Your first car and how much did you pay?

$400

$12,000 later got into an accident and the insurance company paid me $16,000 for it. LOL making $4k on a car in an accident.

$500.

Coupe DeVille. Triple gold with a 472 4 bbl. 700 bucks...motel on wheels.

$500 ... pretty similar to the one linked.
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$1,000 & it moved so fast I don't have any pix other than really blurry ones.

60,000k








jk.

1999 Toyota Tacoma, absolutely loved that truck. Paid 4,000 for it.

a guy bought it from me and turned it into the General Lee.. it looked AWESOME...

Of course, it was in 1939.

bought her in 1971------$325.00
she was a runner
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$75.00

...sans aluminum wheels. $400 in 83', slant 6, 0-60 in 21 seconds (actually timed it). Some nice memories. Driving to college, listening to Neil Young's "On The Beach" on 8-track.

Would get 'roadquakes' over 55mph and every time I'd hit a bump, the front end would shudder so violently, I'd have to come to a near stop to make it go away.

Had to sell it because it wouldn't defrost the windshield. Memories of driving to work at the Hackensack McDonald's with my head out the window because the windshield froze ON THE INSIDE! Sold it for $200 more than I bought it for, so I made out OK.

Bought it brand new for $2,800 the week I returned from Viet Nam. Paid cash. I still love that car which got destroved in Hurricane Andrew in Miami.

$300

$1000.

Looked just like this one, but was white.

Free. From Daddy, via both older sisters.

Closest approximation I could find on the net, since most seem to think it was some kind of Shelby Charger.

It wasn't..

Chevy Chevette. I didn't pay anything, it was handed down from one of my sisters.

I think I paid $3000 for it?

to my first baby. Paid $550 in 1982 for my '69 Bird.

Mine was royal blue, matte black hood. Similar wheels/tires to these ... mine had the grill intact, though. A 400 with a 4 bbl ... she was a screamer. Had two buddies who thought they had fast rides - one guy's parents bought him a "brand new" Celica, while another buddy had a quick little Fiat convertible. By Firebird didn't quite look as spiffy, but she would laughed at them, routinely.

Didn't have a car when I lived in Jersey City & HOboken post college. So the first car I actually bought was a 2005 Honda CR-V. I think it was around $22k.

Mint Green with a white vinyl top & strip along the side and white interior. Mostly rust on the outside and a POS wedge six under the hood. Engine quit once my Plaid was learning how to drive in a major intersection. Would not restart and he had to wave cars to go around us with a broken arm. Mortifying.

By the way, it never looked this good.

was a 1973 Plymouth Duster. Light Green with a white vinly top. And Rust, a lot of it.



This heap pictured above is a fair representation. Not the most reliable car, it died the night before my brother and I's driver's test. But, we loved it just the same.

that was just weird.

250 bucks off a friend.



Picture this with more rust and a muffler louder than a Harley..

Purchased brand new, $3,200 including tag, title & taxes. Fire engine red w/black vinyl top.
This car had a rim-blow steering wheel. You just squeezed your thumb anywhere on the inside of the steering wheel to blow the horn. It's the only car I ever saw with that option.
Pictured is a similar car. My car had white-wall tires and nicer wheel covers.

bought it in 1986 for $1500 - only 35,000 miles on it at the time. Mine looked a little nicer with some tasteful striping on it.



A year later, I did much better with a new 1987 Chevy Monte Carlo SS - $15,000.

Worked 6 months at the Hickory farms cheese store in the mall to be able to Pay the $500 bucks I needed for it in 1985. What a bucket o' shit that car was. Had nice looking big fat 5 spoke Cragars on it though... which almost made up for the fact that the heater core was shot and it would spit 347 degrees fahrenheit water/coolant onto my legs while I was driving. Yep, that sure made driving interesting.

And of course, it burned up on the Taconic Parkway enroute to Delaware for a white water rafting trip on senior cut day. Good times.

It looked sorta like this(only mine was a lovely shade of exorcist puke green):

and that utter piece of crap got me cross country when I was 25 and moved to Colorado and then California - love/hate relationship with it

someone rear-ended me in Costa Mesa once and crushed my backside, took the insurance money and bought myself a brand new Jeep Wrangler, my favorite ride ever. Karma

Free from my great aunt. Though I did have to pay for the thumbtacks used to keep the ceiling from drooping. A favorite pastime of my friends was to make dirty pictures with the thumbtacks.

Sweet sweet ride.

it seemed like all the money in the world.

Even the color is right on this one.

black 2006 acura rsx type-s

first car i drove was a 1989 jetta carat, silver. what a piece.

what is it? I don't recognize the make.

$25,550 for the acura

Never realized they were Siamese twins.

Very nice.

bought for $200 in '78. Haven't see many Ramblers since I bought it, and was one of only 2 4 doors I've seen. Ran awesome, but was missing a tooth on drive that the starter engaged on, so it ate starters about once every 18 months. Got my first BJ in that car, and used the backseat often.
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got it for about $300. It, uh, didn't look quite as nice as this one...

I added the BOSS 302 motor. It looked just like this including the orange inside of the honeycomb rims...

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.

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.

typed too fast.

Gray and White...Dad gave it to me in 1962

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.

The Cutlass was a smaller car, so mine didn't need two seconds to give you whiplash. I loved that car.

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.

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.:))

A 1966 Peugeot 404 for $750....in 1975.

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.
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my grandmother gave it to me

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!

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.

Like this one, but more beat up. God, I loved that car. I guess you always love your first piece of crap car.

$200. It was awesome during the few months that it ran.

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.

Hurst

And no, I didn't literraly "smoke douchebags".

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.

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.

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 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.

like this one, but not in as good a shape. $350.00. Sold it a couple years later for what I paid. Nice car.

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.

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.

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.

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

...bought it off of my parents for that price (book value!)

and Bonneville spun aluminum wwheel discs and ranfaster than a lot of new cars.

Paid $5,500 back in the day.

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!

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.

in 1992
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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.

Bucks. I bought it off of George Martins niece in 1982.

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.

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.

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.

cost around $18,000

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!

27,000 miles. Paid $300 in 1974.

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.

'69 Scout.

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.

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