What was your 1st car?

[Isambard]

Originally Posted by joeboch348

this is a fun thread. i love those funny looking old euro cars some of you drove.

Not only were they funny looking they were also funny to drive! We may not have won the world over with our powerful, throbbing, earth-shattering 4-pots but I'm damn sure we won it in the comfort stakes!! Every car I've had that were made before the 90's always seemed to drive like a couch-sooooo comfortable. No speed, no brakes, but you didnt care because you were so laid back in your mobile couch!

Originally Posted by CT_X5_Joe

Isambard, my father still has his 1962 TR3b. He used to drive it all over San Diego back in the day (he just celebrated his 62nd birthday on 1/11/11) as he was in the Navy.

Yep, very classic british sports car. Very nice. I just read the specs and it says that it was 'limited' to 115mph due to its gearing, but would go faster if it was one with overdrive. Quite fast for a 1962 car, especially seeing as it'd feel like you were in a roller skate!

[imalabil]

1972 VW Super Beetle that my dad bought new in Amsterdam and shipped back to the States after about 9 months in Europe. I sold it in '83 for $12 less than he paid in '72.
Good old inflation will do that...
Bill

[Jordo]

Originally Posted by imalabil

1972 VW Super Beetle that my dad bought new in Amsterdam and shipped back to the States after about 9 months in Europe. I sold it in '83 for $12 less than he paid in '72.
Good old inflation will do that...
Bill

I wish I was in Amsterdam right now!

[tomcat]

1967 Mustang my dad and I restored mostly ourselves. Totalled in wreck while I was off at college freshman year.

Scott

[Weasel]

My first was a 1969 F250 with 360ci FE series big block, C6 trans and dana 60 rear end w/410 gears. 3/4 ton truck, standard cab w/8' bed. Guess my parents figured If I was ever going to wreck my first vehicle I should be able to drive away with a scratch and screw the other guy!

Oh yeah, and thanks to the 4 wheel drum brakes literally coming apart (friction material came loose from shoes while driving!) I did wreck it... and I had little damage to the bumper cosmetically while the car I hit got totaled and rolled between two other cars causing major body damage to them both! (she got a shiny new chrome bumper and all new brakes after that one!

[stalklee]

E53 X5.... seriously...

[Mike V]

I bought my first car in 1989 when I was 17 years old... a bright yellow 1977 VW Rabbit.

[joeboch348]

SUPER beetle lol hitler's car

[joeboch348]

stalklee,
are you a supporter of Kim Jong-il ?

[TriX5]

It was 1977 when I fixed up a scrap 1968 Mini 850cc! It was running and seemed indestructable no matter what I did with it, but badly rusted when I got it. It was fire engine red and I painted the roof white. It had sliding windows and HUGE 10" wheels. But it was as fast around corners as in a straight line and I avoided having to take the bus to school or ride my Triumph Bonneville in winter :-)

By the time I graduated from engineering I'd gone thru another Mini, a 1300cc beetle, three Datsuns and I wound up drivng a BMW 2002 from 1975. I guess that's why I still drive BMWs even after having had a couple of 911s, a Benz M, an Audi Allroad and an MR2.