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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 20:47:01 GMT -5
I owned a 1968 Pontiac LeMans. It was blue with a white/blue interior. It had a 350 engine with a Powerglide transmission & factory mag wheels. I had it from 1979-1983.
This is not my car but mine was very similar to it:
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 5, 2017 21:04:44 GMT -5
My first car was a truck. 1972 Dodge Power Wagon. It was mustard yellow with a white interior. 10 mpg no matter what you were doing.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 21:08:11 GMT -5
Mine was a 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger - exactly like the one pictured here!  Had it from 1977 to 1984. Got around 21 MPH and it was a great car for me at the time I had it. |
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Post by The Captain on Feb 5, 2017 21:26:29 GMT -5
First car I had access to drive was a 1984 Plymouth Horizon. My mom got a new car in the summer of 1989 and kept this one around for me when I turned 16.
First car I ever bought for myself was a 1995 Mitsubishi Mirage. It got about 27 city, 32 highway for gas mileage.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 6, 2017 13:18:10 GMT -5
1994 Mittsbushi Gallant limited edition tricked out to the nines. It was chrome silver with a moonroof, spoiler, and overdrive button. It was my dad's midlife crisis buy, which he passed on to me in 1998. It got totaled when a school bus plowed into me literally two days later.  I never care much about cars since I will never outdo my first car. I'm practical and boring in my car purchases since. |
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Post by The Captain on Feb 6, 2017 13:47:52 GMT -5
1994 Mittsbushi Gallant limited edition tricked out to the nines. It was chrome silver with a moonroof, spoiler, and overdrive button. It was my dad's midlife crisis buy, which he passed on to me in 1998. It got totaled when a school bus plowed into me literally two days later. I never care much about cars since I will never outdo my first car. I'm practical and boring in my car purchases since. I owned two Mirages over the course of 15 years before upgrading to a Galant 7 years ago. Just passed 105K miles on it, and outside of normal maintenance, I've had no problems with it, so I'm going to run it into the ground, because I really like not having car payments. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 6, 2017 13:52:58 GMT -5
A used 11 year old 1971 Ford Pinto. I lived to tell the tale!
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Post by brutalis on Feb 6, 2017 14:06:24 GMT -5
1966 dust brown Lincoln Continental was my 1st in the summer of 1978. My uncle drove it to death and blew a rod one day driving to work doing construction for building the Palo Verde Nuclear plant out in the middle of the desert here in Arizona. Signed over the car to me and said it was mine. All i had to do was get it towed back to town and drop a new engine it. He was being a smart ass about it thinking he was leaving me with the hunk of junk to deal with and avoiding any fines/penalties for leaving it along the side of the road. He didn't know, i had 2 buddy's in school whose dad's ran a junk yard together. They both got their dad's permission and we used one of the tow trucks for dragging the poor dead beast back to their junkyard. It sat there for a few weeks while me and my bud's worked on cleaning it up, sanding it down, painting and repairing the years of wear on it until their dad's found another engine to pull and drop into it. Cost me all of $100 and time and muscle and a couple of six packs of beer but we had that bad boat of a tank up and running by the end of a month and ready for school in August. Drove it for about a year and my folks were tired of seeing and hearing this beast roar up to the house so they had my grandfather track down a used Datsun pick up and i donated the old Lincoln to the dad's who helped me get the engine and they used it in a local demolition derby and that bad boy just tore up all the other car's and died a truly noble death and earned them a trophy and $1,000! Who got the last laugh eh?!?
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 6, 2017 14:55:43 GMT -5
I had a yellow AMC Gremlin that bought with 600 dollars cash in 2003. I thought it was pretty awesome until the engine pretty much fell right out of it one day.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 6, 2017 14:59:08 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 6, 2017 15:16:37 GMT -5
My first car was a Mazda 323 sedan (1987 model or thereabout; I forgot the exact year). It looked like this, in blue. What a clunker that was. It handled great on snow because it was higher on its wheels than most equivalent cars, but the poor thing's engine was already moribund when we bought it as a five-year old automotive veteran. It was impossible to get any kind of power in third gear; the car would just go FLOPflopflop flopflop when I floored the gas pedal. The trunk was big, though. It looked as if it was deeper than it had any right to be, as if there was a basement in the car. That was the damnedest thing! I didn't regret selling it when we moved overseas. Our second car, though, purchased brand new three years later... that was the car of my life. A Hyundai Accent 1995 sedan, as frugal as it was nervous, and as solid as can be. We ran it for five years and 120 000 km before the first brake job. It's rust that finally killed it. That cursed winter and the salted roads that come with it... It is a pox on automobiles. Rest in peace, Sissy. (Yes, we named the car Sissy. After Empress Sissy of Austro-Hungary, because its colour was "Empress green". Don't laugh!) |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 6, 2017 15:45:44 GMT -5
Man, you yanks had some really cool cars as your first. Still, at least Roquefort Raider's deeply uncool Mazda means I'm not the only one here who had an unspectacular first car.  My first was a 1982 Ford Fiesta in deep blue, like this...  Fortunately, things have improved and these days I drive around in this...  |
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Post by WestPhillyPunisher on Feb 6, 2017 15:47:14 GMT -5
My first car was a 1988 Honda Accord coupe in gold, bought it in Norfolk while stationed there during my Navy days. It was a nice ride, fuel efficient and, well, cute.
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 6, 2017 15:56:20 GMT -5
My first car was a 1984 Plymouth Turismo. It was in rough shape, but it got me where I was going...usually.
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 6, 2017 18:51:30 GMT -5
I learned to drive in my parents' 1966 Chevy Caprice.
The first car that was really mine was a 1972 Ford Pinto.
I just had a new transaxle put into my 1991 Dodge Colt.
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