PHX 911

More traditional muscle car roots for me...
first hot rod was a 65 Impala SS. 327/300, 4 speed.
I put headers and some Cherry Bombs on her, and you could hear every valve in that engine standing behind it. Finally cracked 13 sec in the 1/4 with her.
Gotta lot of poon in that car

Biggest mistake I made on a hot rod was selling a 69 Corvette L46 (350/350) 4 speed in 1994 for something like $15,000. original with 58k miles

IslandS52

1970 Datsun 240Z #HLS005130. 2 screwdrivers and a small socket set, and you could pretty much do anything on this car.

Dino V

Showing my youth here, but it was the 350Z. But nice to see the variety here, cuz I too have a Triumph Spitfire. Amazing to see the similarities in cars owned on here.

P0rsch3F113

My first car was a '69 VW bug. Great car! Great winter car! Loved the gas heater! Started my love affair for rear-mills. Had several British cars after that; mid-sixties MGB's, Spitfire, TR4 - loved them when they worked (which wasn't often) - I can honestly say they 'cured' me of ever desiring British machinery again!

Patriot

Great thread. For me, a 1990 Miata, sitting in the middle of the showroom floor at Red McCombs Mazda in San Antonio in January 1990. My fiancée (now my wife)and I flew up to buy a Red one. Salesman picked us up at the airport. When we entered the showroom, we saw the Silver one ( a limited run color), jaws dropped, and it was all over. Wrote check on the spot.

gvcap10

1976 Triumph TR-7 Victory Edition. When it ran wasn't in the shop, it was a fun little car. Electrically a nightmare! Drive down the road and put the AC on and the car would die. Turn on a directional and the headlights would pop up.... I thought about adding a new Land Rover in the mix and remember all the headaches of the British made cars.

Mumbles

Some rumors came around that more engine parts would leave the BL car plants during shift change than what were installed that day !

Para82

My first sporty car was purchased in 2005 - an 05 Mustang GT. I had just been discharged from the Army and I had a little money to spend from the combat tours. It was the first year of the S197 platform and it was exciting to have one. The car was brand new and I immediately put on JBA longtube headers and exhaust along with an intake and tune and 4.10 gears. It wasn't the fastest car around, but it sounded incredible and nobody had one. I ended up taking about 7 months off and following the Rolling Stones Bigger Bang tour all over the USA with it - so much fun.

I also remember getting my lunch handed to me on the highway by a gorgeous blue 05 997 C4S that same year when the 997 debuted. That might have provoked me

Jasper1

More cars since my earlier post about the Fiat 850 Spyder

Subsequent cars (left out a couple that I am too embarased to admit:

'69 Dodge Dart GTS (with the legendary 340 engine)
'72 TR6 $3,200 brand new. I really wanted a BMW 2002 Tii but it cost an unaffordable $6,000
'74 Fiat 124 Sport Coupe: Gorgeous car. Never ran. Bucked and misfired constantly due to Fiat not knowing how to meet CA smog standards
'74 Mazda Rx4: Ugly sedan but during the smog choked cars of the era, that rotary was fast!
'76 TR 7 (thanks to CA emissions with a single barrel carburator
'77 VW Scirocco "Champagne Edition"
'79 Fiat X 1/9: Go kart handling. Weezy engine
'77 BMW 530i
'83 VW GTI
'85 Audi GT
'87 VW Golf Cab
'88 BMW 535i
'91 Jaguar XJ6 (for Wife) Replaced by Jaguar with a '92 due to car problems
'93 325i
'95 Camaro Z28
'93 Infinity Q45
'99 BMW Z3
'02 BMW 330i Cab
'05 BMW M3 Cab

I might have missed one or two here

beden1

I had a '79 BMW 320i. Is that the correct year for your 530i? I thought the only BMW they were importing in 1977 was the 320i?

Jasper1

Yes it was a '77. By that year pretty much the full line of BMW's were being imported. BTW, to meet CA smog standards it had a thermal reactor (not nuclear) which operated at extremely high temperatures and eventually cracked the head (a common ailment with that setup)

solomonschris

I'm a bunch older than most here, and don't visit this 997 forum much, but this is a fabulous thread. I think I've enjoyed this read more than anything in months. My first vehicle was a 125cc Lambretta scooter. I got this in the tenth grade. At that point in my life I was pretty much thinking with my small head and really wanted a cool car.While this scooter sent me on a lifetime of 34 2 wheeled vehicles, I can tell you that no one has consummated a relationship on goddamn motorscooter. I rode this thing everywhere from 1961 to 1963 when I got my first car, which was a 1953 MGTD with a Volvo B-16 engine with a 3 speed transmission. It had a competition clutch and a single Weber 36DCOE carb (I think). I was lead to believe it was built for Elaine Bond, the wife of the publisher of R&T magazine, to be raced in SCCA E modified class. I do not wish to be disabused of this notion. I was 17 then, 67 now and am quite comfortable with my reality. In the movie, Sometimes A Great Notion the big Indian says " it's all true, every bit of it, even if it didn't happen", that's me. Anyway, this was both a great car and a total piece of crap. Great, in that it was really pretty. It had the bumpers removed, and rear spare tire bracket removed, and it had wire wheels, and it was really RED. Wood dash, racing bucket seats with cool race type seat belts. The crap part was this: it never traveled 200 miles without either breaking or catching on fire. To this day I believe I could quickly recognize the smell of aburning English wiring loom. At the time I had a philosophy professor with a Porsche with a 356C coupe that never broke. One weekend he let me drive it. I've been a Porsche guy ever since.......Chris

gvcap10

I haven't heard Poon in years. Big smiles!!!!

smokin4GTS

My first car was a 1967 VW Beatle. As a teenager growing up, my father always bought me and my brother fixer-uppers that wouldn't run to motivate me and my older brother to learn how to work on cars. The Beatle was perfect fit for our garage and tool limitations. Yes, you guessed it right, being a small, air cooled engine allowed us to drop it out with a floor jack, pick it up by hand and easily move it to our work bench for tear down. We had several VW Beatles that we fixed up and used before we graduated to something more exotic - a Karmann Ghia. It never failed, every time I would pull up in the Ghia my friends would laugh and tell me that they couldn't tell if I was coming or going. With exception to my GTS, to me the Ghia is the most beautiful German rear engine production car made. I fell in love the dynamics of rear engine power from my very first car.

TommyV44

KMAC....lover the red Fiat....I'd love to have one as well!!

Tom