My first car was a 1974 Dodge Colt GT. This was a Mitsubishi built rear drive coupe that my sister bought new and my father talked me into buying from her. I desperately wanted a '74 Dodge Charger SE with a 440 auto that I found on a local dealer lot but dad said I'd kill myself in the thing. I really didn't want a little 4 banger but he made me an offer I couldn't refuse and, as time went on, I grew to absolutely love this little car. My sister had only put about 30,000 miles on it, and I ran it up to almost 200,000 before passing it along to my young brother in law. I ended up loving that fact that it had a manual gearbox, that it was light and tossable, and it gave me an appreciation for small cars that I've never lost. In fact, to this day, my preference is still for smaller cars.

Mine looked like the image below, except I didn't paint my stock wheels black - I swapped 'em for a set of American Racing mags.

 

69 VW Bug to go with my beard, pony tail & tie-dye t shirt. Peace out bro!

 

you know Jim......I can see that vision of you....lol...

 

My first car was a tan 1969 VW Beetle with a semi automatic transmission. If it wouldn't go forward in the snow it would always backup in it. I used it for a project car in High School shop class and cleaned up all the rust and had it repainted.

 

We are going to need Karen to post some pictures LOL

 

Mine was a 1968 Mustang Fastback with the 302 V8 in it. 1st year for the 302, I think. Color was a Brown Metallic - Ford was just coming out with that color. From what I can see, looks like the Brown Metallic is coming back in 2013 on some marques. Bought it new my junior year in High School. Sticker was just over $3200!! Dealer I purchased the car from was running an ad stating he'd give $500 for anything that "walked, crawled or rolled". Took my 10-speed Schwinn to him for the down payment. Still have the Schwinn! He just took $500 off the sticker price. I thought that was a big deal!!

Those were the days!! I could get 5 McDonald's hamburgers for a $1. That also bought me 5 gallons of gas!!!

 

But I "cut my teeth" on the Folks' 1966 Mustang Coupe (Candy Apple Red) and their 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 XL (the 1st "fastback"). The Galaxie XL was black with red interior. Had the 390 CI police interceptor motor in it. It would really "haul the mail". The 1966 Mustang had the 289 motor with an automatic. Passed my driver's test in the '66 Mustang.

 

It was a great first car. My dad and I painted the wheels red, replaced the AM radio with a cassette deck, and I put dual exhaust on it. The joke for the car was that you could sit 8 in front and 10 in the trunk. The sad thing is that I went faster in that car (probably 125-13) that any Crossfire than I have owned.

 

Ii'd rather forget the car since only owned it 6 months. it was a 1965 Impala Super Sport that hadn't run in 5 years. It had the 327. the car had 19X,XXX miles on it and was wrenching on it constantly to keep it running. And to think $200 was a good buy (this was the late 70's and any car would do, especially if it had racing flags as part of the factory emblem). I ended up trading a guy for a yellow '73 pinto which ran great and the first car I learned to replace a starter for. Then it was a'65 Sunbeam Alpine for one summer (fixed gas tank, fuel pump, + others). Traded in the Alpine to a local Buick dealership for a rare, hardly used(as in, it was a trade in at 42k miles) '72 Buick Skylark Sun Coupe. This was my first "real" car (ie; didn't some kind of wrenching the day after I bought it). I ended up keeping the Sun Coupe for 10 years (a long time for a then 20 year olds life). I advertised it in Hemming's' when I decided to move on and Hedy Lamarr's son ended up purchasing it! I've bought, sold, and traded many cars over 30 years. My final configuration is the best. All of these were bought new... '03 Tacoma w/64k, '06 4runner w/61k, '05 graphite metallic srt-6 with 8,XXX (woohoo! I'm on another road trip next week to visit my brother in Half Moon Bay with the graphite, a fantastic GT-ish feeling car that's been on a couple of long distance, in-state excursions), '05 black SRT-6 with 1,3XX than ran out of the box like a finely tuned swiss watch. It was a good day at Karmann. Needless to say, I love my current line up...however, a new GT-R would be quite acceptable to the stable. However, the crossfires would still occupy the best spots in the garage.

