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What was your first car? When did you get it? How much did it cost?

My first car that I got to drive and officially have in my name was my mom's 1990 Honda Civic, which she gave to me when she got her Pilot.

The first car I intend to buy with my own money is probably a 50-60's Chevy at a price between 5-16,000$.

My wings.
The day I was born.
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Black First Edition Ford Ka. I bought it from my mother who no longer needed a car and I still have it. After 200 000+ km I'm expecting it to die any day. (gears, motor is almost as good as new)

I expect to buy my parent's 1989 volvo stationwagon from them when I get a steady job, although we haven't discussed it much.

A 1984 Toyota Cressida, shaped like a brick and handled like one.

My first car was a 1986 Ford Sierra estate. I guy at work gave it to me for free and it was worth every penny.

It failed its MOT in style and I never got it taxed or insured. After six months its top speed had fallen from about 80 to around 30. It sat outside my house for a while looking forlorn then I scrapped it.

The first car I actually paid money for was a Ford Fiesta 1.3, that I got for £700. It's now in the hands of my brother.

a 2003 Vauxhall Corsa

kinda like this one (http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/8928/vauxhallcorsa2006001dv7.jpg) but older model i think, and in black. i liked that little car :fluffle:

I had a Fiat Punto 75 ELX. It repeatedly tried to kill itself, and me along with it, by accelerating hard at random (and usually inappropriate) times. You can't put a price on that.

A 1979 XD Ford Fairmont Ghia in metallic bronze/brown, with a brown velour interior too. It had a 4.1 litre straight six, but was converted to run on LPG so it cost me bugger all to fill up at the petrol station. I think I bought it for AUD$6000 many years ago.

http://www.abc.net.au/farnorth/stories/m1166115.jpg

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I had a Renault Clio (new style).

I've just ordered a new car today. A rather yummy Ford Fiesta ST.

My very first car was an '84 Ford Ranger that my step-brother had gotten from a man who had managed to roll it, so the roof looked as if an elephant had been tap dancing on it. The interior was missing (As in no paneling what so ever), the radio shorted out every time I took a turn too fast, and not only was the steering not power, but the original steering wheel had been replaced by one I strongly suspected had been stolen from a go-cart.

My step-brother traded it to my step-father for a nice, full sized, diesel pick-up under the notion that if I had such a crappy car to drive, not only would I appreciate any other car I might get (Which was the case, when I got my next car, a Bronco II, I felt as if I had ascended to Heaven), but if I ever was in an accident; not only would no one care about the car, but likely no one would notice.

When I registered it at the DMV, I had to put down a value for it. When I said 50 cents, the clerk protested till I pointed out the window at that truck... after which he said he understood and thought I was over-valuing my truck.

I had a Renault Clio (new style).
Ooooh.

I had a '99 VW Golf, but since my parents paid two thirds and it was simply a family car that I happened to drive most of the time, it doesn't count.

My real first car is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjTicMzhhws

I have never owned a car and I don't have a drivers license.

I'd like to say that it's because I'm aware of my carbon footprint and I support public transport but really it's because I'm crap.

I did used to ride around on a scooter in Beijing, entirely illegally and impervious to police who never stopped me once.

I am a pain to friends and family alike in my requests to drive me everywhere with the line 'dude, it'll be like a road-trip' to which the answer is often 'going to the train station is not a road-trip'.

Having said that, from 14 or so onwards I've always lived in a city and have never really suffered as a result.

Ooooh.

I had a '99 VW Golf, but since my parents paid two thirds and it was simply a family car that I happened to drive most of the time, it doesn't count.

My real first car is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjTicMzhhws

nice :D

My experiences with my Clio have made me a Renault nut for life.

I'll have the ford for two years, then I'll prolly look at 'investing' in the Clio 197 or a Megane 225.

nice :D

My experiences with my Clio have made me a Renault nut for life.

I'll have the ford for two years, then I'll prolly look at 'investing' in the Clio 197 or a Megane 225.
http://rsc172.blogspot.com/

I really need to write another entry, but I need another photo or something. Plus I'm going to the track again on Saturday, so after that I'll have something interesting to go on about.

Anyways, there's more pics there. I love the car, I really do. Best choice I could have made, I reckon. The only thing I would have felt comparable is an Integra Type-R and I couldn't afford one.

Mom just bought a new Honda CRV, so she gave me her 1997 Toyota Camry to use for this year. :)

http://rsc172.blogspot.com/

I really need to write another entry, but I need another photo or something. Plus I'm going to the track again on Saturday, so after that I'll have something interesting to go on about.

Anyways, there's more pics there. I love the car, I really do. Best choice I could have made, I reckon. The only thing I would have felt comparable is an Integra Type-R and I couldn't afford one.

Bah, all four wheels are still on the ground. You obviously aren't driving it right. ;)

A D-Reg Fiat Panda 750, which I got in 1998 for £225.

