What was the first car you owned?

[stoopified]

My very first car I got whrn I was 19(1979) for $300 .It was a big old 1969 Mercury Marquis,dark green in color.It had a monstrous gas-sucking engine (442c.i.)think.I only had it about a year before my gorlfriend totaled it.She was driving because I had just bought THE PLAYBOY 25th Anniversary edition and was checking out hometown hottie Candy Loving.Turned out that magazine cost meabout $305 dollars.

[Okla-homey]

1963 Chevrolet Impala. That car had an interior big enough for seven, and the back seat was the expansive site of many sweaty embraces and exchanges of bodily fluids.

[LilSooner]

1993 Red GMC Sierra. It was a flare side with bed rails, and custom wheels. I set a trend at my high school and soon a bunch of the boys ended up getting the same truck as mine.

I loved that truck man, until coming up to OU/Nebraska in 2000 I rolled it down a 50 foot embankment right out side of Seymour, Texas. I hydroplaned after a stupid **** ant rain storm.

Needless to say I missed one of the greatest games ever, but on the bright side I got the coolest black 2001 chevy step side side I had ever seen.

[Mjcpr]

Red 1986 Nissan pickup.

[OUinFLA]

1954 Ford 2dr sedan.
V-8 3-speed on the column.
$300 cash off the lot.

Wish I had it back.

[reevie]

1971 VW

[CUinNC]

Hmmm $300.00 here too..
1965 pontiac Gran Prix with center console & tach & a helluva slam shifter..

ol girl took awhile to get up to speed & then that 4/bl kept it pullin' 4ever....
totalled on a utility pole smack-dab in the middle of her grill - pushed the tranny up into the bucket seats....:(

[OUHOMER]

I don't know, I had so many, But i think it was a 1963 rambler station wagon. but i never got to drive it on the street. i bought it when i was 14 and parked in the back yard. i think i paid $200.00 and somebody offered me $600 so i sold it.

Than it was a 1967 impala, than a 70 something opel cadet, than it was a 1957 gmc apache pickup with a Pontiac 400, muncie 4 speed, it had the original rear end, That sucker would burn the tires off in every gear and never go over 55 mph. But my favorite was the 1970 malibu, i loved that car.

after that, it was all just transportation,

I do have my 1976, red Cadillac eldorado convertible in the barn:D

needs a little work, but in pretty good shape, just no money allocated to it just now:O

[Flagstaffsooner]

1965 Buick Skylark. I wish I still had it.

[Turd_Ferguson]

1993 Red GMC Sierra. It was a flare side with bed rails, and custom wheels. I set a trend at my high school and soon a bunch of the boys ended up getting the same truck as mine.

I loved that truck man, until coming up to OU/Nebraska in 2000 I rolled it down a 50 foot embankment right out side of Seymour, Texas. I hydroplaned after a stupid **** ant rain storm.

Needless to say I missed one of the greatest games ever, but on the bright side I got the coolest black 2001 chevy step side side I had ever seen.

Your not a Knippelmier are ya?

[SoonerStormchaser]

1989 Dodge Omni...lasted me from 2002 til 2005.

[critical_phil]

1958 Volvo 544 sport

http://www.volvo-okazaki.com/column/volvoscreen_04/pic/photo_4.jpg

i loved that car.

[yermom]

1977 Chevy Silverado

it was pretty cool... when it was running

[royalfan5]

1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. **** brown inside and out. Old Lady hubcaps that got kicked in. The headliner was sagging so I cut it out. It had a 260 V-8 with no torque, but it would fly once you got it wound up. It was also indestructible. It was nicknamed The General Custer/Brown Flash/Hot Rod Olds.

[pb4ou]

1978 Datsun Pickup. It was gawd awful orange. My school peers (who were mainly aggie-lite fans) would call me Pistol Phil. Then of course I would tell them in sign language that their number 1. :P

[VeeJay]

1970 Ford Maverick. I do not wish I had that car back.

2-door. Aquamarine paint job (could have been the Miami Dolphins' mascot car), black and white plaid, cloth interior (on a hideous scale of 1-10 it was off the chart), brakes usually worked, AM radio. Just a rolling death trap, if you will.

