"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
05/27/2019 at 17:39 • Filed to: None
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"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
05/27/2019 at 17:39 • Filed to: None | 0
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What’s up everyone? It’s memorial day in the US and Monday for the rest of us.
What is the first car you ever drove? Licensed or not? I’m not talking about steering on someones knee, I mean full, unassisted control.
Mine was my truck, on a park road in Alberta the summer my Grandma passed away. I was 12.
Tristan
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 17:47 |
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Also 12. My parents brown on tan ‘84 Suburban 6.2 diesel!
MM54
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 17:48 |
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87 ford tempo, not sure exactly when that was, but it wasn’t very long before I was permitted/licensed.
XJDano
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 17:49 |
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Maybe my dads 87 ranger in the country a round 93. Probably my moms 89 Astro van around 96.
E90M3
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 17:50 |
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I was 14, my dad’s 1996 Subaru Legacy GT.
I have done nothing today besides play some call of duty blackout with my best friend.
vicali
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 17:54 |
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Dad’s 72 Sport Custom.. I would’ve been 6 or 7..
I worked the wheel while he worked the pedals..
Like this but yellow and black...
First 100% drive was our
90 Corolla wagon; 5
spd of fun when I was 14 on gravel roads
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 18:03 |
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1990 Volvo 240 wagon when I was 13. I got to drift around a field in it until it died. Didn’t really enjoy it. Soul less cars, Volvos. After that I got to drive our Trailblazer down my uncles landing strip . It was the first time I ever hit 55, and it was on grass. That was more fun.
AestheticsInMotion
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 18:05 |
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Old beat-up Datsun pickup truck. Automatic transmission, my dad let me drive it on a big open fie ld. I was probably about 12? I just remember I’d slam the gas and the the rear wheels would spin like crazy. That field was in rough shape after I was done with it...
MoCamino
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05/27/2019 at 18:07 |
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A 79 Delta 88, just like this one. I was 15.
Bylan - Hoarder of LS400's
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 18:29 |
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When I was 12 or so my dad let me back his 1969 B5 Blue dodge charger r/t out of the garage. First time I’d ever s tarted a car, shifted a transmission, or stepped on some brakes. That 440 big block was deafening and the smell straight up got you high. I didn’t get to take it around the block, but you can bet your ass I’ve been addicted to V8s ever since. One day I will have my own 1969 charger...
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 18:49 |
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Our 1991 Mazda MPV. I was 10 in a church parking lot near the house.
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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
05/27/2019 at 19:13 |
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hell yeah, those were sweet
Just Jeepin'
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 19:32 |
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Whatever car we used for driver’s ed at my high school. It never occurred to my dad to take me to a parking lot to practice, so my instructor had to start from the very beginning with me.
The first time I took control of the wheel in the school parking lot, I tried to turn it on again (hey, it was a quiet engine) and made everyone in the car unhappy with that awful noise. The first time I took control of the wheel once we had left the school parking lot, I tried to drive through the side of a building (forgot to put it in reverse).
Not an auspicious beginning. My instructor never lik ed me much anyway: he was a football coach and had previously been my geometry teacher, which is an entirely different rant.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 20:15 |
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It was a great vehicle and family truckster. My parent’s bought it new in 91 when I was in kindergarten. They kept it as the family truckster and tow vehicle (we had a smaller boat at the time) until 1997, when it became my grandmother’s last vehicle. She liked the seating position and could get into and out of it easily. I got my learner’s permit about the same time she needed to stop driving, so I chauffeured her around as a 14/15 year old and she got to still get around and do things. It worked out for everyone, and it became the first car I got to drive to school my sophomore year of high school until what is now my racecar became mine to drive the next year.
While it wasn’t his favorite vehicle owned, my dad would probably still describe it as the best he owned. A legit RWD minivan based on the 929 chassis with a tow rating of 4500lbs (and a load leveling rear suspension to boot via the towing package) and Japanese bubble era engineering and build quality. It did well everything it was asked to do , with total reliability and almost nothing aside from routine maintenance for 10+ years and around 150k. It was seriously expensive when they bought it compared to new caravans , astrovans or aerostars of the time , but it turned out to be a fantastic vehicle that served us well for a long time.
OneSlowScion
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05/27/2019 at 20:24 |
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My Dad’s 2000 Ford F-250 7.3 diesel . I was probably around 10 and was pulling a trailor load of hay around a field, boy did it seem big.
19JRC99
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/27/2019 at 20:32 |
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‘95 F-150. Almost bought the truck back two years ago, actually.
Mid Engine
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05/27/2019 at 21:28 |
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I got a summer jo b working as a la borer on a golf course when I was 14, the first vehicles I lear ned to drive were backhoes, dumptrucks, bulldozers, and a wide variety of specialty equipment. Cars were pretty easy after that :)
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E90M3
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
05/27/2019 at 21:31 |
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My parents also had one of those; pretty sure it was also a 1991. It was one of the first cars I ever drove, pretty sure I drove my dads Subaru before I drove the van. It was traded in before I ever got my license.
BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo
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05/28/2019 at 01:18 |
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Get this:
A blue 2008 Mazda 2 Sport 5MT on some Colombian backroads at 14.
Coincidence? I think not.