What was your first car.

[Kenbushway]

This was mine, a 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.

My grandmother sold it to me for $20 when I was 17. It was in immaculate shape with only 25,000 miles when I got it. Unfortunately I didn't have a garage to keep it in and it's condition deteriorated over the years... partly because it would be several more years before I got a driver's license. I eventually donated it to a drug rehab center that fixes and sells used cars.

Don't think you suffered. These models constantly had idle problems, brake problems, and heating/cooling problems.

 

[TJinLOCA]

1972 Toyota Corona, which cost me $400 when I bought it in college. I sold it for about the same a couple of years later, and then a few years after I graduated I bought a 1974 Corolla for $700 which I drove for years.

Now I have a 2005 Prius with over 200,000 miles on it. Those Toyotas are pretty hard to kill.

 

[thestrangequark]

This was mine, a 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.

My grandmother sold it to me for $20 when I was 17. It was in immaculate shape with only 25,000 miles when I got it. Unfortunately I didn't have a garage to keep it in and it's condition deteriorated over the years... partly because it would be several more years before I got a driver's license. I eventually donated it to a drug rehab center that fixes and sells used cars.

We had one of those when I was a kid too...it was pale blue. We also had a pale blue Chevy, 70's model, in which I got my first kiss when I was 7. I'd never really thought about all the cars we went through!

 

[auntiehill]

1972 Toyota Corona, which cost me $400 when I bought it in college. I sold it for about the same a couple of years later, and then a few years after I graduated I bought a 1974 Corolla for $700 which I drove for years.

Now I have a 2005 Prius with over 200,000 miles on it. Those Toyotas are pretty hard to kill.

Yes, they are. I had a Toyota Camry that had over 180,000 miles before we traded it in.

 

[ngc7293]

My first car that I drove was my grandparents old Galaxie 500 (I think 1963) that they drove to Mackinac Island every summer. The thing is a red freaking boat!

My next car was for college was a blue 89 Escort. I had that until I blew a head gasket.

Then I got one of my Dad's company cars, a dark blue loaded 93 Taurus. I had that for several years until it got too expensive to repair (the company car wasn't taken care of)

My most recent car is a 98 silver Sable it yas over 172,000 miles on it. It was a rental car that started out with about 20,000. I am probably going to run this one into the ground.

 

[nightwind1]

In 1979, I bought a used 1972 Ford LTD with a 400 engine, an eight-track player, and a trunk you could hide multiple bodies in. For $900.00.

It was an awesome car. I miss it to this day.

 

[Kelso]

Red 1996 Toyota Tercel. It looked like this.

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

I never had one. I got my driver's license, but made my parents promise not to surprise me with a car. I REALLY didn't like driving.

 

[Shazam!]

My first (and current) car was / is a 2001 Honda Civic

 

[TJinLOCA]

I never had one. I got my driver's license, but made my parents promise not to surprise me with a car. I REALLY didn't like driving.

You had to make your parents promise not to surprise you with a car?? My parents didn't even want me getting a car when I paid for it with my own money. They were sure they'd end up paying for repairs, etc. and they were not financially generous people.

We used to joke that whenever my dad took a $20 bill out of his wallet, Thomas Jefferson had to shade his eyes from the light.

 

[Colonel Green]

The first car I owned was a 1985 Toyota Camry sedan. Odd that this poll doesn't include the world's largest automaker If you make a poll with 10 options and 56% of the respondents choose "other", you're doing it wrong.

 

[Kenbushway]

Looks like Ford is the most popular model of American cars for this thread. It curious because like Honda ford is very specific. If your transmission on a Chevy craps out, you can put a different car brand in. With Ford you can't do that, you have to get a ford transmission.

 

[Paulcpick]

Ford being the most popular on here is a bit misleading I think. Factor in other GM nameplates past and present, such as Buick, Cadillac, GEO, GMC, Holden, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Opel, Saturn, and Vauxhall, then I'm sure GM would be at the top of that list.

 

[Kenbushway]

Ford being the most popular on here is a bit misleading I think. Factor in other GM nameplates past and present, such as Buick, Cadillac, GEO, GMC, Holden, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Opel, Saturn, and Vauxhall, then I'm sure GM would be at the top of that list.

Yes GM could be most popular, but I am talking poll wise. The poll also doesn't cover companies bought by other car companies. I should have made a bigger poll.

 

[Alrik]

Ford being the most popular on here is a bit misleading I think. Factor in other GM nameplates past and present, such as Buick, Cadillac, GEO, GMC, Holden, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Opel, Saturn, and Vauxhall, then I'm sure GM would be at the top of that list.

Yes GM could be most popular, but I am talking poll wise. The poll also doesn't cover companies bought by other car companies. I should have made a bigger poll.

Also could have gone with Ford Product (Ford, Lincoln, Mercury), GM Product (listed), Dodge Product (Dodge, Chrysler, Plymouth), Toyota P, Honda P, so on and so forth. But I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. The thread is fine the way it is.

 

[MANT!]

1st car..
1972 Datsun 510 2 door..

Made from 5 wrecks so, unlike in the example above, not one body panel matched..

Over time I painted it (with a case of Krylon a deep dark blue), got wider tires (painted black with chrome lugs and beauty rings), got a BRE racing suspension, a 2 liter engine, a 5 speed transmission and a small black ducktail spoiler.. my little brother wrecked it 6 months after I got it set-up

I got (as a gift) a 72 Datsun 510 station wagon to replace it..it died at my first duty station in Arkansas in 1984..

my first new car was a 1984 Dodge Colt turbo..

Loved that little Rice Rocket..it had the 4X2 twin stick 8 speed transmission..
took it with me to the UK..much fun in that little car..

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I've never owned a car and I hope to die being still able to say that.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I wish I could say that. I don't particularly enjoy driving. I wish I lived in a city like NYC or Chicago or Boston, where I wouldn't need a car. But despite my city's approximately 1,000,000 studies on mass transit, we have what is technically described as "jack shit" in that area.

 

[Kenbushway]

I love driving; the only thing I don't like is that I don't know how to drive stick(manual).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ At 16, I tried learning how to drive a stick shift, but I hit a pole and gave up.