Cars You've Owned

[GClark]

Post the cars that you've owned in the past, do own now, and would like to own.

My first truck, 1991 Ford Ranger.

Sold that, got this. 2001 Mazda B4000. I didn't like getting 12mpgs, so it didnt last long.

My first Subaru: 2005 Subaru OBS

Great times

Recovery OBS

But, 2.5s are slow, and I wanted something turbo. WRX's are everywhere, and Mikes wagon always intrigued me.

1993 Touring Wagon:

Turned into this:



Sold the Impreza in 2011. I was bored with it, it was slow, and it was pretty beat. I wanted something fast, but good on mpgs. Which lead me to my next purchase, 1996 Acura Integra, turbo, Meyagi build, very fast.



This car was a blast, but it turns out I'm not a huge fan of torque steer. The power also wasn't exactly useable, as shown by this graph:

So that's currently being sold to one of my friends.

I had no winter beater, so I bought a 1996 Subaru Outback. It's alright. Runs, drives, great in the snow, but I can't wait for it to be gone.



The red touring wagon was pretty beat, body work and paint would have cost too much, so I began looking for a cleaner shell. I found that in November in VT. It didnt turn out to be as clean as I wanted, but it's leaps and bounds better than the red one.



So that's where I am now. One red touring wagon being parted out, one silver wagon being built, one acura being sold, and one green beater. Once the silver wagon gets running, the green one is getting sold. I'll need a DD, so I want to get one of these: 1991-2000 Lexus LS400. V8(280HP), RWD, and comfy.

Then one day:

So what have you owned/want to own? Pictures are a must.

 

[Meyagi]

I wish I had pics of all my old cars....

ill post the pics I have, enjoy, I had to dig deep for some of these pics haha

these are the ones I actually had road legal.

1975 volvo 164 painted viper blue, first car

1977 chevy c10 2wd pickup, 350, duals, went off the road in monmouth and bent the frame all up. sucked it was pretty rust free.

1977 chevy k10 4x4, 3" lift, 33" tires, 8ft fisher price plow. rusted out POS, ran a antique tag the whole time I owned it, since it wouldnt take a sticker

1972 volvo 142s, cammed, carbed, header, owned this at the same time as the 2wd chevy

sold that and bought this

1982 volvo 242 glt turbo. the car that got me addicted to turbocharging. had a fmic, turned up injector pump, full exhaust, and a super 60 garrett turbo. eventually the 4cyl wore out from repeated rapings, so I swapped in a built 5.0l EFI mustang engine and 5spd manual trans. it was fun, turned a lot of heads, but eventually it got old and I stopped driving it.

at the same time I had the v8 volvo, I had this for a winter car

1984 subaru gl 4x4 wagon. first subaru, been hooked ever since.

also started my snow drifting addiction

it even made a good airplane

this car would not die no matter what I did to it. the rusts were the only thing able to kill it :/

replaced it with this for the winter,

1990 legacy wagon 5mt. I paid 300 for this car, and got every cent of my moneys worth. the rusts unfortunatly killed this one too. the whole rear strut tower seperated from the body while driving one day.

at the same time I had this subaru, I started on this

1992 Honda Accord coupe. started out as a beater, added a turbo, and after a few blown stock motors, I stepped it up to what it is now.

this

to this.

530whp on pump fuel. built the motor in my bedroom 5 years ago, and did the tune. 100% my car built by me. this is still a special car to me, I learned an incredible amount building it.

after I sold the POS 1977 4x4 chevy, I got this

1995 gmc 1500

also had this for a winter

1988 saab 900 turbo. bought for 100 with a fried wiring harness, rewired, tossed a borg warner turbo from a 6.5 diesel chevy on it and ran it for a year

it was slow as hell till you hit 3500 rpm, then the turbo would spool and omg hang on haha

at this same time, I also bought my red 1994 legacy.... started out quite stock

and now

wont get into details, cause most of you already know this car

needed a beater at this point, bought the "Tomato" for 100 with some front end damage

1993 civic hatch, 327k miles (and climbing, room mate is using it to commute to school)

red GMC truck rotted out, so I replaced it with this

1996 chevy silverado 1500

only had it a year, replaced with this

1997 chevy silverado 1500 6.5 turbo diesel. I had a really hard time finding this one, 1500 diesel short box extended cab are rare!

last spring I bought the acura I built for a ex back when I was building the accord, it was a fun summer car with good gas miliage

1997 acura integra turbo

and currently

1998 GS300. bought to leave stock as a nice driver. yeah, about that.......

currently have

1992 accord

1994 legacy

1997 chevy truck

1998 Lexus

This was quite the walk down memory lane for me

 

[IBratmanI]

I wish I had pics of all my old cars....

me too

 

[Matt]

that would require to many pages....

