What Was Your First Car?
Mine was a 1972 Ford Torino.
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The used car guy had to drive it home for me since I didn't know how to drive a stick or even have a driver's license, for that matter.
I taught myself how to drive it by taking it out on back roads in the middle of the night. I actually didn't get my license for another seven years. 
The folly of youth.
Like this one but dark green color.
It was 12 years old when I bought it for $500, and had had three previous owners.
Half of the body paneling was Bondo under the paint.
Stock photo, but pretty close:
Hers was the gold color
We had a ton of fun in that car. 
Wish I could have it back...
1987 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer for me... Built in Flint, MI of all places right before everything turned to shit and Michael Moore got his camera out.
This is *NOT* the one I had, but it was this color scheme (which was popular for this model year):
Something like this:
283, three speed on the column, four door. baby crap copper. 
me one bit. that had a helluva engine - we are talking 60's cars here.
uh - did you do that?
I'm only one year older than the car. I also had the oldest car on campus when I went to college. The car that I had was painted maroon.
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Ewwww boy is right.
It was a nightmare. Always something wrong w/it. 
Better than nothing I suppose!
This is a stock photo. Mine was white. It was my grandmother's and I got it after she stopped driving. Talk about an old lady car! But it was wheels, which was all that mattered to me!
3 speed on the column. 6 cyl.
Loved the front bench seat. 
He drove it home and put it up on cinderblocks in the backyard until summer of '57.
Drove that during jr. and sr. year of high school.
Watta hoot to look back.
Mom and Dad belonged to a motorcycle club, hence the cycles in the pic.
Pic is just representative. Mine was all silver with custom chrome wheels. Paid $2500 for it in October of 2001. Loved/hated that car. Loved it cause it was "fast", loud, and obnoxious. Hated it because it was a money pit lol. I put fast in "" because it was pathetically slow compared to what I have owned since.
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That’s what my high school boyfriend drove (not sure of the year). The heat never worked in it, so in the winter (here in Wisconsin), we burned cans of sterno on the floor and dash to heat the car. I’m sure THAT was safe! 
It was a convertible Dodge Polara-used. I don't know the year. All I know about it was, it was very dark green( almost appeared black) and it was huge. My kids called it the Bat Mobile.
I do know one thing..... I just loved that car. 
I hated when it finally broke down for good. 
My mother got a new car every 10 years - and it was always white. Loved that car!
I installed an 8 tract stereo, and headers in that order..
Mine had one, I remember that much.
As I stated, I loved loved loved that car!
My father made me get rid of it and I did not want to but I had to as after one of its last great runs over Ebbetts Pass and Mosquito Lake not far from Donner Lake, Calif. Sadly, it threw a rod.
Barely made it home and after that I had to sell it.
I paid $1100 for it. Today it is worth over $2500+.
Drat!
I loved this car. Had I had my way, I'd still own it today!
Fun fun fun!
After 6 months of driving I was hit by a drunk driver so I got a 68 Caprice Classic because Dad would not allow me to purchase a Chevy SS.
One each front fender:
Muncie M-20 4 speed, dual exhaust and A Rochester 750 4 bbl. About 9 mpg around town. Bought it for $350 from my cousin with 167,000 miles on it. It was about 4600 lbs with me in it; considerably more 5 or 6 friends from college heading for the beer distributor.
transmission but it had a regular gasoline engine not the rotary. Loved that little car, it ran a long time. [link:
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I babysat for a guy that traded me babysitting time for the car, so basically $50!
I had to hide it from my parents. Parked it down the street!
Straight eight, hydromatic tranny, visor and fender skirts. Pontiac blue and not a dent on it! Radio that worked too!
When my parents finally discovered the car, I was sure they would be pissed and I would be grounded, but instead my dad said, "Well, let's see what's under the hood." He showed me how to do a valve job!
I t looked this, except it was blue.
Years later, I traded it in for a Fiat convertible. What a freakin' mistake.
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A 1952 surplus Army Jeep made by Willys. I had to get rid of it when I couldn't find spare parts.
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If I knew then what I know now, I would have kept the car, restored it and made a LOT of money selling it.
I paid $250 for it. Had for a little over a year then bought a '65 GTO. That one cost $750.
I'm glad I did all my hot rodding and muscle cars when it was cheap. The cars I owned before I was 21 would add up to several hundred thousand dollars at a modern car auction. I didn't pay over $1500 for any of them.
I now drive a leased Nissan Sentra. I get 43 mpg highway to atone for my youthful environmental sins.
