What was your first car and when did you get it?

[Ryan Lemonds Hair]

For me it was my junior year of high school in 1988 and it was a 1979 Triumph TR7 that someone had swapped the engine out to a Datsun truck engine. I had all kinds of electrical issues due to the engine swap so I didn't keep it long before trading it to a 1979 Ford Mustang. The TR7 looked like the one in the pic below but not hardly as nice as this one.

The Mustang I traded it to was UT orange and as ugly as a Duke cheerleader.

 

[BlueRaider22]

But ours wasn't a dually. It was a C10 converted into a flatbed.....with side rails.





Then I got this......

I made a few modifications and routinely smoked my friend's stock '92 Mustang GT.....

 

[WildcatFan1982]

1988 Ford Ranger. My parents bought it for my brother in 1995. 3 years later when I got my license it was given to me as he was off at college.

No paint on the hood, a big dent in the side because my mom backed into it, and the letters on the back just said "FO"

 

[ManitouDan]

Datsun 240Z , the old dual carb engine , was hell keeping it in tune ( if memory serves me right ) . Chicks dug it ... lol

 

[Big Blue Blair]

1979 Mustang Ghia, dark or jade green. Looked almost identical to this, but mine had white vinyl interior.

Edit: Bought in 1989.

 

[ukgrad83]

A 1972 4-door Fiat 124 Special TC. The only thing special about it is that it went down the road sideways due to being wrecked. Got it in 1980. Was a total pile of crap but my dad bought it for me so I couldn't really complain too much. It was a horrible shade of snot yellow and I had to replace the tires every 15K miles.

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

1971 Buick LaSabre. This is closest photo I can find. Mine had a white roof. Big ole land-yacht. Bought it in 1977 while in the USAF for $900.

 

[Blueisbest]

I bought a 1970 Chevy Vega in 1975. It wasn't much and burned a crap ton of oil but 15 year old me just loved the heck out of that car.

 

[vhcat70]

1961 Impala. 1966.

 

[55wildcat]

For me it was my junior year of high school in 1988 and it was a 1979 Triumph TR7 that someone had swapped the engine out to a Datsun truck engine. I had all kinds of electrical issues due to the engine swap so I didn't keep it long before trading it to a 1979 Ford Mustang. The TR7 looked like the one in the pic below but not hardly as nice as this one.

The Mustang I traded it to was UT orange and ugly as a Duke cheerleader.

White privilege at its best...you snooty thing. Everything thing I owned came from Woodys on Dixie if you live in Louisville......you know about woodys

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

1954 Chrysler New Yorker. Dad drove it, then my 2 Sisters before I got it.

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

Either a 2006 or 2007 Mazda CX7 - red. Got it August 2010.

 

[Ryan Lemonds Hair]

White privilege at its best...you snooty thing. Everything thing I owned came from Woodys on Dixie if you live in Louisville......you know about woodys

It sure didn’t seem like white privilege when I was lying under the car on the side of the road tying my muffler back on about twice a month.

 

[rick64]

When I first started driving my dad had a 4-door ‘76 Ford LTD. It was a living room on wheels. Bench seats and the front seat reclined, which was really handy on a date if you catch my drift.

 

[Glenn's Take]

1986. Prince even wrote a song about my car.

 

[TortElvisII]

1986. Prince even wrote a song about my car.

I had you figured for this

 

[Rebelfreedomeagle]

A ragged out version of:

If you're going to drive crap, make it a Cadillac.

 

[bluthruandthru]

1978 Nova in 1991.

Grandma's car. Same color. Factory wheels, no tint, and a little northern OH rust.

 

[BernieSadori]

85 Bronco II


1994.

 

[420grover]

69 Chevy C10 exactly like this one. I was 13(1987) when I got it and 14 when I totaled it.

 

[tls]

Never had a family car passed down to me. Bought a new 69 Buick Skylark after getting out of the army that year.

Learned to drive in the family car, a 1954 DeSoto.

 

[KyCatFan_rivals45723]

I was a poor A1C in the Air Force and got a $600 pos 76 Chevy Impala from a coworker. Only broke down 3 or 4 times in 3 1/2 years (twice in the same damn drive thru).

Only good thing about it was I learned how to do a lot of repair work with a Chiltons manual and some simple tools.

 

[Lord Z]

Car not airplane, right? Okay...

 

[The-Hack]

1979 Fiat Strada hatch.

First car I loved: 1987 Mustang 5.0 fastback.

Rollin’ in my 5.0, with the top down so my hair can blow . . . .

