What was your first automobile?

[lane]

what was your first automobile?

mine was a 79 chevy silverado 1/2 ton pickup with the 350 engine. loved that truck. :)

[Juke99]

Oh my...looked like this.

http://tomscarsofocala.com/65%20Impala%201.jpg

1965 white Impala SuperSport.

Loved that car.

[lane]

Sweeeeet!! i bet it could bark a second.

[Juke99]

Sweeeeet!!


Yeah...but your truck ate cars like my Impala for breakfast. :)

[Payton34Smith22]

1985 Pontiac Parisienne Safari Station Wagon, similar to this one.... :o:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/payton34smith22/fii7.jpg

[lane]

Yeah...but your truck ate cars like my Impala for breakfast. :)

i almost beat a friend of mine with a 454 in the quarter.............

almost. :mad:

[lane]

1985 Pontiac Parisienne Safari Station Wagon, similar to this one.... :o:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/payton34smith22/fii7.jpg

wallyworld bound!!

[Juke99]

1985 Pontiac Parisienne Safari Station Wagon, similar to this one.... :o:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/payton34smith22/fii7.jpg


Did you buy that from Winicki? :D

[jksmith269]

First auto was a S-10 Tahoe 62K miles motor blew

First auto I bought myself was a Iszu Impulse which I loved...

[Payton34Smith22]

HAHAHA, Damn it......:lmao2:

[jamez25]

1976 Ford truck

[silverbear]

1967 Camaro SS350... a fairly rare model, the hottest drivetrain in the original Camaros... in fact, I won a few bets with guys in bars over that thing:

Me: The 350 was the biggest engine available in the original Camaro...

Drunk Expert: BS-- the Camaros came in a 396 in the 67 model line...

Me: The 396 was a mid-year upgrade, when they first came out the 350 was the biggest engine available... it was also the only Camaro available in 67 with the TurboHydramatic 350 transmission...

Drunk Expert: BS-- any 67 Camaro with automatic was a Powerglide... the TH-350 didn't become standard until 68...

Me: Sorry, but the SS350, and only the SS350, had the TH-350...

At which point I'd get out the book I kept in my glove box which explained all of the above...

It was also the only Camaro available with the highback buckets and the floor shifter... both options became common in 68...

The engine in that thing had all the good stuff-- forged crank, big valve heads, 4 bolt mains, and that big ol' Quadrajet carb... the trans blew on me after I'd driven it for a few years, and I had it rebuilt with a shift kit... when you stepped on that thing, first you got the well-known Quadrajet bog (a slight hesitation where you thought it might be fixin' to stall out), then those silver dollar sized secondaries kicked in and the shift kit did its thing, and you were definitely pushed back into the seat...

Got the only speeding tickets I ever got in my life in that thing... I was young, and that thing almost DEMANDED that you push it... LOL...

I called it the Stinger, it was Dayton Yellow with what GM called the bumblebee stripe (black) around the nose... no spoiler in the rear, which was good 'cause I thought those spoilers just ruined the look of the car...

It might have been the hottest car I ever owned... it was 3 years old when I bought it... all that caddy money that I saved up really paid off for me...

[Hostile]

1967 Jeepster Commando pickup.

http://www.dealsonwheels.com/database/cars/000347-200503-000011big.jpg

Red with the white removable top. 33" mud tires and Rancho suspension.

It would climb straight up.

[Qwickdraw]

http://www.webalice.it/vkanna/motori70_addon/images/Honda%20Accord.jpg

OMG.
Thanks for taking me back... :banghead:

[DLK150]

1968 Dodge Coronet sedan. It was originally my mother's, and she gave it to me as an 18th birthday present. Sold it to a friend's younger brother in '82 and spent the next 5 years regretting it. I never souped it up or anything outside of putting some Cragars on it, but there was just something about it I loved.

I tried to find a picture of one, but about all I find are the '68 R/T coupes.

[silverbear]

1967 Jeepster Commando pickup.

http://www.dealsonwheels.com/database/cars/000347-200503-000011big.jpg

Red with the white removable top. 33" mud tires and Rancho suspension.

It would climb straight up.

My Dad had a Commando, I always liked it... it was his second car, he used it for hunting... it wasn't the pickup, though... it also didn't have the removable top, which I think would have been great...

I drive a 98 Cherokee these days, back in my golf pro days I drove an 80 Cherokee... inherited that sucker from my Dad when he passed away, he'd just bought it, hadn't even made his first payment on it, but he had life insurance on the note, so it was paid for... Mom just hated it, it was too big for her... so she went out and bought a Subaru wagon (my Uncle Del and Uncle Tony both sold 'em), and gave me the Cherokee...

