The Ultimate "First car I ever owned" thread

[krd]

Originally Posted by Playa76911S

Here's my first ride a 2001 salvage title Eclipse in jet fockin black LOL it was a theft recovery. All that was stolen was the rims and stereo, and I got it for only $7000 which left a couple grand to spent on nice rims, stereo, cold air intake, big throttle body w/chip, and the body kit.

Car got totalled by some beeyotch in a Caddy hittin the side and the insurance paid me $7000 for it after I drove it for two years! And I used the payout to buy my 911 so it worked out good for me...

Don't you mean 912!!

[esotoracing]

Heres my first car. . . .i didnt buy it. i rebuilt it completely and then it was given to me. Maybe 1990 when i was in highschool. Stroked to 1.6, equal length hedders, 32/36 downdraft ona competition intake manifold. 13x6 wheels on Pirelli P7R rally tires. Jet black paint with 5 coats clear, body kit was skirts, roof spoiler and fiberglass fron bumper/airdam. Used this car for illegal rallys =) Heres my dad going for a spin. Not shown are the HUGE yellow rally lights that made night driving like day.

[initial]

My first car is rather embarassing. A silver Plymouth Reliant. I would always park it far away from my girlfriends house so we would take her car (a Sunbird...not great, but better than mine!)

[nh911]

My first car was a 1992 meredes E300 4matic it was absolutley mint. i sold it to buy my porsche. Loved that car ran drove and looked new.

[Racerbvd]

Wow, lot of us have VWs

My first was a VW bus..

Then a 78 Datsun King cab pick up, and a 64 VW Baja. Traded the Datsun for my first Porsche, a 924..

[teamfee3]

Rolled out of a friend's driveway, about 100 yards, through some trees, over a boulder, and off a wall into a stream. A crane got it out, it never saw the road again.

[Kraftwerk]

1976 400 four Honda Super Sport w/yellow gas tank
(not really a car...) had it for 4 yrs in NYC

1971 Ford F 100 3 speed perfect except for all the rust. My brother gave it to me because I had missed the train from vt to ny. It had really loose steering and a hole in the manifold.
(not a car either...)

[village idiot]

my first car was a 1978 Ford Fiesta. I drove the crap outta that thing. Took it camping one time with 3 of my friends, 2 large coolers and a 10 man tent. Don't have any idea how we made it all fit

[wowzer911]

Datsun B210
Like this, only blue. Used a quart of oil a day.

[kidrock]

1964 VW Van with 1500 single port. Owned it for 7 years. Wanna learn how to work on cars? Own a VW. By design, you'll go broke from taking it to the shop and start wrenching on it yourself.

Sound familiar?

[crashmy911]

1975 f150 pick up truck with a piggy back camper on it. Dam thing would go a hundred with the camper on it. Going to college down the alley way. I hit a low tree, the front of the truck lifted up into the air. Then it came bouncing down. I kept going. A few miles down the road I noticed the truck had better pull then normal. Then realized the camper was gone. back tracked and there in he middle of road was a wrecked camper. Thought Dad would dis-own me when he saw it. Or beat me. When he saw it he just walked back to the house and never said anything. Boy was I lucky. A few swings with a sledge hammer and the bed was back in shape!

[AndyK!]

1979 Mazda RX-7. Everyone told me that I would regret getting a car with a rotary engine. I put 140K miles on the car and still sold in for a third of what I originally paid for the car. Great experience for a first car!

[blk911]

69 Plymouth RoadRunner. Purchased for $531 in 1975. 383 cu in with 335 hp. Wouldn't even start on less than premium fuel and got about 6 mpg. Wouldn't go around corners, but when you're 17, way too much fun to go fast in a straight line and show off, should have gotten a boat load of tickets, never did. Amazing. Sold it when I went to college for I think $1,000 and bought a german 73 Ford Capri, now serious corner fun.

[Monza_dh]

My first car in 1983 was a 1967 Chevy Nova 4 door that looked like this:




But in my mind it looked like this:

[Daytona]

My first sports car, fast in its day. 1959 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider.
Not my pic but a good representation. Wish I still had it like we all say.

[FPB111]

Hey Charlesbahn, I had a 1956 Jaguar XK140 MC roadster (OTS) with "C" Type engine and OD. I got it when I was 15 and it took me two years to put it together. I put ~250k miles on it and it never failed me.
Well it almost did once, when the SU fuel pump points broke. Lucky I had a friend with me. I jumpered the points and taped the bare wires to my friend's fingers. He had to keep tapping his fingers together to keep fuel pressure up. We went ~65 miles that way. His fingers were burned black from the arcing.

[edgemar]

Here's mine.. a 68 Olds 98. Someone gave it to me. The 455 didn't lay much rubber until I advanced the timing a few degrees Mine had a black vinyl top.

[Eharrison]

1984 Renault Encore.

Fastest convert from metal to rust. Able to 360 on a dime while coming off of the Trans-Canada highway in winter.

[criv911]

My older brother got a 63 triumph TR4, and proceeded to roll it. So I got a 72 Buick Skylark, 4 door with a brown vinyl top. Thanks brother.

[Akira28]

First -gifted car (from parental units)-
1979 Mercury Capri Gia 2.8 V6

First purchased car..
1965 Mercury Montclair Merc-o-matic.V8 390. Bought it for $300 Lost it in the Centralia,WA Flood

First purchased Porsche
944-NA (now sitting in my parents barn waiting for my five year old son to "find it" when he hits high school. Muhahaha).

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Akira28
1983 911-SC Targ
1984 944-NA