What was the first car you ever owned?

[TheMightyFavog]

Mine was a 1988 Ford Taurus that my Dad bought me. It was a nice little car. It had a nice V6 that had a lot of nuts, the engine was good, never had any toruble with the engine. However, being the young, immature, stupid driver that I was, I abused the fuck out of it. We had this little hump on a back road near our house, which if you hit it going 60 or so, you'd catch some air. One day, I landed pretty hard, bottomed the car out, and gashed a nice hole in the tranny fluid pan. Needless to say, my old man was wicked pissed. I took it to the local mechanic, he tried to patch up the hole, but it didn't work. I din't find out thatthe patch didn't work until one day the old man checked my tranny fluid while changing my oil and found that the stick wascompletley dry. That's when the tranny started acting up.

I also got into a few scrapes, some asshat who was parked next to me knocked my passenger side side-veiw mirror out of whack, I rear ended an old guy (who was the town president) outside the town hall coming back form classes at the tech school I went to at the time. His van was undamaged, but his trailer hitch fucked up my front end. I didn't have the money to get it fixed, so I had a bad front end with headlights were out of whack (I tried tore-algin the headlights, but because of the state of the front end, I just couldn't do it.

I also had problems with the electrical system. I had a problem where the emergency brake idiot light would stay on after I shut the car off. If I didn't disconnect the battery every time I parked the car for awhile, I'd end up having toget a jump because the damn idiot light would drain my battery. Eventually, one of the computers shorted out, and The Taurus was kaput for good.

I ended up replacing it with a 1992 Tempo. Its 4-banger means that I get great milage, but whenever I drive to Green Bay, there are times I miss my Taurus' V6, especailly getting on to the freeway.

[GOPisEvil]

1. 1980 Datsun 210 Hatchback.

Purchased from my parents in 1984. Great little car for a high school/college student. Economical and not too fast. :D

The back seat folded down flat...had many an intimate encounter back there. :-)

[Awsi Dooger]

52. So that's what the hatchback model was for...

Damn, what a pathetic south Florida salesman I had, GOPisEvil. My '80 Datsun 210 was a standard version that my "row goddess" sorority girlfriend did not take to at all. "Can't this %#@^ing thing go any faster?"

I put 70,000 miles on the dependable white B-210 in the first 3 years, back and forth from FL to CA. One bad alternator and a couple of worn rotors was about all that went wrong in 10+ years.

[Limbought]

2. My first car ........

was a 1968 Ford Galaxy Convertible. Black with a red leather interior. What a hunny!

The bad news:
I totaled it smacking into the 2nd biggest deer killed in Warren County, NY in 1977.

[HereSince1628]

3. My first _car_ was a 1971 4-door Maverick

It was chartreuse (sp?).

My first vehicle was a 1962 International Harvester 3/4 pick-up truck with 4 wheel drive.

[TheMightyFavog]

7. Ahhh IHC..

Made back when Pickups, were only owned by people who use them.

[HereSince1628]

21. Yes but gone into history

[quispquake]

19. Mine was a '71 2-door Maverick...

Yellow as Tweety bird!!!

[HereSince1628]

25. Do you remember the commercial where two airline stewardesses

did a complete tune up on a Maverick with a pair of pliers and a screw-driver?

[5thGenDemocrat]

39. I am currently the proud owner of a 1963 International Harvester

School bus, which we've (the peezos and I) have converted into a motor home. Seven tons, 29 feet eight inches long. Named "Social Embarrassment." It's been to two Grateful Dead shows, where it was the hit of the parking lot (the 24 cases of beer we brought along helped).
My first car, when I was 14, was a 1961 Dodge Lancer (a retagged Plymouth Valiant) with the old push-button transmission.
John
The first car I owned and operated legally was a 1964 Plymouth Belvedere that my grandmother sold me.

[Blue-Jay]

4. 1972 Dodge Challenger

Boy, could that thing move!

[Don_G]

5. 1973 1/2 MGB

The half-model year where they added those ugly black bumpers. The UK was also switching from the standard to the metric system so I had to get 2 sets of wrenches and sockets to keep the damm thing running.

It was a lot of fun though.

[Richardo]

6. '68 Mercury Cougar RX7, baby!

$750 bucks. Sweet ride. Great design: Overhead console, sequential taillights, hidden headlights. Oh yeah, and a 428 under the hood. Still miss that car. :cry:



Mine was bronze with the black vinyl top.

[GOPisEvil]

27. That's one of my dream cars!

How'd you ever part with it? ;-)

[Richardo]

29. I'm sure I augered it into the ground (figuratively)...

...to tell you the truth I can't remember WHAT became of that car. :shrug: More than likely something too expensive to fix (this was during my college years, after all) caused me to leave it at my folks house until they got rid of it...

