Your first car. - Page 2

skcin · #16 10-04-2005, 08:54 AM

The year: 1991

The driver ed. car I learned on: 1990 Chevy Corsica

The car my dad bought for me for $1000: a dark brown 1977 Chevy Monte Carlo with tan vinyl interior. We called it the Disco Cruiser. Lots of good times in that car.

Talk about a boat - holy cow, this thing was big. I loved it, and now I can drive pretty much any car, no matter what the size. I drove it until some assclown in a brand new Lincoln Mark VIII slammed on his brakes behind me, propelled over a snow bank, became airborne & came down onto/into the side of my car. I was heartbroken.

WildInTheWind · #17 10-04-2005, 09:49 AM

Mine was an 86 Subaru GL (Grand Luxury....

) 2 door hatch back in powder blue. It was hilarious! It looked alot like the Murph Mobile from Waynes World (minus the flames on the side). It had no power steering and I had to role the window down with a wrench. BUT it had a back windsheild wiper so how could I complain?

I had alot of fun in that car. It ran for 3 years and I paid $400 for it.

chiliD · #18 10-04-2005, 10:38 AM

1973: For HS graduation, my parents gave me THEIR well worn in 1967 VW camper bus. Yes, I WAS the real-life Jeff Spicoli after that.

It lasted until 1981, when the engine LITERALLY blew up in middle of nowhere in Montana. It became a trailer for the next 6 months (we towed it around with the drummer's big Chevy van), as my band toured Alberta & Saskatchewan, then I sold it once I got back to California. The buyer was going to restore it and I had him promise to bring by for me to see once it was done. Totally forgot about it for about a year. Then out of the blue I get a phone call...they guy asked if it was a good time to come over to show off the van since he'd just had it painted (which apparently was the final step in his process) and that he'd be by in "about 15 minutes". Never showed up. About 4 months later, I got a call from him. He apologized for not making it by, but a drunk driver ran a red-light and totalled the van...he'd only gotten out of the hospital a couple of days before that call. Never talked to him again after that. But, I still have this guilt about it. If I hadn't made him promise to come over & show off the van, in all probability he wouldn't have been in that spot at that moment.

reebokandlace · #19 10-04-2005, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by skcin

The year: 1991

a dark brown 1977 Chevy Monte Carlo with tan vinyl interior. I drove it until some assclown in a brand new Lincoln Mark VIII slammed on his brakes behind me, propelled over a snow bank, became airborne & came down onto/into the side of my car. I was heartbroken.

Holy Shi*t!!

Thank god you were driving a TANK --- because otherwise you might not be here with us today!!!

skcin · #20 10-04-2005, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by reebokandlace

Holy Shi*t!!

Thank god you were driving a TANK --- because otherwise you might not be here with us today!!!

It was pretty bad. But I didn't have a scratch on me thanks to the massive girth of my car.

BTFLCHLD · #21 10-04-2005, 11:04 AM

i enjoy the classics...my 2nd car was a 69 bug.

Pisces Queen · #22 10-04-2005, 11:07 AM

My first car was a re-built 32 Ford Coupe. It was beautiful ~ black with burgundy interior but the doors were suicide doors and one kept5 malfunctioning and it couldn’t go over the speed bump so my dad bought and fixed up a 1982 Red Trans Am with the bird on the hood. I thought I was hot shot.

bikerchic · #23 10-04-2005, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by skcin

It was pretty bad. But I didn't have a scratch on me thanks to the massive girth of my car.

That reminds me of my girlfriend's car. It was an early 70's Chrysler Newport, 4 door. That thing was a beast. She used to pick up about 4 of us girl's and I remember in the dead of winter, we'd be sitting in the back seat freezing our asses off, yelling "TURN THE FURNACE UP!"

My first car was a 1972 Buick Skylark Convertible. It was my parents car and I bought it from them I think around 1980. It was chocolate brown. That thing was smoken. I used to be the most popular girl in high school because of it

Brwn_eyes0511 · #24 10-04-2005, 12:02 PM

1996 Nissan Altima! Great car, and lasted what seemed like forever!

sara1998 · #25 10-04-2005, 12:54 PM

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I used to be the most popular girl in high school because of it

I was pretty popular because of my little **** Mustang. I was one of the few that had a car, so I left it unlocked, and everyone was welcome to cut class in it. I was pretty well loved because of it!

littlecricket2 · #26 10-04-2005, 06:48 PM

Oh hells no, I did not get a car for my 16th birthday! I am still of the opinion that anyone who gets their own vehicle on their 16th birthday, however crappy it is, is a bit spoiled.

My family (there were four of us--Mom, Dad, me, and my younger sister) made do w/ one car until I was 17 and we bought a second used car. It was a second family car though, not mine--by then, 3 of the 4 of us had jobs so we had to share the two cars. I still took the bus to school until the day I graduated.

I didn't get my own car until I was a sophomore in college--I paid my Dad $2000 for one of the used cars, a 1993 white Geo Prism, which I loved--it was a cute little car w/ a sunroof. What's funny is that at the time, the car was really worth about $5000, but my dad said I could pay him the rest back later. Then, when I graduated and my mom and dad were going through a slightly rough time financially, they couldn't really get me a nice college graduation gift. So my gift was that my dad waived the additional cost of the used Prism that I had already been driving and paying insurance on for two years,

. So that was my graduation gift, and it was the closest I ever got to being given a car! I'm not complaining though--I just think it's frickin' amazing when 16 year-olds think their parents owe them a car just because they turned 16 (I know most 16-year-olds don't feel that way, but the ones who do need an attitude adjustment).

Neal · #27 10-04-2005, 07:30 PM

1999 Ford Ranger.

My high school graduation gift from the parents. I think they were trying to butch me up... (Not that I needed it

)

Moony · #28 10-04-2005, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Neal

1999 Ford Ranger.

My high school graduation gift from the parents. I think they were trying to butch me up... (Not that I needed it

)

Oh, you're such a man.

Lee · #29 10-04-2005, 08:14 PM

was a 1970 Chevy Chevelle, gray with a black canvas top. I got it when I was maybe 18 or 19. I loved that car. Boy did she have power! She really sucked up the gas though. Anyway, I sold it to my brother, who was very imature. He got angry at my mother or something one night, hopped in the car & wrecked.

Luckily both he & the person he hit were OK, but the car was totaled. I went with my mom to the place it was towed to look at it. I cried when I saw it. I couldn't help it. It was my first car. Then I got thinking maybe I should have never have sold it to my brother & then he wouldn't have wrecked, etc. But he needed a car & I sold it to him for a cheap price so he'd have a car, so what could I do? My parents' pressured me into selling it to him. So basically, it was his first car, too.

Lee

snowman · #30 10-04-2005, 10:35 PM

1959 Ford Anglia. 3 speed. Let my "good buddy" drive it one night while we were out cruisin'. He ran a stop sign (couldn't figure out the brake/clutch relationship) and totalled it. He ran from the scene. I took the blame. Lost my license at the tender age of 16. A serious life lesson learned a long time ago...