I'm beyond bored with Olympics and Edwards... Post a pic of your first car!

[SacredCow]

Mine- a 1971 Toyota Celica. Older than dirt when I inherited it from Mom, but hey- it was a car.

[CreekDog]

1. '81 Datsun 210

amazing car, always ran. drove that car between California and Utah, multiple times. (this one in the photo is not mine, but is same model)

[SacredCow]

3. Yeah, the one in the pic wasn't mine either...

I doubt I have a picture of mine. The one I had was beige, but otherwise just like that one.

Those 210's were kind of boring looking but bullet-proof, from what I saw...

[GOPisEvil]

69. I had an '80 210 Hatchback.

In "Fawn Brown" = ORANGE.

[LeftyMom]

2. Twofer: my car and my bike.

[SacredCow]

7. Ah, the Burley....

My son HATED that thing. I should have borrowed one before I shelled out for it... x(

[LeftyMom]

12. mine LOVED it

I lucked into it with the stroller adapter for $100 brand new from a Craigslister who had got it as a gift and had no clue what it was worth.

After the kid finally outgrew it, I sold it for twice that and the guy who bought it was thrilled to get such a bargain.

[SacredCow]

14. i was CRUSHED when he didn't like it....

I saw it as potential bonding time... he saw it as "Dad has strapped me down, and I must SCREAM until he lets me out!"

[LeftyMom]

15. LK just loved going really fast.

As long as I hauled ass in it, he was cool. Stop for a light and he'd get grumpy pretty fast.

[SacredCow]

17. Mine would probably be better now....

but he outgrew it ages ago. now we just go for rides in my Beetle....

[LeftyMom]

18. Yeah, he's got his own bike now.

A neat little Trek. I don't have pics of him on it uploaded yet.

[SacredCow]

19. Mine has gravitated to skateboards...

Much to my ex's dismay....

[jobycom]

101. LOL! That sounds familiar.

My daughter hated the Burley, too. I would strap her in, and she would cry. Not a good bonding thing, either--the only way to talk to her was to yell over my shoulder, which wasn't exactly conducive to safe cycling. The only way to keep her quiet was to stuff the trailer full of stuffed animals.

[AlCzervik]

4. 1979 Cutlass Brougham Supreme in powder puff blue

tht car loved oil, lts of it.

[Inchworm]

5. not sure if it'll stick.. but

All blue, hard top.

AC/DC rocked out of it.. and Thourogud..ZZ.. Bluegrass...

:woohoo:

[SacredCow]

10. W00TS!!!!!

My grandma had one of those!

[Inchworm]

11. gee thanks...

*shuffles feet*

I bought it off a church lady for $50.

Good times.

:P

[SacredCow]

13. nah, my grandma was uber-cool...

and she put that 289 through the paces!

[bicentennial_baby]

6. 1973 Dodge Dart Swinger...Like this, but

imagine it in light yellow with a black hardtop:



And I bought it in 1999 :rofl:

:D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. I had a "70 Dart...

Bought it for $200. I got about 100K from it...

[Connonym]

8. How about we change the subject back to Jett Favre?

eh, or let's not

[SacredCow]

9. nah....

my ex-wife went to school with him.... :puke:

[hobbit709]

16. This one but mine was red.

[Lost-in-FL]

20. In gold color...

[Scooter24]

21. Mine....

A 1996 Mercedes SLK 230. I wish I still had a pic of that car, I loved it :)

[lizziegrace]

22. 1978 Plymouth Volare coupe. Mine was light blue metallic

[SacredCow]

23. I'll add a pic of my current weekend car...

(just because she's a sweetheart)

[greendog]

24. Mine was a dark blue XL with a 390 V8. :-)

[MichiganVote]

25. 1970 on the floor V8 Baracuda. Loved that car.

[Connonym]

26. I 1970s something Pontiac Astre

like this one but mine was bright green and dubbed "The Nuclear Pickle" I'm kind of sad that I don't appear to have a photo of my actual car. Come to think of it I don't think I have ever taken a picture of any of my cars but anyway, I drove that baby until the motor gave out. In retrospect I wish I would have had it rebuilt instead of buying a new car. I loved that car even though in the time I owned it, it never had a functional gas gauge and I got stranded a few times as a result

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. 1970 Dodge Dart

But mine was red with a white roof

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. 'The Mule' looked a great deal like this:

But it had a 283, not a 427. :(

[RetroLounge]

63. Is that a '66 Bisket?

Sweet!

