How'd you start your driving 'career'?

[Doward]

Honestabe's comment led me to start this thread

I've been working on anything I could take apart since before I could walk. So naturally, I wanted a mean street machine for my first vehicle.

I spent 2 years working the watermelon fields to save up, and for my 16th birthday I bought a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am. I spent the next year of shop class working on it - porting and polishing the heads, intake, RAIV cam, swapping the rear end to a posi 3.42 setup.

38 points in 12 months with that car, once I had my license @ 18 years of age. I never caused an accident, and always thought of myself as an excellent driver.

$5000, no license for 3 years later, I learned that being able to drive fast does not make you an excellent driver. Knowing when and where is just as much a part of the equation. I've had maybe 2-3 more tickets since, but nothing like I did when I was younger.

Damn, I wish I had pics - she was bright baby blue. Ended up being rear-ended by a semi, who claimed to FHP "I didn't see him" :3d_frown:

Moral of the story - a good driver knows the limits in regards to all things - this includes speed limits

 

[jdub]

Back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth...a '70 Chevelle SS. Never got a ticket in it

 

[Mk3runner]

I always heard my moms stories of when she was part of this half assed race team in the 80s jamming porsche motors in custom made rides running the baja 500 then I remember watching mad max and his weiland blown falcon watching that supercharger whine was wild shit being a Lil kid and all.. Then playing rad racer on nes. From the very start I knew I had a wild James Dean thing about cars. Before I had a license or enough brains to completely fix a car I was driving and wrenching. Got my grannys old accord and it was on.. I did some stupid shit and some wicked shit I. That car. For years the locals knew my old accord could hang the same corners as them.. Then fast and furious came out in 01 and I was like that's tight... But why is it orange??!??. Then I knew, *2jz no shit* I was born to have one and drive wild and fast on the empty roads and just live... Found my mk3 in some Forrest near the nor cal mountians under some trees with it's engine blown to pieces. So that's the jist of it. At some point ima get myself a nice mark 4.. But until then I got my mk3 just waiting to rip shit up.

Sorry for not spacing... My iphone still takes some getting used to.

 

[T-MA71]

I was about 12 years old when i first got into cars. My brother came home one day from his friends house, while I was on the computer he pushed me to the side and said "you have to check out this car!". Not knowing anything about cars, He showed me an MKIV supra. I fell in love with it and HAD to have one when i got my license.

Same year, my brother bought an 86.5 N/A 5 Speed with a suspected blown headgasket. I didn't even know what a headgasket was at the time :3d_frown:. Anyways, he started tearing it down and i helped for the most part. I learned a lot about the car while this was going on.

Then like posted above, the F&F movie came out and the Supra was in there! I was so excited, i definitley had to have one.

When i turned 14 my friend sold me a 1988 Supra Targa Non-Turbo Automatic. It needed an engine rebuild. Working my ass off at a grocery store only working 8 hours a week just to try to get it running. I promised myself i'd get my license at 18 so i can get the supra running. Well, i gave up on it and parted it out.

Depressed as I was, at 16 i decided to just get my lisence and if a Supra came up cheap i'd get it. Well, half way through my young drivers course my brother bought a 1989 Turbo Targa Auto Supra and said he was going to part it out. I asked him to sell it to me. And we agreed for 500 bucks i'd get a running N/A 5 Speed targa. Anyways, drove that for about a year. Only got pulled over for loud exhaust, and got a warning for speeding in a school zone (I was doing 35).

Well at 17 now i'm slowly paying for the original 86.5 my brother bought when i was 12. Now it's turbo 5 speed (W58 tranny) and have my dream car. I wish it was targa but this car is fun and strong easily hitting 15psi. I've only gotten pulled over in this supra for Over Acceleration (going up hill and boosted), and Aftermarket exhaust (Shiny Chinamans V-Band). Got away with only a warning. No tickets so far, knock on wood that it doesn't happen.

I will be 18 this year and hope to rebuild the engine this year with some goodies. :naughty:. I guess you could blame my brother for dragging me into the Supra scene. I absolutley love it and hope to keep this car for a long long time. :love:

 

[ERA]

 

[Mk3runner]

Ha, yea gt did not help out either.

