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Mazda3X2

02-08-2009, 07:46 PM

The "5 years ago" post with the pics of people 3's back then made me think. I wasn't quite driving my 04 at that point.

If you weren't driving your Mazda 3 five years ago, post what you had.

Here's what I was driving, 1999 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro. Traded it in on my 2004 Mazda 3 GT. It was a nice ride.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa212/Bearman72/A4018.jpg

froggy

02-08-2009, 07:51 PM

I"ll tell you what i was driving but I won't post a picture I don't want to contaminate the forum. ok ready for it??

99 Chevy Malibu :( I know it wasn't my choice, inherited it

///M

02-08-2009, 07:52 PM

That's funny, because I went the other way round and now drive these:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/3017654397_3bf54b7797_o.jpg

aris

02-08-2009, 08:51 PM

My R/T in the summer...spent most of its days and nights in my garge:)

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r272/aristeidis/mytruck003-1.jpg

And this is was my daily driver that i bought for $4000 and it only had a 100,000km on it when i bought it 2001 Grand am
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r272/aristeidis/car002.jpg

kevcol74

02-08-2009, 09:09 PM

5 years ago I was without a house or kid... had 2 sets of wheel!

Everyday driver: 1999 Cavalier Z24
http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq238/kevcol74/1999CavalierZ24003.jpg

Summer Sun Wheels: 1986 Mustang GT Convertible
http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq238/kevcol74/86GTConvertible2.jpg

mit-gee-mui

02-08-2009, 09:15 PM

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Does it have to be 5 years? We had a good thing going on over here.
http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=7906&highlight=previous+cars%2A (http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=7906&highlight=previous+cars%2A)

You even made a post, just pictureless. [URL]http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showpost.php?p=354974&postcount=236

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kevcol74

02-08-2009, 09:20 PM

http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=7906&highlight=previous+cars%2A

For those that want to go back further in time.

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THis one is "date specific"...lol 5 years.... Keeps less cars mentioned I think!
:chuckle

Mazda3X2

02-08-2009, 09:23 PM

Exactly, and I wanted pictures of it too...lol.

rwatt

02-08-2009, 09:57 PM

Submit for the crappiest car...enter the duct tape machine, '92 Protege DX. 5th gear didn't work. The hood hinges broke, so the hood was falling off. It leaked oil and coolant like a sieve. It ate axles and clutches for breakfast. I drove it for a month with no brakes before finally selling it for 100 bucks.
I still can't believe I drove that thing for almost 2 years :loco New Mazda is much better :chuckle

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/rmwatt/DSCF0005a.jpg

kevcol74

02-08-2009, 10:00 PM

rwatt

02-08-2009, 10:03 PM

I prefer "100MPH speed tape"... :chuckle

lol...5th gear didn't work, 100kph was pushing it!

kevcol74

02-08-2009, 10:19 PM

lol...5th gear didn't work, 100kph was pushing it!

One of my early cars was a 1987 Acura Integra LS.... had the same thing when I bought it, no 5th gear! But I bought the gears from Acura and added them back in! lol

Terrible3

02-08-2009, 11:16 PM

5 years ago, heck that would make me a few weeks to the day of being 16. I still had no car so this was the next best thing...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3240/2760916791_4a82c17c53_b.jpg
Not exactly the best "***** magnet" ( in borat voice)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29414553@N02/2760916791/in/set-72157606713263106/

aris

02-08-2009, 11:20 PM

Mazda3X2

02-09-2009, 07:12 AM

Reminds me of the cars I drove when I first got lisenced. I miss the feeling of not caring if my car got dinged in the parking lot.