I got about 10MPG when I first got it, but since it didn't cost me anything, instead of trading it in on something more reasonable when it came to fuel economy, I went to work on that 360... new camshaft and valvetrain (Competition Cams), new intake manifold (Edelbrock SP2P dual plane), new carb (Holley Economaster)... put headers on it too, but that didn't work out, I kept blowing header gaskets... replaced each side at least 4 times before I gave up and switched back to conventional exhaust manifolds...

When it was all said and done, I was knocking down about 17.5 MPG... nobody would ever believe me, but that's the God's honest truth... same way they won't believe me that I get a consistent 21-22 MPG on my 98, with only some slight modifications, less than 250 bucks worth:

Bosch Platinum 4 plugs and the Bosch mag core plug wires... total cost, about 75 bucks...

K&N Filtercharger air cleaner... 50 bucks... but it's reusable, the cleaning kit costs 10 bucks and will give you 2 cleanings...

TX-7 oil treatment at Jiffy Lube... a little less than 50 bucks... needs to be repeated about every 30,000 miles...

Valvoline synthetic oil... right at 75 bucks (I don't do my own oil changes, I like that Jiffy Lube checks the fluids, my tire pressure and vaccuums the carpet)...

I've often wondered why Jeep didn't put these parts in at the factory, it probably wouldn't add 150 bucks to their production costs, and they'd sell more of 'em if they could honestly advertise that kind of gas mileage...

If any of y'all are driving a Cherokee (I'm not talkin' about the Grand Cherokee here, I'm talkin' about the regular Cherokee with the 4.0 liter inline six), I'd heartily recommend that you pop for the modifications I've made to mine... they'll pay for themselves in no time...

Anyway, I am a Jeep man in my old age... it's rubbing off on my nephew, more than anything he wants a Wrangler Rubicon...

[BrAinPaiNt]

http://www.mrmodels.co.nz/New%20Uploads%2003/New%20Uploads%2003-1/2342_Revell_1968_Pontic_Firebird_.jpg

Mine did not have the 2 in 1 ram air but it pretty much looked like the one in the pic...same color.

1968 Firebird 350

It had Killer seatbelts......that were in a brown paper bag in the trunk lol.

I still kick myself in the butt for letting that car go.

Getting ready to go in the army and figured I would be gone and not be able to use it so I sold it......now I wish I would have kept it and sent some money home each month so my dad could take it somewhere and have it worked on.
:mad:

[WoodysGirl]

I'm almost ashamed to say I drove such a girly car compared to you guys. mY first car I ever owned was an '88 Tempo. It got repo'd about 6 mos after I got it. I was 19 and had no sense of budgeting.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/nbr1diva/tempo.jpg

With some help, I was able to purchase The Dodge ('86 Dodge Omni) less than a couple months after I told them they could keep the tempo. Paid cash, no car note and this baby got me everywhere until the timing chain went out. It was a 5-speed w/only one speaker by the driver side and no A/C. But w/a 4-door, I kept the windows rolled down and kept moving.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/nbr1diva/da_dodge.jpg

[BrAinPaiNt]

I'm almost ashamed to say I drove such a girly car compared to you guys. mY first car I ever owned was an '88 Tempo. It got repo'd about 6 mos after I got it. I was 19 and had no sense of budgeting.



Don't Feel bad....my work car is a 91 Tempo....I hate the thing but it gets me to point B and has been a dependable car.

Now you know why I am so desperate to get a new car lol.

[WoodysGirl]

Don't Feel bad....my work car is a 91 Tempo....I hate the thing but it gets me to point B and has been a dependable car.

Now you know why I am so desperate to get a new car lol.I actually loved my tempo, but I had no money sense. It got repo'd because I had some work done on it and the auto shop picked it up when I didn't finish paying the whole bill, but I was waiting on my fin-aid. So I called the finance people, who came and got it. And since I owed THEM money. A $200 bill became $1700 after all the repo fees and such were attached. And then they said that even after I paid them, there was no guarantee I'd get the car back and that I'd have to get refinanced.

My uncle told me to not worry about it and he'd help me get a lil cash car. He took too long to help me so I got the Dodge on my own.

