What was your first car?

T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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NeedleRemorse got me to thinkin', I had a lot of cars in 28 years of drivin'(mom had a junkyard when I was growin' up :D ) probably close to 50 or 60 cars, some only lasted a week others I put 200,000 miles on.

The one I remember the best, was the first a 1968 Dodge Coronet Convertible, what was you first car.

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The closest pic I could find was a 66 dodge.
 
First I drove was an 86(87?) Renault Alliance. Wasn't technically mine, as my dad owned it, and he still drove it when he needed to, but he let me have it whenever he didn't need it.

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First one I bought for myself is still one of my favorites, and miss it a lot, and that was Big Bertha, my 76 Seville.

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That baby was a classic. FIrst year of the Seville, first mass produced US car with fuel injection standard, etc.

Those were cars 1 and 2. Since then I've bought my 95 isuzu pickup and my 05 Honda Aero 750. That's full list of my vehicles.
 
My first was a '73 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Green with a white vinyl top :cool:
 
Hehe- 1953 VW bug, jointly puchased by me and one of my army buds in Germany for 50.00. Wonderful car...No starter (one to push, or park on a hill...), mechanical brakes (cables!), no gas guage (but a '"reserve" tank like a motorcycle), taillights the size of 50-cent pieces and turn signals that flopped out of the window posts on little arms. Got us around, though.

I bought a much newer bug when I got out of the army in 67....A 1966.
 
1965 Rambler American 440. Little 232 6-cylinder. . . .that ran forever. Red with a white top, and red interior.

Awesome car !
 
72 Chrysler New Yorker. Black, Black Vinal roof, Black interior. 440 ci, Ultra huge compared to cars now adays, but pretty darn fast. Auto transmission, floored it would reach 55 MPH before shifting into 2nd gear, 70 MPH kickdown to second gear was easy. I never had the space or guts to see actually how fast it could go.
 
87 Dodge Omni. Had to hotwire it, my father put in a toggle switch to get it started, and I of course had to stick the keys in the ignition to be able to move the wheel. I was at the Blockbuster one night, hotwiring it to get it started, and a "Good Samaritan" started screaming that I was stealing it. I just went about my business and left. Another time, before my drivers ed teacher picked me up, I drove the car, sans license etc, to the bus stop, dropping off my sister. As I pulled back into the driveway, the instructor pulled up right behind me, like nothing happened. :D
 
it was cherry red, 2-door, bucket seats, and had the hot 327 motor, with the Muncie 4-spd, and center console. Came with a flashy wooden steering wheel, and I started to carve all the names of the girls I HAD on the wheel. I was 16 years old. I picked up 3 speeding tickets that first summer with it. It would roast the rear tires for as long as I kept my foot stuck in it. I could actually jump the right front wheel off the ground when launching her. That broke my first motor mount and ate my first radiator. I quickly bought Cherry bomb fiberglass mufflers for it from J.C. Whitney...and a Wolf whistle...which I proved my mastery of delinquent behavior with. I strutted around with a white sleeveless t-shirt...and on the back wrote...GIRLS I'm available with my phone number under that. Man I was cool too with my 8-track tape deck and 4 speakers which buzzed from being blown. Did't matter...you couldn't hear the tunes much anyway over the motor. :cool:
My Bro's also were running Mustang 2+2 302Boss...ChevyII's, Chevelle's, Olds 442, Z28 Camero, etc. it was a very "CROOKED" time. The year was 1968...and Detroit was in the height of the "muscle car era."
Now that I've dated myself...just wanna add...I've never been without a Detroit Muscle Car since. Currently have a 1966 S/S 396 El Camino..with both Turbo400 and the Rock Crusher M-21, 373 posi 12 bolt. It don't start on pump gas....man I miss Ethel. :)
 
1995 Purple Chevy Cavalier.


Why purple? Simple , I didn't have a choice :) It was purchased during the strike when it was almost impossible to find the economy cars. I needed something ASAP to start college and my choices were a purple brand new car or a used car without a warranty. Purple won, LOL :)
 
1968 Mustang Fastback. Bought her for $1800 bucks when I was 13 years old. ;)

She now resides in my father's barn. One of these days I have to bring her back to life.
 
Not my first, but my favorite was a 1968 Ford Galaxie 500 that I bought for $200 sometime in the mid-1980s. It was enormous. You could easily fit eight people in the front and back bench seats, and probably another eight in the trunk. My old car died and I had almost no money, so my mechanic sold me this beat-up old junker. One of his friends had bought it for his daughter to drive to school, so it still had a bumper sticker on it that said "I [heart] Larry." The car became known as Larry to my family, and my mother was embarrassed to have it in the driveway. Amazingly, that car lasted fifteen months until it dropped its drive train on the parkway.
 
A 1970 Volvo 164. Broken front springs, if you hit a big pothole with the wheels turned, you were in for an adventure!

It finally gave up the ghost while I was driving home from school. Flames shooting out and the whole 9 yards. To this day, though, it had the most comfortable car seats I've even been in.
 
My first car was a 1981 Volkswagen Golf GTI 1800. I was proud and remember the moment I bought that car as yesterday. This car was very fast, light and really a car to be seen in. I sold the car to the person I bought it from, he just wanted that car back, he loved that car! The motor was so fine and the interior was all sport recaro.

regards.
 
1965 Volvo 265 DL Wagon. From Florida so it didn't have any rust or anything. Had it until some woman ran a red light and took her from me. I STILL miss that war wagon- also gave me a chronic desire to have a station wagon. Thank goodness they've started to make them again (the Magnum is just HOT!!!). Ah... Good memories!

Sincerely,
Anthony
 
While doing my collecge internship my parents sold me a '77 Buick LeSabre. It was a butt-ugly piece of crap. Since I didn't choose it myself, I don't consider it my first car, even though it was legally mile.
Mine looked about like this one:
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My first love was the first car I picked out and bought on my own. A 1986 Mercury Cougar. Baby blue, 302 V8, first year with real fuel injection. Here's a good picture that accurately displays the cars' class and overall lines:

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Man, this thing was fast, smooth, economic, and ultra-reliable. Beautiful too.

-Bob
 
My first car (at least the first one that I bought) was a '66 VW Bug...The heater didn't work, but it sure got good gas mileage, (and that's back when gas was about $0.40 a gallon.).
 
1970 Buick Estate Wagon with V8 455 CID 370HP. Big enough to haul all my friends around, Plenty of "make-out" room in the back, and enough power to be fun. Never could passed a Gas Station it didn't like.
 
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