stories about your first car

[caper861]

I was sitting here talking about when we got our first cars.  I am still laughing.  My first car was a four door gold K-car.  The thing took me and my friends all over, mostly where we were not supposed to go.  This little car burnt my oil then gas and could only bring in the FM stations, if you kicked it just right.  The back right door never shut right, and one night we took a left turn and lost a friend out the door!!  That was 10 years ago and it still cracks us up!!  Maybe, I'm crazy, but I think there is nothing like your first car.  Love to hear some funny stories about other peoples first cars.

 

[Island Ryhno]

I got my first car selling "smokes" when I was in high school. It was a VW Rabbitt, I believe at one time there were 9 of us in it. Jeezus it was mad, we use to take along the railbeds (no trains in Newfoundland, or tracks, just a dirt railbed) The last thing we did with it was bust the four tires and drove around on rims all over the avalon during a may 24th weekend. The thing just stopped after awhile on the track and we left it there, I think someone towed it a couple of years later. The only way to get in the back was through the hatchback.  ;D Funny stuff.

 

[Sask HCAO]

The first car I bought myself was a 1976 Mercury Marquis. I bought it in 1998. Remember the car John Candy drove in "Uncle Buck"? This was the same model and year of car, only mine was in worse shape. It was sort of a beige colour with significant "rust coloration" all over the body. It got about 2 miles to the gallon, and constantly required new oil. But it was a great "character car", and a steal at $300!

 

[Pearson]

1975 Vega...........POS $250.00
half a floor, half an exhaust system......bad combination, had to drive with my head out the window
bought it just to get a car....spent it's life in the front of the house as my buddies and I tried to fix her up, fat chance

Drove her a bit (Mother was not too pleased.)

got it towed to the junk yard

fast forward a few months, the monster trucks come to the Metro Center in Halifax.........
We go to see the show....
Loving the tractor pull, they even had a big old tracked school bus ...hilarious,

Well the wrecker starts bringing out cars for the main attraction..... and yes 
"That's my car!!!!!!!"
... there it is.........they haul out my old beater....
Talk about losing it with laughter...
tears are streaming down our faces as the people around us clue into what is happening......
needless my little old rust bucket did not fare well in the match up with the truck..

There went my first car

 

[karl28]

MY First car was a 1989 Firefly i bought in 1998 . Witch is pretty funny cause I am like 6'3" 298 pounds LOL . It was a good car when it worked and a really really bad one when it didn't .  One time I pulled into the Auto Pro garage on Sydney st here in Trenton  I had  white smoke pouring out of the car . The mechanic after some time looking at it came out and asked me how did you get it here ? I told him that I drove it in . He looked dumb founded and told me that should of been impossible as I had no gears in the Transmission LOL  I owned that car four three years had allot of fun with it

 

[Brygun]

1986 Plymouth Omni. Had a nice simple 4-cylinder engine with easy maintenance. With the old style "steel" the modern cars went crunch in fender benders leaving my own untouched. Took a van coming through a red light to stop the wee-beasty, and I was the THIRD car in our lane to enter the intersection. : Even with the bust rear wheel/axle the vehicle dragged itself to a parking lot under its own power to clear the intersection for traffic.

 

[Old Ranger]

79 Dodge Diplomat Station Wagon,
Big V-8, Rear Wheel drive.
Hand me down from my Grandparents.
Built like a  :tank:

Lots of Room with the rear seats folded down for those long dates...

 

[Springroll]

My first car was a $180 puke green volvo(1976) but the thing was  atank. I took it inot a ditch pretty hard and needed someone to pull me out, and then drove it home.

I miss it alot. Now I drive a 1998 Ford Windstar...lol(but it has a kick-a** stereo in it)

 

[Redeye]

Mine was a '93 Ford Escort my father bought from a rental car agency then transferred to me a couple of years later.  It was mine for less than 24 hours, I didn't even have my own plates for it before I ran a red light and t-boned a Cadillac, writing it off.  I didn't get another car of my own until I graduated university, when insurance stopped being ridiculously expensive.

