What was your First Car?

1969 ZL-1 camaro that I drove to high school in 12th grade and went to our local dragstrip on sat. best time was 11.96 with 9" slicks :thumbsup:
 
Frank,

Smart man with economic monetary unit. Probably was more fun than mine was at the time.
 
1975 Olds STARFIRE - Orange with a white interior. Bought it used from a friend of my mom's after it had been in a minor accident and she deemed it "too small". I had a CB radio in that car and the antenna was mounted right in the center of the top-painted the base of the antenna color matched to the roof - Even installed an external speaker in the front grill under the hood so I could use it as a PA/Speaker- It had a casette deck and I installed speakers everywhere "Rock-on"-How cool in those days...??

My sister had a powder blue one of these, with an 8-track player!!!
 
1972 FORD LTD four door. My Granfather passed away and I got his car. I painted a big Rebel Flag on the truck lid. (way before the "Duke of Hazzard" came along). LOL!!
 
5 dollar date.
49 cents pack of smokes, 1.50 jug of T-Bird, rest in the tank. Go watch the submarine races off lake Michigan with that special gal. 3 bucks in the tank would last all night back in the day.
 
1980 Datsun 200sx... 100hp@5000rom if I remember the sticker under the hood correctly. Cousin and I, at age 10, had a blast in the snow (parents allowed us to drive around the neighborhood) as we realized could rev to 5k and pop the clutch in 5th gear and speedo would race to 100mph as we were near standing still... Good ole days ;)
 
Wow, a lot of you guys had some awesome rides back in the day!

I grew up driving my parents boring rides - first car that I drove was an automatic 69 VW Squareback. That was followed by a 73 Dodge Dart with the slant 6 and a 76 Dodge Colt.

After bringing the Dart to college, I finally bought my first new car, which I thought at the time was a great compromise of "performance" and gas mileage. It was an 81 Dodge Colt RS with the twin stick transmission. The transmission was a 4 speed with a separate lever for power and economy which effectively gave you 8 forward gears and actually 2 reverse gears. I used to regularly prove that there were 2 reverse gears to the disbelievers in large parking lots. I usually drove it using the "power" setting and shifted into "economy" once I was on the highway.

Here's a picture of one that looks just like mine did, right down to the standard "RS" color package.

Mike

First car I drove was a '72 VW squareback - stick. That, and intermittently a 1970 Lincoln Continental MIII - Gold, Brown top, brown leather, 460 V-8 - the "French Connection" car. It's not easy going from VW brakes to Lincoln Brakes. First stop sign and I locked all four of them up.
 
First car I drove was a '72 VW squareback - stick. That, and intermittently a 1970 Lincoln Continental MIII - Gold, Brown top, brown leather, 460 V-8 - the "French Connection" car. It's not easy going from VW brakes to Lincoln Brakes. First stop sign and I locked all four of them up.

Here's my 69 2 door hard top. 460 with dual exhaust. There wasn't a spot on her until I sold her awhile back. I just love the classics. Owned a bunch of them too.:grin:

Hey I could post my 74 Ambassador Brougham bit even I have standards.:smt009:smt009
 

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Here's my 69 2 door hard top. 460 with dual exhaust. There wasn't a spot on her until I sold her awhile back. I just love the classics. Owned a bunch of them too.:grin:

Hey I could post my 74 Ambassador Brougham bit even I have standards.:smt009:smt009

Nice car. My mom really felt special in her Mark. It was a great car. It had fiber optics from the tail lights to a little robot-head looking thing on the rear deck. When driving, you could look in the mirror and see what your tail lights were doing.
 
John,

Pretty wild that you drove a Squareback too. My Dad picked ours up right before we came home from Germany.

Mike
 
Nice car. My mom really felt special in her Mark. It was a great car. It had fiber optics from the tail lights to a little robot-head looking thing on the rear deck. When driving, you could look in the mirror and see what your tail lights were doing.

I must say I never seen that but the cars were a city block long so a little help seeing behind you would have been a plus. I do love the big old boats. No pun intended.
 
A 1948 Ford Deluxe convertible. I bought it for $85 in 1963 with 48,000 original miles from the original owner. I was a Junior in High school. Gas was 19.9c a gallon most of the time. 21.9 when no gas wars were going on. I still own that car--not one like it but "that car". Have the original bill of sale from Crenshaw Ford in LA.
 

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