What was your first car?

[profdlp]

A 1966 Buick Skylark. Bought in 1977 when it was almost 12 and I was barely 18.

Everything worked, including the clock and A/C. Good memories.

This one is not mine, but same color, etc.

 

[A Guy]

A 1966 Buick Skylark. Bought in 1977 when it was almost 12 and I was barely 18.

Everything worked, including the clock and A/C. Good memories.

This one is not mine, but same color, etc.

Cool car

A Guy

 

[jimbo45]

Hi all
an old used "Split Windscreen Moggie Minor" 1959 Vintage bought for around 5 GBP / 8 USD.

Worked a treat and economical too.

It had a Starting handle --as an impecunious student back then Icouldn't afford to buy a new battery so I used the Starting Handle or parked on a Hill and "bump started" it.

Actually even though I've had a lot of better and newer cars I still remember that one with affection and it was one of my most RELIABLE cars ever including modern cars.

My main gripe was it only had Drum Brakes -- even at 110 KPH braking wasn't excellent. Disc brakes came in a lot later as did ABS.

I don't have a photo unfortunately but it was a long time ago.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[CarlTR6]

Jim, at least the brakes were hydraulic. My Model A had mechanical brakes as did all of my early motorcycles. One just had to be careful not to get in a bind.

 

[beauparc]

My first car was a 1936 Model Y Ford. My dad bought it for £10 and gave it to me on my 11th birthday in 1954.

I learnt how to drive in that car by using it all over our farm in Ireland. I did all my crashing into haystacks, hedges and ditches before I was allowed on the roads.

After some fifty years of driving in most countries of the world (HM Forces) I have never had an accident. (touches wood rapidly). Had I not had the opportunity to learn control on that farm, I am sure I would have caused mayhem on the local roads.

I sold the car in 1992 for £11 £1 profit after 38 years

 

[ColdIce]

Mitsubishi Lancer 1991 5 doors automatic, black windows all around. I felt sooo hot in that car But it's been -+ 30 cars since then

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there Beauparc
So unbelievably there is someone OLDER on this Forum than me.

That car in good nick now would net you a NICE decent amount that would probably cost the same as a decent HOUSE in England or Ireland now.

Anyway it shows a lot of us had REAL fun with our first cars.

I even remember when the Windscreen wipers were broken I had a Hanky on a piece of string slung between the two front door windows and had to manipulate it by moving the string.


You'd NEVER get away with that these days -- but back then A LOT OF FUN .

I was in Swansea last Winter -- at least I knew how to tell the Welsh how to drive safely on the M4 when it was icy -- but most of the accidents were caused by "visitors".

Even at my age a night out in Swansea's Wind Street is always interesting including a visit to Dylan Thomas's watering hole "The No sign Bar".

nos da


Great thread this -- keep them coming.

Hi Mods I know on this part of the this Forum you can't rep people but this thread is GREAT - so maybe you could find an excuse to rep the OP of this thread.




Cheers

jimbo

 

[Jacee]

'85 Camaro ... my baby!

 

[Pusspa]

not my first car, but definately the most fun i ever had. This is driving to the northern most point of mainland Australia...

 

[LauraM]

Funny bus , kidding is a nice car .....

 

[beauparc]

Hi Jimbo45

That old Ford was something else completely. By the time I got it, the floorboards had long rotted away and the drivers seat was balanced on the rusty cross-member. Thus, applying the brakes meant that the seat shot forward and fell off the member, and one wound up nearly sitting on the road with the steering wheel above one's head :shock:

I well remember getting a puncture in the nearside front wheel one day. I managed to get as far as the lower yard and got a load of tools but, with no jack I couldn't figure out how to change the wheel. Into the yard lumbered old Johnny Hardin who had been working on the farm all his life since been taken on by my grandfather when he was but a young lad to help with the cart horses. Farm work had made him big, very big indeed. He wandered over and asked if I would like some help. I explained the problem, whereupon he leaned down, grasped the front of the car and then lifted it clear of the ground, holding it while I changed the wheel.:shock::shock: The expression "a gentle giant" suited old Johnny like a glove.

He lived to the ripe old age of 98 and I have always felt privileged to have known him.

Not only did that old car serve me well, it started my life long love of engineering. I have now completed 48 years servicing military strike aircraft and the company I currently work for have asked me to stay on for another year. But that will be the last. At almost 70 I feel I've done enough.

Time to buy another old car and start playing again

 

[Woz]

A 1966 Buick Skylark. Bought in 1977 when it was almost 12 and I was barely 18.

