Your first car

[Evil Chris]

I'm curious to know...
What was the first car that you ever bought? Any funny stories about it?
Please post pictures if you have them...

Mine was a 1972 Plymouth Fury III. A huge car with 2 doors and one big sofa in the front and another in the back. AM radio only, but it did have AC. :D

I bought it in 1985, at a cost of $500 Canadian!

I don't have any pictures of it, but here's something close to what it looked like.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Plyfury/FuryIII73.htm

<img src="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Plyfury/73FuryIII.jpg">

I remember making a 7 hour drive with it.... with NO OIL. As it was my first car, I didn't think to check things like oil levels before going on a long journey. It survived and kept going and going! :D

It had a 318 engine in it (8 cylinder) and a top speed of around 120 mph.

[luke]

haha I can picture you driving that thing.

I don't have any pictures of my first car but it was a 1991 Fort Escort GT! Don't forget the GT, lol. It was the red lightning. I bought it for $1000 and after I was done with it, it wasn't worth squat. I used it as a trade in when I bought my new car. You should have seen the look on their faces when I came to drop it off. It had one of those small spare tires on the front. The brakes were squeeling their ass off. When I turned into their lot, the wheel caught against the frame ( because of a wreck I was in) and made this loud thunking sound. The engition was out so you had to start it with a screw driver. I told them they could keep the screw driver, that one was on me! And it was almost out of gas. hahaha

I actually wasn't planning on using it as a trade in, didn't think they would even take it, but they asked and didn't give me a chance to tell them how messed up it was. All they said was, "Does it run?" That's it....SUCKERS!

[XxXotic]

my 1st car was a 1988 dodge raider. It's a mitsubishi montero imported by dodge, thats the only difference between the raider and montero.

Was a jeep and pretty cool. No pics of it though

[luke]

Did it look like this?

http://www.motorcities.com/contents/99L1C245101746.html

Pretty cool looking. I always wanted a Jeep.

[XxXotic]

Originally posted by luke
Did it look like this?

http://www.motorcities.com/contents/99L1C245101746.html

Pretty cool looking. I always wanted a Jeep.

yeah without the roofrack and I had 16" momo wheels on it too. Was Gold/Champagne colored as well.

I miss that jeep, it was aptly named the bluntmobile :D

[luke]

Nice. Sounds pretty BLING BLING! haha

[Funbrunette]

LMAO!!!! My first car was a 1987 blue Firefly...Not need to post a picture of that! :rolleyes:

[XxXotic]

Originally posted by luke
Nice. Sounds pretty BLING BLING! haha

not really, it looked nice but wasn't rollin on 24" chromes. The momo's were nickel plated, got them for 800 (all 4) from a friend. At the time I was working as a car stereo installer/tint person so I got a 6k system for a little over 3k installed obviously for free by myself and some friends.

Once it was all hooked up I started having probs with it left and right, trannie blew out, 2 clutches in 6 months (yes I KNOW how to drive a stick lol) radiator cracked, countless batteries and alternators. Starter lol, the 3rd time my clutch blew I just said screw it, traded it in for a 95 eagle talon, brand spankin new. 2 weeks after I bought it I hit a deer at 65 mph and totalled the car.

Basically why I dont have a car now. I've had 5 and had HORRID luck with all of them. I almost refuse to buy a car until I can afford to buy a benz or a porsche. I live close enuff to everything not to need a car anyway. Just bought me some phatty 2003 Nike Turbo's :bonk:

[Evil Chris]

Originally posted by XxXotic
Just bought me some phatty 2003 Nike Turbo's :bonk:

Well, there's no expensive starter to replace in those! :D

[luke]

True, and you don't have to worry about the clutch going out on those! hahaha

[gunner]

it was a 1984 Cadillac BROUGHAM... big ass SLED. Small block 350, but the thing weighed 20 tons so it was still slow. Enough room in the trunk for two bodies, and ya know what, I'm still driving a Cadillac today. Best American car on the market, made almost entirely right here in the US, but now it's a triple black Eldorado ETC :D

<img src="http://www.eleven-20.com/images/caddy1.jpg" border=0>

[luke]

That's pretty nice for a first car. Nowhere near as crappy as mine was!

Was that your first boat too? hehe

[TondaB]

My first car was a truck...being orginally from Oklahoma!!

