What cars did you own before your MSP?

1997 4 Dr Red Cavalier
1997 2 Dr Red Cavalier
1997 2 Dr Red Cavalier Z24
1997 Geo Metro Sedan (Winter Beater)
03.5 MSP

In case anyones wondering why i had 3 red cavs...

1st was a gift for graduating. Then i found out it was a salvaged POS (my parents were lied to). Then isaw the 2 door, and liked it much more, then i realized they had a faster nicer one in stick(z24) so i brought the 2 door in for alarm service and came out with a new car.
 
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Wow... here's the list, in it's Ghetto-fabulous glory:

Growing up in Phoenix:
  • 1986 Toyota Camry Hatchback - White with Blue Interior. Died 2 weeks after my 16th birthday due to being an overall P.O.S., and the transmission died out completely.
  • 1977 Buick LeSabre - Baby blue with matching interior. I purchased this car for $700, and I got what I paid for. V6 (lack of) power, A/C that only blew out the footrests, and suspension that made it feel more like the H.M.S. Land Yacht than a car. But, it got me through 2 years of high school before the steering column fell off, and could hold 6 people and 3 kegs. All in all a decent crap-box for the time.
The College Years:
  • 1980 Volvo 240DL Station Wagon - Gold with Black Interior. Another cheap-ass car, this one was $1200. I bought this to take up to Flagstaff for college, and it lasted me a little over a year. It was comfy, big, and the rear seats folded down which was a major plus. (naughty) This one bit the dust in Phoenix on summer break when the water pump seized, the engine overheated, and the pistons decided to turn to liquid.
  • 1988 Honda Accord DX - Gold with brown interior. I bought this car from a friend of mine for $350. Long story, but we were both drunk and it seemed like a good idea at the time to him. In any case, this car just wouldn't die. Snow, rain, heat and cold, it just kept running and never really gave me too much hassle. I put 60,000 miles on this car in 3 years, and ended up selling it for a profit after moving to California.
California Here I Come:
  • 1986 Toyota 4x4 Pickup - Tan with Tan Interior. I still have this truck, and love it to death. This was left to my by my grandfather, and is still in excellent shape. 22 Years old, and it has just over 110,000 miles on it. Automatic, 4x4, fully loaded for the time. I've driven this truck to hell and back on several occasions, and now that I have a new daily driver, I'm looking forward to working on it a lot more. This is my "In-between" ride - it's always there when I need it, and has been my primary transportation when i'm in-between cars.
  • 1992 Nissan 240SX - Gold with Tan Interior. Aside from driving my parent's cars, this was the first stickshift I actually owned. Bought it 1 mile from Disneyland for $2400, which was an excellent price for the condition. I put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this car for 2 years before selling it to a friend. He then put a lot of money into it with suspension, wheels, tires, and other race upgrades, and drove the piss out of it on the track. Now it's with my friend's younger brother, and I'm sure he'll trick it out even more.
  • 1991 Nissan 240SX - Black on Black, with some more black for good measure. I picked this car up shortly after selling the Gold 240, purely by chance. When I bought it, the car had almost no interior, a crap-tacular stereo, steel wheels and bald tires. Again, lots of blood, sweat and tears (and cash) went into this ride, and I had it in awesome condition right up until it was violently taken from me in a freeway accident. (sad1) I still miss this car... I had it so personalized and set up exactly how I wanted it, and BOOM, no more. Ended up selling off the performance parts, put the stock suspension, wheels, and other stuff back on, and sold the wreck to someone who wanted to build a race car.
  • 2003.5 MSP - Titanium on Black, wingless and pristine. Just paid $11,500 from a local dealership, and it's worth every penny IMO. Very minor wear on the outside, perfect inside (hell, the cigarette lighter's never been used!) and I'm stoked on the car as a whole. I'll have some pics up after this weekend, but I think we're all aware of how a stock MSP looks. (2thumbs)
So that's the whole list... there are of course family cars not listed, like the Sentras, 200SX, Mustang, and the 350Z my folks have had, but since I didn't own them myself, they don't count IMO. :)

Soy
 
77 El Camino
01 Dodge Neon (worst car in existence)
85 Fiero
93 Geo Metro (chopped to a truck)
98 Amigo
MSP is the best car i have drove i was looking at a OZ Rally Lancer thought it was good then i drove this and fell in love
 
