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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
The first car I ever drove was a red, 1962 Scout 4x4.

I remember we had to drive it to Salt Lake City in 1963 while my mother ran for Mrs. Utah. Whe was sooooo embarrassed! Little did she know she was 30 years ahead of her time and the SUV craze.


61 posted on 12/13/2005 11:48:22 AM PST by colorcountry (That's what happens when you fall for a pistol. (No, no, I don't mean no gun.))
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To: Mr. Mojo
You got me beat.

Mine was a late 70's yellow; manual (stick shift); diesel VW Rabbit.

It was really, really loud. You could hear me coming a couple blocks away and it was impossible pulling into the driveway after curfew with that thing.

I didn't have it long.

62 posted on 12/13/2005 11:49:14 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: laney
Now one would think being a 17 year old with a 6 year old '76 Dodge Aspen wouldn't get you many chicks.  You would be wrong!

It was lime green and completely stock except for the 200 Watt amp that routinely blasted AC/DC down the Jersey Shore.

However, I learned that if you don't drive drunk, bring home your dates on time and are willing to put up with a lot of chatter, girls will tell other girls who are willing to see past the facade and sit on each others laps to get to someplace cool (like an all-boys high school dance).  Ha!  I don't know if I was more popular with the girls or the guys at school when I would show up with a carload Catholic school girls!

I nearly cried when it was towed to it's final resting place in 1989.

 

The ride preferred by the Daddy of the MacDaddy!

63 posted on 12/13/2005 11:49:22 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: laney
I still have mine...

Don't believe what you hear about those chinese imports...they're great!

64 posted on 12/13/2005 11:49:43 AM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: laney; bert

Nah, I don't still have it. Blew up the engine in '69...being in college, couldn't afford to have it fixed. Had to settle for a '69 baby-blue VW bug (who didn't???).

Mine was black w/ black leather interior. Geez, what a babe magnet. And believe me, I needed all the help I could get...

65 posted on 12/13/2005 11:50:23 AM PST by Fintan (Suppose there were no hypothectical questions?)
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To: laney

1955 Chevy wagon.

I still have it.


66 posted on 12/13/2005 11:50:49 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: laney

'69 VW Bug!

I wish I still had it. What a great little car.


67 posted on 12/13/2005 11:51:33 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: So Cal Rocket
with a two-tone paint job... Red and Primer:

Lol!

I'll see your Bug and raise you a Rabbit (see post #62).

68 posted on 12/13/2005 11:53:38 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: laney
Oh, yeah:


69 posted on 12/13/2005 11:53:38 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: laney

A 1960 Ford Falcon station wagon – bought in 1964. It would go anywhere. No farmer’s field would stop it. No muddy back road would slow it down.


70 posted on 12/13/2005 11:54:16 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: laney

My first car was a 97'Mitsubishi Galant.


71 posted on 12/13/2005 11:54:23 AM PST by baker_girl (You are all winners,except those of you who lose.)
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I drove my parents' spare car: a 64 Buick Riviera with some amazing huge V8.

Then I bought my own car: '67 VW Squareback. I drove that car for a lot of years and a lot of miles.


72 posted on 12/13/2005 11:55:39 AM PST by Rio (Don't make me come over there....)
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To: laney

In 1984 i bought a 1967 Chevy Chevelle, 4 door, 327 engine. Piece of crap, but my current ride ain't much better. At least i can park anywhere and do not have to fear it will be stolen.


73 posted on 12/13/2005 11:56:13 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (I will prevail. I miss my best friend.)
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To: laney
First car from my dad at 16

PONTIAC PARISENNE

I hate you.

:p

74 posted on 12/13/2005 11:56:26 AM PST by BureaucratusMaximus (The 2005 Chicago White Sox---World Series Champs---WOO! HOO!)
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To: laney

1951 Plymouth Cranbrook.


76 posted on 12/13/2005 11:57:32 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (LET ME DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP, ALEX KOZINSKI FOR SCOTUS)
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To: laney
1963 Ford 500, even a klutz like me could repair and maintain every single component. Paid $375 used and sold three years later for $425. The only car I ever made money on after using it everyday.


77 posted on 12/13/2005 11:59:16 AM PST by Protagoras (Many people teach their children that Jesus is story character but Santa Claus is real.)
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To: laney

'78 Monte Carlo. White with blue pin stripes. Sadly, that was the year of the new hacked off back.


78 posted on 12/13/2005 11:59:37 AM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: Constitution Day
The two old cars that I drove in highschool were a 57 Dodge with the push button automatic (it would start in-gear as the interlock was broken -- made for cool getaways) and a 56 Pontiac Station wagon much like the Chevey you show. The station wagon would really lay rubber turning a corner due to the suspension -- made leaving a parking lot a joy of noise.

The brakes failed on that wagon once pulling into the local drive in resturant. Hit the walkway curb the car hops used, flew two feet in the air, and bounced to a stop in the parking space on the other side. I killed the engine and ordered on the speaker on the passager window side as if nothing had happened.

79 posted on 12/13/2005 12:00:06 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: laney

1953 MG roadster. (in 1964)


80 posted on 12/13/2005 12:01:43 PM PST by truth_seeker
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