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What was your first vehicle and who paid for it?

rockdog57 said:
Those damn pushrod tubes leaked from the factory I think.:grinpimp:
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Yeah, that was the problem. By the time I'd gotten it Chevy had some o-rings of better material that didn't deteriorate from the heat and that was the fix.
 
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Year 2002
Make Mercury
Model Cougar
Who Paid for it Mom (Was an Eagle Scout/Early HS graduation present)
How old was it when you got it? 10 years old
How old were you when you got it? 17
Do you still have it? No
Details Was the bigger 2.5L V6 with a 5 speed manual. Only had 56k miles on it when we got it. Specifically wanted the manual so Mom couldn't drive it! Lasted me all 4 years of college commuting 90 miles one way every weekend to work and would return a solid 28ish mpg back when gas was $4 a gallon. Did a little bit of autocross in it. Sold it to a buddy for $700 and a steak dinner. About 6 months after that it lost compression in all of bank 1, and has probably now gone on to the scrapyard in the sky.
Pics? Nothing digital. It was green though
 
KungFooMASTA said:
What was your first vehicle and did you pay for it or did Mommy and Daddy?


Year 1973
Make Chevy
Model C10
Who Paid for it ... I did. $700
How old was it when you got it? 10 years
How old were you when you got it? 16
Do you still have it? :lmao:
Details. Wrecked it half a dozen times before selling it.
Pics? Nope

Sometimes I wonder if my life would be different if I had bought the '68 impala instead.

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1981 Ford Bronco
It was 19 years old and I was 16
Parents bought it. Actually by Grandpa bought it new in 1981. My Dad bought it from him sometime in the late 80s. It was an extra vehicle / hunting vehicle for us. My brother got it first when he turned 16 and drove it for 2 years. I got it when I was 16 and drove it for 2 years. Had around 160K miles on the original C6 trans and a rebuild 302. It was decently nice for as old as it was. A/C worked too! It sat in storage for a couple years and then I took it back 2nd year of college and made it an offroad only vehicle. I offroaded for 4 years across Texas and to Moab twice and Tellico. Around 2007 I was out of college and my living situation didn't allow an extra vehicle and trailer so I sold it to a friend for a deer lease vehicle. I still miss it and want to buy it back but realistically since it hasn't been on the road since 2002 it would need a lot of work to get road worthy again and I still don't really have a convenient place to keep it so I just hang on to the fond memories.
 
1977 Ford Granada 4 door fully loaded, moonroof, electric windows, seats, ac, etc.
16 when I bought with my own cash
white with red pinstripes
car was 6years old.
it was a sales car for the company my dad worked for, he helped me with the deal.
paid $1200 for it, had it until I was 23 or 24.
 
Year: 1974
Make: Pontiac
Model: Lemans Sport Coup
Who Paid for it: Me. Bought it for $600 from my dad. He probably could have got a grand for it, but he cut me a break because that was all the cash I had.
How old was it when you got it? 6 years old
How old were you when you got it? 16
Do you still have it? No
 
Year: 1987?
Make: Ford
Model: Bronco II
Who Paid for it: Me. My mom and dad bought it but I had to pay to fix it up... Had it painted hugger orange.
How old was it when you got it? 15-16
How old were you when you got it? 15-16
Do you still have it? No... It didn't last long, I hadn't driven a stick before and the folks said figure it out.
 
Year: 1992
Make: Chevrolet
Model: Cavalier Z24
Who Paid for it: Parents did originally (for $3k) but I bought from them (for $2k) after they had it for about 6 months but the plan was for it to be my first car. My parents wouldn't of made me buy it from them but I wanted it to be mine.
How old was it when you got it? 12 in 2003
How old were you when you got it? 15
Do you still have it? Sold it in 2017 when I moved to GA from MI.
Details: Only had 35k miles on it in 2003 when we got it. Repainted it in 2005 since my dumbass crashed it. Did all the body work and repair and had my dad's friend paint it with the racing stripes. Floor boards started rusting out in about 2010/11. Repaired those and the leaky cowl area that was letting water in. Painted some of the interior plastic since that was around the time Fast and Furious was big. Overall was a great first car and I had lots of fond memories with it. It had around 150k miles when I sold it in 17.