Anyways it was a 1987 Red GMC S-15 with running boards with flashy red lights on them:) I remember going to a sonic where I pulled in all crooked. When I pulled out I ran into the order sign and ended up scratching the bed. I went home and got out the hooker red fingernail polish to fix the scratches!!! HE HE HE My mom and dad never found out.

[Evil Chris]

Sweet ride Gunner! :cool:

Tonda.... did your truck have a gun rack? LOL :evil:

[TondaB]

LOL! No but I did have a mini scotty trailer that I dragged behind it:)

[XxXotic]

Originally posted by Evil Chris


Well, there's no expensive starter to replace in those! :D

you ain't lyin! :D

[PM5K]

I'll say this quickly, then run and hide in embarresment: 86' Chevette


Late


*hides under rock

[Evil Chris]

Chevette? LOL
Well that's not half bad bro... I fully expect to see someone post a picture of a Fiero! :D

Come to think of it though... Fiero's were kinda cool when they first came out. :bonk:

Anyone know someone who had a Gremlin or an AMC Pacer?

[Rox]

1969 Chevy Caprice; it was 10 years old and I bought it for a whopping $150 US. It looked like this, except was brown w/black top & interior.

http://images.traderonline.com/img/10/plcnad/1357640/30185368_1.jpg


One night, my friend and I were blasted drunk, and decided that since she was fighting with her boyfriend, and mine was going into the Marines the next day, we were taking a vacation to Florida! It was only a 24-hour drive from Connecticut, after all, and we both had relatives down there. We had $37, a check for $24.50 and the balls that come with the immortality of youth (I was 18, my friend was 17... can you say, "transporting a minor across state lines?").

It was quite an adventure! When we stopped at home to grab some clothes, we inadvertantly took the underwear of everyone in the house, because we just dumped the whole drawer into a bag -- the laundry room was in the cellar, and there was a dresser into which we put all the clean stuff.

We ended up having a 2-week vacation in and around Daytona, but only after running out of gas at a convenience store some 60 miles from where my family lived. The cashier there wouldn't cash our out-of-state check for $24.50 (even after my friend begged, pleaded and tried to convince him that she had a gun in the car -- god, were we nuts or what?); but he was nice enough to give us a ride to my folks' house instead of leaving us stranded in the middle of nowhere. And while we didn't have a gun, we DID have a big butcher knife (two teenaged girls can't travel completely unarmed after all), which my friend had secreted away before we got in the guy's car, just in case he turned out to be a psychopath. The next day, we couldn't find the knife anywhere, and were laughing our asses off imagining what the poor guy must've thought about the two crazy Sicilian chicks he'd been kind enough to help.

Ah, youth...

I ended up selling that car about a year later, when I decided to move back to California. A co-worker gave me $250 for it, so not only was it a fun ride that more than paid for itself in the 2 years I owned it, but it turned a profit, too!

Now my dream ride, that's another story:

http://home.no.net/ayla/Chevrolet/images/1969%20Chevrolet%20Malibu.jpg

I swear I'll have one someday!!!!

edit: WTF, why aren't my image tags working? Everything's set to img ON...

edit2: Ok then, fuck it... IMG hates me, so you'll have to go look at the pix from the links! :badcomp:

[pornJester]

first car was a '95 ford explorer sport.. pretty sweet ride for being 16 :)

[Rox]

Originally posted by Evil Chris
Anyone know someone who had a Gremlin or an AMC Pacer?

Abovementioned partner-in-crime drove her mom's Pacer til she got her own car! :nuts:

[Evil Chris]

Rox,
That's a hell of a story... typical of an 18 and a 17 year old!
Good to hear you turned a profit on that car...

My old Fury eventually went to the junk yard and quite possibly they shipped the scrap metal to Japan. So there's probably a little Miata or Civic bombing around with some of my Plymouth in it! :D

[Horg]

I have a bus pass, sweet ! I never have to pay for gas, never have to go to the repair shop. I'm glad I don't have a car !

[baddog]

I built my first car, a 1959 Chevrolet Impala. My dad's uncle had sold it to the original owners, they were 70 at the time.

They had been in a very minor fender bender, but since there were no bumper guards it crushed the bumper into the grill, the grill into the radiator, the radiator into the fan, which naturally took out the water pump.

