I found this old (hahaha 1999) picture of me with my first car. 1979 Porsche 928. It was oak green metallic with a manual transmission. I loved that car, put a lot of work into it, including a top end rebuild, and finally sold it for 1/8 of what I had into it because I found out the frame was cracked. I would love to have another 928 if they weren't such money pits. Great freeway car.

Sitting at a backyard BBQ at home with my Dad, Grandfather and two of my uncles watching the big boys bullshit and drink beer when my Dad says 'if you can get that thing running, it's yours' and he points his beer bottle at his car that had quit running a year or so before. He had us come up to the corner and help him push it down the alley and in to the back yard next to the garage. There it sat... My uncle, who owned a Gulf station winked at me and the following Monday, showed up with his wrecker. We had that thing running in about 5 minutes. Motor mounts and distributor cap replaced along with a tune-up and all I needed was insurance...

Gave her a auto shop valve job and some other guys painted her... Gas gauge went left as fast as the speedo went right!!!

One of my favorite pics of the car.

Boy what I would give to have it looking just like that now.. Loved the look of the car like that..




Yes this pic was scanned from the yearbook.

No pictures of the car ...

1972 VW Beetle, 1302S, 1600cc, 50HP, L95B turquoise metallic, sport-o-matic transmission

Well I have no pictures, but the car I wanted was a 67 lemans with sky blue mettalic paint. My parents surprised me with a car from my moms boss. You will thank me for the "no picture" due to the fact it was a 74 pinto in forest green paint with avocado green interior. I think they were trying to keep me from getting dates. I put 150,000 miles on that car and had a lot of great memories in it.

Rob,
What year chevy?

Reminds me of my first, a 63 chevy impala SS automatic that my Dad gave me. Will have to find a picture of it.

Dave

1977 @ age15
$500 1967 mustang w/ blown up clutch
289/4 sp.
what an experiment!
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Can't find a picture of my first - '73 Super Beetle.

Here's my second; a '73 2.0 in a crappy photo from 1982

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Damn, that's rare! A '62 Bubbletop 409? Wouldn't you love to have that back....even just to sell.

Broke my cherry with a '64 TR4. It needed parts often and was caught in a time warp between the TR3 and TR4A. The only way to get the right part was to buy one, find out it didn't fit and then go get the other part. Sure did sound good though and you could really hang the rear end out!

No picture, I don't think cameras were invented, but it was a 1952 Olds 88. It had a 303 Rocket V-8, four barrel carb and put out 165 HP (in 1952, that is) though a four speed Hydramatic trans. The trans had only 1st and 3rd gear left, so it would come thundering off the line, up to about 30 and then start searching for 2nd. Eventually it would give that up and with a loud "thunk", drop into 3rd. It was good for about 80 at top end. My friends called it an "FTO", get it?

It was faded blue, so I bought a couple of Krylon spray cans and started to paint it BRG, but quickly realized that I was gonna have more money in the paint than I had in the car, so I only painted the left side. A black tape racing stripe down the middle and I had a lateral two-tone paint job. Very cool.

I paid $9 for it in December,1966, put in a battery and drove it 9 months until the trans finally blew up. Sold it to the junkman for $6. Never had a better deal on a car!

Sadly, I have no picture of it.

1971 Type III Fastback from which I removed the roof and made a permanently topless roadster. It was a piece of shit, but I built a nice engine for it.

Second car: 1971 914.

No pics, but my 1st car was a 1952 split window VW; 25 hp and all non-synchro tranny. Bought it around 1962, and traded it after 6 months for a '56 VW van

The VW had been featured in one of the car magazine just before I got it.

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Third 914 circa 1981( I had two before this one):

Plate from back in the day (still have it):


Me from back in the day:

No pictures and really wouldnt want any. Datsun 510. She leaked oil every where. And what a color. But she only cost me $100.00.

the 1st car I ever drove was a 34hp VW Bug (~MY 1970 or so)

the 1st car I ever owned was a 1985 Opel Ascona 1.8 E

My first car....a '72 Chevelle SS. Had an accident and had cowl induction hood and SS stripes put on at the body shop....next was four 914's....'73 1.7, '70 factory six, '75 2.0, and current 914 '74 3.0 conversion....

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Cream coloured 69 VW Fastback, sorry no pics, loved that car! Broke down in Quebec on the way home to the Maritimes in 1973, local VW dealer in Levis, Quebec told me it was gonna cost more to fix than it was worth. I took the bus, still think I was lied to but I was just a young private then and believed people were all honest!

Ian Stott
Moncton
Canada

928 Mark! Awesome.

Dad's car was my first car at 16... but I rode a Yamaha SR500 at 15.

I will totally cancel out all the cool first cars: 1978 Mercury Zephyr station wagon. With red vinyl interior.