:hi:

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

66. Almost

Bel Air. One very small step up from a Bisket.

I came of age in that car, man. Cruised South Main in it, lost my virginity in it, learned about engines and stuff with it. Inhaled 37 pounds of Bondo dust.

Cried when I sold it.

[RetroLounge]

67. Oh, memories.

Check out my pic in this thread. I had 37 pounds of bondo on each quarter panel!

Didn't lose my virginity in it, but the back seat got a LOT of use. Like a big vinyl covered bed, it was, with the fold down low-back buckets.

Cruised for years in this baby until a 16 year old drunk driver without a license or insurance rear-ended me in a '74 Impala doing about 50.

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

71. Ouch!

Damned kids. :grr:

Saw your pic. That was one sweet ride. :thumbsup:

Mine had some fiberglass on it, too. The lower right rear quarter panel rusted through to the trunk, so I cut it out (maybe five inches by 12 inches) and 'glassed a patch. A little Bondo to smooth it and, damn, it looked pretty good for an amateur job. :D

[shanti]

30. 1955 bel air

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11858266@N07/2599248383/ same color and everything...the engine froze up on me because i never put any fluids in it - at all. mom sold it for $200. :( wish i still had it. it was a tank.

[Doug.Goodall]

34. 1959 Chevy Biscayne

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The picture looks much better than the one I had. Mine had rusted out floor boards and smelled like barnyard.

It had a straight six engine. There was enough room for a person to climb in with the motor and close the hood.

It had a two speed automatic transmission, but there were three positions on the shift lever. Chevrolet engaged in deceptive marketing even back in the '50s

[Oeditpus Rex]

58. How were the gears marked on the shift indicator?

I'm trying to figure this out. Chevy offered only two automatics in '59 — the two-speed Powerglide and the three-speed Turboglide. The Turboglide was an early version of the continuously variable transmission and was the opposite of what you're saying; it showed only two drive positions, 'D' and 'Gr' (for "grade retard," a sort of specialized version of low). In "drive" it went through two upshifts, but you didn't really feel them like you do with other automatics because of the way the torque was multiplied.

[Doug.Goodall]

107. I drove this care back in 1975, so it has been a while

But as I recall, the plastic bezel went P, R, D, 2, 1 where 2 and 1 were a single detent. I really can't remember that far back, but it was kind of a joke amongst my friends whenever we would ride in "the '59" as we called it.

[SacredCow]

42. A friend of mine has one of those...

It's been in his family since new (and it was the first car that he had "back seat action" in). It is absolutely pristine and all original, and I hate him for not letting me drive it!

[pokerfan]

31. 1974 Buick Regal Coupe

Purchased in 1979 while I was in college. Loved that car.

[JBoy]

44. Similar to me!

I had a '75 Regal that I bought in 1982 while in college. She was a great car.

[pokerfan]

68. The only downside, besides the gas mileage,

was the ginormous doors.

[Runcible Spoon]

45. 1984 Regal 4-door

ahh the memories. didn't care that it was the color of cat vomit; the purple plush seats made up for it :evilgrin:

[JBoy]

82. Kojak drove a '75 Regal 4-door. Color looks kinda vomit-like:

[bluesbassman]

32. 67 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible

Cool story on this car. We drove it from the Bay Area down to the Ontario Motor Speedway for the first California Jam in April of '74. We got there early the night before the show, so we parked real close to the entrance gate. One of my buddies had brought his house speakers along, and we wired them into the 8-track (for you youngsters, Google 8-track for some old school audio!) As the night and party wore on, we had the loudest tunes going and people kept stopping by asking us to play their tapes. Needless to say, their requests were often accompanied by an offer to share their party favors and by the time they opened the gates in the middle of the night we were well on our way to the killer buzz. What a road trip that was!


Bonus pic, my first street bike. A 1967 Royal Enfield 750 Interceptor

[lizziegrace]

46. Great car! The first car I drove (not owned) was a '69 Catalina

Dark green with dark green interior. Loved that boat.

[bluesbassman]

94. The first car I dove was a '67 Catalina!

It was my Dad's, and looked exactly like this. Actually lost my virginity in that car with a preacher's daughter! I know, I'm gonna burn for that.:evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

60. Wish I'd known you then

A friend and I were gonna go to California Jam. We even shoplifted a carton of cigs for the weekend. (I pinned a handkerchief inside my peacoat as a pocket.) We stashed 'em under the front seat of his car, and his dad found 'em a couple days later and made him watch as he destroyed every pack.

I don't remember the details, but that seemed to put a damper on our plans. I imagine the idea was that if we didn't even have the scratch for cigarettes, which were about $4 a carton in those days, it was unlikely we could get it up for tickets and gas and stuff.

[bluesbassman]

96. Wish I'd known you then too!

You definitely would have been welcome on any of my roadtrips!

I think that whole trip cost me about thirty bucks. The tickets were ten bucks. Ten fricken bucks for this::wow:

[Oeditpus Rex]

99. I was thinking they were like $17.50

All I remember is seeing that ad in the LA Times on New Year's Day at my girlfriend's house and going out of my freaking mind.

Ah, well — at least I got to see bits of it on ABC (much of which is on YouTube).

Man, it was two days after my 18th birthday, too. I'd forgotten about that.

[Rhythm]

33. 1967 Grand Prix ragtop

My dad and i restored it, and then it was 'mine' for about 6 months, until my older sister called with a sob-story, and talked him into 'loaning' it to her. Her kids destroyed the interior, she destroyed the rest.

~*~*~

Dad made it up to me, though, by letting me have his '75 Grand Prix. I had that one for about 2 years, until it met with a bridge support while going 80mph.

[LaurenG]

35. 1963 Chevy Impala, 3 on the column *yikes*

Learning to drive on an old clunker with a standard tranny was hard. I think I broke the U joint the first or second time I tried to drive it. Plus it stuck between 2nd and 3rd gear so I had to learn to manipulate the shifter while trying not to lurch using the clutch.

The positive side was that I was one of the bigger cars around and was fairly safe inside the old thing. It got my baby daughter and I where we needed to be. :)

It was rustier than this but the same color.

[DarkTirade]

36. This is just a photo I found online, but it's the same make and color as mine.

Only mine had paint peeling in a few places by the time I got it. :)

Looked a little more like this by the time I had it.

[Burma Jones]

37. My 1971 Chevy Pickup

Not so much fun during the gas lines of 1979

[Haole Girl]

38. Cool Celica!

I had a 1982 Celica. Still miss that car & still regret selling it. :cry:

This is what it looked like:

[SacredCow]

54. I begged Mom and Dad to get me an 80's model Celica...

Like this...



But they wouldn't budge.

[Haole Girl]

72. I wanted a Volkswagen Scirocco

http://image.motortrend.com/f/auto-news/volkswagen-to-show-past-sciroccos-at-essens-techno-classica/8443032+w562+cr1+re0+ar1/volkswagen-scirocco-gt-1978-.jpg


But the guy at the dealership thought he'd be smart and tell my Dad that it was the same engine the VW Bug had. It backfired & my Dad decided the Toyota was a better car. It was a great car, too. I just freaked out when the mileage got high & sold it for a new small compact car instead.

Have you seen the 2008 Volkswagen Scirocco? It's beautiful!

[SacredCow]

76. Holy CARP!!!!

Are those on the lots? I've not seen one. Good thing- I might have traded my car in on the spot!

[Haole Girl]

89. It might still be a concept car

I haven't seen one in person, either, yet. It is a beauty though! :hi:

[SacredCow]

93. Oh, definitely....

MUCH better looking than that EOS thing they have now.

[Pierre.Suave]

39. One of these

a super hot 1984 Mazda 626...



At least it had a manual transmission...

[carlyhippy]

40. 1980 Camaro, the insurance was outrageous even back then

[stuntcat]

41. mine was a 70's white Ford pickup

That was over 20 years ago, and I don't drive anymore now.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

43. 1982 Nissan Stanza...........

Body gave out before the engine did. Great car.

[Tikki]

47. My family's first car...well, actually my mother's..

first car after her divorce....we all saved up for over two years and bought it new.

It is a 1964 Chevrolet Impala with a 283 and three on the tree.

My mother drove it around like a demon...woman never went at the speed limit or below.



