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judandhispipe
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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.
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.
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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.
Post pics, guys - - it's more fun.
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.
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.