Do you still have your first car?

[Motorhead350]

If so post a picture from then, or now.

I still have mine and it's a 1990 Chevrolet K5 Blazer. It's been sitting without a transmission for years. It will be fixed sometime. Here is a picture when I drove it to Sun Studio at Memphis, TN. This is from 2006 I believe. I got it when I was 16 and my dad bought it new, so it's been in my life for well over 20 years. A lot tell me to get rid of it, part it out, but that would be like getting rid of or parting out a family member or Pet. It will never happen. It's mine forever.

What do you have?

Only post if you STILL have it.

[justbob]

No. I got over it like you should. [emoji13]


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[jwibbity]

Still got my wifes 09 sonata that I bought back in Nov of 09, got about 110K on the clock and haven't done a thing to it besides change the oil and trans fluid

[ChiTownMaraud3r]

Nope, sold my 93 lincoln to some gang bangers who needed it more than I did.

[Zack]

Keeping your first car is only practical if the car (or truck) is practical.

Took me 15 years of storage fees and non-use before I pulled my head out of my ass and sold it to kids to demo derby it.

With any luck, you will get there someday too...

[marauder21]

Nope, sold my 93 lincoln to some gang bangers who needed it more than I did.

Lmao probably the same bangers that took my 90 Grand Marquis....oh well

[chief455]

'69 428 SCJ Mach 1 w/4 speed, practial? no. Should have kept it? YES!

[TJCOX]

My first car was a 1956 Ford Customline 272 ci three on the tree, with a 1955 doghouse.
I gave $75.00 for it as the engine was ready to throw a rod. I found a 1956 Mercury
312 ci engine at the local junk yard and had them install it. This was my first hot rod.
I let my brother use it to drive to and from school while I was drafted into the Army.
His ( nun) teacher gave him hell for driving it while I was in Vietnam fighting a war.
No, I don't have it but wish I did.

[svtrichie]

I have my third car, bought it when I was 18. 92 foxbody vert, 70k miles on it now

[Comin' in Hot]

My first drivable "car" was a 1989 Astro van. It was the short version with all the glass and barn rear doors... it wasn't the prettiest but it was lowered 2"/3", had limo tinted windows, a 383 stroker, built 700R4, a 10 bolt LSD with 4.10s, and a full size couch in the back.

It surprised tons of mustangs in its time!!!!

I drove it J/Y with 260k on the clock because I spun a main bearing.

The first car I owned I got when I was 14, it was a 1938 Plymouth 4dr. .... but I sold it while I was in college.

[Marauderjack]

NO.....thank God!!:rolleyes:

[boatmangc]

Didn't run after I centered a telephone pole at 70 mph.

[justbob]

Didn't run after I centered a telephone pole at 70 mph.


Perhaps you were intending to invent the first car phone? :dunno:

You were doing it all wrong. :)


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[fastblackmerc]

Keeping your first car is only practical if the car (or truck) is practical.

Took me 15 years of storage fees and non-use before I pulled my head out of my ass and sold it to kids to demo derby it.

With any luck, you will get there someday too...

Pulling his head out of his ass or selling the blazer?

[crownvic05]

The only pic I have. Man I loved this car but it was giving me so many problems.

1992 caprice LTZ. Everything from paint and on was done all by me.

http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq295/isatisfy2003/caprice.jpg (http://s457.photobucket.com/user/isatisfy2003/media/caprice.jpg.html)

[jerrym3]

No, never took a pic of my 53 Ford 4 dr back in 1960.

But, I did manage to keep two photos from 1965 of my 65 Stingray.

[Guittard22]

I started driving on a Volkswagen Cabrio my step dad got so mad at me that I was stalling out my mom than give me a 2000 Land Rover discovery the catch was I had to make the payments both have been long gone .

[tbone]

I imagine molecules of my 72 Cutlass are spread out in a bazillion different modern metal and plastic things.....

