OT - What was your first car?
First car in the books!! Had to cop that foreign! #Porsche #BlackOnBlack
A photo posted by Nik Stauskas (@nikstauskas11) on Apr 17, 2015 at 12:51pm PDT
I was not as lucky as Nik, my first car was not a brand new Porsche. Mine was a 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan mini-van - absolute chick magnet. What was your first car?
Piece of crap wouldn't start when it was under 45 degrees.
Feet. Still don't have or really need a car.
5-speed manual trans, 4-cylinder. About the only (major) maintenance I ever had to do was replace a head gasket. Of course, the floor completely rusted out and if you lifted the carpeted mats on the passenger side, you could see the road underneath.
There were no good features on this car. Nothing was automatic and in the winter it would literally take forever to heat up.
Mine was a 2001 Chrysler LHS. Had it as a hand me down for a couple years before it finally broke down
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Cost $900 in 1969.
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351 cc and hauled ass, but there were some design flaws.
Like the time my best friend heaved in the back seat; the rear window was so small, that every time that thing got rolled down and rolled back up it was pretty gross.
And it rusted like you can't believe.
But a great car, nevertheless. Next one was a '72 Grand Prix SJ, 400 cc and dual carbs. That thing was like driving a rocket...
Michigan roads were in much better shape back then.
1984 Olds Cutlass Calais
T-Tops & bucket seats.
I am happy now that I don't have a car. Living in a walkable city is wonderful!
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That I Drove . . . 1962 Oldsmobile Cutlass F-85 Convertible
That I Owned . . . 1974 Datsun 610
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1985 Ford F-150. In 1991. With a lot of rust on it already. Picture this, with the rear fenders rusted:
https://www.google.com/search?q=1985+ford+f150&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=643&…
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I still drive it today, almost twenty years old. Best handling car i've ever driven, have driven a BMW 6 series. Idk man, the 90s nissans were amazing cars. It feels like an extension of my body.
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Those are the nicest Maximas (back when they truely were "4 door sports cars")
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This is not actually my old car, but it's the spitting image right down to the color and the wheels. Bigger inside than it looks on the outside. Hauled all my worldly possessions to and from college with room to spare. Roof rack, useful for getting my "new" couch from the Salvation Army to my house. And those old GM V6's were incredibly underrated. With cruise control on the whole time and a decent downhill stretch, I could coax 30 mpg out of this thing. More normal conditions, 25 or 26. Six years of ownership between 60 and 110K miles and the only thing that ever went wrong was a seized-up serpentine belt tensioner, a $30 fix. I'm convinced the car would disintegrate before the engine stopped running.
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Those engines, man.
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It did indeed. GM had some really forgettable clunkers during that time. Namely everything with "Geo" on it. And I once had a driving school Chevy Corsica plop its full load of antifreeze onto the parking lot surface after nothing more strenuous than driving range practice.
But when they had a good design, they rode it long and hard and the result was some terrific cars. The design for the 3800 engine went back to the '60s and that Olds wagon was virtually unchanged from 1982, both inside and out. Could you imagine if today they still sold, for example, the 2002 Chevy Malibu? If they'd never put a diesel in the early versions they might've sold millions of those Cutlasses.
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First car I drove: a 69 Checker Marathon 4 door sedan. Truly an ugly albeit unique car with personality, made in Kalamazoo. An absolute tank: with a solid frame, that thing could ram anything. I'll never forget tooling around Ann Arbor in that beast one summer.
First car I owned: a 72 Mercury Comet GT, Electric Blue. That was one ugly beast. It was such a beater I just left the key in the ignition in the fraternity parking lot. No one in their right mind would have stolen it.
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enjoyable reading.
my first was a '66 dodge dart convertible, bought for $500 from a lady who felt sorry for me b/c she had been one of my mom's best friends before she'd passed away. dependable car, nice in the summer. but low point in dart history was when it snowed...inside the dart on the way to hockey practice. sold it for a hard top the next spring.
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1994 Chevy Silverado 3/4 Ton, single cab long box...took an entire month's worth of pay at a high school job to fill the tank in 2005, and I only filled it about that often.
My dad still has it and I fully intend to buy it some day. It gets about 1000 miles a year now driving out to the fields, to the mill, etc.
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Light Blue with a dark blue vinyl top. It had actually been my Grandma's car. It had that 3.8L GM 6 Cyl in it- that sonuvabitch is probably still on the road - those engines just ran and ran and ran.
It wasn't the T-Type, much to my Chagrin, but it still had more giddy-up than it had any right to.
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2006 Saturn Ion II, manual. Black.
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Had a good laugh, thanks.
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