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GIVEAWAY!
We are giving two lucky subscribers a $35 Jiffy Lube gift card.
To enter to win simply tell us in the comments below, in 3 – 6 sentences, about your first car. Entries accepted until 11:59pm May 31st and a winner will be chosen at random. Good luck!
A bright red Ford Escort — need I say more?!
My first car was nick-named the “potato bug”. It was an early 80’s brown vinyl roofed AMC four wheel drive two door -thing-. But it got around in the snow which was great for living in the mountains!
I still have my first car – a 1998 Honda Accord that was handed down to me from my mom’s best friend. After less than a week of having it, I got into an accident. For weeks it sat, because I was scared to drive it again. But since then, a few years later, I have driven it confidently and haven’t been in one accident since!
I actually still have my first car. It is a tan Chevy Malibu. It gets me to every place I have needed to go and works very well.
My first car was the most hideous thing I think I have ever seen, in retrospect.
At the time, I thought my smurf-blue Plymouth Duster with honeycomb mags and air shocks was RAD!
What an 80’s geek I was!
My very first car was a red ford tempo that my dad gave me because he bought a new one. Looking back is was a pretty crappy car. Howerver, it being my first car and all I looked past all the bad things about it. After all it was mine and that was all that matter
My first car was an old Mustang. It was rusting and the gear got stuck at times, but it was paid for. I was proud of that car that it was mine. Later when I got married and had kids we sold it for more family type of car.
My first car was a silver Nova. It only cost $300 and was a mess. The hood had rust spots running down both sides, so my dad and I stuffed them with aluminum foil, put duct tape over it and then painted it!
My first car was Pontiac lemanz
It was a ver classic car
I wrecked it soon after I got it, my bad
My first car was an old Pontiac Nova SD, a real beater. It was a hand-me-down from my parents. Black Vinyl seats and black (peeling) vinyl roof…and the trunk was rusted shut from a previous accident (my mom, not me!) I didn’t really mind that much, I lived in a laid back beach town, and only one or two of the kids actually got new cars to drive when they turned 16, and there were a few with cars worse than mine!
My first car was a used 1967 Chevrolet Impala that I paid $400 for. When I traded it four years later, I got my $400 back plus more toward another used car. When my youngest graduated from college, I thought it a good time to treat me to something and I bought me a 1989 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 brand new! I still love my Cavalier.
My first car was a Plymouth Neon. It was small and worked for me for a while but didn’t last. Finally, when pieces of it started falling off every few days, it was time for a new car.
My first car was a yellow chevy impala. I really loved that car and drove it until the engine blew up.
I got my first car at 17. My dad bought himself a new car, and gave me his, which I loved. A forest green Mazda Protege. Ah, wonderful. My car and I were inseperable.
…until 9 months after I had it, I swerved to miss a dog, and flipped my car totaling it.
My first car was a 1996 chevy cavalier. It was red. I bought it when we were stationed at Fort Hood, TX. I was a great car that lasted through many road trips and PCS moves.
My first car was a very used 1982 Ford Mustang- not a great year for that car. I was 19. When I would turn off the engine, it would just keep put-putting for awhile before it finally stopped.
my first car was one my parents bought for me and my brother to share – it was burgandy and in fair shape. I was only motivated to drive when I found out my younger brother was also getting his license. I actually ended up monopolizing the car.
My first car was a convertible, sleek and red, so smooth it drives itself. All over my dreams…I never got my license – I have dyspraxia. I’m entering as a father’s day gift for my husband!
Oh Gosh, we’re going back some 37 years, but I can remember it was a white Chevy 4-door. I don’t remember the make or anything else. My parents purchased it used for me to have a way to get to college and then to work. I do remember that I only had it for about three months before someone rear-ended me at a stop light, crashing me into the car in front of me and the insurance company totaled the car and gave me enough money to buy my first “real” car:) A silver Lincoln Mercury Capri, anyone remember those? LOL – it was also the beginning of my whiplash and neck injuries that haunt me to this day.
maggie@mannwieler.com
maggie@mannwieler.com
My first car was a 1967 baby blue Volkwagon.
I had 3 accidents with it when I had it, none very serious.But I remember the funniest one was when a man in a van hit my car and it hooked my front left bumper on his van and was driving along with me in tow! He never knew it until we stopped at a light and a women stopped her car to tell him he was dragging me in tow.I still miss that VW.
my first car was a 1987 honda civic. No a/c and no radio but it got me around town in high school.