[SoonerBorn68]

Mine was an ex Moore police car. A 1977 Pontiac Lemans. It looked like one of the cop cars from Smokey & The Bandit. 455, 4bbl Holley, posi-trac, & a stall converter. It was definately a 4 door hot rod. It still had the roll bar & a certified 140 mph speedometer.

[Harry Beanbag]

1980 Honda Prelude

[opksooner]

Came back from Korea and my first was a '52 Chevy business coupe. I traded it a year later because I didn't want to spend the $35 it would have cost to do a valve job. :(

[sooneron]

1974 Karmann Ghia. Hated/loved that car!

[Vaevictis]

1972 Chevy Vega.

Goddamn I hated that car. You wanna go 60 mph? Sure, as long as you don't mind when the car diverts the power the from A/C.

[1stTimeCaller]

1980 Olds Cutlass Supreme. My brother and I inherited it when my grandmother died. When we got it in 1994 it had 28,000 miles on it. It was white with the brown leather looking top that just went over the back 2 feet or so of the roof. Brown corderoy interior.

RoyalFan is correct, you just couldn't hurt those cars. I also had the 260 V8. I'm convinced the car would do 200mph if you had a long enough strip of road. The steel bumper on that carcould take out t posts at 50mph and not get a scratch on it. You could also smash right through a 4x8 sheet of plywood inbetween t posts that was being used as a campaing sign and the car would never miss a beat. I had a problem of locking the keys in my car and all it took was a bent coathanger with a loop on the end stuck through the weatherstripping and over the lock knob and 20 seconds later you were back in business. I wrapped a coathanger around the muffler like a redneck hide-a-key.

The only thing that could stop that car was my mother. She sold it for $1,000 when I went to basic training in 1997. Thanks for the $500, mom. :(

[royalfan5]

1980 Olds Cutlass Supreme. My brother and I inherited it when my grandmother died. When we got it in 1994 it had 28,000 miles on it. It was white with the brown leather looking top that just went over the back 2 feet or so of the roof. Brown corderoy interior.

RoyalFan is correct, you just couldn't hurt those cars. I also had the 260 V8. I'm convinced the car would do 200mph if you had a long enough strip of road. The steel bumper on that carcould take out t posts at 50mph and not get a scratch on it. You could also smash right through a 4x8 sheet of plywood inbetween t posts that was being used as a campaing sign and the car would never miss a beat. I had a problem of locking the keys in my car and all it took was a bent coathanger with a loop on the end stuck through the weatherstripping and over the lock knob and 20 seconds later you were back in business. I wrapped a coathanger around the muffler like a redneck hide-a-key.

The only thing that could stop that car was my mother. She sold it for $1,000 when I went to basic training in 1997. Thanks for the $500, mom. :(
I made a 12 mile trip in around 6 min, with that including stopping at a stop sign and making a left turn. The handling wasn't the best at those speeds. Also the passenger window didn't quite seal right, so I would always run it through car washes to soak my unsuspecting friends. I don't think I ever locked it, though. I did probably have my closest call with death in it through, because I lost it at about 100 MPH on a gravel road. I went into a skid aimed straight at a telephone pole. I steered into it, it veered back the other way, and I road into the rural church parking lot that happened to be right there. It took me about a quarter mile to get it stopped.

[Getem]

First two cars I drove were a yellow 73 Vega (automatic, agonizingly slow) and a light brown 71 Impala. The first car that I owned was an orange 71 El Camino, bought out of a salvage yard in 1981. I still have it, though it's garnett red now.
http://ok-wood.com/elcamino.jpg

[BigRedJed]

I had a white '69 Falcon 2 door with a 200 inline six. Built right after Ford sucked any remaining cool out of the Falcon. To boot, someone had taken out the three-on-the-tree and put it on the floor. :mad: $550 in 1983.

My second was the one I loved the most though: a '69 International Harvester Scout. 304 V8 4x4. LOVED it.

I guess I have a thing for 69s.

