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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Gold Coast
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Got my first car at 15, a 55 Dodge Kingsway. Wish I still had it, I believe they're as rare as hens teeth now
![]() My best mates old man owned the wagon in the background and they also had a mint FJ in the garage. One of my other mates had a '57 Chev, he was 15 too. Now they were the good old days
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I WANT TO DIE IN MY SLEEP LIKE MY GRANDFATHER - NOT SCREAMING LIKE THE PASSENGERS IN HIS CAR My wife has been missing a week now. The police said to prepare for the worst. So, I had to go down to the Salvos to get all of her clothes back. |
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Central Coast NSW
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I bought my car two weeks before I turned 17. Spent 2 and a half years of Maccas pay on it. Well worth it lol.
I'll probably have it until I'm in my mid twenties, my next big buy will be a house. I've had it almost 2 years now, and still just like to look at it like when I first got it ![]()
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Cruising...
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Perth
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Very very first was an EL ex cab last year at 17 years of age...went to scrap a week later, didnt really pay for it so no loss. (no was not stolen either)
Then picked up the current subie for a song a few months before i turned 18. Legendary lil car but bits are starting to give up (its about that time in its life it seems haha lucky me..) Already lookin to pickup a newer car that is more finacially supportable at this age and wage. But then again 2 cars.. ![]() And i digress......
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#34 | ||
Where to next??
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sydney
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Got my first car at 17. It was a Datsun 180B and was a hand me down from mum.
Drove it around for a while. Did the usual stuff to it myself (wheels, stereo, interior, re-spray) then started Uni and realised that it wasn't as reliable and efficient as I liked. Sold it for $1500 at 19 and bought myself the Festiva new for my birthday. Used up all my savings in the process but it was well worth it. |
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#35 | ||
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 116
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13. I got a xf off my brother.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 12,077
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My first car was a HK Holden Kingswood bought 28 April 1976 (16yo) for $850 (how much is a 8 year holden or falcon now?) paid cash which I had saved up since I was 7.
My first Falcon was a pine lime XC Panelvan 4.1 4 speed bought new for $6600 in late 1977 (18yo). |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 589
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#38 | ||
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 129
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I was 16 when I bought my first car, a 1972 Valiant Galant, great little car that I should never have sold.
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Racing improves the breed
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: SE Melbourne
Posts: 3,981
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I bought my R31 Nissan Skyline Silhouette when I was 17, still miss that car.
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 170
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In the late 70s on my 18th birthday I got a 67 HR Premier,186 Auto Blue with white roof and blue interior.I had an option, 3 in 1 stereo or Dads car.It blew a motor some months later when Dad was driving it and then I bought a 69 HT Kingswood 161, 3 on the tree off a dealer for $1990.
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#41 | ||
Fast As Lightning
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 69
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Bought my first car when i was 16. Ford Laser KB S. 2 door, 5 speed manual, twin-carb lil beast. Was a great car to thrash around.
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Pro Street Au Ute
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Rocky QLD
Posts: 1,150
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my first car was a 302 auto xd fairmont ice blue with 12 slotters .i picked it up the day before i turned 16 in 96, i paid it off over 5 months before ($1000).
Was a great car until 6 or so months later i was jacking it up at the front jacking points and the guard started to push through the sil. I pulled the front guards off to see rust had gone right through the front of both sills and was not repairable. Found out a few years later the car was swamped at keppel sands beach before i bought it. But it didn't turn me off them have had about 15 xd and xes' and a rust phobia too lol. |
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#43 | ||
Clutch Cable Killer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bald Hills, North Brisbane
Posts: 2,264
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15 when I bought my xr6.
