First Car?

[majorcyfan]

Re: First Car? 1948 dodge

1968 MBG, British Racing Green with wire wheels. Most unreliable POS car I have ever owned but it was also just a really freakin’ cool ride to have back in 1971.

Q: Why do the British drink their beer warm?
A: Because Lucas Electric makes their refrigerators!

Anyone that ever owned an old MG or Triumph will get it.

Car with a bedroom for a backseat. Fluid drive that could drive off from a dead stop in high gear. Vertical radio and , yes the chicks did like being seen in this car in 1962
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[Senolcyc]

Had to keep it under 88 MPH. Don't want to make that mistake.....twice.

 

[Rydes84]

1980 Sky blue Olds Delta 88. 4 doors and nothing special other then my dad had converted it from a diesel to a 350 olds gas motor. Fit a ton of friends and drove great. Also had just enough power to light up the tires in the HS parking lot from time to time.

 

[MeanDean]

Can definitely vouch for LTDs being nearly indestructible. A few of my friends had them. They would take them in and out of ditches, through corn fields in the winter to TRY to hit deer, and god knows where else. A couple had custom spray paint jobs. One buddy even cut the top off with a sawzall to make a convertible. Good times in those boats.

Technically it's not a convertible. When it rains or snows you can't convert it from open to closed.

Fun to have, for sure.

 

[dmclone]

'75 Camaro - Blue LT, w/ rear spoiler, (rear window curved around), but similar looking to this, turbine rims. Yours is a '74?

Yes 74.

427
M22 Rock Crusher trans
850 holly
N50's on the back with Cragar SS
California Turbo Exahust
L88 Hood
Another thing you can't see in the picture is that it ha2 black racing stripes down the hood.

The guy that built it before me spent a lot of time and money on it.

Damn I wish I still had it......

 

[DMICyclone]

My first car was a 1979 Buick LeSabre. I was 15. I am 19 now.

It broke down once a week on average.

 

[VeloClone]

Our neighbor had a 1975 Gran Torino wagon, **** brown. When the timing chain went on it the neighbor - having no mechanical inclination - sold it to us for 100 bucks. We spent 70 some bucks on a chain and parts and got it going that weekend. It was so rusted out that I had to roll the windows down when I went down a gravel road to keep it from filling up with dust. My sister and I shared that piece of junk party wagon all through high school.

 

[mapnerd]

The first car a I drove frequently to high school was my mom's old '71 or '72 Pontiac LeMans. I think it was a 350 v8, but sadly had lost power over the years.

 

[Buster28]

First car was a 1974 Chevy Nova - puke green with a white vinyl top. It was the first thing I found that ran for the money I had (was desperate for that first car and couldn't wait to save anymore). I managed to run it into the ground pretty quickly.

Favorite car that I've ever owned was a 1987 Nissan Pulsar (3rd car I owned when I turned 20). It was metallic blue, 5 speed, with t-tops and the flip-up headlights. Yeah, it looks a little 80s now, but it was SO MUCH FUN TO DRIVE!!! The thumbnail isn't my car, but looks exactly like it.

 

[Jambalaya]

1966 Datsun 411 sedan
$50 from my dad's friend right after high school

-had it in the early 80's. All my travels, I've never seen another one (only in old Japanese movies)

The car in pic is not mine. Mine was originally white, but came to me painted army green.

3 or 4-speed. 45 mph tops into a head wind. 70-80 mph tops downhill with a strong tailwind

 

[temperflare]

1976 Chevy Caprice Classic.

 

[Bartastic]

'85 Chevy Celebrity. Terrible name to describe what that car looked like. Use to see those things around a lot...each one rusted out.

 

[ISUAg Grad]

This is my first car... 1987 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe. Very advanced car for an 87. Sunroof, equalizer, everything power, push button suspension. I would easily buy this car if someone had one is perfect shape.

I had one just like this. Mine had a spoiler. I remember the heat didn't work worth a darn. At the same time I owned a 1979 ford f-100 custom with a 351 in it.

 

[colbycheese]

1991 Chevy Lumina Minivan, aka the shaggin wagon.

This image is pretty close:

 

[Cytaki]

My first car was a 1996 Saturn SC2...totaled it a year in...replaced with a 1998 Saturn SC2...moved up in the world...ha. Still have it. Consequences of making pretty much didly ****. Still running...

 

[cy1010]

My first car was a 1976 Dodge Dart Custom (by the way, I was born in 1981). It was a great first car because you could beat the crap out of it and it would keep going. Toward the end of its life it became a "two person starter" on really cold days. Meaning, you had to have one person crank it and another person tap a solenoid with the head of a screw driver.

Can't complain about the car when it was free!

 

[MeanDean]

Favorite car that I've ever owned was a 1987 Nissan Pulsar (3rd car I owned when I turned 20). It was metallic blue, 5 speed, with t-tops and the flip-up headlights. Yeah, it looks a little 80s now, but it was SO MUCH FUN TO DRIVE!!! The thumbnail isn't my car, but looks exactly like it.

Sorry dude, total chick car.

 

[cy4prez7]

92 Chevy Blazer. Currently driving a Lambortaurus though!

 

[Buster28]

Sorry dude, total chick car.

Whatever. :wacko: