Question:
What was your first car?
2007-08-01 10:53:57 UTC
My son, who is 12, seems to think he will be getting a nice car for his 16th birthday, and even if I started saving now we wouldn't be able to afford the kind of car he wants. I told him my first car was a '78 Chevy Vega. I could only shut the driver's side door from the outside because you had to lift up on it, so I had to always climb in through the passenger side. If I went over a bumpy road or railroad tracks I had to keep one hand on the door or it would fly open. What was your first car?
74 answers:
2007-08-01 10:57:47 UTC
1980 buick regal when I was 17, I had to use a screwdriver to shift gears and to use the blinker, it wouldnt drive over 45 mph or the whole car would shake and the tires were bald so i couldnt drive when it was raining or thru puddles.....I soon got a nicer car after I saved up $ from working it was a 1995 mitsubishi mirage



the buicks name was hotel buick because it was sooo wide (my boss nicknamed it the stove, because he thought it looked like a pizza over)
alana5705
2007-08-01 11:02:28 UTC
I had a 1994 Geo Prism lol... I got it in 1998 my senior year of high school and managed to ruin the whole passenger door running into a parked car because I was not paying attention by April of 99 lol....



I eventually got the dent fixed but drove the prism until 2003 it was a great car and I think I will remember it sooo much because of how crappy it got. I will remember how many times it was keyed by god knows who, the time it was broken into for my crappy stereo, How I probably went over 6 mths without washing it :-( , and how even after not being turned on or driven for close to a year that it still started right on cue when we sold it.



soooo many memories that I don't think I would have had, if I would have had a nicer car.
Walter W
2007-08-01 13:02:30 UTC
1994 Chevrolet S-10 Long Wheel Based White with Dark Tinted Windows. The gas mileage sucked and it wasn't enough room, but whenever I needed to move some stuff my 7 1/2 foot bed did the job. I got it back in 2001, and parted ways with it just last December of 2006. Now I got a 2004 Kia Optima.
2007-08-01 10:59:42 UTC
1992 Honda Accord. I am 20 and got it when I was 16. I now have a 2001 Pontiac Sunfire, both cars were hand me downs and neither are perfect. The honda had transmission problems, oil leaks, radio didn't work, radiator kept springing leaks and neither of my back windows could roll down. My stepbrother keeps bugging his dad to buy him a new car (he has a 98 Explorer) and everytime he brings it up I just want to scream at him about how he thinks that truck is in bad shape how he has NO idea.
2007-08-01 10:58:38 UTC
My first was a 1965 VW Beetle that didn't run at first.



My friend is 27 and only got his first car a year ago, so your son should be happy to get anything! My friend never even considered getting a car when he was younger and the idea of his mom buying him a car was definitely not ever a real idea. It's such a luxury, but a lot of people don't really see it that way if everyone else around them is getting nice cars...
mac150
2007-08-01 10:58:29 UTC
1986 Dodge 600SE Turbo. Grandmas car... literally. It was given to me, and i drove it for 3 months. The car sould die in the middle of the road, and i had to constantly try to start it while coasting. It was gold with red interior. Turned out that the car needed a wiring harness and it was about $800 to fix at the dealer i worked for. So, i sold it for $500 and bought a new 2000 Focus. This was in 1999.
2007-08-01 11:05:48 UTC
A beater of a rust-bucket grey1985 Hyundai Pony was the first car I could ever call my own.... it was four-on-the-floor and a great cold weather starter because it had a manual choke. It had an actual household light switch to turn on the headlights, and a mashed front passenger side fender due to a collision with an unfortunate deer.... happened before I owned it.
Naughty ♥Angel♥ Mommy2B!
2007-08-01 10:57:06 UTC
A 1998 Mazda 626, which I started driving in 2002. Not a bad car, very nice, but a lot of transmission problems over the years.
seew
2007-08-01 11:00:48 UTC
a 16 year old Firebird without air conditioning in 100 degree tempratures. Electric windows that wouldn't roll up, t-tops that leaked, and I went through almost as much oil as I did gas. It also tended to over heat and wouldn't restart. Where ever I went, I was there for a while. It cost 1,200 parents paid half as a birthday present.
2007-08-01 11:00:25 UTC
My first car was a mazda, bought in 1976. My parents did not buy us a car, we had to save several hundred to go towards the down payment, my parents matched it and we made the payments if necessary. I think its important to make kids work for things like this. They (the cars) will be better taken care of if it isn't just handed over. It doesn't matter if you, as the parent have plenty of money to buy the car, it teaches a kid responsibility.
marconprograms
2007-08-01 10:59:32 UTC
1947 Studebaker - I got it cheap because the migrant worker who had owned it got it stuck in 4 feet deep mud. So my first work was to get the car out of the mud hole, then clean it and see if it would run (it did, though vibrated badly at over 40 miles per hour). This was in 1963, and it ran for 2 years and I sold it to another kid when I moved, still running.
~Monica~
2007-08-01 10:58:25 UTC
my parents weren't able to help me out by buying a car, but I didn't really need one until I moved to college. when I started part time, I went to a used sales lot and bought myself a 1995 ford mustang gt convertible. I still have it and even thought I might have been able to get something cheaper if I had the money at hand, I was able to pay for my car on my own with very low payments AND build up my credit :)
♥ Earth Angel ♥
2007-08-01 10:56:14 UTC
Also a '78 Chevy Vega.

