First Car?
 

Another off-topic thread to continue to build community and help us learn more about one another.

What was your very first car?

How did you get it? What was it like? Did you like it? Any particular memories with it?

My first in my own name? Or the first my parents bought for me to drive?
I consider the latter to be my first car, an '84 Buick Skyhawk. It got amazing gas mileage, about 40 on highway, which made its habit of regularly overheating and spewing its coolant guts somewhat forgiveable.

Notably, I went to visit my very first BDSM play partner with that car. I was almost there, and the car started having a car-seizure on the Philadelphia expressway during Friday rush hour. That was exciting.

my first was '69 Camaro (alas, only a 307 3 speed) was great fun though.
lost it when some bozo ran a red light and broadsided me...........would love to have that car back now!

Gary D.

My very first car was a bright yellow 1986 Pontiac Sunbird. It was also my best friends first car, which is where I purchased it from. I got my first job while in highschool at our very old Barrets Drugstore on Main street in my home town. I worked 32 hours a week my junior and senior year to save enough to buy it. It was a two door and I had to sit on a pillow in order to be able to see while driving, lol. But it was mine, I had worked hard for it :)

My first car was a 1991 Red Honda Civic Hatchback. It got broken into 5 times in a year and a half (what a pain). Then I got hit in an ice storm (a couple of years ago) by a big truck and they wrote it off and now I have my second car.

1971 Gremlin. Got it in 1977 for $100.00. Wasn't sure what the catch was, until I replaced the clutch, radio, muffler, brakes, tires, alternator, regulator, starter, flywheel, etc, etc, over the course of a year. Couldnt do much about the wheel wells rusting through, the drivers seat lock breaking so it went all the way back, and the drivers door latching post rusting through so it wouldn't stay shut, though I was able to jury-rig a hardware store bolt to replace the post and it actually held for a while.

Oh, and the flange that holds the suspension spring-things in place broke off.

And the shocks were shot

And the clutch burned out again.

But, damn, the 30,000 miles I put on it were a blast! Oh, and the back seat went down too, something my then girlfriend, now ex-wife, and I put to good use at Belle Isle in Detroit.

nothing like a bargain eh MH ;)

Gary D.

RG..always up for talking about cars or spanking. My first car I got in 1981 and had to save every dime to get, was a 1973 Pontiac Grand Prix. For those of you who remember early 70's detroit iron know this was a beast. It had a 455 engine that got me 6 miles per gallon in town but on the road she opened up to 8 miles per gallon. But she would fly....sold it in 4 months and got a Datsun...40 mpg.

OK mom and dad you were right can I stop hearing about it now?

My sophmore year of college, my folks and I found a 1987 Plymouth Horizon. It was a white hatchback, but it was nicknamed the Darkmobile because at the time, this sci-fi geek had just seen the movie Darkman with Liam Neeson and had vanity plates put on that said that. It was a great ride through 3 years of college. I got rid of it just before relocating to NY, because Manhattan is no place to keep a vehicle. :(

My first car was a 1985 Honda Accord that my grandparents had bought brand new, then my uncle kept it for a while, then I finally got it. It had automatic everything, which the first time I saw it when I was little I thought it was somehow "magic" because automatic cars were first coming out then.
My first NEW car, on the other hand, was actually the one I have now. A 2002 VW Jetta. I got it after my Honda's engine died on the freeway one night when I was driving home. Anyway I was at work the next day and my mom picked me up afterward and we went to the VW dealer (she didn't tell me she had spent the day looking for a new car for me!) and she showed me the new Jettas they had just gotten in. I saw the dark blue one sitting there on the lot and wanted it immediately! Its a terrific car. Mine has almost 80000 miles on it, and runs like brand new!

My first one was a 1963 Ford Fairlane. It was passed down through the family until it finally reached me. It was Dad's car when we bought it. Then Mom got it, then my brother (I don't know how the engine and transmission survived his ownership), then my older sister, and then, finally, me. I had a wreck in it once in which I was pinned against a tree, and the driver side door was completely turned back against the front of the car and the window smashed. I couldn't get the door to latch closed again, so after that I just drove it with the door wire-hangered shut as much as I could get it. Winter that year was an experience! Let's just say that I bundled up when I drove anywhere. ;)

My first car is easy enough to remember as I'm only working on my second. LOL It was a 1988 Chrysler New Yorker. I absolutely adored that car. It was top of the line luxery everything for that year. I'm talking plush seats you could melt into, digital dashboard, the whole compass thing, heated and fully adjustable seats, ect... It just had ammenities that I don't remember cars in the eighties having.

It's still serving as a lawn ornament since I blew up the engine a few years ago. We kept saying it was too good of a car to let it just go to scrap, but nobody has taken the initiative to replace the engine yet.