 

[Ray]

reserved for my extensive list.

 

[blmpkn]

Ill upload pics later but ive owned:

1994 toyota corolla 3 spd auto 1.6 (gone)

2005 loaded legacy sedan 5 spd (daily)

1996 vw passat 5 spd 2.slow (squashed)

 

[Chris]

Everyone knows what I have because I have threads for them... but this is what I want to own.

A nice, rust free, early 80's subaru hatch.

I'd do a full EJ drivetrain swap and use it as a nice DD.

 

[Pedro]

had a couple of Saab 900's

Then I bought a pair of 99 EMS's as projects

then my 4runner:

then I bought a Celica all trac didn't look quite as nice as this:

Then my wife's GLi

and now we have my Subie:

Then the miata (effing love this thing)

and the Lex

and the wag

 

[i-wagon]

First car: 96 grand am v6 coupe. Lost tranny hours after getting my license with it, popped the motor a year later, sold and bought 97 altima 5 speed, totalled. 97 corolla, did fart can and short ram. Popped motor. Replaced motor and bought 02 sentra, loved that car, wish id kept it.traded for a 99 ranger xcab 4.0 found out it had been rolled over and dealer never told me, traded back for the sentra, t then traded sentra for my wagon. Bought 98 fozzy for a beater 2 years ago. only regret is that I traded the sentra towards my scoob. Shoulda kept it for a spare and the fuel mileage

 

[brighton]

I've own a few in my day.

1st: 89 Hyundai Excel

2nd: 93 Pontiac Grand Prix

3rd: 95 Dodge Stratus

4th: 98 Honda Prelude

5th: 90 Toyota 4Runner 3.0 V6

6th: 02 Subaru WRX

7th :00 Ford F-250 Powerstroke

8th: 95 Toyota 4Runner 22RE 5sp

9th: 06 Honda Ridgeline (Still own)

10th: 06 Subaru STI

12th: 05 Land Rover LR3

13th: 08 Toyota FJ Cruiser

14th: 08 Subaru FSXT

15th: 06 Toyota 4Runner

 

[Ty Ty]

My first car was a '93 Dodge Grand Caravan. White with woodie panelling. No pictures of that though...

Then I replaced it with this:

'89 Jeep XJ

Whenever it broke down, I tooled around in this.

2000 Dodge Neon

Traded in old blue for the RallyJeep

'00 Jeep XJ (still have, broken down in the back yard..)

Then:

Some time later..:

Now..

The two race cars

'89 Audi 90q (still have)

Then:

Now:

'86/87 Audi Coupe GT Grp.2 (still have)

From back in the day of her original owner..

And the new car

'11 Jeep JK Unlimited (still have)

And my bike

'86 Honda Magna VF700C (still have)

 

[Nigel Prodrive]

here's pix from one computer, more to come from home version; no particular chronological order

00 RS coupe aka Snowball, @ Crooker Lot AX

05 WRX wag no name, well earned stone chips galore

02 WRX wag aka Lucifer, w/widebody conversion after whacking a mailbox

94 RS rally car, LDR's beloved and dearly departed Tulip 1, airing out a tarmac crest @ Rally NY

00 RS short term project, never drove it enough to earn a name

68 Volvo Amazon aka Hildegard, my Swedish g/f @ Owl's Head car show

94 Miata aka Otter, still kicking myself for selling it, Pedro's comments and pic above tells all

94 F250 aka Joey de Vivre, 460 V8 strong like bull but had major drinking problem (seen behind rally car display @ WBM 2006)

98 F250 aka Larry the Lariat, 5.7 Triton gets more than 2x the gas mileage of Big Joey

02 Focust SVT aka Carlos Sainz, another good car sold too soon

OK, enough--now I'm getting the idea I buy too many cars!!

