First Car???

[Peter Frank]

Mine was a 4 year old '68 Pontiac Catalina -- 2dr. hardtop w/400 ci. V8 (I forget what my second car was).

Example --

[SeattleGirl]

1. I don't have a pitcure but it was a 1966 Ford Falcon

My parents bought it for me for my 1973 high school graduation for $50. Dad was a whiz with cars, and got it in great running order. I ended up selling it for $100 when I moved to Texas!

[Peter Frank]

3. What Color?

[Robeson]

2. AMC Gremlin....

...fire engine red. It was a total piece of crap.

[Az]

4. A 79 Mazda RX7

Folded in half by a 63 Impala a few years later.

[Robeson]

5. The design of those cars were classic.

...love that old RX-7.

[Peter Frank]

8. My Catalina Was...

...pinched between an out of control Buick Electra and a guard-rail during a blizzard in Buffalo, on the way back to a gig at the Airport Holiday Inn (seriously -- I'd left my guitar in the trunk of my girlfriend's Ford Falcon).

[colinmom71]

14. When I was a kid, we had neighbors who had this model RX-7...

Yeah, it was a nice, beautiful car!! Theirs was black and sleek..

Unfortunately, said neighbors experienced a house fire less than a year after buying the car that was caused by an explosion of the water heater in the storage area of their car port. The car *literally* MELTED into the concrete because of the fiberglass siding the car was composed of.

Still, I've always liked Mazdas. I tried (unsuccessfully) to convince my mother to buy a Mazda Millennia a while back. My husband now owns a blue Miata that I affectionately call the "Mid-Life Crisis Mobile", which is just too cute for words. Come to think of it, the Miata does somewhat resemble the older RX-7 models a bit... Hmmm.... ;-)

[LeftyMom]

6. '97 Saturn SW1

I just got my permit last week. :D

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. A 1962 MGA

Mine was off white in color. I bought it used for $600 in 1967, which represented all of my savings. Back then in Georgia, you could drive at 16. I drove it to High School for my senior year.

[Robeson]

11. Nice. My Dad has owned a 62 MGA for about 30 years....

...he just had it professionally restored from top to bottom, inside and out. It has a black lacquer paint job. Beautiful lines.

[samplegirl]

15. Dont you wish you still had it?

Heres a picture of my car and everyday i hope its the one thing
Bush cant take from me.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. I do wish I still had it - but I wish even more that I had my second car

By the way, I LOVE your Triumph. I have a thing for old cars.

When I started making money in college as a teaching assistant in graduate school, I sold the MGA and bought a 1960 Jaguar Mark II 3.8 sedan. Now THAT was a car. Very fast, very beautiful, and surprisingly reliable. I paid $1800 for it used. It was exactly this color and it had the same magnificent wire wheels:



After owning a series of new cars, I have returned to the oldies. I now have two old cars, in case one has to spend some time at the mechanic's shop for things I cannot fix. One is a 1973 Saab Model 96 and the other is a 1969 Citroen DS 21.

[Ally McLesbian]

9. 1999 Ford Contour

Bought it new, for its European driving character. Turned out to be total piece of junk. Support from Ford has been pathetic. Now it won't even pass emissions, and registration has just expired as a result.

It didn't help having an owner club full of right-wing a**holes. They've officially claimed the car to be "The Conservative Man's BMW." (In other words, women and liberals shouldn't even apply.) But then, I should've known that Ford is the right wing's favorite car company.

I leased a real BMW in the meantime last year. Now gay rights activists are yelling at me because Ford offers domestic partner benefits and BMW doesn't.

Honorary mention here would be a 1989 Toyota Corolla, which, while not mine, was my father's - and my driver's ed car. My sister totalled it in a DUI accident in 1997.

[colinmom71]

10. 1984 Honda Prelude...

And it was a complete POS!!! Cute and sporty, with a moonroof and nice stereo system, but that car taught me that Honda's reputation was terribly over-hyped... The damn thing was a total lemon the entire 2 1/2 years I owned it.

My next car would be a custom ordered 1992 Ford Escort GT, and it lasted 8 years with no major problems at all! I sooo miss that car!

Shortly after the kid came along, a 1996 Ford Taurus wagon replaced my beloved Escort, which has also been relatively problem free since we bought it. It's still running great and is a very comfortable car for both errands and road trips to grandma's...

[HEyHEY]

12. 85 jeep cherokee pioneer

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. 'The Mule'

God, I loved that car. :cry:

'66 Chevy Bel Air, almost exactly like this one:

[Peter Frank]

43. That's a Cool Ride...

My family always got a new Chevy every two years. I love those lines (very nostalgic).

[Tafiti]

16. 1989 Honda Accord.

Had 248,000 miles on it when I finally got something else, but was still running great.

And, of course, no picture is necessary. Not a good looking car.

[Scooter24]

17. 1996 SLK 230...

Was a gift for my 16th birthday.



Edit: This is not my car. However, mine was the same make and color.

[kwassa]

28. I cry for underprivileged children like yourself, having to make do

with such a vehicle.

it is just so SAD!

[Maddy McCall]

18. '76 Chevy Monza hatchback in firethorn red.

Like this, except without the fender flares and in red.

[wildhorses]

19. '65 mustang white w/ red interior

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. 56 olds 88

Could fit half my senior class in it and the cigarette lighter threw flames!

This is the body style...the color was two tone copper...oh and NO POWER STEERING!

[Maddy McCall]

22. What a cool car!

My dad's first new car was a '55 Chevy Bel Air, in powder blue and white.

It was a cool-ass car. I wish he would have held onto it. I'd love to drive it now.

