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Your First Car My husband called me today and wanted to discuss buying a 1976 Cutlass for my daughter. It would be her first car.
We decided against it because it's a real wheel drive so it would not be good for winter driving. She owes me....  j/k....kinda
Anyways...what was your first car? Mine was a Ford Pinto. Year was something like 1979-80. I got the car in 1986.
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But mine was maroon. | |
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My Pinto was dark green with a tan interior.
It was a 2 door...the passenger door had a dent in it where my sister hit a tree backing out of our driveway and you had to lift the driver's door to close it because one of my sister's friends sat on the open car door through the window. I'm firmly planted in denial |
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Mine was a 1988 white Chevy Cavalier with a blue pin stripe going down the side of it. It was a rust bucket and my 6 year old nephew referred to it as "Rusty Wallace". I got the car back in 1995 when I turned 18 and finally stopped driving it in 2001. The car did nothing but break down every chance it got. Winters were hell! [Edited 9/23/08 20:19pm] Shake it til ya make it  | |
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Holden Gemini
Like this except pale blue ...paid for $2300 for it and sold it a couple of years later for $2000 ... 
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hokie said:
Thats pretty flash for a first car.... Did u save for it urself or did mum and dad help out | |
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Ocean said: hokie said:
Thats pretty flash for a first car.... Did u save for it urself or did mum and dad help out 
My mommy and daddy bought it. They paid for the gas and insurance too. | |
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hokie said: Ocean said: Thats pretty flash for a first car.... Did u save for it urself or did mum and dad help out
My mommy and daddy bought it. They paid for the gas and insurance too.  my mum and dad never paid for anything for me .....he did go guarantor on $3000 dollars for me once ..and boy that was a drama ...plus I paid $75 a week board from when I was 15 (had a part time job while at school) | |
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My dad bought it for me a couple of days after I got my driver's license. The driver's side door didn't open from the outside, so I'd have to crawl in through the passenger's side  . I was terrified of driving it because once I'd hit 50mph, the car would shake like crazy and I could barely hold on to the steering wheel because of all of the shaking.  That car was a piece of shit. I saved up my money and bought another car a couple of months later.  | |
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1981 Z28 ( mine was blue )
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Ocean said: hokie said:
My mommy and daddy bought it. They paid for the gas and insurance too. my mum and dad never paid for anything for me .....he did go guarantor on $3000 dollars for me once ..and boy that was a drama ...plus I paid $75 a week board from when I was 15 (had a part time job while at school)Your parents made you pay rent??? When you were 15? Wow. 
Now looking back do you think that was a good thing? Did it teach you the value of money? Or were you/are you bitter? | |
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A Dodge Sundance... it looked so good in the beginning, and then... what a lemon it turned out to be.
I even choose a car over a month long European Vacation... with my H.S. group at the time. Car was cool then, but I surely would of benefited from the experience of traveling Europe back then. Damn it. | |
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I've never owned a car. | |
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1956 wolseley
like this only beat to death 
i was 14 or 15... myself and 4 buddies threw in 5 bucks each and got it for $25 it had no liscence plates but we went to this place where old cars were dumped and ripped 2 plates off... unfortunately they were off different cars so different plates obviously... we tied the plates on with coat hanger wire... then we drove it to kings cross (famous place in sydney) to look at prostitutes.... we got some weed and alcohol on the way back and got wasted... then drove the car into a dam later that night best $5 i ever spent [Edited 9/23/08 20:48pm] | |
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hokie said: Ocean said: my mum and dad never paid for anything for me .....he did go guarantor on $3000 dollars for me once ..and boy that was a drama ...plus I paid $75 a week board from when I was 15 (had a part time job while at school)Your parents made you pay rent??? When you were 15? Wow.
Now looking back do you think that was a good thing? Did it teach you the value of money? Or were you/are you bitter? It taught me alot..and although Dad always said I would get more satisfaction paying for things myself I knew the real reason was he was a tight arse LOL ...but I'm good with money so  and yep 15....I remember a few of my friends parents found out though and they were disgusted | |
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1999 Ford Mustang | |
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Ocean said: Holden Gemini
Like this except pale blue ...paid for $2300 for it and sold it a couple of years later for $2000 ...
my sister's first was a Gemini, she crashed it same year
mine was this beauty 
but 2-tone, darker grey on the bottom half | |
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Nothinbutjoy said: My husband called me today and wanted to discuss buying a 1976 Cutlass for my daughter. It would be her first car.
oh god! was it white? that's the car my dad had when i was born until i was about 10! i'd die to have one! in addition to something new. i'm tired of driving old shit. | |
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1975 Pontiac Catalina.
Mine was a grey four door. It was my mother's car until she got a new one.  No More Haters on the Internet. |
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momentofbliss said: 1956 wolseley
like this only beat to death
i was 14 or 15... myself and 4 buddies threw in 5 bucks each and got it for $25 it had no liscence plates but we went to this place where old cars were dumped and ripped 2 plates off... unfortunately they were off different cars so different plates obviously... we tied the plates on with coat hanger wire... then we drove it to kings cross (famous place in sydney) to look at prostitutes.... we got some weed and alcohol on the way back and got wasted... then drove the car into a dam later that night best $5 i ever spent [Edited 9/23/08 20:48pm] Did your parents ever find out?
I'm firmly planted in denial |
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Nothinbutjoy said: Did your parents ever find out?
don't think so... but i probably told my mum at some stage later in life | |
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momentofbliss said: Nothinbutjoy said: Did your parents ever find out?
don't think so... but i probably told my mum at some stage later in life I'm firmly planted in denial |
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I was rolling a 1987 Dodge Omni. It was definitely function over style, but I was grateful... and I was stoked because it was made the same year as Sign O the Times!
It looked a lot like this one...  Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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hokie said:
That was my 2nd car! | |
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ZombieKitten said: Ocean said: Holden Gemini
Like this except pale blue ...paid for $2300 for it and sold it a couple of years later for $2000 ...
my sister's first was a Gemini, she crashed it same year
mine was this beauty
but 2-tone, darker grey on the bottom half My Mate's Dad still has a mint condition one in White! | |
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Amaxx said: ZombieKitten said: my sister's first was a Gemini, she crashed it same year
mine was this beauty
but 2-tone, darker grey on the bottom half My Mate's Dad still has a mint condition one in White! 
mine was nicknamed "the old grey lady" I couldn't believe these are Taxi's in Malaysia!  | |
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ZombieKitten said: Amaxx said: My Mate's Dad still has a mint condition one in White!
mine was nicknamed "the old grey lady" I couldn't believe these are Taxi's in Malaysia! Well! Mercedes are Taxis in Germany!  | |
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a no power steering, stick shift Nissan Sentra | |
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87 Volkswagen Golf that looked exactly like this one. nWo: bboy87 - Timmy84 - LittleBlueCorvette - MuthaFunka - phunkdaddy - Christopher
MuthaFunka - Black...by popular demand | |
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