my first car

[themixer]

The obsession started with my first car many moons ago, it was down to buying either a Beretta or a Honda Civic. I made the wisest choice of my life.


I looked back for along time to find pics of when I first bought it, I didn't have a digital camera back then. The Beretta was the one of the first pics I did take on my Fugi point and shoot.

Got the car and wanted RIMZZ, so I went with 10 spoke z24 CHROME rimzz. Loved these wheels but a real slut to clean. Also in my stupidness, I thought you drove these all year so I never bothered to keep my wheel covers.



The next step was lowering on springs. I thought it looked good it didn't do much of anything for the handling or ride quality.



After this I dabble into some bodywork and after seeing the new cobalt in sunburst orange metallic, I came to the conclusion that I would like to be pulled over by the POLICE more (young male in a loud, bright orange car with CHROME RIMZ)




So after rocking that for a while, and getting pissed off that every car GM ever produced was in the same color as my lovely beretta, I when with my second choice on color. Midnight blue.




We must not forget the cars that had to die to make this paint job happen. Bought for $150 for a gas door.



Found a deal on a set of wheels from someone that smoked rocks. $80 win. And 8 hours of sanding wheels.



Then I found probably my most favorite mod. My car is a base model 5 speed with no tach, being a 1995 the computer is obd 1.5. I managed to find out of HOURS of searching a 1994 quad 4 odb 1.5 cluster. (i believe 1 of 863)

FUCKEN SMART



Rocked this for a while again, then a post came up on Kijiji. GTZ bodykit for sale and wheels. jaw dropped. went and purchased immediately.

Then the madness took place. slight damage to front bumper





after cleaning then the bodywork started. It took a weekend.






Step 2 Girlfriend enjoys sanding!















After this epic adventure, took some snaps in PEI.





This car is getting the GTZ wheels this summer but that's about it. This might be the last summer for this car as its slowly folding in half. 375,000km hopefully 400 by the end of the summer. There is a second Beretta project on the go but that's another story all together.

[90GTZHO]

Car looks great man! I remember seeing your project on Bstuff before it died. What do you mean its slowly folding in half?

[MY91GT(Z)]

x2^^^ the car looks great and i love the original color too

[3X00-Modified]

Still got a little smile going on that front lip... Pull her up a bit more. I took a strip and riveted it across the bottom of the lip to help prevent it from trying to pull apart from below when driving at highway speeds... Thats the biggest problem with them, once they are torn and you are going down the highway they pull really hard down there and will just rip again. I had mine repaired but I did not install this strip till after I found this out, so I do have some slight cracks in my paint down there...

Should be nice and level like Geoff's sig shows.

[3400beretta]

lol, I hate to break it to you, but any quad 4 cluster would have worked.. obd1 and 1.5 clusters are interchangeable.

[themixer]

Well I tried, and that is 100% not true with my car.

[2.2H8TA]

You got a 2.2 in that? I'm assuming you do, because its a 95 5 speed. How did you get it to last over 200k? I wish I had that kind of luck with mine. Also I belive this is the best proof I've seen of the trans making a HUGE diffrence in the life of the 2.2's. Both of mine were autos, nd they both had blown heads by 80k, the second one was replaced, and it didn't last 40k, it blew again at like 125k. O well, very nice beretta tho, I like it in all 3 colors.

[3400beretta]

My bad, its only the V6 that is interchangeable. However, all you had to do was run a new tach signal wire from your coilpack (C1 Pin A) to Pin S of the instrument cluster. Then you could have used any quad 4 cluster.

[Money pit Beretta]

Looking good!

[89redtta]

Looks good man.

[1988GTU]

You got a 2.2 in that? I'm assuming you do, because its a 95 5 speed. How did you get it to last over 200k? I wish I had that kind of luck with mine. Also I belive this is the best proof I've seen of the trans making a HUGE diffrence in the life of the 2.2's. Both of mine were autos, nd they both had blown heads by 80k, the second one was replaced, and it didn't last 40k, it blew again at like 125k. O well, very nice beretta tho, I like it in all 3 colors.

The heat of the auto trans contributed to it's miserable death.

Nice car, this thread reminds me of Erich's DGGM and for some reason baims car when it was under the transitions.

[SuzukiGhostRider]

Great story. Excellent car work and color choices. Win all around. Love the car.