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Old 06-18-2012, 04:46 PM
 
Location: La Jolla, CA
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Zero.
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Old 06-18-2012, 04:53 PM
 
Location: White House, TN
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Why would the OP assume that everyone's first car had any airbags at all?
Zero is a perfectly plausible answer, and I assumed that there would actually be many people with zero.
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Old 06-18-2012, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
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First three cars didn't have airbags. 1978 Camaro (first) and 1994 Cavalier RS sedan (third) both came with a collapsible steering wheel. Second car was a 1984 Buick Skyhawk coupe. First car to have airbags was my 1998 Malibu, 2 bags. All of my cars had three point seatbelts in the front seats and I always buckled even before it was a law. When I see how many airbags new cars have today, I think of the scene in Sly Stallone's "Demolition Man" in which his car filled up with expanding foam just before crashing.
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Old 06-18-2012, 05:13 PM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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Zero.

First car to have them was a 95 Taurus. Still have a 91 Lumina without.
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Old 06-18-2012, 05:25 PM
 
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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I learned to drive on an old, early 90's Ford truck...it didn't have airbags and I can't even remember if it had seatbelts. I hit a deer with it when I was 13 and kept on driving!
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Old 06-18-2012, 05:30 PM
 
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0.
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Old 06-18-2012, 05:32 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Some of these people are hilarious. To assume that the OP was gloating about having six air bags is ridiculous. Zero is a perfectly suitable answer to any question starting with "How many...". This question makes no assumptions as to a minimum.
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Old 06-18-2012, 05:34 PM
 
Location: The Wild Wild West
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My first car was a 1939 Ford sedan, nobody knew what an air bag was then, except for one's spouse...
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Old 06-18-2012, 05:39 PM
 
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
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My first car was a 1939 Ford sedan, nobody knew what an air bag was then, except for one's spouse...
Back then an airbag was bagpipes or a politician.
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Old 06-18-2012, 05:40 PM
 
Location: Vallejo
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Zero. Currently six. I'm a fan of airbags... although they do smell funny when they deploy.
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