charlesatl

I thought this would be interesting. What was your very first car? Now I dont mean to make anybody jealous but mine was a 1974 AMC Hornet with am radio and almost air conditioning. It was brown btw.

When I look at my Lexus I can see I have come a very long way.

roadfrog

LOL!

1970 Maverick 2 door.

I was a lot boy at a Mazda dealership (1980). I was hoping someone would eventually come by for a trade-in that I could snap up. Sure enough, a gentleman came in and tried to trade this Maverick in. The dealership wanted no part of it. The body was in fine shape, but a cloud of blue smoke from the 200 ci inline 6 would envelope the car after idling for a minute or so. I didn't care. The guy wanted 200 bucks for it....cheap enough not to worry about it.

I added mags, fat tires in the back and skinny in the front....jacked up the back end (remember those days?), added a pair of fuzzy dice to the rear view mirror, which I swear to this day added 10 hp. Threw in a Pioneer tape deck and 50 watt equalizer and a set of Craig 6x9's. I was the coolest guy in town (just ask me). LOL. I drove that car for almost two years without ever fixing the valve seals. I just had to add (NO joke)...1 QUART of oil every 2 days (!) and pull the spark plugs out once per week to remove the oil deposits on them so the car didn't shake itself apart. I traded it in on a 1 yr old Datsun 310 and they gave me 1200 bucks trade-in. I thought I had committed Grand Larceny at the time.

AZGS4

A white 1972 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40. I wish I still had it in my garage.

Lextrician

94 lexus gs300 wreck it in a month then got an ls400 96

peteybabes

1987 Porsche 944S for $1200 (not running)!

put about $10k of work into it and this was a seriously fun car. sold it about 1.5 years later for $4600 and got my 2001 LS430UL.

CarGuy89

1997 Lincoln Continental. It was already in the family, was getting older so it became my high school car. Great sounding V8, not so great handling lol.

sprtent

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White 1985 Toyota Supra, just like this one. All I remember about it was the head gasket overheating problem....and I installed on top of that white oem rear spoiler a long lighted black spoiler from a 1992 Accord. I called it double-tailed. Oh the stupidity

greg3852

Mazda B2000 with a long bed. Put in an Alpine deck, 8" Bazooka tube, 10" Alpine behind the passenger seat, amp in the dash for the door and dash speakers, and two more amps under the seats for the 4 12" subs I put in the bed. This thing was insanely loud. hahaha Looked like this one

Doublebase

1982 Cutlass Supreme...hit a pole with it on New Year's eve. My dad helped me pull the dent out and "secure" the headlight. Every time I hit a bump the light would point straight up into the trees...blinding innocent squirrels.

robert1408

A 1962 Ford Fairlane coupe. 260 V8, 2 speed auto. I was 16 in 1969 when I bought it for $487.50. It had a burned exhaust valve so I pulled the heads and fixed it. It got me through highschool and had a potent under-dash ac.

Tee

A brown 1979 Pontiac Trans AM (exactly like the pic below) drove to high school and my part time job and that was for gas money! The T-tops leaked, the power window switched worked off whenever, the door seals left gaps.. who am I kidding what door seals. Good ol GM product but I loved it (like a face only a mother could love) because it was my first car lol!

CJITTY

Seems like a Car Chat type of thread but mine was a 1990 Blue Yugo. Not kidding. Lasted for a long time. Then my Dad was driving it down the Interstate and the engine and drivetrain disintegrated at 65mph. Can't find actual pic but this was same color minus 20% tint lol

Kunal

1990 300ZX Twinturbo boy what a car Fun times....

Clean1

I guess I am the oldest member that has replied so far. My fist car was a 1946 Chevrolet Stylemaster coupe that I purchased in 1955. I think I paid around $0.22/gal for gas back then.

efxonly1

My first car was a 1980-something Chevy chevette. Silver exterior, red interior, and let off a gunshot every single time I turned the car off.