The thing I remember most about my first car......
 

70 Dodge Challenger. Driver's bucket seat was broken, a metal craftsman toolbox wedged between it and the back seat prevented spontaneous reclining.

Going about 130 MPH in a 74 Cougar with a warmed over 400. Hit a wet patch amd began hydroplaning. Several 360’s on the highway and through the ditch. Took out a road sign, and wound up with the front bumper on the shoulder and the back bumper on the berm on the other side of the ditch. Nobody hurt, no body damage that I can recall (what about that road sign?).

Pushing it to get it started.

No gas gauge. It was optional in a 1960 VW bug and mine came with no gauge. Drive until I ran out, flip to reserve and go to the gas station with a gallon left. Then be 100% sure to put the lever back in normal mode and not in reserve mode or I was screwed if I ran out.

A 0 to 60 of 72 seconds only if there was no headwind, and no hint of a hill. Otherwise 0 o 60 was infinite. 36 MPG no matter what.

I remember many times pulling into "Sarge's Service Station" and they came out, filled up the car, washed the windshield, checked the tire pressure and oil level, gave me green stamps that I gave to mom. Sometime they had a glass tumbler as a special promotion. And the first time I had to pay THREE WHOLE dollars to fill up I was outraged. It was often under two bucks when it was 18 cents per gallon with full service.

I often dug into the couch and found a quarter and that was enough to drive around on Friday night. My buddy would bring a quarter and we could go cruising until late.

1972
Watching the custom agents tearing out the seats and all of our camping gear on the parking area.
Going into Canada, one of them had reached into the back seat cushion area and pulled out a couple of seeds. (long hair didn't help)
My 66 Chevelle was gutted while we were getting strip searched in the building.

They never found anything and an hour later you couldn't even tell they did it.

Glen… you old!

My ‘60’ beetle has the no gas gauge option too.

77 Camaro, in HI, holes in floorboard.

Flintstone car.

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The fun had while driving it or driving around with buddies. It wasn't fast by the musclecar standards of '65-72, but it was faster than a lot of the stuff that was running around in the mid 80s, like the Monte Carlo SS.

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Thing I remember most about my first car is that Dad was right. He said it smoked like a destroyer laying down a smoke screen and told me so when he called from the bank when he was getting money out of my account to pay the guy for it on a Saturday morning while I was at work.
Should have listened to ya Dad. Really sorry I didn't, but I learned my lesson well.

I had, as we have discussed, pretty much the same car, Glen...I bought it for $156 bucks from a friend of my father's who was transferred to DC. It was has daughters car.

This was in 1972 when I turned 16.

What I remember most was two fold: It was mine and it got me off the ranch: Freedom, baby.

65 mustang convertible.....rusted out so bad whenever I turned to the left, the right hand door would swing open due to the body flex......needless to say, the passenger always wore a seatbelt. :)

Bias ply tires and drum brakes on my 68 Mustang...oh boy!

Girls!!!

But seriously, did a frame swap on this car about 2 months after I bought it. The frame had some bad rust, bought a parts car for 600 bucks and took it apart, sandblasted the frame, primered and painted black. I miss that car, it was a lot of fun. I still remember the VIN, CF51849U. Pictures were taken in Destin, Florida on what used to be scenic hwy 98, and at a place near the Sandestin Beach Resort called "Tango Mar" in the summer of 1987, best summer ever!!!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4d4d68250b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ef0e0f2e18.jpg

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My under dash Lear Jet 8 track player. And the heater core leaking.

Taking my friends on a road trip to San Francisco in my '68 VW Bug that had no brakes. No big, we'll just use the parking brake - it worked.

All the fires.

I put a full set of 4 tires on my bug for 29 bucks. Mounted, balanced and out the door from Sarge's Service Station.

They were bias ply recaps. With the mighty 36 HP (when new) and likely 25 HP after 100,000 plus miles it could not spin the tires in the wet, in a hard corner in 1st gear with those skinny tires. Top speed downhill was 65 and the engine was at max RPM.