I Think these pictures were around the time it was just painted.

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2000 Dodge Dakota 2wd.

Needed a truck for the 4 hour trips to college in Rochester, NY so I went to the dealer and brought the brand new truck. It was the only new vehicle I ever brought.

Ended up joining Mudnuts Off Road club up there and truck morphed into a semi-capable rig.

3" lift, 3" body lift, 31" bfg's, No Slip locker, and some other shit.

My roomate's dad owned a print shop and was able to copy the 4x4 Off Road decal on Rams and convert it to 4x2. :laughing:
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Landslide said:
Just needs some wire spoked hubcaps, curb feelers and white shag carpet interior
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Mine had the wire spoke hubcaps. :flipoff2::laughing: And some kid at my HS had a Riv with a fucked up vinyl roof so he replaced it with shag carpet. We'd put dish soap on it so when it would rain...
 
Year 1985
Make Jeep
Model CJ-7
Who Paid for it I paid $3500 and my parents paid $500 (they had given my older sister and '85 Tercel when she got her license and it was worth $500 then. Gave me the same amount)
How old was it when you got it? 11 years old
How old were you when you got it? 17
Do you still have it? nope

It was a fun first car. it did suck at times because the windsheild leaked so when it rained it would short out the radio and get my feet all well. the cool thing was i took out the rear seats and put a huge sub box in there with 2 15" subs.
 
Year: 1976
Make: Mazda
Model: B1600
Who Paid for it?: Me
How old was it when you got it? 28
How old were you when you got it? 17
Do you still have it? Nope, sold it about a year after I bought it to buy something a bit more boy racerish
Details:
A little 1600cc carb'd pickup with a 4 speed column shift. It was pretty fun, would do burnouts in 3rd and topped out at about 70 downhill with a stiff with a wind behind you. Probably the only car I really regret selling but I was young, dumb and wanted 4 doors for more whores :grinpimp:
Pics?:
None of mine but it looked like this......
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'68 Mercury Monterey fastback

It was 14 years old in the Fall of '82 when I got it. Only had 42k miles on it. Last of the 390 Super Marauders. We tinkered with it a bit (Hooker headers, Thrush cherry bombs, true duals, solid lifters, Holley 750 - 2800rpm stall converter... and fender skirts. :smokin: It was a sleeper :grinpimp:).

I didn't turn 16 'til the following June (it's GOOD to be the oldest kid! :flipoff2:) - it had been so thoroughly waxed by then, it glowed in the dark.

Sold it in '87, to get my first 4x4 - a '79 Bronco. I wish I had BOTH of 'em back.
 
Year 1990

Make Ford

Model F250

Who Paid for it: Dad, bought it new

How old was it when you got it? 5 years

How old were you when you got it? 14

Do you still have it? No

Detail: Dad bought a stripped down model in 1990, AC and cruise were the only options, I got handed the keys at 14 when it became the ranch truck and I drove the wheels off of it until I turned 18, it was 5 years old the AC was busted, and It had 200k on the clock at that point, I put another 50k on it in the two years of legal street driving it had with me.

Pics? Imagine a bone stock vinyl seats AM radio having white work truck, held together with hay, caliche dust and cow shit.
 
Year: 1984

Make: Toyota

Model: 2wd Long Bed PU

Who Paid for it: I paid $1500, my parents paid $500.

How old was it when you got it? It was 11 years old at the time.

How old were you when you got it? I was 15,. I had my learners permit so I could drive with mom and dad. I used it to take my drivers test on my 16th birthday.

Do you still have it? Nope sold it a couple years later.

Details: A real plain little 2wd PU with a canopy. I paid $2000 and sold it for $2000 2 years later. A woman on vacation from Australia bought it to drive across the country from Oregon. She drove it to New York and back and sold it. As far as I know she sold it in Bend, Oregon. No idea if it is still on the road or not. She wanted a pick up with a canopy so she could sleep in the back if she needed too. It was nothing special but it was my first vehicle and it was my pride and joy. I sold it because I wanted a 4X4. The truck I got was a piece of shit, should of never sold it.