That is my late brother at the wheel...he put an 'echoplex' in it and
my mom covered the seats with that bumpy clear vinyl. It was
white exterior and beige (fawn) interior. The trunk was hugh.;)


Tikki

[SacredCow]

50. I remember that clear bumpy vinyl well....

Nothing like sweating against that stuff in the heat of summer... Good times! :crazy:

[Tikki]

55. And don't forget the little dimple imprints all...

over your legs when wearing cut-offs. Dang legs looked like
waffles for a couple minutes or so after you got out of the car.


Tikki

[Blue-Jay]

48. My first car was a 72 Challenger.

It was that shit-brown chrysler color, and the floorboard was reinforced with a 55 MPH sign stolen from the highway, but man, it was a fast motherfucker.

Kinda looked like this:


(too lazy to find an actual photo and scan it)

[SacredCow]

49. Did it have a Hemi in it?

:rofl:

My uncle had one of those that he converted to a race car. I was never allowed to drive it (dammit).

[Blue-Jay]

52. It did indeed have a Hemi.

Damn thing didn't like to idle, for whatever reason.

[SacredCow]

53. Yeah, but why let it idle....

when you could rev it and get that deep, throaty growl....

[Blue-Jay]

56. That's what I did.

I also left many kids scratching their heads in wonder on Airport Road (the local place to have an illegal race).

[NJmaverick]

51. 69 Dodge Dart

What it was really like




What I wish it was like

[graywarrior]

61. Me, too!

Slant 6. What a car!

[NJmaverick]

75. Couldn't kill those engines

unfortunately a little water could cripple it though. Don't know what they were thinking putting the electrical on the bottom of the slant.

[WinkyDink]

57. 1971 240-Z, but in white:

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[leeroysphitz]

59. 1977 Plymouth Gran Fury.

Mine was burgundy with white vinyl on top.





2 tons of fun!

[RetroLounge]

62. 1965 Chevy Impala Super Sport

Black on black, 327CID 4bolt main, .202 heads, Q-jet, headers, 4:11 posi rear end, Powerglide with 2000 stall speed.

Got totalled by a drunk driver.

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

70. You bastard

First car I drove was a '65, but it was a Bel Air with a 230-inch six (145 HP) with a Rochester 1-bbl. that ran rich and a 'Glide.

Man, that thing was a sled.

[LeftyMom]

83. Want.

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

92. Gawd I loved that car...

:loveya:

RL

[onehandle]

64. 1972 98 Oldsmobile. 455 V8 Powerhouse. My friends and I would drag race Trans-Ams in the 70's.

The Trans-Am owners would laugh at my "mom's car." But not for long.

It was a hand me down from my mom who was a real estate agent. She bought a new one every several years.

This is the exact model and color:



To anyone familiar with Atlanta. When I-285 (our perimeter highway) was built, I got it up well over the maximum 120 MPH that the speedometer went up to.

[Robb]

65. 1986 Nissan 200SX

Looked like this:

...hatchback. Hilarious car. Digital displays, voice would tell me the door was ajar. :D

Pity, stolen out of my carport, crashed and totaled a few blocks away. Thieves stole the change out of my ashtray but left camera bag in the back seat. :shrug:

[sammythecat]

73. 1958 Austin Healy 100-6

Just like that except black with red interior. It was 1968 and I didn't deserve such a cool car. Got caught up with drugs and wound up abandoning it. I hope someone rescued it.

[Auggie]

85. I am so jealous

[sammythecat]

90. I bet you would've been more responsible

with it than I was. You couldn't have been less.

I'm glad to hear someone else appreciates that style of car. Whether I had one or not, I think that's one of the best looking cars in that price range ever made. The 3000's are nice too, but I think the 100-6 was just a bit sleeker and sexier looking.

I was too young and far too stupid to have a nice car like that. Someone should have taken it away from me. I want to kick myself every time I think of it.

[flvegan]

74. 1985 Mustang

Like this:

[LeftyMom]

78. I was in one of those when the Loma Prieta quake hit.

The damn thing rattled around so much, I didn't notice anything had happened until we got home and half the neighbor's pool water was in our yard. :D

[flvegan]

79. Mine saved my life

Two days after getting my license, I was cut off and went sideways into a telephone pole at 35-40 mph. Hit right at the doorjam, thank the gods. I bent it really well, but I walked away.

