What was your First Car?

[rickeolis]

Youu always remember your first! A Cadillac Sedan De'Ville 1967, ran great, fast, 14 mpg, it had a 472 ci engine with 11 to 1 compression factory.

I've had a few other cool ones in the past too: A 1967 BMW 2002 (very nice speed, handling), A 1976 BMW 530i (crappy car), 1976 Pontiac Trans Am (fastest yet- 143 mph, but garage queen), 1986 Honda CRX Si (almost as good as the 911!) + more...

[Leland Pate]

Guess I could fess up as well.
The first car I drove was my parents '76 BMW 2002.
I still love those cars.

But the first car that I bought was a '63 Chevy Corvair convertible.
Sadly, it never ran... but I was close!

[Jamie79SC]

First car was a 1969 Karman Ghia purchased for $1,500 in 1979...

My best buddy had a '71 and I just had to have one of my own. Man, I loved that car. The dizzy sorority girls thought it was a Porsche... Drove it from Seattle to Minissota and back to get married. After we had our first baby, I removed the rear seats and bolted in the baby seat facing the rear. She was our little "tail gunner". Eventually got rear ended, so the whole back end drooped down about four inches. Drove it that way for almost a year 'till the tranny gave out, then sold it for almost what I'd paid five years previous.

I guess the 'Ghia started me on my inexorable path to old German cars. My current 79SC is almost the same color as that car was and sort of feels like a reincarnation.

[jeffporsche]

My nice father gave me his 72 914 that was far from perfect. He knew nothing about cars and said it dosn't run but I am sure that you can fix it with this manual. Dropped the motor to reveal that it sucked a valve and was destroyed. I found a used motor with Webbers and only paid $200 for it and I absolutely loved the car. I went from racing Emmic Go carts to racing my 914 on the street, and they both felt the same handling wise.

[Jgordon]

Not quite as exciting a story, but my first was my late grandmother's 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra. I got it in 1998, with about 18k miles on it. Not quite the chick magnet I had hoped for, but it was the last car I owned with a front bench seat, which makes for some interesting possibilities with the ladies. these days they have to contort around a gear lever.
I could do a nine hour trip in that thing and come out feeling like I just took a nap. I spun it a bunch of times in the central new york winter, and moved to a jeep. from there, a Ducati Monster, and then the Pcar, which I met last October. We're still in the honeymoon portion of the relationship, I've put 6 thousand miles on her since then, and we're still going strong.

[s2per]

Yeah, everyone remembers their first. It's just that some aren't nearly as pleasant as others.

Mine was an 8-year old 1963 Dodge Dart GT (I know, sounds like an oxymoron). It had a slant six, pushbutton automatic, 6.50x13 bias ply rubber and a prodigious amount of Pennsylvania salt-caused rust.

But I got better. My next car was a 65 Corvair Corsa Convertible, 140 horse (four count 'em, 4 carbs). And I never stopped loving air cooled flat sixes.

[cegerer]

1- 1969 Chevy Chevelle 300 Deluxe. Transplanted a 402 big block in it at age 17!

2 - 69 Chevelle SS396-350HP

3 - 69 Pontiac Tempest (winter rat)

4 - 66 Buick Wildcat 425 big block (winter rat)

5 - 69 Buick Riviera GS 455 big block

6 - 65 Chevy Impala (winter rat)

7 - 73 VW Super Beetle 'Sports Bug' Edition

8 - 82 VW Scirroco (first brand new car!)

9 - 72 Chevy Impala (winter rat)

10 - Drum Roll Please: 73 Porsche 911!

11 - 85 Honda CRX (new)

12 - 80 VW Jetta

13 - 85 VW Jetta GLI (new)

14 - 86 Subaru 4wd Wagon

15 - 87 Jeep Commanche (new)

16 - 86 Subaru 4wd Turbo Wagon

17 - 80 VW Rabbit

18 - 88 Isuzu Trooper (new)

19 - 92 Subaru 4wd Loyale (new)

20 - 91 Subaru Legacy 4wd Wagon (new)

21 - 91 Jeep Cherokee

22 - 93 Jeep Grand Cherokee V8

23 - 98 Chevy Venture (new)

24 - 98 GMC Sierra (new)

25 - 2000 Chevy Venture (new)

26 - 2000 GMC Sierra (new)

27 - 1971 PORSCHE 911 2.5L!!!!!

28 - 2002 Pontiac Montana (new)

29 - 2002 GMC Sierra 3/4 ton (new)

I knew this list would come in handy some day -- Curt

[Erakad]

Wow! Thought I was going to have the only Opel....and I thought that a 69 would have it hands down if anyone else had one anyway...but a 58?!!! I'm impressed!

My first ride was a 69 Opel Kadette Rallye! 1900cc...orange with black rallye stripes, rolled into corners....but, couldn't kill it with a silver bullet. Finally sold it for a 78 Celica...worst car I ever owned!! Believe it or not, got rid of it for a 80 Buick Century...was decent to me...not interesting to drive, but oh it could cruise...yes, there are many cars and many stories.