The original owners were going to sell it to their grandson for towing charges of $50, but I guess he figured he could get them to just give it to him for free. Instead they went back to the guy that sold it to them (my uncle) and asked him if he knew a kid that would buy it for $50.

So, after I got it home, I started searching for another 1959 Impala or Belair, running or not, as long as it had a clean front end.

Found a non-running Belair, with a perfect front end for $25. Swapped them, sold the Belair to a wrecking yard for $50.

So, I ended up with a really clean 1959 Impala, with a perfect interior, 348 V8 with 59,000 miles on it for a total investment of $65.

Sold it a year later for $150.

Guess I am showing my age with this introductory post. :eek:

[Funbrunette]

WOOHOOOO! New peeps! Welcome Baddog! :D Make yourself right at home!

[baddog]

Originally posted by Evil Chris
Anyone know someone who had a Gremlin or an AMC Pacer?

hah, my old friend that got me into American Motors vehicles, did so with his 1971 Gremlin, complete with a balanced and blue printed 390 V-8, 391 rear end with a shift command auto-trans.

I used to love driving that thing, racing against 454 vettes and beating them!

I built a 1964 (as I recall) Rambler Classic with a 343 from a 1969 Javelin. Another sleeper that I took particular joy in racing against lowriders out in the Valley on Friday nights. Paid for that car and then some with money I made racing those guys.

[baddog]

Originally posted by Funbrunette
WOOHOOOO! New peeps! Welcome Baddog! :D Make yourself right at home!

thanks for the welcome, but I would be careful what I offered, who knows where my nose may end up . . . they don't call me baddog for nothing :D

[Evil Chris]

Originally posted by Horg
I have a bus pass, sweet ! I never have to pay for gas, never have to go to the repair shop. I'm glad I don't have a car !

As we say here in Montreal.... you have a "BMW"

- bicycle
- metro
- walk

:cool: (*note... metro is what we call the subway here)

[baddog]

Originally posted by Evil Chris

(*note... metro is what we call the subway here)

Subway . . . . .mmmm, good sandwiches

[XxXotic]

Originally posted by baddog


thanks for the welcome, but I would be careful what I offered, who knows where my nose may end up . . . they don't call me baddog for nothing :D

well hello and welcome young man ;)

[Horg]

Yup, I use my bicycle to go to university and I love it ! forces me to move, did 5 hours total last week just because of school. Maybe I'm going to lose that belly someday after all.

Originally posted by Evil Chris


As we say here in Montreal.... you have a "BMW"

- bicycle
- metro
- walk

:cool: (*note... metro is what we call the subway here)

[Rox]

Originally posted by baddog


thanks for the welcome, but I would be careful what I offered, who knows where my nose may end up . . . they don't call me baddog for nothing :D

Well, I've yet to see you hump anyone's leg in public, so you're not SO bad, Baddog!

[barryf]

Hi all,

My first car was a 1993 Nissan 240SX. I bought it new 9 years ago, and I'm still driving it! I love it!

[barryf]

Originally posted by Evil Chris
<img src="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Plyfury/73FuryIII.jpg">


Chris your car looks cool but what I really want to know is how you got that little kid to be your hood ornament?!?!?!?!

Barry

[Evil Chris]

aaahhhh..... I didn't even notice that.... :D

Yeah that was a special with the 72 Fury III model... Each car came with a garden gnome on the hood....

[luke]

haha, that is pretty funny looking.

[modF]

My first car was also from 1972. It was (is) a plymouth valient, it is parked in my garage out back with 78,000 original miles on it. I'll see if I can dig up some pictures of it, it will be getting paint later on in the month if I can get it there. Runs great, doesn't stop for a shit.

btw: anyone happen to have a brake booster for a valient laying around :)

[baddog]

Originally posted by XxXotic


well hello and welcome young man ;)


I always know when someone wants something, and when I am called young, I know this is one of those times. :eek:

[baddog]

Originally posted by Rox


Well, I've yet to see you hump anyone's leg in public, so you're not SO bad, Baddog!

humping legs, and sticking my nose in compromising areas are two different things :D

Hi Rox, did lilbitch share those donuts with you?