Everything worked, including the clock and A/C. Good memories.

This one is not mine, but same color, etc.

Isn't that a Dodge Duster in the photo?

I see noobvious has already corrected me. I meant to say, "Isn't that a Dodge DART in the photo?" I'm almost ashamed to call myself a car-guy.

 

[noobvious]

A 1966 Buick Skylark. Bought in 1977 when it was almost 12 and I was barely 18.

Everything worked, including the clock and A/C. Good memories.

This one is not mine, but same color, etc.

Isn't that a Dodge Duster in the photo?

It looks like it does say Dodge across the front, but Duster was a Plymouth model.

 

[profdlp]

A 1966 Buick Skylark. Bought in 1977 when it was almost 12 and I was barely 18.

Everything worked, including the clock and A/C. Good memories.

This one is not mine, but same color, etc.

Isn't that a Dodge Duster in the photo?

Maybe.

That's the good ol' Google for you. (It does at least look familiar, though...)

This is more like it, the interior shots make me feel a little more certain:

HowStuffWorks "1966 Buick Skylark Gran Sport: A Profile of a Muscle Car"

I don't remember anything about "Gran Sport", though. Think I had the basic version.

 

[echrada]

This was my first - saved some good money to buy it - lasted all through uni. in South Africa and was sad to send it to the volkswagen heaven.

 

[CarlTR6]

'85 Camaro ... my baby!

A very nice ride!

not my first car, but definately the most fun i ever had. This is driving to the northern most point of mainland Australia...

Those VW buses can take some abuse and keep on ticking.

Hi Jimbo45

That old Ford was something else completely. By the time I got it, the floorboards had long rotted away and the drivers seat was balanced on the rusty cross-member. Thus, applying the brakes meant that the seat shot forward and fell off the member, and one wound up nearly sitting on the road with the steering wheel above one's head :shock:

I well remember getting a puncture in the nearside front wheel one day. I managed to get as far as the lower yard and got a load of tools but, with no jack I couldn't figure out how to change the wheel. Into the yard lumbered old Johnny Hardin who had been working on the farm all his life since been taken on by my grandfather when he was but a young lad to help with the cart horses. Farm work had made him big, very big indeed. He wandered over and asked if I would like some help. I explained the problem, whereupon he leaned down, grasped the front of the car and then lifted it clear of the ground, holding it while I changed the wheel.:shock::shock: The expression "a gentle giant" suited old Johnny like a glove.

He lived to the ripe old age of 98 and I have always felt privileged to have known him.

Not only did that old car serve me well, it started my life long love of engineering. I have now completed 48 years servicing military strike aircraft and the company I currently work for have asked me to stay on for another year. But that will be the last. At almost 70 I feel I've done enough.

Time to buy another old car and start playing again

Yes it is time to restore a vintage car. I have two vintage Triumph bikes, one fully restored. I am working on restoring a Model A Ford and my other Vintage Triumph Tiger. I am about a year younger than you.

 

[Woz]

My first car and still is a 1996 Ford Mustang.. auto transmission V6 engine... wonderful in the summer, horrible in the winter gotta love rear wheel drive..

Ryan,

Nice Mustang. I drove a 1994 Trans Am for 12 years as my only car. 325 HP V8, auto trans, Z-rated tires. Here in the Great Lakes region, big horsepower, fat tires, and rear wheel drive means trouble in the winter. I'm proud of the fact that I never got in an accident driving in the winter.

If you can drive a car like my TA or your Mustang safely in the winter, you are quite a good driver. The car makes you think ahead all the time. Going up even the slightest hills can be a challenge.

In the summer, I was one of the quickest drivers out there - just up to the speed limit, of course! In the winter, I was one of the slowest vehicles on the road.

 

[LittleMiss]

1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV
460 in³ (7.5 L) 365 bhp engine
it would pass anything but a gas station

Lincoln Continental Mark IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and i had to sit on a pillow to see over the dash

 

[spinifex]

My first car back in '64 was a 1950 model Morris Minor convertable.

Not my car in this pic, but looked the same. Mine was white with red/brown roof.

The other car is our present one, bought new in '95 and still own it. Ford Falcon XR8 in cobalt blue with a 302 Windsor. Gotta love V8's.

 

[LauraM]

This was my first - saved some good money to buy it - lasted all through uni. in South Africa and was sad to send it to the volkswagen heaven.

I love this car, is sooo cute ....