What was your 1st car?

[mysteryowl]

I will start.

A yellow duster with a black strip. Super cool!
I paid $800.00 for a 2nd hand car.

Did you like it or was it a junker?

[Ohiya]

1. 1964 Ford Galaxy 500

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[Rincewind]

101. Ford Galaxy

1963 500XL to be precise

[BluesRunTheGame]

128. 1962 Galaxy 500 XL

[Skittles]

2. '73 Dodge Charger

yes INDEED

[LeftInTX]

127. I had that one...not quite sure of the year.

I don't know why I don't remember

But it appears to be a 73

[Cicada]

3. 1969 vw bug cobalt blue

[rsdsharp]

57. Orange 1973 VW Super Beetle.

[ironflange]

95. Mine was a red '74

[Harker]

116. Clementine?

I eventually inherited a '71 my dad bought new.

[njhoneybadger]

4. 1970 Ford Torino

[questionseverything]

31. 68 ford Torino black rusted $60

[rzemanfl]

5. 1964 Rambler two door hardtop. It was a mistake. n/t

[ProudMNDemocrat]

14. My dad had a 1962 Rambler station wagon.

We drove from San Jose to Cleveland in 1964.

[peacebuzzard]

92. my Rambler had 4 doors.

can't remember the year of the model.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. 1966 Ford Galaxie

[rzemanfl]

9. That was my next car after the Rambler above. n/t

[dhill926]

7. 65 Mustang....

great car....

[Ponietz]

11. Same here!

[Freedomofspeech]

12. Lucky you!

[Tanuki]

8. Second-hand Dodge Dart

[Freedomofspeech]

10. 1966 Corvair...

I needed it in 1970 to do my student teaching. Cost $600...
I loved that car.

[dweller]

77. me too

a little 3 speed 2 door ... took over my brother's 4 door corvair next,
then 66 vw fastback that came over with a family from Germany, that was my real 1st love ...

✌🏼

[Freedomofspeech]

82. My car was a two tone kind of turquoise blue hard top.

Believe it or not I got stopped for speeding by the PA State Police on more than one occasion. Crying worked back then and no tickets!!

[dweller]

91. lol

i put my 3 speed in neutral to coast down a long hill late 1 nite ..
got pulled for speeding ... i was rolling in neutral to save gas, i was that broke,
and gas was like .25/gal 🤣
i didn't cry, but he bought my excuse... i think i was 17 ?
got a warning... man those were the days

✌🏼

[Freedomofspeech]

102. No kidding...

We could ride around all night if we could get 50 cents together. Those were the days.

[indigoth]

13. A dodge

‘68 polara. Turquoise, four door hard top, very ordinary 318 automatic.

[gopiscrap]

15. 1967 Plymouth Fury

it had 197,000 miles and I took it another 51,400 on it. It burned more oil than gas. I got it for a case of beer and a broken ten speed bike.

[mysteryowl]

17. What a deal!

[gopiscrap]

19. I was 18 at the time. By the time I got rid of it for 50.00 it had no brakes and wipers didn't work

it lasted 28 months for me

[mysteryowl]

27. Like I said, what a deal!

[wnylib]

121. My first car was a 1967 Plymouth Fury VIP

Dark blue. Bought it from a dealer in 1974 for $650. Kept it for 3 years and sold it for $350.

It was a good car for me. Never had any trouble with it.

[BarbaRosa]

16. '57 Chevy Belair.

[Walleye]

20. My grandfather had one of those, black, red interior, hardtop. Great car.

[brush]

52. That's the best one on this OP. My second car was a '57 Belair convertible.

My first was a '52 Ford tudor hardtop with a flathead V8.

[Walleye]

18. 1956 Buick Century station wagon, peach-colored

[Arkansas Granny]

21. 1956 Dodge Coronet. Two tone gray, 4 doors. Push button transmission.

[femmedem]

22. My ex-boyfriend's old Beetle.

I think I paid $100 for it. It ran. It was cute. I just needed it for getting around a small city. Sure, it was a junker, but it was my first car, so of course I loved it.

[mysteryowl]

30. Good for you

[SouthernIrish]

23. 72 Chevelle

I.miss that car to this day

[Niagara]

111. I would too.

The Chevelle's were extremely classic and boss.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

24. '74 Chevy Nova

It was a red 4-door. I got it new, think it was around $4,000.

That fucker was in the shop so often it probably had its own service bay. But it took me and my friends, and later my spouse and me lots of places, and I had it over 12 years.

