What was your first car?

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And how much did you pay for it? (If you care to share that.)

Mine was a 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. White on White with TONS of miles on it. I paid $450 for it in 1970.:D

This picture looks exactly like the one I had.

Quite a car. (True, I wanted a Vette, but this was what I could afford! Haha)

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My first car was a Fiat 124 Spyder. I purchased it for $800 in the summer of 1971 and had it for a little bit over a year. I think it was a 1967 model. I loved it, but it was always in the shop. My father eventually made me sell it, because it had become a black hole for repair bills. Here's a pic of the model I found on the net:

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1985 Camaro Berlinetta with a 5-speed. The most indestructable car ever, kind of like a real General Lee. Jumped? Check. 3 minute long burnouts? Check. Off Roaded? Check? Battered and Bruised? Every day...

The only thing that ever when wrong is this highly abused car was the cluth, everything else was rock solid and withstood the most diabolical hell that any car has ever been put through.
 
TOGWT said:
1962 Triumph TR3 ?300 - Great for 'pulling birds' if I drove an MB they all knew I'd borowed it from Dad (he wouldn't let me drive any of his Jag's, only detail them :huh:
Similar car - http://www.sportscarmarket.com/AffordableClassics/2001/July/
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I actually saw one of those at a car show here in KC last night! Pretty rare to see a TR3 in that kind of condition. It was an all original survivor (according to the sign), with very little rust. I was also surprised, when the driver got out, that he was over 6'! Haha...:D
 
My first car was a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass, complete with falling headliner and missing hubcaps. The 6 cylinder was so wimpy, every time we (the guys) would go cruising we would refer to it as the Gutless Cutlass. We couldn't help but laugh everytime someone would pull up next to us to race. lol...ahh, memories.
 
My first car was this 1986 Honda Prelude. I bought it with light front end damage. Replaced the hood and one fender, my father straightened the pop up headlight assemblies as they were very expensive to replace. I disassembled a lot of the car and stripped it to bare metal in order to properly repaint it this teal color, which was actually off of the early 90's RS Camaro's. I paid $1900 for the car in '91 and sold it a few years later with 195,000 miles for $3800. :D

The building in the background was actually in my back yard and my father ran his body shop out of there for about 4-5 years before moving to a much larger facility and having employees.

I miss that car and that house. :(


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RustyBumper said:
My first car was a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass, complete with falling headliner and missing hubcaps. The 6 cylinder was so wimpy, every time we (the guys) would go cruising we would refer to it as the Gutless Cutlass. We couldn't help but laugh everytime someone would pull up next to us to race. lol...ahh, memories.
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You've come far, Pilgrim!:thumbup:
 
My first two cars were "hand-me-downs" from my parents. Price paid $0. They weren't "my" cars as in I did not own them. I had the benefit of driving them and maintaining them.
The first a '63.5 Ford Falcon 2-dr HT, 3-spd column shifter, after-market A/C. '63 body style with the '64 interior, buckets w/hard console.
The second a '65 Ford Galaxie 500 'vert, Black paint, white top, red interior.

The first vehicle I purchaed was a '69 Mercury Cougar. Red w/black Eliminator hood stripes. Black buckets, 3-spd auto, 351W. Too long ago now to recall what I paid for it.
TOGWT said:
1962 Triumph TR3 ...[/url]
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I personally lusted after the MGB and/or the TR6s of the late '60s vintage. My Dad had a friend that road raced a TR6 and he explained that even if I could afford the purchase, I couldn't afford to keep it on the road.

A '69 Triumph Tiger and a '70 Triumph Bonneville later helped me to understand his meaning. :smile:
 
what was your first car?

my first car was a1964 impala ss my father help buy/327 with 30/30 cam doug header 3.73 gear 750 carb/man it would fly,
 
My First Car I got was a 66 Mustang in 1970, got it for 200 bucks. It was OK for getting from point A to Point B but was a money pit, After that I got a 72 Toyota Corolla SR5 and it was a great car. fast forward and now it's a Mazda5.
 
My first ride. 78' Lincoln Continental Mark V Emilio Pucci Edition.
That is me in the car, BTW.:D
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My parents bought it for me for $2500. The car turned out to be an albatross. It had all kinds of problems from the get-go. Suspension problems, inaccurate speedometer, overheating radiator, warped rotors. Oh yeah, it got 8 miles to the gallon on a good day.
Still, it was one cool car. I was always proud to say that my car, outside of trucks, was the biggest in the high school parking lot.:D
 
my first car was a brand new 1972 opel rallye i paid something like 3200.00 for. a lil four banger that handled like a porsche and could chirp second gear. man did i go through clutches in that car. it was a blast to drive.
 
