First Car

[Spose]

Mine was a 1969 Ford Mustang Fastback. Got it for $75.00. It had a straight 6 and 3 on the floor. I drove it for a year, sold it and bought a 1967 Mustang for $500.

What was your first?
Nelson, did they have cars when you were young?:D :bh
:^)

[hank]

1956 Ford two door post. Mint green and white, rusted floor boards. I still dream about it. Sold it to the junk yard for $17.50.
:stone

[Ed Rafalko]

Mine was a 1965 Mustang notchback with no motor, trans, or interior. I paid something like 25 bucks for it. I put about a grand of 1975 money into it, and sold it in 1978 for a fortune- $2000!

Eep! :bug Don't delete me Mr. Hank, Sir! :bug
( I gotta cut out the caffeine! :timc )

[winston]

Mine was 76 camaro sky blue with a white vinyl top. :eek:

Cost $700 and ended up at the junk yard. :(

[LGRooster]

Mine was a Tan 1980 Olds cutlass . It was my dad's and was given to me to get back and fourth to school. I totaled it on a raised manhole cover. Shit happens. I then took the insurance money and bought a 79 6.6 Trans Am. Much cooler........but did it suck gas!

How about my first bike? 83 Harley sportster. Kept it until 1995 when I bought my baby........95 lowrider sport. Music to my ears.

[davepaf]

78 Buick Century station wagon.
I paid 250 for it.

[Gazza]

'86 Pontiac 6000 LE with one of those butt ugly landau top's.I hated that car, it had issues. :bh

[Tim C.]

Mine was a white 1965 VW beetle with a sunroof.

I just remember that it didn't start half the time and I would have to push it and jump in and dump the clutch to get it going.

My friend would always stand up and hang out the sunroof and then the cops would stop us and tell us to quit goofing around.

I would yell at my friend and a few blocks later he would be back up there. ha ha

Ah...memories of the good old days.

Thanks Spose.

Tim C. :timc

[Nelson F]

My first car a 1959 Caddy with the 747 rear tail lights""
i paid 150.00""

:drl :drl :drl :drl :%

[Tonefiend]

'78 Chevette that would fit in that caddys trunk!

[hank]

....... so far I've got the oldest car. mustbetheoldestfarthere?

[Mike Hansen]

I had a '76 Buick Lesabre with a V6 in it. Didn't have enough power to get out of it's own way. :D

[Heritage 80]

'66 Mustang, 289, 3 speed stick. Sold it when I went to school for $200 more than I paid for it (and have regretted it every day after!).

[Scott64]

mine was a.....wait. i don't have a car of my own, and i don't want one until i can afford the upkeep on a car :P

[brianf]

1962 Chrysler Windsor 4 Dr. 383 engine and those stupid push button gears. It had this terrible almost square steering wheel and when you realeased it after a sharpe turn you had to make sure you got your hands out of the way because it would crack you in the knuckles. Paid about $300.00 I think.
Drove it for a couple of years.

brianf

[jmp2204]

1973 Buick Century Luxus, rusted to hell at the time, but sounded and rode well. Cost $200 to buy & another $200 to get it running right. worked great for years. guy I sold it to seized it within the week...

[heinz]

a POS '75 VW rabbit, burned about a quart of oil every 2 days. I would literally bury people at a traffic light in light blue-gray smoke.

[hank]

My current car.

http://www.lilypix.com/photos/data/hank/66_p1180.jpg

[Black Bear]

Man that's a sweet ride!;)

I had a Ford Ranger. I was luckier than a lot of 16 year olds, but then again, I'd worked cattle since I was a knee-high-to-a-grasshopper and sold calves periodically to save up the money by the time I was old enough to drive. I have great folks.

[Scott64]

hankthatcarisseriouslycool!

[guildx700~]

A 1972 Pontiac Catalina, got it in 1975... a guy who builds Indy motors built me a 750 HP RA IV 400 for it...what a sleeper that thing was!!!

Funny thing, I sold it to a guy 20 years ago who sold it to a guy who sold it to a guy I work with now, and it(minus the race motor) still runs great, rusty as all get out now though!

[SteveK]

'75 Vauxhall Viva. With a massive 1156CC engine, four speed manual box, sagging doors and the lightweight body kit (aka rust). 0-60 in 25 Sec and 0-100 in your dreams. Got it for free from my Dad when I started work in '82, wrote it off six months later in a head-on when lost in South London on my way back to my girlfriend's from a party one rainy Sunday morning.

Next car was a '66 Mini Estate that cost me one hundred quid in May or June '83 and I drove around for the six months it had 'till the MOT[1] certificate expired, enjoying all the while the sensation of speed one got from observive the road through the holes in the floor.

The I went out and bought a '66 MG Midget, which was an unmitigated disaster from start to finish. I spent a fortune getting the brakes and exhaust fixed, only to have the floor panel collapse. Afterthe MOT expired I had no chance of getting it on the road again for less than I'd already spent on it (about 1800 quid) and eventually sold it for spares to a bloke in the Pub for 100 quid. As I was still paying off the loan for it I couldn't afford another, and I got used to being car-less. A state that continued for about five years [2] 'till I shacked up with the ex in '90. Then we had generall sensible vehicles 'till I expatriated and went carless again. Ain't had one since I moved to Hong Kong in '96. Well, technically this isn't true, as my last car, an '87 Nissan Sunny Coupe[3] was left with the ex (on my bloody insucrance now I recall). I think she scrapped it in the late 90's sometime.

God I'm bored. You can tell can't you?

- Steve K ;)

1) Ministry of transport road worthiness certificate that every car that's more than three years old has to have to be road legal in the UK.
2) Dates in the 80's get a bit vague for me. I have to try and remmember where I was living and which girlfriend (if any) was around at the time in order to be able to put any date at all to an event...
3) Stop sniggering at the back. There was such a model, admittedly obscure, but it did exist.