Remember Your First car?

[Quackers]

It was one of these. Blue, though. I paid $145.00 for it, reduced from $175 because I agreed to pay for the registration, plus I was just a kid, working at a gas station, and I think the seller had some sympathy for me.

Ford Anglia. I forget what year mine was...pretty sure it was a '64.

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Ooooh Murrmurr, that's a blast from the past for me! We had one of those in the 60s. Cream with a red interior. I remember it was very narrow inside with a long gear stick.

Having a clear out of stuff a few months ago, I came across a home movie I took of dad tinkering with the engine on a glorious sunny day with a fag dangling from his mouth.

I remember one day travelling in the front passenger seat on a dreadfully foggy day, trying to follow where the pavement was for dad while he was trying to see ahead. I felt so scared that we could hardly see a thing.

 

[GrandPaul]

I still have it and drive it! 1965 GMC. My granddaddy bought it new for just under $1,300. I still have the bill of sale. I learned how to drive it on the dirt road between the house and the hog barn. When I was 14 he had a stroke and could no longer work a clutch, so he gave it to me.

 

[Pappy]

Very much so. My uncle gave my dad his old car and dad gave it to me for my birthday. A 37 Buick Special business coupe. Spent 3 winter months cleaning, polishing and painting the tires gangster white. Straight eight and burned more oil than gas. .
Before and after photos.

 

[debodun]

My parents bought a 1970 Ford Maverick for me to drive to college. My next car I selected for myself was a yellow 1972 AMC Gremlin but dad had to cosign for it. The first I bought and paid for for myself was a 1980 Pontiac Sunbird. That thing was a piece of %$#*. After that I did research before buying. Next was a Mazda Protege. Now I have a Honda Civic I've had for 22 years (the end of this month).

 

[GrandPaul]

My parents bought a 1970 Ford Maverick for me to drive to college. My next car I selected for myself was a yellow 1972 AMC Gremlin but dad had to cosign for it. The first I bought and paid for for myself was a 1980 Pontiac Sunbird. That thing was a piece of %$#*. After that I did research before buying. Next was a Mazda Protege. Now I have a Honda Civic I've had for 22 years (the end of this month).

I had a 77 Sunbird that got me through college. It was silver, V-6, 5 speed manual, no AC. I loved that car! When I graduated and got my first new car it was a 1990 Sunbird, royal blue, with a sunroof, AND AC. Still 5 speed manual. I traded it in on a 1992 Firebird, which my fiancé promptly totalled. The first question her dad asked her was, "Is the wedding off?" LOL.