Your First Car

[Birdstrike]

Jarhead's thread about the end of the Old line got me to thinking about my first car. What was yours?

Mine was a two-door '65 Chevvy Malibu SS. Stock 230 with the white naugahide interior but with bucket seats and a T-shifter on the console. I bought it in '72 for $600. Erector set parts held the 8-track onto the bottom of the dash. A florist van creamed me from behind and that was the end of it. Great car, though.

 

[Timebuilder]

435 hp Stingray, 1969, T-top.

Trips, later changed out to an 1150 CFM Holley with gear drive secondaries (four squirts of gas when you stomp on it) on an Edlebrock highrise manifold, and phase three hood from motion performance. Muncie rock crusher, 411.

 

[Birdstrike]

A stingray was your first car, TB? Nothing like starting at the top. I can imagine what you must drive now.

 

[skyking1976]

1979 Buick Electra Limited 2 door coupe. I could block a county road by parking in the middle and opening both doors. Awesome car with the 403 motor. Passes anything but a gas station...

SK

 

[310]

My first car-- 73 Plymouth Duster-- I think I just revealed my age. also while in high school has nearly unlimited access to my Dad's
'76 Honda 750-Four motorcycle. With the cars, motorcycles, chainsaws, and airplanes its a wonder I am still alive in one piece.

 

[jarhead]

My first "new" car, as opposed to "used" car, is still the miles ahead favorite of every car I have owned since. It was a 1966 Ford Mustang. The exterior was a copper/bronze color, and the interior had the sports package, with the chrome spoke steering wheel with copper colored leather laced up around the steering wheel. It had the shift lever in the floor, and copper and white leather seats.

I bought it for $2800 in 1966. Car payment of $66 a month was doable for me. I was single at the time, and the car was a 'chick magnet'

Then, I got married, and my wife had a 1966 new Pontiac. Yellow with black interior. Her car had only 4000 miles on it, and my Mustang had 21000 miles on it. We decided we did not need two new cars, so we sold one. We sold my Mustang, because it had the most miles on it. That was a huge mistake, as that yellow Pontiac was a pig, and just fell apart by looking at it. I still see from time to time, 65 and 66 Mustangs out on the road, and it always brings me back to those times.

 

[TRLpilot]

nothing exotic or fast here - a 6 year old, 2-door '82 chevy cavalier with clattering valves. a real muff magnet for my high school years, especially after the accident when i had to replace the driver door with a white one from the salvage yard, the car was otherwise bright red. it then became known as "the white-trash-mobile", oh the shame.

 

[Dash8]

is this first car purchased, or first car driven?


driven; late 70's Fiat Brava

owned; 81 Chevy Blazer 4x4 (with the removeable top, bitchin'!)

 

[Birdstrike]

first car that you owned, new or used.

 

[Jmmccutc]

1988 chevy caprice classic wagon...305 to pull it's weight, got rid of it a year ago when it died right in the middle of the road...i could go from my home to my HS (about 3 miles) and chew a quarter tank of gas, and it was taking a quart of oil a week...that car was awesome...loved it...

 

[FN FAL]

My first car was a '63 pontiac catalina two door. It came from a tech school teacher that got it painted by the tech school boys. White roof and metalic light blue body. Lots of chrome and as big as a DC-3.

400 cubic inch engine with a Rochester two bbl carb. Not fast off the line, but it could hold it's own at speed. Given a little bit more experience and contacts, I could have probably incorporated and worked the car as a contract hauler for the moonshine industry or leased it out as chase car for P.I.T manuvering errant semi's off the road for the state patrol.

If you don't think there are errant semi drivers that get P.I.T. 'ed off the road in Richmond Virginia...I recall an incident where a trucker ran the toll booth on HWY 95, killing a motorist in the process. State patrol ran up on that dude and eventually had to shoot into the cab with a shotgun during the chase. The truck wound up going airborne off of an interstate overpass and started a big fire.

 

[chawbein]

1986 Honda Civic CRX repainted yellow with no radio and no AC. You might be saying, what a sh!t-box, and rightly so. However, I loved that car (still do) because I worked my nuts off since I was in the 6th grade mowing lawns and paid cash for it. $2800 bucks, that's 280 lawns mowed at $10 a pop.

 

[TonyC]

'64 Ford Galaxy 500


Once a day I would fill up the oil and check the gas. Got stopped in Memphis once for "Too much smoke."


Moved up from that to a '70 Duster....


and then got the '69 Mach I

 

[Vector4fun]

'68 Cutlass Supreme. Hi comp 350, premium gas only, Quadrajet, two-speed Powerglide, dual exhust with glasspacs. Deep metallic green with white pinstripes, white roof and interior, chrome hood pins, chrome mags. Buckets and console with factory 8-track. Would love to have it back.

I got beat off the line often, but the Powerglide didn't upshift til about 65 mph when floored, and I reeled in most Chevys and Fords at around 40 mph...

120 mph on Bias Ply Tires, Not cool. That thing would get real light. I think it would have actually flown at around 140.....

 

[rchcfi]

My grandfather was nice enough to give me his 1974 Chevy Caprice Classic complete with airshocks. With the 454 powerplant and curb weight of 2 tons, I think I got 12 gallons to the mile.

Not too long thereafter I was graciously given a 1982 Datsun 200SX that had the talking warning system (fuel level is low, door is ajar, etc)....Even though I pulled the fuse, it still kept talking!

My first new car was a bright red 1990 Volkwagen Jetta GLI with the Recaro seats and BBS wheels. It certainly was a performer until it had the VW staple electrical fire that melted the dash.

 

[njcapt]

1971 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu. 307 V8. Had all the makings of a great car, but since my Dad didn't want to get me a hot rod, it was a beige 4 door granny car. I learned to work on cars with that beast. Paid $1500 for it in 1980. Finally sold it a few years later for a 1976 Datsun 260Z. I REALLY learned how to work on cars with that one (balancing the carbs every couple of weeks).

 

[Tripower455]

Here's mine, circa 1982.........

'77 Grand Prix SJ, with just about every option, including the always leaking, Hurst T-Tops!

I wish I still had it AND the hair!

 

[AeroBoy]

First new car: 1995 Ponticac Grand Am. Still driving it, and the other day the odometer hit 165,000 miles. Great car, despite being built by GM.

 

[F70pilot]

1964 Ford Falcon Van. I needed something to haul my New Honda CR250.

170 cubes with a three on the tree. Max speed straight and level was 72 mph....with a tail wind and about 10 miles to build up speed.

 

[Jedi_Cheese]

'91 Ford Tempo, a tank compared to what is out on the road now. I took out a guys front end with at 15mph and I only had to pull a few pieces out of my back bumper.