I inherited my grandma's Copper colored 1978 Chevy Malibu Classic. Interesting ride...I guess the important thing is it was reliable and moved me back and forth from school, soccer practice and flying lessons. The best part is it was free!

Mine was a 1988 Eagle Premier. It had the old split couch-like seats in the front. I put on some chrome accents and a $1000 stereo and felt like a badass. Well, until I wrapped it around a tree that is. :p

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My first car was a 1992 325i Four door BMW which had about 700k on it.
The car was quite well-maintained given its condition, the black interior and the leather smells great.

You could always tell a bimmer with its unique smell. The car meant another chapter for me. it took me to places and ventured into many adventures, not to mention taking my first gf all over.

I bought it and saved hard because i wanted to look good bringing my first love to the formal. it worked out well.

Again, like the first story, I could remember the times when we would just slip back to the back seats and make out like two wild bunnies. She loved making out in cars because it was somthing different.

AS we broke up because she had to go to England, I had many more encounters in the backseat with other woman. heading off into the forest and just getting it off.

APart from these sizzles, the car was great, reliable and it saved my life from an accident once when a car collied with me head on and i escaped unscathed .

My car mechanic told me that if it was a jap car, i would have died straight on the spot.

so after that i changed to a 325i Cabrio and then a z3 2.8 and now a boxster.
hoping eventually to upgrade to the 996 one day !

Keep the stories coming !

1969 Charger
 

My first car was a 1969 Charger RT/SE with 318 and cragars. I was 17 and paid about $800 in 1979.

I worked for a year flipping burgers to buy it. Had it for two years until
a sophomore with new license took out the drivers side front to rear at
a school dance. Never really recovered from that :(

This is a 69 RT/SE, not mine. Mine was green with black top.
http://www.imageshosted.com/uploadim...607charger.jpg

That 325 sedan was a sweet ride. I have a 1999 328I right now and it is still a fine set of wheels!

My first car...
 

was a 1956 Ford Crown Victoria that I purchased in 1965. You may recall that it had the large chrome "roll bar" across the top. It was a V8 with 2-speed automatic. Cost was $300. I repainted it a metallic maroon (actually "Cordoba"). Interior was black and white tuck-and-roll. Wheels were chromed. It had a good sized back seat but nowhere as big as the backseat in the 1960 Pontiac Ventura coupe that replaced it.

The Pontiac was something else: 400 ci, 3-twos, flowed cast iron headers, T-10 gearbox with Hearst shifter, aluminum flywheel, 4-bolt mains, dual valve springs, Alfin drums, 4,000 lbs - all from the factory. It was geared to turn 3,500 RPM at 70 MPH (it was set up with street slicks). It ran a steady 11 MPG on Chevron Custom Supreme.

My first car was the probably the first "jelly bean"; a 1971 Toyota Celica.
Long throw four speed with the 18R engine. Tan on tan with a thin red/ black stripe on the sides. I usually kept about ten coats of carnuba on it, looked like it was encased in a 1/4" of glass. Drove the hell out of it during the college years, great fun car, really tossable. Did many a powerslide through cohttp:// rners in it.

My first car was a 1971 Dodge Challeger R/T with a 340 c.i. engine. I paid $1600 for it in 1972 with 20,000 miles on it. It was metallic blue with black interior. Man it was quick. Wish I still had it. Muscle cars from that era are fetching a pretty penny on Barrett Jackson.

Hi,

I had a '77 Celica GT Coupe. I liked it alot, but it always seemed a little 'Tinney' and slightly anemic to me. While it was parked at the Curb overnight, it was totalled by a Chicago PD Cruiser rushing to a Call. I was informed by a Pizza Delivery Guy who saw it and got the Cruiser #. I waited 3 days and never heard a thing from the Cops. I reported it totalled and told the responding Officer what I had been told. He called in and told me I was wrong. I gave him the Cruiser #, Time of accident, and said I had a witness willing to testify. The next day the City Manager called and we agreed on an amount which the City paid the next day - weird huh? It had maybe 25k mi. on it, so I have no longterm experience with it...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