 

[SURUKO]

i start driving an 69 chevelle with an inline 6 engine (250) i always dream about how a i6 twincam could perform after i graduate from high school i trade it for my fathers 85'suzuki jeep then after doing some offroad things and having my back not really comfortable i decide to go for a car ... then i see it it was a 88 n/a when i first saw a 7m i fell in :love: with it after having a little fire incident (a plastic bag gets stucked in my mani and the fire burn my dash and break the front glass) i repaired must of the wiring harness and get the engine running again and start a search for another supra then i find the :love: of my life an 87 gte trashed out all green of leaves and with all flat tires (very bad rod knock) in a mecanics junkyard it says the car has the:icon_evil in it and he couldnt fix it and he gave it to me for just 300 bucks ....:naughty: and just i start my build .....:biglaugh:

 

[SupraMario]

Hmm, first car is still my 87 NA now "2jz no shit" and rockin it hard. 2 tickets in the NA but pulled over more than I can count on one finger...I get off with warnings...I dunno how, I guess its cause I either get gay cops or they just are cool(I've always been very respectful to the police). Bought an 89 NA fixed it, sold it to my friend. Then I bought a bike, and no tickets, selling it now(if I can get the SOB running).
Driving career = drive it like you stole it for 6 months, now I just love boost and making the new GF jealous that she drives an H22 honduh del slow...LOL

 

[BorHor]

I am not too sure. I am going to guess the first Fast and the Furious movie? That just put cars on my mind. I went through my ricer bopper faze before I even had a car luckily. After I got the supra I started going on here and Supra Forums. Made some friends like Kyle and Bill. Some how I caught the drifting bug in high school.. Then started working in a shop some how... right now I am taking a break from cars until I am done with school so 4 years? Dunno.

 

[IJ.]

1972 5.0 V8 4 speed Monaro that I built from a shell I bought at the wreckers yard.

 

[savannahashlee]

Cars are in my blood..My dad's a mechanic and my mom loved cars. Her first car was a sleeper 1967 Olds 442..It was the daytona 500 pace car.. She used to street race back in the late 60s..Even into the early 70s.. She also used to work on her cars with my grandpa who was a mechanic. My Supra has been my real lust, but I've owned a lot of others. If I had money, I have my eyes on a 1969 442 here

 

[LilMissMkIII]

No one in my family likes cars or are even remotely interested in them... (both their cars are relatively new and look about 20 years old, they don't do maintenance or clean :nono

But I always seemed to notice nicely done cars... And from there I guess it grew...

My family still think I'm odd, but my lil brothers love my car, and I hope to pass on some Supra loving to them

 

[Poodles]

Been in the blood. Dad owned a '64 and a '67 Corvette. The '67 was his baby, and a damn rare combo: marina blue, black stripe (normal was white), rear exhaust, 427 with three deuces, manual... Sold them well before he had kids though, but he always had pictures and stuff of them. Funny story about that too. My bro (in his T/A) and I (with my dad in the passenger seat) where out doing a drive right after I got my Supra. Got nabbed by a cop (two fast cars owned by siblings with slight competitive tendancies = BAD) and my dad looked at me, patted my leg and said, "It's OK, I've had my fair share too." With my mom was more understanding LOL. Clean record though (lawyers are expensive, but worth it).

Brother had an '86 T/A TPI as well.

Always loved (and was good at) racing games as well.

Car wise, first vehicle was my '82 Toyota Hilux (they aren't known as that in the states, but that's what it is). Bought it for $1K, drove it for 8 years, sold it for $2400 to fund the Supra purchase after wanting something that was better on gas (HA!). Brother's T/A and friend's cam/headers/exhaust/CAI/tuning/head work LTI Camaro SS gave me the real bug as I couldn't keep up.

Been addicted to boost ever since, and after my brother sold the T/A (and drove a beater ass 80's Camry) he got an '84 MKII Supra. Keep trying to talk my dad into getting rid of his Camry and getting something he can be proud of, and my mom wants a convertable (currently drives the death trap Geo Metro that I've pulled heroic shit in).

 

[gtsfirefighter]

My dad owned his own bodyshop so that's how I got interested in cars.

When I was 15, almost 16, I got a job at a Country Club on Lake Bridgeport washing golf carts and picking up range balls. It paid $3.35/hr. That was minimum wage back in 1985. Anyway, over the summer I saved up $1000 to put towards a car. My dad wanted to look for an old pick up to kinda fix up but I was the type of kid who didn't want nothing that everybody else wanted or had. Back then everybody wanted a truck, specifically a shortbed chevy with cragars and echo tips. So I wanted a car.