[mysteryowl]

32. Mixed memories, but the good ones outweigh it all

[50 Shades Of Blue]

41. Very true!

[MontanaMama]

25. '73 Super Beetle.

It was my grand dad’s car. My dad flew from Montana to Santa Rosa, CA to drive it home for me in 1980. I loved that car dearly. I still have the stick shift knob with the little fox and castle on it.

[TruckFump]

26. '65 VW Bug

1300 miles when I bought it in 1966 from a man who had been transferred the East Coast and did not want to drive it in snowy weather.

Hippie me lived in Isla Vista, went to. UCSB, and covered my plain Bug with Peace Symbols and pink and orange flowers.

[asiliveandbreathe]

28. 1957 Ford Fairlane - hardtop convertible - automatic..manual choke...turquoise..paid

$700..in "63..

[OAITW r.2.0]

29. A 1975 Alfa Romeo Alfetta Sedan.

A 2 liter, 6 speed +R beast that ran well in the summer, not so well in the winter, I bought it used in '76 (4,000 miles) for $5,000. It was a sedan with a suicide throttle. It was that or a '75 MGB-GT for about the same price. Those were the days the days my friend.....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. 1969 Toyota Corolla.

[mysteryowl]

48. most my cars have been Toyota Corolla's

[hunter]

114. I had a Corolla station wagon. I drove that all over the Western U.S.A.

I lived in it for a while as well.

The car once blew a head gasket which I replaced in the parking lot of a K-Mart.

People were walking by looking at me like

I was pretty feral looking at the time with a Grizzly Adams beard and long hair that went everywhere. I was also strong, making most of my money moving furniture. On a good day I could make $100, but it was usually closer to $50. That's $150 to $300 in today's money and part of the reason I graduated from college without any debt. College was much less expensive then as well.

Hardly anyone ever messed with me because I was crazy and looked crazy.

[NewDayOranges]

34. 1978 Chevy Chevette that I bought used in 1984!

It was emergency vehicle green hatchback that broke down just before EVERY pay day...

[soothsayer]

35. 69 camaro. Ugly green. Owner wanted $400, I talked her up to $500

This is why I’m not allowed to negotiate

[mysteryowl]

49. Ha

[soothsayer]

55. Holes in the floorboards that surprised passengers when I drove through puddles

Broken ignition on the steering column that let you start her with a screwdriver (as my brother discovered).

Once, when the transmission died, my brother and his friend replaced it with one from a salvage yard for like $90. Years later a guy checking the numerous exhaust leaks asked whether I knew my tranny was held on with trash bag ties. I didn’t.

I miss that car!

[mysteryowl]

65. Ha

[redstateblues]

36. Rambler

[FM123]

37. A blue Pontiac Sunbird!

I was a teenager so I would have preferred a cooler car like a Corvette, but nonetheless was happy to have wheels....

[bullimiami]

38. 72 Nova. paid 1500 in 77. 15k miles. Literally owned by wife who only used it for errands.

[Submariner]

39. 1966 Chevelle 396 Super Sport

with a dual-feed Holley 4 barrel that got 8 mpg, but at 27 cents a gallon, so what, it was the speed that mattered.

[brush]

60. That was a real muscle car. Must've been fast in the quarter.

[Submariner]

76. It would bury the speedometer at 120 mph, and float the valves at 130 mph

almost blowing the engine.

It got to top speed awfully fast. I never timed the speeds, just the results of drag dragging 442's, GTO's, and Road Runners around the east coast Navy bases. It was a fun time before they started loading up the motors with power robbing emission controls in 1970.

[brush]

80. Those were the days. A buddy of mine had '64 GTO he loaded up with solid...

lifters and a cam. It flew.

I didn't have the budget but I had a nice little '57 Chevy with a 283 small block. It had a little zip but nothing compared to the big block Chevy.

[RainCaster]

40. MG Midget

[Delarage]

42. 1980 Chevy Citation

Bought from my mom for $800

I could fit a lot of stuff in it, but it was crap.

[LakeArenal]

43. 1969 Ford XL. Ugly 1974 graduation from college gift.

But it ran a long time.

Fix Or Repair Daily.

[OneBlueDotBama]

44. 59 Triumph TR3

I'm surprised I'm lived thru that...

17 with a Brit Sports car...

[brush]

61. That's the one with the diagonal cut doors you could step over to get in?

[OneBlueDotBama]

68. That would be the one....

no heater, side curtains, very simple car, twin carbs, easy to maintain, bulletproof 2 liter tractor engine, brakes faded bad...

Wish I'd kept it, very sweet car.