It was a brilliant car, hardly any bother (slightly over-protective brakes, but that's all), and I was very sad when it finally succumbed to old age and oxidisation three years later. *sniff*

Bah, all four wheels are still on the ground. You obviously aren't driving it right. ;)
It was my first time, have mercy.

What was your first car? When did you get it? How much did it cost?

My first and only car was (and is, if no-one stole it last night, I didn't check) a 17-years-old VW Polo (1050 cc, 33 kW, Euro 0, top speed 165 km/h). Originally it costed 10M lire iirc (about 5000 €). Got it from my parents last year as they bought a 3-years-old Ford Fiesta (1400 cc, Euro 3).

Yes, old and battered as it is, and fan of tramways as I am, I still love my car. I call it "il potente mezzo germanico" (the powerful germanic device).

When it will fall to obsolescence, I think I'll be going for the upcoming Clio version made by Dacia-Renault (about 5000 €) or a Skoda utility car.

A '64 chevy pickup. Small-block V-8 and a three speed column shift.... cost me $300.

'Course I had to put a new transmission in it before I could actually drive it.

Drove the wheels off that beast for a couple of years until I picked up a '64 MGB for $750.

Bought a 98 Chevy Silverado when I was 18 (1998), it was for all intents and purposes new, 1700 miles on it. Paid 18k, still driving it. Never had a bit of trouble, aside from the tree falling on it.

http://www.keastmotors.com/images/98pickup.jpg

Pretty well what it looks like, 'cept mine is black and lacks the extended cab. My only complaint is that the cab is too short on the interior, sitting up straight my head is within a half inch of the roof. Gotta dock for potholes.

Diahatsu (sp?) charade '93, little bugger was nearly imprevious to all forms of abuse, i flogged the living pork chops out of the thing and at just past 230k, it burst into flames in the middle of a busy brisbane intersection, much to my amusement, mostly because me and some mates were actully driving it out to a friends property to sacrifice it at a party (by setting it aflame no less) little bugger was just to eager to be burnt :p

i just bought a brand new jeep wrangler to replace said charade and discovered that the people who make jeeps obviously havent looked at petrol prices recently, the basterd clocks in at 15L/100kms for fuel consumption.

I've never owned a car and never had the need for one. My legs are strong, my stamina high. Cars are costly overall plus there's maintainence and many other cost besides. Ther're money pit really.

Sadly, a Ford Pinto. Crap car, but it was fun - the owner before us had put a V6 from a Mustang in it, which made it extremely fast and extremely front-heavy. Any time it rained it would fishtail, and sometimes it was easier to just do a 360 than trying to correct it. It was fun to pull up to red lights next to the sports cars of the day (280zx, RX-7, and the sort), have them laugh at me. When we got to the next light and I was sitting there waiting for them, they wouldn't even make eye contact.

I can't complain too much though - I got my license before any of my friends, so I got to drive their cars around when we went out, and they had some nice ones - 65 Mustang, 80 Corvette, Monte Carlo SS, etc.

All in all, I much prefer my current Acura though...

A 1987 Ford Escort Popular. Rusted to hell, but mechanically superb. Was my dad's family car from new, and it's been mine since 2000. It gets retired tomorrow and replaced with an '03 Focus Ghia, should be about lunch time (just finalised delivery).

$500. Drove like a cartoon. Phenomenal gas mileage. Can be driven without using the brakes if the necessity arises. Excellent choice for a first car.

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A used Mazda Millenia, which was a real pleasure to drive - and I drove it just about to death.

I loved that car.

I have a Toyota Corolla now, which is a great car, and runs like a champ, but doesn't have the perks of my first love.

1971 Pontiac Ventura II $2,500 brand new

Options: carpet, radio, tinted glass

I don’t own a car, and probably never will. I don’t see the need.

I live, and will be for the foreseeable future, in a city with decent public transport. Petrol is really expensive, as are parking permits. My legs work.

And I like staring out of the windows in buses, cars, etc., too much; I wouldn’t be a safe driver.

All in all, I prefer to stroll.

1977 Chevy Malibu Classic (http://cdnclassics.chevelles.net/feature/Ramey.jpg), except mine was yellow and that little half hard top was white. And my hubcaps where worse, if that's possible.

I inhereted it when I was 17 (up until that point I was 'sharing' my dad's S-15 Jimmy, one of the wimpiest things I've ever driven.). Inhereting a car takes a lot of the joy out of your first car..."Yay! I got a car!...My aunt is dead...I have a car!...My dead aunts car...

That thing was a total gas hog, but I had it during an Opec price war, so I managed. I used to mob it around this old abandoned mobile home park teaching myself Dukes of Hazzard tricks.

The first car I bought myself was a 1973 Porsche 914 1.7 (http://www.914conversions.com/assets/images/Rich9.jpg) which I picked up for @$900 and I may have over paid...It was a shambles-the engine hood would pop open when I went over bumps, the dashboard would die when I stepped on the brakes, only two of the four cylinders worked...it was a wreck, but it was my wreck and I loved it. I still regret getting rid of it.