[Fman]

Bought my first car, 1970 Chevelle SS 396 when I was 15. Not practical at all, but very fun:)

[jimbok1951]

No do not have but my first was a 1953 Chevy Bel Aire not as nice as this one got it for $100.00. 3 speed on column, a real tank.

http://files.conceptcarz.com/img/Chevrolet/53-Chevy_BelAir_Sdn_DV-07_MBA_05.jpg (http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/213849,13970/1953-Chevrolet-Bel-Air-Series-2400C_photo.aspx)

[jgc61sr2002]

389 CI Tri Power 348 HP.
Although it's not the original . I have had this car restored.
Frame off Resto.

[chief455]

389 CI Tri Power 348 HP.
Although it's not the original . I have had this car restored.
Frame off Resto.
:eek::eek::bows::bows:

[cer0413]

Nope, sold my 93 lincoln to some gang bangers who needed it more than I did.
You are the funniest Marauder owner I know

[PurdueRifleman]

Yep, a 1988 F250 2wd 4spd with the old straight six. I got it with 165,000mi and now it has over 250,000 and still runs strong. Hopefully my other straight six truck does as well.

[gpfarrell]

1978 Mercury Marquis. Dad bought it new when I was 7. Lots of happy family memories, but he passed away when I was 14 and I started driving it the day I turned 16. High school, home coming, prom, some college, work, our wedding car. Somewhere in there it turned 100,000 miles at 100mph, the secondaries on the 4-barrel carb were wide open... and it was raining lightly... but 100,000 doesn't come along often! In 2011 finances finally enabled a "whatever it takes" restoration odyssey. Who does a body-off on a Marquis? I should get to drive it again in early 2015.

If you squint you'll see it's cherry red paint, white vinyl top, covered headlights, and fender skirts in my avatar (?) picture.

A blank check couldn't buy Dad's car.

[FastMerc]

My 1st car is a 67 Pontiac LeMans. One pic of before it was taken apart. The other is a present state at the shop.

[cobrakid]

I still have my first car but I'm only 17 and have had it for two years
2011 gmc yukon


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[ChiTownMaraud3r]

You are the funniest Marauder owner I know

We need to hang more often.

[Mebot]

No I don't have my 68 Cougar anymore but I did own my Cougar and Marauder at the same time for a little while. Here's a picture a couple days after I got my Marauder in May 2006

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/Mebot/1e9aa7ca.jpg

[88CuttyClassic]

Nope dont have my first. It was a 87 cutlass ciera with the iron duke. I pounded on that thing and it took all a teenager could give it. Sold it in 00. Got an 88 cutlass supreme classic and had it till march 4th 01 when someone felt they needed it. Replaced it with my 85 monte SS which i still have. Ive have some daily drivers since. My MM i bought in march will hopefully be my daily till the wheels fall off. I dont treat it like i did my other daily drivers.

[kirk]

My first car was a 1972 Datsun 510 2dr, purchased in 1976 or 7. Long long gone. I think it's the only car I've ever owned that I don't have a picture of.

[TP Derrick D]

LOL. first car bought in '76 or '77 during my Jr year of H.S., it was a '68 Pontiac LeMans that I wanted so bad to be a GTO Judge . Sold it in '79 and bought a '76 Chevy Laguna S3 Chevelle.

[71cyclone]

Nice :Laguna with Swivel seats? . (great Nascar Body)

[Motorhead350]

I am glad to see not only do some of you still have your cars, but are restoring them!

Some will never understand.

[jsignorelli]

My first new car was my 1970 Boss 302. Still have it, drive it & race it.
I have improved the steering, suspension, and now a five speed T-5 with a hydraulic clutch to fit the long tube headers.

[chief455]

My first new car was my 1970 Boss 302. Still have it, drive it & race it.
I have improved the steering, suspension, and now a five speed T-5 with a hydraulic clutch to fit the long tube headers.