Pics? No pics. It was white with brown stripes and had a white and yellow canopy.
 
inthefield said:
Year 1990

Make Ford

Model F250

Who Paid for it: Dad, bought it new

How old was it when you got it? 5 years

How old were you when you got it? 14

Do you still have it? No

Detail: Dad bought a stripped down model in 1990, AC and cruise were the only options, I got handed the keys at 14 when it became the ranch truck and I drove the wheels off of it until I turned 18, it was 5 years old the AC was busted, and It had 200k on the clock at that point, I put another 50k on it in the two years of legal street driving it had with me.

Pics? Imagine a bone stock vinyl seats AM radio having white work truck, held together with hay, caliche dust and cow shit.
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Dad bought an 89 just like that. I remember the day going to the dealer and him driving it home.
 
1969
Pontiac
Firebird
$500 from selling a dirt bike that my dad gave me and I paid for the rest of it
Got it Sept 1988, so it was 19 years old
month before I turned 16
I wish I still had it, sold it in 1989 to get a (What I thought of at the time) pro street 1973 Camaro
- 350/auto/2bbl/deluxe interior with AC/crappy stock hubcaps
before digital cameras, no pics that I can find
 
4x4mechanic said:
Trolling for security question answers... whose bank card did you steal? :flipoff2:
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This is why I never give real answers for those questions. Then even people that know me can't get them right.

"What was your first car?": "The Empire State Building"


Year: 1976
Make: Ford
Model: Granada (Coupe)
Who Paid for it: I did ($400)
How old was it when you got it? 12
How old were you when you got it? 16
Do you still have it? No
Details: It needed a little work, mostly just a tune up, timing was set to 4 deg AFTER TDC, spec was 8 deg BTDC, IIRC.
 
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7th grade, 1960 bug paid $25. for it and pushed across the street from the neighbors spent the next 4 years getting it running and painted, only to wreak it the first night I had it because the county had trenched across the road on the otherside of a ditch and when I came over the culvert I drove the front fenders into the front tires and ripped the rear fenders almost off. Years latter BIL and nephews decided to turn it into a dune buggy and found all but one bolt holding the front end on had been sheared off!!

Actully first one on the street was a 61 Corvair dad bought from a fellow fireman said it needed a clutch since we had he motor out we went ahead and rebuilt it, it was totaled when I was T boned while crossing a busy highway in a pouring rain by a light blue Chevy pickup running faster than the speed limit with no headlights on, luckley he nailed me on the center door post and the bench seat that my dad and I had argued about (I wanted to put in bucket seats) took the brunt of the hit pushed the passenger side door up against my leg, I ended up about 100 feet down the road up against a postholding a barb wire fence, a group of the Highschool football team pulled up including a guy named Eddy Holk, who I had been on the JR high wrestling team with, he jumped over the fence and pulled the post out so they could get the door open and get me out.
Replaced it with a 1964 F-100 short wide bed with a 292 y block, since then it has had several 302s installed, it sitting in a corner of the property waiting for a new engine and transmission it has been a good and faithful servant for close to 40 years
 
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First vehicle ? Hmmmm......

I did not "own" it, fucking hated it actually, but was my first DD (during harvest) and then to feed before and after school every day

195? pos international 2 ton, no brakes, no drivers door, ran snow chains all year round, on ALL three axles, WAS a 4x4 of sorts. If memory serves, I was about 10 when I "got" it, it was old as dirt, a total pile of shit, 5 & 2 with a Browning. Did I mention it was a pile of shit ? Hauled hay during harvest, hauled hay to the back fields during the winter to feed. It was geared so low you could leave it in gear, pull the choke out a little and then climb out the non-existent door and cut the bales loose as it plugged along so the cattle could feed in a line. Had a seat frame with a cushion off of an old easy chair for a seat. The was an axe in a bucket bolted to the floor to cut the ice on the pond so the cattle could drink.

Oh, and it was a complete pile of shit that I hated. But, since I had to feed before school and after school, I guess it was my "first" vehicle. Crazy part is, I still know where that old hunk of shit is. I plow the driveway of the mom of a kid I grew up with. They wound up with it somehow. Still looks about the same. A total pos.


