What Was Your First Car?

[Dustman]

First daily driver was a 1972 VW Type 3 Fastback 4-speed manual. I got my license to drive alone to school & back @ 15 years old under an Oregon special exemption for kids who did not have access to the bus system due to living in rural areas. Fun thing about that car, I would open the front hood to show friends the engine, but then say "oops, that's right, it's in the back", only to open the trunk lid to reveal another empty trunk space. It freaked kids out! (These had the VW "pancake" flat 4 air cooled engines under a lid in the rear trunk).
Unfortunately, I totaled that car @ 16 hitting an icy patch in the shade on a corner that the sun had not yet melted. Did about 300 degrees of spin before hitting a guard rail @ 50+ mph. That was a lesson learned & the only serious accident to date (fingers crossed). (Photo not my car - pulled online)

 

[Maurtis]

The Smart motor is like that too. Up front? Nope. In the trunk? Nope??? LOL, under the trunk floor, yes.

 

[pauljr]

I'm sorry

Nothing to be sorry about. I loved every minute in it and certainly liked it more than the 66 GTO I traded it in on.

 

[Jeff Porter]

64 Triumph TR4.

Hey Paul, welcome to the forum!

 

[Jelio]

1959 Fiat 600. Terrible Green color...so spray painted the whole thing Blue. Paid the outrageous sum of $50.00 bucks (plus chores) for it in 1969. My neighbor bought it to come home to NC from California so he didn't have to fly (1959). The car had 3500 miles on it. It sat in his garage for 10 years.

this is only a web pic: I do miss her though, that car was a lot of fun back in the day!

 

[BiloxiGeek]

My first fun car. 1970 Datsun Roadster 1600. Beat up, a little rust here and there. But she ran good. Made one road trip from Denver to Virginia Beach and back, and twice did Denver to California and back. That pic was taken at my sister's place in Willits, Ca.

 

[ross]

I'm sorry

I had a '71 TR6, worst piece of crap I've ever owned, lot's of fun when it ran and the lights worked, once again, Lucas the prince of darkness.

 

[ross]

Nothing to be sorry about. I loved every minute in it and certainly liked it more than the 66 GTO I traded it in on.

Today, wouldn't you rather have the '66 goat?

 

[Coss]

I had a '71 TR6, worst piece of crap I've ever owned, lot's of fun when it ran and the lights worked, once again, Lucas the prince of darkness.

Lucas Electrics are good; they're just put together poorly.

 

[WilliamH]

Lucas Electrics are good; they're just put together poorly.

Problem with the Lucas electrical system was mostly the voltage regulator.
Mine used to hang once in a while.
Had to give it a good hard rap whit a heavy screw driver.
Some times shut it down and clean the points.
Required a good nose for incipient rubber insulation burn.