The first car I ever had was one of these, I went in half with my parents to buy it, they got to drive it more than I did.

http://www.allpar.com/images/dodge/colt.jpg

ours was not so nice, we bought it in 1994, at that point it was 22 years old and had 80K miles on it after the odometer had flipped.

I bought my own very first car just for me in 1999, it was one of these
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/photos/1986_Chevy_Spring_HB_W.jpg


it had 200K miles on it, I bought it and a parts car for it for $75, it lasted 6 months. It was actually an automatic transmission but would only shift into P, R, and 2 because of gear shift issues, so it would run horribly up to 30 miles an hour, then smooth up to 45-ish, then wouldn't go any faster. None of the 4 doors would open, so I had to climb in and out through the hatch, which was held closed by a bungee chord, the window on the driver side was off the track, and so it never moved, the other windows thankfully worked because I didn't have air conditioning, and the heater/defrost didn't work. It got like 50mpg though, and it for the most part ran.......it was a horrible color of orange, and had a "vote for Dukakis" sticker on the back window that I never took off, it was hilarious to me. [/nostalgia]

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/images/front_picture_library_UK/dir_424/car_photo_212379_7.jpg

Ta-da

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Oh baby...

My first car was a 1986 Chevette (which I jokingly called my "Vette") I bought at the age of 16. I got it from my aunt for the cost of buying a new starter and fuel pump, $150. I paid for it by picking strawberries for $2.50 per 8 quarts. That was a lot of damned strawberries. However, when I got that car I could get a job with an actual wage, rather than that damned strawberry gig I had done for two years.

Although mine was a really faded red, since it had been in my aunt's yard for 5 years in the sun.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/83-85_Chevrolet_Chevette_1.jpg/800px-83-85_Chevrolet_Chevette_1.jpg

1979 Subaru wagon. I think it cost somewhere under $1000.

On the plus side it did have 4wd. It was funny one snowing afternoon having the local doctor's kid speed past me only to end up with his Fiero sitting in someone's yard after skidding out on a curve. I just waved as I drove by...

My first car was a 1986 Chevette (which I jokingly called my "Vette") I bought at the age of 16. I got it from my aunt for the cost of buying a new starter and fuel pump, $150. I paid for it by picking strawberries for $2.50 per 8 quarts. That was a lot of damned strawberries. However, when I got that car I could get a job with an actual wage, rather than that damned strawberry gig I had done for two years.

Although mine was a really faded red, since it had been in my aunt's yard for 5 years in the sun.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/83-85_Chevrolet_Chevette_1.jpg/800px-83-85_Chevrolet_Chevette_1.jpg

Chevettes are lovely little cars, I like 'em. Though they're so fucking tiny I can hang an arm out both windows at once.

1969 Datsun 510...had the 1600cc motor with 4spd. I could do 90+ mph with a good tailwind...but boy it sure stuck to the road!!!

My first car was the same car that my parents had bickered over in their divorce - when I was 5. My mom's family sabotaged the car on two occasions by placing things on the scaffolding (a dead fish one time and a wax block the other.) My dad had to re-key the ignition to make sure that my mom and her family didn't steal it.

Then, when I was 16, I owned a 1986 Honda Accord hatchback that had been through World War III. It held up just fine, sure, lasting me six years until the axles gave out. I really liked that car...it was a stick-shift and carried everything I owned when I was in college. I wish I still had that car and that it wasn't in pieces...

Presently, I drive a '95 Buick LeSabre...a boat of a car and one with an interior that mimics no other car I've ever seen.

1969 Datsun 510...had the 1600cc motor with 4spd. I could do 90+ mph with a good tailwind...but boy it sure stuck to the road!!!

I dig those cars.

FEAR http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q173/NCCSean/?action=view&current=IMG_2147.jpg

POS 1993 Honda accord, bought it for 1200 dollars and it needed some work, belt I felt it was worth it, I recently purchased another car as some of you may know, but I think im keeping this one around for awhile, im attached to it.

Held up to so much crap im not sure how its still running, leaked a little bit of oil and one of the tie rods is starting to crap out, but it still goes somehow, no AC.

Only gets like 25mpg, somehow.

What was your first car? When did you get it? How much did it cost?

The first vehicle I ever drove was my parents 1978 Olds Cutlass Supreme (1991, maroon with a white vinyl top and 2 white pinstripes running down each side). The first vehicle that I ever owned (paid for with my own money) was a 1987 Chevy Celebrity (1995, 2 door, darker maroon than the Cutlass, a matching color vinyl top, and cost me $3800). The first vehicle I owned that had 4wd was a 1993 Chevy S-10 Blazer (1999, metallic green, 4 door, and cost me $9200). The first new car I owned is my current vehicle, which is a 2003 Chevy Silverado (Dec 2002, 4wd, RCSB, Dark Charcoal Metallic, and the list price was about $25,000 before sale price and rebate).

Chevettes are lovely little cars, I like 'em. Though they're so fucking tiny I can hang an arm out both windows at once.

They are, but I like small cars. I'm 6'4 and I've had a Chevette, Mini, and Miata so far.