Your first car

[JimAde]

Was there an outbreak of color blindness in the 1970s?

Warrior Poet

Yes, there was. But they called it "fashion".

 

[drothgery]

Silver 1999 Pontiac Grand Am. Leased new, within weeks of getting my driver's license. Of course, I was 23 at the time

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Mine was a 1977 Toyota Celica hatchback in beautiful metallic flake brown. Like Warrior Poet's, my car ran on regular gasoline. It was an automatic transmission, and had louvers on the back hatch window.

That was my first car, too, though mine was red, and didnt have the louvers. Mine was also unleaded, and a five speed. Black leather interior. It was my dad's car until I graduated from high school, then he gave it to me. I had it until 1991 or so, around 160,000 miles or so. Nice handling, and fairly quick for the time and the fact it had a 4 cylinder engine...

 

[zepherus]

Since no has has mentioned one, I'll post my first car.

1972 Dodge Challenger...Had a 318 Mopar ( IMSMC ), bucket seats, and rust everywhere. But, boy could that car MOVE!

And, it was one tough car...One night in early '86, I rolled it down a hill, into a river. Went back the next morning with a tow truck, pulled it out, let the water drain out ( just like in the movie Risky Business ), and drove it home. Jacked out a few dents, replaced a door, and drove it for a couple more years.

The kid I sold it to had it rear-ended while it was parked, and wedged it under a truck. It took two tow trucks to pull them apart, and in the end, the truck had $3,000+ damage to the back end, the the Challenger had a little scratch in the paint!

When I had it, it was nicknamed "The Green Weenie"...after the the last incident, it became known as "The Green Missle"...the car that cannot be destroyed!

Like others...boy I wish I had that car now!

 

[Greylock]

Brown '74 Toyota Corolla, back when that was a POS brand. Around 1980, long before it became anything to be proud of. Took me only two weeks to crash it. Car number 2 was a blue '75 Chevette. It too was a POS, but at least it was built of steel, unlike later Chevettes. I needed that metal cage. I was a dangerous driver.

 

[derelictjay]

The first car I had was in high school my parents bought it for me a '89 Cheverolet Corsica, purchased in December of '95. Man I ran that thing into the ground, in the two years I owned it. But being a pizza delivery guy can do that to car (expecially the way I drive).

The first car I bought (at least got a loan to help me) and own (part owner actually) was a year ago a '04 Ford Mustang, I seem to already have problems with it though and need to take it to the service department at the dealership, the problem started at the end of last year, man I'm lazy.

 

[Qlippoth]

My first was an old 1980 VW Rabbit. Not much in the way of pickup, but a perfect little box for me at the time. The "radio" was an ancient Radio Shack "Realistic" black brick of a tape deck that had 3 settings: Play, Fast Forward (aka Play Without Sound), and Eat. The Rabbit still had the long-lost triangular flywindows (great for my chainsmoking younger days, not so great when the adhesive holding the panes died, resulting in one of them shattering on Route 6 on Cape Cod 1 day). I only had the thing for 4 years before it utterly died, but that car held some great memories for me.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Dark blue 1976 VW Scirocco (codenamed: Rocco), for which I paid $800 in 1995. It was owned by an auto mechanic's son who kept it in fairly decent condition for a car that old. I got in a fenderbender after driving it for about a month, losing the rubber fender lining on the back. Because it was an old foreign part, the payout from insurance almost paid for the car. So of course, I ran that sucker right into the ground. It lasted about 3 or 4 years before I finally had to put more money into fixing it for a smog check than the thing was worth to me. I sold it to the smog mechanic, and the great circle of life continued. For all I know Rocco's still out there, waiting for a distracted teenage girl to rear-end him and make his driver a mint.

 

[Mystery Man]

I finally had to put more money into fixing it for a smog check than the thing was worth to me. I sold it to the smog mechanic, and the great circle of life continued.

LoL! That's awesome.

 

[KidCthulhu]

I still own and drive my first car. A 1979 VW Beetle convertable, red with a white top. His name is Helmut. My father bought it in '79, and taught me to drive a stick shift in it when I was 14, starting on our sloping driveway. Bless the man, because once you've driven a bug, you can drive anything!

I drove Helmut it all through high school, and my sisters all drove it after me. When PCat went to grad school in the suburbs, my mom gave us the car so he'd have some way to get to the market and to my apartment 20 miles away!

He had an engine rebuild about 5 years ago, and he runs like a dream. We get lots of admiring looks driving him around, and I'll drive him until he rusts to pieces and dies. I love that car.