What was your first car and in what year?

[JLLJ]

1977 Olds Cutlass Supreme, bought it from my aunt in 1985 for $1500

 

[phasty20]

A 1994 Impala SS. Got it in 2001 and still have it today. The current setup is a 388 stroker and a 200 HP Nitrous Outlet kit.

 

[T_Hase89]

Well, in 2006 bought a 1984 Mustang SVO. Just sold it this past winter. Damn...

 

[Tscott]

These are great. Keep 'em coming.

 

[taylormade73]

In 1990 I was 17 and mowed enough lawns to match my mom's $375 to buy a 79 International Scout II auto with the 304 and hard top. I then bought a 76 Scout II manual with a bored out 345, 6" arced leafs, and 36" gumbo monter mudders and soft top...it was a beast! After researching Scout prices recently, sure wish I would've kept them.

 

[Deuxdiesel]

1970 Toyota FJ 40 with a Chebby 307 and 3 speed non-synchro trannny. Got it in 1981. Drove it through high school and Freshman year in college. String of shitboxes after that (but always with manual transmissions) until 1989 and splurged for a Honda CRX Si. Taught my future wife to be (and still my bride) how to drive a real transmission in that car. She still won't drive a slush-box to this day.

 

[Jason06]

In 1989 I got a 1973 Gran Torino Sport fastback. It was black on black with a 351 Cleveland/C6 tranny. It had buckets and a floor shifter with factory magnum 500 wheels. The car would destroy the right rear at will, it had a 3:25 9” open rear. I soon after got the 5.0 Mustang bug and got rid of the Torino for a black 5.0 LX notchback. I wish I had the Torino right now.

 

[Jason06]

I'll start. It was 1977 and it was a 1969 Firebird Formula. Fond memories.

In high school, it was all about fast cars and girls. Nothing else mattered.

The first gen firebirds were awesome cars!

 

[Squatch]

Gad. 1965, got gifted a 63 Rambler Ambassador four door. V8, four barrel carb, power locks and windows, AC, none of which got it past being a damned Rambler. I did take some grief for it at Austin High School.

I've owned at least a dozen or more Ramblers, and belonged to two Rambler car clubs for as many years. Still have a '66 Classic convertible project, a '66 Marlin project, and a '71 V8 Gremlin project. Not everyone wants to drive a Generic Motors vehicle.

 

[mots]

In 1986, I was driving my Dad's 1984 Cavalier Type 10. It was 2.0L manual with 88 HP. Took my driving test with this one.

For prom '87, I drove my Mom's '84 Pontiac Parisienne. Living large, V6, plush interior! We even made out in the spacious back seat!

I also tooled around in an 1981 Isuzu Pup 4x4 that Dad had as a second car. It was a manual trans with a long bed. Ours was blue with white wheels, but this looks very close.

In 1988, I bought the first car of my own for $470. It was a 1984 gray Plymouth Horizon. Off to college!

 

[NDSpeed]

I was 14 and a half when I bought my 1977 El Camino SS. Spent the next year fixing the coolant leak and other tidbits waiting to get my license. Drove that car all over NC.

It was a real love hate thing since I had a faulty starter and my dad wouldn’t let me put a new starter in it. He kept insisting rebuilds were just as good.
Car would leave me stranded anytime the motor got warm.

It was in my mother’s name. So when I went off to tour the world in the Air Force she gave it away to my sister’s boyfriend who gave it to his dad who gave it away to someone else.

it is why my wife is aware if we every win the lottery I’m going to Australia and importing a Holden Ute

this is not my car but looked just like but with cherry red interior.

 

[mushdogs]

1984 when I was 17. ‘74 Volkswagen Super Beetle. Got to drive it home the night I bought it, then left for boot camp the next morning. Took a couple months before I really got to drive it. LOL

 

[B252]

1979 Dodge D-50 2.6 4 banger. That truck could peg the speedo and still go another 2 grand on the tac!

 

[Cheesy]

I got a 1965 Mercury Maruder Park Lane in 1972. Bought from my neighbor for $25 after their kid lunched the tranny doing reversers. Swapped out the tranny for a good one and drove it for a year. 390ci/300hp, just what every 16 year old needs. Every now and then, my Dad would borrow it and light the tires and I‘d think, “If I did that to his car...” That was replaced by a 67 AMC Ambassador DPL 2 door ht. I actually liked it, even if Dad worked at American Motors.

 

[Neal]

Bought a '61 Impala from a friend of my Dad's in 1974. Paid $100 for it, about all I could afford, but it was reliable transportation for my last two years of high school. 4 cylinders, 3 on the tree manual transmission, it was a bit of a barge. Got T-boned at an intersection about 2 months before I went into the Navy, spun me around 3 or 4 times. I was holding onto the steering wheel so hard I bent it (no seat belts and a slick vinyl bench seat), but I walked away from the wreckage while they collected the other guy's body parts with a bucket.

 

[ldeer77]

1983 Toyota Celica GT, silver and black, automatic, mint condition. Year was 1997.

Got into a really bad accident with it about 3 years later. Not my fault, but wow, sturdy little bugger bc I walked away with only a minor gash in my head. Totaled though.

 

[S.McArthur]

1989 Ford Ranger 2.3l 4cyl 5 speed manual 4x4 w/locking hubs. Bought it in 2000 for $2k. Worked throwing hay bails and pumping gas for a couple years before I got my license and bought it myself. Rumor has it that, that truck Is still cruising the streets in Connecticut. I actually kind of miss that truck as slow as it was.

 

[Daryl]

1970 Toyota Corona in 1977. Traded for a Yamaha DT250.

 

[A. Paul]

1987 Toyota MR2. Hard to beat T-tops and pop up headlights.

 

[Kiwi TJ]

First car was a 1977 Vauxhall Magnum 1800cc in (mine was blue and didn't look as good as the sample pic below )
I blew up the engine I dropped in a 2300cc Bedford CF Van motor of the same year...perfect sleep car.
I bought it in 1987.