I worked hard enough

And now it is a 2006

BMW

J/k

Parents money
Troy G
2007-08-01 11:07:13 UTC
1978 Pontiac Firebird. It had a 383ci with an old Tri-power from my buddies goat he wrapped around a tree. 4/12, Hurst,...all the goodies to rape the pavement. Anyone from S.E. Michigan who was loyal at Milan Dragway in the late 80's will remember her. What a beauty....oh how I miss her.
J.Lo
2007-08-01 11:00:18 UTC
back in 1994, at age 17, i had a 1986 Buick Regal...nothing wrong with it, but i couldn't go through a Taco Bell drive-thru without being asked if i would sell it...



i just bought a 2006 PT Cruiser and have told my 8 year old son, by the time i pay it off, it'll be ready for him for his first car! let's hope it lasts...
MacMom
2007-08-01 10:57:14 UTC
Plymouth Horizon
teranorton
2007-08-01 11:00:54 UTC
Mine was a brown Aries K stationwagon. It was the ugliest thing but I was one of the only ones with a car and you can fit a bunch of people in it.



I've already told my kids not expect anything that great unless they are going to pay for at least half of it. Most teens are not going to take real good care of the car unless they helped earn the money for it. My opinion proven by me, my sister and my brother. :)
Shredded Cottage Cheese
2007-08-01 10:58:25 UTC
a 1975 Plymouth Fury.



My parents bought it for me for my 17th b-day. unfortunately, it was a Plymouth. Originally, it had an 8 cylinder engine, but by the time I sold it, it was a 5-cylinder as three of the cylinders had completely lost combustion.



Last Chrysler product I ever owned (I got this car in 1981)
cajun24
2007-08-01 10:57:01 UTC
Used 2 door Honda Accord. A/C worked when it wanted too, some smoke when I cranked it, driver's window didn't roll down, upholstery had a few tears, and the body had nicks and bumps.



But it got me were I needed to go and it was all my parents could afford at the time.
Valentino
2007-08-01 10:56:42 UTC
My first car was a 1978 light blue Chevy Chevette
☆ Heavenly ☆
2007-08-01 10:56:09 UTC
A Ford Explorer.
2007-08-01 10:56:54 UTC
65 Ford Galaxy
♥ Etheria ♥
2007-08-01 10:57:19 UTC
62' Chevy Biscane.



Paid $100 for her

my friends called her 'Mosquito Control' because she smoked so bad. I had to keep a case of oil in the trunk at all times



It was great
2016-10-13 13:15:01 UTC
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hunkyscutie
2007-08-01 10:58:57 UTC
well, i didn't get my drivers license till i was 18 (cause my mom was a drivers ed teacher, and i would of had to pay for drivers ed classes if i would have goten my license any sooner) and i had to wait till i could pay for my car first (or get a full time job to pay for the loan & the gas) and i got a 2000 ford focus zx3 in '04 which i still have, runs great!!! great gas mileage
sorwho?
2007-08-01 10:58:43 UTC
My first car was a 1967 Camero Convertible. Nice car, bad paint job!
2007-08-01 11:20:50 UTC
LOL, a 1947 Plymouth 4 door with 147,000 miles on it
Me
2007-08-01 11:04:29 UTC
1962 Rambler
2007-08-01 10:57:15 UTC
1955 Chevorlety Pick up. Both doors worked, but the body was all rusted, the clutch stuck, and you needed two hands to shift gears.
El Luigy
2007-08-01 10:56:10 UTC
a 1981 Cavalier
doc cool!!
2007-08-01 10:58:51 UTC
it was a Cherokee wagoner, 89', the best car ever, can hold up to 7 people if you cram them in the back, amazing power steering, 4 wheel drive, so comfortable, even better then the new suv's, why did they stop making them??? bring 'em back
2007-08-01 10:57:24 UTC
FIRST CAR THAT I LIKE AND I BEEN THROUTH A lot of tuf times for it and looking to buy like it soon and live and die with it the car that changed my life the car that made my all life only about and the cars the i leanrd how to drive in it ... : chevy caprice 1994 (5.7)
Forever
2007-08-01 10:58:59 UTC
that's pretty funny, my husband had a vega also. Mine was my mom's 1971 cougar..a maroon color, I felt fortunate just to have a car to drive. My oldest son got his Grandpa's 70 camaro that they worked on for a year prior to his 16th b-day- & exactly 2 wks. after he crashed it and killed himself. That is my "why do we give 16 yr. olds cars?' story. and it's true.
*Droogie*
2007-08-01 10:59:33 UTC
a 1989 Chevy Cavalier. It was black. Actually it had sooo much rust on it, my dad just spray painted the rust to match the rest of the car.......
2007-08-01 10:58:13 UTC
a 1988 Saab 900 Turbo, my parents thought it would be funny to buy me a car that was old as I was.



oh did I mention that it had a blown head gasket and started with a screwdriver?



