At 16, I bought a 1965 VW Beetle for $350.00. It was faded black with white interior. My Dad taught me to drive stick in it. I saved up enough to have it painted metallic blue. I had it for a couple of years before trading it in on a 1973 Mercury Capri (also made in Germany).

A new 1987 Cavalier Z24, and an old POS '78 Parisienne as a winter beater. Funny thing is, I had the Parisienne longer than the Z24. Sold the Z24 to buy a new 1988 Mustang GT.

1973 Triumph Spitfire. Actually my first transportation was a 1972 Suzuki GT 185. Rode that thing through lake effect snowstorms to get to my girlfriends house. Mostly worth it...

The greatest 1975 Ford Maverick the world has ever seen..... and I got the monster 250 CID straight six, and four doors.

Brand new Porsche 914 2.0 when I was 17 years old. Got me laid often (oops wrong thread):D

1961 Buick Electra 2-dr hardtop with 401 cu in (6.7 l) nailhead V8 rated at 325 (inflated) horsepower. (I'm old)

Buick 401s were used as external starter motors for SR-71 Blackbirds. TV Tommy Ivo's engine of choice for his 4-engine dragster.

1978 camaro, worst piece of crap i ever owned. :barf:

My best friend's first car was a 98 white Type R. It was #1010 and he kept in excellent condition up until about 5 years ago. He was on his way back from a track day and an F-150 rear ended him and totaled it. Such a bummer. I think it only had about 60,xxx miles on it too. He was going to buy it back but just had his first child and decided to just let it go.

My first car was a 1985 Jeep Cherokee 4 cylinder that I got for free from my cousin. The shifter was broken off and he didn't know how to fix it. My dad welded it back together and threw me the keys and said, "Go learn how to drive stick!" Many great memories in that Jeep even though it was the biggest POS. :)

My first was a 72 Nova, 350 w barrel. Bought it in 78 for 500.00. The first choice was a was a 72 GTO Judge for an even grand. My dad would not let me buy it as a 16 year old. I might not be posting today if he had said yes. A few years later I was driving him down the autobahn in a V12 Jag at three times the US speed limit. He was in the back seat and my Mom was in the front seat with her eyes closed. We thought she was asleep.

1963 356B. Bought it in 1985 in Rockledge, Florida for $3,700. I was 18.

1st / 71 VW Beetle.
2nd / 70 VW Beetle.
3rd / 71 VW Squareback.
4th / 68 VW Squareback.
Umm! I see a pattern here!

Bought a 1972 Chevy Nova sophomore year of high school-$900.... Wish I still had it!

Used 1974 Ford Pinto. Brown with torn brown vinyl roof. But even then was running on +1 staggered chrome 'mag' wheels!

1969 Camaro $500

1960 Austin Healy bugeye Sprite. Bought new after working all summer selling encyclopedias door-to-door. Had to push start it when temps were below 20 degrees. Would go almost 80mph downhill with a tail wind. It died while parked on a residential street when run over (literally!) by a delivery truck. Bought a Corvair to replace it.

Larry (the Bald Eagle)

Guessing you mean 71 Judge since that's the last year it was made. 69,70,& 71

I tried to buy a 69 Judge converible for years, one of 108 made that 1st year. Also 2 hard tops a couple miles from where I lived 25 years ago. Owners wouldn't sell until they are rusting away!

Pictured, my first car and I, about 1968.
1960 Bug-eye Sprite.
When it ran, it ran great ! Although, it didn't have a heater, had windshield wipers that barely worked.
No floor under drivers feet, just a piece of masonite. It had a grille and hub caps, just weren't on this day.
Traded it a few years later for a '63 Beetle.http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1443368035.jpg

A pea green 1958 Simca Aronde. Four doors, four on the tree. It served as transportation taking a high school buddy and myself to the Del Mar Fair where we worked as shills in the carnival. Saved all my money to rebuild the engine however didn't have enough cash to do the valves. Needless to say, the rebuild was a mixed success.

70 Nova SS. 350/300HP 4SPD, 373 POSI. Worked at the local Porsche/Audi dlr so got the car for $1500.00. Forest green, black guts. Broken rear leaf spring was undiagnosed. Got it fixed and the car drove 100% better. All the guys in the shop got me out autoxing. Scrimp ed and saved every Penney to go into that car. Before a year was out, I turned it into quite the solo car. Z28 steering box, arms, air cleaner, Holley 650 GM HEI ignition, Corvette exhaust manifolds, corvair turbo mufflers, 396 coils up front with a coil lopped off to lower front end. Addco front bar, F41 rear sway off camaro, KYB gas shocks, homemade traction bars from hardware pipe and Heim joints, heated and bent the rear leafs to lower the rear. None of this would have happened had the dealership guys and Les Irwin, an iron worker from my city (Peoria) not taken an interest in seeing me develop the car. He could fab and weld anything. I had 8" Corvette rally wheels and thru another buddy's dad got a hold of ignition, metallic brake linings and used tires used in the Illinois state patrol cars. It ran strong and was a total sleeper. Alas, I wrecked it a week after graduation when I drag raced a classmate (against my better judgement) on a 2 lane country road and after the first pass (i smoked him) he cajoled me into running him back, saying he'd missed a shift in his 73 S3 Malibu 454/4spd.. We ran back to the original start and as we crested a small rise (cars lining bith sides) I was 3 car lengths in front doing a bit 120mph when i realized my unfamiliarity with the road caused me to miss the stop sign until too late. I flew about 100 feet into a corn field. Moved the entire subframe back about 6 inches on initial impact.

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The first car I could legally drive was a 1962 Mercury Comet rag top....white with white top and red interior. 6 cylinder, 2 speed automatic with a 1 barrel carb, Got a sweet 11-12 mpg!

The first car I bought with my own money, a few months later (1976) was an unmolested 1967 Mercury Cougar 289 automatic with 49,000 miles. Paid $900! I have to give my Dad credit for telling me about the car and helping with negotiations,appealing to the owner that this way my first car and I was buying it with my own hard earned money.

Biggest thing I remember was after getting my first paycheck after buying he car, I took it to a local garage for grease job and oil change. I bought a full tank of gas and had no money left to go anywhere for the next two weeks!
First car, hell, I'd have paid whatever they wanted!