I sold it for more than I paid for it after a couple of years and moved up to a new 1973 Super Beetle. Man that thing was fast coming from the 60 model bug.

Mine couldn't pull greasy strings out of a cat's butt. 1978 Mazda GLC with about 50 hp. Top speed of about 75 mph with foot to the floor.

In addition to a length of 2 x 4 to prevent the auto recline function on the driver side my '63 Chevy Biscayne had a cooling feature on the passenger side...no front floor.

My impala had radials, but yeah, non-power 4 wheel drum brakes on a '65 Impala (at least 1.5x as much car as your mustang) was occasionally interesting.

I really should have started with rebuilding all 4 wheel cylinders, replacing the pads and other shoe hardware (pins, springs, etc..), adjusting the brakes, replacing the drums or getting them turned, and bleeding the full system. I suspect the brakes would have functioned 10x better than they did.

Yep, my '65 Impala had rust in the trunk, pass's side floorboard, etc.... The poor thing was full of holes in places that you couldn't see them.

Getting my cherry popped in the back seat of my 74 Corolla.

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I wanted a Ferrari...but got a Porsche instead.

Mother just wouldn't go for it..maybe an Italian scared her as a child I don't know?

Unfortunately I look at a car as an appliance..a washing machine, dryer, dish washer, refrigerator.

I thought it was OEM dipstick gas guage

1979 Super Beetle with a gas gauge that's not work below a quarter tank. Had to write down how many miles it had on it. Worked okay until the odometer/speedo quit. Plastic gear on speedo cable et voila

The sound and feel of a Slim Jim transmission shifting from 1st to 2nd on my 1963 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88.

I can report that a 914 requires gymnastic moves but it is possible to fog up the windows with am appropriate partner as long as she is under 5 foot 5 inches tall. But that was my third car.

Had a girlfriend prove to me that we could do the business in my TR6 with the top up or down!!! Had to open the passenger side door, lol.

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My first real car was a 1960 VW sedan (I owned a 195x Henry J before that but I was only 10 or so).
I remember having to park it on a hill because the starter was so slow it wouldn't crank the engine over fast enough to start it. Found out it was just the starter bushing in the transmission. Loved that car after that discovery.

63 impala.

BIG back seat.

75 Fiat 128 2 door sedan. Had a knob on the dash that said "Throttle". Pull the knob, maybe twist (I forget) and it was as good as your foot on the gas....especially when pushing it out of the mud at which point once it got traction you had to run to catch it! Early technology front wheel drive that little car was a torque steer monster!

The doors weighed like 100 lbs. Repainted '74 Firebird that was only running on 6 of 8 cylinders.

1980 Dodge colt. Wretched pos, I made up for it after that . I did not pay for it though, I mowed my neighbors grass for a summer, and he gave me the car .
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First car I drove was a 74 super beetle. Good times through high school and beyond.

First car I bought for myself, was a 69 triumph GT 6+. Paid $250 for it in 76. It was a rusted out POS and I never got to drive it, because we moved.

67 VW squareback, faded red paint. We drove that South to LA for a Pat Benatar concert. Found out a few days later one of the cylinders was toast. Car got us home no problems.

74 VW Thing.
A friend of mine was in the back seat and kicked my aluminum framed tennis racket across the battery posts. Started the back seat on fire and he couldn't figure out the lock/unlock position of the door latches.... Fun times.

A buddy had an AMC Matador that the bench seat was rather loose (front holder bolts rusted through)...What a riot that car was, with 3 of us in the front seat on a hard takeoff, we would be staring at the ceiling for a second, or two !

Late '60s Pontiac version of a Chevy Nova. That car taught me the importance of conservation of energy, since it didn't have enough power to accellarate , it accumulated velocity. That was too bad, as the suspension was notable because it was simply there to allow the wheels to do random things as you drove along. The thing rolled in corners like it should have a hull number.
I should count myself lucky that when I rolled it I was only doing about 35 mph.

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Les