Mine was an '89 Honda CRX HF hatchback with over 250,000 miles on it. Drove it past 300,000 miles before I sold it (and it stil ran like a champ). 62 HP I4, 0-60 in about 14 seconds no drag car folks. I had a hard time keeping up with the gas trucks, and school busses hauled ass in my opinion at the time. There were TWO good things about this car though. The gas mileage was incredible (30-40), and you could lay the front seats back and turn the whole car into a fair sized bed, as long as you had some padding handy and nothing in the back. Made for some good nights in the park, but... far from comfortable :)

my first love- bmw z3
 

I saw my first car, in the James Bond movie, and I dreamed, if I have a chance to buy a car in my life, it will be that BMW Z3. And I try not to cheat on my dreams, and this is how got this piece of engineering art.
My next dream, is probably Z8 and 911.

1980 trans am, t-tops with a moded pontiac 400 pushin around 400 rwhp. still have it

'99 Saturn SC1, Blue on the outside, Grey on the inside (just like my Boxster). 4 Cylinders of Mid-American fun, 0-60: Yes. Bought it brand new at 17, parents didn't help me with one cent because they wanted me to learn how to own a car. I didn't understand that until later, now I thank them. One of the proudest moments of my life was selling it to a single mom/Katrina victim 4 months ago for $1. I still have the dollar. My only regret is I don't have any really good pictures of the car.

Your parents should be proud. Responsibility and compassion, a great combination.

1965 VW beetle (in 1970). Charcoal gray. I put oversized wheels/tires on the rear - it looked pretty cool, I thought at the time anyway. Top speed 72 mph down a steep hill. Spent a lot of fun hours "racing" (scooting?) around town, also took it on woods/trails in red clay and learned about handling in "low friction environments". Great little car, good memories, Ferdinand Porsche design.

Got rear ended, and came out with a 1964 Malibu station wagon, 6 cyl., 2 speed auto. What a dog! Girls would run the other way. Moved up to a used Triumph 6 months later.

40 years later, I still like German, still like boxer engines, and anywhere sort of towards the rear of the car is fine for engine location. :D

1960 Renault Dauphine with suicide doors and a trunk in the front with a drain plug (portable ice chest) and rear engine (radiator in front).

Mine was and is my 97 black on black boxster, I got it when I was 17. Its nice but some times I would rather have the van cause its slower and I can take my motorcycle to the track with it

See if this link works to a page of mine on my first car and such:

http://people2.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/edevlin/edsweb01/boxster.htm

Ed

:cheers:

Hey Ed,

Thanks for bumping this thread. I'd never seen it before.

My first car was a 1965 Mustang Fastback that my Dad bought for me when I was 14 years old. He paid $350.00 for it. We didn't have much money, so he sold his car to get it. He probably couldn't insure them both plus Mom's. He drove it to work during the day and I drove it at night (took the bus to school unless he was off).

In 1984 it had an electrical fire. Since then, I've been dragging it from house to house to house with me, always swearing to restore it as soon as I finish with (insert project here).

Now, I'm incredibly angry with myself because, as most of you know, I just lost my Dad. He never got to see the car restored, and I never told him how much his sacrifices over the years have meant to me.

I'm in the process of planning a ground-up restoration for the car right now. Some of the other cars may have to go in order to finance what I want to do, and to make room, but so be it. It is so much more than an old car.

my first car was a 98 camaro ( i got a few more camaros after that one), i did so much to it its not even funny, to the point where it broke :)
i did my own t-top conversion with a sawzal ( i showed it off at the car shows, no one could believe that it was not original t-top car), nitrous, bigger rear end, corvette wheels, cam...u get the point. ran it on the track like a rat untill the frame twisted. no joke LOL, i even strenghtened the chasis. i guess it didnt like 200 shot of N20 on top of everything else.
it had to be towd off the track couse it wasnt driveable anymore.

i loved the car tho

Late 1978 Datsun B210
 

I was 19 and bought if for $90 in college. It barely ran. Paid 300 to have the engine rebuilt. That helped it run for another few months. I have no clue what happened to it as I abandoned it somewhere on the university parking lot before I joined the army. Funny, I don't even know what color it was. I think it was blue/gray.

I had a Honda CRX.

Blue and Grey, 2 door, 2 seater, bought in 1988 for $3000 ( used ) with 100k mi.

