What was your first car?

[trendmomentum]

Lada Riva 1300 1989 left hand drive (steering wheel on the right! )

I bought it together with a friend of mine for £250, not even including the spare tyre because could not afford it, LOL.

We drove it all the way from London to the USSR for kicks!

Ah! Those were the worry-free days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Riva.jpeg

 

[Don Bright]

Forgot to mention my (in Calif) 1973 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron, with a 440Cu In. engine and the heaviest thing I have ever driven, barring a tank perhaps.

Don

 

[lindq]

Quote from Don Bright:



1953 Ford Convertible
1956 Mercury
1957 Ford Convertible
1957 Lincoln Premier
1959 Lincoln Continental convertible (wish I had that one)
1959 Oldsmobile 98
1962 Mercury with Electric rear window
1964 Mercury Wagon with 390/360 (learned to drive car, surfing car)
1964 at age 14: Went to Vegas to get a Motorcycle drivers license, bought a Ducati 125 and then a 300 Honda Scrambler to drive to Junior high in California.
1968 had the Sprite (crashed Olds above).
1969 bought a 66 Buick Riviera (took it to Camp Pendleton when I was in the Marine Corps)
1970 Bought an Opel Kadet 1900 4 speed. Bought another Starfire, 1966.
1974 Pontiac Gran Prix
1967 Volvo in 1978 for wife.
1980 Bought new 528i BMW (like everyone else on the trading floor, LOL).
Proceeded to roll the 528i.
1982 Bought 1983 733i BWM
1985 Another 733i
1989 bought a Subaru and a Hyundai for wifey
1991 Volvo 740 This thing would never die. Just now donated to charity...still runs well.
Electric cars....multiple, On Board of U.S. Electricar and Zapworld.
Drove Volvo to Vegas
2001 Volvo S80
2002 Dodge Durango for wife.
2005 Dodge Magnum.

 

[lindq]

Quote from Don Bright:



1953 Ford Convertible
1956 Mercury
1957 Ford Convertible
1957 Lincoln Premier
1959 Lincoln Continental convertible (wish I had that one)
1959 Oldsmobile 98
1962 Mercury with Electric rear window
1964 Mercury Wagon with 390/360 (learned to drive car, surfing car)
1964 at age 14: Went to Vegas to get a Motorcycle drivers license, bought a Ducati 125 and then a 300 Honda Scrambler to drive to Junior high in California.
1968 had the Sprite (crashed Olds above).
1969 bought a 66 Buick Riviera (took it to Camp Pendleton when I was in the Marine Corps)
1970 Bought an Opel Kadet 1900 4 speed. Bought another Starfire, 1966.
1974 Pontiac Gran Prix
1967 Volvo in 1978 for wife.
1980 Bought new 528i BMW (like everyone else on the trading floor, LOL).
Proceeded to roll the 528i.
1982 Bought 1983 733i BWM
1985 Another 733i
1989 bought a Subaru and a Hyundai for wifey
1991 Volvo 740 This thing would never die. Just now donated to charity...still runs well.
Electric cars....multiple, On Board of U.S. Electricar and Zapworld.
Drove Volvo to Vegas
2001 Volvo S80
2002 Dodge Durango for wife.
2005 Dodge Magnum.

Don, I have to say that's the most eclectic collection of cars I've ever seen. Were you searching for a self-identity? Have you found it?

And how did you fit in a 1968 Sprint?:eek:

 

[MRWSM]

1973 Barracuda, awesome car and I
still have fond memories of it. For it's time
it was a good car.
I know the owner who bought it from me
and he still has it, and it looks perfect and still runs good. It's probably worth $50,000 now. How many of you can say
that about a 1970's jap-crap mobile?

 

[Don Bright]

Quote from lindq:

Don, I have to say that's the most eclectic collection of cars I've ever seen. Were you searching for a self-identity? Have you found it?

And how did you fit in a 1968 Sprint?:eek:

Still searching, as most of us are...when we "find it" - we will probably have forgotten why and what we were looking for.

Obviously 100 pounds lighter "back in my Marine Corps days".

Don

 

[ShoeshineBoy]

66 Mustang - Best stock car of the 60's.

My Dad had an original that he bought, I believe, for $3,300.

 

[PoundTheRock]

Nissan Sentra.

Drove it 8 years until some bitch T-boned me in a parking lot of all places -- sold it to my Puerto Rican secretary's husband who was the original ride-pimper.

The Camry lasted 10 years, donated that, and now a lovely 2000 Isuzu Trooper soon to be seized.

 

[Nordic]

Quote from MRWSM:

1973 Barracuda, awesome car and I
still have fond memories of it. For it's time
it was a good car.
I know the owner who bought it from me
and he still has it, and it looks perfect and still runs good. It's probably worth $50,000 now. How many of you can say
that about a 1970's jap-crap mobile?

LOL... the old clorox bleach under the rear tires for that added smoke effect. Brings back a few memories

 

[PohPoh]

1997
Acura 1.6 EL (Canadian Manufactured car not made in the states)
2003
BMW 330 Convertible, brand new...paid cash (big mistake)
2006
Lexus LS430 (Big Poppa car)