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Your first car and how much did you pay?

I Love Clams Casino : 4/1/2009 9:06 am
and please post a pic...

go to Google, click "Images" type in year and make of car, click search, right click on photo, get picture properties post pic using BBI code, see below.

I'll start.

1973 Buick Century. $500. This pic has a black vinyl top, mine was white but the color is the same - I loved this car

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1966 Mustang...  
Chris in Philly : 4/1/2009 10:26 am : link
got it for about $300. It, uh, didn't look quite as nice as this one...

1978 Mustang Cobra  
tyleraimee : 4/1/2009 10:28 am : link
I added the BOSS 302 motor. It looked just like this including the orange inside of the honeycomb rims...



1973 Ford LTD cost $0, Massive back seat: Priceless  
NNJ Tom : 4/1/2009 10:29 am : link
'74 Cutlass Supreme  
Phil from WNY : 4/1/2009 10:32 am : link
with a Rocket 350 and a four barrel carb. It was dark green with a white vinyl landau roof. Sharp car until I cracked the engine block. Originally cost me $1,600 that I earned pumping gas.
72 dodge dart  
Larry from WV : 4/1/2009 10:32 am : link
paid 400 for it. Later used it as a parts car to fix a 72 dart my dad and I found in a chicken coup. So in 1996 I was cruising around college in a 72 swinger with 36 thousand miles on it. Drove it till it had over 80 thousand miles on it than I totaled it.
sorry "then" I toatled it  
Larry from WV : 4/1/2009 10:33 am : link
typed too fast.
1956 Chevy Belair 4-door two tone  
Big Blue '56 : 4/1/2009 10:35 am : link
Gray and White...Dad gave it to me in 1962
Phil ...  
Beez : 4/1/2009 10:38 am : link
My dad had a Delta 88 with the Rocket 350. I loved how, when you put that thjing to the floor, there was a second, maybe two delay, then you'd get thrown back, as if the engine was inhaling to take off. Fun car. Er, boat.
Beez  
Phil from WNY : 4/1/2009 10:40 am : link
The Cutlass was a smaller car, so mine didn't need two seconds to give you whiplash. I loved that car.
On that note ...  
Beez : 4/1/2009 10:44 am : link
a friend of mine in high school had an older brother in law. He stopped over to show off the b.i.l's burgundy '73 Cougar XR-7. He took me for a ride up on Route 7 in Conklin ... came to stop and told me, when he hit the gas, try to grab the dollar bill he taped to the dash. Couldn't do it for quite a while.


Lotsa torque.
1941 Chevrolet. Some man owed our grocer $62.50  
carpoon : 4/1/2009 10:46 am : link
and turned over the car to the grocer for payment of the debt. I bought the car from the grocer for the same amount. That was in 1950. It had an innovative thing called "vacuum shift" which never really caught on.:))
Nobody had my first car...  
Mike in Rhinebeck : 4/1/2009 10:59 am : link
A 1966 Peugeot 404 for $750....in 1975.
1984  
RingTheBells : 4/1/2009 11:08 am : link
Pontiac Firebird, White w/ a big Gold "Firebird" on the hood & T-tops, paid $5500 for it in '87. Cop magnet, got 8 points in 3 separate incidents in one day, dumb kid. Very similar to the pic attached.
Link - ( New Window )
Audi 4000 but in grey  
AgentZero : 4/1/2009 11:12 am : link
my grandmother gave it to me

1961 Studebaker Lark 4-door sedan  
kyle rote : 4/1/2009 11:14 am : link
aka, "The Blue Lunch". My Dad gave it to me for $0 after I graduated from college. Pounded up and down the Garden State Parkway/New York State Thruway between Bloomfield, NJ and Schenectady, NY nearly every weekend in the summer of 1967. Blew one tire and one water pump in the process. Got married in September of 1967. New father-in-law did not want his daughter driving around in "The Lunch" so he bought us a new Mustang as a wedding present. "The Lunch" was a better car!
Mine was a 1965 Ford Mustang  
VAJerr : 4/1/2009 11:17 am : link
Black on Black convertible with a 289 V8 and a 4 Speed Hurst shifter. Being young and stupid I recked it. Wish I had it now.
Hand me down '82 VW Jetta from my sister  
bigbluefan92 : 4/1/2009 11:25 am : link
Like this one, but more beat up. God, I loved that car. I guess you always love your first piece of crap car.

'69 International Scout, 4cyl, 4wd  
Bama Bish : 4/1/2009 11:57 am : link
$200. It was awesome during the few months that it ran.
1984 Mustang SVO  
RH : 4/1/2009 12:48 pm : link
Bought in `88 for $7600 with 53k miles. originally thought it was kind of ugly, but it was special. SVO = Special Vehicle Operations was Ford's then version of what is called SVT now. This car was ahead of its time. 16-inch wheels, 2.3L turbo-charged engine, koni-shocks, recaro racing seats, hust shifter, etc. I used to smoke doucebags in their IROCs and trans ams who thought they were cool.

hust  
RH : 4/1/2009 12:49 pm : link
Hurst

And no, I didn't literraly "smoke douchebags".
A 1948 Hudson Hornet I bought it in 1960 for $50.  
jintsfan : 4/1/2009 12:55 pm : link
The car had suicide doors, you had to step down to get in and it had jump seats. It was the most rugged car ever built.
My brother in law had a '72 Malibu...  
C in Chapel Hill : 4/1/2009 1:21 pm : link
That he made into a Chevelle SS. Got it from his grandparents for about $400 and replaced the original 329 with a 396. This was my first exposure to a real muscle car at the age of 12 he would pick up my sister and smoke the tires. I loved that car. It was Yellow with black SS stripes and similar this one.


$600 for a 1984 Ford LTD (pictured is 91) ex-police car  
jcn56 : 4/1/2009 1:26 pm : link
with a $50 Earl Scheib paint job that *barely* concealed the fact that it was an ex-cop car. Fucker was honest though, he'd paint any car for $49.95.

Still had the siren attached (not the lights), so if I ever wanted to cause trouble I could always just give people a double siren to move along.

351W engine - if I had it today, I'd need my own refinery to drive around.

My first car was a 1984 Plymouth Tourismo...  
C in Chapel Hill : 4/1/2009 1:27 pm : link
My dad handed it down to me. It was pretty good and it ran fine and fairly fast, like it's Shelby Charger sibling. It has a 2.2 engine that put out about 150 hp when tuned. It could move. The first real muscle car I owned was a 1970 Duster that was converted from a slant 6 to a 318 w/ 340 heads. That car was fun and very fast. I bought it for about $800 off of a cop on Long Island. It was similar to this one except that the hood was white and it didn't have the side striping. I bought it in 1987 and ended up having to sell it 1989 after the oil seals started going due to the lack of lead additives in the gas I was buying.

1968 Buick LeSabre  
58Burst : 4/1/2009 2:18 pm : link
like this one, but not in as good a shape. $350.00. Sold it a couple years later for what I paid. Nice car.

1963 Plymouth Valiant  
prh : 4/1/2009 3:20 pm : link
3 speed on the column. Which the linkage would always get entangled. I ran it for 6 months without a water pump and never overheated. Paid $300.00 for sold it to a neighbor for $150.00 18 months later. The old Slant6 great engine that car could pull stumps out.
1990 Cutlass Ciera, free of charge, thanks Grandma!  
Nitro : 4/1/2009 3:26 pm : link
had a jeep cj-5 (6 cyl., 3-speed manual).  
CTsteve : 4/1/2009 3:39 pm : link
noisy, top heavy, lousy brakes. the heat on the floor boards was extreme. it had a flimsy metal cab that i could unbolt and lift off if only i had the inclination. i sometimes unhinged the doors.

later migrated to a two-door, 1965 pontiac bonneville. 389 engine, auto, white with red interior. sweet. it was fast as all get out. ran great in a straight line. couldn't stop or corner worth a damn. sucked gas like nobody's business.

loved both of those cars.
1995 Jetta GL, red. Cost a buck.  
bois : 4/1/2009 3:42 pm : link
My uncle wanted to get rid of it anyway, but insisted that I pay him something. Car was fun, but was an absolute piece of shit. Used to stall out on the highway, while I was doing 70+. Good times.

First:  
rnargi : 4/1/2009 3:51 pm : link
1973 Datsun 610 - $200 bucks to my Dad



Second: 1968 Plymouth Station Wagon (aka, "The Battle Wagon") Free from Mrs. Stevenson from 3rd Street in Danbury, CT.



