OT: Nostalgia-What Was Your First Car or Vehicle...?

Once you got your drivers license, what was the 1st vehicle, you owned or drove...?

Excluding pre-drivers license wheels, ie. the old skates with steel wheels, and used a key to turn the clamps on the skates sides to tighten up against your shoes. Or the skateboards, also with steel "suicide-broken limbs" wheels....?

Mine was a Yamaha 100cc, 2 cylinder-2 stroke street bike.

Regular was 32 cents a gallon, Premium 40 cents per gallon. We rarely had mid grades. The Yamaha got 100+ mpg.

2 years later, I'd buy a 2 year old mint 69 Fastback Mustang, Hi-Performace Test Bed. 390 cubic inch motor, with 2 each 4 barrel Holly carbs, included with 2 additional electric fuel pumps under the hood, 2 more on the gas tank. Otherwise the 8 barrels of carbs would starve for gas.

Bought it for $2,400, only 10,000 miles on it, like brand new, my insurance the 2nd year, after 3 speeding tickets, jumped from $1,380.00 a year (full coverage) to $2,500 a year. Needless to say, I only owned that car for 2 years. I wasn't going to continue to pay as much for Insurance in 1 year as I did to buy the car...!

The Mustang got 9mpg, on the highway. Close to a Winnebago's mpg. Well close enough.

Needless to say, I sold the Mustang, bought a automatic 6 cylinder in-line Chevy Pick-Up, that could NOT go faster than 60mph, and speeding ticket issues were immediately resolved. NO power steering or breaks, I tore my back muscles turning its brutal steering the 1st time I drove it. Over-sized tires did not help its steering cause....Those were the days, so are these...!

 

Two cylinders one jug, or 2 pistons one head...100 mpg...couldn't beat it. Costs an average of $1.25 a month; to ride it to work, school and back every day, for a month.

 

66 Lincoln continental with the suicide doors. I paid my friend $400.00 for it. And it was only 7 years old & in very good condition. DAMN! I loved that car.

 

Learned to drive in a '57 Studebaker Silver Hawk. Loved those cars, looked like a dart going down the road with the upright grilles and low upswept tail fins. It was the old mans car, did not get to drive it as much as I'd liked to but one happy camper when so doing. 289 V-8, Borg Warner Auto, dual ehxausts and glass packs gave her a sweet sound. I got my license in '61, living in San Diego, no speed limit on the freeways if traffic and conditions were right. Yeah lets go out past El Cajon to Yuma and blow the soot out.

 

...wow, you had a Silver Hawk?

...I first learned to drive in Dad's '64 Fairlane...first car I owned was a '67 Pontiac Lemans. ($700)

 

Learned to drive a '83 Monte Carlo and a '78 Ford pickup. First car I owned, '84 Mustang...project car totaled by a girlfriend. First car I loved....'89 270z followed by the '94 300zx and presently the '09 370z.

 

..." '89 270z " ?...are you sure?..I remember them making a 240, 260, and 280 Z.

...I had 2 "Z" cars...1984 Anniversary Edition (Turbo)(and scary fast)...and 1995 300Z. (both 5 speeds)

 

My Grand Dad owned a hot Studebaker (Bat Wing) Silver Hawk. He swore by it, tho' he had other numerous cars and trucks, he'd only drive the Studebaker....

Tho' I first owned a Yamaha 100cc twin. Followed by the Mustang from Hell.

I learned how to drive a stick 63 VW, my Dad would latter Porsche-rize its engine, exhaust and gear box, drive train too. On to a 66 Ford Falcon, the same chassis as the early Mustangs. That Falcon had a 3 on the steering column shift. Those were cars I learned to drive in, but didn't own.

but then why would I want to own one of those things, when I had the 69 Mustang from Hell....

In the same time, my Dad bought my sisters a 64 Rambler (what a piece of shit)....while he drove a 63 Pontiac Catalina Station Wagon, which he still owns. The only Freeway Yacht around that still gives the passengers whiplash with its 442 engine.

His other vehicle is now mine, a 59 Mint Pan-Head Harley. Dad is the Original owner, & the bike doesn't even have 24,000 on its rebuilt engine, which was re-built in 1980. The only NON-STOCK component on the HD, is the primary chain was replaced with a Primary Belt....incredible how much vibration the belt took out of the bike...

The HD has been to 28 Antique and/or Classic Vehicle shows, and won Best In Show in 27 of them.

Almost as nice as Ron's Ford Tractor, but then the HD can't plow anything other than asphalt.

