[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by Zeke

[search forums/pelican parts:first car site:forums.pelicanparts.com] & [search forums/pelican parts:first car:forums.pelicanparts.com]

IDT that is all of them, but enough to make the point.

That's a more effective search method than using the one on Pelican, which seems to only bring up stuff 10+ years old. Awkward, though. I see four threads:

Started 2004-2013, with a brief revival in late 2017:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/183810-ultimate-first-car-i-ever-owned-thread.html

Started 2002-2020 with gaps:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/67362-what-your-first-car.html

A brief one in 2005:
https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/237043-your-first-car.html

Another from 2020-2022:
https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1077065-what-your-first-vehicle-picture-if-you-can.html


Too hard to dig up old threads with the on-site search tool and add to them IMO. The older ones have very few pictures. I've seen only two responses from you (without pics), Mr. Lawncare, not 10.

Several duplicates from before, but some good posts. These caught my eye that have pics:

Originally Posted by PRE-H20

wow.... never thought i would disclose this to ANYONE...... but after all these years what the heck.....

1976 AMC Pacer

was my 1sy car!
300.00 on my 16th birthday.

• not a single thing on the instrument panel worked.
• no headlights
• no speedo
• no RPMS
• no gas gauge
• no windows on driver or passenger door
• no door handles on the inside of the car, had to reach around to outside to open
• there were holes in the floor pan that i could see the pavement, think flintstones!
• no windshield wipers

BUT................... every time i turned it over... IT STARTED and got me to school and back.

i even went on a date with it. (i got asked, "are you taking my out in THAT?"

i said.... sure am.... get in.

Originally Posted by Les Paul

Mine was white. Got it when I was 14 in 1968. Had it two years. Whopping 40hp and they were Shetland. Girls loved it. I caught a rash of **** because of the power but my best Bud had a Mercury cyclone with 10” slicks in back. We usually took his car if girls weren’t involved.

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

My aunt sent me her old 1970 Plymouth Satellite. It looked just like this, but with a 318. I only drove it a few times because my older brother took the car.

Originally Posted by yellowperil

Orchid green Mk11 Sunbeam Tiger 289 4 sp

Originally Posted by Zeke

'57 Corvette 283. No pics as that is ancient history (1963). It was plain white with red interior.

Originally Posted by Zeke

'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.

Originally Posted by Tsunamiboy

1967 turned 16 my senior year--picture taken skipping school with my hippy babe in my 1957 TR3

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas

Ed
I'll go you one better, my brother and I rebuilt a Studie!
'64 Cruiser 289 w/solid lifters, Carter 4-bbl, 3-spd auto, front disc brakes.
Failed my first driver's test in it after rebuilding the carb. Throttle response was very good and the inspector/tester said "You go around corners too fast."