Your first car?

[The Machinist]

A 1980 purple z28 camaro.  Real easy to learn how to drive a standard on that one.  Now I'm on about vehicle #20?

[jeepers26]

My first was a 1990 5.0L Mustang LX... had this car in all through high school.. chick magnet=good ... Cop Magnet=bad!!! I sure did get in alot of trouble with that car!!! but I sure do miss it!! hope to find another one soon now that im all growed up...lol

[AV.NINE]

1986 Mercury Cougar, complete with black lights and strobe lights and a very big stereo.

[T-BOAN]

Do you guys have any old pictures of you and your first car? Where you guys all stoked and thought it was the cat's meow when you first got it? Did you guys try waxing over rust spots? I thought my daughter would be happy to get a free car but she looked a little disappointed when I said she could have my Golf. She hates the factory tape deck and missing exterior trim. I was so happy to have my own car. Throw up some stories if you got some of your first car and pictures if you have any.

[fug]

I actually remember my first car. 

It  was a 1976 Ford Granada 2 door.  I paid $50 for it and the thing was probably not even worth that.  It had no business being on the road.

When I bought it had the vinyl roof peeled off and someone had painted it with a brush and some white house paint.  The same genius had put a set of Dodge rims on the rear axle which have the same bolt pattern as a Ford but a smaller centre hub.  They had just got the lug nuts on a few threads and called it good.  Wheel wobbled back and forth and I was lucky it didn't come off on the drive home (about 10 km).   I found a set of huge mags at a pawn shop... lugged them home on the bus and threw them on the back.  They must have been 15" wide and chrome.    I thought I looked pretty bad arse.

It had a 302 with a blown head gasket that I tried to replace on the side of the road with a cheap assed Can Tire socket set (and no torque wrench ... I was young and even dumber than I am now if you can believe it).    It ran, but pressurized the cooling system so bad it would shoot water 6-8 feet out of the radiator if the cap was left off.  The front fenders had holes in them you could stick your fist through and the valve covers leaked so bad it looked like I was on fire if I stopped.

So then in my infinite wisdom I decided the best inaugural voyage for this POS... was to drive it from Vancouver to Kelowna.   You might ask why this seemed like a good idea at the time... well I had no title for it (and therefore no insurance either) and the previous owner lived in Kelowna so I figured I'd just drive it up there and get the registration.   Oh I also didn't have a drivers license at that point either. 

I to this day have no idea how I or the car made that trip without dying.   By the time I made it back to Vancouver the oil was foamy and white... the last couple hundred K I had to stop every 1/2 hour or so to fill the radiator with water.  I have no idea how that thing kept running the whole way or why I didn't get pulled over.  Just goes to show you that someone up there is looking out for fools.   

I sold the car a few weeks later for $150 or something and thus started my vehicle buying/selling obsession.  I've probably owned well over 100 vehicles since then.  It's a sickness for sure. 

[tubby]

I was tired of taking public transportation to get to UBC in the nineties. I told my folks that I was going to get an " affordable economy car" to get myself around in. I found a 1970 Mercury Cougar in Surrey but the owner wanted cash because he didn't trust money orders. I went to the bank and got $6000 in 50 dollar bills and stuffed it into some tube socks and made my way over to pick it up. It was all downhill from there.

There was a bunch of police at his house because one of the tenants downstairs got stabbed in the groin due to some "money issues" The owner of the car had the same name as "Norm" from the show "Cheers"  and when I gave him the money for the car; a wrestling match broke out over the money. His wife was berating him in front of me saying something about "prostitutes" and what not. I sat in the kitchen as the couple wrestled around with a sock full of fifties. I didn't know whether to laugh or vomit(heavy set folks in jogging pants)

The car?1970 Merc Cougar with 351 Clevland(4v), C6 and 9". Burgundy with black vinyl top. I sunk another $4000 into her over a one month time period in performance parts. My folks asked me what car I wound up with. I lied and said I got a Toyota Tercel. I still tell my Mom that my Jeep parts are from the local junkyard and that I don't really spend money on it. 18 years later and I'm still fibbing about what I spent on my vehicles.

[slimbeam]

My first was a  2 door 1964 Plymouth Valiant with a slant 6 and push button trany

[The Machinist]

This is where it began.

