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What was your first car?

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TwoBills

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First car: 1957 Ford - custom, 2 door - 292 V8 2BBL - 3 on the tree.
First repair: R&R the starter selonoid. Cost = $7.
 
1997 Saturn SC2, two door coupe, 1.9L engine, automatic.

I had done most of the repairs with my brother, but I didn't take it to a shop. We had to replace the belt tensioner.

EDIT: It was like $30 or something.
 
First set of wheels:

1983(?) Datsun (Nissian) Pick-Up, King Cab
never did any personal repairs on it, first one I did though was to replace the alternater (SP??) but the place I went (Pep id10ts.. woop, Pep boys) wired it wrong and ended up having to get it replaced again along with a battery, both of which were paid for by pep boys but the work was not done there...
 
73 Plymouth satelite custom, four doors, vinyl top, bench vinyl seats.

I put a chrome air filter on the 318ci engine it had.


You young pups don't need to "dis" bench seats, back then drive in movies were still around. 😀
 
My first car was a 1982 Plymouth Reliant with 128,000 miles on it. It cost $250, and it took a few trips to the junk yard to keep that POS running. That car had a bad habit of flooding when it rained (by flooding, I mean that there were puddles inside the car by the time that you got to your destination!), and the automatic transmittion had a bad habit of getting stuck in Park whenever I parked on a hill.

Compare that to my new Audi, where almost everything on the engine is covered with plastic service panels. Hell, even the owner's manual recommends that any engine service more complicated than adding windshield washer fluid should be handled by an "Audi service professional" 🙂
 
2002.5 Mazda Protege5

Didn't have to fix anything so far, but there are some dents and dings on the car that I want to get rid of...
 
1985 toyota corolla (in 2001 =p)
first repair was moutning the bottom plastic body panals back on aftr it got ripped off by a curb on my 95 altima
 
1972 Chevy Luv
The only DIY I can remember are a new stereo system w/antenna. Then one time we were crusing through the valley, when the darn thing just died. No power, electrical, nothing. After a little searching under the hood, I noticed a small wire had broken off the distributer. So I grabbed a roach clip from the glove box and reattached that little ah heck. It worked well enough to get us home to fix it properly. 😀
 
Originally posted by: Actaeon
1997 Saturn SC2, two door coupe, 1.9L engine, automatic.

I had done most of the repairs with my brother, but I didn't take it to a shop. We had to replace the belt tensioner.

EDIT: It was like $30 or something.
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Any day you spend workin' on a car with your brother is a good day.
 
1992 accord. First repair, other than changing the oil, would I guess be removing the entire rear bumper assembly in order to slightly rebuild one of the supports since it had been in a minor rear-end fenderbender and sagged a bit. Looks like new now 😛

I did an EGR port cleaning a month back that would have cost me $350 at the shop. Spent $100 on new tools, so I think I came out ahead 😛
 
66 Mustang.....and I completely restored it before driving it and drove 71 VW SUper Beelte Super Vee edition i the meantime and replaced the transaxle on that car.
 
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