 

[Sheerin]

My first car was a 1994 Midnight Blue Saturn SL2 4 door with Twin Cam.  She had those automatic seatbelts that were all the rage during the early 90s. 

For an older car with high milage she could get up to some pretty good speeds.  I remember driving from my house in Scarborough to my Res in peterborough in less than an hour - it was something like 15 minutes from Scarborough to the 115/35 and another 20 from there to the Peterborough exit.

Damn I miss that car.  It was small but I was able to have 'fun' in there with my then girlfriend on several occasions.

 

[mover1]

1975 Volare Station wagon. Gold in colour with shit brindle brown fake wood panelling on the sides. Had a wicked AM radio. went past everything but a gas station. till the tranny dropped out of it,

 

[1feral1]

My first car (bought in Sep 1975 in Regina, Sask) was a greenish coloured 1966 Mercury Meteor 2 door, 289, auto trans, bucket seats w/Cdn Tire 8 track. Not a bad car for $500. A special car too, lets just say I 'met' my first GF in the back seat of that beast whilst listening to BTO's Take'n care of business' on 8 track. yes i could 110 MPH out of her, and in the three yrs I had that car, I put many km's on it, back when unleaded was 69.9/gallon.

Truly a classic car, and until 1993, it was on the farm, up near Rose Valley Sask, parked in the bush, when someone offered me $100 for it, as they wanted to restore it.

Cheers,

Wes

 

[honestyrules]

Great topic that one!

I got a Chevy Monte Carlo 1978 from my dad in 1991. 305 cubic V8, mechanicaly sound, no VISIBLE rust.... I used to love to make the tires spin ,drifting at corners you know...
The rotten frame let go after 3 weeks...

Then I got a Toyota Celica GT 1981 ,paid 250 bucks for it (though I was smart...). Same thing ,spinning, drifting you know, 3 weeks after I called the wrecker...

I miss those days...

 

[RyanNS]

The first and only car I've yet to own was one I bought in 2003. A 1991 VW Golf with a '93 Jetta diesel engine in it. It had 350,000 km's on it and me a my best friend bought it for $900 from a guy in Isle Madame, Cape Breton. 6 Months, 15,000 kms and one cracked engine block later we sold it with the engine sitting on a mechanics kitchen table for $500 USD in Domical, Costa Rica. Only cost us $300 CDN total in fuel to get to Panama from Nova Scotia. I'd reccomend an early 90's VW diesel Golf/Jetta to anyone.

 

[Pea]

My first (and only car) was a blue 1995 Honda Civic DX. 4 door, 5spd manual transmission, awesome stereo, and new paint job. (My best friend had backed into the front bumper a few months earlier. The owner put a new bumper on and then decided to repaint it so the colors would match perfectly. I made sure to thank her!!). I bought it in 2003 for $6500. Taught myself to drive standard that day (only stalled twice!) then hit the highway (45mins) to where my then boyfriend lived. I was so proud of this car, I had to get there and show him right away. This car was my baby, I spent hours and hours cruising around in her. What a good car, never had any problems. So many memories..yes girls have "memories" in their cars like guys do too.  ;D Unfortunately had to sell her in February in order to afford my spring tuition. Sold it for $5800 to my Uncle. (so, she's still in the family!! ;D) So glad she was a standard...so much FUN to drive!!

 

[Black Watch]

my first car was (and still is) 1984 Land Rover

 

[perry]

My first car was a 1981 toyota tercel 2 door, baby blue in color. It had 465,000 kms on it and I paid 300.00, drove it for over a year when I sold it, it had well over 500,000 km on it. The CD player was worth twice as much as the car. Best car I ever owned.

 

[Gunner98]

You gotta love it when you bought your first two cars while on posting in Lahr during the late 1980s.  My first was a 1978 Mercedes 480L and the second was a 1979 BMW 280i.  Driving on the autoban at 160 kph never felt so grand, until you experience a blown right from tire at 170 kph.