Your first car?

[TEX]

1981 Datsun 280ZX. Silver with black/grey interior. Completely restored the interior with new carpet and racing style seats from an Escort GT. Had 2 15" Fosgate woofers in a box that took up the whole hatch. Punch 150 pushin those bad boys. Got ticketed twice on Galloway for "noise pollution" or something like that. Bought her for $2650.00 in 87 and sold her 6 years later with over 200k on the odometer for $2500.00. I loved that car!!! Found a pic of one like it.

[kskobra]

I had a 1967 Red Beetle... used the ice scraper to get rid of the ice on the inside of the windshield while driving. Great memories of driving that thing in the snow.

[CaroleLB]

A 79 VW Rabbit - white with blue vinyl interior. New off the showroom floor for $6K. What a piece of crap that car was. Needed a new head at 42K. Any and all knobs fell off and finally it crapped out completely at less than 90K. I could run the quarter mile faster than that car ran - and it went from 0 to 60 in 4.5 minutes.

[Tyramania]

My first car was a well used 1970 Chevy Nova. I got mine around my 16th birthday. As I recall, I was grounded at the time so I wasn't able to drive it for a couple of weeks after my parents first brought it home. Pure torture!

It looked like this one, but it had a fresh new baby blue paint job. Loved those baby moon hubcaps. The 8-track player was way cool!


- Tyra

[jx2]

I was wondering when someone was going to mention the 8-track Did you have to use the match book cover to get it to play half way decent?

[B Kromm]

First car I drove on a regular basis, 1965 Comet Caliente convertible. Was painted a brutal green...... with a BRUSH. Dad paid 350 cdn for it.

First car I paid for.... '83 280ZX. That was my baby.

[tommy]

Same color as the one in the picture.....It was a machine...ran like a champ!!! 1973 Datsun pickup!!! wish I still had it as well!

[fireinmn]

Plymouth - Horizon...4 door. Have no idea what year it was, but it wasn't new and I got it in the fall of '83. Friends called it the "plastic car" - even though the didn't complain about me hauling their arses all over h#ll.

[pmb]

Graduated High School in 76 and bought a 71 Buick Electra (army green) from my uncle. I liked my 2nd car much better a 74 Mustang II Ghia brown with beige vinyl roof. I belive both cars spent more time in the shop than with me behind the wheel.

I started saving up when I was 14, and on my 16th Birthday I got a 72 convertible VW Bug ($800), Orange with about 65,000 miles on it. Drove it into the ground at 150,000 for the next 12 years. Went through a new top and a rebuilt engine. Lots of Memories in that car, drove it to Florida, California, Washington, New York, the list goes on All kinds of "firsts" there

[sunscreenaddict]

1982 Ford EXP. It was a two seater...two tone blue and black. It ran like a rabbit (the animal...not the car). I sold it when the passenger seat fell through the floorpan...and STILL got $500US for it.

[Kim from Michigan]

Mine was a VW too!! I believe it was a 1971, yellow. Wish I still had it. Went in and out of ditches really good. The defroster sucked and one morning I ended up out in a field, couldn't see a thing.

My Dad was out of town one week, and I taught myself to drive a stick at 15 on back trails. When it sounded like to time to shift, I put it in somewhere till it would go. It took a beating and kept on ticking.

[caramba]

Originally Posted by B Kromm

First car I drove on a regular basis, 1965 Comet Caliente convertible. Was painted a brutal green...... with a BRUSH. Dad paid 350 cdn for it.

That's what I had too. Think it was a '67, paid 75 bucks for it. White with red interior. Didn't last very long. Then I think the next was my first of many vw's- a '63 (I think) Volkswagen Variant. Pretty cool car- they didn't import them over here. Then on to vw squarebacks, bugs and a few Kharmann Ghias, til I got sick of scraping the windshields from the inside too.

[Bumper]

1968 Comet Capri. Almost the same colour as this one. Had one of the legendary 289's in it...you know, the good ones that they occasionally built by accident, mostly. A bugger to keep in tune, ran like a tractor unless I lived under the hood, but it went like stink. Passed everything but the gas pumps. Paid $1,800 for it in 1970, which was quite a lot of money in those days - I was pulling down the princely salary of $225 a month - but it was worth every penny.

[Lulu]

'79 Monte Carlo... that it was a V8 is about all I know about it, other than it had a great backseat ONLY 'CAUSE I COULD FIT ALL MY FRIENDS BACK THERE... (I know what you peeps were thinking...)

Anyway, I got it when I was 16 or 17, and wish I still had it - it was a TANK. I loved it. I learned how to drive in Houston at about 3 a.m. in that car... heheh.

Here's a pic I found on the internet, but mine was midnight blue with light blue fabric interior...