(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.
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!
(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.
Metal-flake blue 1971 Dodge Demon with white vinyl roof
'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. :-)
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.
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.!
'89 Ford Probe
1976 Ford F-250 pickup
Little tiiiny 4x4. It did pretty well in the snow!
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!
'66 Newport
1969 Olds Cutlass. Oh how I loved that car....till the engine gave out at about 180,000 miles
VW Beetle- circa 1964. Traded up to a Karman Gia.
Mine was a 1974 Ford Torino that had been owned by a guy who liked to mullet fish and would throw his unrinsed cast nets into the trunk. The rear fenders and trunk floor pan of that car were eaten alive with rust. I had to put sheets of plywood in there so small objects wouldn't fall out of the trunk onto the road.
The brakes on that car never worked right, despite new lines, master cylinders, calipers, etc. You had to pump the brakes (and pray) just to get enough pedal to stop. I can't begin to tell you the number of times I had to swerve off the road to avoid rear-ending someone. One bit of good it did, however - to this day I always leave lots of room between me and the car in front.
MGB