I circled a bunch of cars in the Fort Worth Star Telegram and dad went and looked at them. He looked at a 1978 Caprice Classic with only 77,500 miles on it. The car was only 7 years old then and they wanted $1350.00 for it. So my dad paid for it thinking he'd give it to my mom since it was so nice and then try to find me an old Monte Carlo or Cutlass etc... I drove it and said hell no, I wanted it. I saw its party potential and for a 16 year old it was damn nice. It had every option a Caprice could have except velour seats. I lost my virginity in that car and I still have the hubcaps. Don't know why, but I do.

Here it is not too long after I got it.

...and here it is two years later on December 3, 1987. I totalled it the night before. I rear ended a Suburban and lost. Broke my wrist and still have trouble with today.

 

[WhtMa71]

Boats were my first love, that's all I was interested in. Then I wanted a truck, jeep, SUV of some sort before I could drive. Then I was very interested in all older muscle cars..REALLY wanted a '69 Camaro.

Somehow when looking on the web at 4x4 stuff I came across a link for someones built up MR2 turbo..Just looking at that car got me hooked on imports forever.

Learned to drive in a Chevy Tahoe..Got my Civic when I was 15 and took my driving test in it.

Six days into me having my license I got a ticket for street racing, going 81 in a 45. lol.. I somehow got out of that because I had a cop connection.. Got a couple more tickets during highschool all for speeding. Got one more my first year in college. Haven't had any for 5 years now..

Only been in one wreck my whole driving career that was partially my fault.
Still have my Civic I got when I was 15. So i've had it for 8 years now.

 

[honestabe]

My dad has been a master mechanic since before I was born. I did my first oil change when I was 4 and have been working on cars ever since. When I got my license when I was 19 a few days after my birthday I bought a 2003 2-door Chevy Cavalier 5-speed. Got 3 speeding tickets in the first 6 months, the first of which was a doozy as I've already posted in the other thread. I've matured a lot since then. I went almost 3 years without a ticket and then got another 3 in 6 months last summer. These days I try and stay under the radar. I even yelled at my friend a few weeks ago to slow down since I didn't want a ticket.

I had 3 Supra's at 1 point a couple years ago, now I'm back to 2 Supra's and a '01 Camry.

 

[hewhohateme]

Never did really well in high school besides football.All i really had going was a job and a supportive parents.I worked at mcdonalds for 5.15 hr for a yr to buy my first car.Was a 1990 eclipse gsx awd turbo.I've been a dsm owner for 7yrs now and have had around 9 awd turbo's.My uncle sold my lil sister a 87 supra turbo 5speed targa top for 200 bucks and i kinda liked it.Needless to say i' gave my sister a $3400 95 eagle talon tsi for a rusted 87 supra lol.I love that supra now and with a newborn son hopefully it'll go along way.

 

[91supran/a]

Well i started with a 89 civic DX when i was 15 built a B16 for it with a turbo and ran just over 350hp drove it one time cause i dident have a license. was badass. than my dad and i built a 91 mustang gt twin turbo drove that three times sold it. now i have the 91 supra and im 17 got pulled over one time and lost my license for 5 months with 48hours community serves but im back in the game June 15th.

 

[Quin]

My dad had an 81 Supra with a 5M when I was little, I LOVED that car. Ended up scrapping the RUST because the CAR had long since fallen apart when I was 5 or 6. Kinda forgot about them until I was 13... My uncle took me for a ride in his bolt on, pulley, 3.73 and tune 03 Cobra... Wrapped the 160MPH speedo with the top down. That left a pretty serious impression on me. I started looking around online at a bunch of different cars, but I couldn't really pick one specific car. I went Christmas shopping with my parents when I was 14 and saw Jeff (Boost Lee)'s 88 turbo sitting in the mall parking lot. That pretty much sealed the deal. Finally got my first one two years later, got hooked after one pull. I'm on my third one now, and I've tried getting into a few other cars, but it's useless. I'm addicted to boost and more addicted to speed, and Supras are the only cars that can cover all the bases... My Cobra might be getting a shot at it after the Indy meet... Rear mount 70+mm turbo set up in the works.

 

[sweetlikechutny]

my car history:

started with a 86.5 hard top black automatic (only around 120km on it) sold it cuz it was slow but regret it ever since...so clean!

now i drive a black soarer (1jz-r154) only 80km on it right now.