Great little car, great gas milage, handled great...

Too bad I totaled it my senior year of high school :(

Next vehicle, GSXR-750 ( college ) :D

Nick

1994 Mazda 626
 

It was very late in my life when I actually purchased my first car. For most of my early driving career, I drove my Dad's 1972 Pontiac LeMans. Great car for a newbie teenage driver. 350ci engine, automatic tranny, bench seats. It was pretty quick and I remember doing stop light races back in Montreal with various other cars, I only remember being smoked once by a late '70s Corvette.
Once I moved to Vancouver, I lived downtown and didn't need a car. Then I moved in with the lady who is now my wife and she had purchased a 1990 Volkswagen Cabriolet. We worked together as well, so we only needed 1 car. It was very fun to drive and got me hooked on convertibles. When our company closed the Vancouver office, we got separate jobs and suddenly needed another vehicle and that's when I officially purchased my first car, at 35 years old no less.
It was a brand new hunter green 1994 Mazda 626 Cronos, 4 door sedan. Very practical and what we needed at the time. The car was so solid, I never had any problems with it at all for 11 years.
It was last year when the Volkswagen was getting on in years that we decided to purchase a new "fun" car and that car is my 2002 Boxster S. I love this car and will drive it everyday until the wheels fall off!

'87 Chevy S-10 Blazer hand-me-down from the family. A little whimpy V6 I drove in college that was nothing but reliable transportation. Only way it's going faster than 80 is with a tailwind. It was a 4x4 but the 4-wheel shifter was stuck in regular 2-wheel the day I got it. The backseat was tiny and had an annoying seat-belt mount sticking up right in the middle, what a mood-killer. Twice in my ownership of it the battery cables lost connection while I'm at speed, and for the life of me I would never remember to use the parking brake when the power brakes failed, so I'd always end up running a curb and eventually sticking my foot out to stop.

Starting on a vehicle like that and having friends with nothing but little sedans, I had very little interest in a sports car. My next vehicle was a '95 Silverado before I moved to California, and I still had no concept of driving something "fun". In fact I was happy in my little world where cars were only transportation and I could spend my time with more important things.. up until a few months ago when I rented a Z4 for a weekend...

Driving a fun car for the first time is almost like robbing a bank, it's the biggest mistake of your life, and every month making a car payment to that new-found interest (all my other vehicles were fully owned from the start), or heaven forbid living without a sports car if you can't afford it, is like a little jail sentence. But each time I get into the Boxster, I start to realize that maybe it's more like the post-robbery police chase. Sure there may be hell to pay at some point, but as long as I still have gas in the tank, I can just zip ever on, and enjoy the freedom while I have it:)

90' Jetta,5spd. It was my dad's old car,redone stereo,racing suspension(sway bars,strut braces,shocks & springs),overhauled brakes. It was fun to drive around in,when it started and your foot was 100% on the floor. It would kill a battery almost instantly,fuel pump whined,worse idling habits the list went on forever. It has the dreaded Digifant management system,which is 100x more problematic then it should be. Consumer Reports Top 10 cars to stay away from of all time(no joke). It's a shame I would have made it a rally car,stripped it of weight,give it some more ponies and I was good to go. Sadly I got fed up with it and searched for my first car to buy,on came the Boxster. :cheers:

my first car, 1996 honda prelude.....driven to hell.

i sold it with 260,000km for $3000, huge windsheild crack, bumper falling off, side skirts scraped with minimal paint left on, air conditioning done, car was lowered 2 1/2 inches, struts done, clutch done(dude who bought the car should of test driven above second gear over 50km he might of figured that the clutch was messed up), on my second engine, rubber was bald, exhaust falling off hanging on one rubber hook....i could probably go on.......

