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Hello Dakka!
I was just curious what your first car was? Do you still have it? How did it break down or wreck?

Personally I own a white '99 Mercury Mystique. Bought it in 03 with about 73k miles. Still drive it to this day and it has run up to about 130k miles now. Worst thing that has happened is when the timing chain broke which cost me about 1,000 dollars to fix. To this day i still have no idea what a timing chain is and why its so expensive.

1984 Mercury Topaz that I got in 1991. I bought a new Mercury Topaz in 1994 and it lasted until 2002.

A 93 nissan micra with 50000Km on the clock. It was in excellent nick when I got it, but it got broken into twice and stolen once, so it was a little more beat up afterwards. Still, handy little car for dodging round Dublin's narrow streets.

1981 Chevy Cavalier was the first car I had full-time access to.


The first car I bought was a 1997 Chevy Geo Metro. The first vehicle I bought was a 1997 Harley-Davidson Fatboy. (I graduated college in December 1996. Bought the bike in March, the car in June. The bike was both more expensive, and had a bigger engine)

I don't drive, and have never owned a motorized vehicle.

1973 Volvo 1800ES. Volvo with Jaguar designed body. Bought from Dad, after he had tweaked the engine (have to love former motorcycle racers)
Stick shift that handled like a dream. Driving her on Mount Baldy roads was SWEET!
This car is the spitting image.

Her name's Christine...

1967 Mercury Comet Caliente

2006 Honda Civic (I'm a relative young'un).

Lookin' to break 30k miles in not too long.

1996 Honda civic. I still have it despite it having been in several wrecks (none my fault fortunately) and stolen. Still runs as well as the day I got it. However I have a hole in my dash where the radio used to be as a result of the theft.

Yeah, I ended up having to hotwire my Micra to start it for two weeks. I always dreaded getting pulled over by the Gardaí and having to explain myself.
They crowbarred open the passanger door too, so it was all bent and leaked rain- not something you want in this country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wolseley_1500_1961_Castle_Hedingham_2008.JPG

That was a real car. It had a starting handle.

Next I had a Ford Sierra Estate, then a Citroen CX, then I went without a car for about 12 years, then I got a Mercedes C class which I've still got.

1974 AMC Hornet. I got it in august of 1984 and wrecked it two months later. It cost me $300.

1972 Ford Pinto station wagon.

I bought it in 1979 for $400. It had enough room for my guitars and a 2x15 Sunn cabinet. Drove it until the engine seals finally blew in 1984.

My first car was a 1979 Fiesta. I got it in 1995. I had to rivet sheet metal to the floor so that I wouldn't have 'Flinestone brakes'. It was fun for loading up with three friends and sliding out of control down snowy hills in the winter. We'd careen off snowbanks or plow up on top of them. Get everyone out, pick the end of the car up and put it back on the road. Ended up bending the rear axle. (I wonder how that happened!)

Thinking back that was reaaaalllly stupid. Don't try this at home kids.

Thalor

1988 Holden Barina

A sky blue colour, bought of my mum (to Americans we do not spell it mom) in 1996.
Really, really slow off the mark but when you hit 60km/hr it was suddenly able to accelerate really well.
Top speed achieved = 140km/hr, had to slow as the windows were violently shaking.

An ancient, 'H' Reg Ford Escort.

Dirty white, moss growing on the windows, drivers door didn't unlock from the outside, passenger door didn't open from inside, complete heap of poo.

But it was mine, and I loved it. Even when the exhaust fell off.

Same crappy 1995 Civic that's sat in my driveway right now with a blown radiator. If I didn't have soem other serious gak going down, I'd replace it with a Ranger or similar small pick up

2003 Toyota Camry bought from the parents.

63 Ford pu truck.

First car - only got it a year ago as I live in London so dont really need to drive. Only have 5000 miles on it so far too...

73 mpg rated, but I get about 52 mpg from mostly city driving. Still, only had to fill up about 12 times in a year.

This but black....



I loved that car.

1986 Chevy Nova. Grey.
It had a slightly bent frame, driver's side window had to be wedged shut and ran great once it started.
It was a great mule, and I'm sad it had to be put down during the winter of 2001.

1994 Chevy S-10. 4 cylinder w/ 5 speed manual transmission. Got it from my brother in 2006. Had a crack in the windshield.

The hood was missing a bolt on the passenger side. Found that out when the hood flew up and cracked my windshield on the lower driver side.

Got a nice dent on the bed on the passenger side. Was making a right hand turn and some little $h!thead wasn't paying attention. Her brand new Kia was totaled. I got a dent.

Runs great with 232k miles on it. Got plans to drop the engine and tranny for a Mazda Miata V6 and 6 speed tranny. [Atleast, I hope that will work. Been told that the Mazda's engine and tranny will fit without a lot of work.]

my first car i never got to drive..... my dad gave me it and said it was mine, them proceded to scrap it about 2 months later.....

i think it was a 79 MG BGT, but it looked something like:


it was that colour and model.... but alot worse condition....

noisy bucket of rust comes to mind, and it was a hotel for spiders...

Embarrassingly enough my first automobile was the same model as my birth year. My parents gave me their old car when they bought their new one, so my first car was a 1984 Nissan Pulsar. The truly funny thing is the car is a micro machine with real engine and steering and I'm 6'3". So when I got in looked like I had my knees up to my ears and that I was about to roll it due to my weight causing the suspension to drop, lol.

My first car was 2 years older than me. 1973 Volkswagen Bug. Flourescent Yellow. 69 hp, stick shift.

In 1979 I was given my first car by the father in law... a 1960 FC Holden.

In 1980 I bought my first car... a 1973 LJ Torana, which lasted for over 5 years.

Mik

My first car, in 1988, was a 1971 Volvo, as seen below (but the 2 door version):



http://www.philseed.com/images/volvo-144-bw-1971.jpg

She was more body putty than actual metal, and my dad got her for a song... $25 and a favor. the favor was to haul away some junk from the guy's garage (a co-worker).
In the "junk" was an old lamp, made from a part of an old airplane engine. My dad showed it to a different co-worker, whose husband was a pilot and airplane fanatic. She promptly offered to buy it from him... for $25.

The old girl had your typical Volvo electrical problems and, after a little over a year, the transmission went out. It wasn't worth repairing, so my dad & brother put some brake fluid in the transmission & we drove it to a junk yard... where we sold it for $50.

Dad might've put $150 or so into her over that year, so he ended up spending about $100 on her, overall. Not a bad investment for a year's worth of driving.

I still miss that car and I swear that I'm going to have another one day.

Eric

1978 Mustang II

Shut uuuup.

1994 Beretta Z26 -white