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Selassie I

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i really dig this thread - the electrical fire is awesome L4, and the Chrysler Newport is legendary Phoenix

mine was a 77 Dodge Tradesman Van - seriously. our neighbors growing up owned La Habra Dodge and my dad bought a stock van and had it converted into a killer party van. but by the time i was able to drive in 86 it was no longer the cool machine to drive. But it was perfect for me. Only issues were i am a man of smaller stature and it was sort of hard being 16 and driving that huge of a car.

After school i'd have a crowd of dudes gathering around my van for rides home. Now it was cool cause you'd get gas money and weed on any given day -- but the downfall was you could never tell someone that you have no room in your car cause it was an f'ing VAN. eventually i got in so many accidents that it no longer ran.

I did my further customizations and put on a wood steering wheel, new tires, and got a custom license plate that read "LVN4JAH" - i was a bit of a stoner back then. Once and a while a Rastafarian - a real one - would pull up beside me and honk the horn cause he saw the Jah plates, well I'd have forgotten and get all freaked out cause some dude was flagging me down only to later remember the plates....

Unfortunately never got laid in that thing - it wasn't a favorite of any of the dads in my neighborhood, especially the ones with good looking daughters

2 years after i sold it some of my buddies told me they saw it on the 5 freeway going up to LA and it had been converted yet again, but this time into a workers construction van.

My next car of course was a --- you guessed it -- 85 CIVIC - i haven't quite been as popular since

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Love the plate idea... that kind of thing can shine like a beacon to 5-0 though.

I don't have anything like that on my vehicles, but I would if it didn't draw the unwanted attention.

However, I'm not so conservative with my boat. I have an Ethiopian flag wrapped on the underside of my electronics box. It's not all that noticeable unless you're on the boat or if you're in a position where you're looking up at my boat. It's cool as shit and it reflects off of the the top of my center console.

I'll post a pic of it when I get home tonight.

RASTA !!!
 

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First Vehicle that I purchased- '03 Jeep Liberty.
About the only thing sturdy on it was the 3.7 v6
Electronics were a nightmare
Motors in all windows seemed to die, including the sunroof.

First Vehicle I purchased New is my BABY Truck.
2013 Toyota Tacoma
4x4 Regular Cab

And cause baby got back
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I had a POS Opel Cadet. I saw it parked on the side of the road one day when I was 16. I bought it with my paper route savings for $250.

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98 Acura Integra GSR

heres a stock photo to get an idea.

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The big homie back in the day got a new prelude and sold me his old car, shit was fast. had it for a good 3 years before my son was born and I had to sell it. It didnt have AC, it was alot of car and just didnt feel right with a new born in it. It was fun though While it lasted.
 

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Forgot to mention that I've owned 3 VW vans. Oh, the smoke, the drive-ins, the chicks, the memories. :)

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My first "car" was a 1969 Ford short bed pick up with a straight six and three on the tree. It was our ranch truck so I started driving it when I was 13. Back then it always stayed on the ranch so I learned to drive while pulling around pipe trailers and loading failed bails of hay and alfalfa seed in it.

As time went on, my dad gave it to me when I was 17 in lieu of being paid for moving miles of pipe and baling and stacking barley and alfalfa hay. Still - it was my truck. When the tranny went out in it, I replaced the three on the tree with a vertical shift kit on the floor. Stupid kid. The thing smelled like engine heat ever after.

The first car I ever got to drive on the streets though and took my driving test in on my 16th B-day was the 1971 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser.

The thing had a 455 "Rocket" engine. It also had fold-up seats in the back and yes.... those are mood windows around the luggage rack. Nothing said chick magnet like those little windows.

I used to cruse through town on Thursday nights and blow away all the "fast" cars. Of course you could virtually watch the gas gauge move when you stepped on it. Sucker was fast though as long as you already had a start. Pretty funny leaving hot rod Chevelles in the dust with what looked like your grandma's family truckster.

And you haven't lived until you have sat in the far back seats of an Olds Vista Cruiser while your buddy does donuts. That's an E ticket ride right there.

On a side note for all you Goat and Pontiac fans, my wife's uncles built a little car museum to hold their classic Goats and Firebirds as well as an old cab over from one of their logging operations. It was really cool checking it out and hearing these babies rumble last Thanksgiving. I brought my smokers to Reno and we did a family reunion for one of Becky's uncles that is suffering from MS. Great guy and I think he had a fun time.
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Forgot to mention that I've owned 3 VW vans. Oh, the smoke, the drive-ins, the chicks, the memories. :)

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Yeah - I probably got stuck behind you countless times while you had the pedal to the metal doin' 45 in a 55. :mad::p
 

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Great thread
Couldnt find the exact color (mine was forest green) but the first car I owned was affectionately known as "The Cav"
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I loved that car. Actually my brother had bought it but went in to the air force so I bought it off him. (He actually made a couple bucks of me)
It was bought brand new off the lot, and was so base model that it didnt have a radio or a cigarette light installed.
 