[raf2379]

1979 Plymouth Volare, 2 door 318cid. bought it when i turned 16 for $300 wish i still had the car

[Evil-Jeep]

1) 69 skylark
2) 84 Trans Am
3) 76 Trans Am
4) 82 Trans Am
5) 97 Ford Ranger 4x4
6) 79 Trans Am
7) 87 Trans Am
81 Trans Am
9) 2000 Ford F350 Super Duty
10) 1997 Chevy Z71
11) 1998 Dodge Caravan
12) 79 Trans Am
13) 79 Ford F150 4x4
14) 89 Cavalier
15) 2001 Cavalier
16) 2003 TJ

[SwampSinger]

1978 Monte Carlo Landau.... 350 - 4 barrels....it was alot of car for a 16y/o

[hps4evr]

1)1980 ford f150 4x4, 400m, auto, np208. 9" rear, ifs front, 31's. 2)1986.5 nissan pickup 720 4x4. 3)1992 jeep yj that i still own today 4)1985 ford f150 2wd, 351w 4v, auto c6, 9" rear. 5)2001 dodge ram 4x4, 5.9L gas, auto, 231, d44, 9.25.
thats it, good times in all!

[morerpmfred]

Cars i have owned
 71 vauxhall viva gt   left abandonned in ft mcmurray
77 chev truck 2 months old crashed not to be used ever again
71 plymouth fury  teenage party car
 71 gmc truck  teen age daily driver
 72 toyota celica  tweaked rally car
72 gmc truck  slightly fast went throw rear tires weekly
71 429scj mustang  had for a couple of weeks fast 4 sp 4.11gears wish i still had
68 camaro z28  bought to collect and sold it in a couple of weeks
75 chevelle malibu classic  had the chevy parts list in the moter , fun ,made in to stock car racer
75 v8 vega   evil fast, had moter from chevelle lasted about two months, wrecked
74 vega was going to built another . sold to wrecker
75 ford truck  tow truck for stock car
77ford 4x4  work truck gas sucking pig
84 dodge d50 4x4  new truck dropped in great slave lake ice fishing east of yellowknife
79 chev truck  drove for a month till i got other truck back
89 dodge d50 4x4 most fun i every had with a 4x4
90,s ford saurass name says it all
89 dodge d50 4x4 built another one and promptly sold it
93 jeep cherokee built another one does this moter head crap ever end ?

[Justink]

1. 1981 Chevrolet Cavalier (Field beater)
2.1987 Nissan pickup (Field beater)
3. 1991 Jeep Cherokee, 4.5'' lift, 31's, $1100 stereo system  (DD)
4.1980 chev k2500 Sierra grande (rebuilt 350, dual 3'' pipes loud as HELL) Motor to go in car
5.1980 olds Cutlass supreme, blown 307-SOLD
6.1988 Nissan 300zx N.A., Thought I could afford a go fast car and a jeep, was I ever wrong 
7.1986 Ford Bronco-Bag drove and sold for a profit
8.1992 Jeep cherokee, 6'' lift, 33's rear locker-Put motor in an sold for profit
9. 1989 Jeep comanche- 5'' lift, aussie locker (Donar)
10.1988 Jeep comanche 2'' lift, blown motor-fixing
Not bad for just being 16

[esi]

1. 1989 Chevrolet Silverado 2WD 305 Reg cab long box-Black with silver center not to many options
2. 1989 Chevrolet Silverado 2WD 350  Reg cab long box Cherry red with white center- loaded 3" diesel exhaust nice sound
3. 1994 Chevrolte Silverado 4WD 350 Ext Cab Short Box Fire Engine Red 4"LK 33" MTs on polished AE wheels added lots of stereo and performance treats to it plus a flame thrower exhaust
4. 1985 Olds Torinoto- FWD 305 bought it over the phone for $99 from a Ford dealership having one of their $99 car sales still have it. Was hoping that it had a big block in it but the 305 was OK too.
5. 1998 Grand Prix GTP Flame Red 4 door. nice riding family mobile needs a engine put back into it.
6. 2001 GMC Sierra 4WD 327 Black,Ext Cab SB. 6" Fabtech 35" tires lots of stuff added
7. 1995 Jeep ZJ  5" LK 33" tires 318 plus steel instead of styrofoam.  Still beating on this one.
8. 2004 Grand Caravan. Piece of monkey crap
9. 2004 Chevrolet Suburban AWD 327 Graphite
10. 1993 Jeep ZJ Pick up for dirty dirt  cheap, good to have a spare.

If I would have got into a ZJ at 16 years of age I could have done things way stupider than I managed to do with a 2WD. trouble was fun


I kinda miss this one