Your first car

[rugerfan]

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[Fletch]

1979 Ford Pinto:

My parents helped me get a 1977 Dodge Aspen a few months later, and passed the Pinto down to my brother, so I didn't actually get to drive the Pinto for very long.

 

[Tactical Dave]

This but white with Z-28 wheels, 2.8 V6 with a few cheap goodies that made it a fun little car...

It got backed into (t-bone style) by a guy in the high school parking lot and later dumped the tranny when I tried to show off to a hot chick in the passenger seat of an LT1 Firehawk...... Before all that I also tried to show of making a hard turn in the rain and jumped a curb with it bending the two fron thweels (had steel wheels on it then) and ripped out the y-pipe for the exhaust.... after all that a guy cliped my front end messing up the hood. All this happend in about two years.......

Only one wreck since then.


My son will have some slow front wheel drive beater for his first car, all the Daves in the family like fast cars........

 

[rugerfan]

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[Scutter01]

I had one of these bad boys, for which I paid $500:

1978 Plymouth Fury
(Picture not representative of actual car's condition...)


Six month later, I was limping into the mechanic's garage and he later asked how I got there without turning left. When I asked what he meant, he said that a left turn would have made the wheel come off.

 

[Fletch]

A friend of mine had a 70-something Pinto as well. Had yours been "neutered" to keep it from blowing up?

I have no idea; didn't hear of the blowing up story until years later, after it was already in the graveyard.

 

[steve666]

1967 MGB/GT

 

[360]

I am ashamed to admit it but this was my first car. I didn't have it very long, as I was driving stupid down a gravel road and flipped it three times. I drove it home, ducking under the crushed roof, and I'll never forget my dad standing in the driveway saying..."whelp, that didn't take long".

1982 Renault Encore

The insurance totaled it and I got the next car to replace it.

1983 Honda Accord

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

First car: 1987 Buick Somerset, gray exterior / gray cloth interior. 2-door, 3.0L V6

It had torque-converter problems...I'd drive 5miles from school into town for work...and it'd die at the first stop light. A herky-jerky stall-out. Only had it for about a year.

2nd: 1990 Buick LeSabre. White exterior/Navy blue cloth interior. 2-door, 3.8L V6 (3800 Series I) This poor car met an untimely end; suspected spun rod bearing...terminal injury to an old car. Had this car from late 1994 until 2003. Wish I still had it.

3rd: 1997 Chrysler Concorde. Maroon exterior/tan cloth interior. 4-door, 3.5L V6 Imagine my surprise when a Chrysler product developed transmission issues around 75K miles. Rather than fix it like I should have, I traded in on the below...

4th: 2004 Oldsmobile Alero. White exterior / light gray cloth interior. 4-door, 3.4L V6

Good car, all be it a little small for me. Sporty-looking enough. But this particular car was riddled with problems...thankfully I "sprung" for the extended warranty. I used it up to and including the day it expired. Bad engine mounts, bad steering gear, showing signs of the all-too-common lower intake gasket leak, and HVAC selector knob / resistor went out like 3x.

"many thanks" to Roberto Ramirez for turning left in front of me and totaling my car on Sept 25, 2009. Anyone want to guess his insurance status?

5th: 1991 Buick Regal Custom. White exterior / gray cloth interior. 4-door, 3.8L V6 (3800 Series I)

I'm the SECOND owner of this beast! Don't know how many miles are on it, the odometer quit working around 76k miles...2006 or so. Not at all perfect, but even if it costs me $500-1000/year to keep it running...It's still a heck of a lot less expensive than paying ~$400 / month for 3+ years. It's my daily driver...Greenwood to Shadeland/I-70 just about every day. Thanks, Grandma, for selling it to me.

-J-

 

[66chevelle]

This but white with Z-28 wheels, 2.8 V6 with a few cheap goodies that made it a fun little car...

It got backed into (t-bone style) by a guy in the high school parking lot and later dumped the tranny when I tried to show off to a hot chick in the passenger seat of an LT1 Firehawk...... Before all that I also tried to show of making a hard turn in the rain and jumped a curb with it bending the two fron thweels (had steel wheels on it then) and ripped out the y-pipe for the exhaust.... after all that a guy cliped my front end messing up the hood. All this happend in about two years.......

Only one wreck since then.


My son will have some slow front wheel drive beater for his first car, all the Daves in the family like fast cars........

