My first was a 73.5 911 T (CIS).

First my mom wanted it. Then she decided it was too hard to start in the mornings. Then my sister got it. Ran it low on oil, burned the fuel pump out (ran out of gas too!) The gauge broke and showed fuel exactly at the half way mark.

Fixed all that, my dad and I rebuilt the motor, when I was 14. We spent 2 years on it. He went to Garretson enterprises to learn how to properly rebuild the 911 engines. What a GREAT bonding experience with dad!

Rebuilt it, that thing chirped its 205/60/14 tires in 3rd gear. Cruise'n along in 3rd... hit the gas... CHIRP! vrroooommm...

WOOHOOO what fun!

Damn, I miss that carhttp://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/face80.gif

Long.. long time ago... Fiat 500, as the name indicates 500cc, 2 cylinders (most of the times), Weber carbs, 4 speed gearbox (slower, slow and reverse).. The 'Sport model' had almost 25bhp and a top speed of 105Km/h (~65 mph).. I just had a normal 1965 F model (18 bhp and top speed of 90Km/h).

Just good old times where a good hammer and chicken-wire was able to fix any problems with that car...

66' Beetle in perfect condition. It even had a rare factory option. A/C. I put on fiberglass rear flares and a set of Cragar mags with big tires. Didn't take long before it was stolen.
still one of my all time favorite cars.

Bobby

ist car ... 69 Triumph Spitfire, BRGreen. Paid 300 for it and pulled the seats out of the rusted floors with my bare hands. Love that car and still have it. It is sitting, rusting with a 283 chevy in it now.

2nd car... the 72 911E

Dennis H.

72 911E

I convinced my wonderful mom that I needed $500 for a car to make it back and forth to football practice. She bit, thinking what kind of trouble can a kid get into with $500?

I came home with a 1978 Datsun 280ZX, no floorboards, I working brake (rear passenger), no exhaust, and NO TITLE!

I drove it for six months like this, to and from practice with three other guys, until my mom found out there was no title, and promptly called the salvage yard to retrieve it!

Mind you, for those six summer months I drove that car like I was a seasoned Indy driver...on gravel roads no less!

Ah yes, to be young, invincible, and ingnorant again!

...well at least young and invicible.

So far, oldest first car seems to be mine. 1950 Ford 2 door...flathead V-8, three on the tree. Painted Chinese Red with a white Naugahyde interior. Flat door panels, with a rawhide thong serving to open the door. (Porsche must have stolen the idea from me?) Front coils cut, giving the mandatory "rake" of the day. Dodge Lancer hubcaps..oh, and a Hamms beer tap handle welded to the shift lever, steering wheel from a 1957 Mercury...and top quality safety gear...seat belts! Was the summer of 1961, I'd just graduated from High School, age 17...

a 1982 BMW 320i
:D

PDW72s,

Right there with you! Black 50 Merc two door coupe with a 239 flathead, three on the tree and it had to weigh 5000 pounds! Course we were paying 19.9c a gallon of gas at this time as well.

Graduated up to a 65 Triumph Spitfire (shoehorned a Triumph Hearld 6 cylinder motor into it) that would go sideways in 3 gear and never owned a American car since!

Wish I had the Merc today!

JA

Man all you guys with German cars as your FIRST CAR? Lucky B*stards..

My cars in order...

FIRST CAR: 1970 Ford Gran Torino (known as the Grand Rhino since the "To" script fell off the logo!) (In 1987)

FIRST GERMAN CAR: 1984 Audi 4000 (In 1995, whoops, got the German car bug!)

FIRST PORSCHE: 1982 Porsche 930 (In 1999 with 400bhp, can you say different league?, I knew you could)

My first was a '67 bug with a 356 engine. Did 0-100km/h in around 9 secs.

My second car, as I moved to Arizona for collage, was a '72 Cadillac Fleetwood (would you believe it)

Looks like I'm not the only one whose first car was 6 cylinder Mustang. 67 Fastback, put the big mags & wheels with the air shocks. Paid $930 for it. To bad it had no power, but it looked cool! Ended up painting it "Corvette" green & rebuilding the engine (Well my Dad did most of the work).

This was during the famous gas rationing in 1974. I REALLY wanted the 68 Camaro SS, but Dad said no way. Too bad, I saw the same car last year advertised for $20K!

Sold the 'Stang 4 years later for $1300. Bought my first P-car, an 914 1.8. That was a great car, even though it didn't have much power. Until I totaled it....:(

Mom said, "You are not going to get your drivers license until you graduate from high school and your certainly aren't going to have a car until you graduate from college. "

I was going on fourteen, and two weeks later I had purchased a '33 Ford 3 window coupe body, duece radiator shell, a 48 Ford frame, and a complete Olds J2 set up from a 57 Olds. I guess she thought that from those parts, it would never be together. Before my 15th birthday she was a runin'! That thing ate all my paper route and snow shovlin' money. The engine set back yeilded pretty good handling and dang, would those rear tires light up! First time I drove it around the block, old "Smokey" spotted me and gave me 3 tickets! Unsafe vehicle, too loud and, no plates! Fixed it all up with new glass packs and drove it down for inspection - passed just fine, and Mom helped me out for the court appearance. Drivers license and wheels at 15! Had over a hundred bucks in my tray coupe!

Diverdan

Interesting. My first car was a 1960 VW sunroof beetle. Bought it for $400, then rebuilt the top end over the next summer - took it to Berkeley for 3 1/2 years. Sold it to fund my first Porsche, a 1960 356B Super, coupe. Bought that for $900 with (most of) the engine in the back seat in parts. Affectionately known as the "rusty bucket" to friend and foe. That was 1975 - built a new motor for $1600 in parts. Wish you could do that today!

Looks like I'm not the only one whose first car was 6 cylinder Mustang. 67 Fastback, put the big mags & wheels with the air shocks. Paid $930 for it. To bad it had no power, but it looked cool! Ended up painting it "Corvette" green & rebuilding the engine (Well my Dad did most of the work).

This was during the famous gas rationing in 1974. I REALLY wanted the 68 Camaro SS, but Dad said no way. Too bad, I saw the same car last year advertised for $20K!

Sold the 'Stang 4 years later for $1300. Bought my first P-car, an 914 1.8. That was a great car, even though it didn't have much power. Until I totaled it....:(

my first was "THE VAN" as it was called. it was a 79' dodge van that i converted to the love machine :) the girlies in high school loved it as it had a fridge for our favorite beverages, a bed in the back, and a little bit of shag carpet with lights in all the right places. i spent half the summer building that thing and was a blast.
the best part was the 318 v8 with twin holley's, open headers, and a posi rear end:D it was painted primer grey which was enough to catch any of the camaros off guard and it got somewhere around 6 miles to the gallon. i wish i had pics of it still, i've looked i just can't seem to find any.

A 1973 TA22 Toyota Celica. Later turned APE with a Jap import 3T-GTEU 1.8L, Twin Plug, Haltech EFI'd, Turbocharged Twin CAM donk and re-duco'd in gorgeous Mica Red :P

Maaannnn that car was fun, fast and a head turner :D

Ended up trading it in for a 1989 Aero Holden Commodore (aarrrgghh).

First car was purchased in 1987, an 81 Audi 4000 that was a peice of crap but German. First new car was after I graduated from college, go Terps! Call me rice, it was a 91 Acura Integra.

Michael

My first car was a 1969 GTO. Factory 4 spd, 8 Track Radio with fron and rear speakers and factory Air. My dad bought it brand new when he got back from Vietnam. The best part of it, It's still sitting in my garage.

first car: 1992 Plymouth Laser (aka Polly the Plymouth)
second car: 1989 Acura Legend 2door (stick shift, v6, lots of terminal understeer)
third car: Always the charm, 1988 Carrera (for which i thank god nearly every day.)

db

My First car: 1980 Ford Fairmont.....what a piece of crap.

I love the ad below. What's up with the space ship in the back???

'57 Corvette 265cu single 4bbl 3-speed for $1400 in 1963. Sold it year and a half later for same $. Have owned nearly 30 cars since including 2 other vettes, several VW's and 5 P cars. Oh, and I've never been w/o a chevy pu since the 1st one, a '50 bought in '65 for $350.

My first - a 1977 Honda Accord (2nd year in the US). I was so rice (before rice was rice) - I had a spoiler under the front, some nice Sears fog lights, pinstripes everywhere, "HONDA" sunshade on the windshield, Wink mirror. Chrome trim rings on the steel wheels. Must have washed it twice a week.

