NFT: What Was Your 1st Car?

My Baby
Heresheis - ( New Window )

Owned 6 of them the first few tears of my driving life - 3 to drive, 3 for spare parts since you couldn't find them anywhere.

Unfortunately the same parts always went bad - Exhaust manifold, tail light sockets, floorboards, etc.

And God Forbid you needed to find someone to work on them.

But they were fun as Hell to drive - as long as you didn't asphyxiate from the heater fumes.

Purchased on the day the Yankees clinched their first division title since 1981 on September 25, 1996. So, it was a good day all around.

big old hunk of metal even a shit driving teenager couldn't destroy.

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Same color as this image I found

Also known as the Pony

dented and full of uneven paint fade.

But at its heart was the classic 283cc V-8, one of the last great engines before the Feds started intervening with their dumb air emission controls.

And don't forget the 2 speed automatic transmission.

and I put the boss 302 motor in it. Freaking tires chirped just putting it into drive

wow that image was large. lets try again

a Fiero catch fire on the GSP years ago....late Sunday traffic in June. Man that thing vaporized in five minutes.

In comment 12156206 KeoweeFan said:

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sans chrome but with Continental kit, moon hub caps, Mecury station wagon taillights and 2 2barrel carbs. Boy, was I cool! (or so I thought)

That's an absolute beauty!

Red exterior, black interior. Manual EVERYTHING; no A/C, no nothing. I replaced the radio and speakers, put mud flaps on it and thought it was the coolest thing on the road.

It was a former police car. High miles. I had put a new sun-roof and a new radio but the car ran like poop. I sold it and the new owners had to put a new transmission in it.

In comment 12155925 Mark C said:

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Gold, four door. Beat the crap out of it. If I had that car today I'd treat it like a treasure.

My best friend had "Dolly Dart" with push buttons for start and for the gears (instead of the automatic stick shifter).

it was a bomb. I could see the road though the floorboard. But it let me work through school and pay a good portion of my college costs before I graduated.

the "batmobile"

smooth ride til the tranny fell out.

1960 Catalina From Mom Junked
1965 VW From Dad Junked
1967 Fury III From Dad Junked
1969 Mustang From Brother Junked
1968 Satellite wagon Bought Used Junked
1969 Buick Riviera From Brother Junked
1967 Camaro Bought Used Sold
1979 Volare Bought New Sold
1988 Reliant Bought New Junked
1997 Miata Bought New Stolen
1998 Miata Bought New Still Own
2005 PT Cruiser Bought New Still Own

Loved every car I ever owned.

was my dad's commuting car until my sister got her license and then i got it when i got my license... 1989 volkswagen jetta carat that i got in 1998. the cloth on the roof was already coming out, the sunroof was a hand crank that you had to actually turn farther than you needed to to close the roof, and while it did have electric windows, they only decided to work intermittently. no idea how many miles it ended up with because the odometer would only work when it wanted to post- 120k miles or so. only fun about this car was that it did actually have some zip and it was a stick. its life ended sometime in 2001 when i was home on break from college when the engine decided to start smoking and we donated to charity. i'm sure that was a big tax writeoff... end sarcasm.

POS.

My only regret is not getting laid in it. Although it wasn't for lack of trying...