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Am I the only one who thought of this car while coming up with the favorite album of all time list????
When I saw someone post the Police, Synchronicity I thought of this car immediately. I remember just having my license and a buddy of mine and I were tooling around town with a couple of girlies listening to that album. Car was a stick shift to which I struggled with at first of course. Can still remember listening to the Police and giggling teenage girls...
Pretty sure that and RUSH Moving pictures were the first cassette tapes I had in that car
 

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A Cavalier? I must say - I did not.
By "this car" I meant everyone's "1st car". Lol

And that Trans Am in your pics is so bad azz
Ever since I saw Cannonball as a kid it was my favorite
Until of course the baddest TA of all, when the Bandit rolled out of the back of Snowman's rig...
 
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98 Acura Integra GSR

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The big homie back in the day got a new prelude and sold me his old car, crap was fast. had it for a good 3 years before my son was born and I had to sell it. It didnt have AC, it was alot of car and just didnt feel right with a new born in it. It was fun though While it lasted.

When I graduated high school in 1990 me and 2 other dudes took the stoner trip of a lifetime from Fullerton to Vancouver in a black 89 Integra

For graduation 4 of my buddies decided we'd take a trip from Fullerton california all the way up to B.C. Canada and then to Banff and down through the Rocky's - on paper it was the ultimate trip for 4 recent high school graduates to take. But of course the trip didn't go as planned. First off one of the guys couldn't go, and he was gonna be one of the drivers. We had arranged for there to be walkee talkees and shite to communicate from car to car, but now all that was down the tubes when he said he couldn't go. So that meant 3 in a car - and we had tons of supplies.

But it was my buddy Mike who had the insane 89 Acura Integra
His dad was the CEO for Waste King garbage disposals at the time and lived in this killer house in Laguna Lake area of Fullerton. His first car was one of those vintage Broncos and it was all painted red, white, and blue, for our flag and he rolled the son of a bitch down the hill to our school and it was totaled, hence his dad buying him the Acura - brand new. I could never figure it out, it took me ages just to get new brakes or gas, and these kids were getting brand new cars after rolling their vintage Broncos. Crazy.

Long story longer, the two guys have mountain bikes, and of course I do not. So I suddenly become the 3rd wheel in this expedition, cause I have no mountain bike and all the plans going up the coast now center around bike trails and all that shite. So when I say, "hey guys" how am i gonna get to hang out if you two are off mountain biking 24/7, and they say to me laughing, well when we are done biking you can use either one. So clearly i was not exactly pleased that these guys had these expensive mountain bikes and I couldn't afford one so that would leave me tending camp all day by myself when those two had fun. Weak.

Well they attach this bike rack to the back of the Integra, and put their super expensive bikes on the back and we head off up the coast We took of at night so that by 12 noon we'd be in San Fran. Well needless to say we all carried pot on us, and we had anticipated that the huge amount we were carrying would be good enough to sustain us through a lewis and clark style expedition across North America - of course we were completely wrong. We barely got 1/4 of the way before we were out of the ganj.

Well to wrap up this rambling story, I remember being woken up just 15 minutes of of San Jose and one of my buddies asking me if I could see the bikes attached to the car. So in a daze i look back through the window and no longer can see the bike rack, nor the bikes. And so I told him, "no, man" cant see them. He woke up Mike and we pulled over and as it turns out the bikes between point A and wherever he had first taken notice, and fallen off the car, in fact it had ripped off a piece of the car where they had attached the bike rack. Man did I enjoy that moment. We back tracked about 50 miles and there were no sign of their expensive mountain bikes, like there would have been.

That story got better when we entered Canada illegally but it's way too long to tell and way too incriminating

Anyway, great memories with the Acura

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When I graduated high school in 1990 me and 2 other dudes took the stoner trip of a lifetime from Fullerton to Vancouver in a black 89 Integra

For graduation 4 of my buddies decided we'd take a trip from Fullerton california all the way up to B.C. Canada and then to Banff and down through the Rocky's - on paper it was the ultimate trip for 4 recent high school graduates to take. But of course the trip didn't go as planned. First off one of the guys couldn't go, and he was gonna be one of the drivers. We had arranged for there to be walkee talkees and shite to communicate from car to car, but now all that was down the tubes when he said he couldn't go. So that meant 3 in a car - and we had tons of supplies.

