What was your first car?
 

Ok, I have to ask.. what was your first car and what did you pay for it? I see young kids today driving around in these $20,000 - $30,000 cars and wonder how they do it.
My first car : 1973 VW Super Beetle, Paid $200.00 for it my Jr year in high school in 1990.
Color : Orange w/ one grey fender :eek:
Condition: Rusted out floors, no heat (Lived in Ohio at the time), everybody knew who I was in town with the orange bug !! I had a lot of fun in that thing.

A Hillman Minx convertible. Forgot what year but early 60's. My dad went back to Chryslers after trying out something more "sporty" and gave it to me. It had four on the tree and reverse was selected by pulling out on the knob at the end of the gear stick, pushing down and forward. It was a real pain in the ass when the knob came off and the knurled part got ground off so I ended up with a pair of channel locks on the end of the shift lever. I dyed the seats black, had it painted BR Green and put a new top on it. Drove it like I stole it with no seat belts and ended up blowing up the motor outside Palm Springs one day. Had it rebuilt and drove it several more years and finally sold it to a used car lot. Bought a new Ford Cortina with the cash. BR Green of course.:cheers:

1978 Pinto wagon. Full Windows, not moon window.

White with blue interior. 4 speed manual.

1977 Lincoln Town Car in 1989. Parents gave it to me. 96k on the odometer. Monster big block. Sounded like a jet. It was rusting out, but it didn't look too bad. Was in the shop every other week for something or other. Put 6k miles on it before the engine blew.

68 cutlass convertible
Parent's gave it to me w/95k miles on it. I got a year out of the 350
Dropped in a 442 400ci with 3/4 street cam. Added headers, coil over shocks and big fat tires all around. It was a beast that actually cornered pretty well
I put a 69 front end on it after hitting a pole in a parking lot
Year later I wrapped it around a telephone pole - No one hurt to bad
Next a 69 VW bug - Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum

1984 Mercedes Benz 500sec- but that's not all. It had the full Koenig body kit (think testarossa)
Front tires were 285 wide, rears were 345s. I think it was something like 8k in 1999

Pic of similar (mine was maroon) and I had 15" 3 piece Gottis.
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1967 Pontiac Laurentian 2-door sedan in provincial white. Parents passed it on to me when they bought their new 1975 Laurentian. I think I was about 16.

My next two cars were also 67 Pontiacs. Paid $200 for one and $400 for the other. That was followed by a green 65 Mercury Montcalm convertible with a 390 and a white leather interior. That was a fun car. bought and sold it for $350.

As you can tell, I was poor.

72 Audi 100LS
900 dollars of dishwashing money.

1965 Mustang. I inherited it from my brother when he went off to College. Lowered, GT350R body kit, traditional white with 2 blue stripes, Cobra cam and manifold. That was a FUN car!

1972 Toyota Corona Deluxe! Bought it for $400 from my first girlfriend's father in 1979. It was a 3 speed auto (gear shifter on the column) and had a velour interior with a front bench seat... excellent for making out with his daughter.

This is a pic of a similar car. Mine was fire engine red all over and the guy who owned it before my girlfriend's dad bought it put Cragar mags on it and stars and stripes decals that went up the hood, across the roof, and down the back of the trunk. He also drilled holes in the muffler to make it louder.

The parking lot is full of v10 f 250s, camaros and mustangs, BMW X3 SUVs from 6 years ago. Mercedes MLs.

Hardly a Honda in sight.

My first car was a 6k 986 1999 base model with 16 inch rims and lots of body damage.

1957 Chevy, 210 2 Door post. $300.00

55 - 57 Chevy's were cheap in the 70's.

My cousin drove a 1970 Dodge Challenger 440 6 pack. Paid $1,300.00 for it. Those were the days......

My first car was a 1967 Sunbeam Alpine that I bought in 1982 for $500. I still have it.

1969 Olds Delta 88. Tank. Parents gave it to me after high school (1975). Back then they started to rust as this did after only 6 years! Sold it in 1977 when I joined the armed forces. Was a great car and had many memories attached to it.

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.

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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.

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 *&^%*

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

My 1st dozen cars were Pontiac's mostly 67-74 Firebirds. I had 3 '67s, a Catalina 2+2 428ci I bought for $500 & 2 Firebird 400. I sold my last 67 bird in 2003 & flew to Portland OR the next day to buy my Boxster off E-bay. Whats the US name for a Laurentian? Bonneville?








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I got a 1979 VW Scirocco for $300 a month before I turned 15. For my 15th birthday I got a Bentley Book.

I had 4 cars before I could legally drive. Two Bugs, a karmann ghia and a 914. None of them ran either.

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.

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.

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

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:
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HAHAHHHAHHHAHHHHAHAHAH! The Force is deep in this one! Thanks :cheers:

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.

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.

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

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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.
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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

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

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

This, a white on black 1986 Porsche 944 NA.

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As I knew nothing about buying cars, I had to get an engine rebuild after 200 kilometers of ownership!

1973 Fiat 850 Sports Spider

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

1970 Chevy No-va, two door death coupe.
Cherry bomb exhaust, air shocks and flat black paint. 1600$ in 1986. Wish I had a pic.:(
Wrapped it around a tree. Battery passed through the rad. Rear drivers side wheel left the seen. Passenger door fell off. They had to pull it from the side to get it out from around the tree. The front end was actually at a 90 degree angle to the rear. All remaining wheels jammed up into the wheel wells. My chest put the steering wheel into the dash. :o
Needless to say it didn't buff out :D

I started with a SEAT Ibiza TDI 1.4L 70hp ! A BEAST ! ^^
Then a Renault Twingo RS (133hp), a Twingo GT (100hp 1.2L turbo), an Eunos Roadster (a miata imported from japan, 115hp), then the boxster !

The Roadster is what really got me started in the automotive field !

My younger brother's 1st car was a 1967 Cougar with a big hole in the passenger front floor board. My Dad liked them so that's what he bought. If you hit a puddle while driving water would splash the driver a little & front passenger ALOT. My brother soon found floor mats heavy enough to prevent much water intrusion. I think my dad paid $700 for it.

I thought eunos was a castrated male! :chicken: