What was your first car?

[nieuwhzn]

1991 Citroen BX
I still have it! Gets driven 1 month per year, 11 months in storage.

[Cebu]

Mine was a red 1960's? Toyota station wagon. All the neighbors knew I had it, they'd knock on the door and give me back my hub caps.

[sickbananas]

Porsche 924 NA 82' year I think it was, what an awesome car that was, I'll try post a few pics later, she was a beauty IMO.

[particlewave]

1967 Oldsmobile 98. Bought it for $1000 in '94 with 50k original miles. I didn't have any parents, so I paid for it the old fashioned way: washing dishes at the diner.

Big, ugly car, but it sure would move with that 425 making 365hp.

[Muzzle of Bees]

A mid 70's Dodge dart sport. It had a 318 that pounded most of my friends cars pretty good. Which included lots of 350's, 302's, 351's. I got teased for being a MOPAR fan back in 1980.

[hemonu]

196x DAF 32 Daffodil. 26 HP, NA flat twin 750 cc, aircooled. Could drive backwards as fast as forward ;-)

[taspinall]

1971 Opel Manta in orange with black interior, what a car paid £995 from garage at Ilford London, happy days!!!

[Alfieg23]

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).

[BoxsterSteve]

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.

[LAP1DOUG]

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

[Bootlegger]

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...

[peterbrown77]

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

[lkchris]

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.

[aczyzewski]

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

[njbray]

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

[fins]

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

[mikesz]

1969 Camaro $500

[BugsFerBrains]

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.

[Keith Newby]

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.

[pkp4911]

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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