[campbellcj]

A Booger Green 72 Chevy Vega. Got it "free" from good ol' Dad when I was about 14. It got me through till Sr. year HS when it (surprise) munched another engine.

This thing wasn't only painted green, it had green vinyl seats, green dash, green headliner, green visors...well, you get the picture!

[jhale356]

1962 356 Karmann notch-back coupe. Paid $2,500. Wanted to get a convertible, so looked at a '57 speedster for $1,400 at a dealer, couldn't make it work to trade down, so I passed. The one that got away!!!

[Glasgow 911SC]

1984 Austin Mini 984cc. 25th anniversary model (fancy). Cost £400 as did the insurance. Full of holes but great fun. That was when I was 17 in 1994/5

[Bob Chapman]

First car was '62 Corvair Monza Coupe.
Second was '63 Monza Spyder Coupe.
Then '52 Studebaker Starlight V-8 Coupe and '59 Austin Healey 100-6 short-timers to go with '56 Piper TriPacer ...
'65 Corvair Corsa Turbo Coupe, followed by several other '65 Corsas (last one just left 2 weeks ago), and a bunch of other stuff.

Not sure why it took so long to get a Porsche!!!

[Victor]

Hmm, not enough Australian cars here....

1970 HQ Holden Kingswood Monaro Wannabe
L34 Spec 308
Ford Toploader
9" diff
4 on the floor and fats all round

Also had a real nice mullet hairdo. Me. Not the car.

Scary thing is, my 911 was brand new then.

VC '89 3.2

[johnco]

so long ago... $80 Simca with bad clutch at 14 years old. we had to push it to get it going. first motorcycle at 9 yrs old. 200+ cars later I'm driving the 911. I've had them all from American Motors to Volvos. currently own Jeep Cherokee, 350 Ford diesel, 60 El Camino, 60 Belair, Karman Ghia, several Dune Buggies, Couple of VW Things, 2 or 3 other Ford trucks. All junkers, but they're mine!

[tmctguer]

1973 chevy vega GT hatchback
lime green
license plate: NYAAA
nickname: the love machine

i pulled the carpet out, and put white fur in the back where the seats dropped down. unfortunately, i never could talk a woman into jumping in the back with me.

fast forward to now:

1973 911 E
black
license plate: NYAAA
nickname: none

i pulled out the carpet out, and put an RS carpet kit in the back where the seats dropped down. unfortunately, i still can't talk a woman into climbing through the roll bar and jumping in the back with me.

is this strange or what?????

[tobluforu]

73 Capri. Flared fenders, Ghotti rims, 235\50 14 rims. Alfa red. Roll cage , corbeau seats, simpson harnesses. Virtually no interior. Hearst shifter, stock tranny-great gearing, kevlar clutch. 78 2.8 motor with isky 283, 451 cam. Edlebrock med. rise manifold, 9.5: pistons, holly 4 barrell, ported heads, mallory unilite dizzy, 3 core radiator, hooker headers, 2.5" exhaust, crossover tube to turbo mufflers. lowered 3 inches, adj sway bars even back then! Adj. front camber plates, strutt brace, kyb gas shocks, mono leaf springs, pan hard rod. Custom bumpers.
Fast as hell!! 3rd place in ca. capri club. yeee haaaa.
Car was stolen and stripped-bummerrrrrr.

[oldE]

I bought a'67 Pontiac Acadian from my dad (think 4 -door Nova). It had three-on-the-tree and two-too many doors, but it taught me about trailing throttle oversteer the first time I encountered black ice. If the roof hadn't been crushed from improper parking (upside-down in the ditch), it would have been condemmed from the holes in the floor anyway.
Les

[vesnyder]

In 1975, my senior year in high school, I bought a 1966 VW Beetle. My firste introduction to German engineering. It had a 6 volt electrical system that needed a 12 volt transformer to operate a standard radio. Great car until I put transmission fluid into the gear case? That was the end of that car!

[silver912e]

Wow, I can't believe someone else had a push button Dodge Dart! Mine was a faded green '64 that my grandfather gave me (also in Penna.). The heater was broken for a winter, so I carried an ice scraper for the inside of the windshield.

[78silversc]

a 1972 Volkswagen Super Beetle.

4 different colors (mostly rust), but some grey prime and blue bondo, with a small patch of the original light blue color peeking through it all. The two front fenders would slap against the body with driving faster than 40 mph, they were so rusted out they were not actually attached to the body from about the midpoint at the top of the fender down to the running boards....oops forgot...it had no running boards..they rusted off!

It did get me around and in the winter all my buddes loved it 'cause it was the only one that actually started. It also had a monster stereo system that could have blown out the back window if pressed. Ahhh...what memories.