Your first car

'88 Accord, put it into a tree backwards at 60 avoiding a deer.

88 dodge colt 5sp. ugly faded denim blue. with matching interior. drove for 2 years untill a cross country road trip did it in 85mph for hours was too much for that car to handle. over heated with a perfect working order cooling system and lost all compression. dont know if it was headgasket or engine. didnt matter. left it on side of road and bought a 300 dollar 89 escort with 89k on it. well damn odometer rolled over 3 times after i bought it and before i finally killed the engine. gosh i miss that stupid lil car.

1991 NX2000 - I sat around on the internet for awhile trying to find the best bang for my buck and an SR20 powered B13 was the ticket. Then I realized they were a pain to find in the mid-atlantic because they were already rusting away. Dad drove it home, I learned to drive stick in the backyard.

Sold it to someone from new york who paid me and waited a month or two to pick it up when he randomly showed up one night. Was supposed to get a DET swap from his wrecked NX but never happened and I saw it up for sale again online.

white auto 4dr 95 Geo Metro. i traded it in on my e30 M3.

1971 Chebby Chevelle, damn near donated to my by a rich aunt. 305 w/slushbox. Sold to a local family in Starkville MS for a couple of hundred bux because they didn't have any car at all.

EDIT: The thing had drum brakes on the front.

85 tercel 5dr, bought it from my 'rents on payments for $400 (they bought it the year prior for $600 with working a/c)

the 1st year I was married the wifes car broke down 100 miles away and we HAD to get her to work... it blew a heater hose... it overheated... I fixed it but not before I blew the HG... it sat parked at my 'rents house and I learned A LOT about cars over the next year or so... wanted to swap a 4afe into it... but mom and dad moved so the car had to go... to the junkyard :(

WilberM3 wrote: white auto 4dr 95 Geo Metro. i traded it in on my e30 M3.

Excellent choice.

"My" first car was a 1999 Maxima. Dad wrecked it after 6 months while going to get donuts on my birthday.

My first canoe was a Gruman.

Ahhhh,,, my 1964 Volvo 1800S built by Jensen in England!

The car was rusty... and then I hit something with it too

Since that was way back in the late 70s... it likely is part of some early 80s Japanese import....

Maybe mine!

75 Fiat 128 Coupe

Worked on it more than I drove it. Could never get the brakes to work right. I figure it needed a new master cylinder. Couldn't afford a new one, and couldn't find a Fiat at a wreckers, never mind a master cylinder for one. At the time Fiat hadn't sold a car in Canada for years.

Ended up scrapping it, and took out a loan to buy an 81 Dodge Charger.

First car was a 73 Pinto station wagon. Blew the head gasket and bent some valves on the move from San Antonio to Arlington Tx in 1992. Sold it to a local gent for 50.00 (I paid 25.00 for her). I like to think she's still roaming the plains of Texas somewhere south of Fort Worth, but the truth is I probably shaved with part of her in 1995.

My 1954 Chevy 2 dr Delray purchased for $50 was traded away for a 1950 Studebaker with a 283/T400/Dana 60. Eventually traded the Stude for a 66 Chevelle with a 327/4spd/12 bolt. My Mom steered the 54 home as my neighbor towed it 32 years ago. Wow time has flown by..

1972 Vega GT. Apparently I didn't learn my lesson. Sold it and immediately went out and bought a '76 Vega GT w/ 5 speed. No doubt both rusted away years ago.

In reply to 93EXCivic:

My first car was a Corvette bronze '68 Camaro. I had big plans for it, right up until I was broadsided by a dump truck. It took out my door and rear quarter panel. Being 16 and having a father that knew nothing about cars, I bought a used door and filled the quarter panel with about a gallon of bondo. I drove it that way for a while and then bought a '71 Formula 400. At that point the Camaro became my winter car (they were just old cars then, really!). When winter was over I sold it to a guy in my high school with the condition that I had first right of refusal if he sold it. About two weeks after I sold it to him it was stolen and I never saw it again. Every once in a while I get an urge to re-create it.