[Withywindle]

23. '78 Pontiac Grand Prix

Last of the big land sharks. (I got it as a hand-me-down in '87)

It was navy blue with a light blue vinyl top cover that was peeling off and started flapping loudly when I got above 30. It left puddles underneath it in three different colors everywhere I parked. It had those vinyl seats that make the embarrassing fart noises when you get in if you've got any bare skin. It got the gas mileage of a Hummer. It had no AC or tape deck--I used to keep one of those old flat tape recorders on the seat next to me.

But it was a CAR, and I LOVED it. I used it for my Domino's Pizza delivery job.

I also sometimes drove my parents' '73 Dodge pickup truck with the camper top. That was even huger, and I called it the Zeppelin because it handled like one. It was frighteningly light for its size and just about anti-aerodynamic, which is not good when you live in a windy mountainous region.

[hippywife]

24. A turquoise

1968 Austin America. Cute car. Wish I still had it.

[Barad Simith]

25. A 10-year old 1967 Pontiac Grand Prix

Only mine was brown, and there were no palm trees within a thousand miles of it.

[Mutley]

26. A 1988 Volvo in the most hideous mustard gold color ever!

Similar to this one, but gold.

[kwassa]

27. The Rustang

Cost me $125. 1965 Mustang with quite a bit of body rot, bought in 1975 to get me to a summer job. Lasted a couple of years.

Great car, every time something broke it literally cost $10 to fix. The battery went dead, and I started it for quite awhile by rolling it down any slight hill and popping it into gear.

Towards the end, the leaf springs came right up through the rotted trunk floor, and the floor also fell out on the passenger side front seat, to be covered by a board.

It was finally towed away for unpaid parking tickets.

by then I had a classy Vega wagon.

here is a '65 Mustang of the same color with no rust:

[Left_Winger]

29. 1957 VW

Light blue, oval rear window, no gas gauge (there was a lever on the floorboard when the fuel level ran low).

[Clintmax]

30. 1975 Ford Gran Torino...

Example:

Mine was a two door though.

[jojog]

31. 1966 volkswagon beetle

[jojog]

33. Current Car

[madinmaryland]

32. 1974 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

454 cu.in. V-8

[kwassa]

34. actually, the Rustang was my second car, I now remember

this was my first, although mine came in black:



1941 Nash, bought for a whopping $235.

I drove it for about a year before it blew a piston.

[ChoralScholar]

35. 1984 Oldsmoblile Delta 88

Mine was a darker gray, charcoal maybe.


God I miss that car.

[baldguy]

36. 1973 Pinto Wagon

Only mine was tan

[Sabriel]

42. I can beat that

A 1978 dark brown Pinto wagon, with beige (plastic) interior. Used, of course.

We called it "Vroom, Vroom, Kaboom!" because you had to gun it to get it to run. The Kaboom part is obvious, of course.

[miss_kitty]

56. I knew a guy here in town

who had flames painted on the back and around the sides of his Pinto and a personalised plate that said 'KABOOM'

[catmandu57]

37. It looked like this one

Of course it isn't mine never got off the driveway. I was 17, traded a stereo for the car, later after much parental harrasment I traded it for a bag of.

[miss_kitty]

a 48 Plymouth

with 3 on the tree?

[just a girl]

38. '78 Chevy Caprice Classic

It was a boat but could out-corner an '82 'vette and hit 120 before it started shaking.

[Shell Beau]

39. Mine was a 1995 Mitsubishi Mirage (white)

[flvegan]

40. 1985 Mustang

Got a great deal on her. Day after I got my license, I was run off the road and hit a pole at 40+ mph. Only reason I'm alive today (and walked away from that) is because of how she held up.

[MrsMatt]

41. Maroon '65 Pontiac Catalina

4-door sedan

It was a hand-me down from my grandparents to my sister, my other sister, then me.

It was pretty rusty and dented by the time I got it, but I *adored* my beloved "Bruised Prune"

[DanCa]

44. My brothers hudson hornet, _ i forget the year (nt)

[Left Is Write]

45. 1975 two-tone green Buick Century.

[flamingyouth]

46. 1980 Peugeot 505 diesel.

[khashka]

47. 1972 MGB

convertable. Perfect condition.

But I failed my driving test and sold it.

Khash.

[trackfan]

48. 1970 Chevy Impala was the first I actually owned (in 1983)

[ernstbass]

49. canary yellow '77 ford pinto

the kind that exploded of hit from the rear

[swimboy]

50. Aquamarine 1964 Chevrolet Impala

It had been my grandparents. I got it painted and the front straightened out (my little brother had rear-ended someone at the beach) and then my little brother backed into it and folded the bumper over the hood latch. My parents didn't think he should have to get it fixed. :shrug:

I took it in to get worked on one time and asked them to call me to approve the work first. They said it would be five-forty-five. When I hesitated, they said, "Son, that's $5.45. This is Mr. and Mrs. ____'s car isn't it?"

That was life in a small town.

[libnnc]

51. 1977 AMC Hornet station wagon

I loved it.

[DainBramaged]

52. 59 Chevy Impala 4 dr. Turquoise 283 Powerglide in 1966

The generator (not alternator) kept exploding batteries :wow:. I had it for 2 years.

[miss_kitty]

53. Like this, only an Estate Wagon

A sweet 1958 Hillman Minx Estate Wagon. Claim was they took the tallest man in the factory and built a car around him. We figured the tallest guy in the factory was 5'6" or thereabouts. Car cost $50 and the battery cost $51.

Rootes Group. I think having that car was all the work cost and agro of owning an expensive British sports car with none of the status.

[nickinSTL]

54. 1988 Toyota Tercel

This isn't a great pic, and mine was a dark red...

[LSK]

55. 1974 Chevy Malibu

That I paid my parents for in 1988 for $700. They had bought it new in 1974 and had it all that time.

[ronnykmarshall]

57. 1973 Camaro!