1 owner 70 Boss 302 = :bows:
Only other guy I know that smart is my friend that bought his new Signet Gold / black vinyl top 67 GTO 400 HO / 4 speed, and still has factory paint, driving every year. He bought the goat because dealers did not have any 427 Fairlane's, and he was ready to buy a new car.

[Logizyme]

I still have a piece of my first car...

[TP Derrick D]

Nice :Laguna with Swivel seats? . (great Nascar Body)
Yep, I had the '76 red, with the white swivel seats, which out of the years built was the only one with both slant front and rear. That is the only car from the past that I REALLY wish I had today. These young pups on here probably never heard of it let along seen one and they talking about people don't know what a Marauder is. That car is what started me looking at and buying specialty if not rare cars especially after owning the LeMans and it wasn't a GTO or GTO Judge.

[chief455]

Yep, I had the '76 red, with the white swivel seats, which out of the years built was the only one with both slant front and rear. That is the only car from the past that I REALLY wish I had today. These young pups on here probably never heard of it let along seen one and they talking about people don't know what a Marauder is. That car is what started me looking at and buying specialty if not rare cars especially after owning the LeMans and it wasn't a GTO or GTO Judge.
77 Can Am
drove mine right to the junk yard. Same as above ^^ = who knew how rare those odd ball cars would become?

[WhatsUpDOHC]

Yep, I had the '76 red, with the white swivel seats, which out of the years built was the only one with both slant front and rear. That is the only car from the past that I REALLY wish I had today. These young pups on here probably never heard of it let along seen one and they talking about people don't know what a Marauder is. That car is what started me looking at and buying specialty if not rare cars especially after owning the LeMans and it wasn't a GTO or GTO Judge.
Love Lagunas. There's one around the corner from me.

I still have the 340 cuda emblem from one snorkel from my first car.

Yes, should have kept.

[FastMerc]

My first new car was my 1970 Boss 302. Still have it, drive it & race it.
I have improved the steering, suspension, and now a five speed T-5 with a hydraulic clutch to fit the long tube headers.


Now that is a hell of a first car. A buddy of mine has a dark blue with white stripes Laguna black and white int pretty cool!

[Motorhead350]

Now that is a hell of a first car. A buddy of mine has a dark blue with white stripes Laguna black and white int pretty cool!

He said first new car. Not sure if it was his first car.

[FastMerc]

He said first new car. Not sure if it was his first car.
Well considering his age it could have been???

[Motorhead350]

Let's find out!

[FastMerc]

0nly he can settle it!

[TP Derrick D]

77 Can Am
drove mine right to the junk yard. Same as above ^^ = who knew how rare those odd ball cars would become?
Can Am huh? man those were rarer than Lagunas probably. Those were based off the last gen of GTO's in the mid 70's right. I remember someone I knew had a '74 or '75 but can't remember who...also around that time was the Hurst Olds 442 that I liked. Man how time flies. Plus they were all GM cars, now I only buy FoMoCo since my 1st ones a '87 Escort GT in '88 while stationed in Germany and a 5.0 Mustang GT bought new in '89 when I came back stateside.

[Mike M]

Yep, I still have my first car. Bought it 38 years ago. I was a junior in H.S.
It was a real 68 SS/RS 396/375hp car with 4 piston factory front disc brakes, p/s-p/b-12 bolt 3:42 rear end and Muncie 4-speed with a Hurst shifter.

I bought it for $650.00



Today...750+ HP 548 Big Block all roller, nothing but the best.

I also have the first NEW car I ever bought...1987 Turbo Buick T-Type.
I ordered and waited 6 weeks.

[TP Derrick D]

Nice :Laguna with Swivel seats? . (great Nascar Body)


After all the posts it got me thinking so searched around on ebay and Craigslist and look what I found, just like mine, except I had the rally wheels with the beauty rings, Someone got Keystones on this one.
http://jacksontn.craigslist.org/cto/4800952187.html


Man, that brings back memories, I got a pic of my first born(girl) sitting in the driver seat swiveled around. She just turned 35, she don't remember the car but has seen the pics of it and her in it.

