What was your first car?

[Disney Commando]

My 1st car was a 1972 Mustang Mach1 351CJ with full ram air hookup, Bright yellow with black stripes, spoilers, magnum 500 wheels. I bought it for $500 when I was 15. At the time I took Auto Body Shop in school, and totally restored it to cherry condition. I am 41 now and proud to say I still have it in my garage along with a few others & it is still cherry.

It is a great feeling taking it out now and then, the looks the car gets is awesome. Whenever a old friend stops by I take them for a ride, it's like we are 17 again

 

[fakereadhed]

74 Dodge Dart. With broken linkage. Tons of fun in HS getting out and pushing it back and forth until it stayed it in the parking space.

 

[txvjc]

It was in 1995, my dad bought me a 1980 Mercury Cougar...brown with a "white" vinyl top (of course by the time i got it the top was no longer white...more of a mildew green/gray)....hated that car...if i was pulling out onto the road I had to make sure that it was really clear, because if you gave it too much gas it would die...luckily i only had to keep it for about a year and a half until I had money to buy my own...

 

[StitchBuddy]

A Ford Pinto, can't remember if it was a 75. 76, or 77. I loved that car!!

 

[krissy2803]

1979 Toytoa Corona Wagon..That thing went anywhere!
Living in AZ at the time we would take it 4 wheelin in the dry riverbeds.
The only time it let me down was one on one of those riverbed excursions. Sank it down to the body in the sand. We had to walk home and uummm "borrow" dad's jeep to pull it out. Good Times...

 

[Paul in CT]

My first new car was a 1972 Toyota Corolla. Drove it to Canada for our honeymoon in 1976 and until the frame rusted out after two years in WI and four in NJ in 1982. It was a great little car!

 

[doconeill]

My senior year of high school I had a 1970 Mercury Montego we got for $300. Canary yellow (we called it the canarymobile) with a black vinyl top. The vinyl had curled up a bit around the edges by the trunk, so my dad used sheet metal screws and screwed it down so it looked better. It had the original stock AM radio, but that didn't do anything...my radio was actually in the glove compartment, hidden except for the speaker wires everywhere. Total battleship - glanced off a telephone pole when I spun out the back end on wet pavement coming out of a parking lot - no appreciable damage.

 

[bonacca]

1980 Chevy Citation. It was white, but the passenger side front door was brown. That was also the only window that I could roll down because it was a hand crank. The other 3 doors had power windows that didn't work. I could never use a drive-thru lane. I had it 2 years and never changed the oil. Reverse only worked sometimes too. Still, not bad for 300 bucks. I think everybody should start out with a piece of crap. It makes you appriciate what you have later.

 

[ragtopday]

My first car was a 1976 VW Rabbit - bright yellow! I never had to remember where I parked it in a parking lot - it was always beckoning to me when I came out of wherever I had been. I really missed that when I got my next car, which was grey.

 

[nmoore14]

1997 Nissan Sentra. This car was my 16th birthday present! The color was "metallic" blue but it looked purple to me.

 

[DrMomof3]

A red Isuzu I-Mark with matching red hubcaps. I loved that car! It was a manual and it was awesome. Until it died a painful death. I bought the car 2nd hand the summer before my senior year of college.
And then I got my beloved blue VW Beetle - also manual (which I traded in for a minivan when I was pregnant with child #2). My parents gave me the down payment as a med school graduation gift.

Amanda

 

[wendydarling826]

A 1973 brand new Chevy Chevelle. Black vinyl interior, no a/c, am radio. Cost: 2300.

 

[newmouse2008]

My first was a 1977 yellow honda civic hatchback. I picked it out myself against my fathers advise. The floor was rusted thru. I paid 72.00 a month for 18 months! Drove it to Altlanta when I moved in 1984. While driving down buford hwy. one fine day, the passenger door fell off. Some guy put it in the hatch for me. we wired it back on later. If you picked up the floormat you could see the road rushing by...... Good Times!

 

[mel&me]

75 camaro paid $300 for it. Drove it for almost 3 years.

 

[CBisMe]

A blue 1969 Dodge Coronet with a 440 engine that I bought for $150.

I drove it forever and then gave it to my brother. It died with over 300,000 miles on it and the only door that still opened was the rear, passenger door.

Mine was a 1976 Spitfire convertible. Candy Apple Red, with Leather Interior and real wood paneling on the dashboard. I paid $1,000 for it.
In the summer I would have to have the heat turned on to keep the car from overheating, and I ducked tape tupperware over all the electronics underneath the hood, because if I didn't, and I drove over a puddle the whole engine would die.

My dad taught me how to take the distributor cap off and spray it with WD40 so I could get the car started again when it got wet.

 

[rhyeck]

'76 Cutlass S

I'm just too cool.

ME TOO!!! I had a '76 Cutlass Supreme (w/chrome Mags)!!! Mine was reddish brown with an off-white 1/2 vinyl roof and had beige and red plaid seats with gold leather trim. I bought it used in 1984, only had 11,000 original miles for $1,900. My favorite car EVER!!! Ahh the memories...

 

[metalis4ever]

I bought myself a brand new 1998 Pontiac Sunfire upon graduation from HS...it was worth giving up sports to work the second I drove that baby off the lot
It turned out to be a good investment because I was able to drive it down to FL in 1999 when I participated in the Disney College Program...It helped w/ the ladies..shhhh don't tell the DW lol and of course making it to work on time

 

[mrzrich]

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A used '71 Ford Maverick, it was the ugliest green color with a black vinyl roof but it had a great engine the guy I bought if off of had it souped up for racing and boy could it fly

THIS 71 Ford Maverick, was ONCE ugliest green color with a black vinyl roof

 

[miztigg]

pontiac fiero GT my first of many fieros I loved that car until some moron totaled it

 

[JoShan1719]

'88 Mercury Sable, silver with blue pleather interior. Piece o'crap, but the thing was a tank. I felt safer in that than I do in my Mazda.