What was your first car

[HardyGirl]

It was either and '76 or '78 yellowish green Toyota Corona. I called him Butch.

[Joe90]

1964 Rambler Classic. It was 11 years old when I got it and thought that it was an old car, so I drove it into the ground... Stupid kid that I was...

This isn't her, just a look-alike...

[VintageMike]

My first car was a 1976 V8 Ford Maverick. It used to be my grandparents car before they moved from NY to NJ to be closer to my parents because my grandmother finally couldn't drive anymore. Being young I simply didn't appreciate the car. Many people I knew in school were being bought new cars by their parents so I actually felt cheated. Plus, back then (1987) that 10 year difference was huge in how cars looked. Today you can have an 11 year old car that looks modern/new. I also (ironically given how much I value the past now) didn't appreciate the car's history having been the one my grandparents would take me & my cousins in to McDonald's when we would visit them.
I had the car until 1994. It had had frequent problems and my Mom was looking to get a new car so I got rid of it and got her old car, an '88 Eagle Premier which was the worst car EVER! I still have the original key to the Maverick as well as the original AM Radio somewhere.

[steelcouch]

My first car was a 1969 Ford Mustang. When it was given to me at age 16 I had barely started auto shop in high school. Came straight from being stored in a chicken farm at my brothers father in laws house. Needless to say it was a piece when I first got it. Later on it become my first of many restored mustangs I have done. My parents got rid of it for $600 when I was 19. I was told that I was getting into to much trouble and that if I took over payments on my moms olds 91 that I would be more responsible. My wife still gives me crap because I took her friend out for a ride in it before I met her and she never got to get a ride in it. Hopefully if life willing I would return the favor and give my son a fully restored 69 Gt mustang for his 16th birthday. Its already in the works and time is catching up to me as he is already 12.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

76 Subaru DL ... like this:

[Rallygirl]

My first field car was a 1976 AMC Pacer X. It was all "decked out" with a three speed manual transmission and an AM radio.

My first road car was a 1984 Ford Escort.

[EmergencyIan]

A 1986 Mustang.


- Ian

[Donkey Hoatie]

In 1987, my older sister and I shared a 1979 Chevy Malibu Classic that used to belong to my grandparents. White with a powder blue interior. Everybody called it "The Spoogemobile." I wish I was the one who gave it the moniker, but one of my buddies snuck into the back seat one night with his girlfriend and . . . hence the name.

For such a beast of a car, that thing could flat-out fly.

[Thor]

My first car was a burgundy 1985 Oldsmobile Calais. It died tragically in a car accident.

[supes]

My first car was a 1973 Chevelle Malibu, blue with white vinyl top. 350 engine. Paid 500.00 bucks for it.

[megoscott]

My first car at 15 was a yellow 72 VW Super Beetle, followed a year later by a 84 Honda Civic which I totaled after high school, so I drove my grand father's 66 Oldsmobile convertible for the summer before I moved to San Francisco where I did not own a car again...for SEVENTEEN years.

[WannabeMego]

'78 Cutlass Supreme

[kryptosmaster]

My ALMOST first car was a 1961 Chevy Impala 4-door hardtop. I was 16 and had never had a job. My grandfather and I went to look at this Chevy (this was 1981) and bought it for $1,100. The deal was all I had to do was get a job and he would GIVE me the car. It sat in his driveway and I would wash it and start it all the time but I could NOT get hired ANYWHERE! Finally after a year he just up and sold it for $1,150.
My REAL first car was a 1978 Mercury Cougar (base model, not XR-7) that I bought with my own money in 1985. It had 60K on it and I paid $1,250. I drove that car everywhere and had it for about 8 years.
Rich

[fallensaviour]

65 chevy impala 2dr hardtop had a 396 and primer grey.
Didn't have it long I upgraded to a 76 chevy camaro with a 350 and pearl white paint job with an 8 track baby.It also had a crush blue velvet interior and a push button start...LOL
The love Machina...

[Fire Marshal Bill]

Going through some pictures the other day I came across a couple of my first car,a 1973 Dodge Charger SE. It cost me just about everything I had saved when I was 16,man I loved that car.Had it for 3 years untill I upgraded to 1974 Charger that we still have today.What was your first car?

Had to revive this thread for a really cool story. And it just so happens to be about my first car, a 1973 Dodge Charger SE too.

I made a very cool discovery the other day. So i get a wild hair and start wondering what happened to my first car, a 1973 Charger. I owned it for 7 years. I was wondering if it was sitting in a junkyard somewhere, been crushed, if it had been restored, things like that. I thought, wouldn't it be cool to find it and possibly own it again someday. I have always had the original title and a polaroid picture from the day the old lady down the street from me had brought it home from the dealer. I thought, why not Google the VIN number. I miraculously got a couple hits! The first link led me to a database of sorts where people provide specifics about the classic cars they own; see bottom pic in link below:

http://www.dodgecharger.it/storico.htm

The next hit led me to a thread on a message board, USA Cars Forum, and a guy by the username "jonnyoff". The message board was in Italian so i had to use Google Translator to figure out what was going on. Apparently he had the car in Roma, TX in about 2007. He buys muscle cars, fixes them up, and sells them. I was able to see several pics of the car on his post. At the end of this thread was a post that led to yet another thread. This next thread was started by a guy with username 400magnum in October of 2010. He lives in Rome, Italy! He bought the car from "jonnyoff" and had it shipped overseas. He spent a year tinkering with and and getting it back to close to original. He posted a couple current pics but there was also a post that contained several pics that could not be viewed unless you were a registered member of the forum. Sooooooo..... of course i registered :D . Eventually i was able to see the other pictures. The car is beautiful! I now could post on the message board since i was a registered user so i set out to respond to a year and a half old thread on an Italian message board. I used an online Italian to English translator and typed out a paragraph about how this was my first car i bought in 1981 when i was 15, etc. I also scanned a picture i had of me with the car in front of the house where i grew up and posted it, along with scans of the original title and the polaroid picture i had from the lady i bought it from (mentioned above). Well, the guys on the message board went crazy! They loved it. The thread blew up with responses. A guy has contacted a friend of his that knows the new owner and is supposed to be putting him in touch with me soon. Pretty cool stuff. So much for finding it and owning it again someday...... but at least i found it, and it appears to have had a good life..... i am happy for it .

ciao

Here are a few pictures. The first is a scan of the polaroid on the day it was brought home from the dealership. The second is me with it in 1981. The next ones are what it looks like now, in Italy.