A few weeks back I had been called out to do a challenge by a Steemit friend of mine called @alexs1320 it's taken me a little while to actually get to the point of writing this article and well it's finally here!
My First Car
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A Lamborghini Diablo... no no just kiddin'
My First car started off life as a humble family sedan. A 2001 Nissan Almera.
Probably one of the most boring cars for an 18 year old at the time, it had 4 doors, a large boot and a really slow 1600 engine! It was bought brand new for R109,900 ($8680 USD)
Modifications
Now here's when I went a little stupid....
I decided that I wanted to be like the Fast and Furious, or at least try and imitate them somehow by modifying my family sedan.
I started off by installing a crazy stupid sound system, 2 x 12" imported SoundStream Tarantula subwoofers and 2 x starsound 5000w Monoblock amplifiers, a capacitor and Hertz mids and tweeters littered inside the car. I landed up entering a few sound competitions and won a few small IASCA competitions here locally for loudest sedan. I may be wrong but if I remember correctly it was 153db.
Once I had the sound side sorted out I decided to change the seats out for some cheap racers, install a PlayStation 2, a television and interior lighting.
Obviously owning a car with all the bling and no speed was boring so I added some exterior stickers which gave me an additional 5kw. Once that was obtained I ran a straight pipe 63mm exhaust, BMC intake and had a bottle of NOS installed with 50hp foggers.
I'm still to this day trying to figure out what on earth I was thinking! Or rather why I wasn't thinking at all?
Adventures
This was embarrassing but I formed a crew with two highschool friends that had Audiopipe sound systems in their cars. One was a completely standard VW Polo Playa and the other a VW Citi Golf with an exhaust. We had matching stickers on our windshields that read out "Loud Krew" because we could spell. Every Friday afternoon we would go out together in our 3 cars for a lunch but before doing so we would do something we used to call the high school run which involved driving passed 5 nearby high schools with our music blaring gangster rap/hip hop and us caps backward and smoke in mouth. Like I said, embarrassing!
Pros and Cons
Pro was definitely the fuel economy, cons would have been waste of money, slow and embarrassing!
I hope you enjoyed this little piece and would like to challenge @garethb @jasonwhite and @davidke20 to tell us what their #myfirstcar was
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