First car

[Rossco123]

1964 Buick Special in 1971. It was a one door sedan.

 

[stlorange]

66 Ford Mustang, bought used in 69 for $1,200 (my dad and I split 50/50), white with maroon interior, I just turned 16 and let me tell you that car was a chick magnet--girls that didn't give me the time of day now wanted a ride home after school, brought it up to su at thankgiving freshman year (1971) and kept it at the cuse until I graduated in 75. It's been over 40 years but I can recall every detail about that car.

 

[Orange Barrel]

1965 Oldsmobile -85 Wagon. Got it in '77. Drove it to death.​

 

[bevosu]

1950 Ford ..Bought for $50 split between 3 guys in college..lasted about a week and then we bought a used motor and put it in, another $50. Drove it to California and back to Massachusetts.

2nd car below...1961 MG Midget..got great gas mileage, but Renaults and Beetles used to beat me dragging at stop lights on W Genesee St. Girls loved it.

 

[HastingsCuse]

1967 Dodge Rambler

 

[JoeSU]

1965 Chevelle, 4 door sedan, 3 speed manual on the column (prior to synchromesh - the thing shifted like a sausage grinder). . It was our family car that I inherited in 1973 and a real chick magnet. Had to replace the floor that had rusted out (used sheet metal from old filing cabinets and a street sign), and the fender sported a rough fiberglass repair job my brother-in-law and I did one drunken weekend.

It got me through a couple of years commuting to Fisher before I moved up to a '72 Ford Pinto. I'm lucky to still be alive

 

[DomeStranger]

*78 Sunbird ... 5 colors if you count primer gray and bondo white ... had a clutch like a bus ... used to have to let it warm up for about 9o seconds or it would stall, which made for tough fast getaways ... my first cold hearted bitch.

 

[ImperialOrange]

1991 Honda Civic Sedan. 92 cu in, 92 HP worth of muscle in that beauty. Got it over 85mph once on the highway on a 2 mile downhill stretch. Best car ever in the snow via ebrake around the corners.

Surpisingly enough, I was able to get girls in the car with me.

 

[baggerbob]

1968 blue Chevy Nova brought it new right after getting out of the Army.

 

[DomeStranger]

1968 Opel Kadett

Paid $25 for it and $60 later in parts it was running. It would all blow over the highway. I sold it for more than I paid for it and moved on after a few months to a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda.

My best friend had a Opel (+1 for spare parts) ... I've seen some golf carts perform better, but it never lets us down and turned a lot of heads. It wasn't fast but it looked like it was, which is all that matters when your in high school ... lol.

 

[Bill Orange]

1975 Chevy Monza from East Syracuse Chevy, of course.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

1972 Pontiac Bonneville.

8 mpg, baby!

 

[SyracuseMiami]

1986 Ford Thunderbird

gives us fine outstanding members of society something to talk about besides the turmoil that exists at the present time.

mine was a 1992 2 door acura integra 5 speed, that beast would peel out in 1st and 2nd gears.

 

[javadoc]

'72 Mercedes sedan. I was clueless about cars and had no idea how to maintain them. I don't recall if I ever put oil into it, and it gave up the ghost after a trip to the Adirondacks about two years into my ownership. I imagine the engine was one fused chunk of metal the next morning when I tried to start it and it said, "Click," very feebly.

First car I bought myself was a used '86 Toyota Tercel wagon, 4-wheel drive, from a small private dealer in Ithaca. Wanted to learn to drive a stick so I bought one. That car was a tank. Drove it with reckless abandon up unplowed access roads into the high peaks trailhead lots and never once got stuck. Great for sleeping on hiking trips, too, with the rear seats folded down.

 

[realorange]

I am the oldest fart here...57 chevy...

Nah, I started out with a car that was my mother's. A 1948 "watermelon" Ford 2 dr. sedan.

 

[cto]

1951 ... large, dark green Dodge, "3 on the tree" (which was the standard stick shift then). Don't think it had a model name... but it had a glorious ram's head on its hood. It was a virtual tank. Very heavy and all steel. I think it was indestructable, and it certainly had its chances to be destroyed. It had been my grandfather's car, and my parents were looking for a "gentle" way to take it away from him. So they told him that his oldest grand daughter needed a car to get to her after school job.

 

[ImperialOrange]

Turbo Omni?

 

[AZOrange]

1951 ... large, dark green Dodge sedan. Don't thing it had a model name... but it had a glorious ram's head on its hood. It had been my grandfather's car, and my parents were looking for a "gentle" way to take it away from him. So they told him that his oldest grand daughter needed a car to get to her after school job.

Was it a Coronet?

 

[Marsh01]

1984 dodge omni...candy apple red. what a sh!tbox.

 

[Marsh01]

Turbo Omni?[/quote

Not even close. My friends in college used to say "you need to wind your car, make sure you turn the key on top so you can get home tonight."

 

[ImperialOrange]

Ahhh, ok. My cousin had a light blue Omni identical to the one posted earlier in the thread. Think the one you posted is the turbo Omni which are rare and were actually somewhat desirable on the tuner scene for a minute.

 

[Flacusian]

Datsun 12oo. It was the precursor to the Datsun B210. It was a poor high school boy's version of the Datsun 240Z. Datsun soon after became Nissan.

 

[Cusejuicy]

Love you diaper dandies to steal a quote. Anyway 52 two door Ford. Cracked the block in three cylinders and wound up stripping it for parts to get a 51 four door Ford I bought for $50 running.

 

[Fishy]

A 1980 Dodge Aries K.

Sky blue. Bench seat, stalk shifter, 13" steel wheels with 155/13s to get all them ponies to the tarmac.

I got it in the late 80s from an old lady who was dying of emphysema. It had about 8,500 miles on it. The interior was caked with smoke residue and didn't have a single option on it - it didn't even have a passenger-side door mirror. I bought four Sears tires for it and was good to go.

It was a raging piece of s*** from the second I got it. My brothers and I thought it'd be funny to see how long it would take to get to 80, so we launched it down the Taconic. After about 12 minutes of seeing the needle waiver between 65 and 70, we sorta figured that 80 was a bridge too far for the blue bomber.

It was resilient, though. They used to have gas stations in the median of the Taconic. We were at the one just north of I-84 when my brother and I accidentally set the engine on fire.

We tried to top off the oil and managed to splash some on the exhaust manifold which set the entire works to blazing. It probably took three or four minutes until we were able to run enough water back and forth from the softdrink fountain to put the fire out. (Busy gas station parking lot right on a heavily trafficked parkway - car clearly on fire...not one person managed to offer any sort of assistance.)

We stared at the car for a while after the fire was put out wondering what to do - we ended up just closing the hood and driving home with black scorch marks all over the hood.

 

[tbonezone]

'81 jeep cj7 v6 narrow base and bikini top. damn right i flipped her.