Thread: Your First Car!

My first car was a 1987 Volkswagen Scirocco 16V in tornado red. Man did I ever love that car and would still own it today if a hail storm had not written it off. I bought it in the States for $2000, when I was living there, and brought it back to Canada when I moved back. The personality of that car was such a blast. I got to drive it again after having my new one for a bit and there is nothing like it. I still keep my eye out for another one.

It looked almost exactly like this one:

Mine was a 1970 Toyota Corona, the same as this.

In 1972 at 16 ...my first car was 200.00 bucks ...turn key and go...a 1963 Triumph Spitfire..had it for a year and then got a 1966 Pontiac Lemans Conv

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

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

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In my youth I was a danger to both myself and everyone around me - and I knew it too! Hence I didn't even get my licence till I was 25, and my first car until I was 27 or something like that. Thank goodness I lived in a city that saw me not needing one.

So when I did need a car (bought a house in the burbs), I bought the most "practical" car I could lol. It was a three banger and cheap on gas.

Then I got a job that saw me given a company car. I bought a car once so I wouldn't be beholden to my employer (bad idea - it just sat in the garage), but until I moved to KS, I had never driven a car I had personally owned other than that... ^^ thing ^^^ lol .

First car was a '72 Cutlass S, Rocket 350 almost identical to this one. (that color is called "bamboo") Mine had a brown vinyl top and Kelly Supercharger 70's (couldn't afford TA radials!). Got it for $600.00 shortly after getting my license early at 15yrs. old. I knocked the grill out of it in a wreck, and finally sold it to my aunt when she was down on her luck, 2 years later. At different times, it went through somebody's tool shed and a couple of fences, and several high school enemies got their yards trenched and doors blown off by it. Can't remember how many tickets I got, but I do recall getting away from the cops at least twice. I think that car spent about as much time going sideways as it did going forward. Never lost a race in that car, and even 30 years later, I still refuse to "drive boring".

My first car was a 1984 Toyota celica it was a 5spd rear wheel drive with the 22r engine. Great gearing in the gearbox I think it is a very over looked chassis when it comes to the import tubing world. Thing was fast and torque was there.

Blue four door 1956 Rambler. It came from the estate of my friends aunt who lived in an apartment she almost never left and kept her car in its indoor garage. The starter motor engaged by pulling back on the shifter lever on the stearing column. It was eventually replaced by a 1965 Pontiac GTO convertable.

I bought a 46 Ford V-8 2dr Sedan used in 55 for a whole $60.( about two weeks of work) I used that much oil in the next 6 months till the holes in pistons wouldn't allow the engine to start. The thing of the day was a chrome sun visor over the windshield and the tail dragging on the ground, Fender skirts were "in" for the back wheels. I sold it for $65 to another kid that had a Mercury V-8 to put in it. He did and that is history.
JC Whitney and Warshawsky were the go to places for parts. They had two different street addresses in the same building I heard. Stock numbers seemed the same for the parts.
~Richard

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1969 Volkswagen Beetle blue with white fenders and a crank back sun roof, it had A/C via the hole in the floor all for $675 when I was 16. I spun a bearing, replaced the motor fixed the floor and sold it. My Dad would get mad at me when I did burn outs with it, (not that it was anything impressive) the Clutch cable would come off if I let it fly.....Dad would have to come pick me up and he'd drive it home flat shifting it,now I understand why Dad would never let buy that 64' El Camino with a 400ci in it, or the 58' step side chevy 258ci, or the 67' Mustang convertible 283ci.........sigh...