83 chevy silverado- 6in lift
88 merc cougar- hacked springs, exhaust, custom intake
97 saturn sl2- custom intake, hole in exhaust
93 gsxr 750(wrecked)- reverse shift pattern, upgraded clutch, keihn 38mm carbs w/ unipod, weight stripped, -1 front +2 rear sprockets
05 ZX6R (wrecked) - yoshimura slip on, galfer ssbbl
06 Infiniti G35 (wrecked)-DC headers, custom fab labree resonated test pipes, injen sus catback exhaust, b & m short shifter, skunk2 5/8in plenum spacer, fidanza 13.5lb flywheel, exedy 3 puck clutch, tanabe ses coilovers, axis hiro wheels 9.5in front 10.5in rear, race brake rotors, nexus oil pressure and boost guage, aem wideband, escort stealth mount radar, vortech sqv2 cetrifugal spercharger kit apprx. 430bhp 390tq--- best car ever R.I.P
03 MSP-Injen CAI, Ksport Coilovers, JoeP FCD, SU Hardpipes, Greddy RS(w/ turkey), Corksport J-pipe back, PG intake manifold, AWR Front MM
 
Awesome!!! It's great to see the stories behind each car! I feel your pain Soy, the 240SX is a great car and I miss all the Magnum PIs I pulled with that car. Terbow, my brother had a 1991 Z24, our Friday night event was to wait for people after clubing and race them.....that car saw some serious speed limiter action....my dad had a 1986 Cavalier which we used to jump snow banks and race on the Gilles Villeneuve race track during winter time.....but don't do this at home.....
 
1992 Red Mazda Mx-3 Precidia V6 (bought in 1999 - Sold 2003)
2001 Laser Blue Mazda MP3 (bought in 2003 - Stolen in 2008)
2003.5 Titanium Grey MazdaSpeed Protg (bought 2008 - current)
 
This could take awhile...

1977 VW Golf
1977 BMW 5 series
1979 Mercedes 240
1986 VW Scirocco
1991 Geo Storm
1989 Mazda B2200
1982 Datsun Maxima
1990 Honda CRX Si
1992 Chrysler LeBaron vert
1993 Ford Mustang LX 5.0 hatch
1992 Saturn SL2
1989 Dodge Caravan
1988 Ford Mustang GT 5.0 hatch
1994 Ford Mustang Cobra (Still have for obvious reasons)
1996 Isuzu Rodeo S
1987 Ford Mustang LX 2.3 hatch
1988 Mazda 626 LX sedan
1993 Honda Civic EX coupe
1988 Honda Prelude Si 4WS
1989 Ford Mustang SSP 5.0 coupe
1995 Ford Thunderbird LX 4.6L
1997 Chrysler Concorde LX 3.5HO
1989 Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe
2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege (still have)
1993 Mazda B2200
1993 Honda Accord LX wagon
1996 Honda Civic LX sedan
1997 Ford Probe GTS
1994 Mazda 323 hatch

I don't think I missed any...
 
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alfveba said:
77 El Camino
01 Dodge Neon (worst car in existence)
85 Fiero
93 Geo Metro (chopped to a truck)
98 Amigo
MSP is the best car i have drove i was looking at a OZ Rally Lancer thought it was good then i drove this and fell in love
Click to expand...

add a yugo and you could be making an all time worst list.
 
2000 Civic SI
2001 Civic EX
2002 Chevy S-10 Extreme
2003 Mitsubishi Evo (400+awhp)
2006 Nissan 350z
2007 Mazdaspeed3
 
Let's see if I can remember these (mine, not "family" cars):
'69 Datsun 510
'70 Toyota Corona
'72 Toyota Celica (8 autocross trophies, many rally trophies)
'75 Toyota Corona
'77 Toyota Pickup
'79 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera (fantastic car, wish I still had it)
'?? Suzuki Jeep
'86 Cutlass Ciera
'88 Chevy 1500 PU ("PU" in many ways. No more GM for me.)
'91 Nissan Pickup SE V6 (shoulda kept it)
'89 Ford F-150 (gas hog, but at least it started. Are you listening Chevy?)
'89 Toyota Corolla LE
'89 Toyota Cressida (amazing car)
'93 Mercury Villager (Nissan Quest)
'95 Mazda 626 LX
'95 Dodge 2500 Wagon
'98 Toyota Camry LE
'01 Dodge Ram 1500
'06 Chrysler 300C (current)
'02 Toyota Camry SE V6 (current)
'03 Dodge Ram 1500 QC Hemi (current)
'08 1/2 CWP MS3 (current)
 
i'm dang near 40 years old but my list is short;

