What was your first car?

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  • caspergirl7
    caspergirl7 Posts: 590 Member
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    i can't remember what year it was (probably 96??) but it was a green suzuki esteem : )
  • Rhonnie
    Rhonnie Posts: 506 Member
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    66 Chrysler newport (think the lyrics from the song Love Shack "Chyrsler as big as a whale" - what that song doesn't mention is the 440 engine under the hood! Loved surprising muscle cars off the line with that thing!)

    http://www.cargurus.com/Cars/1966-Chrysler-Newport-Pictures-c18857#pi36005551

    Followed by:

    78 Honda Civic (with baja racing parts so those little hamsters inside could get a hummin! More surprising of the guys and their muscles cars that would pull up next to me revin their beasts. hehe)

    http://www.cargurus.com/Cars/1978-Honda-Civic-Pictures-c4663

    71 Fiat Spyder - http://www.cargurus.com/Cars/1971-FIAT-124-Spider-Overview-c14094

    85 Toyota MR2 - http://www.cargurus.com/Cars/1985-Toyota-MR2-Overview-c4221

    (Followed by a few years of 'family friendly vehicles' - although do not read that as 'mini van' *cringe*)

    Currently: 03 Mitsubishi Eclipse Sypder - http://www.cargurus.com/Cars/2003-Mitsubishi-Eclipse-Spyder-Overview-c2868

    (edited to add pictures for reference only - not my actual cars)
  • burning2much
    burning2much Posts: 4,846 Member
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    1970 Black Camero...VAROOM!
  • 130annie
    130annie Posts: 339 Member
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    Morris 10. 19** something, gear stick...or stick shift..... For an old car, had a lot of voom!
  • BeeElMarvin
    BeeElMarvin Posts: 2,086 Member
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    Anything that would run for a year. Cost not to exceed $150.00.

    First one was a 1968 Olds Delta 88 Custom. 455 ci. 4 bbl. 390 hp.

    It was a good thing gas only cost $.33/ gal.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,126 Member
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    1977 Dodge Aspen in the wonderful colour of baby blue. Not my preference, but it was what I could afford.
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
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  • RunDoozer
    RunDoozer Posts: 1,699 Member
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    92 ford escort hatchback

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  • bethlaf
    bethlaf Posts: 954 Member
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    http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/73-brochure.jpg

    this one .. in GReen metallic flake ! slant 6 engine, first repair i ever did on it was with a hacksaw! the fuel line had a leak, so i hacked it in half , sleeved it with tubing and hose clamped it !! yes REALLY
  • Strobins05
    Strobins05 Posts: 716
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    OMG, First semester of college I worked as a waitstaff and sent the money to Mom and WHAM this is what I could afford. It was an eighties something Blue two door Granada Ford. She was sweet, with shiny rims and squeaked do to lacking shocks, LMAO. I was able to transport all of my seven girlfriends in it. We were tired of riding in Jen’s Nissan 300Z hatch area, LOL.:flowerforyou:
  • dodihere
    dodihere Posts: 490
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    1979 Oldsmobile Cutless Supreme baby!
  • sizzle74
    sizzle74 Posts: 858 Member
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    '65 Ford Mustang. Sky Blue. A beauty of a car. I am lucky to still be alive.
  • jzebracki
    jzebracki Posts: 112 Member
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    1969 Chevy Nova! Awesome car! Had it from 1979 to 1985.
  • annwyatt69
    annwyatt69 Posts: 727 Member
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    IN 1989--a 1981 Red Ford Fairmont. My dad bought it from a neighbor who thought the engine was froze up. Got it for $200. Turned out the fuel pump was cracked and the gas had oil in it. Dad fixed it and I had an awesome car. Down the road, a few years later, it had a bad front main seal and smoked from underneath whenever we were stopped at a light. Hence, the name was coined "the Fairmont from Hell." Bought that car in Orange, TX and it met its demise in a snow bank in Walworth, WI.--after about 3 trips carrying a 6x12 loaded trailer. LOL
  • JusticeGirl25
    JusticeGirl25 Posts: 703 Member
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    A 2002 Mitsubishi.
  • iulia_maddie
    iulia_maddie Posts: 2,780 Member
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    Old crappy Kia Sepia. It made funny noises all the time, it was a manual transmission and wouldn't ever go into first. It was a piece of junk.
    I loved it because it signified my newly found independence. :wink:
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,874 Member
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    '74 VW Beetle

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    It looked pretty much like this one...I bought it from one of my dad's friends who collected them and rebuilt them, so it was in pretty much show condition.

    I loved that car. I started working at the roller skating rink when I was 15 to be able to buy it for my 16th birthday. Unfortunately, it was totaled when I was hit by a drunk driver a couple of years later.

    My VW was cherry!
  • NotRailMeat
    NotRailMeat Posts: 509 Member
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    1980 Datsun (pre Nissan) 510

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    It made all the ladies swoon... or was it laugh.... I can't remember.
  • creech6317
    creech6317 Posts: 869 Member
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    My first car was a pinto, not the wagon but a hatchback. I loved that car. My friends and I thrashed that thing, and it just kept on going.

    Now the first vehicle that I bought for myself was much more my style. 1963 Chevy Stepside 3/4 ton pickup. I loved that truck. We called it Thor, and it was a beast!!
  • k8eekins
    k8eekins Posts: 2,264 Member
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    A friend's post (and this being "throwback Thursday" and all) got me thinking about this....

    Mine was a 1977 Buick Lesabre (in 1986) that might as well have been a boat…four doors, a big V8 engine (gas was cheap then, so $10 lasted a while)…and it fit like 7 or 8 teenagers in it and head to the beach (and sometimes even a couple could hide in the trunk to sneak extra people into the drive-in movies).

    I saw the odometer roll over 100K (in those days, the old cars rolled to all zeros after 99,999). Lots of good times and memories of that one....I still have dreams about it.

    So, what was yours?

    My first vehicle was a 1987 YJ Jeep Wrangler ~ Rugged tropical terrain-worthy she was. By the time i'd inherited her from my Dad, she was already 5 years old and a year later, my sister got to have her, whilst I'd left for England; 2 years after that ~ our brother :-) She was our initiation vehicle - Stick shift traditional.

    Edit: Typo.

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