OT Your First Car

[THE HCP]

Make?
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How did you get and for how much?
How did you part with it?
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Mine, 1983 VW Rabbit GTI
Got it in the fall of 1990. Used every dime I made from boot camp and bought it for $2,100. Drove it literally until a wheel fell off in the summer of 1999 in the parking lot of Sassy’s. The strip club over in SE Portland. Loved that car!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

1954 Ford

Bought when I turned 16yrs old. $900.

Got hit in driver's door by a drunk chick doing about 45 mph as my gf and friends were leaving the Robert Plant concert.

Fun car.

 

[H.C.]

92 honda civic lx.
Got it when I was 19 remember being super excited as I paid for it myself and no one helped me.
Bought it for 2300
Cute girl when I was 21 rear ended me to get my attention.
She had it for the next few years.

Pics in spoiler

Spoiler

 

[Lanny]

Make?
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How did you get and for how much?
How did you part with it?
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Mine, 1983 VW Rabbit GTI
Got it in the fall of 1990. Used every dime I made from boot camp and bought it for $2,100. Drove it literally until a wheel fell off in the summer of 1999 in the parking lot of Sassy’s. The strip club over in SE Portland. Loved that car!
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1969 Volvo 240.
Radio and floor mats.
Paid $3,100. Part of the money came from my savings account in the bank in Oswego that I had paid 10 cents a week into from the first grade through the sixth grade. The rest came from $500 my grandmother gave me. Made my two cousins living in Oswego very jealous. Got it when I came out of the Army in 1969.
I left my job at Tektronix to work for Emerson Electric's Electronics and Space Division in St. Louis. Figured I'd trade up for a newer model in no sales tax Oregon so I wouldn't have to pay a St. Louis/Missouri sales tax. That's when I bought a new 1983 Volvo with roughly the same features except it had air conditioning which was required for survival in St. Louis.
I don't have a picture. For God's sake this came long before digital cameras or personal computers. Still, believe it or not, I worked with an oscilloscope at Tektronix that had a sweep rate faster than the speed of light, the 7904.
It's main drawback was that the universal joints were constantly breaking and I had some nightmare like issues with the mechanical distributor. I also took apart and cleaned the two carburators and put the diaphragm back on backwards. I took it to a good mechanic and he fixed it with no showing of how dumb he thought I was.

 

[Lanny]

Make?
Model?
How did you get and for how much?
How did you part with it?
Google a picture!

Mine, 1983 VW Rabbit GTI
Got it in the fall of 1990. Used every dime I made from boot camp and bought it for $2,100. Drove it literally until a wheel fell off in the summer of 1999 in the parking lot of Sassy’s. The strip club over in SE Portland. Loved that car!
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Borrowed my parents' '78 Rabbit to take on my honeymoon. It had a diesel engine and got great mileage.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

1980 Honda Civic hatchback. Crap brown--man that car was ugly. Bought it for $900 in '96 just a few days after my 18th birthday. Had to downshift to make it up the Sylvan hill because it didn't have enough power to climb it in 5th. Had to run it with the heat on full blast in the summer to keep it from overheating.

I loved that car.

 

[MarAzul]

I worked with an oscilloscope at Tektronix that had a sweep rate faster than the speed of light, the 7904.

Man, there is that line of bullshit again. Faster than the speed of light. Embarrassing.

 

[Lanny]

1980 Honda Civic hatchback. Crap brown--man that car was ugly. Bought it for $900 in '96 just a few days after my 18th birthday. Had to downshift to make it up the Sylvan hill because it didn't have enough power to climb it in 5th. Had to run it with the heat on full blast in the summer to keep it from overheating.

I loved that car.

I also had to run my heater in the summer whenever I put a load on my engine by towing something or driving it hard.

 

[MarAzul]

1930 Packard 9 passenger. Huge strait 8 cylinder engine. Two buddies and myself bought it for $3.00.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Two buddies and myself bought it for $3.00.

FTFY

 

[riverman]

Mid 60's Dodge Dart 4 door slant six 3 speed on the column...Monkey Shit Beige....I think it's the only color they made. Worked pt time after school in a boot, saddle, tack shop and saved for it...300 bucks...drove it for years...sold it for 300 bucks. Back in my youth I bought 2 more of them and also broke even ...they were like a free car for me to drive...nobody wants to steal it..nobody looks twice at it but it'll cross the Rockies without getting overheated

 

[MarAzul]

FTFY

Oh! I forgot! You guys wouldn't remember Packard.