This became a 1980 320is - Black on Black - that was a sweet, fun to drive car. I have nothing but great memories. Which became a 1984 Saab 900 Turbo. Which became a 1990 Volvo 740 Turbo - this became my wife's and then became a 94 960 Wagon. A 1994 Accord EX Coupe - my commuter car, and my only brand new car. Which I sold after getting my 1987 911.

Don

How about a 1957 6 cylinder Chevy, then went on to a 1951 Pontiac straight eight with torqueflight trans (I think) and then onto a 1965 Sunbeam alpine.

The 57 chevy engine was making a racket so I gave it away, the 51 Pontiac (Purchased in 1966) was in excellent condition and had it painted a cherry red with a light bulb for the interior lighting. It met its demise when I hit a guard rail on the way to the Boston Naval Shipyard.

the Sunbeam Alpine (Purchased in 68) was a great running car. It lasted until 1970 when a girl who just passed her drivers test broadsided me on the Highway. Needless to say, the frame was bent and had to let that one go.

Steve

For me...at the tender age of 14...I received a body shell and most of thee frame of a '32 Ford 3 window coupe.
I worked on the little beast for 2 years...rebuilt an Olds 324 with a J2 setup (3 deuces)..and for my birthday at 16, my dad assisted me with the grand total of $50 to get "unsatisfied judgement" insurance and a set of plates.
She was painted baby blue with white interior and a set of home made lakes pipes (no mufflers)!
Drove her for several years, then entered military...sold her to a good friend...he still has her...but now she has a bunch of chrome.
Nothing like the past....life was easier then...and gas was about $.26 a gallon if I remember correctly.
Bob

'69 Black on black Firebird. 350ci w/400ci heads, M21, Hurst 4sp, Hooker headers, Accel wires & coil. NO air shocks!! just Gabriels all around. Very nice and very fast going straight.

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mine was a 1958 opel station wagon . my dad and i built it from 3 that we got in a package deal. i was about 14 at the time and used it to deliver newspapers in concord ca. concord believe it or not was very rural at the time, unlike now.

A 1969 Karman Ghia, I paid 1200$ for it, and it ran me back and forth from home to college each semester, a 9 1/2 hour drive one way.

A 1968 Camaro with a small block 327. The thing burned oil like there was no tomorrow. Luckily my girlfriend's father worked as a manager in a factory and brought me home oil in 5 gallon jugs. At one point I had top pull over every 2 hrs or so(when the oil light went on) to fill it up. One day on the way to school-BANG! piston thru the oil pan. Bought a 350 out of a rear end wrecked Impala and dropped that in. Man that was alot easier to work on than the 911(I also had alot more time back then).

My first car was a 1974 Chevy Monte Carlo. Blue rust bucket with a white Landau top and hard-wired electric everything. Had a moon roof that was as wide as my 914's top. Anyway, loved the V8 power. Was too young and knew nothing about cars at the time though (heck, didn't even own a toolbox at the time). I don't think I ever even changed the oil in it either. Had it about 9 months when all of a sudden one day it would no longer go forward - only reverse worked. With the help of a friend, I drove it back to the barracks at night - in reverse. The next day I gave it to a friend as a wedding gift. He put a junk yard trans in it and then sold it for more than I had originally paid for it.

My first car was my '76 911, bought for $5000 when I was 18 about 3 years ago, some of which was my savings from joining the military and some were financed by dad. Started brazing up a small rust hole in the driver side headlight bucket and paint on the fender started peeling off (no prior welding experience, of course). Started stripping paint, found gallons worth of bondo covering up rust and patches, and after 3 years, it's still a project.

1987 pontiac T-1000(a chevette clone), which is really an opel, bought it for $800(1994), then my dad dumped $3000 into it, chrome wheels, new paint silver paint, rally springs, grant steering wheel, etc., used to scare the crap of people in the high school parking lot, got 33mpg if i was light in the throttle, miss the car, what it lacked in hp was made up for in driving style, i'd probably be dead had i had a faster car, it even got a 4th place at the high school car show, poor thing died in a wal-mart parking lot when an idiot in a contour pulled out in front of me

A 197? Ford Fiesta. I was living in Boston and it was the perfect car. It cost a few hundreds of dollars, it carried four and I could park it just about anywhere. The best part for me was the unburstable "Formula Ford 1600" engine and the wonderful handling. It reminded me of a Fiat 500 I once drove for a month in Europe - you had to drive like Mario Andretti just to keep up with traffic :D ! It's just that the Fiesta was faster.

