Topic: your first car?

[hoodellyhoo]

1990 Honda civic with 114,000 miles. I bought it 3 years ago for $1,250 when gas was at it's peak so even a crappy rustbucket like this was selling for more money because it supposedly got good gas milage. Best I ever got with is was 30mpg. Here are some of the highlights:

*Burned a quart of oil every 300 miles
*Leaked oil all over
*Leak in the gas tank so I could never fill it over half way
*Had to jiggle the fan switch to get it to work
*For some unknown reason I couldn't take the key out of the ignition if it got below 32 degrees
*Having to keep a key in the ignition constantly drained the battery
*20 mpg or less in the winter (from a 1.5 liter motor)
*Rusted to heck
*Trunk leaked water

The final straw was when I was underneath the car replacing the exhaust and noticed the rear suspension bushings were torn badly. Ended up buying a 2000 corolla to replace it (big improvement)

[Popwood]

Ahhh, a '61 VW Microbus. No heat, no gas gauge and basically, no power. Paid $250 and sold two years later for $400.  Drove it for two months without a working battery so parked on any slight hill to jump start. In my mind all the good times with it are legendary.

[BeSeeingYou]

I "immigrated" to the U.S. in my first car, this old 50's GMC.

[Grnrngr]

A Cameo White with black vinyl top '72 Pontiac Grand Prix. Black interior with crager ss's. 400 4 bbl. Turbo 400 w/shift kit out of a 69 GTO. I miss it still. It was a head turner. Totalled out in $&%*'N snow in '78.

Not my first, but one of several $150 cars..in '85, bought a '74 Grand Prix Model SJ, black on black, 455/T400, sunroof, US Mags all around...I think one of my all time favorite cars...

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

1963 Chevy Impala Super Sport 327/300 4 Speed Dark Blue

[seaweb11]

Like this one? It's for sale for $27,500

[onagd]

Mine was a Vauxhall Viva Estate of approx 1972 vintage.
But the car I remember the most fun being had in was in my school mates 1953 Ford Prefect (or Ford Defect) as it was known to these of us who enjoyed it..

[seaweb11]

Envoy epic

[mrbreeze]

1969 Chevelle SS396......375hp...11.5 to 1 compression....Muncie rock crusher trans....4:11 posi....
Got this car when I got outa Navy bootcamp in Aug. 74'............I wasn't even 18 years old yet. Wadda dumb a$$ for selling that car!!

[trueblue]

Mine was a Vauxhall Viva Estate of approx 1972 vintage.
But the car I remember the most fun being had in was in my school mates 1953 Ford Prefect (or Ford Defect) as it was known to these of us who enjoyed it..

My Mother still has her first car it is a 59 ford prefect the first with the ohv engine, top car, she has had it for almost 40 years and it never misses a beat.

[72 yellow]

Dad MADE you sell it?? Whatever for??

He said he didn't want it sitting here for 6 months until I got my permit.  I had a choice sell it and I keep the money or he sells it and he keeps the money.  A lesson learned.  When I got out of high school and started working I bought a new 68 Plymouth Road Runner.  As I was not 21 and could not own a car,  he had to sign for me.  The day I turned 21, I copied his signature on the title and had the car transferred to my name.  A lesson applied.

[Spanner 1]

1968 Vauxhall Viva  .... what a laff' that thing was.... paid 125 quid ( Pounds )... 4 bald tires, heater didn't work, hence it's nickname ' The Fridge'... much figure 8'ing on frozen roads that winter ( '77 ?, can't remember   )......... sold it 6 months later for 115 quid... very bald tires  ... bought a Fiat 127.

[scottly]

Ray, was the rear-view mirror mounted way forward on the fender stock??

[Spanner 1]

Ya know, I think it was stock and a spring loaded swivel too for all the times it would get 'hit' 

[scottly]

Must have been a major PITA to adjust: sit in the seat, nope, not right, get out, walk up and adjust, walk back, sit in the seat, nope, not right,.....

[Slams77]

1963 Karmann Ghia when I was 18.  The gas pedal would stick while driving it and I would have to keep tapping it in order to un-stick it.  While showing the car to my co-workers, I got in and started it.  The pedal immediately got stuck and I let off the clutch causing the car to jump the curb and smash in to the wall.  Then a couple of months later while parked in my parents’ driveway, someone rear ended it.   I drove around with it in this condition for a while until one night while cruising (yes, cruising) I saw a friend who had started doing auto body and offered to repair it very cheap.  He did a magnificent job and I drove it around for a while more until one day while in the twisties and listing to “Hey You” by the Scorpions, I went into a turn a little too hot, slid over to the next lane and ended up hitting the side of a mountain.  Retrieved the battery which was resting about 5 feet up the hill, pulled the fender far enough away from the tire so that it wouldn’t rub and drove it home.  Had it parked in front of parents’ house again, but this time with a For Sale sign on it.  Got a call from a girl with a very familiar name and voice who came down to see it, only to find out that she was my girlfriend from when I was like 13.  She took the car, I took the cash and I never saw her or the car again.  I still think about her…..the car that is.

[axehole54]

My first car was a terrible granny car, a 1986 pontiac 6000ste with a wierd 2.8 efi fiero engine or at least a fiero intake.. Traded it straight across for a 1970 Chev c10 that I sold  and vowed to obtain another well I did lol here's a pic of a 6000, a terrible picture of a picture of the original truck, and the one I bought last year

[Leino]

1983 Mazda 626 

[azuredesign]

Ahhh, a '61 VW Microbus. No heat, no gas gauge and basically, no power. Paid $250 and sold two years later for $400.  Drove it for two months without a working battery so parked on any slight hill to jump start. In my mind all the good times with it are legendary.

Was there a reserve petcock in your bus? I think I remember one in mine. I had also forgotten about having to down shift to 3rd on some hills on rt 128(a major highway) b/c 36 hp was not enough to push me up in 4th!

[Really?]

'67 Barracuda, the one with the trunk.  Came with bigger tires in the back, some kind of alum/magnesium rims, air shocks and glass packs.  I was 14.

No pictures.  Heck no camera either then.  Any pics I have of anything is because somehow I got a copy of what someone else took.

[flybox1]

nato green 1967 Ford Fairlane 500 Wagon
then, unfortunately, passed over my grandfathers '66 barracuda($1500)for an accord. 
i know...i'm a dumb@$$!!!

[pdxPope]

1966 Austin Healey Sprite (non-bugeye). Loved to pop out of 2nd gear.
I traded that for a '67 Sunbeam Alpine with a bad tranny, which I subsequently sold for a '75 MGB that had an engine fire.

I was a glutton for punishment!   
 
-JP

[strynboen]

uh not my first car,,but,,never forget my leyland cherpa..that gearbox vas like an ferguson tea-20..no sykromesse..scratchhhhhh ups skkkkrtklonk..3 gear..no back gear..

[Operator]

Was my Mom's, but was the first car I really drove regularly. 1982 AMC Eagle. Say what you will about AMC's, but I never had any serious issues with it, and it would go the same places my buddy's Jeep CJ would go. I even pulled two cars out of the ditch in a snowstorm with it.

My first car I actually owned was a 1984 VW Jetta GL in my last year of high school. Eventually everything went except the engine. Bought it for 1200.00 drove the guts out of it for 4 years and then sold the engine for 500.00.

Favourite car is my wife's current vehicle, 1995 Land Rover Discovery. Will go anywhere!! and believe me, I've tried......

[Really?]

That and the wagon, Concord I think, was what the lifeguards drove on the beaches in SO. Cal.

My mum had the wagon and it was fine for her. The rear door hinge kept breaking but that was it.