What was your first car?

[BYprodriver]

1971 Firebird Formula with transplanted 455ci engine $1,000. newly recovered seats, no carpet or console, auto trans. (only reason I didn't keep it longer) came with a bad starter solenoid so to start it you had to use a long skinny screwdriver to poke between the header tubes & jump the solenoid. Really fun at night with all the sparks!
Picture below is @ Camp Lejeune N.C. where I took advanced auto mechanics.

[Slate 01]

Audi Fox, I think it was a 1976, can't remember what I paid for it. Cool at the time, since it was the only Audi in the HS Parking lot, heck it might have been the only Audi in the town, maybe the county. Of course since it was a 70s Audi, it had numerous electrical problems.

[Bald Eagle]

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)

[DrCactus]

First car I bought myself was a 00 Cougar V6 - black with limo tint blacked out windows (I could barely see out)... I also had a stereo system that could knock people off their feet... lol Of course, yes... yes I did... have the neon blue undercar lights as well as some inside the car so bright that the entire street would light up.... hey hey now, was super cool back then!! lol I do miss that piece of *&^%*

[Fintro11]

Had a $500 87 Jetta coupe in high school once I finished highs cool I bought a $500 88 944 ( broken timing belt)
Played with that for three years then bought my 03 boxster when I finished university

[Duezzer]

74 Plymouth Fury III - Bought off my grand mother when my grand father passed away back in 1984

Had the 360ci with a 2 bbl on her

Green with vinyl roof and AM Radio

Could take the whole baseball team to practice.

[Finnegan]

1971 Fiat 850 Spider Sport. BR green convertible. One of the tiniest cars ever made. Rear engine, rear drive. Wood dashboard, shift knob and steering wheel. But the clincher was the toggle switches! Bought it for 800 in 1983; sold it for 1000 in 1987.

[Slate 01]

Originally Posted by Finnegan

1971 Fiat 850 Spider Sport. BR green convertible. One of the tiniest cars ever made. Rear engine, rear drive. Wood dashboard, shift knob and steering wheel. But the clincher was the toggle switches! Bought it for 800 in 1983; sold it for 1000 in 1987.

My dad had a lime green one of those. He taught me to drive stick in it when I was 13

[JayG]

66 Dodge Dart 4 dr.
170 CI slant 6 auto trans. It was tegh small er of teh 6 cyl available for teh car
No ac, no power steering, no power windows/locks, AM radio
It was my Dad's commuter car and I got it when he got a new commuter car, a Fiat 128 base model.

Damn slant 6 engines, then never die

[78F350]

My first was made in Germany and had a frunk and a soft top. I guess that kind of stuck with me over the years. My dad bought it new in '71 after his Ghia started to rust out. I got it in the late 70s. I sold it to my step-dad in the late 80s and he did a complete nut-and-bolt restoration. A few years ago we sold it out of the family to a collector in Montana.
High School Yearbook photo:

[RedTele58]

1962 VW Beetle. Black w/ red interior. Sunroof.

Paid $150 for it not running. From my McDonalds paycheck I had to pay Dad for parts/materials for him to rebuild it (Dad is an A & P mechanic)

That car in 1974 started me down a slippery slope of German cars from which I've never recovered.

[tommy583]

1979 SAAB 900. Yellow car with lots of brown rust. 5 speed manual, of course only 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th worked. 3rd stopped working after a while. All of the rubber door seals were shot. We took it on a road trip in the winter and had to stuff gum in the gap to keep from freezing. Fun times. #poorpeopleproblems.

[Luckyed]

Funny....mine was a 1972 Super Beetle.
Paid $500 for it in 1978.
Had it for 3 years.

[hancock1701]

1999 Honda Prelude. Black. 5 Speed Manual. Paid $5800 in 2010. That's also the car I learned how to drive manual in. Loved it then, still do. Love the styling, only wish it had more power. I did a bunch of repairs because the previous owner messed up so many things.

[Benitom]

79 Camaro - the only car I regret getting rid of. Now that I have a big boy job I could have restored it. Other than the hole in floor board on the passenger side, car was super clean and all original. Needed a new engine. It was a boat, but fun to drive got a lot of compliments

[Run]

Mid 80's Baby Blue Mercury Lynx Top speed wait for it 50 miles an hour on a good day.

[Retroman1969]

In 1985 my first was a hand-me-down 1975 Pontiac Grand Prix.

I loved that car! Hood seemed a mile long, and the 400-4bbl ran like a cheetah! Made a big mistake though. The engine lost oil pressure one day and instead of rebuilding it for $650, I bought a "modern" car to replace it.
A 1980 Pontiac Phoenix.

Holy crap was this thing a step down! I'm convinced it was the worst car ever made. It would shake apart if you drove it over 55mph, the engine stalled a lot when the alternator wasn't catching on fire, acceleration was only a suggestion, and it had the habit of shedding its left front wheel at speed (this happened 4 times before dumping this nightmare!). The ball joints were held in with cotter pins instead of bolts.
Switched to VWs shortly thereafter while dreaming of eventual Porsche ownership.

[Luckyed]

Originally Posted by Retroman1969

In 1985 my first was a hand-me-down 1975 Pontiac Grand Prix.

I loved that car! Hood seemed a mile long, and the 400-4bbl ran like a cheetah!

My "second" car was a 1974 Grand Prix, but it only had the 350 motor in it.
That car weighed a ton.....literally.

[Gremlin]

1952 Chevy Fleetline - In 1959 I was 16 and working in a Standard Oil station and bought the car. Had it nosed, decked, split exhaust manifold, dual exhaust, baby Moon hubcaps, blue dot tail lights, etc. Everyone named their cars then and since mine was white it became the "White Worm". I wish I had it back.

[Edder B]

1962 VW Beetle. Drove the snot out of that car.