My first was a 1965 VW Type 1 (a beetle), with the metal sun roof. It cost me $500. and had about 26,000 miles at the time. Below is a pic I also downloaded from the internet. It's fairly close to what my VW looked like ... color, sunroof, etc., but in better shape.:D

<a href="http://s104.photobucket.com/albums/m187/Dharma41/?action=view&current=196x_VW_Beetle_fvKRM.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m187/Dharma41/196x_VW_Beetle_fvKRM.jpg" border="0" alt="1965 VW">
 
My first was a 1968 corvette passed down through the family. My grandparents bought it because it was this brand new body style that had just come out.

My mother wanted it VERY badly when she went off to college so my grandmother said she could have it on one condition. She was never allowed to sell it; it had to be given to the first born grandchild. Lucky me!

At the time I turned 16 it was in well loved condition, meaning well driven :D. It ran but needed to be gone through in order to be reliable. It also still had the origional and matching equipment. I mulled it over for a long time and decided that I would wait a while to try and restore it (I had a couple of friends who had convertibles and between the 2 of them 3 tops had been replaced after cutting in the school parking lot). I didn't want to put money into it only to have it vandalized by stupid kids.... so, I bought a cheap car and drove that and the vette waited restoration in some storage building that my dad had. I would drive it around when home from college etc. just to keep it running.

Flash forward a bit and by 2003 I had been out of college for a bit and married and my wife and I had our first house (garage!). My father was selling the storage buildings and so I brought the vette home and got things running pretty good. The vette had new paint (not a great job but new), shoes, brakes and ran pretty good. I was planning on actually pulling the engine and doing a frame-on restoration (was at the time debating on doing it frame off or not). I bought a lift and parked it. In 2005 it was destroyed in a house fire. In hindsight I wish I had just fixed it up from the get go and gotten to enjoy it a lot more than I did.

I think I've posted these before but here's another look:
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A sad ending:
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Rob
 
Robbo said:
My first was a 1968 corvette passed down through the family. My grandparents bought it because it was this brand new body style that had just come out.

My mother wanted it VERY badly when she went off to college so my grandmother said she could have it on one condition. She was never allowed to sell it; it had to be given to the first born grandchild. Lucky me!

At the time I turned 16 it was in well loved condition, meaning well driven :D. It ran but needed to be gone through in order to be reliable. It also still had the origional and matching equipment. I mulled it over for a long time and decided that I would wait a while to try and restore it (I had a couple of friends who had convertibles and between the 2 of them 3 tops had been replaced after cutting in the school parking lot). I didn't want to put money into it only to have it vandalized by stupid kids.... so, I bought a cheap car and drove that and the vette waited restoration in some storage building that my dad had. I would drive it around when home from college etc. just to keep it running.

Flash forward a bit and by 2003 I had been out of college for a bit and married and my wife and I had our first house (garage!). My father was selling the storage buildings and so I brought the vette home and got things running pretty good. The vette had new paint (not a great job but new), shoes, brakes and ran pretty good. I was planning on actually pulling the engine and doing a frame-on restoration (was at the time debating on doing it frame off or not). I bought a lift and parked it. In 2005 it was destroyed in a house fire. In hindsight I wish I had just fixed it up from the get go and gotten to enjoy it a lot more than I did.

I think I've posted these before but here's another look:
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A sad ending:
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Rob
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thats a sad story rob... sorry about your not only first car but it was a C3 vette to boot. everythig happens for a reason bro.
 
2002 Lincoln LS, I just got it on cinco de mayo, this year. 58,2xx miles, V8, never driven in winter, gold with tan interior.

A month or so ago I gave my dad a list of cars that I would buy and told him to tell me if he sees one of them for sale (I almost didn't put the LS on the list). A week later and he sees the LS for sale at our country club, I test drove it, liked it, and bought it. It was $9,000, I paid $8,000 myself and my parents paid the rest plus tax (would have paid for the entire thing but my parents wouldn't let me spend more than $8,000).

Needs some touch up paint and it is getting some body work on the front bumper this week, but after a good detailing it will be looking amazing. The gas mileage sucks, though (I get about 16.5 mpg, yikes).
 
I basically won the lottery for my first car. My dad paid $4600 cash for one of the first '65 Olds 442's delivered to our home town, Omaha, NE. He had a bad back from WWII, but he had to have that car. Right about the time I turned 16 the next year, the car's suspension had done a number on his poor back, and guess who needed a car for high school? :thumbup: He went out and bought a '64 Delta 88, a big boat that was kinder to his lumbar region. They gave me my own private parking space at the high school lot. :wink: I owned the place for a few years. I wish I had that car back. Somewhere I still have photos, but I did not have time to find and scan them. It was silver with a black roof (painted, not vinyl) I still dream about the thing.

The 442 eventually gave way to a 427 Camaro, but that's another story. :devil:
 
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