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.