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[Dsnymom]

I got my first car shortly after high school graduation (I think it was in 1984). I got it from my uncle who was getting married and his wife-to-be told him to get rid of it because she wasn't going to have it parked in front of her house. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

It was a dark green 1968 Dodge Dart. It had over 100,000 miles on it when I got it, no power steering, no power brakes. I loved that car. I felt like I could crash into anything, and I wouldn't get hurt. I guess in 1968 they still made cars out of real steel. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[LuvMK]

I got my first car when I was a senior in high school - with the condition that I was responsible for getting my sister and brother to school and various extracurricular activities. My dad went out car shopping and came home with a 1968 Dodge Charger with a 440 Magnum [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] My mom totally freaked that he bought that kind of car for me but the guys at school were crazy about it! Every so often my dad would get the keys so he could take it out and "run it like it was meant to be run" LOL!

P.S. - A couple of years later he came home with a Plymouth Volare for my sister - its GOOD to be the oldest!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Fantasia77]

I had a gold/brown Horizon. I got it when I was 15-1/2 for $800. I had to paid for it myself. I got a job in a nursing home in the kitchen. When they figured out that I wasn't 16 they sent me home and told me to come back when I was. 3 months after I turned 16, I arrived at work in the early morning and it caught on fire and was toast. It was ugly anyway but it was my car and I paid for. Called my dad he didn't believe me when I said it was actually toast. He thought he could fix it. Apparently I was a bit hysterical. Well of course after Dad look at it - "it was toast" like I said. My dad brought a car by my work that afternoon to see if I liked it. The next day we went to the bank to get ME at 16 a loan for $3000. Mom & Dad had to cosign of course. That seemed like a million dollars to me. I'm proud to say, I made every payment myself. Oh that car was a blue Chevette. AKA - as my Dad called it "your blue rollerskate". [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[SleepingB]

I really never had just my own car until 1995 and my Dh and I bought a second car-a Chevy Astro Van. At least I always get the new car now and he is still driving the first car we ever purchased together-a 1989 Isuzu Trooper! Still going strong!

SleepingB

[GoofyMom]

OMG, Melissa, did your Dart have the beer doors,...uh I mean vents at the front under the dash? DH's friend had a red Dart (dunno what year) and he could fit 12 beer inside the vents! Not that I condone teens driving to a party with a dozen beer hidden in their car now, but we thought that was so cool back then. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Cindy, did your Laser talk? The first car DH and I bought when we got married was an '85 Laser. It talked so of course we named it "Kit", and every time it told us "your door is ajar" we always talked back to it and said "no the door is a door!" LOL Ya, we're lame! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[DisneyEveryJanuary]

My first car (In 1984) was a 1977 Red Ford Pinto Hatchback. Sad but true. As luck would have it the engine blew and that car and I purchased a 1978 rust and tan Chevy Camaro with a 350 in it. I loved that car!!!! It had leather interior and tinted windows. Those were the days.

[A & J's Dad]

My older brother and I bought a '73 Buick Regal in '78 or '79. Dad was working at an Oldsmobile dealership at the time and got us a good deal. It was a pukey yellow with a vinyl top that I believe in a previous life was white. It got about 8 miles to the gallon and hauled some serious tail.

[Kruggie]

Hee Hee,
My first car was a Bobcat (pinto), I have no idea what year it was but it was cute! It was red with tinted windows and a lovre on the hatch back, sunroof, and the kicker was that this little car had a v8 in it. You would not believe how fast that sucker flew, many a time I burried the needle on the parkway. My friends nicknamed it The Beast.
Sadly, it died a tragic roadside death...and my Dad grew smarter and purchased a more "economical" (safe) Ford escort....no one nicknamed the escort.

[DebiDebiDebi]

1966 Chevelle Malibu, two door, red. Very Cool, coolest car in school! My dad was the original owner. Lee & I still had it after we got married, but someone crashed into it in the middle of the night and totalled it...man, I wish we still had that car!

[A. Monster]

In 1993 following HS graduation, a white 1978 Buick Regal. Paid a whopping $300 for it so I could get myself to college. That thing had no breaks, no tail-lights ("yes officer, I'll drive home with the hazards on and get those lights fixed tomorrow, thank you") the only door that worked was the driver's side from the outside (you had to roll down the window to let yourself - and everyone else out). The back end had a huge crack it in in the wheel well on the driver's side ("don't sit in the back seat on the driver's side"). My friend Chris loved it because she felt like she was sitting on a couch in my car! Poor thing had an oil leak (the car, not my friend Chris) that I didn't know about and the engine seized on my way to work one day. So sad. I loved that thing. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] After that I had a '77 Vega that lasted about a week and a half before it passed on as well.

[RobbiD]

The 1st car I drove was my Mom's grey '76 Pinto. But the 1st car I owned (which I bought myself at age 17 for $700)was a '73 Cutlass "S" white with a red vinyl landau roof (which blew off eventually on Route 80 in Paterson.) I used to get 8 miles to the gallon. And I used to have to pop the hood and set the "butterfly" on the carburetor to get it to start. After about a year of this, my dad told me I spending more per month on repairs and gas than I would on a new car payment and he cosigned a loan with me so I could get my 1984 Nissan Sentra - beige (no air conditioning.)