Maybe I'll ask Mom and Dad if THEY remember...

[Lost4words]

54. that would be X R 7 not rx7!

at least get the name correct!

[sleipnir]

8. The 1995 Monte Carlo (Silver) That I still have...

Had it for 5 years, still runs great! T

[trotsky]

9. 1968 Plymouth Fury III convertible

OK, so it wasn't in the greatest shape, and it wasn't really mine (Dad let me drive it until I got my "own" car - a 1981 Plymouth Horizon), but it was fun as hell to drive. That thing had a lot of punch.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. 1983 Honda Accord 4-door.

Died on me after high school graduation, on the side of the road in Florida...left it there. Since then I've had seven others...driving a '92 Accord SE right now.

[TheMightyFavog]

11. Actually,

I almost replaced my Taurus with a burgundy 1966 Corvair (in not too bad condition, I might add). If I would have had $3500 at the time, I would have bought it. Took it for a test drive, ever since then I have never, ever taken power steering for granted. Although, the push-button tranny on the console and the Vacuum-assisted brakes, would have taken some getting used to.

[MojoKrunch]

12. Owned... a 1980 Ford Pinto!

*AND* I got rear-ended in it!

First I ever drove as my own was a little red Chevy Luv pickup truck.

Mojo

[areschild]

13. I had a Simca

Don't remember what year it was. Haven't seen or heard of them since. In fact, the one I had was the only one I ever knew about.

[TheMightyFavog]

23. There is actually a Simca owner's club!

http://www.centurytel.net/SIMCA/

[areschild]

14. I had a Simca

Don't remember what year it was. Haven't seen or heard of them since. In fact, the one I had was the only one I ever knew about.

On edit: Don't know how this got double-posted. Sorry

[AlabamaYankee]

15. 1967 Sunbeam Alpine

Great little car, but it had been in an accident before I bought it - and of course the salesman couldn't be bothered to tell me -so it had some problems that surfaced pretty quickly. After about a year of regaling my girlfriend/fiancee (and still Mrs. AY) a weekly Apline horror story I decided I needed more reliable transportation and moved up to a brand new '72 Dodge Colt. It was reliable for 80k miles then fell apart due to the unfortunate combination of Pennsylvania road salt ahd cheap Japanese steel.

[xJlM]

16. 1963 Chevy Impala

A four-door, with a 283 and a Powerglide two-speed transmission. Bought it for $50 from my neighbor, and trashed it out in about two months.

[CO Liberal]

17. 1958 Hilman Minx

Like this one, only the green sections had been painted red with a brush:



Paid $80 for it in 1970, and had it for a year and a half before the trans died. Wish I still had it........

[bowens43]

18. 1962 Ford Falcon

[av8rdave]

20. 1979 Pontiac Trans Am...

Picked it up from the factory. Typical Pontiac - fell apart around 40K miles.

av8rdave

[toddzilla]

26. a '74 ford capri

got it for xmas, it was so beat up and rusty, but i loved it!

looks like this, only in terrible shape.



i've had so many cars, it would be difficult to remember them all.

i did drive a taurus for a while, but it had head gasket and tranny problems so i let it go (hate front wheel drive)

[Mr. McD]

22. 1948 Plymouth Business coupe

Got it for $25.00 that was in 1965.

[grannylib]

24. Orange '74 VW squareback

[Chef]

28. Cars

56 Plymouth (lots of rust
55 Olds
63 Falcon (fast v8)
54 Plymouth
61 Peugeot 304 (geat car)
70 Pinto (dog)
71 Volvo
73 Olds Omega
73 Mazda RX3 Wagon
70 Peugeot 504
76 VW Rabbit
69 MG (real junk, but fun when it ran)
65 Volvo
75 Fiat X19 (neat and underpowered)
79 Chevrolet Malibu
74 Datsun 260Z (real fun)
75 Peugeot 504
84 Olds Cutlass
83 280 ZX
88 Merkur Scoripo (neat car)
86 Buick Riveria
96 Saturn
98 Subaru

[TheMightyFavog]

32. Peugeots...

Do they still sell Peugeots here in the US? I seem to remember a bunch of freepers getting their hands on one and publically smashing it in protest of France's opposition to Operation Oil Grab. Then again, it may have been one of those older Peugeots.

[Chef]

38. Peugeot

They pulled out of the US market in the mid to late 80's.

[LizW]

30. 1974 Opel Manta

Easter-egg blue.