My first car was shared with my husband, and was a beautiful red Camaro. We had to trade it in for a Plymouth Turismo, because we couldn’t put a rear-facing car seat in the back seat. I still miss that Camaro.
I don’t know what year it was made but I first drove an Astro Van. It was maroon with a silver stripe going around the middle. In the school parking lot boys would stand behind it to smoke but once they wrote something mean on the back window in the dirt I parked it the other way. Those no good….
my first car was a 1962 ford falcon, big and beautiful. You know those old cars in the movies that mama drove alot- well this was one of them. It was a beautiful steele blue and had the biggest back seats becuase, well it had huge back seats for alot of friends to fit in. What I remmber most is no seat belts and the seats were like those in a 50’s diner. Sheila- haha we had the same car!
My very first car was a 1978 powder blue Camaro. I was SO proud of it. It had a big V8 engine and could really go. The 1979 model was much smaller. I hung onto my Camaro for 10 years.
My first car was a 1962 Ford Falcon that I got in 1970. I could go a week on .50 worth of gas and a quart of oil!
I got lucky and got a very nice vehicle for my first car. It was a 1992 Firebird. It was teal with a beige interior and it was perfect. I loved it. I wasn’t too smart at that young of an age though and I let a “friend” drive, and guess what? Yep, they wrecked it. It wasn’t totaled but I learned a big lesson back then.
Nissan Mirrano mverno@roadrunner.com
My first car was a Ford Fairmount. I cried when I had to finally lay it to rest 15 years later :). Hope I win, have to keep my KIA in shape!
I saved and saved. Bought my own car, a used black Camaro. I blessed it with an Alice Coopper cassette. I loved that car.
My dad had to buy my first car as part of his divorce settlement with my mom. It was a piece of junk, cut out every time you stopped, so I alway had to have one foot on the brake and one on the gas. I hated it and was glad when my brother wrecked it (he wasn’t hurt.)
My first car was a blue, Ford Grenada. It was built like a tank! I never worried about my safety because the car had huge bumpers!
My first car was a 1988 Nissan Sentra, sorta bronze-ish brown colored.It was a hand-me-down/early graduation gift from my Mom who upgraded her own car. I loved that baby! My boyfriend tricked out the sound system and the tires. It was always amazing to see how many people we could easily stuff in that (illegally of course) My parents used to call it “the clown mobile”. Sadly, I enjoyed that car for only six months, my boyfriend and I got into an argument and slammed into a Burker King sign. No one was hurt, except my ego!
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my first car was an oldmobile 88. i got it as a high school graduation gift. and i wrecked it within days of getting it, i got a job delivering pizzas and had an accident almost immediately.
My first car was a Toyota Corolla, I think a 1976. My Grandma Rose gave me a thousand dollars and my boyfriend at the time went with me to try to find it. It was blue, and pretty non-descript. but worked for quite awhile without any problems until I sold it for about half of what I paid for it.
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My husband and I bought a used Plymouth Sapparo. It looked and ran good, until we found out all the tricks of the trade when buying a used car 25 years ago. I vowed to never do that again. That was a huge learning experience.
I had a vette. A Chevy CHEVette.It was an orange ugly car, but I loved it anyways.
My first car was a two-door Toyota Corolla. I was twenty-four and had walked every where with two small children. This car made it possible for us to go on our first vacation. I made $50 payments a month, and we actually bought groceries for the first time without pushing home a grocery cart home or using the city bus to haul them along with two kids. Also, it was our local Western Welcome service that made it possible for me to buy this car so cheap ($500)! What an experience, Thanks Toyota for long lasting cars!
My first car was a toyota corolla, it was a used lemon. The transmission blew after 2 months, the starter after 6 months. God I hated that car!
I don’t even remember what my first car was. I really didn’t have it for too long. My sister totaled it when she slammed into a school bus. I was the only one injured with a broken wrist.
My first car was a used plymouth fury. It was green and big and it cost me 900.00 back in 1972!
my first car was Honda accord that I bought with down payment from my first paycheck. 10 yrs and still doing good.
My dream car is to own an Infiniti. I love the way it looks and drives on the road.
My first car was a Chevy Chevette. Small and compact car but it sure did pack a punch! My dad taught me how to drive a standard car so this car brought me great memories.
