Your first car and how much did you pay for it? (auto, gasket)

[reed067]

I had a 1975 Mercury Montery Yellow with a Green UGLY vinyl top. Four doors with ugly green interior. It had a 429 if I remember right it was fast too! I paid $400.00 for it I was 15 at the time. It had so much room inside of it I could get 10 of my friends in it! It had SOO much mold on it that it took a week to clean it off! I loved that car!

[Drover]

1981 Ford Fairmont with a 2.3L 4-cylinder. Paid $700 for it in 1991, which was about $500 too much. Man was that thing a POS.

[Miami Vice]

My first car was a 1979 Pontiac Firebird Formula. I paid $1,500 for it. Worst car that I've ever had

[SeaJay87]

My first truck is a 63 Chevy truck that I paid 3 years of blood, sweat and tears in my Uncle's shop before he gave her to me for my 15th birthday. She had been sitting in the corner of his lot for 10 years and had once been my Dad's when I was first born. She had been neglected, stripped of parts and eaten up by packrats. Over the next year I built a hot 350, took a $50 chance on a junkyard TH400 (which is still going strong 9 years later) rebuilt the steering and suspension, installed 4 wheel disc brakes, and re-wired the electrical and re-plumbed the fuel and brake systems. She is still in need of a lot of bodywork but time and money have held that off. She runs and drives great and someday I hope she will look great too. Idealy I would tear her down to the frame and do a proper rebuild.

I love my truck, I took my license test on my 16th birthday in her. Not only was I the first Sophomore in my school to start driving but I was voted best car three years in a row in the yearbook. I had a lot of good times, and a lot of stupid ones too, even a couple near death experiences. I had my first date in my truck with the girl that is now my wife. And on our second date she came to the shop with me and helped me install seatbelts, at her parents request. No joke. I tolerated triple digit summers with no A/C in southern AZ and single digit MPGs. One thing my truck never did was leave me stranded. I can fix anything with basic hand tools and can sit in the engine bay while I work on her.

While she is no longer my daily driver (65 miles of commuting daily isn't exactly practical at 8MPG) I love her all the same and will never part with her.

[Chickrae]

My first car was a 1968 Toyota Corolla and I think it cost 1,000. It was about 4 years old when I got it. I had major problems with it and got rid of it and bought a brand new 1973 Ford Pinto (RED) 2,200. Little did I know the gas tank explodes if rear ended. Luckily I never had an accident and had it for 5 years. Put my first born son, in an infant seat on the floor in front on the passenger side. No seat belts. Those were the days......I can't believe how unsafe we drove back in the day.

[greg42]

First car, 1976 Honda Civic CVCC, in 1987. $650 I think it was though maybe a little less as I think that was the asking price. It ran okay but after several months the head gasket failed. A 1976 Civic had a manual choke! And a really huge steering wheel. Heh.

[Deez Nuttz]

1977 Ford Courier. Paid $180 for it. 2.3 liter 4 cyl with auto trans and no a/c or power steering. That was in 1995. Rusty old POS. Almost costed me an accident when the brakes failed at an intersection where only I had to stop and a big yellow bus was coming down the street.

Here's what mine looked like....same color, only difference is the turn indicators were in the bumper, they didn't move them to the grille until '78.

[VaNative]

My first car was a 1977 AMC Hornet Sportabout wagon that was a Christmas present.

[superk]

1970 GTO that I paid $950 for in 1979.

[Retriever]

My first car was a '71 Dodge Charger SE, which I purchased as a new car in 1971. I don't recall the exact price, but I believe that it cost me approximately $3,800.

Because my father had always taught me the value of thrift, I had saved my money very carefully over the years, and paid cash for the car--as I have for every other car that I have ever bought.