Your first car

Just out of curiosity what happened to everyone's first car? Mine ended life in the back of a box trailer.

I sold my '87 Hyundai Excel GLS sedan to a teenage girl and a year later saw it in a local junk yard. It was a shadow of its former self.

A 1991 Pontiac Grand Prix SE named Fifi.

Almost exactly like this one. I kinda miss it.

My RX-7 blew some seals. Sold it to a kid who'd flipped his recently built RX.

Still have it, 1987 Shelby CSX (#106 of 750) its rotting in my driveway while I slowly work on putting a fresh motor together for it. :(

1980 Chevy Monza: frame cracked in half due to rust.

My first and third cars were both the same van.

A beastly 15 passenger dodge. Sold it to a guy, who wanted to turn it into a camper. Then he sold it back to me when he decided not to bother.

So it ended up sold. Then it ended up driving till it died at 350k miles.

Still have it. '69 MG Midget. Still an abomination. My pop bought it from around the corner for $300 when I was 12.

Car 0: 73 AMC Javelin, brought it to the junkyard myself the day after I bought it.

Car 1: 91 Subaru Loyale, sold it and saw it ~2 years later at a mall, still running well. Haven't seen it since.

Car 2: 86.5 Nissan Hardbody, Dad repo'd it when I left for the military, sold it about 18 months later. It was seen about 6 mos after that. Tan w/black tribal flames, King Cab, 2x4, Z24/5-Speed. It probably rusted into nothingness but if anyone in Florida has seen it, I would like to know. I mostly identify this as my "first car" (first one that I registered in my name and drove for over 3 months).

1978 ford thunderbird. $50 parked next to a barn. pulled up the back seat and ground. won second place in local derby. 100 buck prize and 50 for scrap.

63 austin healy sprite. paint the same color and texture as an orange. tried to sell it, someone took it for a test drive, and never returnsd. later found it on the side of the road with a blown engine. sold it to Luke La Duke for $450 if i remember right. he promised to restore it.

1975 Nova, with 250 six and three on the tree, purchased from a friend sadly no longer with us and much missed. He worked at a bike shop, and it was covered stem to stern in bike company decals.

After putting a clutch and new passenger window in it, I traded it back to him for some of the then-new Rock Shox Mag-20s for my Wicked Fat Chance. He eventually sold it on, and I think I saw it around sans stickers...

Good grief, at that point in time that car wasn't any older than a 1995 is now...

1988 VW Fox. After it became apparent that I would never get it through its mandatory safety check (not because it was impossible, but because I was/am a lazy ass and ran out of enthusiasm for it), it rotted in Mum & Dad's driveway for ages, until I eventually found a buyer. Sold for all of $140. Title was never transferred so I assume it got parted. I have no real "first car nostalgia" and don't have any inkling to buy another one, although I liked them at the time.

I really should have bought the I-mark Turbo that was listed in the same classifieds mag for the same price, but somehow I'd gotten it into my 17-year-old head that German cars were better. Probably didn't matter, I'll bet the Isuzu wasn't in any better shape. Guess we'll never know.

Sometimes I wonder. If I'd gotten the VW working, maybe these days I'd hang out on Vortex and spend thousands on 17x12 wheels with 195-series tyres stretched onto them. If I'd bought the Isuzu and gotten that working, maybe I'd have been a full-on early '00s rice boy and then moved on to a clapped-out S13 "drift car" with no front bumper. WHO KNOWS? I did neither and ended up far away from both.

1956 VW convertible beetle. I bought it for $395 and paid $25/month on it. I made $1/hr at the theater. Sold it to the former pilot of the company my father worked for for pay off ($200). He flat towed it back to VA with a big Cadillac. That's the aslt time I saw it. He spent $10 getting the generator fixed and drove it for a while before he sold it to a VW collector. He drove a 427 three duece vette and the caddy. Gulf Oil contacted his family to see if he had died because he was no longer feeding those beasts. .

71 Dodge Challenger sold after 2nd auto trans died. Guy who bought it made it into a drag car. He pulled the 318 and dead trans and put in a 440. Not sure if it is still making passes at the strip or not.

92 Corolla. Put a new clutch in it and sold it for slightly more than the clutch cost a few months later to buy a Miata. I don't regret it at all.

1996 Dodge Neon 4dr. 5spd DOHC . . . awesome little car. I miss it dearly. Sporty, good on gas and was a hoot to drive. It was my steed during college and logged many miles across the southeast and monthly travels to drill plus various duty stations.

'95 Del Sol, it got wrecked with my brother at the wheel while I was away at college.

72 Chevy Nova 2-door. Sold to my brother who t-boned a Geo Storm that pulled out in front of him without warning. Man I loved that POS. 250 straight 6 with a three-on-the-tree. The paint had as much shine as the road,and it was a bit crusty around the edges,but I loved it,and it was only $250.

'92 Nissan 240SX coupe, gold. It had over 225k miles on it (exact mileage unknown because the HUD speedometer, odometer, and IC backlighting did not work), blown head gasket, blown piston ring, seized spark plug, rotting rocker panels and spare tire well, a gross interior, it blew copious amounts of smoke out the exhaust, and it would overheat if I drove it more than 30 minutes. I bought it for $500 out of desperation- $499 more than I should have paid for it.

Somehow, it held together for a year before the overheating finally took its toll on the engine. I ended up selling to a scrapyard, which is probably where it should have been in the first place.

1965 Chevelle Malibu 4-door. Loved that car. Sold it to a friend of a friends dad for $175 because no one would buy it from me and he was a cheap ass.

283 with a powerglide............those were the days.

1978 Chevy C10 truck. The last I saw it, it was 3k shy of 200K miles. The guy that bought it was planning to totally rebuild it for his...wife.

I post about this thing all the time, forgot I had a photobucket...

1992 Chevy Camaro

Folks bought it when I had my permit, January 31st 2004. Been wrecked once (by me anyway) replaced some ancillary items that go out, like water pump, radiator and such, and is currently sitting on jackstands awaiting me to have free time to do a fuel pump install.

Has 169K miles on the ticker, and I don't think the valve covers have ever been off. So reliable it's crazy, good ole 305.

first "running" car?

I sold my '84 Pontiac Sunbird to a guy for $100 after I blew it up for the second time. He was going to use it for a field car.