What was your first car?

[sschuler1]

My dad said that he would match whatever money my sister, brother and myself could scrape together and we could go buy a car. We managed to put together $200, so with my dad's matching money we went and bought a $400 Maverick. It was a real POS, but we had fun. It lasted a couple of years and got us through high school.

[JohnN]

Ford Maverick! that is a POS.. LOL...
and I've owned quite a few POS, however my first car was a '66 Plymouth Fury

Navy Blue, somewhat ugly but had police car specs, big engine, heavy duty suspension, and could nearly fly.... although the Chargers and Vettes could eat my lunch

[Harry]

38 Dodge Pickup. Paid $75 Needed lots of work. Drove it for 2 years and sold it for $500. I think that was the only vehicle that I ever sold for more than I paid for it.

[mac9]

a 1949 Plymouth Deluxe. It had a steering wheel the size of a bus! It was easy to find the car in a parking lot as it was the highest. To open the vents, there was a handle under the dashboard that you pushed down really hard and the vent opened on the hood. I have always remembered that car and loved it. I wish that I could find another one.

[njgranny]

I had a blue 54 Chevy convertible. I think the payments were something like $54 a month. It was a great car until my brother put it in reverse while he was driving forward. :o

[sandybill2]

I am from the "mountains of Ky" and did not even get a driver's license until I was 21 years old--married and with a 6 month old son. My First Car was a 1966 VW Bug-1300--seafoam green--bought it new and paid $1500.00 for it. Wish I had kept it to pass on to our son as he ended up being a VW fanatic. The first car he bought was a VW Thing. He has refurbished a VW Camper Bus-1960. He is now working on an Old VW Truck.

[Russ_Boston]

1960 Ford Fairlane - three on the tree - had to get out of the car and move the shift linkage by hand every now and then. Might have been a great care - ONCE! By the time I got it - POS!

[colleenj]

My first car was a hand-me-down from my parents. It was a turquoise color 1966 Chevy Impala- we nicked named it "the Queen Mary" (like the ocean liner)because back then it was a large car. It was a great car and had well over 100,000 miles on it by the time it blew an engine and died for good.

[Sidney Lanier]

I grew up in New York City where you didn't really need a car, so I didn't get a license or a car till I was older. First car was a black 1959 Chevy Impala, a huge boat of a car with those soaring wings on the back where the taillights were. Occasionally needed a wire coat hanger to short out something in the starter to get the car going, and sometimes a large screwdriver in the top opening of the carburetor after taking the air filter off to hold the butterfly valve open. Fun, those days....

[l2ridehd]

A 51 Chevy. Bought it when I was 14 for $25 because it had a blown engine. Spent the next year rebuilding the engine and had it all ready to go on my 16th birthday. Drove it for a couple years before the transmission died. After that it was whatever car I could get for less than $100 and drive until they quit. Lived on a farm and had a car graveyard in one of the fields. Later in life I sold them all for scrape metal and probably got as much as they cost me. Had a 49 ford flathead V8, a 52 Oldsmobile, a 55 Chevy, a 57 Ford, 61 Mercury Comet, a 65 Mustang. Had a couple of "muscle cars" but not for long, a GTO and a Road Runner. First new car was a 67 Mustang that I drove for 165,000 miles. Cost $2100. Had a 289 V8 which was the best engine Ford ever built. First foreign car was a 76 Honda CVCC. May have been a Civic, but really don't remember if that was the model.

[swrinfla]

A Pontiac "Business Coupe," vintage '36-'38. Awful car. Even the dealer said so, after the fact!

Moved up to a '46 Plymouth two-door sedan, in Forest Green. Wonderful vehicle.

Perhaps that explains why I continue to hang on to my '96 Plymouth Grand Voyager, in Forest Green! ;D

SWR

[Lil Dancer]

I had a 1965 MG midget convertible. It was so much fun, but it broke down about weekly. Luckily back then I had a boyfriend who worked on it for me.

[TallerTrees]

1972 SS Chevelle 396 small block v8 engine (red with black racing strips on hood with hood pins, cowl induction). Got it brand new. I loved that car.

[HankD]

First car was a '53 Chevy for $50 that a farmer had and was using to haul hay out to his horse. Choclate brown with a cream top and a baby blue hood! :hot: Came with a flat head six and I blew that up in two months :cus:. Dropped a small block 283 in with a four barrel carb and headers w/cutouts to give it the right sound and glass pacs to keep the cops away :bow:. It was a sleeper with that 283 and I surprised some of the boys with their fancy (daddys cars) at Shoneys when we cruised around and around and around :2cool: Burned off a lot of rubber on those tires back then ::)

First foreign car was a '60 Pugeot with suicide doors and a little four banger that could barely get out of it's own way. :redface: It was a fun car though cause the chicks thought it was cute 040 SCORE!!!!!