Submit for the crappiest car...enter the duct tape machine, '92 Protege DX. 5th gear didn't work. The hood hinges broke, so the hood was falling off. It leaked oil and coolant like a sieve. It ate axles and clutches for breakfast. I drove it for a month with no brakes before finally selling it for 100 bucks.
I still can't believe I drove that thing for almost 2 years :loco New Mazda is much better :chuckle

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/rmwatt/DSCF0005a.jpg

dentinger

02-09-2009, 11:15 AM

dont think i have any pictures of it...
but a Diamondback mountainbike, with upgraded shocks, wheels/rims, pedals, handlebars.
then some douche stole it.
so it i got a 2007 Norco bigfoot. great bike, still have it.
i'll post pics if i can find any....

Donutz

02-09-2009, 08:54 PM

No pics of my ride; it was a Protege 5.

Thrizzl3

02-09-2009, 08:58 PM

this...still have it..replaced most of the parts on it
http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/guranteed_justice/hooligan.jpg

SSmoked

02-09-2009, 09:05 PM

HAHAHA 5 years ago i was 13. lol i think i was rocken my wal-mart mountain bike.

omalak

02-09-2009, 09:09 PM

Couldn't afford a car, York was sucking me dry like no tomorrow.

Got a job this past summer and bought my Mazda :)

So I use to take the good old TTC
http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii334/omalak/bus-8704-51.jpg

x_o_k_x

02-10-2009, 12:41 AM

5 years ago.. hmm i had a 91 Honda Civic Hatch with over 500,000km on it, and it was still running like a beast! Vtec yoo!

SilentJay

02-10-2009, 06:34 AM

:P I would have still been driving "white lightning"... 93 Altima SE

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9596/file00009ju6.jpg

Dave_The_BMXER

02-10-2009, 09:16 AM

That car has a big chin!

http://www.havokproductions.ca/e30/day3.JPG

Over 3 hundred thousand miles on that bad boy.

Dave_The_BMXER

02-10-2009, 09:17 AM

That car has a big chin!

http://www.havokproductions.ca/e30/day3.JPG

Over 3 hundred thousand miles on that bad boy.

cwp_sedan

02-10-2009, 09:33 AM

This is what I used to drive...

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a185/nice96gt/Albany%202005/DSCF1005.jpg

Mazda3X2

02-10-2009, 09:52 AM

I had the exact same car in the same colour just as a 2 door before the Audi.

x_o_k_x

02-10-2009, 01:25 PM

That car has a big chin!

http://www.havokproductions.ca/e30/day3.JPG

Over 3 hundred thousand miles on that bad boy.

I loove this car, looks very nice! Is the front bumper came like that, or an after market?

mazdas3sporte

02-10-2009, 01:44 PM

driving parents car, great gaz guzzling ml350

Dave_The_BMXER

02-10-2009, 02:46 PM

I loove this car, looks very nice! Is the front bumper came like that, or an after market?

Thanks :) It was my baby I put a lot of work into it. The front bumper is oem but not for that model. It's someones track car now.

I got that particular piece in 3 pieces before I repaired it to what you see above. Sold that car this summer.

Here is a pic of it with the 3.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=964768&l=b9609&id=511013757

jaimie08mazda3

02-12-2009, 01:05 AM

5 years ago was when i first had my 1990 chevy blazer aha.. but it wasnt road worthy so i never actually drove it drove it. but the car i had was.. i was 16 then and driving this
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd68/jaimiemazda08/acuraEL.jpg

gabbygenier

02-12-2009, 01:20 AM

I was driving the boat as my friends called it. a 94 buick regal. hahah

oh and my other ride was my bike. which i still have. ppl seemed to like that more, wonder y :chuckle

http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r418/gabbygenier/HPIM1331.jpg
http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r418/gabbygenier/100_0531.jpg

Mazda3X2

02-12-2009, 07:56 AM

Is that a ZX-6? My wife and I owned ZX-6s for a couple years in 2001-2002 and they looked pretty well identical to yours. Mine was a 93 and hers a 94. Fun. Nice bike.

gabbygenier

02-12-2009, 10:26 AM

haha i wish it was a ZX-6. everyone laughs when i tell them its only a 250 hahah. and now u know lol

