What was your first car?

A 1966 Dodge Charger (the first year they were built) - daffodil yellow that my parents gave me when I graduated high school. I don't have it now - sold it to a collector who has since restored the car (He worked in the factory the car was built in.)

ive only had my license for two months now and i got a daewoo hatchback 2001 model. although back when i was 18 and was going for my german license i bought a ford fiesta 82 model for $100 euros! lasted not even 6 months because like another poster the bottom of the car was so rusted you could poke it through with a screw driver! so off it went to the dump yard!

1991 silver/ grey Ford Escort. I definitely got my money's worth out of that car...it never had any mechanical problems until the tranny went out on it. It lasted 7 years, and until 2006!

A blue 1983 VW bug called "Eros" ...

'86 VW Vanagon. Not the camper, just the 7-seat version. I still drive it nearly every day, has over 200,000 miles so far. Didn't know /anything/ about auto maintenance when I got it, but that changed quickly.

1966 Plymouth, don't know the model. It was exactly the same as a '66 Dodge that my parents had. Little slant-6 engine that never gave me any problems. It lasted until 1978 when I ran over a big rock in the middle of the road and tore out the bottom of the car.

A 1988 silver Holden Astra hatchback.

Mine was a royal blue 1992 Pontiac Sunbird. It got totalled 5 days after I got it. (By no fault of mine)

1969 Plymouth Fury III. It had been an unmarked car for a few months till the cops wrecked it, the dealership sold it (repaired) to my Mom, who was then known for a while as The Little Old Lady from Pasadena, lol. She bought a new car in 77 and passed the old one down to me. Still had all the cop extras under the hood, and suspension and all. Was that a car for a wild 20 year old? Probably not, but I sure had fun in it. The radar clocked it at 140 mph once.

Mine was an 80's something Jeep Grand Cherokee. It was a piece of junk but I loved it! That car taught me a lot about driving a manual transmition like how to pop the cluthc, and slip shifting! I miss it... and can't stand the new Jeep bodies.

Originally Posted by threecatowner

A bright orange 1974 Chevy Vega - bought in 1978 for $900.00. And yes, my entire family tried to talk me out of buying it. It lasted one year.

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My ex-husband (boyfriend at the time) had this same car!!! God, it was ugly! He tried to teach it how to fly by falling asleep at the wheel, and driving off the side of an overpass. It landed upside down in a tree. Sort of a fitting end.

My first car wasn't really much better. It was a '74 Ford Pinto hatchback....bright turquoise blue, with a red driver's door. Being a Michigan car, and the salt on the roads in the winter....the body had such rust-cancer that it became quite a hazard to drive. You could see the road through the floorboards. I think it's probably still rusting away in a farmer's field, where it was finally put to rest in the mid '80's.

I'm on my first car now, Thumper, a white 2001 2 door Sunfire. Runs great still, but it starting to rust a bit .

It's name is Thumper because I had a brake problem for the first year or two of having it. It stopped fine, but it sounded/felt like the back end was going to fall out if I put the brakes on too quickly. I learned to keep a good distance between myself and the other car. After many trips to auto service places and no one fixing the problem for more than a few months ("the brakes are new," they'd say..."there's nothing wrong with them), I basically ended up with a complete brake job that did the fix.

Other than that, it hasn't caused me much problems at all. A small wiring problem (again, that took a while to figure out...nothing "normal" ever goes wrong with my car), and a new battery, and that's about all I've had to put into it in 5 years. I'm pretty sure it will fall apart before it actually stops running. I'm hoping it lasts me until I have my student loan paid off.

A 1992 Buick Skylark. It looked just like the lower one in this picture:

The first car that was actually just mine was a 1991 Toyota Tercel. I loved that car. I sold it and bought a 2000 Ford escort ZX2. The lady I sold it too. Totaled it a week after she bought it.

Originally Posted by clpeters23

Mine was a dark blue 1968 Pontiac Tempest.

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A 1961 Renault 4CV.

A Datsun B210 hatchback. I got it after freshman year at Cornell. I had saved up money for it so I paid for it myself. I really loved that car. I sold it for more than half of what I paid for it when I graduated from grad school. OK, there was inflation but still, that car was in great shape. I bought another Datsun (may have been Nissan by then) to replace it. Didn't like that one at all.

Originally Posted by carolinalima

A blue 1983 VW bug called "Eros"

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Mine is called Tweety because is yellow...

Originally Posted by katiemae1277

that is awesome, Rigel! I want to see a pic!

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Awww Katie, you´ll going to dissapoint... is very rust now... for a time I lend it to my brother and he don´t care it...
Now I´ll going to re-built it but it took me a long time...
trying to find the bes shoot of him...

My first car was a 1941 Chevy that my mom and I bought together in 1966 for $65. We moved from Colorado to Arkansas in it. While I was out of town, working on a ranch, my mother got it stuck in a mud puddle, burned out the clutch, and traded it for a wringer washer.

The first car that Dottie and I had together was a 1966 Chevy window van. We called it Pheidipides, who was the Greek messenger who ran the first marathon, delivering the message, "Rejoice! We conquer!" and then died. That was our van. So underpowered, it could barely pull its own shadow down the highway.

A beige 1963 Buick Skylark with a V-8 engine dubbed The Party Wagon by my friends. The Party Wagon II was a maroon 1967 Ford Mustang with a white leather interior and roof. I still miss that car!

I bought my first car when I got home from Army basic training. I paid $400 for it.

1971 Chevy Vega 4-cyl, tan

I put that little car through hell for 1 year! Went offroading once, hit a small boulder that popped a hole in the oil pan but hit in a way that it closed up...going down the freeway, hit brakes a little hard and did a 180...same day, getting onto same freeway in the other direction, spun out and hopped the curb, had to push it off.

Plus, I got 6 people inside it once, not including me!

It was starting to go downhill in repairs (i wonder why?) and offloaded it for like $200.