Your first car?

[Banzoomba]

Your first car?...My first love was this 1968 beetle...three piece rear axle...air cooled...spare under the hood...battery under the back seat...if I could change anything in my life I would have never sold her. Took My wife on our first date in this beauty.

[sctx]

pale yellow '78 Ford LTD 4 door land yacht with "Think Safety" bumper stickers.... carried six people and a large cooler fairly comfortably and you could actually fit a keg in the trunk..... I made Dad regret the day he stuck me w/ that freakin beast..... well actually, that one got totaled so he bought another car (from his company) and this one was a puke brown .... yep, u guessed it ... 1978 Ford LTD 4 door land yacht with "Think Safety" bumper stickers. I think those cars were like 25 feet long.... backseat was about 7 feet long, so that was cool

[MikeW]

Silver '64 Pontiac LeMans. Vinyl bucket seats, AM radio with a speaker in the back deck, no power steering, no power windows, no A/C.

Sold my Schwinn Sting-Ray for $50.00, bought the LeMans for $75.00. Couple pounds of bondo and $100 paint job, set of spark plugs, new brakes and I was ready to go.

Later tweaked the engine, trans, rear end. 326 V-8, 66 389 heads, 69 400 semi-high rise intake, attached to a 2 speed automatic. Got rubber shifting from 1st to 2nd at 55mph.

Then got married, sold it and got a '70 Toyota Corona, 4-door, automatic, with A/C.

[SunKneeMarie]

Hand me down '77 red Chevy Luv Pickup truck (Dad bought it in '81, I got it in '83). Came with a funky smell and a stick shift that ground horribly between first and second every stinkin' time I drove it my entire first semester in college. One day over Christmas break, Dad crawled under the truck with a 6-pack and a purpose and my grinding days were over.

[mckinzie]

My first was donated by my grandmother and then we dropped a 289 in it.






and then I totaled it.

[mikembs]

my first car was a 70' Mavrick Grabber. i paid 500.00. it was 6 different colors and had american mags, hood scoops, 3 on the floor, the stereo was worth more than the rest of the car. the exhaust was similer to swiss cheese. boy did i spend a lot of time fixing it. boy did i have fun in it.

[Seakony]

1973 mercury comet...piece of crap and it was new.

[Beachnutt719]

1967 Mustang. Metallic blue with a white interior. My father paid $375 as my graduation present (in 1971). Wish I still had that one!

[Nerak936]

'74 Camaro 350 V-8. Bought it in '78 with 22,000 on it. Mom found it in the local paper and talked the guy down from $3,000 to $2,500 before I even knew the car existed. The thing sucked gas, back end washed out all the time (or maybe that was due to my driving style??), absolutely SUCKED in snow even with the studded snows that came with it. Rear window had a leak and used to freeze up the INSIDE of the car (no rear defroster). Cassette tape deck. Dangerous blind spot in rear. Black vinyl seats upon which I left many layers of back thigh skin when plopping down in it after a day on the beach. Yooowwwwch!!! White vinyl roof with royal blue. Gee, I loved that car!! Sold it in '84 with 88,000 on it for $2,500. Cried when it drove outta my driveway.

[TAPPY]

I got my Dads hand me down work car, A BIG green (tank) Impala. ....The green machine.....it could hold about 10 people.....and a keg or two in the truck....

My brother put some big a$$ speakers in the back (remember those)...all my friends loved it....by the time I was done with it, it had all kinds of dings n dents in it....and would not go in reverse. I could barely drive it into the car lot to trade it in. (I think it backfired twice)

My brothers showed me how to reset the milage (so my Dad could not tell how far I drove it )....how can you drive to school and put 300 miles on the car ???

(Karen you had a cool car, I always wanted a Camero )

[roni]

The first car I bought was a 1964 Sunbeam Alpine Mark IV.

Here is a photo of one I found on the web that is the same color as mine. Tooling around in the hills outside of San Diego was fun for this young sailor .

[jx2]

1979 Red Ford Mustang straight off the car room floor. Got it for my 16th B-day. It had a white vinyl top and a white interior. Yes I was spoiled so I didnt appreciate it a bit. It was the best 4 wheelin street car in Oregon. That thing went everywhere and then some. After about 35k miles and 4 rear-ends(they made crappy pinion gears in those days haha), 2 cluthches, 6 sets of tires it found its way to the bottom of a ravine with me and a friend in it Yep, totalled that one. Some pretty good memories from that short 35k miles though.

[jx2]

Originally Posted by roni

The first car I bought was a 1964 Sunbeam Alpine Mark IV.

Here is a photo of one I found on the web that is the same color as mine. Tooling around in the hills outside of San Diego was fun for this young sailor .

Roni you trying to steal somebody's pic's? I had to post to get of the triple 6 # I was on.

[Big Kahuna]

Got a 1972 Plymouth Duster for my 16th birthday. It was gold with a some sort of vinyl top, 2 door, fast back...UGGGLY. I totaled 3 days after getting it. They replaced it with a 4 dr 1974 Chevy Nova, green with a white top. I drove it until it fell apart, it looked like a granny car, I guess that's what I get. I did some jerry riggin' and traded it in on a solid white, 2 door, white leather interior Olds Cutlass Supreme - SWEET...I loved that car!

1962 puke green vw bug; could see the road thru the holes in the floor board, when it rained your feet got wet. One morning I couldn't back up and the battery had rusted through (yep it was under the back seat) and was sitting on the ground. I stuck a board under it and was off. Zero to the top end of the speedometer in 45 minutes going downhill...did that a lot.

Great car, always started. Traded it in for more than I paid for it. Could fill up for $2.50.