Mine was a 1979 AMC Pacer; the "luxury" model. 'Fess up to yours!

[blondeatlast]

Your first CAR, that is--you pervs.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Oh.

After the edit, I don't want to answer any more.

[ewagner]

2. 1960 Renault Dauphene

no laughing allowed.

[Clete]

19. Mine was a 1958 Renault Dauphine.

Mine self-destructed in two years. How long did yours last?

[XNASA]

31. That's the first car I remember my Dad driving.

'58 Daupines didn't hold up very well in the Upper Midwest. It wasn't around very long.

[44wax]

3. 1964 Chevy Impala Hardtop two door with a 327 and powerglide

and a bumping a.m. sound system.

[Don_G]

4. MGB

1973 and a half. Only car I've ever met that was both SAE and Metric.

[htuttle]

9. Dude! Mine was a '63 MG Midget

Spoked wheels, dual Weber side-draft carbs I had to sync with an orange juice can and a float, and positive ground electrics.

When I first installed an 8-Track (okay...now I've dated myself), I forgot about this, and it ran backwards eating an Aerosmith tape.

[Don_G]

24. I Remember

Had to twist a valve found on the outside of your house to turn on the heater for the winter.

My first girlfriend had that problem.

[CBGLuthier]

5. 1972 orange VW Beatle

Wish I still had it.

[nono]

6. 1939 Ford roadster

14 when I got her.

[FarLeftRage]

7. 1974 Pontiac Catalina

A "boat" is what we used to call this large sedan.
Lasted over 150,000 miles before it died.

I had a bumper sticker on the front that read:
"Gas, Grass or Ass, no one rides for free"

And the back bumper sticker read:
"I brake for hallucinations"

[dad]

61. 1

I had a '71 Catalina once! Convertible! Wasn't my first car though. That would be my '74 Ford Gran Torino

[Mr. McD]

8. 1948 Plymouth

Business coupe It cost $25.00 and was in excellent shape. That was 1965

[mitchum]

13. My dad is restoring a Ford business coupe right now

[GoodSpud]

10. '73 Ford LTD

2 tons of Detroit steel.

Forest Green with vinyl bench seats and good old AM...

TDPR

[mitchum]

11. 1971 Plymouth Duster rigged out for 70s stoner kid action...

8 track, power booster, Jensen Triaxils, and a feather roachclip hanging from the rearview mirror

[bicentennial_baby]

12. 1973 Dodge Dart Swinger

Light Yellow with a Black hard top...I bought it in 98 though, I was'nt born until 1976...

[maveric]

14. 1965 Rambler Ambassador covertable (1973)

I bought it for $50.00 and after 6 cans of "Bondo" and a new radiator,it ran like a top till after I sold it 6 months later for $50.00. This was the luxury model with power everything and push button transmission. Even the clock worked.
I ended up selling it to my best friend. He was broke and needed cheap transportation, and he proceeded to beat on it until the tranny blew. Then he wanted his $$$ back. Hell it even passed NH inspection!
Sorry Jimbo!

[HawkerHurricane]

15. 92 Ford Escort

Donated it to a Church group last year, as it was hopeless.
The funny thing is, now I drive my wife's 88 Honda Accord. It still runs.

[blondeatlast]

16. So far I win! I said CONFESS, not brag!

I mean, an AMC Pacer, fer Gert's sakes.

[Don_G]

26. Who's Bragging?

Ever have to tune-up a car once a month just to keep it running? Oil the carburetors weekly?

Don't get an MGB!

[notadmblnd]

17. 1967 Ford

T-Bird, that was in 1976. I had to cover the engine with a blanket in the winter or else it wouldn't start. Other than that it was a cool car.

[FireHeart]

18. 1965 Corvair

I loved that little car. Got me through many a snowstorm driving back and forth from work.

My wife (fiance at the time) hated the bucket seats, though. :)

[Bake]

20. '73 Chevy Vega

After driving my dad's '65 Bel-Air station wagon (my brothers and I referrred to it as the Shit Wagon) for several years, I bought a brand new '73 Chevy Vega hatchback. 3-speed manual stick shift, black vinyl interior, NO AIR CONDITIONING (think: black vinyl, hot sun, no A/C, fried butt and thighs, etc.). I never had any trouble with it, although many people did because of the aluminum block engine. I loved it. I remember gas being $0.26 a gallon; I could fill up and drive for a week or so on $5.00.

Bake

[Duncan Grant]

21. 1974 Mercury Montego

What a cruiser! Did Mercury build boats in the early 70's or what?! ;)

[ILeft]

22. 1967 Fiat 850 Spyder (sort of like a 50hp Ferrari)

Unfortunately had some rust issues...