'71 ford galaxie 500: land barge
'71 buick skylark: inherted from gramama, so no, it wasn't the awesome GS 455 muscle car
'93 nissan sentra se-r: y'all know how sweet these cars are, used this car to learn how to drive stick and autox and kept until last summer. this tank never broke down for nuthin' with autox, track days, rally x, MN winters (hell, the OEM battery lasted 12 years!!!)
'90 mazda miata: mint condition and more cute than I could handle and kept until last summer

baby happened

'03.5 MSP best compromise car around (performance, looks, mpg, utility) but the jury is out to see how close in durability it'll be to the se-r.

out
 
87 Nissan Maxima
97 Honda Civic EX (b16a swap and other random crap)
56 Ford Panel Truck (currently getting body work done)
03 MSP! - By far the best car I've ever owned
 
01 Dodge Ram 1500 sport - great truck and still drive it in winter.. gas $ sucks
96 Ford Probe GT - taught me how to drive stick. minor upgrades but i loved
that car.. Sold it to a kid who had his drivers license for 3
days and crashed it in the same week.
89 Honda Accord - bought it for $200 with 220K on it. It still runs but needs all
new tires after jumping to many times. 4 tractor lights on the
roof for late nights and a homemade wooden spoiler.
03 Speed Protege - Black on Black and i love it!!
 
99 Toyota Tacoma (sad1) Jacked up pimped out and beautiful. I lost Her in The great 2008 Tacoma recall. Missn that truck....
1990 Chrysler Lebaron GT Turbo
1991 Toyota 4X4 Truck
1987 Chrysler LeBaron GTS Turbo
1987 Cheverolet Cavaleir
1985 Chryler LeBaron GTS Turbo..... Anyone notice a pattern here? LOL
 
93 Cavaqueer
92 5.0 notchback
95 SHO
89 Accord
87 Maxima
98 Grand Cherokee
98 M3- best car I have ever owned
05 Tiburon
03 Celica
04 SPEC-V
06 GTO
03.5 MSP
 
'02 Mazda Protege5
'00 Chevy Cavalier Z24
'06 Hyundai Tiburon SE

'03.5 Mazdaspeed Protege
'06 Chrysler 300 Touring
 
'80 Audi 4000 - Biggest POS ever. Lost an engine and tranny in 6 mo.
'84 VW GTI - My first fun car. Still had lots of reliability issues.
'87 Nissan 200SX SE V6 - Looked sharp, comfy, RWD and great top end.
'88 Ford Mustang GT - Burnout machine, 150 mph and bad brakes.
'89 Suzuki Swift GTi - Great mpg, tons of high rpm fun.
'88 Mazda 323 GTX - What a joy. Incredible car.
'79 Chevy Malibu - 4-door and six different colors. Got me by.
'84 Toyota Tercel - Not as bad as you'd think. Decent car.
'79 Pontiac Trans Am - 10th Ann. 4-speed. Built a 455 for it. Still have it.
'96 Ford Escort GT - Kept it 6 years. 323/Protege with bad Ford trim.
'88 Mazda 323 GTX - VJ16 turbo w/ other mods. Friend wrecked it. Still have it.
 
1991 Honda Civic: crashed in Belgium racing around a curve on a auoroute
1992 Mazda Protege LX: still have this & running strong
1994 Chevy Cavailer SE: wife wrecked this one (Thank God seatbelts do work so use'em folks!)
1997 Jeep Cherokee: still have this & it's a workhorse
2003.5 MSP: my 'mid-life' chick magnet the wife kids me about (2thumbs)
 
91 volvo 740 turbo (first car)
94 honda civic ex
96 honda civic dx (current)
00 honda civic ex
00 honda civic si
91 honda crx si
95 ford probe gt ( beater)
02 Acura RSX TypeS k24/k20
03 mazdaspeed protege (current)
06 gsxr 600 (current)
 
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