Tell us about your first car!

[natecooper]

'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.

[gRed04]

Originally Posted by natecooper

'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.

[limoncello]

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.

[sooner]

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).

[bosxter7]

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

[edevlin]

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

[Grizzly]

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.