My first car was a 1965 Ferrari 250 GT...had a really shitty radio in it. So, I sold it for $800 cash and a bootleg Beatles album. Caveat emptor !
ugh my first car was a chevy vega wagon not much different than this one looked great, broke down constantly in retrospect, a great first car actually... lowered my expectations so much that the next several vehicles thereafter were great!
My first car was a bad ass 1979 CVCC. I got it from my first job mopping and waxing supermarket floors at night when I was 14. I could not drive legally yet but I would mess around with it so I could get used to being in a car. My mom made me let my 21 year old cousin use it so he could take his GF out. He crashed it. Now they remaking it. So when I was 16 I got me my real first car that I would drive for years. 1983 Corolla FX-16 hatchback. I had the 5 door hatchback not this 3 door. Sure it had an MR2 engine that would zip past all the newer cars... but i was not a gear head. All I cared about was all that rear space, perfect for a young boy taking his girl up the hill. Cost me 500 bucks at the local impound lot.
Never got my license until I was 22...first thing I drove was a M-113 Armored Personal Carrier... Not too fast, but could turn on a dime. When mounted with a .50 caliber, great for a drive by...
I forgot how cool looking they were...had Volvo P-1800 E that had that egg crate grill, too. Loved it. Thought I was Simon Templar when I was in it.
that looks a lot like my first car. 74 and it was that color brown w out the tonneau or the rear spoiler i crashed it after nearly dying in it multiple times on the beach roads saved up 3k to buy it by 17 working on houses my brother was buying and reselling mom sort of picked it out for me when she spotted it for sale always liked the 71/72 versions so maybe thats why i chose to destroy it
My first car was my parents old 1980 Olds Cutlass Supreme. What a piece of shite. Nearly killed me a few times. The engine warning light went on on the way from the dealer to home....brand new. Clock stopped working the 1st month. By the time I got it, it sucked so bad, would backfire.....sheesh. I remember when people were shooting at each other on the freeways, and the car backfired on me, I though someone was shooting at me. Would not accelerate when you stomped on the gas....a problem when you’re trying to merge onto a freeway. Eventually, the engine died and it was goodbye and good riddance.
Suffering makes you better. Wait till they drop the bomb on us. We gonna get very creative with the steampunk.
My buddy growing up inherited a '74 Type LT Camaro from his folks. We had a lot of fun in that car. My first "Real" car was a '69 Z/28 with a Muncie M22 and 4 Wheel disc brakes. A true unicorn today. Wish I still had that one.
I just HAD TO HAVE the IROC Z when it first came out in '85. I ended up getting one a year later and absolutely hated it after driving and dealing it. My next car was a Mazda RX7 Turbo II in '87 that absolutely blew it away in every respect. I drove that car until the engine melted with 130K miles on it. I was absolutely fearless in that car and raved e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y in the hills. I fucked up the P and F car guys regularly. It was the serious kids in the SCCA Honda Civics that gave me the most trouble.
Shite....after the Oldmobile debacle, I graduated to my sister's Pontiac J2000. Pontiac's lame response to Japanese hatchbacks. What a freaking waste of iron. My parents eventually realized that being a patriotic American car buyer was just making them beed money and endanger their children. Most reluctantly, my parents finally gave in and bought their first Japaense car...a base model Toyota Celica. There was no turning back. Since then, the whole family has bought Acuras, Hondas, Toyotas, Lexuses, Nissans, the occasional Audis, Mercedes, Volvos, Subarus..... It's too bad that a decade of incompetent American car making may have turned off several generations of people from buying American cars. Not saying everyone feels this way, but other than trucks, it seems the North American car market has been traumatized by the 70's and 80's.
