What was your first car

1980 Toyota Corolla
1.8 GLS Sprinter
Rear while drive fun
Silver in color with black stripes.. miss that car.
 
pinball wizard said:
Oh, is this for the first one bought with own money thread?
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My first car was also the first car I bought with my own money. Finished matric, got a holiday job, took six weeks of pay and bought a 1971 Ford Escort 1100 (two door) for R400. Seriously underpowered. A year later I had three different engines, two gearboxes and a spare body. But it was still pap :)
 
Colin62 said:
My first car was also the first car I bought with my own money. Finished matric, got a holiday job, took six weeks of pay and bought a 1971 Ford Escort 1100 (two door) for R400. Seriously underpowered. A year later I had three different engines, two gearboxes and a spare body. But it was still pap :)
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What I got from that mainly is that your are like my father's age...
 
Morris Mini 850cc with white rims tho and without the extra spotlights.. see below:

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Ah the good ole days of varsity.. that 27l tank meant driving for 1.5 months in Cpt
 
daniellgr said:
I did a project in Mechanical Engineering on the Wankel Rotary Engine.
Had the opportunity actually put one of those through a full set of bench tests in the Mech Eng Lab at UCT ...

I wonder what happen if modern materials were used to make one today --- how it would fare. Thought at the time it was best thing since sliced bread.

PS brilliant piece of work fooling the MyBB censor! :D
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Watched an interesting video(s) on this yesterday actually showing the pros and cons of the engine design, if you're interested I suggest you have a watch:

[video=youtube_share;sd6pJtR4PaY]https://youtu.be/sd6pJtR4PaY[/video]
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Watched an interesting video(s) on this yesterday actually showing the pros and cons of the engine design, if you're interested I suggest you have a watch:
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GoTekEnergy in California has reinvented the rotary engine. What it calls a DynaKinetic design does away with some of the Wankel shortcomings.

It changes the pinched-oval housing and triangular rotor (as used in the Mazda) to a circular housing and a 4-star rotor that has four combustion chambers.

Read more here.

[video=youtube_share;5m1meR3dueo]https://youtu.be/5m1meR3dueo[/video]
 
Arthur said:
GoTekEnergy in California has reinvented the rotary engine. What it calls a DynaKinetic design does away with some of the Wankel shortcomings.

It changes the pinched-oval housing and triangular rotor (as used in the Mazda) to a circular housing and a 4-star rotor that has four combustion chambers.

Read more here.

[video=youtube_share;5m1meR3dueo]https://youtu.be/5m1meR3dueo[/video]
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Cool, I'll add this to my watch later. I'm not a big motor head but I love learning how the engineering behind it works.
 
BiteMe said:
beetle 1600, think it was a '73 or thereabouts...had the newer style taillights
drank petrol quicker than i could pour it in
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Remember, it comes from the days when petrol was <R0.08 a litre. No-one cared about fuel consumption. Reliability was a much bigger issue - could it travel for more than 3 hours at 70 mph? The air-cooled VeeDub could.
 
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