I had a black 86 camaro with a 2.8. When I got it the heads were junk. I got a used set and had them rebuild so went ahead a spent the extra $50 to get them ported and polished. My dads buddy owned a machine shop. A lot of the guys working there laughed about the 6 cylinder heads getting extra work but it worked pretty good. 3 guys I went to school with had 84- 87 camaro's all 2.8's and mine was the fastest. I was also the only one that had to buy a new rear tire 6 months after getting my licence. Go to love the one wheeler squealer. Back to what makes your story funny I got rear ended 2 weeks after I got my license. Three months later why at vocational school a buddy of mine ran over the front end of it in his dads dually. The night I got it fixed my buddy backed into it with a lifted 4x4 and creased the hood. Two months after that I ran a stop sign and T-boned a truck. All was good for 6 or 7 months and then the final wreck a 88 year old lady ran a red light and smoked me. Finally the insurance company totaled it out and told me to buy a tank instead of a car. I do miss that car and thank god I took auto body in vocation school I made about $4000 on that car all sad and done. The best part is I have not been in a wreck since that I didn't mean to do.

 

[jd4320t]

My first car was a 1987 Mercury Lynx XR3. I never even got to drive it legally before we sold it. It sure was fun to drive. After that I went to a 1992 Chevy Silverado 4x4

My Lynx looked just like this Ford Escort GT

 

[infidel]

This but all silver. '97 Camaro SS. Loved that car. 350 LT1 6 speed manual. Had it about a year and then an Indy prisoner transport van ran a red light and T-boned me totaling the car. Guess who's fault it was?

 

[Goosepond Monster]

I had one of these bad boys...

But it didn't have quite the shine that the one is the picture has.

 

[Tactical Dave]

I had a black 86 camaro with a 2.8. When I got it the heads were junk. I got a used set and had them rebuild so went ahead a spent the extra $50 to get them ported and polished. My dads buddy owned a machine shop. A lot of the guys working there laughed about the 6 cylinder heads getting extra work but it worked pretty good. 3 guys I went to school with had 84- 87 camaro's all 2.8's and mine was the fastest. I was also the only one that had to buy a new rear tire 6 months after getting my licence. Go to love the one wheeler squealer. Back to what makes your story funny I got rear ended 2 weeks after I got my license. Three months later why at vocational school a buddy of mine ran over the front end of it in his dads dually. The night I got it fixed my buddy backed into it with a lifted 4x4 and creased the hood. Two months after that I ran a stop sign and T-boned a truck. All was good for 6 or 7 months and then the final wreck a 88 year old lady ran a red light and smoked me. Finally the insurance company totaled it out and told me to buy a tank instead of a car. I do miss that car and thank god I took auto body in vocation school I made about $4000 on that car all sad and done. The best part is I have not been in a wreck since that I didn't mean to do.

It was pretty quick for what it was, compared to the stuff that I have had since it was slow....

I know a lot of guys would port out the intake and it was so restrictive that people would pick up 20 hp just doing that, I never did. A bunch of other guys found junk yard 3.4's and would swap them in because they were pretty much a direct plug and play swap... I never did.

I pulled some weight out (A/C compressor in those weighs a ton) and added an Accel coil when the factory one started to act up and cut out the air boxes and that made it plenty fun for a 17 year old.

 

[42769vette]

i drove the old farm truck. 1977 chevy 3/4 ton 4x4. had holes rusted through every where. i usto joke that it had flinstone brakes because you could put your foot through the floor board pretty easily. but you could not get that truck stuck. i eventually installed a dixie horn because i was a dukes of hazzard nut

 

[printcraft]

1977 Triumph TR-7
(technically my first car was a motorcycle, Yamaha XS850LG,
rode it everywhere for a couple of years, all weather,
got pretty cold in the winter, I had to break down occasionally and drive dads truck)

 

[Joe Williams]

My first actual running car was a '77 Honda Civic with a million miles on her. It was murdered by a hag in Florida who drove her Buick head on into me.

 

[navarre1095]

1974 AMC Hornet.

 

[Snayperskaya]

My first car was a 1993 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. I was 19 years old, and had NO business with it. If that thing wasn't a tank, I would probably be dead.

 

[Tactical Dave]

My first car was a 1993 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. I was 19 years old, and had NO business with it. If that thing wasn't a tank, I would probably be dead.

My brother in law has a red 3000GT (not a VR4) for his first car or one of them and it was wrecked a few times and ended up being half blue half red..... he still wanted to fix it up later down the road but had to sell it because he needed the money and it was later trashed for good in a flood.

They really are built like a tank.