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What was your first car?, and Did you pay for it on your own or parents? Also please tell the truth!
That's an interesting way of asking it!
My first car was a '78 Buick Park Avenue (maybe it was 1979). It used to be my mother's car, but she hadn't driven it for a while and gave it to me. It was also the car she taught me to drive in.
First car bought 11/21/83 for $625. Paid for it myself at $3.35 an hour job. Borrowed money from local credit union. Payments were $48 a month for 18 months, It was a 1971 2dr Maverick with 170/three on tree. Still have it. Sold new at Kermit Ford in Kermit Texas, a Ford dealership that is still in business at the same address today. Even today, I can still go to the same house I bought it at in Iowa Park Texas.
My first car was a '78 Buick Park Avenue (maybe it was 1979). It used to be my mother's car, but she hadn't driven it for a while and gave it to me. It was also the car she taught me to drive in.
Here it is:
That is a very acceptable first car. Roomy and comfortable.
Back in the days everyone got chrsyler i dont get it? Chrysler isn't even popular now
My father bought a lot of Chryslers becauase he had the computer programs to run diagnostics on them, the books for all the codes, etc.. The running joke in the family was how my dad only purchased Chryslers.
My father bought a lot of Chryslers becauase he had the computer programs to run diagnostics on them, the books for all the codes, etc.. The running joke in the family was how my dad only purchased Chryslers.
My first car is the one I'm driving right now, a 1997 Ford Taurus with 191k miles on it at this time. We've had it since 1999 and I hope to never get rid of it.
My father bought a lot of Chryslers becauase he had the computer programs to run diagnostics on them, the books for all the codes, etc.. The running joke in the family was how my dad only purchased Chryslers.
My Grandma and mom both had a lot of Chrysler love. My Grandma had a Le Baron, then a New Yorker, then a Le Baron convertible, then my mom had a Sebring convertible.. I never cared for these choices much but hey, not my money.
Looking back, my Grandma had a very interesting array of cars over the years and she was really into cars in a way I don't think most Grandmas usually are. I remember her having a VW Bug, a 70's model Pontiac Thunderbird, a Camaro convertible, and a Suzuki Samurai just to name a few.
I bought my own first car around 1976 at the age of 15. It was a 1962 Chevy Biscayne, brush painted with blue house paint, except the roof, which was white. I was working full-time in a garage, pumping gas and learning to be a mechanic. I gave $50 for it, which was $17.50 shy of a week's pay. The guy I bought it from said "It doesn't go very fast." That was because it had the two-speed cast-iron PowerGlide transmission and top gear was gone.
Even so, it would do 70 in low gear, though there would be smoke coming out from under the hood, from the gunk on the little 232 straight-6 motor, if I did it for too long. I paid $35 for another tranny out of a junkyard and $4 for a case of beer for me and two buddies to drink while we swapped out the tranny. Found out there were two different linkage setups for that tranny that year, and the one I'd got was the wrong one...but some scrap angle iron and an oxy/acetylene torch solved that problem, one of the guys burnt the heck out of his fingers lighting the torch with his Zippo.
I wasn't old enough to get a driver's license, so I never bothered to register it, I just swiped a plate from somewhere and drove it.
Parents BUY a car for a kid and GIVE it to him? I'd never heard of such a thing, it was a completely foreign concept. At that time and place, any kid over the age of about 8 that wanted something, did some kind of work to earn the money to buy it for himself. Maybe there were some families that had enough money to buy a car for a kid but *I* certainly didn't know anyone like that.
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