What was your first car and what was your favorite car (driver's license, tank)
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My first car was a 1970 Ford Galaxy 500 very similar to the one above. Mine was a light brown color though. It was my dad's old car and he gave it to me. At some point the gas gauge broke and it was an expensive repair so I had to calculate the number of miles I could drive before I ran out of gas. One time I miscalcuated and I'm sure you know how that turned out...lol.
My favorite 'car' was the first brand new vehicle I bought, a 1990 Ford Ranger pickup. It had sport wheels and a sliding glass window behind the seat. It also had a great stereo system. I loved that pickup and drove it for many years.
First was a 1987 Mazda 323 that had been sitting in my uncles field for a few years with a smashed in windshield. My dad knocked the dents out of it, and slapped a new windshield on it and called it mine It didn't have reverse, I was lucky to get up to 50mph in a few miles from startoff and it always smelled a bit like cats, but I loved it. I named it Maurice, because it always reminded me of a pissed off little french guy.
My favorite was a 1991 Chevy Silverado Diesel truck. I can't find any pics of what this particular one looked like.... but it wouldn't matter anyway. Mine was so beat up it was ridiculous That thing could get through ANYTHING! I spend many weekends laughing my bum off while pulling people out of the ditches of mud and snow ( country girl here, always had lots of guy friends who figured they needed to teach the girl how to operate/fix/go mudding in this truck....and it was usually ME pulling THEM out of some lamebrain situation)
Wouldn't drive it now, and I'm back to a little girly car due to gas prices. >sigh< but I still miss my truck
First car, I bought for $100 in 1976. It was a white, 1962 Olds 98. HUGE! It was really good shape. Bought it from original owners. It had power windows - must've been a real luxury when it was new! The trunk was so huge, I think I could've had a party in there. lol I drove the car for two years and then sold it for $200. Not a bad investment, huh?
Favorite car is my current one, which I bought on 04/10/10. A Honda Accord EX with all sorts of extra crap on it that I didn't need but have always wanted! I paid off my last car early and then for 2 years made "pretend" car payments into a savings account so I'd have a big down payment on the next new car. It turned out to be a great plan, because otherwise I could never have afforded the Accord. I love it!
My first car was a 1966 mustang, my Mom and Uncle found it for me and paid $300.00 for it.
It was my 16th Birthday present. A few thousand dollars and about a year later I could actually drive it. Untill then I had my Honda Express Moped
I worked my butt off to make money to fix her up, I sold it a few years later to a Family member who minted it out, He still has it.
This looks very much like my first car. It was a 1950 Plymouth. Mine was green and also had running boards. My father bought it for me when I was 17. New paint job, new seat covers, a radio that cost more than the car....which was $75.00. ahahahahaha. He bought it from a school teacher in our west Texas town. When I left for college my sister drove it and then Dad sold it for $75.00 to another teacher in town.
The car guzzled oil. The gas gage didn't work (so I kept a log of mileage to know when to fill up) and it was impossible to find tires for it without driving to a Ft. Worth junk yard for replacements.
I loved this car. There is nothing like your very first car. I never left the city limits in it but I sure had fun rolling around Abilene in this car. I called it the Green Bomb and meant it in the best of ways.
What great memories! Thanks, Demonbane.
That car reminds me of my absolute favorite photo of my mom and her brother when they were young. She would be the little Marylin Monroe look alike in the photo with the car in the background. I even had this picture enlarged to almost a poster size and had it framed.
My first new car was a 67 Mustang GT 2+2 fastback, 289 that I took on a road trip to the northwest with a couple of friends after I was discharged from the military. We had a ball driving from Omaha to the Pacific northwest in Washington. Memories of that trip returned six months ago when my friend said that he still had some 35mm slides that he had taken in route. I was able to get my hands on them and transferred them to digital format, not the quality of today's digital cameras but I sure enjoyed looking at some of those old pictures of the trip.
That car reminds me of my absolute favorite photo of my mom and her brother when they were young. She would be the little Marylin Monroe look alike in the photo with the car in the background. I even had this picture enlarged to almost a poster size and had it framed.
Could be somewhat of a tie as my first car is a sentimental favorite, but the Corvette is the all-around favorite (performance/fun factor)
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It didn't have reverse, I was lucky to get up to 50mph in a few miles from startoff and it always smelled a bit like cats, but I loved it. I named it Maurice, because it always reminded me of a pissed off little french guy.
I paid off my last car early and then for 2 years made "pretend" car payments into a savings account so I'd have a big down payment on the next new car. It turned out to be a great plan, because otherwise I could never have afforded the Accord. I love it! 
67 Mustang GT 2+2
