Your First Car

[mar]

Nerd mobile? Chick Magnet? You decide.

'82 Dodge Omni.

Best part: Heated rear window to keep your hands warm while you're pushing it.

[Blatant Click and Clack rip-off. Sorry.]

 

[Timebuilder]

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

Well, things are different than they were in 1969...

For example, since being laid off from my flying job, I have been driving a 15 year old Camry into Manhattan for voice over stuff.

I'm thinking of taking the real estate license test, since voice over work lasts a few minutes at best, and that may give me the opportunity to get a newer car, and maybe a beater Cessna to base down at 40N. Maybe I can start a flying club out of the real estate office.

My second car was fun, too. In 1972 I sold the Vette to a submariner and got his car, plus $400.

His car was a cherry 69 Charger, 440, race cam, hookers, eight track, E series tires on the front, H's on the back. About $2000 worth of diamond and gold dust paint on the sides, coming out of the faux louvers up front, and going all the way to the back. It was VERY sharp. And fast.

Next was a 68 BMW 2002. A nice, fun little road car, that suffered from fender rot and a weak transmission that ate 2nd gear synchros.

Then, a 78 Rabbit deisel, and then...

.. my next favorite compared to the vette, an 84 Supra, brand new like the Rabbit and the Vette. A true luxury sport coupe. Incredible top end on a deserted Schuylkill Expressway on a Sunday morning at 5:00am. It had better cruise gearing than the Vette...

 

[Freightdog75]

1984 Pontiac Sunbird. 1.8 5 speed. Rust, with a little bit of black exterior, and that red "crushed" whatever it was called that was so popular in the 80's interior. Nickname in highschool:
"Satans B!tch".

FD75

 

[crash-proof]

First was a 1981 VW Dasher.
One time the whole exaust piper ripped off the car (it was a low car on the dirt road) and I just kept on driving, at 110 decibels! what a piece of crap...but great memories.

Then, I had a 1979 Buick Regal. Like this , but in much worse shape.

No grill on the front. Paint flaking off. Rusted roof. Cost $350. I called it the "Mad Max" car (if you've seen the Mad Max series parts I and II, you know what I'm talkin about.) A year later, I lost my brakes, and smashed into a house. Even though the garage wall was totaled, the car didn't feel a thing. I then discretely back up and drove home, and no one found out...

 

[Timebuilder]

Crash, I have to laugh every time I see your avatar. An airplane facial. That's twisted.

 

[enigma]

1956 Ford Custom with the Thunderbird 312 Y-block V8. (base line two door sedan, sort of like a Crown Vic without the chrome) I was about 13, and never got it running. My grandmother sold it to the junk man on day when I wasn't looking, ya know, the other grandmother was my favorite.

First car that I managed to get running. 1968 Fairlane 500 dos puertos, 302 four barrel with C4 auto.
I drove that about six months until I got my 65 Mustang 2+2 semi restored. I kept that Mustang twelve years until I needed money to buy an airplane. I sort of wish I had kept the car.

First new car. 1984 Escort wagon, Mazda diesel with five speed. 50 mpg and 0 to 60 in about 15 seconds. I sort of wish I still had that one as well, when I have to fill up my truck at todays prices.

enigma

 

[dpilot_citation]

1960 Corvair 4dr limr green. Used more oil than gas!

 

[Goffer]

Just bought 'er, '71 C10 400 small block, TH400. I have to go get it in Springfield, MO. Flying there from Phoenix, its going to be one heck of a gas bill, to get back to the Phoenix area.

I'm just glad I only have to drive a very few miles from the house to school and work.

But it's one sweet ride!!

 

[ATR-DRIVR]

66 GTO, 389, six-pack, 4-speed, 390 gears...yeah come on......

 

[skyking1976]

66 GTO, 389, six-pack, 4-speed, 390 gears...yeah come on......

Reminds me of one of my Dad's finer vehicles...

'69 GTO Judge w/ Muncie 4 speed... awesome!

