Your first car...

my very first would have to be my buddy-l fire truck when i was three years old.

the first one i kind of freeked everyone out taking it on the highway was a kind of unpowered go-cart kind of thing sears was selling that year. sometime around 1960.

my first motorized vehicle was a '62 or so, honda 55. with a .9 gas tank that was good for about 200 miles between re-fills.

my first powered vehicle with four wheels was that 58 chevy panel van i bought through the credit union when i was in the air force. this was around 1970 or so.

 

what would be smart about it is not wasting the energy to drag around all those tons of materials just to get one person from point a to point b, if all those other worthless monuments to ego weren't there to squish it. what would be smarter is solar powered narrow gauge railways, instead of worshipping the damd car at all.

of course the banks and the oil companies can't stand the idea of anyone even considering not doing so.

 

There is no way in fucking hell ill give up my HP vehicles. If gas is $10 a gallon, Wont effect me and my driving. As it sits, Too bad for the un-smart car drivers, If you taste my bumper, Oh well!
Solar powered? LMFAO! Maybe if I was looking to go 3mph and no power. Ill stick with good old American iron.

 

have you considered a brain transplant?

 

Yep, They said they had a clone of yours. Too bad I don't want to be a retard with an IQ of a shoe size.

Have you ever considered using the brain you have? Solar powered railways? I think you need a brain more than I do! Good luck in la la land space cadet!

 

Funny how we all perceive the world so differently.
To me, Themnax is an intelligent person and you are an idiot.

 

Well, Space cadet and you can go hold hands in la la land together waiting on a solar powered train. If you think themnax is intelligent, You are an idiot. I leaned that way from you're fucked up replies and posts, You just confirmed it here!

 

Bird just likes playing the fool, but you seem to mean what you say (although I suspect, judging from your posts, sig and general attitude, that you do like playing the fool as well).

 

Yes, It was a joke! Glad you were able to draw conclusions to my stupidity lmao. People are just getting too serious around here anymore. Bird has a funny ringer for almost any thread!

 

It seems lots of people like playing the fool on here. It gets confusing some times... especially when one of them suddenly tries to make a serious post

 

Is this how you feel?

 

Not exactly surrounded, more like accompanied by idiots

 

If car means conveyance I was born with feet, no shoes.
Excuse me for waxing nostalgic...

My first car was a Renault 15. Innovative front wheel drive four door hatchback with four speeds on the column. Four inch foam bucket seats and a removable rear seat allowed me to travel with all my belongings. It came standard with michelin radials and got 36 miles to the gallon on four cylinders in 1972. The spare tired was stored in a bracket on top of the engine which was an advantage again to cargo space. It had great visibility all way round and with rack and pinion steering was sensitive and stable. It's comfortable ride made it a taxi of choice in france and souped up was a formidable rally racer.

 

1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. I started driving it at 15 and got my license at 18. It was really easy to drive with a great radio. I ended up damaging it jumping hills and railroad tracks. We had a 2000 gallon gas tank in the ground with a hand pump and all the gas was free for me.

 

In 1988 the average price of gasoline was .90 cents a gallon



Hotwater

 

Datsun 120Y. I was 22 and it burnt oil from the start.

 

VL Commodore. Metallic navy blue. Was my mums car.

 

My first new car (pictured below) was a 1994 Dodge neon that I drove direct from the dealership
to North Truro on Cape Cod :2thumbsup:

I jumped out took the picture then drove back home





Hotwater

 

my first car was a piece of crap. my last car was a piece of crap. every car i had in between was a piece of crap. and they all knew it. and they all knew that i knew it.

new or old, big or small, they are all pieces of crap what they do to the environment and what people do to the environment for the sake of them.

now if they were all just completely magic. didn't burn anything. didn't consume anything. didn't cost anything to keep them going. didn't need fancy roads to pave over the earth and suffocate it, that would be different. but they're not. not on this earth, in this universe, at this time.

but it would be possible, to build a transportation infrastructure that would come close to that. using flywheels to store electricity and solar power to charge them, and narrow gauge rails to make the same modest amounts of power go a lot further, and without everyone having to indenture themselves to have their own.

 

1984 (and I'm not American!) Triumph Acclaim, dark blue, registration A 172 WBD. 1335cc Honda engine. Great fun to drive. Never had an accident in her

Got her when I was 23. Paid £2,150 ... which seemed ever such a lot of money at the time.

I called her Matilda ... because she was royal blue.

I heard tell that they hit an insuperable problem when they wanted to try exporting the Acclaim to Germany, because if you try translating Triumph Acclaim into German, the closest you can get it .... Zeig Heil!