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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
1st car was a Road Runner I bought in 1983


201 posted on 12/15/2005 9:19:08 AM PST by Horatio Gates
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To: Mr. Mojo
I'm still driving my first car, an '89 Honda Accord 5-speed! My mom refused to give a 16-year-old a new car, so she got the new Accord, and I had to learn to drive a stick (a difficult thing to do in hilly East Tennessee).

Eight years later at 190,000 miles, it's been resuscitated from the dead at least 3 times. My dad and I refuse to let it go. Both of us are convinced that the '89 and '90 Accord models will be classics one day. It runs great and is amazingly efficient.

My friends like to bug me about when I'll get a new car. I always reply, "When Honda brings back flip-up headlights."
202 posted on 12/15/2005 9:59:02 AM PST by RockyTop4GOP
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To: RockyTop4GOP
Both of us are convinced that the '89 and '90 Accord models will be classics one day.

Why? What separates them from other Accords?

203 posted on 12/15/2005 12:59:29 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo; RockyTop4GOP
....other than the hidden headlights, that is?

Speaking of hidden headlights, here's one of my all-time favorites:

The 1970 Plymouth Sport Fury GT 440

Total production: 666 cars.

204 posted on 12/15/2005 1:07:25 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: RockyTop4GOP
I'm still driving my first car, an '89 Honda Accord 5-speed! My mom refused to give a 16-year-old a new car, so she got the new Accord, and I had to learn to drive a stick (a difficult thing to do in hilly East Tennessee).

LOL when I taught my daughters to drive I used hi-way 61 from Maynardville to Andersonville. I told them if you can drive a car on this road you can drive anywhere. My first wife learned to drive on that road to. I had her driving a 5 speed Toyota :>}

205 posted on 12/15/2005 3:19:48 PM PST by cva66snipe
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To: laney

1967 Ford Falcon

4-door, 3 on-the-tree, thrush muffler,

mini steering wheel, 8-track player hanging under the dash

and 2 bottles of Boones Farm under the seat.........(for the ladies)


206 posted on 12/15/2005 3:23:35 PM PST by WhiteGuy (Vote for gridlock)
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To: laney

1969 Plymouth Roadrunner with a 383 engine...


207 posted on 12/16/2005 9:07:54 AM PST by DogByte6RER (Other Bus 19 So-Cal exhibits.)
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To: devolve

I told ntnychik that the summer after my Freshman year at college my Dad had bought a little Crosley. He bought it to convert into a golfcart, lol, but I drove it around that summer. Itty bitty car!


208 posted on 12/16/2005 8:20:07 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch


Three (3) obscure Crosley facts:

1 - The Crosley's first engines were welded-up sheet metal blocks


2 - The Crosley Hotshot SS sports car's placed highly Sebring whipping many larger engined "true" sports cars

3 - Our ag teacher / FFA Advisor had a Crosley Coupe DeThrill




209 posted on 12/16/2005 8:42:39 PM PST by devolve (<-- (--in a manner reminiscent of Senator Ghengis Kohn--)
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To: devolve; ntnychik

I did a search but still am not sure just what one we had. It wasn't that really cute fancy one I saw, it was real 'boxy' looking.

The first car we bought our twin daughters was a tan Pacer! I thought it was so cute, they said their friends called it the 'pregnant bubble', lol.


210 posted on 12/16/2005 8:47:49 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: colorcountry
I had a 1964 IH PU truck. We called it the "corn thrasher."

blew it up in 1995, I think.

211 posted on 12/16/2005 8:56:43 PM PST by patton ("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
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To: laney

1957 Chevy BelAir four door, black with a 283 and powerglide


212 posted on 12/17/2005 12:42:01 PM PST by RipSawyer (Acceptance of irrational thinking is expanding exponentiallly.)
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