First car (in 1983) was a 1973 Saab 99 2 door. It was beige with tan interior. Built like a tank and even had respectable off-road capabilities for a front wheel drive car. It did almost nothing for the ladies though. I would have to say that it was not a cool car. My second car was a 1975 Pontiac Lemans GT with Keystone Classic chrome wheels. That car had a 350 cu. in. engine in it and was much cooler (and faster) than the Saab. Horrible off road and in the snow though.
My first car was a yellow '73 VW beetle and yes I was cool until the engine caught on fire. While tinkering around with the engine, I accidently routed the plastic fuel filter above an electrical wire and the fuel started to drip because I didn't tighten the clamp that good and, well, the rest is history...but before that I was cool!!
__________________ 2001 Limited Tundra 2WD Ivan Stewart Mods: TRD dual exhaust, TRD headers, Donahoe Racing coilovers, Bilstein 5100 rear shocks, Total Chaos Uniball upper A-arms, Hellwig swaybar, BFG A/T 285's, Line-X, TRD air filter, Jet Accu Speed calibrator, PPD billet TB and fuse cover, Sylvania Silverstar head/fog lights, clear corners,
My first car was a baby blue POS '58 T-Bird. Actually, when I was a young Marine stationed at El Toro, Calif many years ago, me and 3 friends co-owned and time-shared this car. It had to count as my first, since I paid $250 toward the purchase price of $1000. It died on me one cold night in San Diego, while enroute to Tijuana on a Friday night. I remember walking along the freeway at 3AM and being stopped by a CHP, who in turned called the MPs to come and pick me up. The next day I had to explain to the 3 other co-owners that the car was in San Diego, probably impounded. It lasted all of 3 months. Yeah, we were cool.
John
My first car was a red 1967 Camaro that I bought for $500 in 1976. It had more body filler than metal and the transmission slipped like crazy, but I loved it. I let my Dad drive it to work one day and when he got home I was excited to hear what he thought. Unfortunately, I only remember him complaining about how bad the steering, brakes and tranny were, and that he wouldn’t drive it again! I was truly humbled. About a year after getting the Camaro I wrecked it, and ended up getting a beautiful cherry 1964 sky blue with white top 2-door Impala through a family friend. Now that was a great car! It’s one I wish I still had. And like everyone else, I thought I was cool back then. While in college and dating my wife I needed a car but I had no money. I scraped 200 bucks together and bought a 1974 pea-green 4-door 6 cyl. w/auto Maverick, now that was truly a POS. Luckily I had already met my future bride, so she really didn’t seem to care what I drove. To this day she still doesn’t care about cars – She’s always shaking her head when I go off to work on the Tundra or install another accessory. Anyway, the first thing I had to do on that Maverick was rebuild the front end and install new brakes just to pass the local mechanical inspection! It lasted through my last three years of college. I remember one blizzard in NY that dumped two feet of snow and shut everything down. I just had to go see my girlfriend, so my roommate and I spent three hours digging that car out of the parking lot it was trapped in and I drove it the twenty miles to see my girl. The roads were empty but for a kid from the mountains of Colorado, it was an easy drive - no NY traffic! When we graduated I sold the POS to my roommate for $50. He drove it for awhile while we worked in Connecticut and then drove it back home to California. It amazes me to this day that he made it in that car.
T
'56 Plymouth Savoy. I removed the back seat to fit all my friends (saving money at the drive-in). We'd also stick the surfboards through there, and those old long boards would still stick way out the back. It started smoking really bad after we went to the beach one day in a real hurry, so I sold it for $50. the guy I sold it to drove it for another 20,000 miles. And reportedly jumped dunes with it.
1965 Chevy Impala SS. 327-300H.P. In '72 I gave $350.00 for it, with the only faults being a primered left rear quarter, and 2nd gear needed a synchro. Not bad though, for a sixteen year old. I did get both items fixed, but promptly took out the synchro again! Wish I had it back, along with my A.H. Sprite, 280-Zs, Land Cruiser/CheV8, etc., etc.
