Reliving your first car

[PurpleFloyd]

1972 Chevelle SS.

Man, did I get in a lot of trouble with that car.

[SpecialK]

1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme with a 350 Rocket motor with a Quadrajet 4 barrel carb. I went thru a dip one night and the muffler fell off. Not a good thing to have happen at 10:30 pm in the middle of a quiet little town. Thank god I wasn't far from the back roads and lived outside town. Took a little while to get home, but I didn't have all the 'city' cops chasing me down either.

I hit a patch of ice under a railroad bridge and put it into a guardrail and bent the frame. I miss that car.

[Hookmaster]

1972 Chevy short box pick up. 3 in the tree with a straight 6 cyl. It was from a window washer so it had a ladder rack. That worked great because I worked for a house painter when I was in college. There was something wrong with the shift linkage and you had to shift it a certain way or it would get hung up in 1st gear. I was the only one who could drive it.

[fishuhalik]

1st & best vehicle i owned was becca, a mint 96 nissan. 4x4, extended cab, 5 spd manual, 4" lift, 32" tires, dual exhaust from the cat back with 3" tips, full pioneer stereo system & painted tonneau. i beat the snuff outta that truck & she took it like a champ. put 'er in 3 low & she'd go anywhere & climb any mine dump. becca was a burnout champ too. i mastered the brake stand in that beast. in the 3 years i owned her i went through 4 sets of tires & not one clutch or tranny. i installed the stereo swith extra long cables so at parties i could set the speakers on the tonneau. that idea caught on quick! shoot, my wife & i even had our first date in that truck. i knew when i asked her what she wanted to do & said "lets go muddin!" i'd found the one. i finally sold her to get a car since i was getting into speed, & i regretted it the minute she drove off the driveway. becca was still in near-mind condition, even after all the abuse i put her through. 2 weeks after i sold it the meat-head tragically sent her to that sweet mud hole in the sky. apparently he thought it was a great idea to pound a 12 pack & go racing down a logging trail. i havent talked to him since.

[mabr]

Oh fishuhalik you’re making me feel REAL old, I've got underpants older than that. I didn’t want to get started on this thread as I knew it would dredge a lot of old memories about trucks long gone!

My first and maybe my best was a 62 Chevy C-10 half ton. Had a 292 I think that’s what it was. Heck I didn’t even know what end of a spark plug went in where at that time so it might not be correct. But I did learn it had an oil bath filter vs a regular filter. She got a whopping 8 mpg but she was all mine!!! And she was a chick magnet at the time!!!

I put a top of the line Kenwood stereo in her and Panasonic sound pump 100’s speakers in her so I could be all that much cooler!!!! WOW do I feel old now , but that’s ok.

[PiedmontAngler]

Well my first was short lived only one year on a 1972 Dodge Dart with the 318. It was a granny car. Brown, 4-door, bench seats with a vinyl top. I sold it the next summer and bought a 1968 Cutlass S convertible with a 350 rocket. I still own this one, it is currently in storage waiting for restoration. Well waiting for the kids to leave the nest so I can start.

[goblueM]

My first car was a 1993 Toyota Tercel that I inherited in 2003. Manual transmission, no power steering, no radio, no clock, no A/C, and black vinyl seats.

Nicknamed "The Dominator" because it had 13" "Dominator" brand tires, I did way more recreation than I should have out of that little car. I had my picture taken multiple times while driving down the highway loaded down with duck decoys and a 17 foot canoe

Poor guy died by dropping the transmission on me in Gary, Indiana... 7 AM Sunday morning in January with sub-zero temps, after I left Michigan at 4 AM en route to St. Paul

[Scott K]

My first car was a 72 Grand Torino with a 400M engine in it. It was a Blue Starsky and Hutch car. I got it when I was 13, and it had a bad tranny. I replaced the tranny, but in never went into drive, but that was ok with me, i found it would go well above the speed limit in 2nd gear. Today I look back, and I am pretty sure the kick down wasnt adjusted correct, but back then, I was happy enough that i bolted in a different transmission, and it moved forward and reverse. I ended up trading the car for a motor cycle, and then traded the motor cycle for a 76 F150 4x4. The Torino was in nice shape, I kinda wish I would have kept it, but oh well.

[ted4887]

Well, I'm a young'n, but my first car was a 2002 Monte Carlo, dark blue in color and about 5,000 miles on it. It lasted about a month and a half before I hit a deer, which I tried to swerve to miss but instead proceeded to smash a field approach at around 45 mph. That car didn't even make 7,000 miles total before it was hauled off to the scrapyard in pieces.

After a few months of doing everything I could to never drive again, I was given a 95' Lumina which I drove the heck out of for about 4 years. I loved that car.

[Bobby Bass]

A tan 1970 Chevy Impala with highway gears, bought it from a insurance salesmen with a 160k on it. Thing would burn rubber all the way up the on ramp to the freeway. Tore the entire exhaust system out looking for a secret lake in the BWCA and had to drive back home with the windows all open in late fall. Sold it with 265k on it and the guy hit a deer and totaled it the next day, all about timing I guess! Called it Betsy, and I don't have a clue why.