Tell us about your first car!

[Keith Newby]

...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.

[Uncle Bob]

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.

[rdancd816]

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!

[webster132]

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 .

[CJ_Boxster]

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.