Unfortunately I didn't know that the Oil-pressure indicator on the dash was dead...:rolleyes:

The car ran great up until the engine seized on Storrow Drive in Boston's Backbay. I pulled the dip-stick and there was nothing on it except silver flakes. If any of you know Storrow Drive, you can appreciate the fact that there are precious few places to safely pull off.

I still have a soft spot for Fiestas.

1972 Volvo 164E in frighteningly good, original condition. My pop bought it new (the only new car he ever bought until his 2000 540i sport). It had 240K on the clock and had never had an overhaul or even a valve job. Sadly, I was rear ended hard by an incompetent when I was 17. I literally saw it coming in the rear view mirror: she was heading towards me at over 50mph looking down at the dashboard trying to find her favorite station. She won a trip to the emergency room via ambulance, I didn't have a scratch. That was a great car!

I replaced it with the only new car my step mother ever bought -- a 1970 Pontiac Grand Prix in puke gold with a 400 and a white vinyl top. That was, by far, the coolest car in my high school. Until I got the 1983 Eldorado...

1964 Chevrolet Impala 4 door.

I bought it out of a field for $ 50 when I was 15. The tires were buried in the dirt up to the frame. Hauled it home - put in a new interior, new paint, front end rebuild, pulled out the straight 6 and powerglide trans, dropped in a 283 and 3 speed auto tranny.

Drove it to high school and college over the next 8 years and now it sits back in the field on my farm. The circle of life.

First car I bought was a '68 Chevelle when I was 14. Rustbucket field car with only 23K miles - farmer owned who had left the windows open too long and the weather and rodents did their damage. Dad drove it home (who talked me into it) and I started to tear it apart for a resto. You could eat of the inside of the engine it was so clean, but everything on the outside was nasty. Spent many $$ and never finished the resto - I gave it to my Dad 8 years ago and he sold it in pieces last year for next to nothing. :(

Got him back though - I talked him into a rustbucket MG Midget last year.:D

First car I bought and drove was a '84 Honda CRX 1.3L (used). 52MPG w/5spd and 42MPG w/4spd (don't ask). Loved that car - lots of fun in the twistys. Got me started in AutoX and racing (even a "offroad" rally or two). Eventually met it's untimely death in a ditch that was bigger then the car (damn loose gravel).:(

Bought and ground-up resto'd my '66 Mustang Fastback in '91-93, bought the '92 Mustang in '94. A few truck and SUV leases over the years keep me going in the snow. Bought the 934/935 Porsche project last year ...SmileWavy

The first car I called my own was a '69 TR-6 - still have it and love it.

My father owned a car dealership so I drove lots of cars through the late 70's and early 80's.

When I went to college my father had 3 criteria for the car I could take: Slow
Big
Heavy

Thus, and '81 full size Bronco - 6 cyl 4 speed - (3 peed really because 1 st was only good to about 2 1/2 MPH) Vinyl seats- etc.
Tough truck - and SAFE.

After college got an '85 Dodge Daytona Turbo. Black - T-tops- Spoilers (rice before there was such a thing?). Nice driving car but the K-car 4 banger couldn't handle the Turbo power

Varoius Audi's

Etc, Etc

'97 Land Cruiser (current) - sort of like the Bronco only a whole lot more comfortable.

'79 930

Jeb

My first was a '66 Mustang w/ a small V8. Man, that thing could run! I saw one in a car show about 4 months ago that looked exactly like mine. Really brought back the memories.

'67 Morris Minor Traveller (woody). Right hand drive. Bought it for 200 bucks, sold it for something just under 2 grand. Amateur, low budget resto -- very amateur. Loved that car -- what a blast.

69 Volkswagen Type 3 (Squareback) Orange then 77 911SSmileWavy

A very Manly:rolleyes: powder blue 1980 VW Rabbit.

More stereo watts than horsepower. Suprisingly nimble, and outstanding brakes. Same damn CIS fuel injection as my 911.

Tom