 

[drvsdwz]

well I have only had 3 and I know where/who has them right now.

My first was a 2000 Ford Escort ZX2. That little bugger was peppy with the 2.0 zetec. I put a catback exhaust, stereo and called it done. My little brother has it now.

Next was my 09 WRX Premium hatch, which WRXJunky has now. I bought that when I cam back from basic training. This was my first NEW car.

Then back this september I decided to upgrade and bought my 2008 STi. Couldn't be happier with a car, except for when people back into it and don't let you know and a piston decides to crap out.

 

[IBratmanI]

1988 Hyundai Excel

1992 Loyale wagon-auto-rusty

1991 Loyale wagon-auto, converted to 5 spd dual range, lifted

1989 GL Touring wagon-MINT, 5 spd dual range, lifted

1997 Impreza L auto

1986 Brat, 5 spd conversion, fuel injection, lots of other stuff

2000 Impreza RS, 5spd, full exhaust, intake

1989 GL 4WD 5spd dual range sedan, lifted, EA81 motor swap

2004 Forester XT, 6 spd (still have) bunch of mods

2000 Impreza OBS, bunch of mods

1998 Forester S, auto, lifted, intake, exhaust, roof basket

Kati's 1999 Legacy, lifted

Other short lived cars.....

1987 GL wagon, 2wd, rusty

1988 GL wagon, 28" tires, really bad head gaskets and over heating....took many months of redline thrashing in the woods before it stopped running

1987 GL-10 turbo 4WD sedan

1986 Brat, very rusty

1990 Loyale wagon turbo, very rusty, and cooked motor, still ran though

And many other parts cars

 

[Chris]

You forgot my car! Currently in limbo. If I get new rear end parts to get it moving again, it may make it out of limbo...

 

[urabusturbo]

my first car was a short lived old cutlass ciera but after that my first car I modded was a 93 Toyota Paseo (glorified tercel) I crashed it into a crazy woman with no insurance and had to sue her... long story.

this was the family beater a mint condition chevy celebrity I got to use for a few weeks.

got this as a parts car for the 94 sport sedan I had for a while, sorry no pics of that one.

turned it into this

also had a turbo wagon for a little while before I blew the auto tranny. Sold this to Tyler (spinmastert) and he swapped the 22t into his impreza

I drove this astro van as a beater for a while too. It was sweet, minivan seat attached to plywood base, ps2/tv on a power inverter, alpine head unit, pushbar, sport sedan wing. I miss it but it was rusty and would never take a sticker.

I bought a Brat off Gabe a few years back. It Is probably my favorite vehicle I have owned. I still have it but it is in rough shape.

I also drove a civic hatch. Manual swap and integra gsr brakes/suspension. Pretty slow but basically a go kart.

my 00 RS. I have mixed feelings about this car. I enjoyed it but I still think the RS is overrated and I do not really miss it much. Its the only car I had to get a loan for and I vow to never make payments ever again.

The green legacy is my current dd/beater. I bought it for $200 over a year ago and I have less than $1k invested total. I have hit deer three different times with it and is has changed a bit. Now is has a red hood and fender.

This is my latest purchase. 93 Legacy L auto with 66k. It will be getting my rebuilt motor and 6 speed with Meyagis help

I also have a 98 Outback wagon but have no pics of that uploaded, It needs a new 4.11 trans but should be on the road at some point soon.

 

[MAINIAC XV]

Great pics. There is an extensive list of cars under General page 20 My 1st Subaru also for members that like this thread

 

[cwiggin]

My first car was an 87 buick skylark, that car tookk a hellof a beating n wouldnt die, traded that for a 96 dodge stratus, stratus was a pretty goodcar, fully loaded. Had put a dual tip fart can on itt with those neon washer lights onthe hood.

Traded it for a 2001 Mitsubishi galant, put a cai on that 17" rims, evo wing, a fartcan n a nice stereo system, when that totaled I bought my 05 legacy, best car I ever owned, keeping this car forever. Next car I want a turbo!!!

 

[MAINIAC XV]

Hey Garrett you should check your old threads. Back in 09 you basically started the same thread under Off Topic page 23 called Past Cars. Maybe you can combine ?