First car

judandhispipe

I thought it might be fun to show pics of your first car - or a similar Make/model.
Mine was a 1965 one-owner, one-driver  - a MoPar mechanic - Dodge Coronet 440 my dad bought me for my 20th birthday.  Clean,low-mileage - about this color. Never got a pic of it - it got totaled in an accident caused by somebody stopping in the passing lane of the freeway, at dusk, because he missed his exit, decided to turnaround in an emergency vehicle turnaround, missed that, and wanted to back up. If I hadn't been 20 years old with the reflexes of a young man, I might have been killed. As it was, I almost missed him.
Here's a similar car.

Subtilis87

1989 cutlass supreme.  Bought it for $1,000 dollars and put 80,000 more miles on it before I had to put it out to pasture.  By the end the roof leaked, the speedometer and fuel gauge was digital and would stop working for weeks at a time, and the transmission and alternator went at the same time.  Great car and well worth the grand I spent on it.

Watchmaker61

Mine was a 1967 AMC Ambasordor DL which I bought in 1982 for $400.00 with 103,000 miles on it. Kinda querky but served me well for a few years. Got $3500.00 on trade in for a Ford Escort. Worst car I ever owned, nothing but trouble from almost day one!!!!

IndyJG

My first car was a 1987 Buick Century similar in color to the pic above. It was a hand me down from my parents in 1995 after they bought a new car. It was already high mileage, getting rusty and beat up, but it did last me thru high school before finally giving up the ghost at the end of my first summer back from college. 

Corey562

1979 Pontiac Grand Prix

Bphasty

Mine was a 1967 Mercury Cougar with flip up headlight covers & sequenced tail lights. (If you don't know its like a Ford Mustang but more exotic or at least that's what I told myself in High school) Oddly enough, it ran smoother at 100 than 35. Unfortunately I had to keep spare fuel filters & a screwdriver in the backseat cause it had rust in the tank that would gum up the line & conch out occasionally.

judandhispipe

Thanks, fellas - let's see more!

weedsnager

1978 Chevy Impala

Woodsman

1953 Mercury Monterey Convertible other than the rag top it gave me over 200,000 miles before the valves disappeared from 2 cylinders.

judandhispipe

I wanted to see what a  '53 Mercury Monterey looked like - so I searched.
Post pics, guys - - it's more fun.

mhajec

@Subtilis87 my first car was an '87 Cutlass. It was my moms car then she passed it down to my sister and my sister (begrudgingly) passed it on to me. It was brown originally, but by the time I got it it was a maroon color. Loved that car, until I drove it into the ground in 2002.

ghostsofpompeii

The first car I ever owned was a 1959 Renault Dauphine. Never got an opportunity to drive it because it didn't run when I bought it. I was 16 and thought I could fix it. My parents were completely against me buying a car because of the additional cost to their Car insurance. But once my Dad saw the car, and knew I'd never be able to get it running he let me buy it. Think I paid $80.00 for it. The car was towed to my house where it sat in the lot next to our house for about a year. I tinkered with it on and off - but never did get it to run. Finally one day my parents grew tired of that piece of junk cluttering up the yard and Dad called the junkyard to have it towed away. When the guy hooked up the car and started to raise it the body completely separated from the chassis. As he lifted it up only the body raised, while the remainder of the car sat in place. I looked in horror as the body lifted and separated, revealing the car seats, steering wheel and interior. It was only then that I realized that had I actually ever got the car to run, the first time I hit a bump I would have been sitting on the ground as the rest of the car passed overhead.

 

motie2

Had a hand me down from my folks, but the first car I purchased was a blue 1966 VW Beetle, with the fenders painted Rustoleum yellow. Here's a red version

PappyJoe

Drove mostly big Plymouth Fury III's before joining the Coast Guard. Had a beat-up Dodge Dart for about a year then bought an old Datsun 411. The 411 was boxy and didn't look good but could sure handle the mountains in Washington State good.

Swmaples

My first car was a 1957 VW Bug. I think that was the most fun I have ever had for $100. I think hay haulers were getting 5 cents a bail that summer so that money was well earned. 

