So I was talking to my father the other day and he told me that he thinks that he worked with the guy that bought my first car off of me. So I asked him if he ever sees him again if he would ask him about it and let me know.

I've always loved eclipses since I was in the 6th grade and new I was gonna have one one day. I turned 16 and worked to buy my first car. It was a 96.5 eclipse base model with an automatic transmission with 158,000 miles on it. All stock but the body was in horrible shape. It looked like somebody just slapped bondo on the car and spray canned it to sell it. I payed $1150 for it and had to do the regular maintainance stuff to pass inspection. Got it on the road and feel in love with DSMs. After while I got tired off looking at the horrible job the previous owner did on the body so I started sanding the entire car by hand. The bumpers weren't in the best shape so being young and dumb I decided to put a body kit and new headlights because they yellowed really bad. Got the kit on (the right way) and put over 100 hours into the body. Decided to get a paint job from macco (I worked at mcds and didint have a lot of money. It turned out pretty good and I was actually offered a job by them because I did such a good job prepping the car for paint. Here's some pictures right after I picked the car up.




I sold the car for $2500 to get my current gsx. I thought I made out pretty good.

Anyways my father ran back into the guy and asked him about it. Turns out the guy drove it until the inspection was up then parked it and then shot it up with some high powered guns . Sucks because I wish it would have went to someone that cared for it like I did.

Have any of you ever found out about your first car years after you sold it? What did they do to it?

Good story, that's not a very bad looking body it IMO.

My first car, my grandmother every birthday would put 100-200$ In savings bonds, when I was sixteen I cashed some of them in. I went looking for a car. 93 cutlass supreme 2dr. Had 89,000 miles and was one owner. I bought that car and got a job so I could finish paying for it. Well about 4-5 months later my "father" and I use that term loosely started coming back around, a few times he asked to borrow it, I let him. Came back one day and the front seat looked like it was burnt or melted, (he was cooking meth so probably batter acid) so I put a stop to it. One night while I was sleeping my grandma came in and said, "bubba I'm sorry, Jeff has been in an accident." I got up looked outside and my car was gone..... He had "fallen asleep" (which is bullshit because he cooked meth, I mean c'mon!) and missed a sharp curve and went off an incline rolling it onto its top..

It wasn't fast, (I thought it was at the time). But I loved the way it looked, drove. And it was my first car......

I miss it, that's why when i stumbled across the 96 olds I DD now I just had to have it. And i still love it.

Sure my deadbeat dad is still around, but absolutely not allowed to get near it, touch it, look at it, or think about it. Lest he gets an asswhipping.

Sorry to hear about the car and your father

Still have my first and second cars, both 1990 Eclipses.

I had an immaculate, mint '81 Honda Accord. If you have not enjoyed Hondas from this era you just haven't lived!

Anyways, a crazy guy with pupils the size of saucers stole it.
I sold it to him for $300.00 since it I'd just left it parked for a while due to rust problems of that particular year/model. The car was literally perfect in every way until that one bad winter that burried the car for a week.. oops.
He took the car, without a license, insurance or anything and had to make fast get aways from a bunch of shops, one by one, because no one would let him drive away in it after they'd checked it out. The floor had severely rusted while parked in it's snowy abode.
Much chaos and hilarity ensues. Eventually, he nor the car were ever heard from again.

She died with 30,000km on her, but holy fvck those first 29,000km were incredible.

That sucks that the car rotted away. Those cars look light and nimble to me

99ECLIPSEGSXDSM said:

Sorry to hear about the car

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Fixed that for you

I know what happened to mine.

Damn! What did you hit?

Some moron thought that because his Audi was awd he could punch it in the rain, so I'm driving along and next thing I know this dumbass swerves from the other lane into mine sideways right in front of me, I had no where to go but right into the side of his car, t-boning him. Then he had some shitty fly by night insurance company that ended with my insurance company personally suing the driver and winning. Happened not too long ago, but it all worked out well since I got a pretty good payout and used it to buy my talon that had only 40,000 miles on it, it actually had 4,000 less miles than my gst did when I bought it over 10 years ago.

m1nd64m3 said:

I know what happened to mine.

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The intercooler looks to still be in good shape... jk

That looked like a beautiful car.

My first car was a 94 galant.....nothing special at all just a base model. It's was got me into loving dsms. I mean I always loved eclipses and wanted one (which is why I have 2) but the 7g galant got me into dsm. I payed 600 for it and only actually drove it for 2 weeks then I blew the transmission in it. Me being stubborn decided to rebuild it. Well I spent all summer pulling it out and rebuilding it and getting it back in. And after getting it all back in tried it and the torque converter ended up being blown too. Ended up picking up a sable for a hundred bucks and ended up selling the 7g to a junkyard........saddest day of my life watching my first car be towed away :/

99ECLIPSEGSXDSM said:

That looked like a beautiful car.

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Thanks, it was super clean, the adjuster even mentioned that it was so clean he couldn't find any other ones to compare it to for finding the value. Luckily I got to rip all the parts off before they crushed it.

My first car was a 76 Plymouth Fury Wagon (maroon with wood panel sides). I know what happened to it because my mom junked it in 1987. Apparently it was interfering with my education.

Colt4G63 also said:

My first car was a 76 Plymouth Fury Wagon (maroon with wood panel sides). I know what happened to it because my mom junked it in 1987. Apparently it was interfering with my education.

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And look at what you do now

That car was good education; I was replacing the torque converter when she junked it.

Better education then a Dsm would have been?

I still have my 1g, it was my 1st car and wil not sell it.

99ECLIPSEGSXDSM said:

Better education then a Dsm would have been?

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I was already studying Auto Tech in college when the first DSM rolled out. But we did have a 90 GSX roll through class.

That's awesome man

I don't need to wonder. My first love/car went from a clean LOW mileage beautiful Z34 to a ball of metal. No major injuries to my little brother. But the car was a total lose.

Clean and nice...





End result....







Id still have this car today if I was able.

You'd have that over Wendy?

99ECLIPSEGSXDSM said:

You'd have that over Wendy?

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As my DD. Hell yes.

Loved that car. Had plenty of NA power on demand, was comfortable, got good mileage and was very reliable.

I want that spoiler for the cut.