So Rachel's big news got me thinking about this. What was your first car?

Mine was a navy blue 1984 Chevy Caprice. My sisters were embarassed to ride in it. It was really just a pale imitation of what I really wanted, though, which was a 1970s Cadillac Eldorado.

Anyway, the Caprice was named Cathy and had a crown air freshener in the back and a fuzzy steering wheel. I had some good times in that car.

It looked kind of like this one:

mine was a 1971 chevy impala. it had a history of stalling when i was in the middle of an intersection. it kinda looked like this, but it was more blue-ish and the top was a different color than the body.

I inherited my parent's 78 Caprice... Black WITH the landau top!!!! That's the big ass boat I drove until I saved up enough money to buy a motorcycle, then my parents freaked out at that possibility and gave me an extra $200 so I could get this 71 MGB that caught my eye.

So technically, my first car of all my own was the MGB. I loved that car. Some ass T-Boned me when I was in college. I was lucky I wasn't killed, because that thing didn't have any seatbelts in it (optional equipment until 73, and grandfathered in to the seatbelt law). The MG was really finicky. I was wrenching on it all the time. I had to wear a snow suit in the winter becuase the heat would only work when it was about 50 and above, no a\c, and a stiff breeze from a semi in the next lane would come close to blowing me off the road. I twas awesome.

A big congrats Rachel.

A 1981 Toyota Corolla with a manual transmission that was aptly named "The Silver Bullet"

I wrapped it around a telephone pole, but it survived!

(Edited by Tom Foolery at 8:56 am on Apr. 5, 2004)

89 Ford Probe. Except mine was blue, and ended up in a fence row.

My first car is actually the car I still have (a 1996 Honda Civic EX). Mom bought it when I was 16 and living in NC. Since I hadn't gone through all of the steps of driver's education, I couldn't drive it yet. I had to look at it in my driveway for like 4 months.



Mine has 4 doors. That is the only difference. And, I've driven a lot in my car, and I've had some good memories involving it as well. So, I definitely won't want to let it go. It's actually paid off in August and gets signed over to me. I don't plan on trading it in at all.

My first car is also my current car. My uncle gave me his '89 Honda Accord Sei when he found out he had brain cancer and couldn't drive anymore. It is really an honor to drive it. He took great care of it-it still doesn't have 100,000 miles on it so I am driving a middle-aged honda.
It is a manual and I didn't learn how to drive it for about 6 months because I was never home to learn. It was sad to come home from college and see my car sitting in the driveway so I made my friend drive it up to summer school and I forced myself to learn how to drive it. Good times were had peeling out and stalling at 4-way stops on campus.
I have to go get it fixed though because a rodent chewed up some wires. ARrggghhh.

I had a 1981 Datsun (now Nissan) Pickup truck. It was powder blue and had the extended cab. I bought it a few months before I turned 16 before I could actually drive it. I paid the $1250 with my own money I had earned from slaving away at a yacht club kitchen for the summer I was 14 and at an environmental science lab when I was 15. I agreed to let my brother drive it for the first 6 months if he agreed to make some necessary repairs on it. I took good care of it and got some mileage out of it until I ended up giving to my sister-in-law 3 years later. It broke down a few months later

Same car I have now. '95 Acura Integra

my first car was a 1990 cavalier. It was an okay car until winter time when it wouldn't start under 45 degrees.

Yeah and it was great cause it made funny noises too. Ha ha

First car was an Oldsmobile Eighty Eight. My grandmother gave it to me and I never actually paid attention to the year. I ran that thing into the ground in about 8 months. Never really got much of a chance to get attached to it or anything.

My first car (permit-era) was my grandfather's 1980 Cadillac Coude De Ville. It was pale yellow, with cream leather interior. It was huge. and awesome. Unfortunately, it was not reliable at all, so I then started driving...


my grandmother's 1986 Cadillac Coupe Deville. It was white, with white leather seating, a burgandy dash, and burgandy carpet. It didn't quite outdo the pimpness of the '80, but it came close. It wasn't very reliable either, so a few months after I turned 16, I got the white '99 Chevy truck that I still drive.

I need to tell Powder P about this conversation...

mine was a 2000 toyota echo, green two -door. i got it for my 16th birthday, brand new (i know, i know). it's name was esmerelda friefogel, for a variety of reasons. oh how i loved it so.

and then an insane, unlicensed crackhead smooshed it (and nearly me) last fall. now i have a 2004 ford escape. i feel safer driving the escape, but i still miss esmerelda.

I got it! I didn't jynx it! Now I just have to learn stick shift.

I tried for twenty minutes to get my picture to work but it wouldn't. If you'd like to see the actual car, click.

Man, I'm excited. This is a good thread.

I'm sure there's some boys at Hillsboro that wouldn't mind teaching you...

in more ways than one!

Looks like Carl's been taught a few too many times.

But I don't even know how to drive stick shift.

Oh... wait... hey!