Oh man, I had to get my moms 02 Jeep liberty Renegade (no engine problems). It had a little paint chip in the back bumper, and the roof had a little dent in it when my friend got on top and tried to dance (then i did a donut to try and throw him off, lol). I was pretty lucky, I picked it out new when we got it. I liked it, it was really fun to go drive over stuff in peoples yards, or over parking blocks. The suspension was pretty firm and I liked that, it had a decent amount of power, I vividly remember drifting it around a corner, then loosing control and flying into our neighbors yard. It tore up their yard for like 2 years and not the smallest scratch happened to the Jeep. The only reason I wanted it was so I could drive it for 6 monthes to prove to my mom im responsible and a good driver, so I could get a sports car after that. Then I got the BMW Z3 (never had a problem with it), loved it, then the Boxster, still love it.

my very first car is a 91 (I think) Mercury Sable Station Wagon, Silver w/ Burgundy Interior. I fell in love with it coz' you could lay the back seats all the way down. took it to camping all the time and the best part of it was the third seat, were my two kids will sit on it facing the driver behind us. Lot's of great memories in that car. i own it for like 7 years and then...I start driving 4x4 trucks (94 Jeep Grand Cherokee, tranny blew up, newbie, 97 Suburban Kids Hauler, 83' Bronco "MY TOY" w/ 5 " full suspension lift and 01' Dodge Ram 1500 Ext. Cab, 8ft bed Toy hauler)

Lost my job :( , sold all of them :( , bought a 93 Merc Villager :o , put 235k miles on my green pimp mobile, saved enough money to purchase a house :D ...now got my 2 toys in garage :) :cheers:

1980..Honda Accord. It was rust color because it had rust holes through all the quater panels...clutch was bad, brakes were bad...it burnt oil like a %*&^%. Sold it to a junkyard for $35 bucks....no joke.

It was a 1970 VW Beetle and very much the worst car I have ever owned. How Ironic that I now drive an ’02 Boxster, its very distant cousin, which is, by far, the best car I’ve ever owned - Hurrah for R & D! :cheers:

1967 Ford Mustang v8 289ci
 

2bbl carb, very clean car for a 17 year old.

The first car I bought myself (parents bought me my first car when I turned 16) was a 1991 Infiniti Q45 with 100ksomething miles on it. I kept that car until it reached 192k miles. It had a ton of power and the interior was great, but boy was the exterior ugly.

When I turned 16, my parents bought me a 1986 Chevy Cavalier, gray exterior with an all red interior. It was awesome because it was a two door and had a sunroof. Talk about sporty!!! ;) The LARGE 2.0 4 cylinder was a screamer with approximately 15-20 HP and the 60 torque rating was measured in inch-pounds.

First Car
 

...was a 1959 Simca Aronde. Four door, four on the column, cloth bench seats, pea green. French engineering with British mechanicals...the worst of both worlds. I bought a cheap set of Whitworth sockets at Pep Boys and resorted to an adjustable wrench when the sockets failed to fit. A cloth covered wiring harness and Lucas electrics completed this horror show. I worked all summer to earn enough money to rebuild the engine but came up short and couldn't afford to redo the head. Needless to say the car continued to run like crap and I was broke. To this day I don't have a picture of that car although I can still smell it...like an old horse blanket left out in the rain.

This is about as close a pic as I could find...1953 VW Beetle. 1300cc motor, already had the #3 exhaust valve burned out and so it ran on 3 cylinders. Stock and blueprinted it had 36bhp, so my little gem had less than 27, that's for sure! i lived near Lake Arrowhead, CA and it was notorious for lumbering up the steep grades in 2nd gear at a breakneck speed of 20mph!! I think I still managed to get a speeding ticket in it, or maybe a speeding certificate, it was the late 60's and I was living the dream....it was all a blur.

http://www.aiwana.com/53bug.jpg

My first was a 1963 Chevy Corvair Monza! (automatic w/ lever on the dash) Paid $300.00 for it and it was a fun car, Till it burnt to the ground in De Kalb, IL in 1970. Made a career for Ralph Nader!

As a Dane, cars were of no interest to me due to the 180% car tax there (not including 25% sales tax). But I finally got my driver's license two years ago at 25 to be able to drive on vacations. Then I moved to Chicago 1 year ago and bought my first car: an Audi S4 2006. Then six months after that, I bought my Boxster S 2006. And now, just a few weeks ago, I bought my Lamborghini Gallardo 2006.

Yes, it's been one wild year. Yay for American car prices ;).

2006 Lamborghini Gallardo huh.... I Envy you, someday i too will have a supercar and we shall have to goto the track for some fun in our supercars.