[Mike M]

Check out the shirt.

Oh yeah, I converted the vacuum hidden headlights to electric.

https://www.facebook.com/anthem.mobilone

Hope you can access my Facebook for video. If not, I'll approve you.

[TP Derrick D]

77 Can Am
drove mine right to the junk yard. Same as above ^^ = who knew how rare those odd ball cars would become?
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Hey look here! a Can Am...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pontiac-Le-Mans-Sport-Coupe-2-Door-1977-pontiac-can-am-6-6-litre-all-original-survivor-/221634753251?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item339a75f2e3&vxp=mtr

[chief455]

Can Am huh? man those were rarer than Lagunas probably. Those were based off the last gen of GTO's in the mid 70's right. I remember someone I knew had a '74 or '75 but can't remember who...also around that time was the Hurst Olds 442 that I liked. Man how time flies. Plus they were all GM cars, now I only buy FoMoCo since my 1st ones a '87 Escort GT in '88 while stationed in Germany and a 5.0 Mustang GT bought new in '89 when I came back stateside.
77 Can Am = one year only. 1377 made. 400 cu.in. Pontiac power only, except California cars got an Olds 403:puke:
White paint / red striped only, most had red interior. Few had tan interior...by my memory.
Based on Lemans body. GTO went back to a Lemans option in 72, dead in 74.
Also was Grand Am - available in 4 door and 2 door coupe. A nicely optioned Grand Am is likely what you saw from 73-76 era.
Only odd things on Can Am was column shift (rare) or floor console shift. Otherwise pretty much all the same.
Yah, same generation 442/Hurst Olds had the true Lightning rod shifter - what a hassle! but cool as hell.
I'd rather have a 77 Can Am than 77 Trans Am to be different.
Sadly, prices are up, up, up.

[TP Derrick D]

Look what I found on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pontiac-Le-Mans-Sport-Coupe-2-Door-1977-pontiac-can-am-6-6-litre-all-original-survivor-/221634753251?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item339a75f2e3&vxp=mtr

All of this gave me the idea of I really would like to see a show on OverHaulin where Chip did cars from the mid '70s...Lagunas, Can Ams, Hurst Olds back to an updated version with interior, lowered with wheels and paint.

[chief455]

77 Can Am
drove mine right to the junk yard. Same as above ^^ = who knew how rare those odd ball cars would become?
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Hey look here! a Can Am...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pontiac-Le-Mans-Sport-Coupe-2-Door-1977-pontiac-can-am-6-6-litre-all-original-survivor-/221634753251?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item339a75f2e3&vxp=mtr

$7500 to start, on a so-so car I used to buy for $1500:eek:

I'd love to have one, but not that tmuch!

[chief455]

After all the posts it got me thinking so searched around on ebay and Craigslist and look what I found, just like mine, except I had the rally wheels with the beauty rings, Someone got Keystones on this one.
http://jacksontn.craigslist.org/cto/4800952187.html


Man, that brings back memories, I got a pic of my first born(girl) sitting in the driver seat swiveled around. She just turned 35, she don't remember the car but has seen the pics of it and her in it.
price not bad, if you like those cars. Not around, and that looks decent!

[chief455]

Yep, I still have my first car. Bought it 38 years ago. I was a junior in H.S.
It was a real 68 SS/RS 396/375hp car with 4 piston factory front disc brakes, p/s-p/b-12 bolt 3:42 rear end and Muncie 4-speed with a Hurst shifter.

I bought it for $650.00



Today...750+ HP 548 Big Block all roller, nothing but the best.

I also have the first NEW car I ever bought...1987 Turbo Buick T-Type.
I ordered and waited 6 weeks.
EXCELLENT!!