And here I was going to congratulate you.

ohhhhhh, nice one rachel

Great topic!
My first car was/is a 1960 Volkswagen Beetle that my dad and I restored when I was 15.
I named it Sal Paul Rodham-Clinton. Great car.

I still own it, but I'm sad to say it may be up for sale this summer.
This is pretty close to what it looks like:



(Edited by YaDaDaDa at 7:21 pm on Apr. 5, 2004)

my first car was a chevy cavalier it was pretty crappy and white.

My first car was a '92 or '93 black Toyota Camry. It was named Elsa (after a line in the Oasis song "Supersonic") and featured automatic seatbelts that were nicknamed Rape Me Seatbelts by all of my passengers due to their force. It was lost to me when I failed to accurately judge just how far away a speeding van was when leaving my school dressed as Nightcrawler of the X-Men.

I guess this is it. I only had it for 3 months and I just remember that it was black and very very average looking.

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(Edited by Lauren at 6:48 pm on Apr. 5, 2004)

I had an '82 Mercedes 240D (for DIESEL), standard shift (4 gears), totally awesome, hand-me-down from my sister that has been subsequently handed down to 2 different cousins, 0 to 60 in about 4-5 minutes, odometer broke at 215,000 miles....4 years ago. I still miss it. I still love it. It still lives, despite my sister & I hydroplaning it into the woods while listening to "Standing on a Beach".

My first car, the car I have now, is a 1995 red Dodge Neon, with over 160,000 miles on her to date. I picked the little beauty up (used) the day of my Junior prom in 2001. She's got no radio/clock or air conditioning, and has run over a dog (he's fine), backed into countless light posts, rear-ended a very nice lady off of West End, lost power steering while driving home, has tail-lights that fill with rainwater, cigarette burns, been vomited in, had pieces of plastic hardware broken off, and scratched up by God knows what. The longest trip she's even taken is to Ohio, the most passengers she's ever carried was four, and has plenty of trunk space to sneak people into drive-in movies. Her name is Dodgy (because she is) and I love her.





That's my girl, minus the fancy black stripe.....

a 1992 Volvo 740 gold station wagon named Harvey. great car. fun times.



(Edited by herman at 8:27 pm on Apr. 5, 2004)

My first car was a 1984 Nissan Sentra datsun
it kind of looked like this, I couldn't even find a picture of my car on the internet lol
Except mines was grey with rust spots, no AC, no Heat, no radio, tape player only, the passenger door stopped opening and one time my drivers side door wouldn't shut lolthat was when I was seriously gonna cry lol If I had to hold the door all the way home lol.. I got it fixed though....

that guy is funny looking

My first car... an '89 Subaru 5-speed

This car was cool because the dash looked like it was from a video game airplane. And the shifter looked like a joystick. Some lady tried to do an illegal U-turn in front of me and totalled my car. It was good in the end though because I got my present car, which is a pimp ass '94 Chevy Beretta Z26. Eat it!

My Dad bought a '66 Lemans convertible on eBay (of all places) and it ended up being mine because he didn't want to drive it to work every day. Sadly, when I started college I had to sell it 1. Because I needed money, and 2. it got, like, .03 miles per gallon. Mine was teal, kinda the color of the ocean, with a black top.

(Edited by Bowl of Fire at 6:39 pm on Apr. 6, 2004)

oh shit, was it anywhere close to as nice as this one? my dad had a '66 GTO for a little while, which was the same body style as your Lemans. he still has his '70 GTO. when I was about 3, he used to tell me that it would be mine when I turned 18. I never got it, but it's probably because my response was always "I'm gonna paint it orange and put '01' on the doors".

holy shit man, I had no idea you had such an amazing car. Kick ass.

Mine had a matte paint job and wasn't nearly as shiny. It was about 80% restored with only a handful of dings, some seat splittage and an unoriginal radio (that still didn't work). As for the GTO, yeah my dad had the exact same thing, but a fallen tree in a snow storm back in '93 took care of that. I think he actually cried. He bought the Lemans for compensation, even though it wasn't a GTO.

I have an actual picture of it, how would I put it on here?

(Edited by Bowl of Fire at 12:37 am on Apr. 7, 2004)

You can upload it as an avatar, look at the properties and post the link. Then you can change your avatar back.

Rachel's car looks like the one Kelly had on 90210 (except her's was a convertible). This makes it a cool car. Congrats!

Man some of you guys are lucky, you had cars that were at least in the 90's for your first car me and my car were almost the same age lol. oh yeah an some of those cars look like they had heat/AC lucky folks
I used to ride to school in the mornings with a blanket in the winter time and I would turn the dials on Heat in my car even though it didn't work lol I guess I was just hoping it would magically come on one day.

This is my first and current car. 1966 Mustang, powder blue. I love it so much even though it has no power steering or air conditioning, among many other things. I've wanted an old Mustang for as long as I can remember, and I got the exact one I wanted, color and everything. I've had a lot of work done on the mechanical stuff and interior already (new carpet, new Mustang tape player, new chrome, etc...). It runs really well unless it's extremely cold outside...then I have to let it warm up for several minutes. I keep hoping to save up enough money to get it painted, and then I can put on all the new chrome parts I've already bought for it (new bumpers, etc) ...maybe this summer when I have a full-time job...