[Yeagermeister]

72 Buick Skylark with a 350. That thing would haul arse or at least until it would overheat. When my father gave it to me it already had well over 100k on it and it had never been rebuilt. The only real problem it had was the brakes would go out every once in a while :D

I ended up almost wrapping around a telephone pole after I fell asleep when I was home on leave. I hit the pole hard enough to flaten a steel fender and break the passengers side a frame but I was able to get it off the street and called my father who came with a tow truck. The police never knew it happened :D

[k19]

My first car back in 86
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/7478olds.jpg
1978 Oldsmobile delta 88 with the wondertful 350R Talk about sleds

my other first car. My fathers 79 Vette, his "getting out of the Air Force" present. I snuck that thing out any time I had the chance and got caught on more then 1 occasion :D
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/741543.jpg

The first vehicle I bought myself was a new 1995 dodge dakota extended cab with the 318. Light driftwood, bed cover, roll pan, All kinds of performance mods from the mopar catalog, I even special ordered the first set of center line covo pro's for a dakota. That thing would move.
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/74MVC-012F.jpg

[dewey]

1969 Volkswagen Beetle, that my brother had put mag wheels on (don't ask me why). I loved that car, no heater and everything.

[trickblue]

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1269/monza4ah.jpg

1978 Monza... brown with a sunroof...

btw... that's Juke, Paint, Adbutcher and Hos in the picture... I'm the one behind the camera... ;)

[SkinsandTerps]

87 Cadillac Fleetwood.

Loved that car. By the time I was done with it, it looked pretty similar to this picture.

http://c.barat.free.fr/museum/pictures/87sdv1.jpg

[BrAinPaiNt]

1978 Monza... brown with a sunroof...

btw... that's Juke, Paint, Adbutcher and Hos in the picture... I'm the one behind the camera... ;)


I have never been that skinny in my lifetime lol.

[Hostile]

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1269/monza4ah.jpg

1978 Monza... brown with a sunroof...

btw... that's Juke, Paint, Adbutcher and Hos in the picture... I'm the one behind the camera... ;)My 3rd car was a maroon 78 Monza Wagon, 3 liter 6 cylinder. It had an A/C unit in it so potent you could hang meat in that car and it wouldn't spoil. Thing would freeze you out in 20 seconds.

My 2nd car was a '76 Firebird that I drag raced a lot. 122 mph quarter mile on a radar gun and 10.9 seconds on a stop watch in fact. It was a real bummer to go from a Jeep and a Hot rod to that Monza. The A/C was the only saving grace.

[Chief]

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1269/monza4ah.jpg

1978 Monza... brown with a sunroof...

btw... that's Juke, Paint, Adbutcher and Hos in the picture... I'm the one behind the camera... ;)

:laugh2:

Mine was a blue 1975 Monza with a V-8. It had a lot of motor for a little car.

Still my favorite.

[28bringinthewood]

Mine was a 79 Mustang.... man was that a great car! The first car I bought myself was an 88 Firebird Formula 350... umm umm ummm... the good ole days! Now I drive a 2004 Pontiac Aztek... my best friend told me she was proud of me... I gave up hot rods (kinda :) )

[lane]

http://www.mrmodels.co.nz/New%20Uploads%2003/New%20Uploads%2003-1/2342_Revell_1968_Pontic_Firebird_.jpg

Mine did not have the 2 in 1 ram air but it pretty much looked like the one in the pic...same color.

1968 Firebird 350

It had Killer seatbelts......that were in a brown paper bag in the trunk lol.

I still kick myself in the butt for letting that car go.

Getting ready to go in the army and figured I would be gone and not be able to use it so I sold it......now I wish I would have kept it and sent some money home each month so my dad could take it somewhere and have it worked on.
:mad:

that is one mean looking ride brain.

[LaTunaNostra]

A '72 Olds Cutless Supreme convertible...had over 150,000 miles on it when I got it in 1980, but I got my junior and senior year of high school out of it..an 8 cylinder, I needed two pillows to see out the windshield. I had another Cutless later I bought from a Puerto Rican guy for 400 bucks..a station wagon..more it broke down, the more I loved it.

Junked it years ago, but I still have the keys.

[junk]

:laugh2:

Mine was a blue 1975 Monza with a V-8. It had a lot of motor for a little car.

Still my favorite.

Everybody had a Monza. My parents had a Monza station wagon I learned to drive stick with. It had some get up and go for an old beater station wagon.

I drove a 80 Chevette for a few months before I got a 89 Ford F-150 4x4. Piece of junk old farm truck, but it got me around and was a 4 wheel drive.

My first new car was a 2003 Mazda 6.

[Hostile]

A '72 Olds Cutless Supreme convertible...had over 150,000 miles on it when I got it in 1980, but I got my junior and senior year of high school out of it..an 8 cylinder, I needed two pillows to see out the windshield. I had another Cutless later I bought from a Puerto Rican guy for 400 bucks..a station wagon..more it broke down, the more I loved it.

Junked it years ago, but I still have the keys.My nephew Aaron has one. black with 2 white rally stripes and a 454 engine.

[LaTunaNostra]

My nephew Aaron has one. black with 2 white rally stripes and a 454 engine.

Mine was red. Not fire engine red, but more a deep brick color.