[Bertha Venation]

31. 1972 Toyota Corona Mark II

Nothing but Toyotas for me, baby. Now I drive a 1995 Tercel and a 1985 Corolla. I long for a Highlander, but will soon buy a 2003 Corolla instead.

[liberalitch]

33. DATSUN

1981 B210
Blue.... man I loved that car!

[sinkingfeeling]

34. 1956 Metropolitan, named the 'Ladybug' n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. Fiat 147

Very old, very cheap. A friend of mine totaled it. No big loss.

[trackfan]

36. I think the first on I actually legally had title to

was a Green 1970 Chevy Impala. (This was in about 1983)

[Esurientes]

37. A '50 Buick Special

(This was in 1970). Everyone called it "The Tank".

[Skittles]

40. '73 Dodge charger

oh I loved that old thing. I bougt it used in the military in '77.

[MissMillie]

41. 1980 Honda

Civic Hatchback

[NashVegas]

42. 66 Mustang

:)

It was a piece of shit, but by god when you look at those things, all you see is the geometry, anyways.

[VOX]

43. 1966 Mercedes Benz 250S - *not* a luxury car!

Actually belonged to a doctor and I got it used very clean. It cost me $4,000 off-the-lot in 1975, which was what a new Chevy was going for back then.

I loved that car. It drove like a stone (straight 6), but had a body like a tank. And REAL wood on the dash. Had a great independent mechanic who didn't charge an arm and a leg.

I kept it until 1988, when I bought an off-lease Volvo 240DL. And that car lasted me until this year!

Still sticking with Volvo -- now have an XC70 wagon. Terrific wheels.

[geniph]

44. Bought a Chevy LUV pickup new in 1980

and just sold it last year! That was the most dependable, trouble-free little trucklet imaginable.

It was hard to sell my very first car after 22 years.

[politicat]

45. 1976 Buick Skyhawk, Burgundy with racing stripes.

She ran like a champ. Bought her for 12.75 (okay, dad signed title) because that's how much money I had at the ripe old age of 12.5. No engine, no tranny, the steering wheel was in the bak seat.

I put 4 years worth of babysitting money into that car. Got her running just about my 16th birthday. (Had to have the engine put in by a shop since we didn't have the lift for it, but I did everything else.)

I knew that car inside out. 26 MPG, took off like a bat out of hell, V-6....

She died four years ago, victim of a small plastic plug in her oil regulator sensor.... And no longer manufactured. Poor girl. RIP....

I lived without a car for a while, bought a 68 Beetle that died of massive engine failure when I didn't have time to do anything with it, and went back to living without a car for a while longer.

Bought a brand new Hyundai Accent and wonder why it took me so long to decide that I could spend the money....

Politicat (who has a love hate relationship with cars - loves the mobility, but hates the money and the ecological destruction....)

[GumboYaYa]

46. '73 Caddy Coupe deVille

[camero]

47. 1972 Chevelle

Saved my money from workin at my School in the summer.

[Beaker]

48. '67 mustang fastback

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

[pscot]

49. 1948 Pontiac

with a straight 8 and hydromatic transmission. It was powder blue and the engine sounded like a can of rocks rolling down the road, but it only cost me fifty bucks. It was so big that you actually walked into the back seat. It ran pretty well, but I was kind of embarassed to drive it. I finally replaced it with a '53 Hudson hornet with a snazzy two tone paint job.

[Booberdawg]

50. 1974 Gremlim GLC

[Djinn]

51. mine wont be so familiar

t'was a 1970 HG Kingswood with a red leather interior I bought it in 96 when I was 21 (a lot more old cars on the road in Aust) and if it wasn't so heavy on the petrol - I'd still have one, not the original one I bought coz I wrapped it around a pole one day but similar



God I loved that car - mega cheap to service/repair mainly coz the engine bay was huge and it was so simple even I could service/tune it, after totalling the HG I bought a HT which is the model just before the HG and in the four year I drove them I think I only spent $200 in total at the mechanics and the strength of the body and the fab bench seats saved my life in bad accident. Now I drive a dull suburban mobile - time for a change - think I might go car shopping this weekend

[CRK7376]

53. Gold/Brown Mustard colored

'77 Toyota Corolla I bought from my parents. I put nearly 200K on the car after the 50-70k they put on it. Great car then I bought an '85 Nissan King Cab and put 200K on it until it died....Now I drive a Ford Escort Wagon. Wife made me give up the truck for the car. Heartbroken, loved that truck.....In the future I'll be back in a truck....Hard to haul all the kids and dogs and cats in a king cab....oh well....

[Lost4words]

55. MGB 1967

[amber dog democrat]

56. 1958 Ford

white 4 door. 3 on the tree. paid 180.00 for it in 1973.