[tridim]

27. I still want an 850

and have ever since I was a kid. I've seen some restored 850's that are absolutely gorgeous! The way the top folds into the back is just cool. The engine is laughably dinky, my Fiat parts shop guy says a strong person can lift it with his hands. I wonder what other engines you could shoehorn in there?

[CanuckAmok]

56. Ha Ha! I actually witnessed one's implosion...

BAAAD rust issues. I was behind one in traffic in Europe, and it literally fell apart when the light turned green--drivetrain just FELL OUT--CLUNK.

The couple driving it just got out and walked away--wish I'd had a camera with me!


They were sexy though--I almost biught one on Ebay last year for $400. It needed lots of TLC.

[tridim]

23. 1974 Fiat X1/9

It was like a street legal go-kart. I had a minor wreck the first day I got my license. :) I now have a pristine '78 Spider.

No Fiat jokes please! They're great cars if you keep them maintained.

[ronnykmarshall]

25. 1973 Camero

It was hot, hot, hot!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

28. 1980 Chevy Chevette

Blue, of course. I was 18. I remember how excited I was to get it. I had to pay for it myself, which made me appreciate it all the more.

[Career Prole]

29. '63 Studebaker Lark

Wish I still had it.
I knew how to fix it.:shrug:

[VOX]

30. 1966 Mercedes-Benz 250S, previously owned by a shrink!

American cars of the late '60s had quiet rides, but my old Benz was LOUD inside! It only had one thin layer of carpet over hard rubber, then cold steel. To my mind, it was *not* a luxury car.

The guy who sold it to me said it had been driven by a doctor, and I thought, Yeah, yeah, right.

A few months later, I was cleaning the trunk, and under the mat I found a piece of memo paper that read, "From the desk of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, M.D." I looked up the name in the phone book, and he was listed as a shrink!!!

I always had this fantasy of making an appointment with him, and telling him of a recurring dream, one involving a 1966 beige MBZ with the license plate XXX-XXX.

It was a really cool car, and had some soul. I drove it for another 14 years. Toward the end, repairs were hot and heavy and pricey.

Bought an '87 Volvo 240 DL after that, and drove it for 16 years. Have, and will, stick with Volvo from now on.

[asjr]

32. car

1951 Studebaker

[XNASA]

33. 67 Chevy Impala Coupe (Fastback)

283 & 3 on the tree.

She was blue.

[JVS]

34. My late grandmother's 1989 Honda civic sedan

The CV joint sounds like it's going kaputt and the engine is running a little hot lately. I'll get to that this weekend. I hope to get a few more years out of the car.

[xJlM]

35. 1963 Impala 4 door

Rusted down to the frame, burned a quart of oil a day (minimum), 283 Powerglide and a back seat big enough to stretch out on.

[ikojo]

36. 1981 AMC Spirit...

I loved that car....drove it until it died....


Looked kind of like this but was brown and COVERED with Grateful Dead stickers....

[LynneSin]

37. 1977 Olive Green Chevy Impala nicknamed "The Tank"

My friends always wanted me to drive whenever we cruised "The Circuit" in downtown Harrisburg because my tank had 4 windows that all went down completely. Of course they never helped out with gas whenever I asked once in awhile to chip in 1-2 dollars (the tank ATE gas).

[Pert_UK]

38. 1984 Mistubishi Express 4x4 Minibus

I've had it for about 3 months, despite being able to drive for 11 years, it's still my first car.

It rocks - we've taken out all the rear seats and are turning it into a basic camper van.

P.

[Kat45]

39. 1967 Mustang, V8, pale yellow with a black top

I loved that car..and boy, could it move!

[LuLu550]

40. 65 Rambler American

Powder blue, I named it "Benjamin"
Had a string of Gremlins
and my all time favorite,
1965 fire engine red malibu convertable

[NashVegas]

41. 73 PINTO!

Next: 66 Mustang.

[blondeatlast]

52. Congrats! You beat me in the sucky car department! Or,

was it a tie?

[Wickerman]

42. 66 Chevy Malibu

with a 350 instead of a 327. the orginal engine caught fire and we bought the car as salvage, installed the 350. It was a dangerous first car, except motor mounts broke pretty easily. I miss it horribly. I first had an 8 track in it, but eventually had a Pioneer Super Tuner with Jenson Coaxials - it rocked!

[carpetbagger]

43. They don't make 'em like that any more.

Mine was a 1981 Buick with an engine that would only start after I stuck a pencil in the carburator valve and hit the belt motor with a hammer.

[amber dog democrat]

45. 1958 Ford

Sedan. White 4 door. Three on the tree. I learned how to drive a standard on that car. Wish I had it now.

[maxanne]

44. Datsun 240 Z

a speeding ticket on wheels!!

[DoctorBombay]

46. 1982 Chevy Citation

Light blue hatchback!

