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I saw eric had a section on the facebook page posting his cars he’s owned, i figured this might be a good place for the community to post theirs! with pictures and maybe a story?
Here’s my first car.
a 1998 5 speed dodge dakota 3.9L, had about 180k miles on it when i got it. I worked my ass off for a while to buy this, it was only $1000, but as a 16 year old kid, was a bit hard for me to get that money, ended up working as a janitor to get it, but this truck ran like hell. we drove it from where i love (reynoldsburg,oh) to Pittsburgh and surrounding area’s multiple times, each time, hauling something and never had a problem, very powerful engine, and i loved this truck, i eventually had to sell it, just wasn’t the right car for where i live in deep snow, but i put about 200$ into it, and i sold it for 1600$ so it worked out.
And here is my current car.
a 1988 buick riviera 3.8 automatic, currently sitting at 110k miles even, I’m currently only 19 years old, this car was given to me actually, from my step dad when i graduated high school, although back then it was just a piece of metal, or so we thought, a elderly woman passed away near our old neighborhood and her children were selling this car for 1000%, but they didn’t know if it ran, and didn’t want to try because it had been sitting for a year or 2, my step dad talked them down, he payed 500$ for this car, we got it home and it sat in the garage for a good 5 months, because he had no money to work on it, finally graduation came around and he handed me the title and keys, and i sat thinking..(i know this was probably very dumb) but i said fuck it..we’re gonna try to start it, so we went out, i cleaned out the fuel injectors, swapped the fuel filter, put a battery in it, and it started right up perfectly. no problems whatsoever, i was very happy, all and all i haven’t even put that much money into this car, i replaced the 2 rear struts(the flat bed that delivered it to our house actually snapped them from dropping the car..) put new plugs and wires, few other things, nothing really major at all, and it ran perfect for a while, i drove this back and forth to work everyday for about 7 months, and i took it on a trip to pittsburgh in this passed december, got there and parked in my friends driveway and the engine just cut off…being far from home i was at a loss and very stressed, so i got it towed to a garage, i only had about 250$ in my pocket then, the guy said he needed to replace the crankshaft sensor, charged about 200$, and used my 50$ to tow it there, so im broke now! but it made it home, RECENTLY if you see my other topic posted here, it’s stalling and stuttering, and i’m almost positive it’s the camshaft sensor magnet, but i’ll have to wait until i get this new job i’m going to take it for an inspection just to be sure before taking the timing cover off, but other than a few bumps, this car has ran like a gem, and i’m very grateful for having this car.Sorry the text is so long! i might have got carried away on details, but let us see your first cars! pictures and a story would be awesome to go along with it!
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