My Z4 
The first car that YOU paid for....
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Mine was a 1985 Pontiac Trams Am, black, with gold trim. And no, it did not have the huge "flaming chicken" on the hood, but a smaller one in the same area as the BMW hood roundel would be :wink: . 5 litre engine with something like 170 bhp 
. Pretty pathetic really. Not sure what I was thinking at the time..... 
. Pretty pathetic really. Not sure what I was thinking at the time..... A 1972 Metallic Gray Mercury Capri (with the 1600cc "high ouput" engine and NO ac). Cost $650 (used of course).
First mod was adding black stripes to the lower panels (one can of flat black spray paint and some masking tape).
Second mod was adding a Radio Shack 8 track tape player.
Of course immediately after blowing money on mods I had to start getting tools. It was a great car but half of the nuts/bolts/etc were metric and half were english. :thumbsdown:
First mod was adding black stripes to the lower panels (one can of flat black spray paint and some masking tape).
Second mod was adding a Radio Shack 8 track tape player.
Of course immediately after blowing money on mods I had to start getting tools. It was a great car but half of the nuts/bolts/etc were metric and half were english. :thumbsdown:
1982 Toyota extended cab 5-speed small sized p.u. . Left me stranded one too many times so traded it in on a brand new 1988 Chev. Silverado, which I still have. My parents never bought me a vehicle, I had to work and save for purchases/down-payments.
Hi, the first car I paid for was an April 1931 Austin 7, brass headlamps and the starting handle fixed in place. I bought it for 12.00 pounds in 1964 while recovering from a motorcycle crash, present Z4 3.0 SI is car No. 27 I think, have spent a lot of my earnings on cars in 43 years but had some fun on the way.
henry1
henry1
Not a picture of the actual one - but my first car I paid for was a Mk1 Golf GTI Cabrio.. a bit like this.. back in 1995-ish.
After that I must have had convertibles all my driving life, until I got the Z4MC, and now for the first time, I do not have a roofless car on the driveway...
After that I must have had convertibles all my driving life, until I got the Z4MC, and now for the first time, I do not have a roofless car on the driveway...
Yep. I had it for one year until I realized that I wanted more torque/power. It was such a fun car though. I know it's silly but every once in a while I still miss it. I guess you never really get over your first. 
I picked up my M from swapalease.com so I had to sell the Honda myself. I parked it out in the driveway for 2 hours and some guy took one look at it and wrote me a check for my asking price - $19,750. The M didn't arrive for two days after the Honda was gone and I probably bursted into tears about 50 times. I stood out in the driveway and cried for 15 minutes when it drove away. I'm so mad that I haven't received an update or a visit on how the car is doing. It was my baby! Another thing i'm mad about is that there isn't a local z4 club like the s2000 club. There were dinner meets every week, monthly drives, holiday parties (even if they were lame), and events in between.
Here is a video of the drive pictured. I had only been driving manual trans. for about a month and had never driven on mountain roads (FL girl) so I let Phil take the wheel on the way home. http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=11040174
I picked up my M from swapalease.com so I had to sell the Honda myself. I parked it out in the driveway for 2 hours and some guy took one look at it and wrote me a check for my asking price - $19,750. The M didn't arrive for two days after the Honda was gone and I probably bursted into tears about 50 times. I stood out in the driveway and cried for 15 minutes when it drove away. I'm so mad that I haven't received an update or a visit on how the car is doing. It was my baby! Another thing i'm mad about is that there isn't a local z4 club like the s2000 club. There were dinner meets every week, monthly drives, holiday parties (even if they were lame), and events in between. Here is a video of the drive pictured. I had only been driving manual trans. for about a month and had never driven on mountain roads (FL girl) so I let Phil take the wheel on the way home. http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=11040174
:lol: You look like your Avatar! That's kewl! :lol:
Funny thing about your tale - I do miss mine on occasions and 2 nights ago some guy called out of the blue and told my wife that he has just bought a 2005 Honda S2k and found an insurance card with my name on it while he was going through the car. Turns out he had just bought my old car and had a few questions about it's history and what he had purchased.
I figured that since I hadn't sold it to him there was no harm in letting him know it was my old track toy and it had done 27 track days in just under 2 years of ownership. He wasn't surprised since he had found stainless steel brake lines and racing pads on it but he was disappointed to hear that it had once had racing seats, a 6 point harness, 4 point roll bar, and headers that I had taken off in order to make it presentable as a trade in.
He is actually interested in bringing it out to a track event at our local track, so I may yet get to go out on the track
in it again as his instructor instead of being the driver.
Sometimes its an amazingly small world we live in :yeah:
I figured that since I hadn't sold it to him there was no harm in letting him know it was my old track toy and it had done 27 track days in just under 2 years of ownership. He wasn't surprised since he had found stainless steel brake lines and racing pads on it but he was disappointed to hear that it had once had racing seats, a 6 point harness, 4 point roll bar, and headers that I had taken off in order to make it presentable as a trade in.
He is actually interested in bringing it out to a track event at our local track, so I may yet get to go out on the track
in it again as his instructor instead of being the driver.
Sometimes its an amazingly small world we live in :yeah:
ZeroGravity
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the first car that I paid for...
I still have it . Fiance-now-wife said we're not in a hurry to sell it.
I hope she (the Prelude) won't get jealous of her newer roommate. I try to alternate taking them out for some exercises.
I still have it
. Fiance-now-wife said we're not in a hurry to sell it.I hope she (the Prelude) won't get jealous of her newer roommate. I try to alternate taking them out for some exercises.
^^ That would make a nice competition pic.
Welcome, ZeroGravity.
Welcome, ZeroGravity.
Veruca, sixspeed, you guys have some really nice first cars...I had a Fiat Panda I bought for £150 and sold 12 months later for £165 - depreciation, what depreciation?
sixspeed - how much for insurance on the GTi?
sixspeed - how much for insurance on the GTi?
:lol: :lol: it's nearly as bad as mine. What possessed them to make them in brown?Veruca said:Oh, my first car was a brown 91 Honda civic like this one:
and then I had a 99 Nissan Altima. Things didn't get good until I was doing the choosing - not mom and dad.
I like threads like this, it shows that cars have come a long way.Did your S2000 have standard airbox and exhaust, it sounded pretty throaty on the vid?