[flotsam]

98. Had several (and also a herald)

And there WAS a heater-as rudimentary as all the electricals in English cars. But not surprised you never found it...

[OneBlueDotBama]

104. Why do Brits drink warm beer

Lucas fridges...

Rewired it, completely.

Rebuilt the battery box on the firewall....

Worst thing was, other owners were constantly stealing the hood locks. The ill fitting drop top, that water would somehow build up on the windshield (screen) then come in the cockpit whenever you hit a bump...

Bottom line is was fun to drive, after some de-lucasing, very reliable.

Great first car. Bought a new TR-8 a decade or so later, same Lucas crap, only it was Delco-Lucas, nightmare with the warranty, some folks who raced a TR-8 had workarounds for the Lucas-Delco electronics, trash it, as they had some engineered parts.

[TheCowsCameHome]

45. 1936 Studebaker 4 door

left to me by a favorite aunt in her will.

[Wicked Blue]

46. 1966 Dodge Dart

Bought it from my psych professor for $300. A wonderful car.

[pnwest]

59. I had a '65, that car was a TANK! LOL. I and

several of my girlfriends could sit on it, waving and hollering at the boys cruising the strip, without making a dent in the hood OR the top! LOL.

[brush]

64. That's went cars were made of thicker guage steel than now.

[pnwest]

66. It sure was, I remember being amazed at how

heavy the hood was and how thick the metal was!

[brush]

69. I had a '75 Dodge Dart with a slant six. It ran forever with no engine...

maintenance. I had in NY through several winters and rocker panels finally rotted out from the winter road salt but the engine was still running like a top.

I drove it to the junk yard and left the key in it.

The slant six was one of the best engines ever, along with the Chevy small block.

[yonder]

89. Yes, slant sixes would run forever.

[Lefta Dissenter]

47. '66 Chevelle

It was the color of an old band-aid. 🤣 Ugly as can be, but fast!

I paid $300 for it. Then it was totaled in a hit and run, I collected $300 insurance on it, my boyfriend at the time used a wrecker to pull the crumpled fenders back out and I was back on the road for free! 😆

[mysteryowl]

50. Ha!

[pnwest]

51. Mine was a Pinto, don't remember it's year. Paid $700

for it at a crappy lot in ‘81, start of my Sr year in high school. POS car, it broke down on the way home from the lot, shit you not. Over the next several months I remember my Dad towing me home several times. But it was before cars got so complicated and computerized, he enjoyed taking it apart and fixing it - showing me how a combustion engine works, showed me how the pistons moved, had me hold the light thing while he adjusted the timing belt. Crap car, but good memories 😊

[consider_this]

53. "72 Duster that I bought in '79

Not the cool yellow with black stripe, more like an army green. whatever - kids gotta budget! Felt like a giant tin can, but it got me around. I passed up the used Cougar (car of my dreams) because the trunk was rusted out. I should took the ruster over the Duster!

[mysteryowl]

79. No, you don't say. Don't diss the Duster!

I love my yellow Duster. My sister had it next and she painted a giant lion head on the hood. It was a family cool-car!

[consider_this]

81. mine just broke down all the time.

It was pretty old when I got it - was supposed to be cool that it had the slant-6 engine. I think the lame colored ones (like I had and bought second had from some old biology professor) were no where near as cool as the yellow and stripes ones. I think there were purple too, no? what do i know.
it did last me a few years.

[NBachers]

54. '52 Plymouth Cranbrook, 3 on the tree, wing windows all around, 50 bucks. I made a flatboat box

with my waterbed frame, strapped it to the roof, ran chains down to all four bumpers, scored some pot, and moved from Kalamazoo to Miami in the middle of winter. Long-haired freaks on the road. Cop bait. Real Grapes of Wrath.

[royable]

56. Just a cautious FYI.....

Your first car is an often used security question.

[mysteryowl]

62. Curious, I did not make that association.

I guess if someone has used it as such, they will know not to play along.

[FoxNewsSucks]

72. Dammit,

I even found a pic online that looked exactly like it to put it in my post. Oh well. . . . I'll just post my 2nd car instead

[rickford66]

58. 52 FORD flathead V8 stick on the column in 1966 (always got me there)

Bought for $15 and sold a year later for $25.

Next was a 56 Ford V8 stick $50 - after one year a piston went through the block

Next was a 65 FORD Custom police car $850 390 stick - You could not hurt this car. Sold when going to boot camp 1969.

