First cars!
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@Snowy said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
Fuck manuals. They're a thing of the past. Move with the times.
Not if you actually like driving and "a bit" of control - often in my case not so much of the control thing, but it makes me feel better.
Yeah, the wife brought a Swift in 2008 that we still have. Top little car, and at 1500cc and manual has some real zip. Fun on winding roads too. Drives like a go-cart.
Noticed many more manuals in the UK. I think they are quite a bit cheaper. Pain in the arse in London though, people can't drive them properly and when they take off in front of you, you need to anticipate the inevitable slow down as they change gear.
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I learned to drive in a 6 cylinder falcon ute auto, when I was 13, on a metal road on the way home from golf while my dad was drunk...mum didnt find out for years 🍻
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@taniwharugby said in First cars!:
I learned to drive in a 6 cylinder falcon ute auto, when I was 13, on a metal road on the way home from golf while my dad was drunk...mum didnt find out for years 🍻
Yeah, I did my first driving when my Dad was drunk too, after rugby instead of golf though.
My first car was a Mazda 808, raised at the back with mags. It was out family car when I was a kid so I just inherited it and it somehow became a cool car (I'm not a car person at all so couldn't have cared less but I always had people offering to buy it from me).
I learnt to drive in a Hillman Hunter, because they have such easy gear changes. A family friend taught me how to drive, and my parents taught other family friends kids how to drive - seemed to work well without the shitfights that can sometimes come with parents teaching their own kids.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
@JK said in First cars!:
First car was a 1978 mitsi mirage, 4speed 1300cc. Had it for about about a year until it got written off while getting hit by a van while parked outside lou Vincent’s little sisters house. We were both in the car too!
I remember the day I got it I drove from the shore up to pakiri with the choke out and almost used up all the gas
Replaced it with a mitsi station....what a farken beast 2ltr turbo rwd but auto. Never had another mitsi since and didn’t have another auto until about 15 years later when came back from the UK.
I’m sure there’s a bloody good story here
There is but not suitable for this thread!
And no wasn’t him in the van. He was living in Aus at the time with his old man.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
@JK said in First cars!:
First car was a 1978 mitsi mirage, 4speed 1300cc. Had it for about about a year until it got written off while getting hit by a van while parked outside lou Vincent’s little sisters house. We were both in the car too!
I remember the day I got it I drove from the shore up to pakiri with the choke out and almost used up all the gas
Replaced it with a mitsi station....what a farken beast 2ltr turbo rwd but auto. Never had another mitsi since and didn’t have another auto until about 15 years later when came back from the UK.
I’m sure there’s a bloody good story here
Easy opportunity for a joke, something about piercing the ring through the covers
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@Snowy said in First cars!:
@Nepia said in First cars!:
My first car was a Mazda 808
Had one of those too. Third car I think. A sort of bile yellow colour.
Had no guts at all but just kept going, like most of my awful cars.
It’s like what they say about Volvos.
What’s the good thing about Volvos? They last forever.
What’s the worst thing about Volvos? They last forever.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@Snowy I would still have been weedy, awkward me.
Still awkward just fatter now.
You should see my collection of star wars t-shirts tho
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@Bones said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@Snowy I would still have been weedy, awkward me.
Still awkward just fatter now.
You should see my collection of star wars t-shirts tho
I'm stuck at six. I might move on to hoodies while the weather is like it is.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@Snowy I would still have been weedy, awkward me.
Still awkward just fatter now.
You should see my collection of star wars t-shirts tho
I'm stuck at six. I might move on to hoodies while the weather is like it is.
Careful fella, don't want your hood getting caught while you're trying to smash all the kids at climbing kids playground things.
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@Bones said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bones said in First cars!:
@Snowy I would still have been weedy, awkward me.
Still awkward just fatter now.
You should see my collection of star wars t-shirts tho
I'm stuck at six. I might move on to hoodies while the weather is like it is.
Careful fella, don't want your hood getting caught while you're trying to smash all the kids at climbing kids playground things.
I've got a rope and chin up bar now bro. It's the only way I can talk my way out of going for a run with the Mrs.