Good Morning Teslanytes

[FutureView]

Teslanytes, it's THROWBACK Thursday -- What was your very first car or truck?

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[Daweism]

1993 Toyota Camry LE - Drove it like a like it was a rally car, don't know how I'm still alive.

 

[Sirfun]

Alright I'll play. At 16 when my dad got a company truck, I was lucky enough to end up driving his 3yr old Petty Blue 69 Chevy step-side. I had no idea how good I had it. Here's a photo of the truck my dad taught me to drive when I was 13. Yep, that's me at 5. Only 59 years ago.

 

[Ehninger1212]

Alright I'll play. At 16 when my dad got a company truck, I was lucky enough to end up driving his 3yr old Petty Blue 69 Chevy step-side. I had no idea how good I had it. Here's a photo of the truck my dad taught me to drive when I was 13. Yep, that's me at 5. Only 59 years ago.

Sweet truck! I'v got a 51 in my garage!
Looks like vent windows and push button handles on that one? gotta be a 52-53. If they are turn downs its a 51.. only year with turn down handles and vent windows.

 

[Ehninger1212]

My first vehicle was a 1985 Toyota Pickup 4WD. Looked a lot like the on from back to the future but it was dark grey. Tons of fun.. owned many fun vehicles between then and now.

 

[Sirfun]

Sweet truck! I'v got a 51 in my garage!
Looks like vent windows and push button handles on that one? gotta be a 52-53. If they are turn downs its a 51.. only year with turn down handles and vent windows.

Wow, that's cool you have a 51. I think that one was a 53. I'm currently without a pick-up, I sold my 63 Ranchero a couple years ago. Living around the beach causes some serious rust issues.

 

[ReddykwRun]

Wow, that's cool you have a 51. I think that one was a 53. I'm currently without a pick-up, I sold my 63 Ranchero a couple years ago. Living around the beach causes some serious rust issues.

Nice that you won't have that annoying corrosion problem with the Cyber Truck. How long do your appliances hold up, I hear that can be a secondary problem of living in paradise on the beach. All your stuff reverts back to its original form.

 

[Sirfun]

Indoors isn't so bad. My truck took a beating because I love to surf and windsurf. That truck lived at the beach. The worst is when the surf gets big and the wind comes up it can blow that salty mist a long ways. I love that smell!

 

[Migizi]

Pinto Wagon , same color but not nearly as nice as the on in the pic...

Brother owed me money - I made a deal with him...get me a car that runs decent and we'll call it even.

She was a farm field find...
1.5" water pipe strapped above rear rear leaf spring for support as the frame had rusted through
Plywood cut out for floor boards (pans rusted out) - still got wet driving over puddles
Manual Transmission - didn't know how to drive a stick yet.

but a deals a deal - courted my future wife in this beauty, shifter came out of gear box while shifting from intersection while on first date- had to get towed home

Got t-boned when attempting left turn because replacement transmission shifter stuck and I turned in front of oncoming car by accident trying to unstick the shifter.

Ahhhh..... Memories!

 

[Crissa]

I got a five year old '87 Honda Civic. I drove from Washington to California multiple times, out on the the back roads in Arizona where I was attending University. Nearly went everywhere the 4x4 trucks went, which drove them nuts ^-^

I lost it to a caddy that turned left into my lane and smacked me head-on. I stopped, but they didn't. Luckily it was a low-speed collision, but not one little Aesop would survive.

-Crissa

And no, I would never use that as a security question.

 

[Blue Steel]

I got a five year old '87 Honda Civic. I drove from Washington to California multiple times, out on the the back roads in Arizona where I was attending University. Nearly went everywhere the 4x4 trucks went, which drove them nuts ^-^

I lost it to a caddy that turned left into my lane and smacked me head-on. I stopped, but they didn't. Luckily it was a low-speed collision, but not one little Aesop would survive.

-Crissa

And no, I would never use that as a security question.

Had a similar experience with an ‘85 Nissan Sentra. (The off-roading, not the accident.) I could squeeze between the big rocks the trucks had to go over.

As far as my first car... it was a ‘57 Chevrolet Pickup. I pulled it out of a farmer’s field when I was 14. Spent 2 years restoring it. Really my dad did most of the work. Then I spent the next few years worrying about the paint job that we had spent years on. It had a 235 inline 6-cylinder. No power steering. No seatbelts. No airbags. No antilock brakes. The doors would randomly pop open when going around corners. It’s amazing I lived to see my second car. Thankfully it was SLOW. 0 to 60 in... well, it couldn’t go much over 55.

 

[Riptide]

1965 MGB. My dad bought it new, drove it for 212,000 miles. At 15 I pulled the engine and tranny. I rebuilt the engine and had a friend rebuild the tranny. Got it running again in time for my 16th birthday when I got my driver's license on the day. Loved that car. Sold it when I had a baby on the way. I used to say it was my only regret in life - still kind of is. The pic below isn't mine, I just pulled it off the internet. Accurate except for the wire wheels, mine had steel wheels with a moon hub caps.

 

[ReddykwRun]

I know I am late to the party but this was my first ride I paid for myself. It was a gas hog. Growing up I was always getting my dad's truck stuck in the sand, mud ..... so I figured this was safer. My brother got it stuck in the mud behind the house, I got it "un-stuck".

This is the same color as the one I had, 1977 FJ40, definitely not a highway car.

 

[ReddykwRun]

Indoors isn't so bad. My truck took a beating because I love to surf and windsurf. That truck lived at the beach. The worst is when the surf gets big and the wind comes up it can blow that salty mist a long ways. I love that smell!

While stationed in Corpus Christi, TX with the USCG and I lived on base so it was better I ride my bike to work since our hanger was right next to the bay and the constant winds blowing salt spray would cover your car with a salt film quickly. We were only allowed to have the aircraft outside the hanger doors for 15 minutes prior to launch on training or SAR missions to combat the salt & corrosion.