 

[The-Hack]

1954 Chrysler New Yorker. Dad drove it, then my 2 Sisters before I got it.

That thang had more curves than M. Monroe!!

 

[KyCatFan_rivals45723]

While my first car sucked I wanted to replace it with one of these.

Another guy I worked with had a sharp looking purple 77 Trans Am. The interior was all redone and the paint was new. Was going to sell it to me for like $3,000 but the bank wouldn't give me a loan on a car older than an 85 (it was in the early 90's). Was so disappointed. That was like 20% of my pay for the year in the military so not super easy to come up with.

At least I eventually got my sports car during my midlife crisis until my back screwed up and I had to trade it in for an SUV. Miss it.

 

[Ryan Lemonds Hair]

I was a poor A1C in the Air Force and got a $600 pos 76 Chevy Impala from a coworker. Only broke down 3 or 4 times in 3 1/2 years (twice in the same damn drive thru).

Only good thing about it was I learned how to do a lot of repair work with a Chiltons manual and some simple tools.

That was back before it required an ASE certified mechanic disassembling the entire engine to be able to change spark plugs. I miss those days.

 

[Ryan Lemonds Hair]

1979 Fiat Strada hatch.

First car I loved: 1987 Mustang 5.0 fastback.

Rollin’ in my 5.0, with the top down so my hair can blow . . . .

Back in my high school days that along with an IROC Z were my dream cars.

 

[jedwar]

Drove one of these for my first driving experience. Was a runner and a great car. Miss it.

 

[Elbridge]

1966. Got it in Fayetteville NC in 1984 my junior year of high school.

 

[Kaizer Sosay]

I inherited my first car. Which sounds great but the circumstances were not so great. I used to work for a guy who had some shady dealings with some foreigners who wound up murdering him when one of those deals went horribly bad. After my boss’s unexpected death I basically inherited his car. So it was a sad situation...but at least I wound up with a really cool car of my own...for a while at least. But that’s a whole different story for another time.



Anyway...here’s a pic of my first ride...

 

[Ryan Lemonds Hair]

Great Scott thats a nice car.

 

[H-D cat]

1990 Toyota 4Runner. My parents bought it in 92 and I took it over when I started driving in 2000. Still have it to this day and plan to keep it forever.

 

[420grover]

While my first car sucked I wanted to replace it with one of these.

Another guy I worked with had a sharp looking purple 77 Trans Am. The interior was all redone and the paint was new. Was going to sell it to me for like $3,000 but the bank wouldn't give me a loan on a car older than an 85 (it was in the early 90's). Was so disappointed. That was like 20% of my pay for the year in the military so not super easy to come up with.

At least I eventually got my sports car during my midlife crisis until my back screwed up and I had to trade it in for an SUV. Miss it.

I raced a mustang that looked exactly like that about a month ago. He thought it was fast until I drug his *** with an extended cab truck.

 

[trueblujr]

My dad bought a '79 Thunderbird when it first came out in 1978 brand new. I bought it from him for $800 in 1986 when I turned 17. Yes, it was this color and had the same rims too.

 

[straykat]

Yes. It drank a lot of gas.

 

[KyCatFan_rivals45723]

That was back before it required an ASE certified mechanic disassembling the entire engine to be able to change spark plugs. I miss those days.

Definitely better times to learn how to work on a car. It also had plenty of room on the sides to work. Not knowing a thing about cars I still was able to change the alternator, carburetor, fuel pump, intake manifold gasket, distributor cap, rotor, spark plugs, and wires. I believe that is everything I did on it and most of it was like in 6 months. Then it ran relatively trouble free for 3 years.

I had a front wheel drive Beretta after that and I had no room to do anything under the hood. A simple job like changing the oxygen sensor (or it might have been the spark plugs) required me to rig up a Frankenstein looking tool (socket, 3" extension, universal adapter, 6" extension, and a ratchet) and use some yoga like pose to twist my body into the weird position to reach it while cramping up during the job.

Working on older cars was definitely a great thing in the 80's and 90's. Now they make everything require special tools and give you no room to work. A simple spark plug replacement might require an engine drop just to do it (from what I've heard). They definitely designed newer cars and engines so you would be forced to take them to the dealer to do the work.

 

[BlueBallz_rivals30790]

I was 16, early 80s Vette, Chevette that is, but we called it the Vette.

 

[magic8ball]

My first car was an 1977 Cutlass Supreme.

I bought it in 1991 for $700 from my papaw.

It was white with a red pinstripes and red interior.

It guzzled gas but gas was only .85 cents per gallon at the time.