What was your First Car?

[JackDidley]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Cripes, that was just a couple years newer than the Bomb.

1969 Opel GT bought in 1973 and it was trash.

I was not much newer than the Bomb. I was 17 in 1970.

[astrochex]

1969 Fiat 124 Sport Coupe that I bought from my dad for $250.

[Jolly Amaranto]

In 1970 I bought a 68 Toyota Corona. It had alloy wheels with fake spinner hubs. A vinyl top that developed rust under it so ripped it off and just painted the roof white. Had a 4 speed transmission that really did not do much for the 1900cc engine but was still fun to drive. I kept it running for 150,000 miles but had to replace the starter motor and the water pump twice. Don't remember how many times the ignition points were replaced and carburetor rebuilt. My buddy and I sure made some awful fashion statements here.

[Norm K]

'63 Impala SS.

It broke down at the four-way stop where the service station I worked was located. A buddy and I helped the owner push it into our parking lot. Tired of the car, she offered it to me for fifty dollars. I had only five. She said that wouldn't do it, so I called home and got my dad. "I've got ten bucks" was his reply, so in the pre-ATM days of 1971 I was all in at fifteen dollars. She took it. I knew crap about cars but with the help of an old neighbor got things figured out. That Impala got me into cars.

After a couple months I sold it to Mike Heath for ninety bucks and thought I'd made a killing.

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[trader220]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

In 1970 I bought a 68 Toyota Corona. It had alloy wheels with fake spinner hubs. A vinyl top that developed rust under it so ripped it off and just painted the roof white. Had a 4 speed transmission that really did not do much for the 1900cc engine but was still fun to drive. I kept it running for 150,000 miles but had to replace the starter motor and the water pump twice. Don't remember how many times the ignition points were replaced and carburetor rebuilt. My buddy and I sure made some awful fashion statements here.

I had a 72 Corona 4 door. Powder Blue except for the drivers door which was primer orange.

[regency]

1969 Malibu, Chevy Blue, 307

[IS300]

Vespa P200E 1979.... rode in Utah snow storms to my awesome job at Mcdonalds and my polyester work suit maroon with yellow stripes

[ckissick]

A yellow '73 VW Thing. I loved it and wish I never sold it.

[87911jon]

A 1964 MG 1100 coupe, black/black 4 speed, hydrolastic suspension. $100!

[Geneman]

71 pinto.. at the end it had cragars, white raised letter goodyears headers, offy manifold, carb'd up. 2000 cc .... could rip!

[asphaltgambler]

1963 Mercury 4 door midsize something or the other. It was a field car with the front doors missing, 6 cyl and automatic. I traded an old Kawasaki dirt bike that needed a rebuild even up but had to pay $25 to have it towed to our farm.

I was 14 and this was all unbeknownst to my parents. We had about 20 acres and Dad didn't farm that anymore so it was all trees, bushes and pasture. I hid it in the upper / back area where there were lots of bushes. Took a hand scythe and cleared basically a hollowed-out weed covered 'garage' tunnel that I would drive it into. You couldn't see it from any angle unless you purposely walked around back into the briars and bushes.

Then, when my parents were gone I would take it out in our neighbors adjoining field and just have a ball. I knew that if I started running around on our own property it would be too obvious.

I was able to pull that off for almost an entire Summer until I got bored with that and then started driving around the back dirt roads where I promptly ran it through a creek bed and got it stuck. Well it was really stuck to the point of needing a tractor to pull it out. This was about a 1/2 mile from our property back in the woods of someone else's place.

By that point I was bored with it and decided to just leave it. That thing sat there for almost a year before anyone discovered it, occasionally I would ride by on my dirt bike to see if it was still there. I don't know if anyone was the wiser including my father.

[Paul T]

Run down 1968 beetle before I could legally drive (used to beat it through the woods when I was 13 and on), then a 68 Camaro (327) as my first real, road worthy car.

[nameisbauer]

1986 Camaro (in 1996) T-Tops, V6, Auto. Added a boomin' system. Drove it until it died.

[GG Allin]

1972 Cutlass. Paid $20 for it, came with full tank of gas. "Restored it" sold it for $1200.

[jcwade]

'65 Chevy Corvair Monza.
Paid $500.

Great car until I got a ticket for excessive smog and it was more to fix than the car was worth..

[Ronbo]

‘69 Boss 302 Mustang. Low miles and nearly flawless. Paid $1,475 for it in 1975.


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[SpyderMike]

1969 Austin Healey Sprite...

[gordner]

First I bought was a 1974 bmw Bavaria, at least that’s what the label attached to the rust on the back said. However it wouldn’t safety, missing most of the frame and all lol. So got a 1972 Datsun 510 two door with my brother, bought from a guy whose brother signed the safety. The next year I got the frame of the Bavaria “repaired” and had a good year and a half before she broke in half at the front of the drivers door. Well not fully in half, the roof just bent to accommodate the new front end rake lol.

[edgemar]

69 Olds 98 - my parent's friend gave it to me. It was her dad's with 66k miles on it.

It had a 455 in it...I couldn't get it to do burnouts until my cool neighbor turned up the timing on it.


Exactly like this one:

[fred cook]

Was a 1952 Ford 2 dr sedan Mainline model. It cost $100, came out of an estate where it had set parked in a shed/chicken coop for several years. It had the flathead V8 with a 3 speed "on the tree". I drove it for a year or so until the old flathead gave up the ghost. I went to a local junk yard and bought a nearly new 1965 289 out of a wrecked Mustang for $125 and did an engine swap. The hardest part was changing the electrics from 6 volt positive ground to 12 volt negative! A bit later, I had it painted a dark green metallic color and got the seats recovered in a two tone green. Because the car originally had the overdrive option it had a 3:90 or 4:10 rear end that made it faster than it should have been. I drove it for about 3 years and swapped it for a Triumph Spitfire. Those were the days!