Also, I crashed it. With only liability insurance.. so I went to the pick-n-pull, torched off a quarter of another car.. and welded it on. My father thought it was so insane, he took a photo. I think that was after I lit the headliner on fire.

A gallon of Bondo and rattlecan silver paint and it looked ok!

Bought my first car in 1973, it was a 1950 Willy's wagon, 2WD with a Studebaker V8. Absolute POS. Before exiting high school it was followed by an Austin A40, 63' chevy Impala, 59' TR3 and finally my first air cooled... 64' bug!

No pics but it was a 64 Ghia with a 356 super 90. It had Koni's and sway bars. Fun car for 1970.

1st car turbo corvair (pic the day I sold it, dropped seat)
2nd 914-6

No pics, 74 Mazda rx 4, pretty fun car really

1st was a beat down 1970 914 1.7, 2nd was an 82 Ford escort 5 speed

I had to have the 2nd to drive while I worked on the first Cant find the pics.

Number one was a '50 ford two door, No. 2 a '55 Chev 210 2 door hard top, No. 3 '58 Chev Impala Covert in '58, etc, etc, etc. to many to remember the list is very long in those days. Now drive them until they drop. It took a long time to figure it out cars are a loosing preposition. But it was fun and exciting.

66 notch, all bondoed up...

59 Morris Mini Cooper

Talk about wanting a 'do over'. First car I owned (73) was a 62 356B Hardtop. Absolutely ravished by northern winters and after a year I traded it on the teener. No offence to the teener but God I'd like to have the 356 again. Not because of the current value - it just was just a lot of fun and fit me like a glove. You always remember your first.

Sold my first car, a 73 yellow vette, in 76 to buy a 914-6. Infant/car seat forced me into 911's until I saw the light again.

ugly green '68 Dodge Coronet 440, lot of memories.

In 1973 I had a 1958 Corvette, sold it in 1975 and bought a very nice 1971 SS454 Chevelle....I wish I had never sold either of them

You've probably heard this before, and I have no pics since the flood earlier this year ruined all the negatives.

First, real, I-owned was a 75 Dodge Dart, 273 balanced, blueprinted, magnafluxed. Crane cam, dual 4 barells, positvie linkage (all 8 barrels open all the time) 304 HP. Ran on drag slicks at 8 mpg (you could that in 1968 in Ohio). Used it for daily transport & weekend drags. Spent WAY mor that it was worth, though it was reallly fast.
Went from tha to a 65 Beetle & got married.

First was a 1960 Bug-Eye Sprite with a 64 MGB 3 main bearing motor and tranny. Real front end heavy. Broke a lot of axle shafts and had to scavenge them from all of the Nash Metros in the junkyards. Bought it for $50. Surprised a lot of 70's muscle cars at stop lights with the 4.22 rear end.
Also had a 1963 Plymouth Valiant Station Wagon with the slany six and the "Slush Box" Had a hippy flower sticker on the tailgate.

My first car Alfa Romeo Sprint
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1970 Opel GT That particular yellow made every yellow jacket on the earth think it was "mommy". This one isn't my car but looks mighty similar from this angle.

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I had it for 15 years and took it through big cams, Weber DCOE carbs, two blown 4-spd transmissions (same one a Vega had, turns out). Lowered and fast it was with low profile tires on wide wheels.

My best road-warrior friend drove a 1970 914 and we had great fun running mountain roads and other twisties until his burned to a crisp after some years.

I traded it for a Kaypro computer when I started LSU and needed that more than I needed a car. My daily driver after that was a Norton Commando for the next 3 years. Mine was black and then red/orange after a 1-yr restoration, but this ones very nearly the same.

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Whole lotta fun in and on both machines!

After driving the folks' cars from 67-69 - 62 Olds 88 Wagon & 67 Chevy 3/4 ton Pick-up (327 cid 4-bbl) with a full cab-over camper - in Fall of `69 I bought a used Red 68 Opel Kadette 1.0L Notchback 2-dr sedan (baseline) for $800, which I drove "the living S out of" for the next year & a half (Spring 71), until I blew the engine screaming down from LA to San Diego, as I did almost every weekend during my first year in college.

I don't have any pix around, but it looked similar to this, but Red/Black interior & plain steel wheels painted silver with rubber mats on the floors, no carpet (this looks like an upscale model & European) .......

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After that I took over payments on #2 - my Dad's 4 door Pontiac Ventura (400 cid 2-bbl) in Metallic Olive Green with Gold interior for the rest of college & up to early 76 (when they moved back to Indy on a job transfer). Also no pix, but it looked similar to this ........

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Then I sold my Pontiac "Beast" after I got #3 - my 73 914-2.0 in Dec. 75, which I still own & am in the process of restoring/repair after being stored since May 85, when it was hit by a ditzy gal in the UCLA parking structure while I was in MBA classes - after spending $6500 ($20k+ today) on a rolling resto/overhaul of everything. No pix of it in gold metallic when I bought it, but this is it's current state ........