[FW_Linc/Merc]

I still have my first collector car. Bought it when I was 19. It is the 1969 Impala in my signature. My first car I blew the motor up and crashed it twice. I thought that was what you where supposed to do to your first car.

[FastMerc]

Who knows why the CAN AM production stopped ??? :D

[chief455]

Who knows why the CAN AM production stopped ??? :D
Same fate as Marauder - sales under estimate.

[FastMerc]

Same fate as Marauder - sales under estimate.
Actually no...

[justbob]

Fugly? :dunno:


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[chief455]

Actually no...
Pontiac upper management, already worried about losing sales of their Grand Prix models (the Can Am and the Grand Prix used the same dashboard and console, so a sale of a Can Am was seen as a loss of a sale of a Grand Prix by some senior Pontiac executives), decided to scrap the project after approximately one half year of production

[Mike M]

Never understood that car. It was Fugly. The Grand Prix on the other hand was a winner.

[TP Derrick D]

77 Can Am = one year only. 1377 made. 400 cu.in. Pontiac power only, except California cars got an Olds 403:puke:
White paint / red striped only, most had red interior. Few had tan interior...by my memory.
Based on Lemans body. GTO went back to a Lemans option in 72, dead in 74.
Also was Grand Am - available in 4 door and 2 door coupe. A nicely optioned Grand Am is likely what you saw from 73-76 era.
Only odd things on Can Am was column shift (rare) or floor console shift. Otherwise pretty much all the same.
Yah, same generation 442/Hurst Olds had the true Lightning rod shifter - what a hassle! but cool as hell.
I'd rather have a 77 Can Am than 77 Trans Am to be different.
Sadly, prices are up, up, up.
Yeah you are probably right on the car I thought was a Can Am in '74-'75 was a Grand Am. I remember the time frame because I was in Jr High and still riding the bus and who ever had that car came by bus stop one morning showing it off to all there. It had to be someone a few years older than me and either a Sr or just out of school because we all knew each other in the neighborhood regardless of age. By '77 I was driving to school also and not getting on the bus.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pontiac-Grand-Am-Base-Hardtop-2-Door-1974-pontiac-grand-am-base-hardtop-2-door-7-5-l-american-/331413793048?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item4d29cd2918&vxp=mtr

[Jeffonebuck]

Doing a frame off resto as we speak,,,http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/12/18/02b9a211de3c3f2e3050345cd8a0e8 ca.jpg


Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

[chief455]

Doing a frame off resto as we speak,,,



Coolest first car in the thread!:beer:

[FastMerc]

Some pretty good ideas as to why the CAN AM production stopped but no one got it yet... :)

[chief455]

Some pretty good ideas as to why the CAN AM production stopped but no one got it yet... :)
Do tell, do tell.....I really thought it was lower than expected sales, found that executive Grand Prix sales excerpt from Wikipedia, sounded reasonable - so what then?

[FastMerc]

OK the reason for the end of CAN AM production was due to a clumsy employee that dropped the mold for the spoiler on the rear of the car. There was only one mold and it was specific to that car. So there you have it.

[FastMerc]

:bump::run::bump:

[kirk]

OK the reason for the end of CAN AM production was due to a clumsy employee that dropped the mold for the spoiler on the rear of the car. There was only one mold and it was specific to that car. So there you have it.

It took so long to respond because......well it just took that long to think about.

What was that conversation like with the boss? Can you imagine if they took the projected profits out of his paycheck. WOW!

[chief455]

OK the reason for the end of CAN AM production was due to a clumsy employee that dropped the mold for the spoiler on the rear of the car. There was only one mold and it was specific to that car. So there you have it.
hmmmmm

It took so long to respond because......well it just took that long to think about.