First car I ever actually owned, like with a title, was '67 Camaro. Bought it in Colville WA. We were headed north hunting and it was sitting at a filling station on the side of the road. I worked the next summer and between that and working harvest I got enough scratch together to go buy it. Yep, it was still in the same spot, 4 flat rotted tires and all the "patina" in the world. I was 14. That was in 1974. I worked on it for the next couple of years. Rebuilt the motor in the AG shop for my FFA project. Got an old set of "mags" from the local wrecking yard, some shit tires from a buddy's brother. I put a 4 speed in it, did some trading for that after a buddy wrecked his Chevelle. At any rate, when I was 16 I switched from a "farm permit" to a DL and drove it to high school. Totaled it coming back from the state line one night. The girl I was with got taken home by the State Patrol.

She never went with me after that...............huh
 
88 Jeep Cherokee Laredo with like 280k on it in 2005 or so. Paid $400 for it on Craigslist, sitting in some people's backyard after their kid supposedly fried it installing a bunch of stereo shit. I stuck a battery in it and drove it home. Ended up being the CPS and I yanked all the subs and shit out of it and sold those for more than I paid for the car.
 
I got to drive our 66 Impala to High School when I was a Senior. Family owned from the showroom floor. In 79 had 203,000 on it. Had to push it out of intersections after it died more than once. Had to swap out shitty recaps after they peeled more than once too. My dad thought the hubcaps were getting stolen but what can you say when you bomb though corners and watch them pop off the wheel and roll away. I cleaned it up a little and when he decided to sell it we got 400 bucks from some lowriders. Wish I still had it. 2 dr no post coupe with a 283 and Powerglide.
 
I was 14. Around 91 or 92. Bought a 63 2 door nova. Paid 400. My dad paid half. Blew up 2 slant sixes. Started restoring it around the time I was 18. Fixed all the rust, and straightened the body. Its been sitting for 20 years now in a back corner of my dads shop. Ill never sell it. Hopefully be able to get bank to work on it in 10 years.
 
Brand spankin new 1997 jeep TJ Sahara edition(had to get that D44 rear). Parents helped by putting $2k down. I got 5 years of payments to pay off the other $20k

I also had enough saved up for lift, tires, gears, and lockers.... and then I got a girlfriend and blew all that money on dates and BS like highschool dances.

By the time I had it paid off, I had ditched the girlfriend, sunk more money into everything I wanted except for a front locker, and beat it to hell. I kept that jeep for 21 years and finally sold it to my buddy back in 2018.
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He stripped the whole thing down, and the only original stuff left on it is the interior, body, frame, and transmission.

Full hydro and bead locks are waiting to go on next.

I told him I want first dibs if he ever decides to get rid of it.
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Snowbird13 said:
I was 14. Around 91 or 92. Bought a 63 2 door nova. Paid 400. My dad paid half. Blew up 2 slant sixes. Started restoring it around the time I was 18. Fixed all the rust, and straightened the body. Its been sitting for 20 years now in a back corner of my dads shop. Ill never sell it. Hopefully be able to get bank to work on it in 10 years.
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Slant six in a Nova ?

I thought Dodge had an exclusive os that POS design ?
 
Year '73

Make VW

Model Fastback

Who Paid for it? Me. Sold a beef cow for $500 that I’d bought a year or two earlier at the cattle auction for $100. In those days $500 was the standard price of a running POS. It blew oil out the tail pipe. I spent more time under than in it. Guess I was a poor mechanic.
How old was it when you got it? 11 years
How old were you when you got it? Driving Age

Do you still have it? No. Best day of owning that POS was the night I rolled it about 2 years later missing the neighbor’s dog. Did the walk of shame a half mile home, woke up Dad at midnight and we uprighted it with the tractor and drug it home. Sheriff came to watch, asked what happened, understood I didn’t have my license on me as I’d walked home and changed in to chore pants to drag the car home.

Details As above.

Pics Nope, but it was ugly before I rolled it. Had lots of rust hidden under an inch of bondo and a crappy paint job.
 
1966 Ford Galaxie 500. Four door. 352 V8. Painted silver then repainted with a brush in grey. Grandpa bought it new in 66, then handed down to my uncle, then my mom, then my brother, and finally me. Was uggggly, but had a huge back seat :grinpimp:
 
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