Saved up everything since I had started working to buy it, have it registered and insured. All I had to do was wait 3 months before I could get my L's. ![]() Can't believe I have had it 2.5 years
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Matthew 1997 Manual EL XR6 in Heritage Green Extractors and 2.5" exhaust- - 16" Tickford Wheels - Full EL XR bodykit - COYO73 Plates HID projectors, lowered on King SL and Koni Shocks. Daily - 2002 AUIII SR Stock as she comes. Coyote's EL XR6 ^^Click Me^^ 15.132@ 91.51 MPH Photos by Me ![]() |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Adelaide's south
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17yrs old when I bought a 1973 Holden HQ Premier. The car was 5yrs old and cost me $3, 400. Traded it in 1979 for a 1976 XC GS 302 Panel Van, pine-lime, barn doors and cost me about $6,000. Fantastic car that one
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Banana Coast, Nsw
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12, me and a mate got a hz with 253, all interior purple etc, then got a telstar, xf, navara, dune buggy, vp commodore. They were the cruising cars up and down my mates road ( about 15 k's ) and cruise around the farm all day, then i bought a vn commodore when i was 15, she was my girl for my L's until i got my au xr. Then it goes on from there
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: normanville, south Australia
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I bought my first a few years back when i was 15 its a 66 mustang coupe. Worked my butt off to pay it off took me 6 months waking up 5 every morning then walking to school at 1O.30
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#47 | ||
From the Futura
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Canberra, Australia
Posts: 569
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About 17..
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Perth
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I was 15 Years old. 1951 Ford Zephyr Mk I.
I was Tall and heavily built for my age and had no trouble telling people I was 21 |
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#49 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,600
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15 , bout a chrysler by chrysler regal for a coupla hunny. biggest car i ever owned to this day. even dwarfed my 74 ltd....
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 802
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Had just turned 16 bought an EF Fairmont for 8.5k. Dad went halves with me. Still got it 6 years later but trying to sell it so i can pay off my XR6T. Always said id never sell it but i couldnt care less now, want it gone!
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#51 | ||
When in doubt, GAS IT!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lower Eyre Peninsula, SA
Posts: 3,018
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Got given mums hand me down British racing green 2L 4spd TC Cortina at 15. It was lowered a couple of inches and had a nice free flowing exhaust. Geez it went hard; had it wound off the clock with the needle pointing straight down one day, loved that car. First car I paid for with my own money was a HQ p/van, 202 3 on the tree. I paid about $1300 for it back in 81, it was a great party bus that I drove into the ground and parted it out in the end.
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. HERS- BFIII Wagon Gold, alloys, dual fuel, bullbar, big tow pack, trans cooler, fully rebuilt HD suspension, Clarion, alarmed, full 2 1/2" sports system, mint body MINE- AUII Forte Meteorite, dual fuel but otherwise bog stock. MINE- AUII Fairlane Sportsman Liquid Silver over meteorite,HIDs', Airhog, Eagle Leads, dual fuel, custom rear springs, BA slotted discs + a second one for spares . |
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#52 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gren A Waverrey
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Twenty-Seven
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#53 | ||
If it ain't broke........
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Location: Sunshine Coast Qld
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14, 1967 Valiant ute with the slant motor. Drove it into a small country town at night with only one indicator working ( for lights ) trying to buy some beer. Unregistered, unlicenced, unroadworthy and underaged...............
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Chapel St
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14... 1977 Alfa Romeo Alfetta 2000 Sedan
Twin Dellortos, Twin Cam, 5 Spd RWD & Discs all round... Oh yeeeah
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#55 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Newcastle, NSW
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I was 16 when I bought my TE Cortina.
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#57 | ||
Are the Supercars on yet?
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Tauranga
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I was 21 when i finally bought my ute. but before that i got the datsun bluebird off my bro when he up graded. and parents got me an XF ute when that car was unreliable.
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KITTY Crew Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: WA
Posts: 5,267
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Being in Kalgoorlie back then at 15 was no problem driving around. Just had to be a good boy going from point A to B and the local cops would leave you alone (Hell they knew where every kid lived back then) That was my first and only Holden.... But it had a chevy motor so it was ok ![]()
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#59 | ||
Watts a panhard.
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 929
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16 when I bought my '72 LJ 202 manual Torana. Great car, I miss it a lot.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: W.A.
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I Was 16, got a old 1970 nissan patrol with the 248 6cyl 3 speed wit no syncro on first. Step dad did it up and sprayed it but couldnt fix the fuel economy only got 12 mpg so we swapped it for a xw falcon with a 250 2v and thats the car i got my lisence in.
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