What was your first car?

Question

My son, who is 12, seems to think he will be getting a nice car for his 16th birthday, and even if I started saving now we wouldn't be able to afford the kind of car he wants. I told him my first car was a '78 Chevy Vega. I could only shut the driver's side door from the outside because you had to lift up on it, so I had to always climb in through the passenger side. If I went over a bumpy road or railroad tracks I had to keep one hand on the door or it would fly open. What was your first car?

some of these are cracking me up. It's amazing though how our first car brings back so many good memories, no matter how crappy it was! LOL

Answer 1

1980 buick regal when I was 17, I had to use a screwdriver to shift gears and to use the blinker, it wouldnt drive over 45 mph or the whole car would shake and the tires were bald so i couldnt drive when it was raining or thru puddles.....I soon got a nicer car after I saved up $ from working it was a 1995 mitsubishi mirage

the buicks name was hotel buick because it was sooo wide (my boss nicknamed it the stove, because he thought it looked like a pizza over)

Answer 2

I had a 1994 Geo Prism lol... I got it in 1998 my senior year of high school and managed to ruin the whole passenger door running into a parked car because I was not paying attention by April of 99 lol....

I eventually got the dent fixed but drove the prism until 2003 it was a great car and I think I will remember it sooo much because of how crappy it got. I will remember how many times it was keyed by god knows who, the time it was broken into for my crappy stereo, How I probably went over 6 mths without washing it :-( , and how even after not being turned on or driven for close to a year that it still started right on cue when we sold it.

soooo many memories that I don't think I would have had, if I would have had a nicer car.

Answer 3

1994 Chevrolet S-10 Long Wheel Based White with Dark Tinted Windows. The gas mileage sucked and it wasn't enough room, but whenever I needed to move some stuff my 7 1/2 foot bed did the job. I got it back in 2001, and parted ways with it just last December of 2006. Now I got a 2004 Kia Optima.

Answer 4

1992 Honda Accord. I am 20 and got it when I was 16. I now have a 2001 Pontiac Sunfire, both cars were hand me downs and neither are perfect. The honda had transmission problems, oil leaks, radio didn't work, radiator kept springing leaks and neither of my back windows could roll down. My stepbrother keeps bugging his dad to buy him a new car (he has a 98 Explorer) and everytime he brings it up I just want to scream at him about how he thinks that truck is in bad shape how he has NO idea.

Answer 5

My first was a 1965 VW Beetle that didn't run at first.

My friend is 27 and only got his first car a year ago, so your son should be happy to get anything! My friend never even considered getting a car when he was younger and the idea of his mom buying him a car was definitely not ever a real idea. It's such a luxury, but a lot of people don't really see it that way if everyone else around them is getting nice cars...

Answer 6

1986 Dodge 600SE Turbo. Grandmas car... literally. It was given to me, and i drove it for 3 months. The car sould die in the middle of the road, and i had to constantly try to start it while coasting. It was gold with red interior. Turned out that the car needed a wiring harness and it was about $800 to fix at the dealer i worked for. So, i sold it for $500 and bought a new 2000 Focus. This was in 1999.

Answer 7

A beater of a rust-bucket grey1985 Hyundai Pony was the first car I could ever call my own.... it was four-on-the-floor and a great cold weather starter because it had a manual choke. It had an actual household light switch to turn on the headlights, and a mashed front passenger side fender due to a collision with an unfortunate deer.... happened before I owned it.

Answer 8

A 1998 Mazda 626, which I started driving in 2002. Not a bad car, very nice, but a lot of transmission problems over the years.

Answer 9

a 16 year old Firebird without air conditioning in 100 degree tempratures. Electric windows that wouldn't roll up, t-tops that leaked, and I went through almost as much oil as I did gas. It also tended to over heat and wouldn't restart. Where ever I went, I was there for a while. It cost 1,200 parents paid half as a birthday present.

Answer 10

My first car was a mazda, bought in 1976. My parents did not buy us a car, we had to save several hundred to go towards the down payment, my parents matched it and we made the payments if necessary. I think its important to make kids work for things like this. They (the cars) will be better taken care of if it isn't just handed over. It doesn't matter if you, as the parent have plenty of money to buy the car, it teaches a kid responsibility.