Mine: 1988 blue Chevy Beretta
Before 1988 I drove the family hand me down, a 1973 Ford Capri:
What was your first car?
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1949 Chevy pickup. Six cylinder, forget the CI. It had three speed trans with a “granny gear”. Top speed, 55mph.
Dad bought it for me in summer of 1968 for my upcoming birthday just before I became old enough for a drivers license. Purchased in San Angelo, TX from a used car lot. $150. I drove it back to Fort Worth, TX., about 230 miles, 55mph, no drivers license with dad following me.
Looks good whatever it is.
1960 Vauxhall Cresta
Citroen XM Y4. No car has less edges, less windows. It has has the hydropneumatic, and was dirt cheap second hand, for reasons.
My parents had a 1970 RS Camaro they sold 6 months before I turned 16. Then they got divorced and before I was 17 I was driving a 1978 Ford Granada 4-door. Opposite ends of the babe magnet for sure.
59 Volvo P544. Built like a tank. Other than the endless quest to keep the twin SU carbs synchronized ( by ear with a cardboard tube ) it was bullet proof. The coolest part was that the wheel bolt pattern was the same as Ford so, wide ovals all around. Blaupunkt A.M. / F.M. radio and a Jensen 4 track tape deck mounted below the dash. Perfect high school ride with a European flair ( great for the 60’s . Passed up a Sunbeam Talbot ( with running boards ) and a Cord 2 dr. for sale in the same used car lot. .If only I had known……
66 Beetle with a sunroof
1966 Falcon. Black, red cloth seats. No carpet or radio. 8-Track? HA! The former owner had one arm, so it came with a rotating knob on the steering wheel.
First car owned outright was in 1974, a Porsche (really a snazzy body styled VW Bug, 1.6L) 914. Great driving car, got almost 50 mpg on the road but 19 in town. Girls loved it…
I was sixteen and had the money for the car of my dreams, but my father had different dreams.
Grand Prix 454 ? No , you’ll kill yourself.
Nova 350, three speed on the floor ? No, you’ll kill yourself.
Dodge Charger , 383 ? Hell no.
And so on, until I was allowed to buy this.
Slant six 225 , automatic. Exact color, but mine had baby moons.
Took me and my buddies to the beach and back every weekend though. All in all it was a great car.
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The summer before I turned 16 I bought a 1962 VW Bug that had a blown engine and a fresh rebuilt VW engine for $400. It came with a very used Chilton’s repair manual. I swapped out the engine, replaced the brakes and put a set of new tires on it that summer. Six months latter the battery fell through the rotting battery box where it hit the rear tire. That caused the back end to jump high enough for the front bumper to catch the curb and flip the car. It was a 14 year old car.
1974 Plymouth Fury III with a V8 and a 440 engine
55 chevy for $125 that ran 5 years before the auto trans quit
75 Monte Carlo
I had a ’76 monte carlo, blue with a landau top…….8″ deep dish cragar mags.
I hit a concrete bridge abutment at about 70 mph, ripped the left front wheel assembly and fender off, flipped up on it’s side, skipped on it’s right rear wheel with the front slidding on the top of the concrete bridge rail, and landed on it’s wheels about mid-bridge. The uni-body frame broke when they lifted it for towing and the roof collapsed.
Split my upper lip so bad you could see my teeth through the hole…28 stitches in it, 9 in my lower lip……and all I could think about was hiding my whiskey bottle and contraband
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—=== CHAOS is coming!
I was in the bay area with my Monte. All the Hispanics wanted to buy it and make a low rider out of it.
1970 Mercury Cougar with a 351 Cleveland, followed by a 1984 Monte Carlo Super Sport.
1965 Chrysler Newport.
1984 Chevy S10 Sport 4×4… I wanted to learn how to drive a stick, but no one would let me learn on their car. I decided the only way to learn, therefore, was to buy one. This truck had the 5sp in it (paired, unfortunately, with the 2.8 litre V6), and I had many adventures in it.
Too bad the S-series is gone… they were just the right size and very practical. Chevy sold a ton of them.
Two. Hand Me Down Monte Carlo and Chevelle. Sibling and I split the rides.
1953 Olds 88 V8. Wrecked it head-on when an idiot popped over a blind hill doing 60, Next car was a 61 Ford Starliner
1959 Dodge Sierra Stationwagon.
1973 Audi 100ls
next QUOD – exactly how old are we on here? I’m beginning to wonder if we ALL use canes