| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/3/2008 9:46:57 PM | | My first car was a 1969 Chevy Chevelle Super Sport 396 with a 4 speed transmission. I got two speeding tickets first week I drove it. | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/3/2008 9:51:12 PM | 1984 honda civic in case I hadn't already posted.
1968 Ford mustang Boss 302 Every dime i made went into that car! But it sure was fast and looked good!
I thought the first year of the BOSS was '69? ;)
Uhm yeah, the question is, do you still have it? Because a) that's one sick ride and b) you'd get every penny back if you sold it.
http://www.nadaguides.com/default.aspx?LI=1-22-1-5013-0-0-0&l=1&w=22&p=1&f=5014&y=1969&m=1065&d=74&c=11&vi=72002&z=90814&da=-1
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/3/2008 9:57:55 PM | my maserati did 185
i lost my license, now i don't drive
i live in hotels, tear out the walls
just leave a message, maybe i'll call
lucky I'm still sane after all i've............................
those were the days...
soCal was different back then. You didn't have to go to Arizona to race Sterlingheart!
PS: thank you Joe Walsh (for those that didn't remember) | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/3/2008 10:07:14 PM | My parents handed me down a 1972 Ford Pinto to commute to college in. I paid them $500 for it. It promptly blew the engine less than a month later.
I then went out and bought a flawless 1958 Studebaker Golden Hawk that ran for three years without a thing going wrong with it. I got it from an old man in Hemet, the original owner, who had kept it garaged and only put 32K miles on it for another $500. | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/3/2008 10:33:17 PM | | My first car was a 1971 Ford LTD convertible, Fire engine red with a black top and interior. You could fit 8 people, 14 if they were friends(and we did!!!!) | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/3/2008 10:47:41 PM | | My first car was a Ford Country Squire Ltd Station Wagon. The transmission went out on it when I was 8 months pregnant in the middle of an intersection. That car sucked! | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/3/2008 10:52:32 PM | First car I bought: 1972 260Z...
Then my dad took the keys when I turned 16 and said I could have it after I drove for a year....
a year later, three vehicles (first one was a 1969 Datsun pickup heh) I got the keys...
Then got busted doing 170 in a 55... that was not fun...
Lucky for me being in the army, I dodged jail time hehe...
--Serenity | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/4/2008 1:26:37 AM | A purple 1957 Plymouth with push-button transmission, mushy shocks that gave it an unintentional low-rider look, and a tire in the trunk tied to a rope so that after the car warmed up and would not restart I could push-start it. It lasted several months.
Then I upgraded to a 1952 Ford F1 pickup truck with a broken rear axle. I paid $150 for it and got an axle from a junk yard for $23 so I could drive it home. I sold it ten years later for $1000. If I'd kept it another 10 or 20 years, I would have made many times that.
I put mud tires on the rear and drove it all over the desert where 4x4 owners insisted it wouldn't go and pulled many stuck 4x4s out of sand and snow over the years. It taught me how to get myself unstuck too when help was far away.
I learned that owning the biggest honkingest nose-bleed-lifted monster 4x4 will only help unskilled drivers get deeper into the backcountry before they get needlessly stuck; and that better driving skills help one to tread much more lightly upon the land.
The old truck was replaced by a trusty and much-loved classic old 1972 FJ40 Land Cruiser, followed by some newer pickups. Now I drive a modest new high-mileage jeep that rides gently over the landscape.
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/4/2008 12:50:23 PM | 1966 Plymouth Belvedere - 4 door. No a/c, no seatbelts. I changed the sparkplugs myself! It was a boat, held 23 people. lol
Hated it then, wished I still had it today!!! | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/4/2008 1:07:33 PM | (No anna, Im not following you!) coinkydink!
Can't remember if I ever posted and probably scrolled thru the pages too fast to recognize my own mugshot.
So... Plymouth Duster - don't remember the year, tho would have to have been 70 's. Was a few years used and the "red tag" special on the lot.
I wanted the "cool" Dodge Colt, with manual transmission. Shocked my dad that I even knew how to drive a stick (had been practicing with friend's Pinto - lol) Salesman blew it tho when he showed off the reclining bucket seats in the front! Heard my dad say, "oh, noooooo". So... felt like I got "stuck" with the Duster.
