What car should I buy?

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What was your first car? (lemm.ee)

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What it was and what did you like/hate the most about it?

It's slightly offtopic, but firsthand experience may help first time car buyers to choose.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

1986 Monte Carlo, in 2002. v8, auto, rear drive. pulled the "economy" 305, which was actually counter productive in a car with 2.76 gearing, as it made it work so hard to do anything mileage suffered. Dropped in a 400 small block, a known torque monster, mileage improved, and it could pull redline in top gear, and with that gearing, had to be up around 240. speedo had a pin at 140. (redline on that type of 400 is @4700 rpm)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that quite something for a first car!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

First car, but I'd been wrenching on trucks and tractors since I was ten, learned to drive at 7.