I miss that car =(
mg44
2007-08-01 10:57:50 UTC
It was 2001 and I had a 92' Chevy Lumina....definitely not a NEW CAR:)
2007-08-01 10:56:50 UTC
Trabant
2007-08-01 10:57:26 UTC
Omg... I had an orange '78 Vega. My parent's bought it from one of the neighbors. I thought it was hideous, but it did get me around.
WC
2007-08-01 10:57:16 UTC
It was a 1971 Ford Pinto.
nato
2007-08-01 10:58:17 UTC
first of all i bought all my own cars but i had a 1992 pontiac mini van, then a 1996 saturn sl2, then a 2002 audi TT
Candice
2007-08-01 10:57:29 UTC
1998 Mercury Sable. I remember I came in the garage too fast and knocked the mirror off the side. *Memories*



~Candice~
2007-08-01 10:57:28 UTC
It was a '71 Pontiac Ventura that we paid $500 for (it was quite old already by the time I got it).
Mike M.
2007-08-01 10:58:16 UTC
My very first car was a 1976 Chevrolet Nova. All in all, it was a good running car.
Barbara D
2007-08-01 10:56:49 UTC
A '67 Ford Mustang,his name was Hugo and believe me he went!
2007-08-01 10:57:07 UTC
'92 Acclaim
Rapper4JC
2007-08-01 10:56:40 UTC
a broken cadillac dat will neva eva work...

but I want my first working car to be a convertable wid automatic transmission, after I get it Imma have HUGE speakers installed...das da fun of a convertable!
2007-08-01 10:56:31 UTC
1985 5.0 mustang
ken s
2007-08-01 11:15:50 UTC
my first car was a 1963 Bonneville Pontiac and if your son wants a car then he should be saving money so he can buy his own car.
Michelle
2007-08-01 10:57:10 UTC
my first car, & my only car to date is a mercury sable.

i don't even have my license yet though.

i'll get it [if i pass] in about 3 months or so.

even though i don't have my license it is still my car.

my dad got a new car so his old one became mine.
Era
2007-08-01 10:56:31 UTC
a turquoise Pontiac Sunbird.
ruth s
2007-08-01 10:57:25 UTC
my first car was a ponitac grand pre I was 21 when my dad gave it to me for a birthday present
2007-08-01 10:56:37 UTC
89 toyota corolla
Amber
2007-08-01 11:00:00 UTC
2002 Ford Escort
☆STAR☆
2007-08-01 10:56:45 UTC
my first car was a jeep and i didnt get that till i was 18
Corona
2007-08-01 16:42:07 UTC
17 years old...1978 Mercury Cougar with a sun roof. Sun roof eventually didn't shut right and water would pour in on me and my friends, but we didn't care!!! Tons of fun! Thanks Daddy!!!
bear
2007-08-01 10:57:27 UTC
a new alero custom paint that is all I got good but I had 2 pay for it myself!
2007-08-01 10:57:03 UTC
92 nissan sentra - bone stock
adamtxstud
2007-08-01 10:56:40 UTC
1986 Ford F-150 Lariat -- it was nice, my uncle fixed it up real nice for me.
star
2007-08-01 10:59:22 UTC
i think u shod just go to a used car dealer and have him pick out a car that is within ur price range!!!!!
b
2007-08-01 10:58:14 UTC
an '88 escort (in 2001!) with no AC and pink bondo on the hood....LOL......great car though
niugirl1114
2007-08-01 10:57:18 UTC
92 grand am...with really crappy brakes
?
2007-08-01 10:56:12 UTC
87 mercury cougar,loved that car!
Kelli S
2007-08-01 10:56:04 UTC
a 2004 chevy malibu. i still have it.
Top Contributor
2007-08-01 10:55:35 UTC
a car that works
2007-08-01 10:58:38 UTC
1978 Cadillac brougham my granpa gave me , it was in mint condition..i know i know i was pimpin
Harish Jharia
2007-08-01 10:58:13 UTC
can he get driving licence at 16...? anyways, my first car was Suzuki...
Mee~mOe~
2007-08-01 10:57:49 UTC
69 VW...I called it Herbie the love bug...I miss that ol' cracker box.....;)
2007-08-01 11:00:54 UTC
Did not git one.
Jenni Butter
2007-08-01 10:57:25 UTC
mine was a new ford focus..but I paid for it and insurance..
roshanap
2007-08-01 10:56:24 UTC
scienna!





good luck!
ooooooooooooo
2007-08-01 10:59:18 UTC
1967 g.t.o.
DeCaying_Roses
2007-08-01 10:56:32 UTC
matchbox
2007-08-01 11:01:04 UTC
a 2007 lamborghini...i just bought it.



here it is.....



http://www.autobytel.com/content/research/searchresults/index.cfm/action/SelectTrim/make_vch/Lamborghini/model_vch/Murcielago%20LP640/virsection/summary
2007-08-01 10:56:18 UTC
My first and the one which I have is a H2 Hummer. Love it. In my family its the costliest and the best cars we own.


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