What was your first car?

[dirocyn]

This is a pic stolen from the Internet, but I had a 79 Subaru circa 1990:



Except that mine was pretty well knackered by the time I got it. Rust holes through the body big enough to see the engine from outside. Vinyl seats all cracked and ripped, it leaked oil like the Valdez, speedometer didn't work, and it ate alternators. There was a while I had to push-start it, before I figured out I could hot-wire it with a screwdriver.

Still, it took me lots of crazy places. I drove it on roads where Jeeps got stuck.

 

[D7alt]

Matra-Simca Bagheera

 

[92 Fiesta Red 62]

A 1964 Ford Falcon Futura…painted fiesta red by a previous owner



I crammed a 302 under the hood and scared all the Camaros in town when we’d race.

 

[Electgumbo]

One like this I bought from a guy on base for $600….

 

[henderman]

My father had a 65’Wildcat Convertible , loved driving that car when he would let me use it . Buick made some nice cars !

nice, the wildcat and the riviera are 2 of my favorite american cars.

my 225 had a 430 wildcat engine in it

 

[NobodyReally]

One like this I bought from a guy on base for $600….

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I love those old squarebacks

 

[Electgumbo]

I love those old squarebacks

@NobodyReally
My amp fit in the back…

 

[NobodyReally]

@NobodyReally
My amp fit in the back…

And that's all that matters, lol

 

[Textele]

One just like this, but mine had gold pinstripes.

My Twin Reverb just fit in the back seat!

 

[NobodyReally]

One just like this, but mine had gold pinstripes.

My Twin Reverb just fit in the back seat!
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77?

 

[Mohlman]

A 1959 VW Beetle. Black. Only 3 working cylinders. The brakes completely failed on a hill almost killing my friend and I, we zoomed through several stop signs before the road leveled out, and got it stopped. My Dad had bought it for me for $100 (1972). I sold it shortly afterwards, but I never told him why!

 

[Fenderbaum]

Mazda 323 1980-ish somewhere..
Bought it from my boss. That thing has been driven to many gigs with a Leslie for a Hammond organ in the back quite a few times.
Never used it, since i bought it before i got my license. Was parked outside my Grandma´s barn for 2 years until we decided to just scrap it because of rust.
It was a hilarious trip to the scrapper. The parking break was stuck, so it gave out tons of white smoke on its way there. But these cars just started. We charged the battery, and it fired right up after a few twists of keys.. 2 years being dormant.

 

[RXMoore]

Sadly, I don't have a photo of my first car. It looked just like this.

 

[Boubou]

1976 Chevy Nova.
Crap car, but freedom!

 

[Stormy Monday]

1965 Mustang. Red, convertible, 289 V8.

 

[Boneman68]

First one I bought was a 73 Mustang Grande, but never ended up getting it road worthy. The first one that was registered in my name was a yellow Pontiac Ventura, those looked like this:

 

[El Gobernador]

69 LeMans.

 

[Machew]

1979 Ford Mustang, 4 cylinder. Piece of crap. $1000.00

 

[guitarchaeologist]

1965 Mustang. Red, convertible, 289 V8.

Technically my first car was purchased by me at age 14- a 1966 Mustang with no interior or engine. I dropped in a 1968 302 from a wrecked Mustang and salvaged most of an interior. I had the car drive-able a few months later, but ended up buying a 1967 Mustang GTA from the guy that sold me the wrecked '68. It was originally metallic light blue, but had been painted black.
I kept that '67 until I was almost 40- about 25 years of driving joy.

This was not mine, but it's the closest I could find online. I didn't have the styled steel Mustang wheels, but chrome mags instead. Also didn't have the stainless rockers.
Otherwise it's pretty damned close...

 

[joebtone]

59 Ford 6 cylinder 3 speed column shift.
$50 just like this but, much rougher in 1980