[Ike]

1970 Chevy Malibu.


Great car....
http://www.noneckschevelle.com/images/carpics/WionaJDye70chevymalibu350a.jpg

[crawfish]

I had one of these bad boys:

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/2035000-2035999/2035195_3.jpg

1978 Mercury Cougar XR7.

More metal than every car I've owned since. :D

[Suerreal]

1976 summer between freshman/sophomore year at OU, I bought a white 1970 AMC Hornet, which I named Maggie. It was a Piece-o-crap.

Coming home after sophomore year, my plastic laundry buckets in the trunk melted on the bottom. I wound up having an engine overhaul, 1 piece at a time (1-3 day wait for each) as the mechanic worked his way forward from the muffler to various gaskets in the engine.

Then it began going through starters about every 2 months.

I learned more about butterfly valves, and how to unstick them, than I really cared to know.

My then-BF, now hubby, and I owned 3 cars between us - Maggie, a 1965 green Rambler station wagon, and a re 1967 Alfa Romeo Spider veloce (with boattail).

More often than not, we walked to classes.

- Sue

[85Sooner]

1967 ford mustang

[rufnek05]

1965 ford ranchero, bought it from my great grandpa for $500 when i was 14, still has 77,268 miles on it. he bought it brand new way back when. it never left waynoka untill 2000. it hadn't run in 8 years. got it running it less than a week, with the help of my dad of course. drove it all through high school, when it was working. i've but just under $2000 into it, but still need new interior and paint. had some guy offer me $5K as is for it. said no. will never sell that car

[oklaclarinet]

1992 Ford Thunderbird. A nice red, looked good. That is until a spot of paint on the hood cracked (from where a hailstone dented it), and then it got a few other dings. However, it had engine stuff break several times. Finally, after lasting two years of high school and my first four years of college, it broke to the point where it would have cost as much to fix it as the car was worth.

[Blue]

1988 Nissan Pathfinder

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Nq6ciKMQ8D_6CM:http://pathfinder1988.50megs.com/images/getting_stopped.jpg

[olevetonahill]

1st car 58 chevy 4dr hdt , 283 two spead powerglide , I kept ot till I got drafted on 68 :D Paod 50 bucks fer it sold ot fer 300 .
other cars of Note while I was in High skool . a 38 Olds convert , 383 , 4 spd Hydramatic . a 40 Olds coupe 4 dr . A 55 chevy PU that Dad and I put a 383 in wirh a the 4 spd Hydro . also put a caddy rear end under it and Caddy front hubs and spindles
The 38 Olds Convert I traded a TV and 20 bucks for .
Wish I HAD all Of em Now .

[StoopTroup]

I had one of these for $100...

http://www.channel4.com/4car/media/features/2005/crap-cars/03-large/1978-ford-pinto.jpg

I got it 2-3 feet off the ground a few times. :D

[StoopTroup]

This was the car I put money into though...

http://home.no.net/ayla/Oldsmobile/images/1970%20Oldsmobile%20Cutlass.jpg

I miss having it...

Good Times in that one

[proud gonzo]

um.... a 2001 red mercury cougar

[John Kochtoston]

http://www.thecarconnection.com/images/gallery/tmb/9785_XAXXTNQNXNMSG.jpg

Sincerely,
Father Time

[proud gonzo]

Here's something you old farts will appreciate: I was having coffee with a fellow 22-year-old this afternoon and he said, "damn, we're getting old."


HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Sooner24]

1964 Ford Falcon. Paid $200 for it and sold it two years later for $200.

If this car was maroon it would look just like it.

http://www.sierravistacarclub.org/spring/spring06/PastPresidentsPick.jpg

[critical_phil]

Here's something you old farts will appreciate: I was having coffee with a fellow 22-year-old this afternoon and he said, "damn, we're getting old."


HAHAHAHAHAHA!


**** off, dip ****

[BigRedJed]

1964 Ford Falcon. Paid $200 for it and sold it two years later for $200.

If this car was maroon it would look just like it.

http://www.sierravistacarclub.org/spring/spring06/PastPresidentsPick.jpg
See? I told you that Falcons were sweet at one point. But the coolness had been sucked out of it by '69.

[sanantoniosooner]

'69 Fastback Mustang.

Paid $200 for it.

[BigRedJed]

Phhhhhbbbt.

