My first car was a 1968 Plymouth Satellite. It had 12K on it when we bought it, about 50K when I sold it to Mom, and about 85K when I bought it back from Mom. About 100K I sold it to my sister in law and she sold it to her brother after she graduated from college. Finally, the body rusted away, and someone outside the family bought it for the engine. Dose anyone have my 318?LOL

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83MB 300D 241K "The silver coffin"
10 Prius lll 1K
95 MB E300D 120K Mable
02 Saab 9-5 Areo 131K
Cannondale SR500
www.thecornerstonefamily.org/

Hands down Arthur Dalton wins for first car. I must ask, what's vacuum shift? And cracked block, porta seal fix? Is that like liquid weld?

Kuan (too young to know)

Vac. shift was a vac servo assist for the shift lever.
I think they were trying to sell the idea of easy shifting stick-shift to women. But they never worked well and the first thing you did was go get a vac. shift conversion kit. [which simply eliminated the servo with a rod.]
If the servo leaked, it took 2 men and a boy to shift the damn thing !! ]

Port-a-seal was a cracked block/head sealant that you put in the radiator to seal. It was heavy duty stuff and looked like sawdust. [ real saw dust went in the differential].
The good old bad days !!!!!

Arthur Dalton,

Thanks for the explanation. LeBenz, a 3 holer? Dynaflow transmission? What are those?

Kuan (sorry wasn't born yet )

Well Kuan,

Where I'm from a 3 holer is a three seat outhouse, but since Lebenz is talking Buick, I think he is referring to the number of faux exhaust ports on the fenders.

A Dynaflow is an early GM automatic transmission.

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Mike Tangas
'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.

Those old (first?) Civics were lots of fun. At work we had a 78 (CVCC probably) or so Civic. I remember the 0-30 time was very very fast since it could do it in 1st gear, it handled like a go-kart, and could do a 360 degree turn inside most intersections.

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Bob Roe
Lehigh Valley PA USA
1973 Olds 88, 1972 MB 280SE, 1978 Datsun 280Z, 1971 Ford T-Bird, 1972 Olds 88, 1983 Nissan Sentra, 1985 Sentra, 1973 230.6, 1990 Acura Integra, 1991 Volvo 940GLE wagon, 1983 300SD, 1984 300SD, 1995 Subaru Legacy L wagon, 2002 Mountaineer, 1991 300TE wagon, 2008 Murano, 2007 R320CDI 4Matic 52K, some Hyundai, 2008 BMW 535xi wagon, all gone... currently
2007 Honda Odyssey Touring, 2014 E350 4matic

The California Highway Patrol used to run Buick Roadmasters in the '50's. At least that's what some guy named Broderick Crawford told me, and then he said, "Ten-Four?"...

Technically, my first car was a '51 Plymouth sedan with a three-speed column-shift manual transmission.

I was rooting around in a drawer today, and found a picture of what was also "technically" my first Benz. A limo company I was a partner in bought this as our fourth car in a growing fleet.



It was our "staff car". We bought it from an old German mechanic who had kept it "factory fresh". There were many celebrities who rode in that car, and even I drove it. But can anyone guess what the year, make, and model of the car parked next to it was?

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Scott Longston
Northern California Wine Country...
"Turbos whistle, grapes wine..."

Was it the Pullmans swedish lunch?

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Darryl, Hill
2005 SL55 AMG Kleemanized
1984 500 SEC
1967 W113 California Coupe
[SIGPIC]
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos

1956 Austin Healey 'frog eyed' Sprite.

My first car, not the one parked beside the limo. The side marker lights on that one look like BMW, but the headlights aren't right.

[Edited by schwob on 04-05-2001 at 11:48 PM]

The First Car I drove was a big old Ford grand marquis type wagon, the first I ever owned was an 87 Cadillac DeVille, and the first I ever bought myself was my 420SEL.

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Jason Priest
1999 E430
1995 E420 - retired
1986 420SEL - retired

Bill is right! That is a SAAB, but what year and model?

BTW, it was my daily driver...

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Scott Longston
Northern California Wine Country...
"Turbos whistle, grapes wine..."

1980 Bonneville Brougham coupe V8 Diesel, dark green.
The pluses:
Best riding car ive ever driven.
Teriffic fuel economy (27 mpg) with long range.
Most comfortable and nicest looking seats ive ever experienced. The most classy styling ive yet seen on an american luxury coupe.
The minuses:
Horrible transmission. (THM200C)
Engine problems that nobody could ever seem to fix (injector pump faliures, belts always coming loose, oil leaks everywhere).

Bill Wins!!!

1976 SAAB 99 EMS!!!

5-speed manual, sunroof, heated seats, bonus factory seat covers, premium stereo, rear window defroster, "soccer ball" mag wheels, Pirelli tires. Not a bad car. I paid $4,000.00 for it in 1980...

And Jeepboy, you need to ride in a Citroen DS21 Pallas...

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Scott Longston
Northern California Wine Country...
"Turbos whistle, grapes wine..."

I imagine those old citroen air-suspension cars did ride nice, they sold many of them, 1.3 million i think in their production, but not many are left today (i.e. french engineering woes) not unlike the engineering of that GM Diesel, LOL!

Too bad you don't have an accurate point of reference...

Citroens had a fluid suspension system, and were far superior to the ride of any car I've ever driven. Especially ANY GM car. And I used to own a limousine company that had several Cadillacs.

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Scott Longston
Northern California Wine Country...
"Turbos whistle, grapes wine..."