 

[MarAzul]

FTFY

Oh BTW, the buckboard would be better transportation. The fucking Packard got about 1.5 miles/gal.

I move up to a 41 Plymouth coupe quickly.

 

[riverman]

I had a rust colored 48 GMC truck with the curved windows in the back and later a 54 Studebaker truck I loved...pearl grey

 

[jlprk]

The first car I owned myself was a '64 Mercury Comet Caliente. Yellow with a black roof added by Earl Scheib Paint & Body. These pictures don't have a black roof. It was light, so it had some springy power.

 

[riverman]

The first car I owned myself was a '64 Mercury Comet Caliente. Yellow with a black roof added by Earl Scheib Paint & Body. These pictures don't have a black roof.

Earl Scheib used to run those 99 dollar paint job ads when I lived in San Diego...

 

[THE HCP]

Post pics!

 

[jlprk]

Do any car experts or lawyers here know how a sentimental guy could find his old car? Like, using the VIN, trace its sale history until I find the junkyard? I wonder how much a private eye would charge.

I asked that here a year ago and no one answered. Probably no one knew.

 

[riverman]

Do any car experts or lawyers here know how a sentimental guy could find his old car? Like, using the VIN, trace its sale history until I find the junkyard? I wonder how much a private eye would charge.

I asked that here a year ago and no one answered. Probably no one knew.

Start dating a cop and get them to do a search

 

[Lanny]

Make?
Model?
How did you get and for how much?
How did you part with it?
Google a picture!

Mine, 1983 VW Rabbit GTI
Got it in the fall of 1990. Used every dime I made from boot camp and bought it for $2,100. Drove it literally until a wheel fell off in the summer of 1999 in the parking lot of Sassy’s. The strip club over in SE Portland. Loved that car!
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Apparently you loved it. After all, you took it to your favorite strip club. I wouldn't have minded being your slave if you would do that for me whenever you went to strip clubs.

 

[Lanny]

Do any car experts or lawyers here know how a sentimental guy could find his old car? Like, using the VIN, trace its sale history until I find the junkyard? I wonder how much a private eye would charge.

I asked that here a year ago and no one answered. Probably no one knew.

I'll bet Mike and Ant know on the TV show, Wheeler Dealers.

 

[andalusian]

I dragged a 1969 Citroen Ami 6 break (wagon) that I found abandoned in a local airport and bought for $30 - worked on it to make it a runner and drove it for the first semester of college - but decided to park it after that because I never had a longer than 10 minutes drive that did not end with me crawling all over it to fix it - and I used to get to classes late with grease all over my hands - moved to use the bus after that. I will have to find the image somewhere to scan but it looked like this one:

If I had the sedan with the crazy window I would have kept it - but it was not really worth it for the wagon even tho it was a lot of fun to drive when it did drive (it is a 2CV with a bigger, heavier body)

Years later, when we lived in Portland, I found another one (again a wagon) sold by a guy that worked in Barbur World Foods - it was in even a worse condition than the one I had so I did not get it.

Next car I got when I actually had some money, it was a 1988 Alfa Romeo spider and my serial Alfa Romeo ownership was established.

 

[THE HCP]

Apparently you loved it. I wouldn't have minded being your slave if you would do that for me whenever you went to strip clubs.

I'm not sure how to reply to this.

 

[Hobbesarable]

Make?
Model?
How did you get and for how much?
How did you part with it?
Google a picture!

Mine, 1983 VW Rabbit GTI
Got it in the fall of 1990. Used every dime I made from boot camp and bought it for $2,100. Drove it literally until a wheel fell off in the summer of 1999 in the parking lot of Sassy’s. The strip club over in SE Portland. Loved that car!
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Mine: Blue 1986 Toyota Camry LE

Got it in the summer of 1996. Use money from my summer jobs in high school and bought it for $1500. That car lasted me for about 10 years. It also had a sun roof. Like you, I loved that car!

 

[Hobbesarable]

I'm not sure how to reply to this.

Some things are best left alone and unsaid.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

83 Accord!

loved this car. Had some woofers in the trunk.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Had some woofers in the trunk.

Not cool bro.

 

[illmatic99]

2002 Toyota Corolla.

Sold it last fall.

 

[andalusian]

Not cool bro.

You are showing your age, Dog. The kids are calling them Floofs now.

 

[riverman]

83 Accord!

loved this car. Had some woofers in the trunk.

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You'd woof too if you were locked in a trunk