[Tikki]

63. 1951 Chevy 4 door 6 cyl stock black paint *

Then boyfriend (now hubby)...got it running for me in 1966.


Tikki
*with a bullet hole in the left front headlight

[Totally Tunsie]

67. 1960 Chevy Impala Convertible

Bought it Used for $1,000. in perfect condition.

It was FABULOUS!

[mysteryowl]

70. Beautiful!

[Totally Tunsie]

88. Wish I still had it today!

It broke my heart to sell it when I married and we were moving from Connecticut to California. We could take only one car and new hubby had a 1966 red VW Convertible that won the coin toss.

[brush]

74. Sweet ride. Was it a 283 ci engine?

[Totally Tunsie]

86. Ummm, I dunno.

I was a 19-year-old girl, and just wanted "pretty"! Things were different in the 60's. My Daddy said it was a good car, and he had final word. (I just had to pay for it.)

In fact, I really wanted the black 1959 T-Bird Convertible, but Daddy said it was too small and unsafe for me.

[Lochloosa]

71. '67 Delta 88. You could put six people in the trunk.

Great for the drive-in.

[moonscape]

73. 1954 Ford. Tan. The color

description dates me as much as the year.

[sinkingfeeling]

75. 1957 Nash Metropolitan. Turquoise and white.

[FoxNewsSucks]

78. 1977 Pontiac Firebird

Actually my 2nd car, I saw the post above about 1st car being a common security question.

The one pictured is just like mine with two exceptions - mine had the snowflake wheels and red interior. I really liked that car. Like most (all) late 70's and early 80's cars it was worn out by the time it had 60k. Of course, that could also be caused by my driving. . .

I still love the style of the 77-81 Firebirds. I'll admit that at the time it was partly influenced by the Smokey and the Bandit movies and the Rockford Files. I would love to have that same body style with modern mechanical and interiors.

[bottomofthehill]

83. 1972 Dodge with a 400 cubic inch engine.

It was a boat. 500 dollars with 73000 miles on it. It seemed like a steal at the time and it really was. Drove it for 4 years put almost 40000 more miles on it. Gas was about 1.25 a gallon. It actually got down below a dollar a gallon which was a blessing as it got about 12/14 miles a gallon on a good week.

[IcyPeas]

84. 1991 Mazda 323, blue

Very practical.

[Wellstone ruled]

85. 56' Ford Crown Victoria Sunliner.

Police Interceptor,high end gears in the rear end. Bought it used in 59' for 1200. Sold it to a local for 2k and his family has restored it and it makes the Car show circuit yet today.

[TexasBushwhacker]

87. I learned to drive in a Ford Country Squire station wagon

It was a beast! I had to parallel park the sucker for my driving test.

Then I got to use my dad's 1969 VW Beetle, Bahama Blue. It was an impulse buy when gas soared to $1 a gallon. My dad didn't consider that at 6'4", it wasn't the best fit.

[peacebuzzard]

90. In college I had a Rambler. with an 8 track tape player

a couple of yrs later I bought a Javelin. I worked on M street in D.C. by "My Mother's Place" bar. Saw Rory Gallagher twice during the Javelin era.

[yonder]

93. Several motorcycles were my first car but the first CarCar

was a nearly new 69 Austin America. Low miles, I bought it for 600 bucks because it was such a great deal. Gosh I loved that thing and drove it all around Denver till an old lady in a Buick center-punched me and totalled it. That was the end of that fun.

[alabhaois]

96. A classic

[mysteryowl]

106. Nice!

[alabhaois]

109. The only problem with it was...

I would have to take it into the shop every other week.

[mysteryowl]

119. Well, certainly soured the fun.

Welcome to DU

[GummyBearsRYummy]

97. 1990 Maruti 800

1990 Maruti 800

[flotsam]

99. 63 VW for my 15th birthday

along with my first set of metric wrenches and sockets. The guy who sold it to my Dad for $50 told him the motor was blown. It first ran 10 days later. Before I got my license I had worn 8" grooves up the driveway and busted 5-6 studs in the back of the garage...

[Rhiannon12866]

100. I inherited my mother's 1971 Plymouth Duster - and I loved it!

My mother used to get a new car every 10 years - and I think she got sick of driving me to work.

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[mysteryowl]

103. I don't remember my Plymouth Duster looking like this.

Mine was super cool! Oh, what time does to memory. Yet, mine was YELLOW with a black strip on each side. I have no idea what year it was. Hmmmm?

