Most liked posts in thread: What vehicle sparked your love for driving

I did that to several people, including one who I wanted to scare and I told him to hold on because I had only seen this done on TV, the proceeded to rip the e-brake, downshift to 2nd, and cranked the wheel to the left lock to take a turn. My buddy in the chase car said that it looked good and the spray of gravel was quite impressive. It was a fun car. Honda def did something right with the B16A3. I would love to have another one. Maybe some day, thought they are getting pretty rare these days.

 

My grandmother 325i box BMW, I was 16 years old and use to steal it at night to do donuts on the field a block away from our house. Grass power slides use to wash it off at the petrol station afterward with the window squeegee and a water bottle lol

 

87 Mustang hatchback with the 4 banger. Bought it when i was 14 with a dead clutch, bad paint, and an interior trashed by a dog for $800. Learned to work on cars with that one and how to drive a stick-shift rear wheel drive car with an open diff in all conditions (on General Ameris in all seasons).

Several cars later, I bought a 95 Talon TSI AWD. Loved the turbo and modifying it.

Also had a 2000 jeep wrangler soft top that I lifted and put 33s on it.

The mustang started it all though.

 

My first car, a 1965 VW Bug that I bought in 1972 to drive to college. Started my mod bug too!!

 

I believe it'd had to have been my cousin's old BMW 2500. He bought it brand new and it was the first Beemer I rode in. As a kid, maybe 13 or 14 or so, we'd drive that thing everywhere we didn't need to take the pickup. They lived in the mountains east of Sacramento which had plenty of great winding highways to enjoy the car's handling abilities, at a reasonably safe high speed. I loved the looks of the car inside and out.

Fast forward to my early driving days, after my 38 Ford Pickup (father/son project) and 72 Vega snatchback, I got a hold of my first BMW at 18. A friend sold me his 71 2002 for 3500 bucks and the rest is history. Absolutely, for more reasons than can be listed, that is the best car I've ever owned.

So now, 7 or 8 BMWs, a few pickups and SUVs, a Porsche 911 and 3 Mini/MINIs later, I'm still motoring and always looking for some new-to-me car to call my own.

Let's see, where's my list...? Oh that's right, there's no list.... It's all done by impulse.

 

My first car was a '63 TR Spitfire. Bought it from my Division LT. Duty assignments took me to Key West for about 9 months where I fell in with the local EVSCC chapter and consequently learned how to 'drive'. Traded the TR for a very low mileage '65 XK-E roadster (BRG) which more than likely aided and abetted the capture of a comely co-ed who has since become a fantastic MINI co-pilot. Between the XK-E and the MINI were a series of family type grocery getters of various stripes.

 

My first car, a 1958 VW Beetle, all 36 hp (wish I still had it).

 

For me, it was a picture in Road & Track of a Talbot-Lago coupe with a body by Figoni e Falaschi. (I'd insert a photo, but I seem to be technology challenged today.) Finally saw one in person this last fall, and it was even more beautiful. (I almost had an "accident" standing there looking at it.)

Then, getting my '67 Mustang with a 289 V8 and 3 on the floor got me forever hooked on dumping the clutch and turning the wheel. :wink:

 

Grand Prix was the first 70mm "Surround Sound" movie I ever saw. I don't think I'll ever forget sitting in the grand old Majestic Theater in downtown Dallas as a 16 year old kid, and hearing the whine of a Formula 1 car apparently coming off Elm Street, through the lobby, and down the theater's center aisle!

 

For me it was my brother's 1970 Z28 Camaro. Candy apple red with white stripes - manual trans. He had a lot of cars when we were growing up but that was THE ONE. I was a happy little girl anytime he let me drive it.

 

Yeah my buddy had a VTEC Del Sol and that thing was crazy quick. He scared the poo out of me a few times. :eek6:

 

I had my share of muscle cars, BMWs, Alfas, and Vettes but I am almost sure I became a car guy at 6 when at a friend's house and his uncle drove up in a MG T type. Those fenders were beautiful and that huge, seemingly vertical, steering wheel was something I had never seen before. Then again it might have been a little later when I saw my first Corvette, in 53, at a Cub Scout meeting, wow, a plastic car. I know I was terminally hooked when my Dad bought a new '57 Bonneville convertible. I was in the hospital for surgery and he parked it where I could see it from my room window. Couldn't wait to get out for my first ride ever in a convertible. Never drove any of those three but they all left a impression like it was yesterday.