Let's discuss cars

[Nimit444 23]

Hey,

 

Being a hardcore car-guy, I am very tempted to know how many petrolheads do we have on this community?.

 

Do you own a car? When did you purchase your very first car? Have you ever worked on a car's mechanical parts? Have you ever popped the hood?

 

 

Let's begin

 

(Pardon me if there is already a similar thread created before, if there is any kindly merge this with the existing one)

[Bydo 20,130]

wow nice topic.. for me seeing I don't drive , but love cars from the oldies to the new styles ..

 

for me the older ones would have to be a  dodge 1950 . to z 50 or corvettes // for the new stuff more on the lines of a Porsche or high end toys..

 

we did have a dodge 50

[smokeyh2 1,512]

i own one of these

 

https://www.kahndesign.com/news/news_detail.php?i=616&css=&lang=EN#PhotoSwipe1564563298988

[u812ic 1,629]

The first car I purchased was a 1954 English Ford. It was a 3 speed stick and the transmission wasn't synchronized. It had a 4 banger aluminum engine. Top speed was 55 mph. Going up a steep hill would have been faster if I got out and pushed. With all its faults, I loved that little car. My Dad took the engine out to rebuild it. An arson set his shop on fire and part of the engine had begone to melt.

 

Before the advent of on-board computers, I was a shade tree mechanic. I did all the repair work on my trucks. The only time any of my vehicles ended up in the shop was because of blown caskets, replenish the Freon (I didn't have the equipment to do that) and to grind down the disk brakes and replace the calipers. 

 

In one of the trucks, I managed to strip and bust up a couple spider gears. My brother accused me of hot rodding (fast starts, speed shifting, anything that puts undue stress on the gears). "Who ME!?. Not ME. I don't know how to do any of that stuff." His answer was, "Then you loaned it out to someone who did." He knew darn good and well that I would never loan my vehicle to anyone. B-U-S-T-E-D. We worked together on it. It took us an entire day (time wise) and 2 days of waiting for parts. Neither of us knew what we were doing. I had to buy a mechanic's manual.

 

When vehicles came out with on-board computers, I began to hear some horrible stories from other shade tree mechanics about how they or someone they knew had ruined vehicles because they didn't understand how the computers worked. They worked on vehicles as they had always done, which did not agree with the computers.

 

A friend of mine and I started up a business repairing and restoring antique and classic cars. If the mechanics was completely shot, we cannibalized the body and sold it at antique / classic swap meets. 

 

;Two cars I had a lot of "fun" restoring was a 1929 Model T and a 1945 Jeep. Of course there were others we restored, but those two were a big challenge. A friend of ours completely rebuilt from the ground up a 193(2?) V-12 Cadillac. It took him a little over 3 years. Highly polished (lacquer?) black paint with real chrome accoutrements. 

[Guest winner110]

hi

i am not old enough to drive but i know alot about cars. my neighbor has two mustangs and next to him the guy (who i know very well)owns a 1980 GMC

Diablo and i like to go there to wacth him restore it.

[burger19987 90]

I dont own a car, but ive driven a few: Golf R; S3; A3; honda accord.

[jelly_beans 35]

I am a HUGE car fan. Especially love everything and anything japanse!

 

My favourite is an A80 Supra :)

[RX-7 3]

I am a HUGE car fan. Especially love everything and anything japanse!

 

My favourite is an A80 Supra :)

 

Wow as you can tell by my username jelly i love rx7s like fd fc. The supra is a VERY beautiful car and an even more spectacular 2jz engine! 

[jelly_beans 35]

Currently own a Toyota Corolla as im getting my insurance down because i live in the uk. What car do you have @RX-7 ? Let me guess :P

 

Wow as you can tell by my username jelly i love rx7s like fd fc. The supra is a VERY beautiful car and an even more spectacular 2jz engine! 