About the time I turned 16 I acquired a 1969 Mustang coupe minus the engine for $300. I later picked up a Ford Fairlane dirt track racer with a 302 V8 w/289 heads and dropped that engine in the Mustang. I'm just dang lucky I didn't kill myself or someone else with that car. I only made it about 6 months before I put it in the ditch and essentially totaled it. Fortunately, no one was hurt and that has been my only accident in 20+ years of driving. That was my last V8 powered vehicle until I acquired my Tundra. What did I learn from this? 16 year old boys have no business behind the wheel of a V8 sportscar. It's just asking for trouble.
MY first truck is my tundra. Its a 01 with v8, 4wd, TRD and whatever else is on it. It gets all the ladies and most of the car guys. The only problem is it got keyed cuz it looks sharp. Why didn't they go for the BMW X5 parked a few cars down? People suck
My first car? 1956 Karman Giha. I paid $65.00 for it in 1968. It was red, kinda, with a white roof. Was I cool? Probably not. Was the car cool? Only in the winter. The floor pan was all rotted out and I had big rubber floor mats pop riveted in place, covering up the holes. That worked okay until you hit a big slush puddle. That would blow the floor mats up just enough to let the slush come in and put a soaking on the backs of your legs. Now that was cool!
My Dad had a '71 Mach 1 Mustang that also suffered from the rusted out floor. You could literally see the road rushing by under you if you sat in the back seat. I used to get a little scared at times riding in that thing. Can you imagine three kids riding in the back seat of a car like that today? Child Protective Services would probably come and take us away. Hehehe. Man that car was a rust bucket-that's upstate NY for you though.
Ahhh. 1st Car -- 1988 Plymouth "K" car. White, station wagon. POS A tad quirky. Everytime you opened the doors or turned the headlights on/off, the radio would go silent for 2 seconds then come back on on an AM station and all the presets were erased. What can I say? I paid a buck for it. Shortly after having this vehicle, the tranny literally fell out in my driveway. Oddly enough, the vehicle still started. I soon moved to my 2nd first car. The baby I still miss. A 1985 Chevy Caprice Classic, 305 4-bbl, 4speed auto, loaded to the gills. Yeah, she was big, but classy. Put 200K miles on her from Maine to Cali and did nothing but change oil, tires and 1 $40 radiator. Shweeeeet! I miss the old girl.
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2004 Pontiac GTO
2005 Dodge Magnum Special Edition SXT
1991 Honda Nighthawk 750
1987 4Runner
My first ride was a Nissan PU and it lasted me 150,00 before I bought a new ride. I have heard people bash Nissan but I never had a problem with mine. I bought a Nissan because at the time Toyota didn't give you carpet, stereo or a bumper standard back then.
First new car was a '79 Z28. Smokey & the Bandit had everyone buying the black Trans Am and I wanted something different. Probably part of the reason I bought my Tundra. I put on headers, an intake manifold, and a shift kit. Kept it 'til 1988 when I moved back from Cali. At that time it had 148,000 miles on it and was still going strong. Not bad for a Z28.
__________________ White 2000 SR5 4x2 Tundra
22x9.5 ADR Magnus wrapped in Toyo Proxes S/T 305/40/22, S&S long tube headers & Y-pipe, R.A.P.S., Trenz grill, clear corners, X-Pel Clear Bra, HID Conversion Kit, 55W auxiliary reverse lights, Sir Michaels roll pan w/ hidden hitch, EuroTails, DeBadged, Granite dash kit, IS color keyed bumper, fender flares & mirror covers, Hellwig Anti-Sway Bar, CST leather interior, sound deadener all 4 doors, rear wall and floor pans, Nu-image guage cluster & A/C panel, blue split loom, PPD billet TB cover and fuse box cover, painted calipers & drums, dropped the rear 2" w/Belltech 6400, Color-keyed body side molding, Alpine H/U, Archos 20GB Jukebox Multimedia wired to H/U, JBL 1200.1 pushing 2 RE XXX 10s in a custom console box, RF 551X pushing Diamond Audio M561 comps in the doors and Alpine SPR-175 comps in the kicks, and JL Audios in rear straight from the H/U
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