 

The first car I drove was my dad's cutlass sierra... tore the drivers side door off within a week of driving it.... Long story, but my friends were having a get together shortly after much snow.... one way street.... trying to parallel park on the side I wasn't accustomed to & the window was frozen shut & door mirror was iced over... so as I was backing up into chosen spot, the door got lightly stuck in a frozen snow bank.... Well, I freaked & hit the gas instead of the break... door bent the opposite way.... needless to say, I didn't have a good time....

First vehicle I owned was a Jeep Cherokee... had over 200,00 miles when I got it... lasted less than 2 months..... threw a rod north of Albany.... called my dad & he said, I'll be there in 4 hours...

I have had (for the most part) better luck since....

 

Oh my, LOL....so if the door and window are iced over, parallel the car, and remove door....?

Good to hear you have had good luck since then. That's a horrible way to begin one's life of driving...!

 

Bought my first car in '67 upon returning from overseas duty. Loved the looks of the Corvairs and bought a '65 Corsa 140 pancake 6 and four one bbl Carbs. Sharp two door hardtop, burgundy with white interior. It was no dragster but the damn thing had very good manners down the Massachusetts back roads. Took a friend to the local Triumph Dealer to pick up his TR-3 and the man was shocked at how well the car handled. Unsafe at any speed BS Ralph Nader I loved my Corvair.

 

Corvair's were indeed fun cars to drive....I agree Fo-Q Ralph Nader....!

My neighbor, (and 1st puppy love girlfriend), had a nice Corvair, then she got hit broadside going through an intersection by a F350 with a Camper on it. Made quick work out of her and her 3 girlfriends. DOA....She was but 16 years old; a very sad day....!

Still it wasn't the Corvair's fault, and armored car would of had as disastrous of result up against a big truck driving DRUNK at 65 mph, while driving through a red light.....

Those MG's were a blast to tear screaming through these Southern Cal Canyon's. A great little car in its time....!

I remember sitting with her in driving school not a year prior, hearing Green Lights do not mean GO..! "They mean proceed when safe".....!! words burned on my brain...! Then, and now..!

 

Sorry...typo it was a 280. My 94 was black, t-tops...not the twin turbo. Great car until some guy t-boned me blowing through a red light (2001). I was in a series of cars making a left turn at an intersection, he hit me about 12 seconds AFTER his light turned red...oops. Flatlined and resuscitated, enjoying life2.0 lol!

After driving a tank of a pickup for a few years I went back to the 370z, in black. Now that I own it and warranties are expiring, time to luck into some upgrades.

 

Nice! Back in '99 I was getting ready for business trip to Japan and had been waiting for snail mail to deliver my passport renewal. Long story short, they tried to deliver, needed a Sig, and the mailman was out of the damn yellow stickers. I would have canceled the trip except I was coming back to the states for a day and then flying out to Tahiti for my first real vacation. So I got ahold of the passport office in the Fed building in LA, off the 405 on Western ave. I had less than 2 hours to get there from Carlsbad, little over 100 miles door to door and included running the LAX guanlet. I did find out the top speed of the 300zx on the 5 in the stretch through Pendleton, hit the 160 peg on a slight downhill. Hooked up with a 911 in Orange County and played slalom, including that neat unused passing lane on the right....called the shoulder or something like that. 59 min flat to the parking lot in the Federal complex....hot rubber and that classic z snap crackle and pop as the engine cooled. The trip home took 3 hours, lol!

 

...thought so, but wasn't sure. The '84 I had was unbelievably fast (turbo) and also had the digital dash (lit up like a Xmas tree at night)...it was silver and black (Raiders). Still miss that car...I also had 3 TR6's when I was younger...the '69 w/electric overdrive was by far my fav.

 

...found it;






...found a pic of the dash too (pretty high-tech back then)

 

Actually in some cases nothing is safe, about 6 months ago some guy on a motorcycle doing 100 plus T-boned and totaled a Chevrolet Suburban. The bike ignited on impact but there was mucho damage to that Chevy. The one thing with Corvairs was the front end getting a bit light at high speed on the highways. A couple of people I knew put a couple of 50 pound sand bags up in the trunk.

 

59 that is awesome!

 

But what the hell type of shoe are you wearing there? Lol!

 

May I suggest, for your driving attributes, a very fine model tailored specifically for your type of driving enthusiasm....this:




I'll let you have this Pagani Zonda, cheap at 2.5 mil. I'll give ya' a break, trade me your Z and I'll knock $1,000 off, and throw in a case of Patron. I'm giving you a great deal now...! I'll even throw in some head and tail lamps...for free...!

Or a bag of Cheetos, take your pick....!