I was "underage" for the financing but put down $900 cash, financed in my parents name, though I made all the payments. Paid it off in full just after turning 18, asked Union Bank for a credit rating and poof! had more credit cards then, than I keep now!
I suddenly feel "old" - gee thanks. | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/4/2008 11:35:18 PM | | My first car was a 1974 Green Plymouth Valiant. I bought it for $75.00 from a little old lady who didn't drive it anymore. I drove it for a couple of years and it never dies on me: well once, but I ran out of gas (on a date no less). It was a bit of a monstrosity, but I loved that car. | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/4/2008 11:52:07 PM | A 1993 Ford Escort 2 door 4 speed brand spanking new off the lot. I wanted a Ford Bronco but was humbled by the salesman. But hey, I bought it all by myself........how many people can say they bought their first car at 19 years old  | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/5/2008 5:34:40 PM | My first car was an orange 1976 Pinto...
...hey lookie there, the lady above me also had a Pinto *lol*
Drove that thing until the wheels fell off. Had a bumper sticker on the back that said "danger explosives"....for those of you who remember that Pinto's were blowing up when rear ended. | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/5/2008 11:59:15 PM | 66 VW Bug (inherited from sis when she went to Peace Corp)
68 Austin America (first car with transverse engine - slalom racing)
69 Austin America (got married, needed 2)
Lotus Elan ... 64 ... gift to husband for graduation - raced it.
Dodge Van to transport kids
Cadillac - insane impress them years - shortlived
Dodge Colts - love my Colts! Yea 40mpg long before any other car could
Geo Metro - whimpy car
Dodge Colt
Toyota MR2 ... no more kids to transport so I am back to race cars | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/11/2008 10:40:30 PM | | My first car was a 1973 Chevy Nova 4-door with a V8. I paid my grandmother 300 for it, only because she had just sent off her insurance payment. I was 16 when I got it. I had it for 10 years and then my ex husband killed it with his Micky Mouse repairs. | |
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Posted: 1/12/2008 10:13:43 AM | My first car was a 1977 Honda Civic that I paid $800 in college as my vehicle.
Was a great car and lasted for five years. Drove the hell out of it and sold it for near what I paid for it even though
it had a bad head cylinder when I got rid of it.
Hondas are great cars- might get a new S2000 convertible. | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/18/2008 12:44:35 AM | 1974 1/2 Jensen-Healey roadster.
Beautiful car that came with the Lotus 907 engine (non-turbo version of the engine used in the Esprit). 16 valve, 140 bhp and 132 lb-ft of torque and a 7,000 rpm redline, which were pretty spectacular numbers for a four cylinder back then. In fact, I believe it was the first production car to have a 16 valve four pot (Lotus didn't put the 907 into one of their cars until after the first Jensen-Healeys went to market). Also, the car weighed just a bit over 2,000 lbs. Better performance and handling than any car in the same category (Triumph, MG, Fiat, Alpha Romeo, and even the much vaunted BMW 2002 tii) in that era.
I found it surprisingly reliable (for a Brit car), although the earlier models were apparently not so much. Parts were actually pretty easy to source from the junk yards if you knew what you were looking for - for example, a lot of the interior switches were also used in the Austin Marina. My biggest complaint were the bloody Stromberg carburetors used in the North American versions (used to meet US emission requirements of the day). The European versions came with dell'orto carbs (similar to Webers) and were much better.
Sold it after a couple of years for more than I paid. Have pretty much bought used Saabs since then since they have good performance, and depreciate really fast, so you can pick up a late model one for really cheap (compared to say a Beemer). I currently have an '02 Saab Viggen and it is scarey fast. On the highway, the Viggen will allegedly out acclerate a similar era M3 . I say allegedly because I haven't tried it, but that is what I have read. Anyway, the car is great bang for the buck. | |
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| Just for fun: What was your first car?
Posted: 1/18/2008 2:55:58 AM | I had a susuki samuri. Biggest mistake I ever made getting rid of her. I had so much fun driving her and that was how I learned to drive a stick. | |
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