[Jim007]

Grew up in Chicago. Bought my first car in 1962, when I was 18 years old. It was a white 1957 Ford Fairlane Victoria. Paid $550 For my Ford.

[chuckinca]

Grew up in Chicago and burbs. First car I bought was when I was 19 in 1963 - 56 Ford Crown Vic White over Orange, forget what I paid, but it was probably under $500.

Then I bought a Blue 54 Ford Ranch Wagon, then a White 59 Plymouth Savoy Convertible. then a Red 62 Austin Healey Sprite. Moving all those cars in and out of the driveway was a pain. Went in the Army in 64 and my younger brothers finished off the cars before I got back three years later.

And today - we have 4 cars, a pickup and a full size high top van!

[diskman]

:hot: :hot: :2excited: wav
1954 Nash Metropolitian against my dad's advice. Yes he was right
5 miles to the quart of oil at the end.
Always had grease on my arm from pulling up on shift rod.
white and aqua
Saw a collectible last wk Guess i should have stored it in the garage.

[Mintjulep]

I had a white Javelin (American Motors) with a black interior. '67 I think.
I LOVED the look of it, very modern for the time.
The motor was great and ran forever, but everything inside fell apart.

[francesco]

1955 Pontiac Star Chief

[Donna]

1972 SS Chevelle 396 small block v8 engine (red with black racing strips on hood with hood pins, cowl induction). Got it brand new. I loved that car.


I loved that car!!!

[Blondie]

The first car I considered mine was actually my husband's.......I was married very young and was so in love and enamored with Jim that I have no idea what the make and model was.....but It was black, and there was this string some how tied to the wipers, and when it rained Jim pulled the string on his side and then I pulled the string on my side. It worked and I thought he was a brilliant problem solver. I also remember getting 50 cents worth of gas on many occassions. What fun. 040

Md Blondie

[zcaveman]

1947 four door Plymouth with a flathead 6 engine. I bought it in 1960 when I was 16 years old. I spend more time under that car than in it. Learned may things about automobile mechanics with that car. My parents used to have to drag me out from under it for supper. I redid the interior (dash and upholstery) and painted it a nice baby blue with my brother-in-law's help.

I was one of the few with a car back in those days.

[krys]

1st car owned - 1956 Plymouth - yellow with a black top and black interior - 2 door, manual steering, push button transmission. My father approved of the car and lent me the $200. He figured, although it was yellow, it looked like a tank and I would be safe driving it. I really didn't care what kind of car it was, - I HAD A CAR!!!!!!!!!

1st car my father let me drive by myself - his 1948 green Studebaker -

[MMC24]

In High School I had a 1936 Plymouth convertable with a rumble seat and running boards. Sold it when I went to college. :beer3: Oh, the fun memories :clap2:- Wish I still had it today.

[Just Susan]

My first car was a '57 Chevy with 4 on the floor and glass packs. I absolutely loved rolling up to a stop light and rapping off my pipes as I looked innocently at whatever boy was in the hot car, next to me.

He would look over and rap off his pipes, sure he would trounce the girl in the souped up Chevy...cause it must belong to her brother... The light would change and I would leave him in my dust!!! Way too much fun. My girlfriends would be screaming, but I loved the challenge ...and the winning! :) :) :)

Good memory.

[Hyacinth Bucket]

I have found all of the your cars of "yesteryears" just go to

http://classicsunderthegunks.com/

or any classic car show.

HB

[sbm]

The first car I got to drive as a teen was my mother's 54 Plymouth. But when I was in the Navy in 1970 I bought a brand new '71 Plymouth Duster, bright red, chrome wheels, three by the knee, retailed at $2,495. What more could a guy ask for!!

[Irish Rover]

My first car was a 1948 Buick "The Blue Goose". It burned more oil than gas. I got married and went to Ft Sill for officers basic and bought my first "new car" - a VW Beetle for $1,710. Loved that car. No air cond and that was rough at Ft Sill and Ft Hood but the car was one of my favorites.

[shighsmi]

My first car was a Corvair Monza unsafe at any speed. Bought it for $ 475 in 1966.

[marianne237]

1967 Mustang camel colored with white interior! Loved that car and remember pulling into the Mobil gas station owned by my uncle and filling up the gas tank for $3.00!

