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[Suziepeach]

1966 Mustang convertible.. She was a beauty and yes I loved her!

[Bird mama]

Mine was a 1985 Renault Alliance in Mica Red

I worked full time for 3 years before I bought it.  Yes I loved this car and drove it until it died :-)

[sfnative]

A baby blue 1958 VW Bug with the small window in the back.  Next car was a TR3. 

[Winkk]

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@orangegarnet wrote:

1966 Mustang convertible.. She was a beauty and yes I loved her!

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You can never go wrong with a Mustang.

[luvmyteddy4]

69 Dodge Coronet 500 - I loved it and it was my first car,

but my second car I loved more. 

1974 Corvette Stingray

[jubilant]

I never had my own car.  I got married at 19 and my husband to be had just bought a 1969 GTO about 4 or 5 months before we got married.  Not a bad first car!!!!

[Mz iMac]

Mustard color 1973 Ford Pinto

Total cost $3000.

Had it for 14 yrs before I gave to my daughter as a B day present for passing her driving test at the age of 16.  My paramour pimped it out for her w/huge speakers in the hatchback, shiny wired rims that glowed baby blue in the dark & faux fur seat covers.

Pinto lasted for 2 more years.

My 2nd car-1986 or 87 Ford Escort

This one lasted 18 yrs.

[Suziepeach]

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@Winkk wrote:

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@orangegarnet wrote:

1966 Mustang convertible.. She was a beauty and yes I loved her!

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You can never go wrong with a Mustang.

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Ran like a dream too, you are so right, you can never go wrong with a Mustang.. 

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[hckynutjohn]

My 1950 Merc in 1954 at a friends house, a welll to do friend!

I was 14 when my sis wanted a car. Problem was she needed more money to buy the car she wanted. I was making about $125 a week as a car hop($.25 per hour and tips) so she asked me if I wanted go half on the car. She would teach me to drive on a huge parking lot where we had a well known horse racing track. I agreed.

The car was a 1947 Chevy 4 door sedan. Stick shift, which was a vacuum shift, worst of the worst for shifting. Had the feeling resebling putting a stick in thick mud and moving it. Hard to tell if moving it actually changed gears or not. Was 1 headache after another will me footing the bills.

I learned to drive in this piece of junk it was an expensive way to learn, always something wrong with the vacuum shifter. Think I paid more repairing this thing than my half of buying it. I only got to drive it on Sundays, at a parking lot fof about half hour. There was an incline in this lot, so I practiced starting going uphill from a dead stop, keeping it from rolling backwards. Got it down pat learning clutch/brake/accelerator.

Hated that car and dumped a lot of my tip money into it. When my sis sold it, it was not worth enough for her to pay me back, so i told her to forget it, but never ask me to loan her another penny.

I didn't b

ut I know she "borrowed" from my stash when I wasn't looking. I counted m

y stash every single night so I knew exactly how much I had on hand. Even my younger sis, 2 years my senior, dipped into my money. I told both of them and my mom and they both said I must have counted it wrong. My mom had enough problems, so I just let it go.

We soon moved and I found a real safe place to hide my money. No more of money vanishing or "you must have made a mistake counting it" nonsense.

When I was 15+ 3 months I bought the car one of my cousins traded in for a new Ford. It was a 1950 Mercury 2 door Sports Sedan. Couldn't drive it for 3 months until I got my learners permit. Then I had to have 1 of my sisters with me when I drove.

They both wanted to drive it but I said "nope", as my younger sis had wrecked her car, and after all the $$$ my other sis cost me on that '47 Chevy? No way she was getting behind the wheel of "my baby".

I learned enough about motors that no way they could start it even if they found the keys. I just pulled the coil wire off and put it in my pocket. They even told me my car was broke, and I just smiled and said, "sure it is and I know how to fix it.

Started drag racing at the drag strips in Lincoln and also in Kansas City after about 6 months of turning 16, and I raced that car, along with my other new cars. I drove and raced(and won) that car until 1961, and I bought it in 1954.

For anyone that got this far?  Phew, that's part of my car story.

[Vickiv]

I love all your stories about your first car. The photos are great.