For the North Americans and maybe a lucky non North Americans

What was your 1st car? Maybe you can find it here.

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KTK

 

A 1977 Toyota Celica GT Hatchback.....the Japanese Mustang. It was a fabulous car. Wish I still had it

 

Mine was a 56 Ford Niagara (Canadian model ) 3 on the tree and a big straight 6. Great car I bought it in 1968 for a $150.00 off a lady who had it since new. Lots of room in the back seat, whoo hoo!

http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/ford/56_ford1.html

Had on of these too, rare now.

http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/amc/65mar/65mar.html

KTK

 

The very first car that was actually mine was a reward from my Father for running his two farm/ranch operations while he took Mom on a long promised world cruise on the Queen Elizabeth. She now had breast cancer, and he wasn't sure how long he might have to fulfill the promise. He told my sixteen year old self in '65, that if I did well, got the crops harvested and seeded, cattle taken to market, and nothing died or I lost big money he would buy me a new car on his return. The only stipulation was no Corvette.

When they returned in '66 I had done my research and decided on a Chevelle SS-396, and he let me go in and order it with whatever I wanted as options. The only kicker here was Mom had so much trouble with bucket seats, that it was ordered with the bench. Years after I had long traded it off, low and behold some fella named Gary in Oregon had found the old "Protecto-Plate" for it still in the glove box and he tracked me down and asked "why all the go-fast stuff, and optional disk brakes, and a bench seat?"

He included his email address, so I wrote him back and explained. Turns out that made it a rather rare SS-396, he had done a frame off restoration and sent me pics of his work. This is what I had for my final HS Senior year, and went to college in. This very same car, glad somebody is still having fun with it. I wouldn't have added the fuzzy dice myself, but it is his now.


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That's one of my all time favorites Clint, truly a beautiful car.

KTK

 

Thanks for the comment KTK, I liked it so much I use one of his pics as my wallpaper, alternating from one to the other every now and then.

 

A 1969 Dodge Coronet. Paid $400 for it in 1975. In 1977 I got $2,000 on a trade in for a new Chevy !

Still wish I had it !

 

At age 13 I was allowed to buy a 1954 Chrysler Windsor, very old condition, to haul brothers and sisters to the bus stop that did not come by our house, so then I drove it other places.....not a big deal in those days whether you had license or not......once in a while it actually burned gasoline but mmmmm other things were available in our gas fields so youngsters were expected to harvest the tank farms in those days....the last of those days.....it only lasted me a couple years and gave some trouble so it was sold to move on to an older slightly better 1941 Studebaker Commander two door coup(year left out of the brochure as few were made as the war broke out)....very comfortable car, heater under both seats, separate heater for defrosters, electric wipers, plush cloth upholstery, very comfortable back seat, the girls loved to ride there....of course the driver never went there. By now I had to use gasoline but it was more economical than the Chrysler.....and speedy.............especially on a gradual downhill run where you could engage the freewheeling overdrive and amass incredible speed to the point of being scary.(6 cylinder only) Ever since that experience, I always wanted an overdrive just like that but none can be found in its "freewheeling" form today as it became famous for causing loss of control accidents. It was a very economical feature as it caused extremely low engine speeds when engaged. It seemed you slowly would go faster and faster on level or down hill runs just by being in high and pulling on a dashboard switch much like a choke. If you failed to push it back in on a steep hill......well you were totally dependent on the brakes to slow down.....very dangerous as steering was not excellent if any curves were involved. Yes I caused fear amongst the passengers and even to myself with that overdrive and smoking brakes....but I didn't have any accidents and learned when to use it and when not to. It was one of those.....if only I had kept that car......sort of stories you look back on. Sometime while owning that car I did get a license in case you were concerned. Not a big issue in rural New Mexico in those days......(late 50's, early 60's).

 

Found my first car: 1969 Mercury Montego Brougham

The pic is even the right color. Mine had a feature that they don't list, though. The floorboard viewing port.

 

Mine was a 1974 Dodge Charger SE. Believe it or not it looked exactly like the one in the photo (color)

Loved that car!

 

Hope you don't mind a 'Limey' jumping in here?

My first car was a 1969 powder blue Morris Minor 1000 (1000cc) which had an eye watering top speed of around 60mph! I bought it when I was 16 with the intention of passing my test at 17 and then using it on the road. However, when I did pass my test, I decided I wanted a bit more grunt under the bonnet and ended up selling the "Moggie Minor" in the local newspaper.

I often wonder what happened to that little car?

 

A bit off topic, but the original Batmobile, a customized Lincoln concept car was just sold at BJ auctions and it was a stunner in price. George Barris, who had designed and built the thing for the tv series was still the owner.

''Holy windfall": Batmobile sells for $4.2M - Yahoo! News

 

I owned a Morris Major while in OZ. I was leaving Adelaide for Whyall and had just smoked a joint when I thought I felt something funny. Got out and took a look around the car, the axle and wheel on the passenger side was about a foot away from the fender. Coarse spine was blamed. apparently that was fairly common.

KTK

 

Renault 5 GTL....drove out of garage and side window fell out...