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11/20/2015 at 00:51 • Filed to: None
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"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
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Here is my first car, right before it was hauled off to the junkyard. My dad bought it new, and he made me buy it from him when I was ready for my own car. I paid him $3059 in November of ‘97, when the car had 77k miles on it ($3000 for the car, $59 for the registration on the car he replaced it with). As you can see, it had hidden headlights, but the covers always popped off. After the millionth time epoxying them back on, I gave up.
The purple tinted primer on the lower part of the front bumper is from when I had my first accident about a month after I bought it. I rear-ended my best friend in the parking lot of the pizza place we were both delivering for (fortunately there was no damage to his ‘90 Ranger). I couldn’t afford paint, so the body shop through some tint in the primer to make it not look quite so aweful.
I kept the car nearly three years and in that time my dad and I plowed nearly $5k into the stupid thing on one thing after the next. Dad was sure everything was “the last thing it needs”. I gave it back to him with nearly 100k miles on the clock, and my parents helped me buy a slightly used ‘98 s-10.
Dad decided to keep the Trofeo and make it his “Florida car”. My parents owned a very cheap small condo for several years, and Dad decided it was a good idea to just keep the Trofeo there. I drove it down there with a friend of the family who lived nearby. The car was going to stay with him when my parents weren’t in town, and he was going to drive it some to keep it going. It turned 100k miles on that trip.
Well, that didn’t work out because it kept doing it’s constant breaking thing. Dad flushed another couple grand down that bottomless hole. What finally did the car in was some weird problem with the ABS system that nobody could diagnose, fix, or bypass. The Trofeo was excommunicated from the first friend’s driveway and languished under a tree at another friend’s house, until dad could come down and rescue his stereo gear from it (Dad was and is quite the audiophile). After these photos were taken, it was unceremoniously hauled away. I only hope it’s venerable 3800 V6 lived to fight another day.
I did love the car, but I don’t miss it, and I don’t want it or one like it back.
PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
> shop-teacher
11/20/2015 at 01:40 |
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This is my high school car, and my current car; a 2012 VW Jetta GLI. It's a Tornado Red Autobahn with a 6 M/T, a pretty rare combo for these.
I learned to drive in a jetta, and liked the size and look of it, so I looked for one as my first actual car. I wound up with a GLI because I wanted something that had aftermarket support.
As I write this, I’ve owned the car for a year,3 months and 3 days. In that time span, it’s spent about 45 days in the body shop due to two accidents it was involved in (somehow, neither one being my fault)
I love the car to death. It’s quick, it’s cool looking, it’s comfy, and the 400 Watt sound system is awesome!
It’s also taken everything I could throw at it (and I will admit, I’m not always treating her like a garage queen) and kept giving back!
I’ve also done a few mods to it, to make it that much better:
-6 new tires (Michelin pilot A/S 3’s. Y-rated. 6 because I wore the fronts out in 8,000 miles)
- APR stage 1 91 octane tune (bumps power up to 255hp/290tq)
-H&R springs (1.2” drop all around, both for handling and looks)
- Resonator delete (makes the exhaust that much better sounding!)
-APR shifter cable bracket (replaces plastic factory shifter cable bracket with a solid forged metal one. gives smother shifts)
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> shop-teacher
11/20/2015 at 06:45 |
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When I was born, I was taken home from the hospital in a Trofeo!
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> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
11/20/2015 at 07:09 |
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Nice! The Troffeo was our family car from when I was 7, until I bought it. Our only other vehicle was my Dad’s regular cab Chevy pickup.
Luc - The Acadian Oppo
> shop-teacher
11/20/2015 at 10:52 |
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I think this is the best high school car I’ve seen on here so far. I would of driven that back in 2001.
vicali
> shop-teacher
11/20/2015 at 11:45 |
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My Grandparents gave my brother and I their 1981 Tornado, it looked exactly like this one;
Fwd, big v8, three speed auto, comfy as a couch -it was a pretty awesome car to learn on.. It would never die either, it turned into my brothers winter car when he got his 240.
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> Luc - The Acadian Oppo
11/20/2015 at 11:52 |
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It was a REALLY nice car. It had a cool interior too, with a sweet digital dashboard, and a chrome and leather horseshoe shifter. I loved driving a car that nobody knew what the hell it was. It’s only real flaw as a high school car was how horridly unreliable it was. The car was too high tech for it’s own good. I will say the seats were the most comfortable car seats I’ve ever sat in.
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> vicali
11/20/2015 at 12:16 |
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Sweeeet!
dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford
> shop-teacher
11/20/2015 at 18:38 |
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Here’s what’s left of mine: a 2001 Toyota Corolla. I think the brakes failed but not sure.