What were you driving when you graduated to a 2002?

[arkleo]

1964 Corvair Monza Spyder, redone in Torch Red

[lowniss37]

My very first car to practice in under my fathers supervision was a 1975 530i . Milled head and header exhaust. First time I punched it and pushed in the clutch my leg was shaking from the ROAR. When family split up I did not get to keep the car as he loved it to much. The first car that was technically mine was a Sahara 72 2002. I was 17 when I got my high school ride  

[jgerock]

11 hours ago, arkleo said:

1964 Corvair Monza Spyder, redone in Torch Red

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a Corvair with Centerline wheels (assuming they are that brand).

[Rick74]

In high school (late 80’s) I was driving a ‘83 VW GTI that I was slowly modifying with my hard earned pizza delivery money...Neuspeed!  My older brother had the stock ‘74 2002 and was driving into the ground while attending Chico St.  I traded cars with my brother, who in short order basically destroyed the GTI   I began to clean up the 2002, add some fun modifications, and drove it for a few years daily until I couldn’t get it smog’d (dual Weber’s at the time).  Kept the car for the next 30 years and still enjoy working on it and cruising around with some track days mixed in. 
 

 

[Doug Riparetti]

4 hours ago, Rick74 said:

In high school (late 80’s) I was driving a ‘83 VW GTI that I was slowly modifying with my hard earned pizza delivery money...Neuspeed!  My older brother had the stock ‘74 2002 and was driving into the ground while attending Chico St.  I traded cars with my brother, who in short order basically destroyed the GTI   I began to clean up the 2002, add some fun modifications, and drove it for a few years daily until I couldn’t get it smog’d (dual Weber’s at the time).  Kept the car for the next 30 years and still enjoy working on it and cruising around with some track days mixed in. 
 

 

 

[Doug Riparetti]

4 hours ago, Rick74 said:

In high school (late 80’s) I was driving a ‘83 VW GTI that I was slowly modifying with my hard earned pizza delivery money...Neuspeed!  My older brother had the stock ‘74 2002 and was driving into the ground while attending Chico St.  I traded cars with my brother, who in short order basically destroyed the GTI   I began to clean up the 2002, add some fun modifications, and drove it for a few years daily until I couldn’t get it smog’d (dual Weber’s at the time).  Kept the car for the next 30 years and still enjoy working on it and cruising around with some track days mixed in. 

 

 

It was nice with the smog exempts stuff was raised from 1973 to 1975 in California

 

 

[7502]

I've driven only air cooled VW's since my first car in 1980. Sold my '77 Westy a few years ago after removing 19 yrs of moss and lichen accumulation during my ownership, for the exact purchase price of my 2002 which I was lucky enough to find a couple weeks later. That bus was a fun vehicle. My other car is a '63 Karmann Ghia that I have owned for about 15 years or so, it's a keeper.

Edited August 22, 2020 by 7502

[tjones02]

Well, my ‘67 1600 was my first car, circa summer of 1993. Before that I learned to drive in my parent’s 2002tii, another 1600 and an 1800TI.

Edited August 23, 2020 by tjones02

[tjones02]

@7502 Love the Ghia! A friend had his grandmother’s ‘62 in high school.

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[Jace]

I think this was my most recent car before the 2002. assorted Japanese daily drivers aside, this was my daily for a good while and a barrel of fun, saved it from its destiny with the wreckers and got it back on the road.

[NickVyse]

4 hours ago, Jace said:

I think this was my most recent car before the 2002. assorted Japanese daily drivers aside, this was my daily for a good while and a barrel of fun, saved it from its destiny with the wreckers and got it back on the road.

 

had that exact same 4 door golf - £100 in 1994 between 2 of us. We drove it until I got a parking ticket and towed so we left it in the pound. Great car.

 

[TobyB]

Hmmm.  Honestly, the 2002 was just another beater.

The 'GOOD' car was an '87 Montero.   Named Doris.

I could get the transmission out, replace the rear bearing retainer 

and get it back together in less than a day, by the time I gave it away.

(Later I had an 88 short V6- 2 Doris- that was actually a nice thing to drive, for what it was.

The 4- Doris version was more useful, but never as good.)

 

At the time, I had a 122 as a daily (still have it, STILL haven't finished the turbo wiring)

 

and a Datsun roadster that I'd 'restored'- which really mean that I'd learned how to do

bodywork and paint on it, by doing every panel at least twice.  Because every panel was

dented to hell.  But it had almost no rust, so I was undeterred.  

 

Then Jenn wanted a 2002, so we bought 2, and then a 3rd, for less than I'd paid for the 

Montero ($2500) and I ended up with the third when #'s 1 and 2 and parts of 3 became her car.

 

And it was a beater, with rust and replaced panels (1666365, now in Canada) that I took to the race track.

 

There were others- the only one I REALLY regret selling was the basket- case Notchback.

 

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[Emyers]

1973 Capri V6 2600 cc. Traded in for a 74 2002. Still driving my 2002.

 

 

[Kronos]

1971 Plymouth Duster, a good car but not a great car.

My girlfriend’s father had just bought a new ’73 Sahara and he allowed me to use it to take his daughter to the “drive-in” (The Exorcist!) and little did I know I had the parking brake on the whole way, I wondered what that smell was.  Shortly there after I bought a ’73 Golf (as in color not the VW model), it looked like a lemon and was a lemon, biggest POS I ever owned; totaled it by hitting a deer on the way to school, bought a Malaga to replace it, and so on…

[e9er]

I was driving an e9, still have the e9 but sold the 02 for an e39 M5.  I hope to get another one some day.