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The "short shifter" thread evolved into an enjoyable "first ride" picture thread with very different cars, from the cute Honda S600 to some wild cars including a Pinto hot rod with a 6 ft high engine. Let me contribute to this nice pictorial path down memory lane with my first ride: 1976 VW beetle with sunroof and all of 34 hp. Bought it in 1980 with 34.000 km on the odometer and enjoyed driving it until somewhere 1986. Clocked approx 200.000 km with it. I live in the Netherlands and drove the car to Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, italy, England, Denmark, Norway. When I bought my first house after being married, all our possesions were in the car. Now I need a bit more space for all my possesions! Once, while camping in England, a tourist on the campsite wanted to make a picture of all our campinggear when the car was unloaded because he couldn't believe it all came out of that small car! It was packed to the roof on arrival!

BTW, picture taken with Rolleicord

Randy V

Your first enzo - sort of.

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...you-owned.html

Here's mine - 1973 AMC Gremlin:



Sweet or what!?

Jeff928S4

First car....

1977 TR-7



I'm a sucker for punishment.

Murray

My first car was 1969 Fiat 850 spyder. Red, Italian, convertible, rear engined sportscar. What more could a guy ask for? How about some horsepower! You don't get much out of a 902cc engine. But it was fun.

BIMMERMIKE

Almost same colour, PO had it looking good but soon discovered he loved "bondo"
1967 Sunbeam Alpine

hacker-pschorr

I've never seen a 911 with that style hubcap before.



As for me:

oaros

Not this one, but mine looked exactly the same - well a with bit more rust.

steve322s

Maybe this is why im so hooked on hatch backs!

Jeff928S4

Patrick Jane, is that you?

DR

Yeah, that was my bad on the other thread... seems lately reminiscing is on my mind a lot, and honestly I can remember old stuff better now that more recent stuff.

I hope it is OK to toss in a few first rides of bikes, boats in the mix too.

First Motorcycle at age 10... of course I had to mod it, remove fenders, mount knobby tires and change to a 72 tooth rear sprocket...since we just did trail riding at that time.

One like it before the "DR mods."...1965 Honda Sport 65.




First Boat, 9 Foot Hydroplane...built it, rigged it and finished it myself at age 12. Almost identical to pic below, but mine was gloss black with Chrome "Lighting Bolts" running the length of it (had an old Mercury Thunderbolt racing engine on it) . Need to dig up a pic of it and scan it, it was bada$$....sunk it first time out..did better the next time..LOL

Glass'd in 2 90 degree 1/2" angle cut waterpipes on each side of the bottom rear of the transom. Kept the bottom stuck to the water better at high speed turns and shot 30-40' Twin Rooster tails almost straight up in the air as it zipped across the water!! Wish we had Youtube videos back in the early 70s....hmmm.. maybe not.

oaros

no, not a Patrick
Oliver

DR

Micheal,

Not sure if you saw my post on the other thread...this was one of my rides in high school in the mid 70s..thought you could relate.



Still remember having to sit in the drivers seat, reach under the dash, pull out a rubber plug, and then insert my spark plug tool to remove the rear sparkplug on the Ford 289 from inside the car.



Funny, it didn't take long for people to learn about this fast "Green MGB" running around in the small redneck area I grew up in. With in a few months it was like the quote from Kellys Heros.... "Nobody said nothing about locking horns with no Tiger"...Ha, Ha.

DR

VERY SWEET...in a 70s kind of way!!

BIMMERMIKE

Yes, I can relate. After getting the 4 banger Alpine, I quickly realized not to play with a 'Tiger'

Nobody said nothing about locking horns with no Tiger"...Ha, Ha.

DR

Still kick myself for selling it, it was flawless, even had the optional hardtop..sold it a few years later for the BIG money of ...$2,600....man, the stupid things we sometimes do in life...GRRRR!

BUT, to see one of the 72 or 73? Trans Am Firebirds with the 455ci literally blow the shaker hood off his car when the engine blew, while trying to out run me was...PRICELESS!!

BOOM!!!!