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At that time I got #4 my 85 BMW 325e in May 85 (178k now), and then later #5 the 88 Westfalia (208k now) - both were new & we still use them as out DDs. Here they are as recently refurbished ........

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My wife also inherited an 88 Honda Civic Hatchback DX from her brother when he passed-away (he and onother brother had owned it since new), which my son & I repaired, refurb'ed for he & his sister to drive. It was a practice car for the 914's resto for my son & I, but I'm losing my helper to the Army Infantry on Jan. 4th. This is after .......

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That's right - only 5 cars owned in my 44+ years of driving & I still have nos. 3, 4 & 5, and the latter 2 are still driven daily! Shows what regular maintenance, repairs & taking care of your cars can do, in addition to keeping the mileage down.

'76 Nova. It had the 305, factory rally wheels...I was so cool. My mom bought it new and then left it for dead. Luckily grandpa(who raised me) was a mechanic at the local Chevy dealer and we got it back into shape. Fun time and great memories working on the car with him.

1983 Mitsubishi Tredia.. nothing but trouble........

Got out of the army in may 66, in June I bought one of these......

68 gto conv. 400 with tri power.
Sold that and got a 65 mustang GT fastback.
Never should have sold either one.

Rich

67 Charger. Red even. Still had the 426 HEMI tags on the side of it. But the PO had taken it out to put it in his truck and replaced the hemi with a lowly 383. Sorry, no pics.

1978 BMW 518, crashed the car after 3 months, bought another BMW which was followed by a 914 2.0. Later a Mitsuishi Lancer Turbo, 1977 Beetle, GTI 16V, and a few others. The car I really miss was a Ford Escort RS2000 MK2, adjustable suspension, roll cage, and so on. Unfortunately the engine blew up and I gave it away for free since I couldn't afford fixing it during university Good thing was I lived in Germany so I could enjoy the Autobahn with all of them

1970 Opel GT

'62... Shortly after that I bought a '57 Chevrolet 2 door, a '59 Chevrolet Pickup. Somewhere along the line I got a Datsun Z and went autocrossing. The rest as they say is history.

My first car was a H.S. graduation present from my dad who only drove Lincolns and 18 wheelers or larger (UKEs, etc.) He had asked me what I wanted and I told him a Triumph, I didn't even know that they MADE a f*cking sedan....but I came home from graduation and he led me into the garage and handed me the keys....what the hell do you do....? So while it was under the 6 month "warranty" the used car guy had given him I did my best to break something every week or so....about the 3 or 4th time in the owner took me aside and said, "Don't like this car much do you?" I said no, and he said maybe we can work a deal, we did and I left in a 1958 VW bus with 36HP...put in curtains and a sign on the back that said "Don't laugh asshole, your daughter is in the back." Made a lot of friends with that. It got me thru my first year at SJSU and I traded it for a TR3, then a VW Bug, then a Karman Ghia...then a "63 Corvair monza (POS), a 59 porsche 356 with a VW motor, a 60 356 with a "normal" motor, a 1957 speedster...and then I got marriedand we had a series of cars that were strange and stranger, including 2 914s, a 73 and a 74 ( after the 73 got killed), a red 914 with a 2.7L twin plug motor and a "GT kit" body which I collected too many tickets with...etc. over 75 cars/trucks/vans/campers later we're down to a Honda CRV, an Acura Legend, and THE GREEN MACHINE!
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Like I said the Herald Convertible was hideous...but at least it was a black one with red "leather"....948cc .....always waiting.....

This is a 15 year old me taking delivery of my first car, a 1937 Plymouth.
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And a photo of the Plymouth with my second car right after I bought it
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a 260Z, my sister hit a snowplow & totaled it, when I left it home to get some minor maintenance done while I was at College

I never needed a car in high school or college, and I was poor, so I never bought a car until I had a job after college.

And here it is - granted towards the end of its time with me. My 1998 VW Golf. I bought it new and loved that car to death, which happened at about 127K miles when the car needed more work then I could fix or wanted to pay for.





I loved that, with a roof rack, you put put nearly anything either in or on that car. It hooked me on wagonz fo' life, yo! The car died a death of 1000 cuts, suffering from the standard poor quality that all of the A3 and A2 Mexican VWs suffered int he 90s. By 127K that poor car was totally used up. Some of that was me, granted. But a lot of it was the car.

Still, I loved that car.

Zach

(in 1976) 1966 Volvo 122s 4-door.

1964 VW Bug Convertible, red w/ a white top, had a serious list to the right. The PO had taken out the passengers seat an would carry a 1/2 ton or better of newspapers in it. Then a series of fastbacks and squarebacks.