Your first car

[Nevada Ed]

Don't remember the year, maybe a '48 Jeep that I put a custom Turquoise/ matalic blue paint job on and had a white canvas full top made for it and as a finishing touch made a 2", full roll bar, painted black for the finishing touch, just in case I messed up and some slick chrome hub caps.

It saw a lot of beach parties.............

 

[Cellar Hound]

What was the first car that had your name on the pink slip?

Mine was a turquoise 1964 Thunderbird. The 390 wasn't much coming out of the gate but it could sure stretch its legs on the highway.



The cockpit was cool but definitely not designed for serious sparkin'.



What was your first?

That is awesome!!

 

[crazyphil]

My first car was a 1928 DeSoto. It had wooden spokes in the wheels.
Paid $65 for it. Didn't keep it long at all. I tried out around 1930 vintage
Oldsmobile. Drove it to an event about ten miles from the lot that had it.
When I got ready to leave I backed out of the parking place, and the gears
stuck in reverse. I went all the way back to the sales lot, ten miles on U.S.
Highway 91, in reverse. Didn't buy that one. Then the keeper was a 1936
Chrysler club coupe. That meant a little crunched up back seat. I kept it
untill I went into the Air Force at age 17. I wrote home and had my Dad
sell it for me.

 

[robvious]

my first car was a 1967 Pontiac Firebird convertible.. big block V8 2 speed automatic... bought it for my 17th birthday right before my senior year... sold it to the best man at our wedding... he has turned it into a monster resto-mod
photo is not mine.. but real close...

and I never lost the itch..
current toy is a 2013 Ford Mustang Boss 302

 

[ditrina]

First car>>>

But it was the second that counted

 

[llowry61]

The first one I drove was a hand me down 1971 Buick Electra deuce and a quarter - huge v-8 transmission that slipped and it ate gas like crazy. My dad made me peel off the a**,gas or grass, nobody rides for free, bumper sticker I put on it. The first one I owned, was a 1968 Mercury Cougar, with a 351 Windsor. Had the vacuum opening headlights and the graduated rear turn signals. That car was in great shape. Paid 350 for it in 79. Ran the **** out of it and beat the heck out of it for 2 years and sold it for 300. I wish I would have taken care of and kept that car. It was really, really nice. Oh well, at least I had one.

 

[rockquarry]

Spring, 1966... a '52 Jaguar XK120.

 

[wood714]

That was built 3 blocks from my high school home in Norwood.

My ex father in law worked there, but always drove a Dodge.

 

[Jessie]

First car>>>

But it was the second that counted

Quite the epiphany

 

[Ziggy2525]

A ‘66 or ‘67 (don’t recall exactly) VW type 3 fastback. Got around great in the snow as long as you didn’t freeze to death before you got to where you were going.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Since Sal brought up seconds, here's number two:



I'm sure our former Rez Fed would have approved.

 

[Robspeire]

1968 BMW 1600,Sahara tan bought in 1972. Totaled by a Buick.
Before that only transportation was motorcycles, all Honda's.

 

[histreenut]

My first car was a used 1987 Le Baron GTS. It had no AC, just an AM/FM radio, and a 5 speed...similar to the picture. My Dad co-signed the loan.

Miss that car....

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[pawngal]

1st car I bought, summer of 1965, '57 Corvette for $900. Had a stock 283 that burned more oil than gas with a sloppy 3 speed. Had 2 friends that raced dirt track super modifieds build an engine, 265 bored to 301 cu in, fuelie cam, solid lifters, 12.5 to 1 pistons, Carter 4 barrel, T-10 Borg Warner 4 speed. Did a lot of midnight country blacktop racing, never was beat. But I blew it up at about 85-90 in 3rd gear.
Then hubby at the time put another engine in it and wrecked it.

The second car '65 AH Sprite, loved that little thing. Bought it in '67 after the demise of the Vette.

Wish I had more and better pictures of them!
Added picture from the web of what the Sprite looked like.

 

[glowe]

Never had a pink slip, but my 1963 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport was the first car I owned. Was still a teenager and my father had to go with me to find a good used car for college. I fell in love with this one and fortunately my father had always owned big V-8 Pontiacs so the 409 did not register as a dangerous purchase. My first set of rear tires lasted under 4,000 miles!!

 

[BaldEagle1313]

First car I ever had, co-signed by parent, was a 1974 Chevy Vega. Which had the engine seize a few thousand miles past warranty expiration. So I dropped in an Oldsmobile 215 V-8 and sold it.

First car I ever bought on my own, no co-signer, was a 1970 Datsun 240Z. Which was totaled by a guy in a White Chevy pickup who turned left into the 7-11 at the last second from the right-hand lane, while I was occupying the left lane.

 

[JH1951]

1959 Austin Healey 100-6

 

[sheepdawg]

66 Red Hardtop Mustang, 289 V8. Had a Holley 600, headers and glass packs on it in a week. Really wasn't all that fast. My 05 GT Mustang would have run circles around it and compared to the new GTs it ain't all that fast either but it sounds nice.

 

[Krogen]

1969 GTO. Arrest-me Red. 400 cubes and a 4-speed. That big Quadrajet howled when you got into the secondaries. I loved that car, but I wouldn't have one again. A lot has changed in the last 50 years. My current "weekend ride" will run circles around an old Goat. Plus, unlike the old Goat, it doesn't object to turning and stopping.

 

[Kinman]

The year was 1967, of course I lusted for a Corvette, or better Jaguar XKE...but ended up with a '61 TR-3 Triumph, Silverstone Blue, no wires, that was perfect except the college kid had blown the reverse/1st gear cluster, reverse was gone, 1st was chipped. It was still the coolest first car I could realize for $200 cash. It also did not have a solid rag-top but some kind of fiberglass thing that had to be attached with duct tape. A rebuilt transmission from JC Whitneys cost $150, way beyond my means at the time. The only time I can remember having any real problem without having reverse was once while taking my girlfriend to a new "parking" spot which led its way through a narrow one way sandy trail through the scrub oak. My headlights revealed a ditch someone had dug completely across the trail. I pushed the car backward a good 200 yds with my girlfriend steering, needless to say, by the time we got out my time was up and barely got her home in time.