[LeftyMom]

80. I've never been in a car accident, oddly enough.

Got in a little fender bender on my dad's bike once (some old lady decided to turn right from the center lane while we were in the right lane- broke off one of the turn signals and bent the rear fender a bit- total damage maybe $200) but that's it.

Considering my driving skills :eyes: that's a bit surprising.

[davsand]

77. 77 Camaro. Red. The last year they used chrome on them, really.

Bought her off the showroom floor. Loved that car with a passion and will never have another like it again in my life. This not mine (sadly no pictures remain of Christine) but this is how she looked:





RIP Christine.



Laura

[LeftyMom]

81. My Dad had a '74 when I was growing up.

What a great car. Unreliable (never buy a '74 anything, kids- it's the year the domestics switched over to unleaded and they weren't any good at it yet,) but fun when it was working.

One of these days I have to get a Camaro, just because every other member of my family has had one at some point.

[av8rdave]

84. 79 Trans Am

Took delivery from the factory in Pontiac, Mi.

[Auggie]

86. 1972 VW Beetle

First car I ever owned by myself

[Richardo]

87. 1968 Mercury Cougar XR7

With this paint and roof!

Got it for $750 (this was in 1974 so it was six years old). Loved that car.

[GOPisEvil]

95. Sigh - that's a dream car of mine.

We're the same age - we could grow old gracefully together. ;)

[Left Is Write]

88. I don't have a pic of my first car, but I can tell you it was a 1975 Buick Century.

Two-tone green with striped upholstery.

[LibDemAlways]

91. Mine wasn't as souped up as this one, but it was a

1973 Firebird that I won on the tv game show called Split Second. It actually came rather stripped down, but I didn't care. I was a college student and happy to have a car.

[elleng]

97. '62 Olds '88!

http://www.freewebs.com/jeandaveyaros/

Convertible, Black w. Red Interior.

Family car, learned to drive on it.

Thanks for the memories!

[BrotherBuzz]

98. 1941 Chevrolet Coupe - mine was a battleship gray six cylinder with three on the tree

Hidden running boards, and seemed like everything ran on a vacuum pump, including the clutch. Service was a breeze; you could climb right into the engine compartment.

I gave it up for a '67 VW bug. What was I thinking! :shrug:

[WCGreen]

100. 63 Impala

My girlfriend at the time, as you can see, loved to wear gloves.

[jobycom]

102. It looked kind of like this Fiat, only with a smashed in rear end, and brown.

I don't remember the exact model or year. It was a Fiat we bought at a junk yard. I had to rewire the tail lights, and one was a generic replacement tail light, duct taped in place. The front seats were already taken out, so I got two replacements. The passenger seat wouldn't bolt down, so it just rocked back and forth when I started and stopped. The driver's seat was held in place by one bolt. The frame was twisted so the clutch cable would break every 75 miles or so, and I learned to shift it without the clutch. Not really good on the transmission.

But as one friend, the only one brave enough to ride in it, told me, it was MINE.

http://image.motortrend.com/f/concours/mamma-mia-thats-italian-concorso-italiano-2007/6933791+w600+cr1+re0+ar1/1974-mini-cooper-bertone-120.jpg

[bluedigger]

103. 1983 Celica GTS Fastback

Looked just like this one, except I had a 6" "Steal Your Face" decal in the window behind the driver side door!:hippie:




I loved that car! Bought new and sold two years later when I went to Germany. :banghead:

[Rosco T.]

104. don't have a piccy of MINE, but this is it - '69 Torino Cobra

bottom left, 428 CobraJet, car had two speeds, "Hoo" and "Ha!". My father picked up for $800. Gawd I shoulda kept that one.

[Nevilledog]

105. Chevy Monza Spyder

Not sure what year, but I got it when I graduated high school in '83. Manual transmission, v8 engine....burned through 3 clutches...bad design there.

Looked like this






My parents wouldn't let me take it to college for my first semester....so I waited patiently for Xmas break and drove it from NM to CA.... and wrecked it 2 weeks later. Some asshole blew a red light and hit us in an intersection in Santa Monica. That was a nice call home to the parents...but got it fixed and painted it a beautiful red with black stripes. That car was FAST.

[Skittles]

106. this one only mine was brown