But it was my buddy Mike who had the insane 89 Acura Integra
His dad was the CEO for Waste King garbage disposals at the time and lived in this killer house in Laguna Lake area of Fullerton. His first car was one of those vintage Broncos and it was all painted red, white, and blue, for our flag and he rolled the son of a bitch down the hill to our school and it was totaled, hence his dad buying him the Acura - brand new. I could never figure it out, it took me ages just to get new brakes or gas, and these kids were getting brand new cars after rolling their vintage Broncos. Crazy.

Long story longer, the two guys have mountain bikes, and of course I do not. So I suddenly become the 3rd wheel in this expedition, cause I have no mountain bike and all the plans going up the coast now center around bike trails and all that shite. So when I say, "hey guys" how am i gonna get to hang out if you two are off mountain biking 24/7, and they say to me laughing, well when we are done biking you can use either one. So clearly i was not exactly pleased that these guys had these expensive mountain bikes and I couldn't afford one so that would leave me tending camp all day by myself when those two had fun. Weak.

Well they attach this bike rack to the back of the Integra, and put their super expensive bikes on the back and we head off up the coast We took of at night so that by 12 noon we'd be in San Fran. Well needless to say we all carried pot on us, and we had anticipated that the huge amount we were carrying would be good enough to sustain us through a lewis and clark style expedition across North America - of course we were completely wrong. We barely got 1/4 of the way before we were out of the ganj.

Well to wrap up this rambling story, I remember being woken up just 15 minutes of of San Jose and one of my buddies asking me if I could see the bikes attached to the car. So in a daze i look back through the window and no longer can see the bike rack, nor the bikes. And so I told him, "no, man" cant see them. He woke up Mike and we pulled over and as it turns out the bikes between point A and wherever he had first taken notice, and fallen off the car, in fact it had ripped off a piece of the car where they had attached the bike rack. Man did I enjoy that moment. We back tracked about 50 miles and there were no sign of their expensive mountain bikes, like there would have been.

That story got better when we entered Canada illegally but it's way too long to tell and way too incriminating

Anyway, great memories with the Acura

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Oh boy. OK my first car was a 74 gremlin x. Yeah, yeah I have heard all the crap over years. But let me tell you that was one tough little car. Bought it used for 700 bucks. Drove it thru high school and college. Just basic oil changes, tires and sech. Put it thru hell and back and when I traded,
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Forgot to mention that I've owned 3 VW vans. Oh, the smoke, the drive-ins, the chicks, the memories. :)

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One of my best friends had one of these when we were in college. He was, and still is, a surfer. It's his life. But that VW van of his... OMG ... it was never the same after the night that we slammed a couple bottles of schnapps in it. I can't even smell that shit to this day without getting dry heaves.

I "pin stripped" his white van with my puke as I blew chunks out the passenger window. He tried forever to wash that stain off,,, but nothing ever removed it completely. LOL

That schnapps must have something horrible in it.

I hated the day that he sold that van.
 

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And that Trans Am in your pics is so bad azz
Becky's uncles took it to Detroit and won best of class. That thing is immaculate in every way I could see. Even the doors close with the cleanest, solid, rattle free sound. They used to race the Goats in stock drags all around Nevada and Oregon but retired the two racers (the burgundy one and I think the blue one) bought a couple more and started showing them. Pretty cool to hear them fire up. Been many years since I heard that sound of a true stock muscle car. They have another Goat that they have been working on for about four years now and is about half done. I think it really just gives them an excuse to tinker. But the "new" one has the original window sticker and everything so their plan is to show it like it would have been on the showroom floor.
 

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Oh boy. OK my first car was a 74 gremlin x. Yeah, yeah I have heard all the crap over years. But let me tell you that was one tough little car. Bought it used for 700 bucks. Drove it thru high school and college. Just basic oil changes, tires and sech. Put it thru hell and back and when I traded,View attachment 5561 it was still running strong.
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MY first was a 1978 VW squareback I bought for $200 . My boss's wifes father had passed away and she was selling it. He told me he would give me $1 an hour raise if I would put a ladder rack on it, so I did. Used to drive it back and forth from Waterbury CT to Danbury CT with a 24' ladder and about 6 staging planks on it for about a year. Then I bought a brand new Ford F150with my Mom as cosigner.
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