What was the first car you modded and what did you do?

[XcYZ]

Thought this might be a fun topic for people to get involved with.

The first car I modded was also my first car - a 76 Camaro. It was super clean 1-owner with only 40k miles on it. It had the bad ass 165hp (I think, lol) 350, a TH350 and a 3.08 rear. I had this bright idea that I could make it go faster with a cam, intake and carb swap. I put in a big hydraulic cam (don't remember which one now, that was almost 20 years ago! LOL), a Torker intake and a Holley 750 on the stock compression (8.5:1) and stock heads. I was 16 at the time and I did it all myself, and looking back, it's just amazing that it even ran. Talk about being out to lunch, lmao... but it's fun to think back on it.

Ok, who else is going to tell their story?

[jannes_z-28]

This topic will be interesting.

My very first car (at an age of 18) was an 1965 Opel Kadett, it had an 1200cc 40 hp engine. This was 1975. It managed 0-60 in about 70 seconds. Driving it more than it could handle I overevved it after 6 months and a rodbearing said goodbye.

This was my opportunity Being very interested in dragracing I immediatly went crazy and cut it appart to build a Pro-Stocker of it. It was sligthly smaller than the Dodge Colt that some where driving Pro Stocks with. They put Hemi's in them. Sox & Martin was one example.

After 4 years it was ready, the goals had been raised a few times and it ended up with a pretty stout 331 Chevy engine, Lenco 4-Speed, Strange 9". Koni shocks. Full tubular frame, fiberglass front and so on.



More info can be found at my site under "My old racecars"


Jan

[jy211]

my first was the 68 camaro I am redoing. It had a 327 in the car. We had a drag Nova and I wanted the motor out of that in my camaro...so that was the first mod I ever did....

[Payton King]

I got my first car..hand me down, at 15. 1974 Laguna S-3. My first mod was an under dash Sanyo Fm/8 track. I left the stock Am radio in it with a set of Sanyo box speakers that would slide around the rear package area. Shortly after put a set of "double hump" heads and a holley 650 spread bore carb, headers. Per the advertisement I got 15 extra Hp with the Moroso open element air cleaner.

My friends thought that my car was faster than it actually was...it sounded fast when that spread bore opened up with that Moroso air cleaner. Basically it made a lot of noise and did not go anywhere. With a one-legger' and a 2.73 rear and cheap tires, I could spin that one tire for as long as I wanted to hold the gas down.

Now my second car was cool, but that is another story for another time.

[Steve1968LS2]

I bought my first car when I was 15 1/2 years old.. I used to sell t-shirts at softball games and gold/silver spiked that year and I sold a pretty big coin collection to get the car.

1964.5 Mustang.. I6 and auto trans that was owned by a little old lady out in the desert.. They still had the window sticker and it was the first Mustang that the dealer had gotten (later found out it was one of the first 200 mustangs ever made.).. seatbelts were listed as an option on the window sticker.

I restored the light blue interior and put in a stereo. Centerline wheels outside and shot the car in cadillac midnight blue. replaced most of the brightwork and had a blast driving it through high school. If it would of had a V8 I would have killed myself. lol

My second car was the '67 Camaro on my website.. and the rest was history.

[vanzuuk1]

my first car was a 73 delta 88 that i put rally wheels on and painted the trim flat black.I thank god there are no pictures of the car available.

the color: spanish gold (said it on the touch up can)

And the engine had the upside down air cleaner, for monster power!

[Derek69SS]

I'm still driving it

'69 Malibu (in sig) I bought it in very rusty but running/driving condition when I was 15. It had a good running 350 2bbl/TH350/2.56 open 10-bolt, 89,000 miles. I drove it for a month when I turned 16 and tore it apart for a "quick paint-job" in my Dad's body shop. 2.5 years later, it was painted 95 corvette "Dark Cloissonne" with white stripes, and had Cragar Street-Stars on it. I finished it with 3 days left of my Senior year in H.S.

All I did for mods, was stock discs up front, and 2-1/4" dual exhaust with glasspacks . Probably would have run a 15.8-16.0

I have since put a stock 190,000 mile 400 sbc in it (cracked a head on the 350, and the 400 was a good runner) rebuilt the tranny, and stuck a used 3.08 posi 10-bolt out of a '66 oldsmobile in it, and put 4-wheel discs on it. I've run a 15.04, but I think I can muster up a 14.999 out of it before I tear it apart for the LT1 I'm sticking in it

This car is NOT my first car though... first car is my '69 SS I bought when I was 12... no engine in it then, and now. I've owned it 10.5 years and have never driven it

[69rs]

1971 Volkswagen Super Beetle. Orange. I replaced the AM radio with a Pioneer Super Tuner, complete with 2 speakers shoved in the corners of the rear seat in....get this....Tupperware bowls! Couldn't have all that sound escaping to the rear. I also added wide Centerline "style" American Racing Wheels. I don't remember the wheel and tire sizes, but they filled up the fenders! Air shocks to keep those wide rears from ripping the fenders off. A couple of bags of cement in the trunk for that perfect rake. Oh yes, the EKG inspired "heartbeat" pinstripes on the windows. I did eventually paint the car Porsche guards red, after shaving the hood handle, emblems and molding. And I peeled the pinstripe off the windows! There, I've said it. I hope you people are happy now.

[907rs]

It was actually my second vehicle, circa 1987. '82 2WD Silverado short bed, 305 4bbl and TH350.

After about six months of beating the crap out of it, I toasted a rod bearing, and being the 17 year old gearhead that I was, there was no way it was getting a stock rebuild. After the machine work was done and I had the bottom end put back together, I immediatly ordered the biggest Crower cam Summit listed, as well as a Torker intake and 750 double pumper.

Needless to say, It never ran right again........

[Streetking]

1976 Trans Am 455 4spd(no T-Top), headers, exhaust, all Herb Adams suspension, 8" WS6 wheels. I worked at a quick lube, got to change the oil every week!!

SW