[Rhiannon12866]

124. Actually, this one is 1970, my mother's was 1971

I can't see the back, I know I'd recognize the lights, but my grill was straight and this one has a notch in it. But it looks almost identical - my mother always chose white cars, she felt that they'd be more visible at night. And the interior was blue. The only other difference with mine was that it also had a narrow black and silver guard along the sides - to prevent possible parking lot dents. And the hub caps were different, I remember those, too. They were the originals, I don't think the ones on this car are.

[mysteryowl]

105. OMG, I just looked up Duster cars and they are selling for $38,000!!

I can't find a yellow one, but I see orange and purple and green.


It was considered a bit of a roadster at the time. I guess others thought so too, and kept them.

[Rhiannon12866]

125. Yikes! I wish I could tell my mother!

I'm in the Northeast and rust got to my Duster - it finally wouldn't pass inspection and back then I couldn't find anyone to fix it, everyone I tried just wanted to do insurance work. This was back in the '80s.

[blaze]

107. '72 Chevy Vega

Check the gas and fill up the oil.

My folks sold it to me for $1 and it got me from the east coast to Colorado.

After I got my third ticket for excessive smoke, my bf at the time (a fire fighter) suggested I donate it to the fire department. When I appeared in court, I had a letter from a FD lieutenant stating that the car had since been destroyed in an auto extrication class.

The judge laughed and said, "Case dismissed."

[LuckyCharms]

108. '67 Chevy Impala, standard shift, "three on the tree"...

Shifter was on the steering column, 3 speed.

[Niagara]

110. Due to security reasons, I will list my favorite owned car.

It was a 1982 2 door Olds Cutlass Calais that someone had altered with a 350 Rocket. It was the color of the one pictured and very similar to the Olds Cutlass Supreme models.



My favorite vehicle has the G-body style and color was gorgeous. My favorite part of owning this car was it was always inexpensive to fix. Even though it was automatic, there was a time that the car had started to slip while in drive and I thought my transmission was dying. Come to find out a transmission seal needed replaced and at the time it was a whopping $2 fix. I had other problems that would happen here and there and it was generally an inexpensive repair. The ending of this beautiful machine came from a pizza delivery kid rear ending me and the car was totaled.

[Fla Dem]

112. 1968 Ford Mustang, Lime Gold, brand new. Cost about $2,800.

[Hotler]

113. 1946 chevy panel truck, paid $10.00 for it. It was 1972, I was 17 yrs old.

I had been sitting in a field buried up to its axles in dirt, weeds growing all over. I dug it out and my step dad towed it home, changed what ever fluids was in with fresh, primed the carb, put in a new battery and it started right up. I put some blocking across the back and added a mattress. It was perfect for High School date night at the drive-in. I wish I would have kept it.

[Harker]

115. 1968 Pontiac Firebird 400.

It was seven years old. I was sixteen.

[benld74]

117. Beige 1970 4 door Pontiac Catalina

[lillypaddle]

118. 1965 Corvair

Very cool car, but my soon to be husband wrecked it. It was an omen. He has long been an EX husband.

[Throckmorton]

120. 1973 Ford Pinto

It never exploded, but it did have a sagging unibody. You had to be sure to close the driver's side door, before you opened the passenger side door. If you didn't, neither door would close properly.

It was 5 years old when I got it, it lasted less than another year.

[Wolf Frankula]

122. A 1952 Korean War Surplus Willys Army Jeep.

It would go anywhere. I had to get rid of it when the same things broke down over and over and I couldn't get parts for it.
It was so easy to fix that I could do simple repairs.

Wolf

[BainsBane]

123. Dodge Colt, an 81 or something

I bought used. They were made by Mitsubishi at the time.

[North Shore Chicago]

126. Pea green

1978 Chevy Nova.

[Stuart G]

129. 1963 Cadillac, quite used, one uncle, gave it to another uncle, that one sold it to me. $25.00

Yes, twenty five dollars in 1968, when I got it was worth about $100- to $150 in today's money. ..
Yes, it broke down on the middle of an expressway at 3:30am in the morning..

[csziggy]

130. 1958 Buick Special four door sedan

Not the least bit sporty, but I could fit 3-4 bales of hay in the trunk and 300 pounds of horse feed in the back seat. It was emerald green with a white vinyl roof and great huge fins on the back end.

My grandmother had purchased the car new and drove it until she bought her new 1964 Buick Special. Then she passed the car along to my parents and it was the family car for a few years. I got it as my first car as soon as I passed my driver's test. I had to take that test in Mom's Cadillac Sedan deVille and have hated parallel parking ever since - but I parked it neatly and accurately so I had practice driving my first land barge.