Wow the Probenator hasn’t been brought up in a long time. I was 19 and it was a black ford probe 1994 (hence the name). Unfortunately it didn’t last long since my boyfriend seemed to like to take it off roading and jump mounds with it. I didn’t know about that part though until photos surfaced years later. Apparently he called it the Probenator because he could drive it though anything. That is until someone ran into the door and we had to bungee cord it shut. Then we couldn’t drive it in the rain!
COOL
My first car was an Omega. I called it the SeaMonster because it was this hideous puke green color. I was actually sad when it died and now miss it terribly . . . though I will always be grateful because it was a manual car and I’ll always know how to drive one . . . though learning wasn’t much fun.
My first car was a hand-me-down from my mom. It was a 1977 Pontiac Firebird. Remember the phoenix on the hood? I thought I was pretty cool LOL. I took care of it like it was a baby. It was always spotless … until my little brother smashed it up … that was the end of that hot car!
My first car was a big old Desoto my Dad insisited I drive something tank like and believe me that filled the bill but I had hours of fun tooling around with my friends I cant imagine the amount of gas $$$$ it would take to run it now
My first car wasn’t a car… it was a pickup truck! I learned to drive by learning to shift gears in a big open field, before being turned loose on real roads.
My dream car was my 1978 Trans Am. I had such a blast driving that cool car and crusin the streets. We even went to the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals in it.
My first car was a 1972 brown super beetle volkswagen that had a moon roof. I saw this car in a field and BEGGED my dad to buy it for me and he said no. Four months later on Christmas I opened by Christmas card and there was a key in it and I was temporarily dumbfounded because I honestly had no idea what it was for and finally my mom said “well, aren’t you going to go drive it?” I got up and ran out side and it was in the driveway. It cost $1200 and I thought it was the coolest car in the world.
My first car was an old blue Dodge Dart with a bashed-in side I paid $200 for. You couldn’t get in the one side of the car through the door because of it. It had a push button transmission and no power steering. I finally got rid of it when my husband-to-be made me when it would catch on fire while driving it! LOL
It was a turquoise Mustang, handed down from my older sister. I never cared about cars, it didn’t bother me what I drove. To this day, I remember that car, and the freedom it gave me. I went to work and school for years with that car.
My first car ,I had to share with my sister,it was a old 1965 falcon,it had so many dents in it that it was amazing it still ran,I was 15 an my sister was 17,we ran the wheels off that car an put many more dents in it,luckly our dad never found out,I think he gave a 100 dollars for that old car,lol,it was ugly but it got us where we needed(or didnt need) to go
My first car was used. It was a 1984 Buick Regal. It was a dark gold color. I loved that car, ’til the axle broke! It fell off as I was driving, scared the life out of me! The car, obviously, just stopped, dead.
My first car at 16 was a 79 Mustang II. It was the LEAST cool looking Mustang they ever made. Mine was such a clunker if I took my foot off the gas (ever) it would die and wouldn’t restart for atleast 15 minute. This was especially fun when it happened in intersections. I was a peice of junk but I bought it myself and I was proud of that at least! 🙂
I would love a Nissan Mirrano
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The first car I bought on my on was a F150 Truck, of course I was 26 years old, but I was so proud of myself! I had to get rid of it and so this would be for sure the next vehicle I would want
My first car was a Mercury Cougar. I was so excited to get it. It was a surprise gift from my parents. We were a middle-income family and my parents always bought used cars. I was so shocked when I received a brand new car at the age of only 16. This is one of my best memories.
My first car was a 1966 white corvair.
My first car was a silver Toyota Celica. It was stick shift and it took me awhile to learn how to drive it. I thought I was so cool!!
My first car was a 72 Gran Torino. The car was huge. You could not see out the back window. It was good timing because it was around the time Starsky and Hutch was on TV. My friends thought it was cool. Now I would love a new Chevy Camaro.
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My first car was a huge 1988 Oldsmobile. A hand-me-down from my parents, I had NO complaints, as they were meticulous in the care of their vehicles! Plus, hey, I could fit 11, yes 11, teenagers in it comfortably. Ok, not comfortably…but we had fun squeezing in there! 🙂
My very first car was a 1992 Dodge Dynasty. It was only 4 years old when I started driving it (inherited it from my mom). It was a nice car, but definitely a BOAT! I’m only 5 feet tall, so I had to use pillows just to see over the front of it! I was really glad when I got a Kia Sportage after graduating from high school!