[Niels]

My first car was a 1966 Ford Fairlane 500 XL convertible. Except for some minor damage on the passenger door the car looked great. Too bad it never ran great or even good. That car was in the repair shop almost every week. It was ridiculous. As my friend used to joke “FORD stands for fix or repair daily”. In retrospect, I think the mileage on the car may have been tampered with. It probably had a lot more than the 41, 000 miles showing on the odometer.

[TomW]

My first car was a 1965 Ford Fairlane, 289 V8, dark blue, 2 door. Great car that I drove through high school, college and the first couple of years of marriage. I agree with Ride that the 289 was one of the best Ford engines ever built. Never had one moment of engine trouble.

[ConeyIsBabe]

My first car was a 1951 CADILLAC !!!!!

Only it was given to me by my (then) boyfriend and the year was 1966 ::) ::) Every time I came to a stop light, the darn thing conked -out! Luckily, I lived in a quiet bedroom community, with pink sidewalks, no building over 2-stories tall, and very little traffic (Coral Gables) Florida.

Side note: Coral Gables today is a multi-lingual, multi-national city, with LOTS of traffic, 13-story buildings downtown and the sidewalks aren't as pink as they used to be. Nothing stays the same :dontknow: Still, by Miami standards, it's a little oasis surrounded by :edit:

[Niels]

My first car was a 1965 Ford Fairlane, 289 V8, dark blue, 2 door. Great car that I drove through high school, college and the first couple of years of marriage. I agree with Ride that the 289 was one of the best Ford engines ever built. Never had one moment of engine trouble.


I also had the 289 V8 on my Fairlane. That was a good engine. :bigthumbsup: Only part on the car that I didn't have any problems with. ;D

[livsea2]

First car was a '66 Pontiac Catalina purchased in 1970. "Bedroom on wheels" my father called it. Not so ;). But it really was nice only 20k miles when I got it. A few of the cars I owned that I wished I had back today include;

1966 Chevelle SS 427cid 4 spd 411 rear VERY fast car street raced it a couple times.

1970 Impala SS convertible, A/C, auto power EVERYTHING real plush "family car" (hehe well I did have a family then)

1969 Mustang convertible ( purchased after the '70)

Then I got sensible around 1975 oh well happens to the best of us I guess I was about 21 then and had a wife and a child and it was time to "grow up" ( that's a joke I refuse to grow up!) ;D

[sschuler1]

I had a Pontiac Catalina after my Maverick, but I can't remember what model year it was from. I think maybe '72? That car was a tank, it could just plow through the deepest snow. There was just no stopping it. The engine on that car was great, but the car was falling apart around it by the time I got rid of it.

[The Great Fumar]

49 chevy with torpedo body and skirts.......... cool

college , 55 plymouth belvedere convert .. very cool,,,,,,

Fumar

[billethkid]

In high school my first was a 1941 Ford 2 door coupe. Had to have that V-8 with "hollywood" mufflers for the V-8 rumble.
Have never owned anything except a V-8 ever since. Still drive a V-8 with Corsa Mufflers (today's Hollywood" rumble).

BTK

[nONIE]

a 1971 Chevy Vega 4 0n the floor.

I would drive it around the block 100 times a day to try and learn how to drive standard.Finally got the hang of it and decided I didnt like stick so sold it and got a 69 Volvo. Ahhhhhh, much better!

[geobar]

My first car was a 1950 Oldsmobile Super 88, 4 door, color 2 tone blue, Enjoyed for 2 years as I completely de-chromed it and prime painted it.
The car pictured replaces my fourth car which was yellow. Have had it now for 5 years. Need to add AC before moving to TV.

[larrydube]

1958 Black Impala 2 door coupe, 327 auto, wish I knew then what I know now.... That baby would still be in the garage.

My wife has a 1968 Austin Healy Sprite with 70,000 on it. She bought it in 1970. We will be transporting that down to TV so we can enjoy the sun in it. Our Goldwing has a bigger engine (1500 for the Goldwing vs. 1275 for the Healy)... ;D

[WSOX47]

A new '68 Camaro. Graduation gift. Small V-8 (327); black vinyl inside; gold-greenish ( I'm bad w/colors!) outside. Great car;shld have kept it. Traded it for a '75 Buick Century, but obviously not even trade at that time. (now it would be the reverse!!). Seven years of use and just under 100k miles.

Second Camaro was the 93/94, which was shared with the kids. Good car, but still liked the 68 better.

Waiting for the new Camaros to come out. But not 100% certain I'd get one. I like a smoother ride now for the old bones, but with some "get up"