 

It was an '87 Honda Civic Si hatchback with black paint and a black/grey interior. Learned to drive a manual with that peppy little sucker. It was taken from me and sold to a senior at my HS because Mom didn't teach me, stepdad did. She still hears about it from Pops and I. They were newly married and she has always been overly protective of her 1st born. So I got stuck with a '87 Toyota Tercel DX. It was burgundy with no radio, so I installed a CD player, 6x9 speaker boxes on the shelf, and some 15x7 deep dish hammers on that piece. Blew the motor on that one climbing a steep bridge. Never forgot to check the oil after that. Those were NOT the days!

 

Mine was a 1972 Volvo 142 2-door...messed it up playing freeway ping-pong...my friend's dad took the motor and put it in his boat!

 

Ahh...My 1979 Buick Regal... I remember her well. My first true love. I wonder what she's doing now and does she remember me?

 

Wow, mine was the Colt same except some horrid green! Had to buy it from my father...engine finally warped and I had it patched and sold it to a used car salesman...he must have had bad karma!

 

My first was a dark blue, 1958 VW. I think it had 36 horsepower. Parents transferred the title to me for $1.

 

A 58? where is it now? I have a 56 oval window..

 

I convinced my Dad to purchase a 1967 Formula S Plymouth Barracuda. It was silver with burgundy interior and a painted burgundy racing stripe from the factory. It was a 273 4V with a torqueflite (my only concession).

Unknown to us at the time of the purchase, my father passed away two years later and this became my first car.

This color combonation appeared on the Plymouth advertising brochure for 1967.
Dennis
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I consider the family's 1967 Rambler Rebel station wagon as "my" first car (although the first car that I actually purchased was a 1963 Plymouth Fury that my girlfiriend's dad sold to me for $40). My first new car was a 1979 AMC Spirit GT which had a manual transmission and a 304 V-8. Probably the quickest car off the line that I have ever owned (until the Crossfire, of course).

 

[QUOTE=DTMenace;714502]I convinced my Dad to purchase a 1967 Formula S Plymouth Barracuda. It was silver with burgundy interior and a painted burgundy racing stripe from the factory. It was a 273 4V with a torqueflite (my only concession).

Unknown to us at the time of the purchase, my father passed away two years later and this became my first car.

This color combonation appeared on the Plymouth advertising brochure for 1967.
Dennis
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Dennis, in what year, and how old were ya when you received your Dad's Cuda?
Was it a 2dr. h.t. or the Fastback?
I had a black 67 convertible, and a green 69 Fastback, but nither one had the Hi.Po. small block in it. (Photos in my gallery)
I still like the 67thru69 Cuda's the best. I have a good high school buddy who has 3 perfect 69 Cuda fastbacks. (One is featured nationally in the Summit Racing ads).

The 273 hi.po's. with their huge "single" chrome exhaust made the sweetest sound when ever you would would jump on it.

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[quote=+fireamx;714608]Mike
The Barracuda was a fastback, which had great lines compared to the 64-66 Valiant/Barracuda lines. It did have the large stainless steel square tip on the resonator, which sounded great, but my father had other views.

The '65 Formula S exhaust had a straight thru muffler in front of the resonator box outlet that made the Barracuda/Dart one of the loudest production cars out of Detroit. In '67, they changed the straight through muffler to a reverse flow, which reduced the sound by 50%.

I was a sophomore in college in 1969, when my Dad passed away and I was 20 years old at the time. My next car was a Vitamin C Orange AAR Cuda, that ran 13.50's stock at Pittsburgh International Dragway. Wow, the memories are really flowing back at this time. We'll talk at Carlisle about our prior cars.....
Dennis
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[quote=DTMenace;714611]Sounds good Dennis. I wasn't aware they changed the exhaust on the 67's.
My Dad managed an AMC/Dodge dealership in the 60's and 70's, and he brought home a 65 Dart 273 Hi.Po. 4 spd.one weekend. I always thought that car was one of the best sounding "stock" Mopar's.
I liked the 70 on up Cuda's too, I just thought the 67/69 Fastbacks had the most character.
The later model 340's used to give me fit's at the Drags if they had the right gear, like a 3.91 or better.
Ouaker City is where I use to hang out in 71 and 72. (only about an hour away from Pittsburgh).