Thrizzl3

02-12-2009, 10:40 AM

i will never drive a GM car again..wait..maybe I do since my 3 is going in for bodywork. my mom is lending me her G5:bang

kevcol74

02-12-2009, 10:45 AM

i will never drive a GM car again..wait..maybe I do since my 3 is going in for bodywork. my mom is lending me her G5:bang

I had a G6 GT last year when i went to Florida, I didn't find it all that bad! (one way drive from Orlando to Cape Canaveral)
But the Mazda5 I had on the way back was very nice too! :chuckle If only I didn't have all that luggage, Hertz had Shelby's on the lot... :bang

Malcolm991

02-12-2009, 06:41 PM

I had a loaded 2005 Grand am GT with some special performance package that cost me 32gs new and after 8 months and this, I was told it was worth 17gs. I will never go back to GM and I think the Corvette is the only car to hold a decent value! http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u273/spiffman99/Grandamaccident005.jpghttp://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u273/spiffman99/Grandamaccident010.jpg

gabbygenier

02-12-2009, 06:43 PM

OUCH. what the heck happened?

Malcolm991

02-12-2009, 06:46 PM

OUCH. what the heck happened?

Some clown side swipped me and pushed me into the back of a transport. Believe it or not they wrote my car off!

gabbygenier

02-12-2009, 06:48 PM

hmmm. dont look that bad, unless there is frame damage. but now u have a mazda so even better haha

Malcolm991

02-12-2009, 06:52 PM

hmmm. dont look that bad, unless there is frame damage. but now u have a mazda so even better haha

100 times better!:)

towelsnap

02-12-2009, 07:06 PM

5 years ago was driving a red 4door 99 grand am and before that 1990 astro van hahah the shaggin wagon ! :chuckle

Mty Mous

03-16-2009, 07:24 PM

5yrs ago I was still driving this lil thing.
http://torontomazda3.ca/picture.php?albumid=100&pictureid=428

alhope34

03-24-2009, 08:31 PM

I loved this bike. Spent $1000 on the actual bike then another $1500 on random parts I'd break. I had to sell it when I was at my last job. Hours cut back so much I couldn't afford my bills and I only got $380 for her. :(

Just recently I bought the same colour, model, year, size frame from a friend and am slowly building it up to be better than what I had before. The only thing I really miss from the bike were the brakes. They were 1999 Hayes Purples full hydraulic 6", bought them for $60 in '05 still BRAND NEW in the box. Was an amazing deal. Someone I used to ride with bought them as a spare set when he used to race XC and never ended up using them.

Then, a month after I sold it (to a friend of a friend) he left it UNLOCKED in a friend's back yard during a house party. Didn't take long for it to disappear.

Now that I look back I really wish I just borrowed the cash from my parents or something. I've gotten so weak since I've stopped riding. I was 230lbs back in my riding days and even though I lost lots of muscle I still went up in weight a bit. I used to be almost fearless, I'd jump 10' high stair cases landing on the flat at the bottom, most my friends with huge downhill race bikes wouldn't even do that. Lol, the stairs by the sky dome were so fun to jump. I remember once I almost jumped right on top of my friend. We were downtown for a ride, me and 3 others. They were looking around for other random stuff to ride and practise tricks and jumps on, here I come flying off this 9 step staircase and I guess they never heard me yell. I landed with the left part of my handle bar about 4" away from my friend, hahaha. Scared the hell out of both of us. I used to dirt jump and do pump tracks a lot, and of course I'd do XC now and then. There is quite the large trail system in Toronto through the Don Valley. I used to build a lot of wood stunts in there, and I used to help maintain the dirt jump area and I'm one of the people who first started to clear all the pain full thistle patches to make room for the pump track. Oh, the memories...

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c63/alhope34/PICT0001-3.jpg

firstmazda

03-29-2009, 02:15 PM