Your first car.

[Upnorth]

Everyone has a first car that became a part of them. A buddy of mine had a k car and the football thread about k car's got me thinking back to my formative years. Vehicles were very important to growing up.

My first was a 1980 F150 supercab extended box truck. My friends named it the battleship. We would go on "destructo" cruises and they started to bring popcorn "cause it felt like a movie". I puked on an ex girlfriend once in the back seat.
I was rearend by a semi in winter, but since I filled the box with snow it only knocked a light cover loose (the semi was going slowly). We used the same snow as a cooler going to and from parties.

What was yÓurs?

[MadtownPacker]

1969 Chevy Caprice with the original hubcaps, fender skirts and small whitewalls. Got it from a towing yard for $250. It had vacumm powered hideaway light, all electric and hella chrome. I rolled it in a grape field when a front tire popped and I spun out. Years later i found out it was some kinda special edition and only 350 had been made.

[ThunderDan]

1986(I think that was the year) Renault Alliance

[Freak Out]

1969 Ford F150 with a 240 strait six and posi-track.

[Little Whiskey]

1969 Chevy Caprice with the original hubcaps, fender skirts and small whitewalls. Got it by STEALING IT. It had vacumm powered hideaway light, all electric and hella chrome. I rolled it in a grape field when a front tire popped and I spun out. Years later i found out it was some kinda special edition and only 350 had been made.

*FIXED

[Harlan Huckleby]

my bro & I got a 1962 covair for $350 in high school. The "Unsafe at any Speed" car.

[Iron Mike]

[Upnorth]

Try to tell me that half of these cars would not be amazing to fix up these days? My second car was a 72 camaro, bought for 600 sold it two days later for 750.

[Patler]

Try to tell me that half of these cars would not be amazing to fix up these days? My second car was a 72 camaro, bought for 600 sold it two days later for 750.

Boy, is that the truth! I bought a used '67 Camaro at one time. Traded it in for little of nothing when I bought a newer car. I should have just stuck it in a shed. '67 was the first full model year for the Camaro. Mine was just the base model, but still a nice car. The guy who bought it totaled it just a few months later. Fortunately, he was not hurt, but my beloved Camaro went to the scrap yard.

[Patler]

By the way, my first car was a two horse Studebaker. I used a matched pair of Belgians.

[wootah]

By the way, my first car was a two horse Studebaker. I used a matched pair of Belgians.

Wow Patler, I didn't know you were already around when slavery was still accepted. You must be a Highlander of some kind.

My first car was a '98 Toyota Yaris Those old timers sure look nice, but I would never be able to pay for the gas those babies here.

[Patler]

Those old timers sure look nice, but I would never be able to pay for the gas those babies here.

Yet, back in the day when they were our rides, and gas was less than $.30/gallon, it really wasn't a big deal. As long as you had some money in your pocket, you could buy gas. When I was young, all gas stations had attendants, you didn't pump your own gas. It was not uncommon to go in and ask for a dollar's worth of gas. For that, you would get your oil checked and windows washed!

With a car full of guys, everyone would throw in the change from their pockets, and you could buy enough gas to run around for the evening.

[Patler]

By the way, my first car was a two horse Studebaker. I used a matched pair of Belgians.

Wow Patler, I didn't know you were already around when slavery was still accepted. You must be a Highlander of some kind.

American Standards? No, probably twistable too!
Welsh Cobs? - No, just as bad as Belgians!
Georgians? - Nope, that won't work either!

How about Clydesdales?

[mraynrand]

'74 Ford LTD - silver with black top. Heiser Ford special.

[Scott Campbell]

Woody's first car:

[wootah]

American Standards? No, probably twistable too!
Welsh Cobs? - No, just as bad as Belgians!
Georgians? - Nope, that won't work either!

How about Clydesdales?

Icelandics are known as hard workers, you know. Or you could try to impress the ladies and fix youself a couple of arabs.

[MadScientist]

my bro & I got a 1962 covair for $350 in high school. The "Unsafe at any Speed" car.

In the 90's I saw one in California that had a license plate of 'UNSAFE'.

My first car was an 87 Hyundai Excel POS. Despite Upnorth's statement, this car did not become a part of me.

[Cheesehead Craig]

1970 Chevy Impala. Was my great grandmothers but she drove it like 50 miles/yr and when she couldn't drive anymore she sold it to me for $1. Thing burned oil like a MF'er. Kept a case of oil in the trunk as when I'd drive the 40 miles to Milwaukee, it would have gone through a quart of oil.

[Brando19]

My first car was a 2000 Mustang V6 Automatic, Hunter Green. I miss that car.
A few years later I fixed up a 1969 Chevelle. I put a 454 big block in it. I repainted it. It was red with black racing stripes and had black interior. I sold it last year when we had our first child.

[MJZiggy]

In the 90's I saw one in California that had a license plate of 'UNSAFE'.

My first car was an 87 Hyundai Excel POS. Despite Upnorth's statement, this car did not become a part of me.

That just means you didn't crash it right. I learned to drive on a 1987 Camaro Berlinetta5458849912_45745a84ca.jpg that exploded, but my first car was a 1964 Beetle. I got it and then the front half of the engine blew, and then the back half blew and left me stranded on the freeway, and then I sold it and the U joint went a week later.