What was your first car?

[Quadrupled]

A 1980 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Broken grill, broken muffler, smelled like my grandfathers pipe and went 0 to 60 in about a minute. It was a great for attracting the ladies.:fro:

 

[cluckk]

First car I owned was a 73 Fiat given to me from my dad.

First car I purchased was an 81 Camaro.

 

[Zuljin]

1949 Mercury 2 door coupe. Gas then was 0.39 / gal.

And it was brand new when you bought it.

The first car that I got to drive on a regular basis was my parent's 1973 Ford Pinto station wagon, green with woody siding. They bought it new in '73 and I got it in '76. The first car that I bought was a 1973 Volkswagen Beetle SEMI-AUTOMATIC. 3 speed, no clutch. You would accelerate through 1st gear, get the RPMs up, let off the gas, shift and do it again. It was a decent idea but I always described it as "Volkswagens experiment that failed" but I fell in love with that car. Over the years I've had my share of 'domestics' but there were always VWs peppered in. Two Super Beetles, two regular beetles, a Safari (Thing) and the car that I bought to teach my daughter to drive in was a beat up '73 Rag Top Beetle. She loved it when we first bought it but could not understand that a 23 year old "beater" would be somewhat temperamental. She named it Herbie The Hate Bug.

Hate Bug, LOL!

72 challenger

wow. Pahnurple. Sweet paint job all the same.

1989 Honda CRX HF.

The most efficient car I've ever owned and I wish I still had it as a daily driver because it got 65 MPG on the open highway and 50+ around town! Most motorcycles don't even get gas mileage like that!
1700 lbs
1.5L 8-valve that made 65 gerbil power with a 5 speed manual slushbox.

I remember filling it up for $7.50 back in 1998 and it would go 400+ miles on that!

I wanted one so bad. Guy at work has one he made a sleeper. Looks like hell and runs like the devil.

Awwwwww yeeeeeeaaahh!!

Is that fake spinner hubcaps? Gangsta.

My first car was a 79 Dodge Magnum with a 318. I ran that car hard all the time. It was perfect for cruising on friday and saturday nights. She finally needed more work than she worth and I sold her. I miss that Beast.

Had a 318 in an 83 Dodge truck. Ram tough.

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

1995 Isuzu Rodeo. Bought it off my brother in 2006 for 100 bucks, a guitar, and my Gamecube haha. Had it for 2 years before I bought my current car and sold it to my sister, car caught fire a few months later. Going out in a true badass fashion.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

1980 Mercury Zephyr. bondo'd, primer camouflage, rusted POS. no radio, heater fan didn't work, muffler rusted out as well as the rest of the exhaust. the only saving grace was manual trans.

 

[Zuljin]

1979 Pontiac Sunbird. Mine was blue and didn't have hubcaps. The rest of the pic is fairly accurate.

 

[bad67z]

1979 Pontiac Sunbird. Mine was blue and didn't have hubcaps. The rest of the pic is fairly accurate.

Love this car, I had a buddy the shoehorned a 400HP SB Chevy into one of these, 140 mhp with pedal to go! Great memories!

 

[johnsnownw]

1991 BMW 318i.

Paid for it by working at K-mart in high school. Not that it was that expensive, but worth a pretty penny to a high schooler.

 

[davekippen]

81 firebird. It was 10 years old when I got it. Spent all summer between my junior and senior year of highschool sanding it down and doing some body work, then took it to Earl Schieb and got the $99 paint special! Midnight blue LOL

 

[Fastmetal]

72 Cadillac Sedan DeVille. 472 with a huge 4 barrel. 0-60 in about 30 seconds. 60-110 in about 4. Power everything. I wrecked it a few weeks after this pic was taken and blew the motor the following summer.

 

[davekippen]

Oh, and I paid a friend of my parents $50 a week until I paid off the $500 price tag! Not like these damn kids today who have everything given to them (including mine). ****. Im an old man.

 

[mjdonnelly68]

This was the first car I was given by my parents to drive. I drove the sh!t out of that thing.

Loved the car but it bled me dry - electrical problem after electrical problem.

Other annoyance - the hubcaps kept falling off. Would grab extra hubcaps whenever I saw them (must have cycled through 4 sets while I owned the car) Got to the point that when we saw another 200SX my friends would yell "donor car"!

Good times.

 

[edds5p0]

Mine was a 1990 LTD Crown Vic. I started saving when I was 15, our neighbor let me make interest free payments on it for 6 months and I paid it off a week before I turned 16. I drove it hard for almost a year, then it crapped out on me. I loved it so much I bought another one in college for a winter car.

 

[DerrangedPOJO]

My first beast was 1981 oldsmobile cutlas supreme 2 door. Loved ir!