My first REAL pride and joy car: $1,000.00 from a buddy in CA



1951 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 convertible 1n1958. Mine was light blue  
YankeeeSgt : 4/1/2009 6:19 pm : link
$5000 for a 1996 pristine Honda Accord back in 2004  
Kyle : 4/1/2009 6:20 pm : link
...bought it off of my parents for that price (book value!)
Oh yeah,,it was nosed an decked, had a louverd hood. Lowerd rear  
YankeeeSgt : 4/1/2009 6:22 pm : link
and Bonneville spun aluminum wwheel discs and ranfaster than a lot of new cars.
1979 Monte Carlo - this is the actual car  
27Hampton : 4/1/2009 6:42 pm : link
Paid $5,500 back in the day.

1965 Pontiac Tempest  
ChathamMark : 4/1/2009 6:53 pm : link
it was a hand-me-down. 215 6 cylinder. You could time that bad boy with a calendar. 2 speed automatic. Nice thing was you could remove the ignition key while it was running to go back in the house to get something you forgot!
1967 Ford Falcon  
Steve in South Jersey : 4/1/2009 7:20 pm : link
in the summer of 1975 before my Senior Year in High School. Paid somewhere in the $350-$400 range. Ugly, but I bought it with my own money and it paid for a lot of my college costs through a couple of years of summer and after school jobs I would not have had without a car.


190 Chevy Citation  
Wuphat : 4/1/2009 7:32 pm : link
in 1992
$600 - ( New Window )
1979 BMW 320i  
I wanna be Torbor, sucka : 4/1/2009 7:56 pm : link
Got it from my friend's father for free, since it didn't run and at the time I asked him for it his dogs were using the hood as a bed.

Put a grand into it and it treated me well for 3 years.

It looked like this one, only more of a blueish-gray and tons of scratches from the dogs.

800  
mitch300 : 4/1/2009 8:29 pm : link
Bucks. I bought it off of George Martins niece in 1982.
1971 GTO  
gmen4ever : 4/1/2009 9:19 pm : link
Mine was green, awesome car. $700 and didn't even make it home from the used car lot. We completely restored it...Used to race a lot of the Chevelles seen above.

1985 Prelude  
Greg from LI : 4/1/2009 9:39 pm : link
bought it for $2500 cash in the summer of 1994. This one is pretty much identical to mine, except mine had a sunroof. I absolutely loved that car and if I came across a nicely maintained, low miles one today I'd buy it in a heartbear. Drove mine for almost seven years and 80K miles until it finally was about dead - timing belt went and pretty much wrecked the engine, brakes needed overhauling, paint was badly faded, the truck had a leak, and it was starting to get some serious rust spots. Sold it to a wholesaler for $150 and it broke my heart. I still miss it.

1992 Acura Integra GS  
JoeyBigBlue : 4/1/2009 11:02 pm : link
Almost 10 years ago. Real nice fun car, until I fell into peer pressure and starting modding it. Taking out the stock spring and putting in cheap springs. Almost a fart can muffler. Looking back I feel real stupid for basterdizing that car. Oh well to be 17-18 again.
Here's a picture  
JoeyBigBlue : 4/1/2009 11:03 pm : link
2003 BMW 330xi fully loaded  
RobNYG : 4/1/2009 11:12 pm : link
cost around $18,000
1980 Chevy Monza Hatchback  
Thigh66 : 4/1/2009 11:30 pm : link
Mine was Baby Blue - bought it in 1985 for $1500 that I made roofing during the summer. Nickname = "The Blue Turtle"...

That pile of bolts lasted me right through College & lots of abuse!

White 1968 Rambler American  
OntheRoad : 4/1/2009 11:48 pm : link
27,000 miles. Paid $300 in 1974.

1988 1/2 Ford Escort GT  
Dan in the Springs : 4/2/2009 3:01 am : link
Like below but without the stripes. Bought at car auction in Newark for $2800? (I think) in 1991. Was in relatively good shape and ended up being a real bargain.


forgot to post the pickture of my  
Bama Bish : 4/3/2009 3:45 pm : link
'69 Scout.

My favorite wheels ever  
Bama Bish : 4/3/2009 4:17 pm : link
21 years old and got my brand new $4000 1983 Honda CB1000 Custom. Black, grey, chrome and brushed aluminum. 10 speed, air ride, shaft driven, in line air cooled with stock oil cooler, and 4 cropped pipes so that the potato sound was right in your ear. A badass cruising bike withoutout all the bags and crap. Didn't need a car.





That's a 1000 on the right (with some crap put on it, it was beautiful as it came) with the 900 version on the left. The 1000 put the 900 to shame.



pickture?  
Bama Bish : 4/3/2009 4:18 pm : link
picture
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