A broken down Olds Cutlass convertible sure beat the new Honda Civics most of my girfriends were driving. I hated the very thought of a Honda....still do.

Your nephew's is 13 years into antique status..he must cherish it.

[dougonthebench]

a 72 plymouth fury 3 with a 350 and a holly 4 bbl carb.it could fit 6 people across the backseat.....comfortably.

[diehard2294]

a brown primer 72 chevy vega,with pinstripping :D it only burned a qt of oil a week and gas was 90 cents a gallon :bang2:

[SweCowboy]

I don't even have a drivers license yet. I just haven't gotten around to getting one. And as a gallon of gas will set you back about $5.50 in Sweden driving isn't exactly cheap...

[SA_Gunslinger]

2000 kia sephia.

it was a good first car, (first car as in, completetly mine) but i don't miss it. she was totaled in 2003!

[davidyee]

...it had over 100K to it.


http://www.adclassix.com/images/76dodgeaspensedan.jpg

I'm abit uneducated in this matter so maybe someone can help me out and paste the image.

The one in the ad is abit better looking than mine. It has been in a rear ender so I had to tie the rear bumper with yellow nylon rope to hold it in place. All four hubcaps were gone and there was a hole in the floor board of the driver's side where I could drop a football through onto the road if I wanted. I covered the hole with a wooden board.

The car was free and I had no money. It sucked to be me at 16.

[notherbob]

My first car was a 1955 Ford Victoria, 2-door hardtop that I bought in 1959 for $795. It was a very nice car but I was a wild man back then and it only lasted a few years. I remember getting drunk somewhere in Dallas in 62 or 63 and leaving it somewhere and I could never remember where. That's one of the reasons I quit getting drunk.

[snugrooster]

1946 Mercury coupe........sweet!

[kmp77]

Black Nissan 1992 B2200...

http://cdautosales.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/92b2200.jpg

Then a 1989 Nissan Pulsar after I totaled the truck....being 16 = dumb....

http://www.abcautoandtransport.com/Pulsar89.jpg

[silverbear]

http://www.mrmodels.co.nz/New%20Uploads%2003/New%20Uploads%2003-1/2342_Revell_1968_Pontic_Firebird_.jpg

Mine did not have the 2 in 1 ram air but it pretty much looked like the one in the pic...same color.

1968 Firebird 350

It had Killer seatbelts......that were in a brown paper bag in the trunk lol.

I still kick myself in the butt for letting that car go.

Getting ready to go in the army and figured I would be gone and not be able to use it so I sold it......now I wish I would have kept it and sent some money home each month so my dad could take it somewhere and have it worked on.
:mad:


I can relate to that "wanting to kick yourself in the butt" feeling... back when I was a teenager, Dad got transferred to Heidelberg, Germany... this was in 1967, and we had to wait about 3 months before we could follow him over... when he finally secured housing for us on base, we had 2 cars at home... we garaged the family car, and sold the second one...

The second one was a 57 Bel Air convertible... dual quad 283...

Cars like that, in BAD condition, will go for 30-40 grand these days... completely restored, you're looking at 60 grand plus... man, do I wish we'd never gotten rid of that one...

[silverbear]

a 72 plymouth fury 3 with a 350 and a holly 4 bbl carb.it could fit 6 people across the backseat.....comfortably.

My second ex-fiancee owned one of those rascules... I can testify that you're exaggerating about six people in the back seat...

But there wasn't much that two people of the opposite sex COULDN'T do back there... :p:

[Cbz40]

1952 Chevy......ummmmmmm what a car

[Yeagermeister]

1952 Chevy......ummmmmmm what a car
Don't you mean model A Ford :lmao2:

[Cbz40]

Don't you mean model A Ford :lmao2:


I forgot about that jalopy......maybe it was because I was pushing it more than I was driving it. :D

[Yeagermeister]

I forgot about that jalopy......maybe it was because I was pushing it more than I was driving it. :D
Or tearing it down whenever it scared the horses :laugh2:

[VirusX]

what was your first automobile?

mine was a 79 chevy silverado 1/2 ton pickup with the 350 engine. loved that truck. :)

My first for me to drive was my brothers 93 Chevy Silverado...

MY First car purchase was a month ago and it was this beauty...

2004 Toyota Camry LE
http://www.carmax.com/vehicleimages/2873672.jpg

[Cbz40]

Or tearing it down whenever it scared the horses :laugh2:

:laugh2: Yeag that reminds me of another story I have to tell you one of theses days........it was something that happened a couple of weeks after I had bought a brand new 1967 GTO.

[Irving Cowboy]

1977 Celica that I bought in 1985 for $1,900... had 288,000 miles on it and still ran strong. Traded it in 3 years later and got $1,800 for it... lol.