Umm... so how did I get it? A sugar daddy bought it for me. LOL :-D

(In all fairness, I worked hard and earned it)

mega lemon
 

'89 VW Rabbit that cost about $1500

Throughout my undergrad college career, I had quite a few trips with a variety of tow-truck drivers who told me about their wives and girlfriends, respectively while they smoked and ate Reisen (sp?) chocolates like the dickens.

A piece of my engine fell out while I was driving on a main highway. I had told my father I was going to the library. When this occurred, I was nowhere near the library.

The day of my psych final, I arrived at school to find my car would not shift into park. I let the car roll slowly into a wall where it would be fixed in place and went to take my final. I found afterward that the car was stuck in second gear but I was instructed to drive it as close to home as possible in order to save a towing fee. While driving 30 miles an hour, on the shoulder of major highways, I was pulled over by several cops and finally phoned for a tow truck.

These incidents were just the tip of the iceberg. However, it was my first car and I was quite loyal to it. I went away for a year to live in Greece and while there, my car died an untimely death. My brother trashed it and had the nerve to send me the pictures (with him alongside the car, grinning).

Mine was a 1981 Mercury Zephyr. Fairly decent car, for the teenager that I was. Ugly dirty looking blue color and it hesitated a lot (not good, but something my dad always said was in my mind, or was happening cuz I didn't know how the hell to drive so I was happy when it did it to him one day when he drove it - kinda vindicated me :D ) It went thru spark plugs about once every two weeks.The oil light also came on about once every two weeks as well.

It was a 4 door - not cool for a teenager - but then again, my dad paid $900 for it and I drove all three of my siblings to school every morning as well (that was the deal for it to be 'my' car, with partial insurance paid)

sarah

Mmmm...sugar....there's this little thing under the hood called an "oil stick." It actually tells you how much oil is in your car, and if you need to add some. Who would have thought of something like that?!!! Just amazing what they come up with, isn't it? ~shakes head~

Oh, and that little screw cap on the top of the engine. Don't tell anyone, but it's a place to pour oil into. Yes, a place were you can actually put oil into your car! I would think it would make the inside of the engine all dirty and stuff, you know?

Anyway, it sounded like a mighty fine car. I'm sure that no one minded all the blue smoke coming out of the tail pipe. It was quite thoughtful of Mercury to have it color coordinated with your car.

[COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]My first car was a 92' Ford Explorer that was red according to my parents however it was blatantly ORANGE. Yes, next to any red car my suv looked like a carrot. Which was it's nickname.
I know I know... I sound like a spoiled brat complaining about the color especially since my parents gave me the car. I know I was supposed to begrateful and I was (never knew anything different though) but I had no say in the matter... it was just there in the driveway one summer evening when they drove me home from summer camp. I assumed it was for me to drive, but they didn't even tell me until I asked.[/COLOR]

Dearie, I knew darn well how to put oil into my car. I only did so when the car told me it needed oil.

sarah

1952 Oldsmobile
 

Mine was a 52 Olds that I bought for $50. Had a huge bench seat and the back seat area was bigger than most efficiency apartments....LOL. I could barely see over the dash....had chrome bumper bullets. I used to take my girl friend to the drive in and spank her in the back seat.....what a great car...lots of memories.

rb

Heather, welcome to MSF!

Well, I didn't get to drive it - just haven't gotten my license - but I got a 1994 Ford Taurus in "sea foam green". The A/C didn't work, one of the back doors didn't open, the passenger window didn't go down...and although I only drove it a few times with my permit, I loved it...lol

Once I finally get my license though, I want a truck, a little one :)

my first vehicle was a 1992 Mitsubishi Mighty Max pick up truck. It was the cutest thing you've ever seen.. Bright red an boy did it go fast zooooommmmmmmm!!!! i got it my junior year in high school (1996).. Sadly a year later in my senior year i totaled it in some icey weather i was an inexperienced driver in that type of weather. Luckily tho i only came out of the wreck w/ 2 twisted ankles and an imprint of my seatbelt down my chest. After seeing the truck you'd never believe that's all i had or that id even survived. my guardian angels were definitely w/ me that day :)

emily

My first car was a silver 1991 Chevy Geo Storm, that I bought for $1000 my freshman year of college from a friend who was graduating and leaving the country. I called it my Geobaby:o :p . It was in physically terrible shape; BIG dent on the driver's door and scratches on the passenger door. It didn't have AM/FM radio or anything fancy in it, but it did have air conditioning and heater.

It wasn't much to look at, but I was mighty proud of owning my very own car, especially because not too many freshmen have cars at the college I go to, due to limited parking spots allocated to freshmen at the dorms. It didn't last very long, though. It gave me so many problems that in the end I decided it just wasn't financially wise to keep the car, so I abandoned it at a junk lot after about 5 months. :(