SK

 

[ATR-DRIVR]

Yeah man! Two cars later it was the 70 GTO Judge!!! Ram Air 4, 400, 4-speed. All original. Stupid, I sold it and 4 days later the dipshiite wrapped it around a tree...cried for a week...

 

[English]

1969 Volkswagen Bug. Custom-painted the same as my favorite shirt at the time, peach.. Yes, peach, not pink, peach. Hey, this was the '80s, and I was 15 1/2.

I bought for $200. It was yellow with alot of primer on it. I put in a new interior, including a headliner. I replaced the panel and all instruments. I took off the running boards and replaced them with aluminum louvered running boards. I took off the bumbers and put on T-bars. I put eyebrows over the headlights. My dad cut the strut strings for me and we lowered the front. Custom wheels. We cut out a portion of the top and put on a ragtop. it was the only way I had to connect with my dad, so we spent ALOT of time on it.

It ended up being featured in Hot VDubs in 1988. I sold it that year when I went off to college for $2500.

 

[Jump Pilot]

Grey 80 GMC 1/2 ton purchased in 1982. Had the big leaf springs in the rear so it was a "heavy half" with the rear taller than the front.

I tricked it up with:

Astroturf for the floor
brush guard with driving lights
painted the grill black
headers
28" glasspacks with chrome megaphones infront of the rear tires
cb with dual antennas
gun rack
saddle blanket seat covers
chrome american racing wheels
am/fm/8 track with a full stable of Quite Riot/ACDC/Ozzy
plastic Copenhagen spitter on the dash

I did get much better acquainted with the special areas of a few young ladies in that truck.

 

[JB74]

First car was a '69 Camaro SS project
427 alum block, Holly 1050 double pumper, Muncie 4sp, big cam to where it almost wouldn't idle. I could bark the tires at 80 going into 4th gear. Took my father and I almost a year to complete it (finished it just before my 16th birthday). That car got me into a TON of trouble.

Received my drivers license in Apr of '90, had my license suspended in May of '90 for excessive points, father sold said car in June of '90 when my little brother told him I hit 140 mph on I-25 south of Denver on our way to Castle Rock (where I lived at the time)

Man I miss that car.

 

[TR4A]

1967 Triumph TR4A
<===== Like this one.

 

[mainah]

1995 Saab 900S hunter green with tan interior 4 door. Looked nice but was always in the shop, there were way too many **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** service issues.

 

[wildbill]

A 1961 corvair monza.. Two cars later 1970 Dodge Charger R/T.
440 Magnum interceptor. Wish I had it now.

 

[DenverDude2002]

Well, call me spoiled, but my first car is/was a 1998 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4x4 Had 47K when I got it at 16, 4 years later it now has 111k and is pretty beat, but still runs good and gets me around.

 

[Dan CFI/CFII]

1942 Ford Jeep (the Ford company liscense built tham cause Willys'-Overland couldn't build enough). But I sold it before I got it restored completely (or before I knew what it was worth!). That was when I was 12.

Right now, I've got a 1991 Toyota Pickup and it's the first vehicle I bought that I could actually drive. It's actually parked inside the shop at home for my brother to drive it enough to keep it fresh, but Lord help him if he puts a scratch on it.

But I've also got a "few" old Dodges, and the beautiful 1949 White you see to the left. Hopefully one of these days I'll get home and get that one running. But it coasts good--if you don't need brakes! That's a 2-3 year project. I got oil control ring chunks when I drained the oil. Luckily, sitting beside it is an overhauled (30 years ago) 120A engine (the right one for that truck). 26,000 pounds pulled by 15 forward gears, 110 HP, and stopped with juice brakes.

I'm a nut!

Dan

 

[huncowboy]

Can't remember actual model year but the 1st one that was bought for me (for something like 1500 DEM about $900 USD at that time) in 1989 was a 14 years old BMW 315i.

The first ever car that I bought for my own money was here in the USA, a probably 1990ish or older Ford Festiva (red)with well over 200k+ miles. We loved that car after riding the bus for 2 months. It had a working A/C. We got it for $800 and sold it for $600 and it did not break down once, but I had to throw in a quart of oil after every 100-200 miles.