if you were still driving your first ever car now what car would you have?

[tazdev3225]

My aunt had a 1965 Mustang. I loved that car. She killed it in a 7-car pile-up. She was in the middle.

My first car was a '68 Chevy Malibu. I bought it from the neighbor next door for $100. It lasted a couple of weeks before the brakes failed and I totaled it. My husband's best friend loved the car though as he had the 2 door and he needed to fix something but didn't want to experiment on his dashboard. He used mine instead.

This may be a phishing question but it is an answer I never use so I am safe.

 

[DrJenski]

I got my license in the early 2000s and my first car was a 1996 Ford Escort. Two drivers crashed in an intersection where I was stopped, and one of them slowly rolled into me, causing enough front end damage for insurance to total it. My second car was a 1998 Acura Integra that was so fun to drive! Alas, someone ran a red light near my grad school campus and totaled that one as well.

 

[TCRAIG]

First car I drove (but it wasn’t really ‘mine’) was a 1977 Gran Torino and the first car I ever owned was a 1980 Toyota Corolla station wagon….I’d love to have either of those cars again…especially the Corolla…loved that little wagon.

 

[goofyernmost]

I feel sorry for the generations that had decided that drive-in movies were lame. Some of my greatest teenage memories happened at a drive-in. Double features (always) and on certain holidays they ran from dusk until dawn (about 4 feature movies) And the cars back then were the size of a small house and bench seats front and back. I even remember some of the movies.

 

[hertamaniac]

1975 Pontiac Firebird. Added louvers, air shocks, side exhaust with Hush Thrush mufflers. Got painted with Caribbean Blue on most of the car except midnight blue on the bottom 6" to look like the Formula version.

 

[disneyseniors]

a nissan micra

1960 VW Beetle! Loved it so much and wish I had my l967 VW beetle back too..

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

1997 (or 1996?) white Nissan Sentra.

Mine was a 96. Made in 95 actually but 96 model year. We bought it used years later. It was a nice car. Had that typical Nissan growl. But peppier and far more fun to drive than the Corolla at the time. Way under powered by today's standards though.

 

[Mokat76]

1969 VW beetle. I loved that car.

 

[bobbiwoz]

1965 Bahama Blue VW Beetle with sunroof.

 

[ChrisFL]

1984 Mazda GLC LX hatchback....bought it in 1996 for $700 and ran perfectly for several years until it needed a new clutch, which would have cost more than the car was worth to replace.

 

[firefly_ris]

The String Bean. It had a green interior too.

I commuted to college daily in it. It stopped shifting into 4th gear at 120k miles and I drove it with 3 working gears for another 50k. Good thing gas was cheap then. Then my parents gave it to my cousin and I never really forgave them for that.

 

[SharonZ]

MGB convertible

 

[NannyBeBe]

I would be driving a white Corvair with red interior.

 

[goofyernmost]

1960 VW Beetle! Loved it so much and wish I had my l967 VW beetle back too..

I had one of those too. I had a lot of fun with it especially since back then if you pushed it into a gas station because you ran out of gas (then 29 cents per gal.) you could fill up for $2.90 and be good for at least two more weeks. The biggest drawback was in the winter with that wonderful manifold heat system where there was one heat outlet below the center of the dashboard. As a driver, your right leg was on fire from the heat and the rest of the body was still frozen. You had to drive it quite a while to get the inside of the car a livable temperature. Open the door once and start all over again.

 

[HerRoyalHighness]

I would be driving a white Corvair with red interior.

We had one of those exact cars! A 2 door. Also had a silver 4 door with blue-ish interior

 

[disneyseniors]

I had one of those too. I had a lot of fun with it especially since back then if you pushed it into a gas station because you ran out of gas (then 29 cents per gal.) you could fill up for $2.90 and be good for at least two more weeks. The biggest drawback was in the winter with that wonderful manifold heat system where there was one heat outlet below the center of the dashboard. As a driver, your right leg was on fire from the heat and the rest of the body was still frozen. You had to drive it quite a while to get the inside of the car a livable temperature. Open the door once and start all over again.

LOL, yes about the heater, at least that is what they called it!
I could fill up the tank for $2.00 and run on it all week. Ah, the good old days
The l960 VW was used and my very first car at the age of 16. It went slow up hill and had loose gears, but I loved it

 

[Mousemom234]

1971 fog-grey Toyota that kept losing a hubcap on the way to work. I'd scan for it on the way home. Finally one morning I never did find it - after over 2 years at that job.

 

[3rd_time_the_charm]

1988 Honda Civic. Til I drove it to FL with no oil. My Dad bought me an Accord after that.