[RX-7 3]

Currently own a Toyota Corolla as im getting my insurance down because i live in the uk. What car do you have @RX-7 ? Let me guess :P

I own an RX7 FC and am thinking of getting an FD some time soon (I live in the UK too i understand what u mean by insurance lol its a killer)

[jelly_beans 35]

Currently own a Toyota Corolla as im getting my insurance down because i live in the uk. What car do you have @RX-7 ? Let me guess :P

 

ahaha

[u812ic 1,629]

I'd love to get my hands on a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner convertible. 

[Maf 32,300]

how many petrolheads do we have on this community?.

[laughs in Tesla]

[21985_the_master 422]

Well I don't own a car but I'm driving my dad's work car Renault Trafic

[dupuy 318]

Lada. . .

[AndreanWarrior747 2]

really cool, i dont have a car in my name, but im 15 (this oct 23 ill be 16) and when i get my liscence ill have a '70 El Camino that im rebuilding in my name, i dont have a pic of mine, but ill show u a pic of a dif one (from google images)

(closest i could find, note the truck bed in the back)

and when i build it, im goingput a trailer hitch on it so i can take my 90' Bombardiar Seadoo (jet ski) out whenever i want

[AndreanWarrior747 2]

On 8/31/2019 at 9:04 AM, 21985_the_master said:

Well I don't own a car but I'm driving my dad's work car Renault Trafic

what make?

[Crip 4,735]

My first car was a 2008 1.8L Ford Focus in a very dreary Sea blue colour which I bought off my friend for about £850 - bought this in 2016.

However, it barely lasted 2 years with me due to the following reasons:

• The turbo blew out on the way home one day from work, had to keep restarting it cause from that point on it went into limp mode if you revved it too hard. I blame my...how should I say this...large friends for being in the car when I was going up a steep hill.
• The EGR (on diesel cars such as this it's a valve which allows air to be recycled rather than going straight out the exhaust) seized up with carbon build up and eventually ruined the car.
• The alternator finally died due to the cold on the way to work on a winter's morning, I lost all electrical equipment in the car (including the power steering) - was a bit of a fun experience.

It's still sat outside my drive currently until I get around to breaking it/scrapping it. In the meantime I've bought myself a facelifted Audi A3 (it's only 1.6L though) in black and she's pretty nice, if a little costly to repair.

What I'd really like is one of the older (pre 2000) Toyota Celica GT4s to be a hobby car, but I can't justify getting one at the minute. Will probably trade my A3 in next year and get an S3, once I can afford the insurance. Need something with a bit more power!

Edited October 13, 2020 by Savage

[xpgamer 0]

i just got this A4 recently, upgraded from a Volkswagen Rabbit, quite the upgraded, the 1.8T is a lot of fun combined with the Quattro.

https://www.kbb.com/audi/a4/2003/

[Person_Random 4,991]

I'm afraid of cars.

Can anyone guess why?

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

7 hours ago, Person_Random said:

I'm afraid of cars.

Can anyone guess why?

You are afraid that they will eat you?

Edited December 20, 2020 by ThirdOnion

[Nimit444 23]

Wow, I didn't realize that I have not yet posted any picture of my steed

Just got the eibach lowering springs and 15mm spacers done

Octavia RS 230 Mk3

Edited January 17, 2021 by Nimit444

[Core3Trio 1]

I own a Volkswagen Jetta 2017 with a 1.4 and a manual transmission. First car was a good rabbit 2.5 manual transmission as well. I’ve worked on my old car, it was an Audi A4 Quattro 1.8T, did the timing belt on it. Btw the Audi was automatic.

https://ibb.co/Vxb2tbS
https://ibb.co/Sdkp65j
 

[Hugoslav 162]

I dont own a car, but if I could own a car, it would either be a Skyline GTR 

Or a 1957 Ford Mainline, because I spent like 300 hours playing Mafia 2 and the atmosphere, cars and the 50's culture just got me!  

Imagine driving this in a modern city :D