82 F100 with a 68 390 PI punched to 408, ported and polished heads with a 650 double pumper.

It was my Dad's, I picked out a 88 Mercury Tracer hatch back, after he saw I was getting upper 30s in gas mileage, we "traded".

Which is family speak for you drive this one.

Long story short....

'88 Chevy Nova (Corolla). Owned by my parents when I was living at home. Parents kicked me out when I was 19, so I had to leave the Nova behind.

Shortly after I bought an '81 Subaru DL wagon for $300, so that was the first car I owned. A year later, my parents decided to "gift" the Nova to me. The very day I picked it up, the Subaru blew a head gasket. It went to the scrap yard.

Coincidentally enough, a few years later, I bought my first new car, a '96 Integra GS-R. Planned to keep the Nova as a beater. One week after buying the Integra, the Nova blew a head gasket. It went to the scap yard...

'80 Chevette Scooter. 2-door 4-speed death trap. My uncle inherited it when his uncle died. He gave it to me since he just bought a new Buick.

Taught myself stick in one evening in my parents hilly neighborhood. A couple months later I put the car on its side. On the way to school in the rain on May 5th. It did land back on its wheels.

I gave the car back to my uncle and he sold it. I replaced it with a '78 Malibu Classic 2-door that I consider my real first car. The Chevette was more of a driving appetizer.

First hand-me down car: 1981 Buick LeSabre with a 307 Olds. Reliable and plush at the same time. Rust got the better of it and it went to the scrapyard.

Second hand-me down car: 1981 Pontiac Acadian. I hated this car with a passion. Eventually wrote it off when someone hit me. Towed to the scrapyard.

My actual first car: 1981 Pontiac Trans Am Black SE (Bandit) with a 301 Turbo. I loved this car and it was a great car to have when you're 18. It was also written off due to a relatively minor collision. I bought it back from the insurance company but never got it fixed. Sat for 5-6 years before I sold it to a guy who was going to restore it. Never saw it again.

This:

Well, without the wheels. 1988 Toyota MR2 Supercharged. Found it locally for $1000, took my dad, had him talk it down to $500, needed a clutch which apparently is impossible to find for a SC MK1 MR2. Would give ANYTHING to get it back or one just like it...

I blew a rod through the oil pan of my 89 Grand Am Quad 4 & sent it to the boneyard. A few months later I was in the yard where the car was & I overheard two guys talking about how the tires looked fairly new. I told them they had roughly 400 miles on them & they got all cocky like "how do you know". I than told them it was my car & they were cool after that.

This is one tricky canoe.

A 1962 TR-4 I bought after 'Nam. I sold it and bought a '58 Volvo 544 to drive to Alaska and back with my girl. Car is long gone but girl is still here.

59 Renault 4CV, inherited it from my sister when she got married & moved to Spain. Cramped slow & dangerous handling. Blew the engine cause I didn't know any better.

84 z28. it got me all the way through grad school then became a fun car soon after when i got responsible car with 4 doors and working A/C. it was stolen 2 years later and found without engine, trans, battery stereo, t-tops wheels and tires. they even stole the front wheel bearings!

i still have what is left of it and i am trying to put it back together between other projects. i've built it seven different ways so far........ in my head at least .... and right now i am stuck in a debate about getting an ls1 or using the rebuilt tpi 350 i already have built for it. either way its getting 6 speed........ decisions decisions

1970 Chevy C-10 pick-up with a swapped and built 283 v-8, 4-barrel, solid lifter "race" cam, long-tube headers with Thrush glass-packs bolted directly to the collectors, no pipes. A little slow from a dead stop, but an absolute riot on the top-end. Faded light blue paint with rust around the edges. Sold it to a guy who wanted the motor for another project. Never saw it again.