First car?

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I asked this on another forum and enjoyed all the responses.

What was the first car that you didn't have to share with anyone?
In 1981, the year I graduated HS, my folks bought me a red 1971 Pontiac Grand Prix with a 455 ci engine. It was in bad shape but, in a straight away, it was fast, fast, fast. I think it lasted me 1 year before being replaced by a silver 1977 Chevy Malibu.
 
I got out of the army in '67, and used the savings bonds I'd accumulated to purchase my first car, a 1964 VW beetle. Within a week, my sister had borrowed it and ran it into the back end of a Mustang...
My brother-in-law-to-be and I bought some used parts (bolt-on fenders and such on the old Beetles) and put it back together...I drove it for about a year before buying a new 1968 Beetle.
 
In 1992, after college, my dream car was an '86 Mercury Cougar with the 302 V8. She was a beauty, a dream to drive, got excellent mileage, and was incredibly reliable.

They don't make cars like that any more. Purred like a kitten...
 
66 Plymouth Fury III, bought at police auction, was one of the unmarked interceptors, maroon, 440 with a sixpack, weighed a ton but would cruise above 100 without strain. I had stickers that were about 18 inches high, looked like the US seal, said Official US Taxpayer around the edge on the front doors. That along with the obligatory CB antenna, spotlight, pieplate hubcaps and I would blow past troopers and they would never turn around...was also good for getting the choice make-out spots along the river very easily.
 
I started out with a "63 Dodge Dart Black over Blue. I bought it from my uncle for $200.
 
1976 Ford Taunus....yep, TauNus, not Taurus.

One of only 3 guys in H.S. to have my own car so even this thing was cool. Mine was tan exterior with green interior and was a 2 dr. Oh the good times!

SDS

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Left HS in '85 and went right to Carlisle PA - Came home with my first car..a 1971 Monte Carlo SS 454 with64K original miles. White with a blue int.


Oh what I would do for that car again
 
First car was in 1996- 1951 Chevy 2dr Deluxe. I have since owned 27 cars and 9 motorcycles.
 
My first car was in '99. It was a 1988 Dodge Dynasty that I purchased from an impound lot for $800. It only had 60,000 miles on it. That thing was a tank.
 
1995 Ford Crown Victoria, got it from San Diego PD. Non squad car, so no rubber floors on the passenger compartment. Bought it in 2000 with about 35k on the clock.

Apart from general maintainance, only thing I did was added a CD player, as the stock radio was only AM/FM- not even cassette player.

Got the 2008 Honda Accord Coupe V6 when it came out, my brother's gonna get it when he gets his license next year. I sorely miss the ride quality though. Nothing like a land yacht to get you around town, that's for sure.
 
My first car... and quite possibly still my favorite, was a 1967 Pontiac Catalina. Quite possibly the biggest damn thing on the road at the time. It was bigger than my Dad's Old's Custom Cruiser full size station wagon. Had a 400c.i. V-8 with a 4 barrel carb. 4 door sedan, bench seat in front, could COMFORTABLY seat 8 people, and probably fit about 4-6 more in the trunk!;) I re-painted it the original color of maroon, installed a heater core and water pump (with a LOT of help), installed a kick ass stereo system, and she was good to go. Best part?.... I paid $75 for it! Bought it off a neighbor... he was gonna sell it to the junk yard for $50. This was when I was 16, had the car until I was a senior in college... but the folks sold it on me, claiming it was too old. I still haven't forgiven them for that. I loved that car. Talk about smooth effortless power... that car could and would cruise all day at 100mph. I did get her up to 135mph before I chickened out. Last car I've ever drove that would snap my head back when I punched the gas pedal... and this thing was huge, and weighed about a million pounds.
 
Hmmm, can't edit a pic in... let's see if I can get this to post. It is not my car, but the same yr and make/model
 

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1967 Morris Minor coupe w/ an 1100cc engine and weber carbs, speedometer in the middle of the dash and a 6.4 gallon gas tank. downhill I could get it up to 65mph but that was about it.
 
