What was your first vehicle? (Picture if you can)
 

Straight six Ford, 3 on the tree, maybe a Comet...so long ago I don't remember. I do recall that I bought it for $75.

Drove my dad's '70 Cougar for a year or so.... then I bought a '78 Jeep CJ5.

1964 Dodge Dart GT had a 225 slant six and four speed Hurst floor shifter .

3 on the tree, you don't see that anymore

What was your first vehicle?
 

1960 VW bug with the mighty 36 hp engine. 0 to 60 was maybe, if no headwind. With a tailwind it was 72 seconds. With a headwind it was not going to happen.

Deep blue 1967 Mustang coupe. 289

77 Camaro, rust holes.

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1963 Chrysler Valiant V200 slant six.

Mine was a 1959 or 60 version without a gas gauge.

While tectonic plates could beat it in zero to something, it was mine and got me off the ranch. I loved it so. I bought from a friend of my father's who was transitioning to a job in DC: $139 scooters, the price of a one-way ticket from LAX to DCA in those days.

Close proximity:

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'65 Corvair Monza.
An automatic with the little lever on the dashboard.

If it's still out there, it probably looks like this by now.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1604251476.JPG

1969 Fiat Spyder, direct from showroom floor.

1961 Volvo PV544. Not this one, but one just like it.

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66 Chevelle....just like this one, except it was a plain Jane w/283 Bought it in 1969

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The first car I owned was a 1953 HenryJ. I wasn't old enough to drive it off the farm.

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Dad sold my HenryJ when we left the farm. When I was 16 I bought a 1960 VW Beetle for $600.

Like this one..but with air in the tires and much more rust.
(I considered this color to be "red". Friends always called it "orange". It was a issue of contention.)
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1986 Escort automatic 16yrs old
1986 Firebird v6 16yrs old
1989 Firebird Formula 350 17yrs old

1959 Austin Healey 100-6, got it in 75' and just sold it last fall! Didn't drive it for over 20 years and didn't see me driving it again, so I sold it. Don't miss it at all.

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1977 Ford Mustang II. Anemic 4-banger. I worked at $3.35/hour from 14-15 years old; paid $1,500 cash in 1983. Put in a reman engine, drove the hell out of it. Photo is not my car; took it from interwebs.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1604254441.jpg

It was a well-used 1959 Opel Rekord. Probably the only one in the county at the time.

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I wish I could find pictures of me from when I was younger. Anyway, my very first car was a 1967 Pontiac GTO, just like this one - same color, same black vinyl top. 400 four speed. Bought it in 1976, post gas crunch, and was the second owner. I was sixteen years old. I think I paid seven or eight hundred bucks for it.

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^^^
Sticker prices for these cars were about $3K...same as mine in post#14
So..seven or eight hundred was not a 'throw-away money' price.
My 66 Chevelle prev owner had kept the original sticker in the glove box....$2800

'68 Goat - not really mine, but I was able to strongly influence the purchase

1st vehicle I owned my own self wuz a '71 2002

1978 Corvette, silver anniversary edition. Took nine months from the day I ordered it to the day I picked it up at the dealer. Camped out on the highway on the day it was being delivered to the dealer and followed the truck all the way into the dealership. One of my brothers ordered one identical to it, I can’t remember if they came in on the same day or if he got his first. This one isn’t actually mine, but I have a nearly identical photograph of mine, I’m just too lazy to go find it and scan it and post it.

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A 1956 Buick Special 4-door sedan with a V8 Automatic.
Picture isn't my car, but the color is right.
We called it "the tank", because it was.

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Pontiac Acadian picture this in dark blue with a couple of pounds of Bondo in each front fender.
I had it for about three months before I had my first encounter with black ice.

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Best
Les

1969 Triumph GT6+ for $300. It was a rust bucket that I worked on all summer and repainted in the garage.

Same color as mine.

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1958 CJ-5 Jeep.
Really wish I'd listened to my dad when said he didn't think I should buy it.(sigh)
I only have one picture of it but I can't find it due to my totally crappy file system on my computer (just ask my wife, she'll tell you).

1987 Nissan 200SX. Not a bad little car but definitely needed more power.

My first vehicle was a Austin a40 truck, then I upgraded to this

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It was a used 1971 BMW 2002, great little car.

I have always liked that color scheme. If I ever get a Harley that's how I'll paint it.

Not mine but looked exactly like this one - 1968 Sedan.
I remember getting the seats reupholstered (front and back) at a shop in Alhambra, $185, they looked great. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1604272647.jpg

1974 Firebird. Came green from the factory. My Dad and I painted it brown.

Looked like this. Like Jim Rockford's car.


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Doors weighed like 500 lbs. Was your typical-for-the-era-rolling-piece-of-GM-crap. Never ran right. Swallowed gallons of gas. This car and the $150 dollar bulletproof 1976 Toyota Corolla my girlfriend bought from my buddies Dad are what drove me to Japanese cars in college. Living in California in the 90's is what drove me to German cars. :D

I've owned 1 American car since college. A dirt cheap GMC diesel truck with my younger brother. It runs, sort of, after you juice it with starter fluid.

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70 Challenger. But mine didn't look like that. Rusty, dents on all body panels (it lived in NYC before I got it) and mine was yellow.

383 engine, 8 mpg or less.

Mine was like the OP '70 pale yellow Bug but mine had a 4-speed. No photo but look at his pic and image a 4-speed. ;)

I've posted this before. '55 Ford - pic in 1060.
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1972 VW - Had it in University. Once filled it up with 12 co-eds! Man I wish I still had that pic. Couple of the co-eds would be great too...

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I think it was a 1985 Subaru GL with a stick. My first brand new vehicle was a 1992 Chevy S10 extended cab with the black out package. Haven't owned a Chevy since...:D