Congratulations on your first car, Rachel! I hope you enjoy it.

OMG, I'm so jealous I could spit. The only way to make it up to me is to make me a mix tape Mine would be the exact same, but that dark blue color instead. I'm kind of embarassed by my fixation on muscle cars. I assume it has something to do with the fact that I turn the radio UP for most Styx, Boston, and Journey songs, and a select few REO songs as well.

Ain't nothing wrong with any of that. I always wanted a Chevelle.

ewww....



I hope to purchase an MG-B to restore someday...

I'm hoping to buy something like this at the end of the summer

Whatever.....this car, some Journey, and a long stretch of highway is a recipe for awesome. Seriously, I love that idea.....

Yes!

This is my dream car. Well, it's my realistic dream car since my true dream car would involve a Union Jack.

I keep getting behind minis while driving and seeing them in random places. It's like a reminder that if I would just stop spending money on food and other useless stuff, I could possibly have one. This may be my summer goal.

Mine was almost exactly like this but white: a 1996 Mitsubishi Galant. Some bizarre flash floods made a fatality of her last May. I never named her, but may she rest in peace.

Her replacement is much better, though. This, in grey:



(Edited by Token at 5:43 pm on Apr. 7, 2004)

My first car was a 1959 Ford Fairlane... It was a huge boat with fins, plenty of rust, and a steering wheel that was about 3 feet across!



PS - Sexy Sadie: I have a 68 Mustang that I used to drive every day, but sadly now it sits in my mom's driveway. Very fun cars to drive!

PPS - Ceeze: I love Datsun 280 Z's.. I'd totally drive one.

Bite your tongue!

There was a '66 black Dodge Charger for sale down the road from Powder P's house a few years ago. I still want that car so badly. It was badass. It had the matching black interior. So, so badass. It would give me a reason to wear 50's style black-frame sunglasses.


(with black seats) If it were a '69, I would paint it to look like the General Lee.

(Edited by richarddawson at 6:37 pm on Apr. 7, 2004)

thank you everyone for the congrats. its in my driveway right now. i was sitting in it listening to music earlier. maybe thats a little much...

I totally did that, so don't feel bad. I can't remember what it was exactly that I listened to, but I do know that it was the first day we got home with my car. I was "getting a feel" for it, eventhough I wasn't going to be able to drive it for months.

So are you in the driveway making race car noises? Can I?

Rachel enjoy your new car while it's clean and not filled with extra clothes, trash, bottled water bottles and other things lol. I remember keeping my car clean and actually washing it on a regular basis. Lol I washed my car I think 3 times last year.. it was broken down at one point though. But just enjoy it.

i wasnt making noises but i was holding the stick like i was some badass stick driver. just a lot of sitting and anticipating.

i know thats the truth and it makes me sad. i know my car will be dirty before i even drive it. im such a mess. right now im all "nope. no one is eating or smoking in my car!" but i know that wont last longer than a week.

I recently inherited a car that has a manual transmission, so I've had to kind of get my act together and get good at driving a stick.

I would reccomend that you just go to an abandoned parking lot some Saturday and hash it out. Don't get frustrated if you don't get it right away. I would also reccomend that you not even worry about the gas pedal at first. Just sit on level ground, put the car in 1st gear and practice letting the clutch out slowly until it "catches" and the car starts to move. It's all about getting a feel for exactly where that point is.

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 9:49 am on Apr. 8, 2004)

Man, this thread is really turning me on. It doesn't take much.

Eith that or floor it and then not worry about the clutch. That's what TF always told me to do. I don't know which way is easier.

ride the clutch indeed-that is how i figured it out. i have a bitch of a clutch, too. here in east tennessee we have more of a hill problem, but definitely practice hills before going out on the road. good luck! it is so fun once you learn and it becomes second nature. i will never go back to an automatic (if i can help it).

The car I just sold was the first and last automatic I'll ever regularly drive.

Yeah, well...well...yeah. Just shut it.

I still am not adept at a stick...and it sucks.

Gladly I still have my automatic.

my first form of transportation:




my other car is a power wheel. snap to it, buster.

How sad. I didn't even think about mentioning my poor, sweet little horse as my first mode of transportation. I used to ride her to the grocery store for sodas from the drink machine. I got her 10 years ago and still have her. She is the coolest!

My first car, which I still own but no longer drive, was a '63 Buick Riviera. I got it when i was 15. I loved it from day one, and spent most of my money/time keeping it pimpadelic. The coolest things about it were the rear bucket seats, the AM only radio, and reverse was the last gear on the gear shifter. It looked similar to this:


It's currently under restoration and may return this summer.

(Edited by paulfreaksmeout at 10:41 pm on Apr. 14, 2004)