I'm a youngun so it's a 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS for me. No it's not as fast as it sounds. Top speed is just under 130 limited.
 
i got a '72 nova SS 350/2bbl w/an auto tranny when i was in 11th grade, within 6 months i had changed the cam, added headers and a torker intake w/a 600CFM holley, BM converter, accel ignition, 4.10 gears and removed the AC like a idiot lol.

top speed was only ~ 110 or so but it would do 110mph in a 1/4 mile lol.
 
I honestly do not remember. I had three older brothers who were in college when I turned 16 in 1970. They left a collection of about ten cars. For about six months I drove a 1952 Cadillac hearse. When I got out of class I would find other students doing all sorts of things in it.
Last week end I responded to a add for two 1991 Isuzu pickups for $50.
I bought them and am fixing one up to give to my daughter on he fourteenth birthday in a few weeks. One had the windows broke out but has low miles. I already have it on the road and we will get it all tricked out by the time she is 16. We bought one of her sisters a 1962 Ford Falcon two door hard top and the other a 1970 Chevy 4x4 short bed when they were teenagers.
Our older daughters are now grown with families . I treasure the time we spent on these projects.
 
I got my first car in 1968,I was only 12,a friend of my uncles gave it to me,it was a 1960 4dr Impala.I had plans to build that car into my first street machine but growing up on a farm and having field roads to drive on,it wasn't long until that one became a field car.I had about 10 or 12 cars before I turned 16.My first car for on the road was a 1963 Impala that I bought off of a neighbor,he had put a 389 Pontiac engine in it,it was fast but for some reason that engine never wanted to start hot,I always parked it on a hill so I could bump start it.Absintheur,I had a 1967 Fury III,mine had the fast back roof,440,4bbl with a factory 4spd trans but I had dual trunk mount CB antennas,yea,rabbit ears.Mongo,them Catalinas were real cars,we had one while I was still living at home that I drove occasionally if mine was apart,it would do everything you say plus cruise at about 100mph.
 
In 1983 I got a 1971 Volvo 164. Either the front springs or shocks were shot and it the tires would hit the wheel wells once in a while; that made for a fun time!

Had a manual choke and studded tires. Very comfortable seats, and not that slow with the manual 4 speed.

Driving home from school one day it caught on fire. When the tow truck lifted the front end off the ground the car broke in the middle and folded in half like a V. Good thing I didn't get into an accident with it.
 
After driving the folks Crown Victoria (which I later bought off them) for a year, bought my 91 Camaro RS just before the start of senior year of high school... She was already 10 years old with over 120k on the ticker, but man, had the nicest 10 foot paint job I've seen!

 
Mongo said:
My first car... and quite possibly still my favorite, was a 1967 Pontiac Catalina. Quite possibly the biggest damn thing on the road at the time. It was bigger than my Dad's Old's Custom Cruiser full size station wagon. Had a 400c.i. V-8 with a 4 barrel carb. 4 door sedan, bench seat in front, could COMFORTABLY seat 8 people, and probably fit about 4-6 more in the trunk!;) I re-painted it the original color of maroon, installed a heater core and water pump (with a LOT of help), installed a kick ass stereo system, and she was good to go. Best part?.... I paid $75 for it! Bought it off a neighbor... he was gonna sell it to the junk yard for $50. This was when I was 16, had the car until I was a senior in college... but the folks sold it on me, claiming it was too old. I still haven't forgiven them for that. I loved that car. Talk about smooth effortless power... that car could and would cruise all day at 100mph. I did get her up to 135mph before I chickened out. Last car I've ever drove that would snap my head back when I punched the gas pedal... and this thing was huge, and weighed about a million pounds.
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I had one of those, although I think mine was a little "newer". I could sleep comfortably, laying down and not cramped at all in the thing (I'm 6'). One year I came home from college, loaded the car with all my dorm room stuff and never even had to empty the car for the whole summer!

The only bad thing was that it got less than 10 miles to the gallon and it had a leaky fuel tank so I could only put about 5 gallons of gas in it at any time.
 
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