Do you remember the very first car..........♥?

Question

You purchased on your own? Do you have fond memories of it?

Mine was a "1963 Volvo 544", that I paid $35.00 a month to the bank for. I purchased it at age 16 working part time after school. I would love to have another one of those.

Answer 1

A 1950 Ford business coupe cost me $100.00. I paid cash for it, drove it home for one night then out to the dairy, where I worked after school and Saturdays, the next day. My dad and I rebuilt it there... overhauled the engine, rebuilt the transmission and differential, did the brakes and rebuilt the front end. It then went into the bodywork phase where I learned to use bondo, a grinder and sandpaper with lots of elbow grease. When it was finished (end of summer before Senior year) I was downright proud of that car... 90% of the work was done with my own hands (Dad supervising) and I had gotten most of my apprenticeship training as a mechanic on that car. It lasted 250 thousand miles... Giving dependable transportation several years past the birth of my first daughter.

Fond memories?... Yes many!... And now that Dad is gone many are much fonder still!

Answer 2

It was a 1969 2-door Silver Grey Toyota Corolla with a maroon interior and stick shift on the floor.. I bought it 2 weeks after returning from a 1 year tour of duty in Vietnam. It was 4 cylinder and got about 35 miles to a gallon.

It was totaled at the curb while I was sitting in a dinner 7 months later by a drunk bar waitress. I cried when I saw it totaled and I was 26 years old.

I had driven it cross country twice.

Answer 3

I loved my '73 Monte Carlo. I don't know why. I guess the first car always hold a special place in your heart just like your first girlfriend or boyfriend. If I wasn't replacing an alternator I was replacing a fuel pump. If I wasn't replacing the fuel pump I was replacing the water pump, or distributor cap, or fouled plugs or bald tires. It burned oil really bad too. But it had style. The big long hood with the classic Chevy 350 4 barrel underneath. I think I got around 8 mpg, lol. It finally died for the last time in the late 80's. I think the engine finally froze.

Answer 4

1961 Chevy Nomad Station wagon. Bought it for $100 put in a new battery and recapped tires on it, and drove from Idaho to Pennsylvania. Yes, I do have fond memories of it. But that's another story! That was 36 years ago. Funny, I wound up coming back to Idaho after all those years !

Besides 55 ain't a senior citizen!

Answer 5

I didn't learn how to drive until I was almost 23. My parents didn't drive. I bought the car I used for my driving lessons. I bought it from the driving school. It was a Rambler American. Bad move. I had it less than a month and the transmission went out. Then, I got my first credit card (to pay for the transmission). My credit card limit was $300 and the repair bill was $301.02. I remember the hassle getting that approved. From then on, it has been one lemon after another and many credit cards. I even had a Chevy Vega in 1972. Yes, it was icky green!

Answer 6

Sure, it wasn't that long ago! When I graduated from high school, my parents gave me a '56 white over green Ford Crown Victoria, and I never had another car that just belonged to me until I got divorced at 42, then my husband left me his '61 Cadillac convertable. But the first car I bought for myself was a little red Honda Civic. I loved it. But as all cars go, I eventually traded it in. Now I have a 97 Nissan pickup.

Answer 7

Mine was a 68 Chevelle - Muncie 5 speed M/Trans, 327 4 bolt mains. Did some engine work n it ran like h---. I was 16 when I bought it from a farmer down the lane for $500. It had been sitting in his barn for a few years, sure wish I still had it.
Worked 2 jobs n paid for it by myself. Did a lot of Street racing back then, you could get away with it.
Fond memories....Oh ya....lots of them.

Answer 8

Mine was a 1955 Buick Super. It had one burned valve and one fender had primer on it. I bought it from my dad when I was 16. I paid him $30 a month and I paid $19 a month for insurance. I worked as a waitress. I LOVED THAT CAR. I was the only one of my friends that had one. Boy was I popular. This was in 1961. Full price was $500.

Answer 9

I was 21 when I bought my first car In 1956, It was a 1951 Chevy Belaire, white on blue, 2 door and I loved it. Don't remember the cost but I could sell it now for 26,000 dollars.

I loved it. I didn't even have a drivers license. I would get pulled over for no reason and I would tell the officer , I changed purses and left it in my other purse. Every single time he would tell me to bring it in to show him when I had time.

I soon got the feeling that it wasn't my drivers license that he wanted to see.

When I got married, I gave the car to my younger brother.

Finally, when I was pregnant with our first child, I went in to take my driving test and the drivers license examiner just gave me my license and said I didn't have to take the test.

He knew me and said since I had been driving for the last 7 or 8 years without having a wreck he didn't want to take the time to test me.

In those days, you just went in and if you passed a test you got a license. No drivers education required.

Answer 10

lol, I still have the first car (truck) that I bought on my own. It is a 93 Ford Ranger. It was only 6 months old when I bought it. I am very fond of it. I loaned it to my daughter tonight as her truck is now junked out as of tonight. So she will have mine for a few days. I will be driving my parents truck until I get mine back from her.