what was your first car?

[ducpainter]

Laws can ruin some good fun.

yup

[Le Pirate]

this:



i wish it had been this one  :

[aaronb]

i had an '89 volvo 740 gl, only 118 hp, but it at least drove well
like this

[NAKID]

Sorry, even with the last pic, there is no way to make a Tracker cool...

It's like trying to make a Suzuki Suicide look cool....

[Ducatista]

1982 Mercury Grand Marquis




The speedo read 15 mph too slow
The driver's side door wouldn't lock from the inside
The passenger side door wouldn't open from the outside
The fasten seatbelt idiot light and ding would come on at random times
The gear indicator had slipped so far that when you were in drive, it indicated reverse

Ohhhh the memories...

[Drunken Monkey]

A late '70s Renault Gordini.

I've hated the French since I was forced to endure a year in their public schools (also in the '70s) but this car really cemented the deal.

Bought it for $300 and sold it for parts a year later for $100 + $200 for the stereo.

I still can't say I came out ahead on that deal.

[MendoDave]

First car 76 GMC Jimmy just like this one except no tint, and it was 2WD not 4WD.

Came with a straight 6 but after 300,000 miles the engine went so my dad gave it to me. Put a 350 in it and never could get it to run right. Three on the tree too. I did learn how to work on that linkage...




After I twisted the crankshaft in two, I had a nice looking 77' red Camaro. After I blew the wimpy smogger 305 engine, I had a 350 built for it. Isky Cam, Edelbrock intake, GM 4 barrel & dual exhaust. I drove it around until I found the 72' Camaro RS. Did an engine swap with the two cars, & sold the 77'. The 72 Came with Posi, fourspeed, & of course all the RS underpinnings. 

Now I could get rubber in third gear if the pavement wasn't completely dry, and get all sideways doing it too. Used to pull out of the carwash with wet tires & hang a left. It would do the four wheel drift across the traffic & center turn lanes, and by the time it started grabbing traction I was already doing about 45 MPH.

I loved that car but sadly I hit a deer with it after slowing down to 80 or so, and i didn't have the money to fix it.



Again not mine but same car, same color. For some reason mine had the taller rear spoiler which looked better anyway.

[TwoWheels]

1972 Dodge Van.  225 slant 6 -- great engine.  3 on the tree.  I picked it up for $500.  It had previously been an appliance service vehicle.  I had to put a fair amount of sheet metal/bondo along the rocker panels.  I fit in a day bed and small bureau and with camping gear I lived in it for a summer and had a lot of great road trips during college.  I spent a lot of time on the gravel logging roads of northern Maine.  I went through a lot of tires, and rarely had two that matched.  It was the best and worst couple of years of my life.

[bluemoco]

My first car was a 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula like this one:



5.0L Fuel-Injected V8, 5-speed manual trans, and a tight suspension.  Lots of fond memories of that car...  <sigh>

[TiNi]

My first car was given to me with the condition i had to taxi my little brother to football practice.

It was a 74 Beetle with holes in the floor, and it was ravena green, a color you would see on no other car.
Mine was not a convertible, but this was the color...



it had a "nuke the preppies" bumper sticker on it, and i put a stereo in it, of course.
i recently ran into an old friend from HS who i hadn't seen since, and we talked about the fun times in that car.
when i went away to college, i gave it to a guy who restored bugs, i wonder if it still lives...

the first car i ever bought was a 90 GTI Wolfsburg Edition
i left it behind with my ex, i have no idea what happened to it.
i looked identical to this, but had the original teardrop rims...

[the_Journeyman]

Can't find a pic, but I had a 1994 Chevy Cavalier 2-door.  It was "Hawaiian Orchid" in color.  That's GM for "dark purple" ~

JM

[tonyj311]

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.

no way! I had the same ride! Bought it for $500. It was red, but faded to pink, the leaf springs were busted and I dont think it had a radio. I had the V8 as well. Still wish I woulda kept it. THose v-8's were pretty rare in that car. I traded it for a 71 Chevelle. That ended up spontaneously combusting in the street. no lie.

[Fresh Pants]

1988 Honda Accord LXi 4-door.
With 102,000 on it.

Was still a great car.

[mstevens]

My first "car" was a Ford Bronco II that I bought new the year after I graduated from medical school (so it was 1989). That was the first time I could afford any vehicle of my own.

During college, I walked or took the bus. During medical school, my wife (who had a job) had a used 1980 BMW 320i that, since we were married, sort of counted as "my" car as well.

After the Bronco II, I had a Jeep Wrangler (meh) then a Mercedes ML320 (worst. car. ever!).

The first actual car that I ever bought for myself was a 1998 BMW 330xi. I'm sticking with Bimmers from now on until I can afford that Ferrari.

[iDuc]

The first car I had to drive was the family Ford- a 1958! I went with my Dad to pick it up new when I was in the second grade. It had an inline 6 with a single barrel carb and three-on-the-tree, because he refused to spend more than $2000 for a car. It still had vacuum powered windshield wipers, so that the wipers stopped whenever you accelerated, because the manifold vacuum dropped. Brilliant! Ten years later it was mine. That big bench front seat came in handy in high school. Also I learned to do a double-clutch downshift into a non-synchro first gear on that car (if you don't know what that means, don't worry- you don't need to know it anymore.)

The first car I bought was a 1971 Porsche 914, used, with 60K on it. Drove it till it rusted out (which wasn't very long) and traded it on a first gen Scirocco.