What was that conversation like with the boss? Can you imagine if they took the projected profits out of his paycheck. WOW!
that would be bad
It seems this same story went around the 72 Judge 'duck bill' spoiler. Uber rare, not reproduced, folk lore has that the mold was dropped...
pics or it never happened:D

[kirk]

Nothing on snopes

[chief455]

hmmmmm

that would be bad
It seems this same story went around the 72 Judge 'duck bill' spoiler. Uber rare, not reproduced, folk lore has that the mold was dropped...
pics or it never happened:D
quick research says correct on both spoilers:

[BIGNELSTER]

I'm selling my mm perfect conditionhttp://youtu.be/cQ2-EmBSYQI


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[R. Jones]

Not exactly,

The first car I owned was a Jeep Comanche. Fresh blue paint and a straight six that sounded like a tractor. My current girlfriend is sleeping in the bed next to me. She's adorable. No photos. That'd be weird. I had the Comanche when I met her; she said it was cute; we drove to New Orleans on our first real date; we fooled around for the first time on its vinyl/tweed bench seat parked under the trees by the horse track.

I'm honest about the Comanche though. Everything except the paint and the engine were messed up. Constant random failures. I remember walking into Autozone for the third time cradling a busted, warrantied radiator in my arms and the manager looking me up and down like a bartender.

I got into a wreck when cash-for-clunkers was ongoing. I drove most of my car to the Jeep dealership and got "9,000 dollars" for it. I remember my salesman, shaking his head when he saw the "car" I was trading in. He test drove it around the parking lot with the drivers side mirror hanging from its wiring, bouncing alongside the Jeep.

I still sorta have the first car I drove though. I'll post it when I have some photos.

- Robert

[sflrainmaker01]

I am on a quest to revive my first car! I posted earlier (in the Lounge) about anyone in the Ohio/Indiana area that could check out a revival project that resembled my first car (which got crushed while I was at work:mad2: It was before the internet really took off, so it wold have been tough to save her). It was a 1968 Ford Galaxie XL (sometimes referred to as an XL). It was a big block car with the bucket seats etc. Let me know if anyone can help!

Here is a pic of what the body style was like:

[Gerry24]

My first car was a 85 cutlass supreme with a sunroof that was jb weld lol... That 307 ran with no oil in it and still sold her and made a little $ off of it... And it was 90 cents a gallon in those days...

[Marauderjack]

NO.......and damn glad of it!!:D

1950 Pontiac Chieftain....in line 8 that weighed a TON....got 5 MPG and 25 Miles Per Quart......looked like it was on fire when idling!!!:eek:

I was 14 and in the 8th Grade....had a carpool that paid for gas, OIL and snacks...cut grass for the rest!!:beer:

If I saw it today I'd set it on fire....what a barge....BUT it got me around!!;)

[jerrym3]

My first car, a 53 Ford, didn't come with a heater. Whoever had the car before me had some add on electric heater installed.

Paid $250; sold it for $275. It was the only car that I ever made a profit on.

Bought it in Dec 1959 and sold it in June, 1960. Since I didn't get my driver's license until Feb, 1960, I had to park it on the city street (no such thing as a driveway) for almost two months, start it, sit in it, and listen to the AM radio.

First day I drove it legally, a cop pulled me over...for driving too slow.

That never happened again.

[FastMerc]

I am on a quest to revive my first car! I posted earlier (in the Lounge) about anyone in the Ohio/Indiana area that could check out a revival project that resembled my first car (which got crushed while I was at work:mad2: It was before the internet really took off, so it wold have been tough to save her). It was a 1968 Ford Galaxie XL (sometimes referred to as an XL). It was a big block car with the bucket seats etc. Let me know if anyone can help!

Here is a pic of what the body style was like:
Holy crap I almost bought one of those in Aqua and white with black and white int 428 4sp car that sob was fast!

[MGDriver]

I do which isn't difficult since the MM is only my second car, it's a 2003 Audi A6 Avant 2.5 Turbodiesel which was a hand me down from my Dad when I got my license. Still using it as a daily since you just can't beat 40 MPG and a 600 mile range on a single tank of fuel.