Post your first motorized vehicle.

[J_F]

I think the bike was 10 years old when he got it in 83?

yes
I did not get a new RD350
when I was 10 years old

 

[adrisen]

my first bike was a 2013 Suzuki GW250. Took it from Toronto to North Bay and Ottawa. Went with a friend and his gold wing. Was an amazing uncomfortable trip but great fun.


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[crankcall]

My family had an assortment of vehicles with the slant six, plymouth belvedere, volare (pc of crap) , newport and a couple pickups. One dodge pickup had the 'super six' , came with a 2 barrel carb.
The slant six was a engine that had been originally bought from Benz by Chrysler. It took three decades but they took an awesome motor and wrecked in. Sideways Hemi.....

 

[fastar1]

Bike: 2007 FZ-6, bought in 2008 (not my pic)

Car: 1986 Corolla GTS, bought in '95 (also not my pic)

 

[GVH]

1977 CJ360T Honda (wish it was my pic)

 

[nakkers]

Worked at a gas station back in 1985 and purchases a 1974 Plymouth Scamp 2 door with slant 6 from the shop owner.

Not my pic but same colour, wheel covers, vinyl roof etc.

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[Mad Mike]

My family had an assortment of vehicles with the slant six, plymouth belvedere, volare (pc of crap) , newport and a couple pickups. One dodge pickup had the 'super six' , came with a 2 barrel carb.
The slant six was a engine that had been originally bought from Benz by Chrysler. It took three decades but they took an awesome motor and wrecked in. Sideways Hemi.....

The Mopar slant-six is a clean-sheet motor, meaning it was designed from scratch in house by Chrysler, there is no linkage to Benz. Benz did design a slant 6 too, it was a race motor fitted high end coupes. The only commonality was the slant, both makers wanted an torquey lower weight lower height option for a v8 engine bay.

MB made a few, they were fuel injected 3l performance motors that made 240hp. Chrysler made millions of them, 3.7l 145hp iron mills used in all sizes of cars and trucks. If I remember correctly, they original design was so far ahead of it's competition that NASCAR killed off the compact racing class because there was nothing to compete with MOPAR -- watching Dodge finish 1st thru 10th wasn't good for NASCAR.

 

[I82l8]

First moped was a Honda Camino when I was 16:

First car was a 76 Golf:

 

[Bobo]

And yes,it had Corinthian Leather

 

[Bobo]

My first road bike, a 1980 Suzuki GS750 exactly like this one.I bought it brand new from Sonic Motorcycles in Scarborough for $2999 plus tax at the end of the season.I rode it during my last year in high school.Man, I absolutely loved that bike.There were two other guys I rode with at that time that also had new 750s.One was a 1980 Honda 750 Supersport and the other was a 1980 KZ750.I could easily beat the Honda in a drag race on any given day.The Kawasaki was a different story,it was about 40-50 pounds lighter than the Suzuki and Honda, just enough to give him the edge over me.I could never beat that guy.

 

[Bobo]

Got a 1980 GS1100 like this one a year later.I could beat that Kawi then!

 

[crankcall]

The Mopar slant-six is a clean-sheet motor, meaning it was designed from scratch in house by Chrysler, there is no linkage to Benz. Benz did design a slant 6 too, it was a race motor fitted high end coupes. The only commonality was the slant, both makers wanted an torquey lower weight lower height option for a v8 engine bay.

MB made a few, they were fuel injected 3l performance motors that made 240hp. Chrysler made millions of them, 3.7l 145hp iron mills used in all sizes of cars and trucks. If I remember correctly, they original design was so far ahead of it's competition that NASCAR killed off the compact racing class because there was nothing to compete with MOPAR -- watching Dodge finish 1st thru 10th wasn't good for NASCAR.

Willem Weertman design, for Chrysler. My Dad told me it was a Benz design, seems he made up as much crap as I do.

I went and looked up the history, I did not know Nascar had a compact class and the 225slant owned the class. They made a factory hop up kit for the 225, what kind of fun would that be? a 200+ hp slant would have been awesome in a '70 belvedere. Thanks for sending on the hunt , I learned stuff today.