What was your first car?
 

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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....

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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!!!!!

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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.