TwoTone Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 My wife and I were reminiscing this evening about our teenage years [decades ago]... We purchased our son his first car in 2002 for his 16th birthday... It was a 2000 Toyota Corolla... He was pretty stoked... Not too sporty in the least, but a nice ride for a first... Got me thinking about my first... Ready for this? My first was a 1972 Ford Pinto... Powder Blue... I called it "My Ego Suppression Unit"... The below picture is not my actual car, but mine was damn close... Ahhh, sweet years gone bye... TT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 No photo but my first car was a 1970 HG Holden shagging wagon (station wagon) Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z80 Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Mine was a 1980 Camaro bought in 1986. I miss that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir-Lancelot Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 1980 Datsun 280ZX. I could not tear that car up and I tried to everytime the light turned green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everythingape Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Great idea for a thread! My first driver was an inherited White '79 Ford Taunus, with bright red velour interior and a black vinyl roof. My mates called it "The Persian Whorehouse". ..good memories The first car I owned myself was a 1983 SAAB 900 Turbo Lux-edition. My very car was the most expensive SAAB ever sold up until 1984. A bigshot in my town was the one who ordered it, and before he could drive it, it was stolen for a joyride by the town drunk. It had every option you could get. Some of them: -Scottish Leather seats -AC (aftermarket) AND sunroof, power everything -Rack Clarion stereo, 6 units! Filled the lower part of the console. (I still have this) -and best of all, a mobile phone! (which of course was outdated by the time I bought it.) It was a fun and fast car, with the famous swedish "ketchup"-Turbo that smacked you when you least expected it, you could adjust turbo pressure with a wrench yourself, and needless to say, I kept the boost in the red area. A real BMW-killer in its day. I still regret selling it in parts, as I would now have restored it and kept it around. I think it was a limited run of 1200 cars or so in '83 and '84. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenacious_b Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 1982 Honda Accord 4 door sedan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erd04056 Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 1968 Firebird. 400 CI 4 speed. My dad was always into the muscle cars and I have owned several of the classics. 69 Camero, 65 Mustang, 50 Chevy Pickup 5 window with a Vortec 350. Sad to say that they have all been sold :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfischman Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 '74 Buick Regal...my Aunt gave it to me in '85 when she got her new Monte Carlo SS. I sold the Regal to a gang banger in L.A. in '88. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 1995 Chevy Cavalier. Was my 16th birthday present. Crashed it into a poll 3 weeks later while showing of for my friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By-Tor Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 My first car was Ford Capri 3.0S (model 1980) with Recaro interior (original). Yeah, a wannabe poor man's sports car but I loved it when I was 18. Now I drive a Audi A6... but my dream car is the original Audi Sports Quattro. I wouldn't mind a BMW 850i, either. Those can be found for reasonable prices. But then again, I'm not a huge "car person" anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swdivad Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 My first car was a 1967 Ford Cougar black top... Really nice and bright red Next was a Chrysler Cordoba... "Welcome to Fantasy Island" LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonthebhoy Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 My dad gave me one of these for my 16th birthday: We still don't talk! JTB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offshore Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 My first ride- '63 Lotus Cortina, mine was a GT converted, with all the goodies, unbeleivable machine , at the time. @jtb, it was either this or a Cooper S!! Yours was just the wagon version Offshore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmeister Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 First one was 76 AMC Hornet in a disgusting green. Next one was a 71 Chevelle SS 454 4-barrel though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrono903 Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Fiat x19. It only ran when it wanted to. It looked but great but, talk about people unanimous in there advice, not one person said i should buy it. I remember whippin down the sure-kill distress way thinking i could probably slide under a semi if i needed to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris5264 Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 For a short time in my twenties, I had an old honda civic. It looked like someone had painted it using a roller and house paint. It didn't work if it was raining so you had to plan ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosipipes Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Mine was a 1965 Chevy bel-air 4 door with a 283cc and 2 speed power glide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2005SUBMARINER Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 my 1st ride was a 1980 AMC CONCORD what a piece of crap ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SportsterRider Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 My wife and I were reminiscing this evening about our teenage years [decades ago]... We purchased our son his first car in 2002 for his 16th birthday... It was a 2000 Toyota Corolla... He was pretty stoked... Not too sporty in the least, but a nice ride for a first... Got me thinking about my first... Ready for this? My first was a 1972 Ford Pinto... Powder Blue... I called it "My Ego Suppression Unit"... The below picture is not my actual car, but mine was damn close... Ahhh, sweet years gone bye... My first car was a 1977 Chevy Malibu. I bought it from my mothers co-worker for $900.00. The catch was, I had to pay off the loan and the insurance coverage before the start of my senior year. So I worked two jobs that summer to pay both off. I was making $3.35 and hour, so paying off a $1000.00 loan and the insurance coverage for the year was no easy task! My daughter just turned 16 and got her first 'car' this past November. Man does time fly! Check out the caption on the heading of this picture. "Mid-Size"?? Boy have times changed! That car was a tank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfreeman420 Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 My very first car was a blue 1985 Nissan pulsar. I only had the car for two weeks and the engine blew. What a bummer. After that I got a white 1989 Ford escort GT. I had fun with the 5 speed. Went through three clutches, four alternators and a bunch of other things that went wrong with that car. What a piece of crap. I did manage to squeeze $4,000 worth of stereo equipment in the hatch back. You could hear me coming from half a mile away!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Physher007 Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 My first beauty, 1988 Cutlass No sweet memories here, I friggin hated that car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovepanerai Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 1973 Audi 80 bought it for 900 German Marks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 2006 BMW 116i Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerouac Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 1969 Mustang Grande 351 cui V-8. It remains one of the favorites among the cars that I have owned. P.S. I found the image on the Web. Mine was orange-red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjajh Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 My very first car was a 1950 Desoto. Ahhh....such warm and steamy memories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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