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Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:20 am

believe it or not my first car was an orange 66 Beetle. i was 13 and all i ever did to it was take it apart. got a 71 Chevy truck a few years later, then a V8 Monza, 73 Nova, 70 Chevy truck, 63 Impala, 70 Nova SS... i could go on all day. LOL

Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:01 am

1972 Innocenti Mini Copoer, first car I bought when I got to Sicily. 8)

Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:29 am

mine was a 1972 type 3 fastback, loved it, never worked properly, and then sold it for £300 to t3d about 13 years ago, because i thought the rust was too bad, knowing what i know now, the rust was nothing and i should of kept it, it had so many sweet extras on it aswell. oh well!!

Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:45 am

A '68 Fiat 850 sedan. :oops:

When they say Fix It Again Tony, it is no joke! It's absolute truth! :x

Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:55 am

My first was a 72 SuperBeetle in 1986 at the age of 15..Factory sunroof car,solid floors,but typical rust near the moons behind the quarter windows...I did lots of work to the body to get rid of all the dents & dings.It got as far as red oxide primer with Big VanHalen emblems on the sides..It was a decent car,yet for some reason I sold it.

Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:55 am

1. 73 Super
2. 72 super
3. 71 std
4. 78 firebird
5. 77 impala
6. 89 ranger<------i miss soo much :cry:

Current 73 westy auto

Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:11 pm

My '74 Super.

Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:27 pm

1975 datsun b-210

Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:36 pm

1966 1/2 Ford Fairlane GTA Convert. You could not put enough gas in it to get out of the county.

Looked sort of like this....

Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:44 pm

1970 Buick LeSabre Custom, 350 c.i., Rochester 4bbl, 4-door hardtop. Dad bought it new in 69, gave it to me in 76 when I was 17. I hated that car when he gave it to me. When I totalled it in 80, I cried. Best car I ever had.

Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:47 pm

A red 1974 VW Beetle.

Summer 1974

I still got it.

Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:13 pm

This thread brings back some memorys. Thought I'd edit it a bit. I went to high school in the years following the Korean war, 1953- 1957. High school demographics then were a bit different then now. Students drove cars, but much fewer then now. Very few fifteen year olds had
a car. Family that raised me (grandfather and an aunt) had no car, and used public transportation primarily. I never learned to drive untill I enlisted in the Navy in June '57.

My first "license" was a government operaters permit to drive navy fliteline and duty vehicles. My first four years in service ( I served thirty, overall) were in a fleet squadron out of NAS Alameda. We moved around a lot. Carrier quals on ships with names like Bon Hom Richard, Kearsarge,
and Oriskany, all gone now. Ordinance training at numerous bases in the south-west, Plus two west pac deployments, so I didn't feel I needed a car.

My very first was a 1951 Studebaker Land cruiser. Got it in Japan
where I was stationed at NAS Atsugi, about 35 miles from Tokyo. It was the spring of 1961, I was twenty-two. Paid a hundred bucks for it.
In those days there was a "grey" market for American cars. Toyota
and Datsun (much later called Nissan) were the main car manufacturers then. Honda only made motocycles at the time ( they were kickin' Harley-Davidsons butt with a cute little ad that said--"You meet the nicest people on a Honda.") and Subaru hadn't started either. Many Japanese who wanted a personal vehicle bought used American cars. They preferred Fords and GM products, so the Studebaker, stayed in American hands from 1954 when it came to Japan untill I got it in '61.

Gas was ten cents a gallon on the base,oil 25 cents a quart. If you were really tight for bucks you could drive over to the nearby Army base at Camp Zama and buy bulk oil you pumped yourself for 15 cents a quart. On the weekends when I was "out and about" I carried two five gallon jeep "jerry cans" in the trunk with extra gas to avoid purchasing fuel on the "economy". I also carried three or four extra tires.
In that time only perhaps 40 percent of Japan's roads were paved. The rest were rocky, rutted "tank traps" particularly in rural areas. Flats were common. It paid to be prepared.

None the less, I Drove that rascal all over Tokyo, mostly Ropongi, Ise-zaki-cho in Yokohama, picnicing and girl watching at Shonan beach at Eno-shima, Yokosuka, and in general the Kanto plains area. Got "wasted" in Tokyo, one night, and forgot where I parked it. Had to take the train back to the base. A friend found it two days later. Some of my buddys nicknamed the car, the "ladies Lounge". They wanted to paint that on the doors. I talked them out of it. :lol:
I Met my future wife at Tachikawa Air Force Base later that year. She learned to hate that car. It broke down a few times with her on board. Once in the mountains near her home in Yamanashi prefecture. Had to have her and her sister push me to get it going, while It was raining.
Eventually sold it to a Japanese friend when I got my 2nd car
a 1955 Toyota "Toyopet". She was happy. :D

Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:57 pm

I was rocking a $600 pinto in 1981 two years later I bought a 69 ss396 camaro for 3500 or so but it was the shite.

Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:17 pm

My first one was "the shagmobile" A 57 beetle with a 64 body.

with that interior

Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:31 pm

'82 1.6 Diesel Caddy I got the day before I turned 15. Had a 5 speed, GTI wheels and flares, and broken radio/A/C. Fun little truck, I gave it to my brother a year later and he's been DD'ing it for over 2 years now. Damn reliable too, every problem it ever had was when we drove from TX to Vegas.

Somewhere in New Mexico or Arizona. Love that truck, and I'm glad it's still in the family.

Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:49 pm

'56 Thunderbird

Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:29 pm

1968 Ghia

Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:32 pm

1970 bug...circa 1985

Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:25 pm

74 Vega :oops: It was one of those " if you can get it out of my yard, you can have it" kind of deals.

Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:52 am

Bought in 1972, '59 MGA Coupe for $600. Sold it a year later for $1850. It was a great car, wish it was still around. But, the car I really wanted was a Black "67 GTO, red interior, 389 V-8, factory 4-speed. The car was gorgeous, one owner, garage kept. Could have had it for $900 in '72 but my Dad said toooooo much horse power!