Thread: Your First Car!

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.

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:

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...

01 Mazda Protege. Just like this one without the spoiler.

1st car: A yellow 1974 Datsun 710-manual steering and brakes, no A/C. I had to start it sometimes with a screwdriver on the solenoid. Had a lot of good times in that car.

2nd car: 1967 Red VW Beetle-What a car! No heat, it might have been capable of 55 going downhill with a tail-wind. But it had that classic Beetle mechanical cricket sound!