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What was your first car?

Gene

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New Orleans, La.
'92 Ford Thunderbird. Was it a sports car? Was it a town car? It was neither :/

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Atticus Finch

Call Me a Cab
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2,718
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Coastal North Carolina, USA
About the same time I was fixing up the Mustang, I also had one of these...but mine was blue and white. A guy who was going off to visit the Republic of Vietnam essentially gave it to a friend of mine...and she sold it to me. I only kept it for one summer and then gave it to my father…who rode it for a while and then sold it.

But of all the vehicles I've owned in my life...the Honda 90 is one that I would really like to have back. Back then, I thought that I looked like and Dweeb riding it...and I probably would still look like a Dweeb riding it. But nowadays I wouldn't care.

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1961MJS

My Mail is Forwarded Here
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3,370
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Norman Oklahoma
In the mid-80s, a used 1975 Dodge Dart. (I'd already had my license for a decade, but hadn't needed a car of my own: I typically borrowed one of my parents' Chevrolets or Corvairs when I needed wheels.) ...

Hi, the first car I DROVE was a 1968 Red Barracuda with an automatic. The first car I regularly drove as a Yellow Plymouth Scamp (Dart clone) with that slant six. I was SOOOO glad I totaled it without killing myself. It was about twice as heavy as my current Subaru, and several inches longer, but was a "compact car". I don't miss it much.

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SteveAS

Practically Family
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841
Location
San Francisco
Mine was a 1973 Datsun 240Z, just like the one in the photo below. I bought it for $2,800 in 1985 and drove it for a few years in college.

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scottyrocks

I'll Lock Up
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9,178
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Isle of Langerhan, NY
When I was 13, one of the young men across the street got a new '73 240Z. It was white with a red (leather?) interior. I used to stand outside his driveway and watch him polish it which he always seemed to be doing.. He must've thought I was nuts.
 

DesertDan

One Too Many
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1,582
Location
Arizona
'74 Ford LTD two-door. Had a 351 cleveland under the hood. I was 16 at the time, I'm lucky I'm still alive after all the foolishness that car got me into (yes, it was the cars fault.....really).
 
'74 Ford LTD two-door. Had a 351 cleveland under the hood. I was 16 at the time, I'm lucky I'm still alive after all the foolishness that car got me into (yes, it was the cars fault.....really).

lol lol The 351C, by that time, had all kinds of smog stuff on it, was detuned and it didn't live up to its potential----stock. You could have really wrapped yourself around a few poles if you tuned the heck out of it and replaced several parts with high performance parts. :p
 

Boodles

A-List Customer
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425
Location
Charlotte, NC
My first car in 1988 was a 1950 Chevy Deluxe 2 door just like the one pictured.
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Good man! This is the same body style as my '52 except mine was the standard model which had way less chrome trim. About everyone my age would add the chrome teeth from a '54 chevy grille, switch out the wheels for 15" Chevy station wagon rims which were wider, and when you could find them add the ribbed bumpers from a'49ish Plymouth. Those of us with part-time jobs, while living off our parents, would add split exhaust manifolds, and two single barrel carb's also on aftermarket intake manifolds. Big bucks for a kid.
 

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