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What was your first car?
Vanity | Dec 13th, 2005 | Laney

Posted on 12/13/2005 11:29:16 AM PST by laney

I thought this would be an interesting thread, finding out the first car freepers ever had.

If you have a picture of it post it as well!


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To: laney

First car I was loaned to drive at my teenage leisure-
1973 Opel Stationwagon (in 1982). It had AM radio, no AC, a swinging rearview mirror that would fall into my lap as I was driving down the road, the frame squeaked LOUDLY, and the horn sounded like a dying cow!
First car I ever purchased-
1987 Honda Accord LX.
I LOVED that car and drove it to death!


101 posted on 12/13/2005 12:20:09 PM PST by Muzzle_em ("Get busy LIVING or get busy dying")
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To: laney
1970 Plymouth Satellite. Got it in 83, still have it. The rear frame rusted out, and I can't drive it any more, but I still have it.

(I'm turning 40 in January. The wife has gotten the car out of storage and is having my brother get it road worthy again, but I'm not supposed to know, okay?)


This one is pretty close to it in it's heyday, but I think this is a GTX.

102 posted on 12/13/2005 12:22:03 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: laney

1958 Chevy Bel Air
103 posted on 12/13/2005 12:22:13 PM PST by SC DOC
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To: laney

Metal-flake blue 1971 Dodge Demon with white vinyl roof


104 posted on 12/13/2005 12:24:09 PM PST by NRA1995 (Jesus is the reason for the season)
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To: Sybeck1

That 327 was a hell of an engine. I had a Jeep (Kaiser) with a Chevy 327 in it. Strong, strong motor.


105 posted on 12/13/2005 12:25:24 PM PST by lugsoul ("Try not to be sad." - Laura Bush)
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To: Muzzle_em

My first was a '53 Plymouth 2 door Businessman's Coupe with 3 on the column, holes in the floorboard (which was neat if a girl was sitting there and the wind would catch her dress!), ugly battleship grey, but ran like a top. I bought it from a old man for $50.00, put on new tires (blemished tires from Sears @ $8.00 a piece), and drove it for seven wonderful years, put on 175,000 miles, and sold it to a fellow for $200.00. He still has it, and has 387,000 miles on it and only rebuilt the engine once. I smile a lot when I see it going down the highway.


106 posted on 12/13/2005 12:27:19 PM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: laney

'71 Toyota Corolla. Bought it from this college girl. Had one of those gay rainbow stickers in the rear window. I didn't know what it meant. Drove that d*mn car for three years with that sticker on the back. Explains a lot of weird looks I got back then. :-)


107 posted on 12/13/2005 12:31:07 PM PST by gate2wire
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To: laney
What was your first car?


108 posted on 12/13/2005 12:34:06 PM PST by Clemenza (Smartest words ever written by a Communist: "Show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar")
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To: laney
I worked for the down payment and made my own payments for my '75 Formula 400

I was so cool! :)

Oh, the stories. ...like two speeding tickets in 5 mins.
Got a speeding ticket leaving a speading ticket. ...the original was 85 in 55 with 96 circled on the side.

109 posted on 12/13/2005 12:34:50 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: laney
Have an old "black and white" of this beauty, but it's not been scanned, so you'll have to use your imaginations....

1967 Chevy Impala Coupe - tan. Three on the column, steel dashboard, horn ring, bench seating front and rear...and built like a tank. 283 short block V-8 that averaged about 15mpg; but who cared as gas was about $0.399 per gal.!

110 posted on 12/13/2005 12:37:52 PM PST by Logic n' Reason (Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin')
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To: laney

'89 Ford Probe


111 posted on 12/13/2005 12:40:55 PM PST by areeves79
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To: laney

1976 Ford F-250 pickup


112 posted on 12/13/2005 12:42:32 PM PST by day10 (Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
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To: laney
1988 Plymouth Reliant. It had been used for driver's training before I got it. My friend's in high school used to call it the "narc" car.
113 posted on 12/13/2005 12:47:27 PM PST by stylecouncilor
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To: laney
Beat to hell 76 nova, more rust then paint. I drove that thing for 6 years. Sold it as parts. With 200k miles there were not to many parts left.
114 posted on 12/13/2005 12:47:51 PM PST by DYngbld (zoom, zoom, zoom)
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To: laney

Little tiiiny 4x4. It did pretty well in the snow!

115 posted on 12/13/2005 12:48:35 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Clemenza

LOL... Frankenchrist!


116 posted on 12/13/2005 12:50:31 PM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Fierce Allegiance

Thanks!

That was a once-in-a-lifetime find.
I was 15 years old when my dad saw it in a lady's garage in Enfield, NC.
She was the original owner, and the car had 71,000 documented miles.


118 posted on 12/13/2005 12:55:27 PM PST by Constitution Day
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To: laney
I'm almost too ashamed to admit it but...

My first car was a used, 1975 Ford Pinto stationwagon, brown with fake (peel & flake) woodgrain panels down both sides.
I was still on active duty in the Navy and had very little money for a car. I bought it in late 1979 for $1500.00 ($500 down and financed $1,000 for one year through the Navy Credit Union) and it had 75,000 miles on it at the time.
A year and a half later, it had 148,000 miles on it and I got $1000 trade in on a new car. Yep you guessed it, another Ford, (An EXP) which at the time was quite the chick magnet!

119 posted on 12/13/2005 1:00:05 PM PST by cuz_it_aint_their_money (Replacing Dan Rather with Katie Couric is like replacing an idiot with an imbecile.)
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To: laney
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'66 Newport

120 posted on 12/13/2005 1:04:28 PM PST by dfwddr (Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.)
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