[Evil Chris]

Originally posted by modF
My first car was also from 1972. It was (is) a plymouth valient, it is parked in my garage out back with 78,000 original miles on it. I'll see if I can dig up some pictures of it, it will be getting paint later on in the month if I can get it there. Runs great, doesn't stop for a shit.

btw: anyone happen to have a brake booster for a valient laying around :)

modF.. welcome to xnations :cool:
I'd like to see a pic of that Valiant if you can get one... I like the old muscle cars of the 60s and 70s... They were gas guzzlers for sure, but they went like hell and were easy to fix...

[XxXotic]

Originally posted by baddog



I always know when someone wants something, and when I am called young, I know this is one of those times. :eek:

no no, don't want anything (well i thik we ALL want a stack of hundred dollar bills) :) was just spreading a little sunshine is all :)

[Rox]

Originally posted by baddog


humping legs, and sticking my nose in compromising areas are two different things :D

Hi Rox, did lilbitch share those donuts with you?

She sure did! There's even still some coffee left. Thanks for picking that up for us, dude... very cool!

[Cyndalie]

My first car was a 1991 Eagle Talon. I had it for 5 years and ran it into the ground, traded it in with 97,000 miles and a brand new transmission for a new Honda Civic EX Coupe. The Honda makes driving boring compared to the umph my Talon had, god I miss that car! Punk rock stickers and all!

[modF]

Chris, I'll see what I can dig up, if worse comes to worse I'll just trek out there and take some with the digital :)

Cyndalie, I have a few of those on the valient :)

[princess]

Hell, I can beat you all. My first car was a 1972 Ford Pinto. LOL! My parents bought it for me when I turned 16. It was a gold awful gold color. I even had a name for it. BiFer. It stood for bumble fucker.. cause that was one fucked up POS!

I've come a long way over the years and owned quite a few cars. My latest is a 2002 Interpid.!

[Ounique]

My first car was a 73' mustard colored Chevy Nova with a hatchback!!! I bought it from this little old lady who only drove it to church. People laugh when I say that because they think it's some story a car salesman told me but I really did. I lived next to her. I didn't even know she had the thing until I saw it in the back of her garage. How funny is that.

[princess]

That's almost as bad as mine. wait that is worse then mine. But I think it's the mustard color that did it. What a ickky color for a nova..

Although I do like the corvettes in that bright yellow. Those just look sharp!

[Ounique]

I think it's the mustard color that did it. What a ickky color for a nova..
Yeah, it was kinda icky, but you know what? That thing was a tank. I got hit in the rear "no jokes, please" and the girl's car was all smashed in and my little baby didn't even have a scratch. I kinda miss that little car. I drove it to death. I think my dad sold it for a dollar.

[Raph]

My first car, which is also my actual car, is a Ford Focus ZX5 midnight blue :D

[cyberpimp]

Mine was a 1976 Pinto, that I bought for 1$, no shit, someone wanted to give me the car. But to avoid $200 gift tax. I paid a dollor for it and then my tax was $.02. No shit I am not kidding

[BobbyR]

Mine was a 1984 white mustang. Not the cool kind but the really ugly lift back kind.

[Tkt2Pardse]

1977 Chevy Vega!!! 16yrs old showing it off doing nuetral drops with it and shattered the gears in the rear end. yay.

[Evil Chris]

OK I figured we'd get some lemons in this thread!!!!
:rofl:

[krosh]

My first car

was a 1972 Dodge Dart Cusotm with a 318 Motor

http://www.dodgedart.org/cars/72dart5.jpg

[modF]

I think my Valient Scamp was the same as the Dart Swinger, both had 318's in them. Not too sure about what the difference was with the Customs though.

[Evil Chris]

Originally posted by modF
I think my Valient Scamp was the same as the Dart Swinger, both had 318's in them. Not too sure about what the difference was with the Customs though.

The 318 was a powerful Chrysler engine... zoom zoom glug glug... ;)

[modF]

My brother a mechanic, wants me to put a 340 in it. I think I am giogn to keep it stock though.

[erika]

My first car was a 1974 black and white bobcat, everyone called it the skunk. the white stripe was right down the center of the car, I had that car for a year before my brother in law ran her dry of oil and siezed the motor.

[-=HUNGRYMAN=-]

Kewl car Chris !!

