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it was a ford cortina 1.6 L
funny cos it was a big pile of junk put me of fords for twenty years and to think that the L stood for luxury
but any way now i came across this pic and it brought back some good memorys this was a very fast car in fact i would go as far to say its as fast aS IT IS BUTT UGLY I THINK IT WAS 2.0 TWIN CAM cutting edge for the day

My first car was actually a truck (82 Dodge Ram), that I later traded for my first actual car (1970 Dodge Dart), which I still have.

This baby. 1964 Dodge 880 Custom

86 S-10 pickup with a 3" lift and 31's

1977 Caprice Classic Coupe.

1979 mercury capri lowrider

mine was a 72 camaro.

The first car I almost owned was a 4 cylinder Cortina wagon. It was a total pile of crap but when you're 18 years old anything will do. A guy where i worked offered it to me cheap but after a week of driving a poo brown wagon I decided i didnt want it and he refunded my money-(luckily).

I ended up with a 1967 VW Beetle which sparked my obsession with 'CALIFORNIAN' style streeters. The little green bug got dropped within 3 inches of the ground, 'cookie cutter' 135's up front and 195's in the rear. The 6 volt system and 1300 motor went and a blue printed and balanced 1835 big bore motor went in with twin carbs, 'HOT DOG' exhaust and a piles of other cool bits which hurtled the car around at the 3 times the speed it was designed for.

I drove the back side out of that car for a couple of years and learnt plenty about cars from there on in. Good days.

scr8p wrote:mine was a 72 camaro.

RS or SS. Loved the 71 ss....

it was just a regular camaro (straight 6 w/ a 3 sp. on the floor). but it had the rs rear spoiler and split front bumpers.

scr8p wrote:it was just a regular camaro (straight 6 w/ a 3 sp. on the floor). but it had the rs rear spoiler and split front bumpers.

split bumper was awesome.

it originally had the standard one piece bumper, but somewhere in time before i got it the split bumpers were installed. it was a dead giveaway that they shouldn't have been on there, because it still had the larger grill, and it still had the parking light in the lower valance.

My first car was a '76 Chevy 3/4 ton P/u that was babby $h*t green. Sadly I kinda miss that truck. Too many good times

mine was a 1975 Chevy Vega dark green tan interior 4cyl, 4speed. I wish I would have kept it. I had several of them over the years always want to do a V8 swap but never had the money. here is one like it but wrong color I stole the pic off Ebay

My first car was a Ford Escort Mexico Mk1

Like this but in red! I wish I still had this car, but I remember the gearbox was crap!