Thread: Your First Car!

My first car was a 87 Chevy Cavalier. I got it when i was 16 and newly licenced. I drove that car into the ground. The body was so rotten that as soon as i hit 60km/h the doors would start to make a flapping noise, Sound alot like a hellecopter.
The refused to die at the end. I stopped putting oil in it and had bets with friends when the engine would sieze but it never did.
Parked it for a year when my mother yelled at me to get it the heck out of her driveway. It Started up first try with no oil. Drove it to the wreckers.

Loved the car.

'69 Dodge Charger I bought in June of 1977. That thing already looked like the aftermath of one of Bo Duke's jumps over the Stick River!

Bought my first car for $300 when I was 20 in 1968. A 1959 VW beetle. There was no gas gauge, when it started sputtering because you were out of gas you reached down under the dash and turned a lever to kick in the auxiliary gas tank. Totaled it on the way home from a topping out party after finishing an ironwork construction job.

Didn't anybody have a Hudson, a Nash, or a DeSoto?!?!

my first was a 85 Chevy Fullsize Blazer 3 speed with the low creeper gear ...

1949 Plymouth convertible: "Carnival Red" paint, fender skirts, wide whitewalls, chrome tailpipe;
flathead 6, 3 on the column.

Purchased in 1961 for $200. I was 16 years old. I sold it to a Methodist minister when I left home
to go to college.

Looked kinda like this one:

Originally Posted by PaulKidd

1949 Plymouth convertible: "Carnival Red" paint, fender skirts, wide whitewalls, chrome tailpipe;
flathead 6, 3 on the column.

Purchased in 1961 for $200. I was 16 years old. I sold it to a Methodist minister when I left home
to go to college.

Looked kinda like this one:

Thats is one sweet looking ride!

Mine was an 83 camaro with the 5.7 liter tuned port injection V8. That thing would fishtail on dry pavement if you weren't really light on the gas through corners.

I got it when I was sixteen and finally sold it when I was 23. It was a great car. Used to race and drift around corners and speed like a maniac in that thing for years. Super comfortable and fast and tough car that I couldn't say enough good about, even after I had driven it into the ground.

It's still my favorite car of the four I've owned.

This isnt a pic of mine...any pics of it are on actual photo paper...lol...but mine was identical. !974 Gran Torino Sport with 351 Cleveland.

My Dad always had a spare car around so my first year I did get one. Then he told me he would double what I saved to get one. Well a couple of months went by and he asked me how much I had saved. (thinking I spent every penny I got) Boy was he shocked. We went car shopping right then. I got a 72 CJ5 with the 304, 3 on the floor. That thing got about 20 to the gallon and would climb trees. Soft top was great in the summer for cruising the beach. I sent the engine through the radiator a couple of times and the body started cracking from jumping it over hills and such so I traded it straight across for a 72 F150. Good thing, probably would have died in it sooner or later, it was just to much fun to mistreat.

ha ha same thing,,, photo paper and maybe black and white.