Here was my first car. I paid $600 for it (certified) in 1986.
(Little did I know these cars with original numbers would go for OVER $30K now ... )

1974 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ455

- 455HO Engine - 455 c.i. / 200 h.p. / 330 ft-lb
- 1 of 7,146 Grand Prix SJ 455's Built.
- 3.08:1 Limited Slip rear axle
- Swivel Bucket Seats, Console
- TH-400 Transmission (slapstick dual post shifter)
- AM/FM Stereo
- A/C, PB (all disc too!), PS, Gauges, Cruise Control
- RTS - Radial Tuned Suspension
- Color: Cameo White/Maroon Top

[-=HUNGRYMAN=-]

Originally posted by BobbyR
Mine was a 1984 white mustang. Not the cool kind but the really ugly lift back kind.

Bobby

My deepest condolences Bro

Mustangs from 1976 ("pinto"Mustang II) right up until the 1986 were F U G L Y !!! :(

I had a 1987 GT 5.0 ... it was the fist 'Stang in over ten years that I would be caught in !!!

[fish]

my first car was a suzuki vitara.. i don't know if you guys ever heard of it but it's a 4x4 that's really really really small and slow.. it sucked big time, but it was still a good place to have sex when i don't have money to check into a motel...:D

[Evil Chris]

Yeah we have Suzuki Vitara's over here...
Actually the Grand Vitara V6 is a nice SUV...

[RMS]

Mine was a brand new 1984 Chevy Chevette Diesel.

A cousin of mine still drives it now... engine has 600,000 miles on it... the body parts have been replaced in whole or in part 3 times.

Still runs great though.

[princess]

Originally posted by cyberpimp
Mine was a 1976 Pinto, that I bought for 1$, no shit, someone wanted to give me the car. But to avoid $200 gift tax. I paid a dollor for it and then my tax was $.02. No shit I am not kidding

No fair.. yours was newier then mine. LOL!

I still can't believe my dad let me drive that pinto. The master cylinder was fucked up on it.. So it had no breaks. I had to stop it with the emg. break. Oh and the gas gauge didn't work on it and I was forever running outta gas.

Too funny! memories. This thread sure brought some back to life.

[Tafkap]

My first car was a 1968 Convertible Black Beetle... let me say that car is a huge girl's vacuum!!!!:D

[PlayaPlaya]

Originally posted by Tafkap
My first car was a 1968 Convertible Black Beetle... let me say that car is a huge girl's vacuum!!!!:D

my first car was a 1998 or 99 beetle, which ever year they first started producing them... thank god i had a 2 year lease on it lol... drove the thing for 6 months, gave it to a family member and got my self a 97 maxima se with a year and a half remaining on the lease =) now i have an audi which i'm looking to sell by next summer.

[loobaker]

My first Car was a Renault R5. I don´t know if you guys know renault. it´s a french mark.
it was ´n 1986 Model.

[goodgirl]

My first car was a 1986 ford escort. I was to take over payments and gave my dad $2000 down. He was selling to me because he wanted a new firebird but didn't happen to have the $2000 he needed to put down on it.

I had it for 2 weeks until he decided he didn't wanted to sell it to me. He picked me up a beat up chevy with no tires for $50 and sold it to me for $500 (which he took off what he owed me)

I had that car until I got married and my husbands truck broke down, so he took mine.

Next car I bought with money from babysitting, made a deal with the neighbor to buy his old car on payments, paid him everything I made each week for 4 weeks. Had that car for a few years. Until I had 2 kids that had alot of doc appoints and needed something better.

Well anyway, now I have a PT Cruiser and yes I'm paying for this one to. And if my husbands truck breaks down, he can pull my old car out of the barn and use that. This one is mine!

:D

[loobaker]

I love the PT-Cruiser! nice Car!

[Tafkap]

Originally posted by loobaker
My first Car was a Renault R5. I don´t know if you guys know renault. it´s a french mark.
it was ´n 1986 Model.

Hehehe, for sure i know what a Renault is... was urs the Turbo model?

[loobaker]

Originally posted by Tafkap


Hehehe, for sure i know what a Renault is... was urs the Turbo model?

Hello Tafkap: locations:Paris....
sure you know the Renault :D

no, i´t wasn´t a turbo model. it was the normal edition. no extras.

[ric knows nina]

I had a metallic maroon Iroc with t-tops and spoilers. Totally cheesy and I knew it. It was ridiculous. It definitely confused all the Long Island guidos when they heard the Smiths on my radio.::-|

[Vid Vicious]

1979 Parisien Two tone blue with no carburator ... Couldn't drive up a hill ... LOL