[olevetonahill]

Here's something you old farts will appreciate: I was having coffee with a fellow 22-year-old this afternoon and he said, "damn, we're getting old."


HAHAHAHAHAHA!
By coincidence punkin butt Im gettin younger ! :D

[critical_phil]

my second car was a 2004 Lamborghini Countach once owned by Greg Ray.

[Mjcpr]

my second car was a 2004 Countach

Is that a type of vagina?

[sanantoniosooner]

They had problems with smoking.

[Jimminy Crimson]

1995 Toyota 4Runner Limited

Looked like this, except in a deep red.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/LongJohn81/4runner.jpg

[sanantoniosooner]

Mine looked like this except is was a '69 Fastback Mustang, was white with a black stripe, and had mags.

http://www.v8monza.com/album/images/vega-wagon/v-wagon-72-sean-045.jpg

[BigRedJed]

1995 Toyota 4Runner Limited

Looked like this, except in a deep red.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/LongJohn81/4runner.jpg
I'm confused. Are you also bigredsooner?

[Mjcpr]

Mine looked like this except is was a '69 Fastback Mustang, was white with a black stripe, and had mags.

http://www.v8monza.com/album/images/vega-wagon/v-wagon-72-sean-045.jpg

That isn't a Vega?

[PrideTrombone]

Except it was a 350 Malibu, not a 454 SS. For the record, I'm 26, but parents wanted to do something different for my first car. They're nice people. :)
http://www.futureclassicsnj.com/Cars/blkchevdsfrt454.JPG

[sanantoniosooner]

That isn't a Vega?
What's your point?

[BigRedJed]

That isn't a Vega?
I think it was only a '69 Fastback in his mind.

[Mjcpr]

What's your point?

My point is that it sort of looks like a Vega.

[sanantoniosooner]

Everyone posts a car that is like their car except for X,Y, and Z

I just did the same thing.

[Mjcpr]

Mine was an Escalade.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Emmckinst/fox/craig1.jpg

[critical_phil]

its pronounced Exscalade.

[Mjcpr]

its pronounced Exscalade.

Are you axskin' me?

[oumartin]

this was my first car. 1978 Camaro

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1245/558828980_cbc3cc1d54_o.jpg

[AllAboutThe'O']

A 1985 Ford EXP. Gold hatchback.

Had it for nearly five years and had no serious problems with it, except for one time when I was in college when my new car radio was stolen.

[SleestakSooner]

1973 Cougar XR-7 with a 351 Cleveland motor purring under the hood... it's a wonder I didn't kill myself in that thing, but man it could fly! I miss the speedometers that went up to 120 and the engines that could peg them out. :eek:

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclecars/mercury-cougar/images/mercury-cougar-1973a.jpg

mine was white with an ugly green rag top, but what do you want for $1000?

[rufnek05]

like thiw but solid baby blue and minus the bed cover.

http://www.americandreamcars.com/1965ranchero111002.jpg

[AlbqSooner]

1957 Chevy Bel Air. 2 door hardtop with a 283 bored to a 301, 3 speed on the column. Paid $400. Kept it for 2 years at which time I had another $1,000 in it and decided it was not worth the upkeep. DOH!

[Rogue]

1975 Jeep CJ-5. Traded for a '77 Firebird.

[Rogue]

1957 Chevy Bel Air. 2 door hardtop with a 283 bored to a 301, 3 speed on the column. Paid $400. Kept it for 2 years at which time I had another $1,000 in it and decided it was not worth the upkeep. DOH!


Oh man. You are one of those guys! So many guys talk about the cars they wish they'd held onto. So I'm keeping Dad's '66 Olds Dynamic convertible forever. For EVAR I tell ya.

[whatsername]

1971 VW
Beetle? Me too. White with red pinstriping.

[royalfan5]

Oh man. You are one of those guys! So many guys talk about the cars they wish they'd held onto. So I'm keeping Dad's '66 Olds Dynamic convertible forever. For EVAR I tell ya.
My Mom still complains about trading my Dad's formula Firebird for a K-Car when they had me because it was too hard to get the car seat in the back of the Firebird. Then they realized that K-Car's sucked, and regretted it.

[olevetonahill]

I forgotted my 56 chevy wagon .