What was your first car?

[Coyle70]

‘77 Firebird with Pontiac 301 bought for $50 my father found.

I’m #4 of 5 siblings and the first 4 of us average a year and a half between each. So oldest got family 76 impala wagon then bought her own car and handed down to #2 then he got his own and past to #3. By this time the “Imp” made a name for itself in town, it had a freakishly powerful 350 for a wagon (I think father did some work to engine but never confirmed) and able to carry 9 with trundle seat. So #3 was enjoying it when it was my turn so dad found my car with current owner unable to start and metal shavings in tranny fluid.
I remember going to look at it with him and tinkering and getting it started. My dad looks at me like maybe I shouldn’t have done that. Thank goodness seller just smiled and honored his $50 price tag. I think he just wanted it out of his driveway.
Scouts were later 3 ScoutII (72,76,78) and 1 Terra(78) hard to believe all of them combined purchased for less than $1500.
So when SM made their appearance I was getting texts from all my old friends (who I taught how to drive sticking them).

 

[J Alynn]

‘77 Firebird with Pontiac 301 bought for $50 my father found.

I’m #4 of 5 siblings and the first 4 of us average a year and a half between each. So oldest got family 76 impala wagon then bought her own car and handed down to #2 then he got his own and past to #3. By this time the “Imp” made a name for itself in town, it had a freakishly powerful 350 for a wagon (I think father did some work to engine but never confirmed) and able to carry 9 with trundle seat. So #3 was enjoying it when it was my turn so dad found my car with current owner unable to start and metal shavings in tranny fluid.
I remember going to look at it with him and tinkering and getting it started. My dad looks at me like maybe I shouldn’t have done that. Thank goodness seller just smiled and honored his $50 price tag. I think he just wanted it out of his driveway.
Scouts were later 3 ScoutII (72,76,78) and 1 Terra(78) hard to believe all of them combined purchased for less than $1500.
So when SM made their appearance I was getting texts from all my old friends (who I taught how to drive sticking them).

Cool story. Funny how cars and food discussions can bring so many people together

 

[Scoutsie]

If we’re talking cars that I drove kind of regularly since getting a driver’s license, my grandfather’s hand-me-down Plymouth Reliant (circa 1985? If you’ve seen a K car in your life, you’ve seen this car in one of its 50,000 iterations) was the one that I think my parents stuck me with the most, ha ha ha. Sometimes I drove their Volvo station wagon (1986 240 DL), but mostly it was that terrifying K car. Holy crap. That thing shuddered violently if you went over 45 mph in it, so for a very long time, I had a serious phobia of driving on highways. Like I just wouldn’t because I was convinced the car would tear apart and everyone would die horribly. I think I packed about eight friends into it at one point and drove down Storrow Drive west in Boston to drop some people off after doing something downtown and am to this day very glad that nobody got hurt. I got sideswiped by a Mayflower truck on the way to work one morning. The driver told me that I wasn’t in a real lane because he was a cool guy. I got his plate number and reported him to the cops because he wouldn’t give me his information and stuck his dog’s ass out the window at me. Awesome. Unfortunately, the $3000 or whatever it would take to fix the driver’s side doors totaled the car. Whomp whomp. Subway for me.

If we’re talking cars financed in my name, then it was a black 2004 Toyota Prius. I was initially dead set against it because I had some sort of weird hatred of Toyota based on their ads, but my then-boyfriend and future ex-husband talked me into a test drive and I decided that it was pretty cool. My parents and grandparents always said to buy American and I had wanted to buy a Saturn something-or-other, but I was like nope, this is it. I have never had a more reliable car. I didn’t realize that there is a pretty good reason why people buy Corollas and Camrys and whatnot and just drive them into the ground: they are frigging robust. That purchase led to a 2010 and a 2015. Was going to buy in 2023 but I got the ick and noped out of the sale.

Now my hatred of Toyota is based on experience!