what was your first car?

[Speedbag]

The first vehicle that the folks supplied was 1972 Ford F100 pickup, 390 V8, AT, rusty as hell and no heat. Lucky passengers had to hope for no puddles while driving in the rain. Awesome burnout machine.

The first car I bought on my own (1986, senior in high school) is pictured below as it is today. Still have it, no plans to part with it (unless the money is right  ).

[Oldfisti]

The first vehicle that the folks supplied was 1972 Ford F100 pickup, 390 V8, AT, rusty as hell and no heat. Lucky passengers had to hope for no puddles while driving in the rain. Awesome burnout machine.

The first car I bought on my own (1986, senior in high school) is pictured below as it is today. Still have it, no plans to part with it (unless the money is right  ).

Is that a 67?

[Timmy Tucker]

Not mine, but I had a gold, 4 door 1973 Ford Maverick with a vinyl overlay top. Bought it for $500 in 1993, traded it in in 1995 for a 1989 Toyota Corolla GT-S and got $1000 for it....

Ahhh..... the Maverick. That's the only car I can remember my grandfather ever driving. Had a fleet of those thing sitting around in the yard. He had 2 when he passed away, a shit brown '76-'77-ish and '72-'73 white 2-dr w/ blue racing stripes. I wish I had the white and blue one. There was a dude that ran one just like it at the local drag strip, was a badass little car.

[Speedbag]

Is that a 67?

Yep. Good eye, lotsa folks don't even know what it is....

[Timmy Tucker]

Yep. Good eye, lotsa folks don't even know what it is....

I've got no idea what it is. But I like it, especially the red stripes.

[Speedbag]

I've got no idea what it is. But I like it, especially the red stripes.

1967 Mercury Cougar (first year they made them). '68s are basically the same on the outside, but have hideous (IMO) side marker lights.

[NAKID]

It's a Mercury Cougar...

[Timmy Tucker]

1967 Mercury Cougar (first year they made them). '68s are basically the same on the outside, but have hideous (IMO) side marker lights.

Ahhh. Gotcha. I know absolutely nothing about Merc's. I thought it looked very Mustang-ish, but the front end threw me off. And I had myself convinced I was seeing a Pontiac insignia on the grill.

[NAKID]

I love that grill

[JEFF_H]

1975 Camaro
Paid $700.

Black, slowly peeling off to show the red underneath
straight 6 ( but nobody knew)
chrome side pipes that shot flames out when the car backfired on deceleration
pregnant dogin alum wheels with fat tires, way jacked up in back.
6x9's in boxes on the rear deck crankin out the VanHalen
sagging headliner, etc, etc

I thought I was the shit.
Meet Jeff Dirt 

(my 2nd car was a 72 OpelGT....i'd like to have one of those again)

[superjohn]

mine was a 1978 mustang 2 (yea the ugly mustang) had original 8 track player with kiss destroyer in it and a 302 v8 engine that ripped.
paid $700 for it.

went to woodstock 1994 in it.

I'm jealous.
I wanted a Triumph TR7. Folks said no.
I wanted a Fiat X1/9. Folks again, said no.
I wanted a '72 Camaro with a 305. Yep, you guessed it. They said no.
What did they finally say yes to? What automobile passed their seemingly impossible parental quality control?
1976 Ford Mustang II. Blue w/ blue interior and blue vinyl top powered by the impotent 2.3L 4 banger with a slush box.  

1967 Mercury Cougar (first year they made them). '68s are basically the same on the outside, but have hideous (IMO) side marker lights.

Fortunately my friend in high school had a '69 Cougar convertible with a 351W 4-barrel that we'd cruise in to keep me from being left in complete automotive depression.  

[SP3]

1973 International Scout II. [I turned 16 in 1989] Bought it for $500.

I had it for about 3 months when my mom borrowed it. After returning she informed me that I had to sell it because it was dangerous.  Keep in mind...the brakes had no feel whatsoever (but they worked), and it was constant work keeping it in the lane because it wandered pretty bad. Ran like a champ though.

Sold it for $900. 

My second vehicle was a '76 Scout II. I sort of had them in my blood. My mother's eldest uncle had two from new, a family friend had a Scout "I", my best friend's dad had a '77 from new. He passed it to his elder son then to my friend. I got mine about two weeks after returning home from Germany (US Army) in '88. I drove the piss out of it for two years before selling it for God knows why. I still miss it.

Oh yeah, first car, '76 Triumph TR7. I kept if for almost twenty years. Drove the piss out of it also and miss it as well. Not terribly fast in a straight line but went round the twisty bits like a slot car when I wasn't purposely sideways.

[DirtyDuc]

1981 Porsche 911sc (I inherited from my father when he moved to Germany).  I should also mention that I had to give it back 3 years later when he returned.  So, maybe my first car was the Jeep wrangler I got then...

[BumpaD_Z28]

1980 Chevrolet MONZA SpYder Restored it for a year from 15-16 and LOVED IT !!!



~DaVe

[That Nice Guy Beck!]

I'm jealous.
I wanted a Triumph TR7. Folks said no.
I wanted a Fiat X1/9. Folks again, said no.
I wanted a '72 Camaro with a 305. Yep, you guessed it. They said no.
What did they finally say yes to? What automobile passed their seemingly impossible parental quality control?
1976 Ford Mustang II. Blue w/ blue interior and blue vinyl top powered by the impotent 2.3L 4 banger with a slush box.  


Fortunately my friend in high school had a '69 Cougar convertible with a 351W 4-barrel that we'd cruise in to keep me from being left in complete automotive depression.  

ha!
I dont even know what happened to mine I just left it somewhere upstate NY.....