Do you remember your first car?

[Lacessit]

3 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

Father had three of these (not all at the same time).......think I had to work every weekend of my teenage years helping him keep them on the road....555

IIRC the story went one had to buy two Jaguars, because one could be guaranteed to need fixing.

[dingdongrb]

[connda]

1958 VW Beetle - great car 

[Will B Good]

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

IIRC the story went one had to buy two Jaguars, because one could be guaranteed to need fixing.

 

Too b****y right.....there was always something that needed fixing,,,,,,,torsion suspension was the worst.

[OneManShow]

BMW 2002 tii   1974 

it was an amazing car in 70s. Girls loved i. 😁

(that is not my car photo, but it was the same as this and same color)

[OneManShow]

On 1/25/2025 at 12:45 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

The picture is from the internet, not my car.

Is this a FORD Granada ? I guess 

[thrilled]

Not sure why people wouldn’t remember. Mine was a 55 Chevy

[jimmybcool]

8 hours ago, Will B Good said:

 

Father had three of these (not all at the same time).......think I had to work every weekend of my teenage years helping him keep them on the road....555

This was my dream car.  No idea why I never drove one and wasn't aware of the maintenance issues associtaed with them,  I just wanted one.  LOL

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

8 hours ago, OneManShow said:

Is this a FORD Granada ? I guess 

Ford Consul, which was similar the Granada.

[Toby1947]

1953 split screen Morris Minor Van. Worth a fortune in the U K. today 😂🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Dario]

Yes, I remember very well. I lived in Zurich, Switzerland at that time and bough a light blue Fiat 1500 1961 model like on this picture, but it had a very different soft blue.

 

 

 

[Lacessit]

12 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

When I started driving in Southern California it was $0.249 a gallon at the cheap stations. 

For quite some time, gasoline was cheaper than bottled water.

[Yellowtail]

4 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

For quite some time, gasoline was cheaper than bottled water.

That's because bottled water was only a status symbol for the rich.  

[sharot724]

Worked all Summer with my Brother as counters for the pickers at an orchard and this was all we could afford.

[Lacessit]

46 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

That's because bottled water was only a status symbol for the rich.  

IMO bottled water is essential in countries with poor infrastructure.

[pchansmorn]

On 1/25/2025 at 1:21 PM, Lacessit said:

Apart from other quality considerations, American cars became rust buckets anywhere salt was used on the roads to clear snow. OTOH, the Japanese worked on assembly designs, substrates and passivation treatments to increase corrosion resistance.

 

I can remember being shocked on my first visit to the US by the number of vehicles with rusted out door panels and fenders. In Australia, they would have been put off the road.

 

My 19 year old Vios does not have one speck of underbody rust. Admittedly it is in a fairly mild environment, but that's still an impressive achievement.

Mine was a Triumph Spitfire convertible hardly ever ran. Next car was the Chevrolet Corvair with rear engine 3 speed on the floor. Convertible.  Great looking but had terrible balance issues with the rear engine finally had to put 50 lb bags of sand in the front trunk. Never great.  But the women liked the convertible part.

[pchansmorn]

1 hour ago, sharot724 said:

Worked all Summer with my Brother as counters for the pickers at an orchard and this was all we could afford.

That was a Great car. I had its brother a Saab model 95 front wheel drive with 18 in wheels that car was a real joy, Never had problems with the snow. The back seat laid down flat for camping and it had the strongest heater never got cold. It also had something called free wheeling, when you took your foot off the accelerator it would go into a neutral gear and got Great gas’s mileage. 4 speed on the wheel. Kept that car the longest. It was a hand me down from my brother.  If I had money I would buy another today. That car was so safe and ran for over 500,000 miles.

[Lacessit]

6 minutes ago, pchansmorn said:

Mine was a Triumph Spitfire convertible hardly ever ran. Next car was the Chevrolet Corvair with rear engine 3 speed on the floor. Convertible.  Great looking but had terrible balance issues with the rear engine finally had to put 50 lb bags of sand in the front trunk. Never great.  But the women liked the convertible part.

The other rear-engined vehicle to have handling issues was the Hillman Imp, the great white hope of the Rootes group to challenge the Mini's dominance.

 

The tyre pressures were so crucial handling could be converted from understeer to oversteer with even mild variations of the front and rear tyre pressures.

 

I did test drive one, but declined to buy it after experiencing a gearshift which felt like I was stirring porridge.

[NoshowJones]

Yes, my first car was an old mini van I bought for 16 GBP, it lasted long enough to give me driving experience, yes I was a bad boy and drove it around without a full license and L plates for about 3 months, then took about 5 lessons to sit and pass my test.

[Lacessit]

2 hours ago, Dario said:

Yes, I remember very well. I lived in Zurich, Switzerland at that time and bough a light blue Fiat 1500 1961 model like on this picture, but it had a very different soft blue.

 

 

 

All the Italian models had a reputation for flair and style. Unfortunately, most also had a terrible reputation for rust.

[Moti24]

Morris !000 Convertable.

I painted it Pillar Box Red; stood out like a donkey's D1ck.

It had some small holes in the front nearside floor.  There were bad floods in London at the time; if I didn't slow down enough, fountains of water would jet-up and disappear over the back of the car.

 

The good old days!

[newbee2022]

On 1/25/2025 at 10:35 AM, PomPolo said:

Very good question, mine was a Datsun Cherry and ironically I lost my cherry in it 🙂

How that? I'm 1.90m and so it wouldn't happen to me🤗

[newbee2022]

My first one was a Volkswagen beetle as a student.

[PomPolo]

23 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

How that? I'm 1.90m and so it wouldn't happen to me🤗

hahaha the seats go a bit back on them and I wasn't the one doing most of the work if you know what I mean "Too much information Pom" hahahaha

[arick]

14 hours ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

Another Russian?

A four door burgundy doge car slanted six. My dad wouldn't buy me a 8 cylinder in case I killed myself.

[WDSmart]

1957 Chevy convertible (purchased in 1966). It was dark blue like this one:
 

[donmuang37]

A 1940 Ford coupe, V-8, 3 on a tree bought for $250 in 1953.  Great car. Drove well; easy to repair.  I've had a driver's license for 72 years.  Currently, I drive a Ford Ranger 4-door Bi-Turbo 4x4.

[xeniv23]

1953 Chevrolet Coupe.  35 dollars in 1967.  Flathead 6 with 3 on the column.  Ran so quiet and smooth that, in the beginning, I would grind the starter at stop signs not realizing that it was indeed running.   Capacious backseat (fun zone).  Best car I ever owned.  

[bluemoon58]

On 1/27/2025 at 7:23 PM, Lacessit said:

Ford had the Taurus under that name in Australia. The Taunus was marketed under the names Cortina and Meteor. Performance was far from meteoric.

 

See the difference?

Errrmmm, the Taunus I had was marketed under the name....... Taunus!