 

[Col_klink]

1979 datsun 310 hatchback. Bought it for $300 in 1991....made it through Grateful Dead summer tour 1992. Great car...great memories!

 

[cheesehed007]

Mine was a 1969 Pontiac Catalina. A hand me down from my parents when they bought a new car in 1978. 1st car I bought was a 1977 firebird formula, 400 4bbl 4 speed. Loved that car. I'll have to see if I can dig up a pic.

 

[Desvio]

1948 Ford F-1 lowrider pickup, ran with the original flathead till I found a 429-PI in a wrecked cruiser. Wasn't pretty on the outside, pretty basic on the inside, but damn that thing could move.

 

[Goofynewfie]

1982 VW rabbit, 4 door, 5speed diesel. I miss that car.

 

[glenn514]

1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza. Photo is close to mine, which was black with a tan interior. I had the 140hp engine with four carbs, and it was a four-speed manual transmission. Went quickly and got decent mileage. Traded it it on a new 1969 Volvo 142, but I always missed that Corvair!

glenn514

 

[boscobeans]

57 Ford Fairlane. Two door, three speed on the column shifter with a six cylinder engine.

bosco

 

[b-boy]

1980 Datsun 200SX - a ridiculous automobile that I miss to this very day.

My college roommate had the hatchback version of this car. It was a nice little car. A lot of fun to drive.

One of my best college memories was an impromptu weekend road trip we took from Buffalo to Boston to meet up with some girls we'd met during spring break in Daytona Beach. We drove 10+ hours each way. We didn't plan the trip very well and we only had 1 cassette tape. It was Don Mclean's American Pie. I listened to that stupid tape over and over again for 20+ hours. Fun trip, but to this day I can't listen to Don Mclean without getting nauseous.

It's amazing how memories come flooding back when you see an old car like the one you or a friend used to own. I wonder if that's just an American thing? We're such a car culture.

 

[liquiditynerd]

B-boy they do bring back memories eh? A vw bug in buffalo snow is fun as all get out until you freeze from it snowing INSIDE the car and every tow truck in town knows you.

 

[JeepDiver]

74 Plymouth duster.…20+ years later and I still have it!

my first was a 73 Duster. Had a 727 Torque-Flight Trans, 8 3/4 sure-grip rear, and a 318 with larger than normal carb. Car would haul a** fastest I ever had it going was pegged at 120 on I-55 south of Jackson. Friend I was racing had his nissan pegged at 140. Not real sure how fast we were doing.

Ended up totaling it doing 90 around a curve when the A frame broke, rolled it 3 times.

The 10 gallon Gas tank, with my lead foot getting 8-MPG made road trips a pain in the rear though

 

[nasty_rabbit]

B-boy they do bring back memories eh? A vw bug in buffalo snow is fun as all get out until you freeze from it snowing INSIDE the car and every tow truck in town knows you.

Had a 73 Beetle Semi-automatic in Pittsburgh in 1980. Had to scrape the windows on the INSIDE to drive in the winter. But as for getting around in the snow, it was great. Skinny tires would cut right through the snow and the weight of the engine over the drive tires gave it traction. The biggest problem was the floor boards in the back seat (near the battery) were rusted out and in deep snow it would shave the snow and blow it onto anyone sitting back there.

 

[Homercidal]

Volkswagon Dasher. Although not technically MY car, my sister owned it before she moved on to better. The first car I ever bought was an Eagle SX4:

 

[brewinchef_fairfax]

Many good memories and a few really bad ones as well in this gem... '79 Chevy Impala

 

[Airplanedoc]

The 10 gallon Gas tank, with my lead foot getting 8-MPG made road trips a pain in the rear though

At least gas was cheap back then.

 

[half_whit]

1983 Datsun 280zx Turbo

It's almost painful how much I miss that car

 

[Mojzis]

My first was a 76 chevy nova. Inline six, 250 cu inch I believe and rear-wheel drive. I bought it for 500$, had to tow it home. Worked on it for a year, did the body work myself. Got new leather seats, aluminum rims from my brother and got it running. Had all the body work just about done when I went to college (just needed some paint). Needed to pay for school so I sold it for 500$. One of the saddest days of my life! Sadly I don't even have pictures anymore.

When I got it running the first thing we (my buddies and I of course) did was to take it out for a spin. Well there was a hole in the body behind the driver side back tire. When you burned out the car sucked up all that smoke inside the car through the speaker holes. I imagine it looked hilarious; us flying down the road with smoke pouring out of the windows with the tires burning.

 

[b-boy]

Many good memories and a few really bad ones as well in this gem... '79 Chevy Impala

Hmm...Let me guess - transmission problems? I'm familiar with the car. My Dad had one. He bought a lifetime repair warrantly from AAMCO because the transmission would cut out about once a year. They were notorious for that.