1977 AMC Pacer X. Just like this one shown, but mine was a dark metalic forrest green. Car had very good visibility and I was just learning how to drive. bought August 1977 I believe. Was a demonstrator at the dealership.
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1969 Olds Delta 88. I purchased it in 1975 from my stepfather who bought it in San Diego, CA. Mine was a dark green 2-door with a white vinyl top. 455 4-barrel. It was an awesome car! Owned it until I finished college in 1982. Bought a first gen Chevy Cavalier (big, big mistake, LOL!)
polkanut
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Mine was a POS '79 Plymouth Horizon that spent more time in the mechanics garage than ours. It was blaze orange with a god awful black vinyl interior. YUCK!!!
1968 Ford LTD
My first car,(no picture) was a 1968 Ford LTD Brougham. It was a brown/gold metallic with a black vinyl roof. The interior was a soft, black fabric with a split front seat. Power windows, brakes,steering, air conditioning. 390 motor. I picked it up on Christmas Eve of 1971 and drove it until October of 1976. It was a great car, better by far than my 1973 Lincoln town car.
My first car,(no picture) was a 1968 Ford LTD Brougham. It was a brown/gold metallic with a black vinyl roof. The interior was a soft, black fabric with a split front seat. Power windows, brakes,steering, air conditioning. 390 motor. I picked it up on Christmas Eve of 1971 and drove it until October of 1976. It was a great car, better by far than my 1973 Lincoln town car.
1973 VW Squareback
...which I had in college... and which I bought used and being a few years old was rusting and having (automatic) transmission and fuel injection problems... so soon after which I bought my first new car, a 1981 Plymouth Horizon that would run in any kind of snow or weather that trapped everyone else on Pittsburgh's hills, while returning about 30 mpg city/45+ mpg highway with it's VW Rabbit-based engine (way way way better mpg and faster than the VW Squareback, and the Horizon even had heat, something the VW lacked!). I will always fondly remember both of those cars, quirks aside...
...which I had in college... and which I bought used and being a few years old was rusting and having (automatic) transmission and fuel injection problems... so soon after which I bought my first new car, a 1981 Plymouth Horizon that would run in any kind of snow or weather that trapped everyone else on Pittsburgh's hills, while returning about 30 mpg city/45+ mpg highway with it's VW Rabbit-based engine (way way way better mpg and faster than the VW Squareback, and the Horizon even had heat, something the VW lacked!). I will always fondly remember both of those cars, quirks aside...
ptcruiser51
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1959 Ford Galaxie similar to this one.
Shot transmission, unremarkable acceleration, hit-and-miss radio reception, spotty oil pressure, and many other extras. Fortunately, we lived on a hill so I could roll it down to start when needed. Burned oil like crazy, I used to buy the re-refined stuff and put it in myself. I finally junked it when the engine mounts gave out.
I'm still a Ford guy, see avatar.
Shot transmission, unremarkable acceleration, hit-and-miss radio reception, spotty oil pressure, and many other extras. Fortunately, we lived on a hill so I could roll it down to start when needed. Burned oil like crazy, I used to buy the re-refined stuff and put it in myself. I finally junked it when the engine mounts gave out.
I'm still a Ford guy, see avatar.
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Beautiful BUG! Love the color! Never seen that shade of green.
58limited
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1978 Mercury Marquis Brougham
Bought it in 1987 for $1995.00, same color as the one in the picture, Dove gray vinyl interior. 351M engine got 12 MPG if I was lucky. Got most of my car repair knowledge from this car, replaced most things under the hood except the engine and most front end parts in the 5 years I owned it.
Bought it in 1987 for $1995.00, same color as the one in the picture, Dove gray vinyl interior. 351M engine got 12 MPG if I was lucky. Got most of my car repair knowledge from this car, replaced most things under the hood except the engine and most front end parts in the 5 years I owned it.
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I had a 63' Chevy Supersport Coupe with the 327 engine and my first car. I bought it in 1967. It was white outside with a red interior. I liked the "Cold" light that came on when the car was first started up.
It was a great car and actually very reliable. I think the only problem was that I had to replace the clutch once ($100 at the dealer) and replace the dual exhaust one time.
The only negative thing about the car was the gas mileage. No matter how good you were on the gas I could never get above 14mpg. And when you are in high school with only a very low paying part time job even $0.39 per gallon gasoline ripped your budget apart. And the insurance was almost $500 per year, which was ungodly expensive even for the time because I was a teen driver and my dad wouldn't put me on their insurance for a better rate.
I originally wanted a 64' bug for a first car but I let my dad talk me out of it.
I liked the strangeness of the bug more than that of the SS. Now that I think about it I think he knew how much more expensive the SS would be to operate and that I would have to work so much to keep it up I'd probably never be home. And that was true, I worked two part time jobs and went to school. It was wake up, school, work, bed over and over again 7 days a week.
So right before college I traded the SS in for a Corvair which got around 20mpg.
It was a great car and actually very reliable. I think the only problem was that I had to replace the clutch once ($100 at the dealer) and replace the dual exhaust one time.
The only negative thing about the car was the gas mileage. No matter how good you were on the gas I could never get above 14mpg. And when you are in high school with only a very low paying part time job even $0.39 per gallon gasoline ripped your budget apart. And the insurance was almost $500 per year, which was ungodly expensive even for the time because I was a teen driver and my dad wouldn't put me on their insurance for a better rate.
I originally wanted a 64' bug for a first car but I let my dad talk me out of it.
I liked the strangeness of the bug more than that of the SS. Now that I think about it I think he knew how much more expensive the SS would be to operate and that I would have to work so much to keep it up I'd probably never be home. And that was true, I worked two part time jobs and went to school. It was wake up, school, work, bed over and over again 7 days a week.
So right before college I traded the SS in for a Corvair which got around 20mpg.
My first was 1966 oldmobile 98 LS. My grandmother bought it when it came out in 1965 and died in March of 1966.
big car power everything. Did good to get 12 mpg traded it in 1969 for a Green VW Bug was commuting with wife to college 90 miles away.
Here is a picture of one but mine was Gold with white roof.
big car power everything. Did good to get 12 mpg traded it in 1969 for a Green VW Bug was commuting with wife to college 90 miles away.
Here is a picture of one but mine was Gold with white roof.
ronhic
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A 1975 Renault 12 GL
In orange....slightly darker than this.
1.3 L:itre, 60hp and would cruise all day at 120kph.
In orange....slightly darker than this.
1.3 L:itre, 60hp and would cruise all day at 120kph.
Ok...my second car...
<span style="font-size: medium;">I lost the 1970 Cadillac 3 years later when I was hit by a truck that failed to stop at a red light. The car and the truck were totaled. I walked away without a scratch. The guy in the truck was not so lucky. I had some money saved up and I had the Cadillac bug bad, so I got, what else? A 1971 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. Same colors as this advertisement picture, Casablanca Yellow with a Brown vinyl top. </span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">I lost the 1970 Cadillac 3 years later when I was hit by a truck that failed to stop at a red light. The car and the truck were totaled. I walked away without a scratch. The guy in the truck was not so lucky. I had some money saved up and I had the Cadillac bug bad, so I got, what else? A 1971 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. Same colors as this advertisement picture, Casablanca Yellow with a Brown vinyl top. </span>
My first was a '69 Citroen ID19, the cheaper version of the DS. It appeared on a used car lot very conveniently in '76 when I was in high school and beginning to need a car. I wanted it bad and so my father made a deal with me: he'd buy it for me if I'd learn to maintain it. Originally it was a greenish off-white but I repainted it medium blue, keeping the white roof. Somewhere I have a pic of it, but it was very close to the photo below which is actually a factory '68 color. Being an American spec car it didn't have the glass covers over the headlights or the turning and self-levelling light option.
The ID was a wonderful first car: reliable, comfortable, economical and very, very forgiving of a teenaged leadfoot. I took it to university for my first two years and found out that it was good for 93 mph on a rural Texas FM (Farm to Market) road, or the OSR (Old San Antonio Road north of Bryan), not too shabby for a 2 liter 84 hp engine in a rather large car. I could pretty much stuff an entire dorm room into it too. However, I really wanted a TOL DS21 Pallas with the bigger 2.2 liter engine and nicer seats and carpets, etc. My father found a '70 DS21 for me the summer before my junior year. It wasn't in as nice shape but I discovered that with the 115 hp engine it would run a real 100 mph. The cops stayed mostly on the interstates policing the obnoxious 55 mph limit, and while I generally didn't go over 85 hardly anything passed me on the backroads once I got either D model wound up - the suspension was designed for fast driving on bumpy rural roads. Once I had the ID absolutely flat out for several miles on the OSR right in front of an upperclassman in a brand new Malibu: I could go no faster, but I'd look in the mirror and see his crappy GM suspension absolutely having kittens with all the bumps. He didn't dare pass me until we reached the four lane highway which is when I saw his upperclassman parking stickers, but we both had to slow down in fear of cops. He gave the old ID (with underclassman parking stickers) a nasty sneer, I don't think he had any idea what it was but he was clearly unhappy at not being able to pass in his shiny new car until the roads were smooth!
The ID19 was kept in the family for many more years until it was finally replaced with an '83 Peugeot 505, I think it had well over 170,000 miles on the original engine and trans when it was retired.
The ID was a wonderful first car: reliable, comfortable, economical and very, very forgiving of a teenaged leadfoot. I took it to university for my first two years and found out that it was good for 93 mph on a rural Texas FM (Farm to Market) road, or the OSR (Old San Antonio Road north of Bryan), not too shabby for a 2 liter 84 hp engine in a rather large car. I could pretty much stuff an entire dorm room into it too. However, I really wanted a TOL DS21 Pallas with the bigger 2.2 liter engine and nicer seats and carpets, etc. My father found a '70 DS21 for me the summer before my junior year. It wasn't in as nice shape but I discovered that with the 115 hp engine it would run a real 100 mph. The cops stayed mostly on the interstates policing the obnoxious 55 mph limit, and while I generally didn't go over 85 hardly anything passed me on the backroads once I got either D model wound up - the suspension was designed for fast driving on bumpy rural roads. Once I had the ID absolutely flat out for several miles on the OSR right in front of an upperclassman in a brand new Malibu: I could go no faster, but I'd look in the mirror and see his crappy GM suspension absolutely having kittens with all the bumps. He didn't dare pass me until we reached the four lane highway which is when I saw his upperclassman parking stickers, but we both had to slow down in fear of cops. He gave the old ID (with underclassman parking stickers) a nasty sneer, I don't think he had any idea what it was but he was clearly unhappy at not being able to pass in his shiny new car until the roads were smooth!
The ID19 was kept in the family for many more years until it was finally replaced with an '83 Peugeot 505, I think it had well over 170,000 miles on the original engine and trans when it was retired.
spankomatic
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1974 Chevrolet Vega Spirit of America... It always ran and always needed repair...
toploader55
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First Car
1970 Monte Carlo.
Similar to " Alittle old Lady only drove it to church on Sundays".
It was owned by an elderly tailor. The car had only been in the rain twicw and never saw snow when I bought it. Beautiful Car. I wish I still had it.
The pic is not the one I owned, but same color and different wheels.
1970 Monte Carlo.
Similar to " Alittle old Lady only drove it to church on Sundays".
It was owned by an elderly tailor. The car had only been in the rain twicw and never saw snow when I bought it. Beautiful Car. I wish I still had it.
The pic is not the one I owned, but same color and different wheels.
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Mine was a 1972 Pontiac Bonneville. I LOVED that car!
Here is a pix from the Pontiac brochure. Mine was a 4-door in this color.
Here is a pix from the Pontiac brochure. Mine was a 4-door in this color.
cycla-fabric
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My first car was a 1977 Ford Granada sport coupe, mine was black and when it was clean WOW it was a good looking car. It had a 302 V8 and was loaded with just about everything at the time. It was a very dependable car and never left me stranded. I wish I had that car back today, ugh!
Doug
Doug
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My first car
was a 1959 Ford Ranch wagon that my brother picked up from his brother-in-law. It was white. It wouldn't run and we tried to repair it - but it never made it to the street. I sold it about a year later to a scrap dealer for $25.00. I graduated from high school in May 1973 then in June 1973 I bought a brand new 1973 Chevrolet Impala sport coupe 350 4 bbl. I kept that car for 11 years. An Impala was not my first choice, but I had an aging father and felt I needed a car he could get into and out of. However, it was a GREAT car!!!!! Many happy times and fond memories with that car! This picture is not of my car but it looked just like it - same light copper metalic and black vinyl roof.
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was a 1959 Ford Ranch wagon that my brother picked up from his brother-in-law. It was white. It wouldn't run and we tried to repair it - but it never made it to the street. I sold it about a year later to a scrap dealer for $25.00. I graduated from high school in May 1973 then in June 1973 I bought a brand new 1973 Chevrolet Impala sport coupe 350 4 bbl. I kept that car for 11 years. An Impala was not my first choice, but I had an aging father and felt I needed a car he could get into and out of. However, it was a GREAT car!!!!! Many happy times and fond memories with that car! This picture is not of my car but it looked just like it - same light copper metalic and black vinyl roof.
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Mine was a 1979 Dodge Diplomat 4 door sedan in Cadet Blue with a dark blue vinyl roof. It had a 318 V-8 engine and it ran well. It virtually the same car as a Dodge Aspen, but upgraded with some nice features. It rode well - had torsion bar suspension and I had a lot of fun driving that car around. It had one of the early electric rear-window defoggers and I just thought that was the best thing ever. I traded that car in for my first brand new car - a Dodge Aires K Car! I thought I would help Lee Iaccoca save Chrysler, and he wrote me a letter thanking me for my purchase.
Here's a picture of a 1979 Diplomat 4 door in brown.
Here's a picture of a 1979 Diplomat 4 door in brown.