Pastormark6430

77 El Camino

Anthony

1968 Chevy Impala custom coupe, 327, holly 4 barrel, GM 400 transmission posie rear end.. she was nice Gold with Blk top and interior. sold it in 76 and got a new Olds Tornado. Judging by some of your first cars your making me feel old! LOL

Woodsman

@ghostsofpompeii; Renaults and Fiats were infamous for rot. @judandhispipe I looked around and couldn't find any photos of the car, I had it for 5 years until I shipped out for Germany and gave it to a friend.

judandhispipe

@Woodsman - oh,well - thanks for trying. Here's a pic I found of one. (Nice to see this discussion revived. Now, where's my badges? )

Woodsman

That looks close, mine was Metallic Maroon and had a black top and was "Nosed and Decked" with an Eelco floor shift.

jfreedy

1967 Pontiac LeMans (turquoise) with 326 engine. My mom bought it with money she saved up from showing pigs in 4H. She sold it to my great grandfather who had it until he died leaving it to me to restore. It only had like 30k miles on it when I got in 1984! LOVED that car! Looked a lot like this one. 

motie2

Did anyone own a Rolls-Canardly?

pwkarch

1966......bought a '55 Dodge 2 door coupe. Cost me $200 with 4 retread tires. The paint was shot, white on top with a very faded blue body. Had the shifter on the dash, torn seats, holes in the floor.....but it was mine. It had a simple AM radio and a JC Whitney replacement antennae, but I still had to have a rear speaker and I put one in to hear that glorious monaural sound. I used that car for "cruising", surfing, fishing, hunting, drinking, and getting to and from work. The gas gauge did not work so I ran out of gas several times. By the time I went into the military there were larger holes in the floor so I could watch the road go by. There was beach sand on the floor and a reported fossilized worm or two from fishing, and lots of Schmidts bottle caps. It had a flathead 6 cylinder engine that I could take apart and put back together with the simplest Craftsman Tools (which i HAD to keep in the trunk for obvious reasons). BUT.....it was MY car, and all I could afford just out of high school making $52 every other week, just bidding my time to be called to go you know where (yes, I missed Woodstock and a lot of really cool bands)..

When I went to boot camp I asked my Dad to sell "Captain America" (yeah, I now know that was a really silly name for a car). While overseas he informed me it COST him money to have it towed away, (I can't remember if I ever paid him). The most expensive thing on the car was the roof racks I installed for surfboards and a canoe.. Oh to be young again.

Londy3

I'm embarrassed to tell you what my first car was (blush )

jfreedy

@Londy3 -- Well you have to tell us now!

dbh1950

First car, a 1954 Dodge Coronet, paid $ 60.00 for it. 

ghostsofpompeii

Coolest cars I've ever own were a 68 and 69 GTO and a 67 Firebird. The 68 GTO and 67 Firebird were stolen. Gotta love living in Gary, Indiana. And my wife was rear ended by a woman doing 45 mph or better - who was yelling at her kids in the back seat and hadn't noticed my wife was stopped and making a left turn into a gas station. Thank God my wife and kid, who was about 4 years old at the time, weren't killed. The rear end of the car was pushed up against the drivers seat. The cops said my wife was lucky the fuel tank was practically empty or the tank might have exploded. Since then I've been driving care made for middle age people. Even when I was still in my late 20s'.

PhilosoPiper

My first car was a champagne 2000 Chevy Silverado pick-up. All of you, with your beautiful, vintage cars... I feel almost ashamed to tell what mine was 

motie2

@Londy3 -- @jfreedy and the rest of us inquiring minds want to know what kind of first car you had.

Londy3

I don't have a picture handy but it was a black 1983 Chevy Chevette. Remember those things? I modified mine and will have search for pictures. This is sorta close but I had a much more sporty look than this.

TeCarp

The first car I bought with my own money was a 1974 Saab Sonnett II, nealry new when I got it.  The man who sold it had just acquired a ready-made family and had to upgrade to a sedan or wagon, or something, in a hurry.  I loved this little car to death and drove it across the United States twice.  From everything I've read, the Sonnett had a pretty poor reputation as a sports car, but this one exceeded all my expectations.