[CO Liberal]

47. A 1958 Hillman Minx

Paid $80 for it, and had it for a year and a half.

[JohnyCanuck]

48. Our family had two Hillman Minx's

When I grew up in Barbados in the 60's and 70's we had lots of British cars. The first family car I can remember from when I was about 5 years old (about 1959) was a Hillman Minx. I can still remember the day we took delivery of it from the dealer. We were waiting at my Grandparent's house and someone from the dealer drove it over and handed over the keys. It was two tone brown on the bottom half and white on top. God that takes me back. sometime in the late 60's we traded it in for another Hillman Minx and then after that Minx kicked the bucket it was Japanese cars all the way. Toyotas and Mitsubishis.

[BigMcLargehuge]

49. 1976 Chevy Monza

baby-shit brown, tan vinyl roof, more rust than the Titanic. Four cylinder, automatic, so it was E-X-T-R-A S-L-O-W. Almost large enough for two small adults in the front and a picture of the family dog in the back. Burned oil like crazy, ate batteries like a monster, and rattled, knocked, and clanked like a possessed popcorn machine.

I bumped it into a parked car, bent the hood, and the insurance company totalled it.

[populistmom]

50. 1979 Mercury Zephyr

Just two words- bad car!

[MountainLaurel]

51. 1978 Chevy Camaro

My father bought it for himself, under the guise of buying it for me, as he often does. I used to refer to it as the "WV drug dealer-mobile."

I sold it for a few hundred $$ when given the financial choice of selling the car or living at home and commuting to university.

[OneBlueSky]

53. 1967 Pontiac LeMans . . .

326 hp . . . paid about $1700 for it, NEW! . . . those were the days . . .

[CanuckAmok]

54. 1978 AMC Concord Wagon (Phone Company Surplus!)

Matte Green on Green Vinyl. 360 6cyl. 260,000Kms, $600, and drove it like I stole it for three years. Man, what a tank--indestructable! And, there's nothing like being a rural teen with your own station wagon...nudge, nudge, wink, wink...

[Booberdawg]

55. 1974 Gremlin

[CanuckAmok]

57. My Mom had a '74 Gremlin X with......

...the optional, limited Levi's Denim interior package.

[Booberdawg]

65. Mine too!!

I had the Levi's Denim interior. Mine was a GLC.

Those Gas caps were a bitch though. People liked to "collect" them. Had mine stolen a couple times and had to keep replacing it

[ornotna]

58. 1954 Mercury Monterey

312 V8, 3 speed with OD
bought it from a friend in high school for $200



edit for piss poor speeling.:P

[Slippery_Hammer]

59. 1962 Rambler American

Rust bucket. Purchased form my grandmother for $100. I had it for all of five months (two of them it was in the school auto shop getting the brakes fixed) before it blew up on the freeway.

[Proletarian]

60. 1990 Buick Regal Custom

greatest car I have even owned. But maybe I have romanticized it.

[LSdemocrat]

62. 1997 Honda Accord SE

It also happens to be my current car and formerly my mother's car.

[LosinIt]

63. 1976 Chevy Monza Cabriolet, Brand Spankin' New

Little light blue baby with a white interior and vinyl partial roof on the back and little square windows in the back. It was so cute.

All six of us Chem Tech majors got jobs at Kodak in April of our Senior year. We all got cars and quit doing any work, what was Kodak going to do, fire us if we didn't get that Physics lab done? We were wealthy after all, making $10,800 in 1976. That was good money for a 20 year old then.

[SoCalDem]

64. Memory Lane.. "If you could Buy Back your first car, would you??"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=1713&forum=DCForumID69&archive=yes

[nomaco-10]

66. 1969 Dodge Challenger 440/ 4 barrell black on/black

I will always remember my Mother lamenting to my Dad "Jack she's gonna get killed in that car". I hate to admit this, but I put silver shag carpet in it. Those were good days and fun times. Ah, youth, so wasted on the young.

[nomaco-10]

69. Did anybody else have an eight track

stereo deck mounted under the dash that took up all the leg room and a big box of Led Zeppelin tapes in the back seat?

[dmr]

67. 1973 Dodge Dart Sport

Kick ass 8-cylinder - can't believe, that me, now an old lady, use to drive well over 100 miles per hour when visiting up in northern Michigan. Those were the days of 75mph speed limits. It had a massive trunk I wish I had today! It was cherry red with white stripe. I bought it for $1995.00. Two years later I sold it so I could buy a friend's 1970 Dodge Challenger - totally loaded and totally amazing, my favorite car ever.

Here's the Sport:

Edit - spelling

[sandnsea]

68. 1969 GTO convertible

But I got it in 1975 and it didn't run and took forever to fix and by then I had a different car anyway.