriously because my wife would make me sell something. If I could get a modern Griffith or a Tamora or even a Sagaris I would gladly sell something or two off. Unfortunately the Speed 6 engine was never homologated for U.S. consumption. I HAVE however seen a Sagaris rolling chassis for sale here, they wanted $50,000 for it which isn't too bad in GBP but for something that isn't road legal that's a lot.

 

[Hayles66]

I'm afraid American are loved for their looks rather than for their abilities in Europe but of course, that is my own opinion, so please don't flame me for MY OWN OPINION. I love American cars, so flashy and in your face. I do love Mercedes sports models, I leave the model names to you guys to tell me, but my dad had a really lovely red version with a soft and hard top. It was beautiful! I am a girl so specs won't be my thang! You obviously love cars so keep it going!

Oh, I also wanted to tell you my brother had a black TVR once but I can't remember the model but it went damn fast that's all I can remember!

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[firedog25]

I can talk about cars for days... and I read nothing but British car magazines, EVO, Car, and of course Top Gear, sometimes Complete Kit Car too because I want a Ford RS200 kit car if I can find one in the U.S. The RS200 is my favorite 80's car, just like the look of it even though it's got a lot of recycled Sierra parts in it.

 

[lukepast]

My first car was a Red 1983 Renault 5 which I bought when it was 5 years old 845cc engine - I sold it in 1991 to buy my first PC an Amstrad 2286 (640kb of RAM and a 40Mb hard drive).

Favourite car is a toss-up between my Anthracite coloured 1985 Opel Manta GTE 2.0 which was a mean machine and my 1989 Classic Mini 998cc was a really fun drive especially as you *had* to flash your lights whenever you met another Classic Mini but *never* to a "German sh1t" BMW "Mini" lol