Your first car?

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I’m interested to see what the first car that every member of CAF got was. Was it reliable? Was it at the mechanic’s every month? How long did you have it? Was it a common vehicle, or was it rare for you to see another one on the road?
 
Mine was a little green ford. 🚙

I bought it so long ago, that I could fill it up with 10 dollars.

Her name was Margarita.
 
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I was 25 when I got my 1st car. My dad was so worried that he actually bought it, brand new, for me. I was nonplussed (is nonplussed a mathematical term?). It was a stick shift, which I liked, because I like to mess with gadgets. It was very reliable, and I found that whenever I have a new car, I like to go fast and pass very large trucks on the highway, but when I have an older car, or a used car, I’m more careful. It was very reliable. I had it for years.

It’s good that I don’t get new cars often. I’d be a danger on the highway. God looks after me.
 
Honda civic. I see cars just like it all the time. Can’t say how long it would’ve lasted - my family doesn’t keep cars longer than 3-5 years so they can be used to help pay for the next car. The only car we “ran to the ground” was an Accord that lasted roughly twenty-five years. Even that car was hardly ever at the mechanics, it ran great.
 
My dad bought me my first car out of a junkyard. It was a little Volvo that didn’t reverse. I embraced the little rebel car with zeal and stuck a Sonic Youth sticker on the back. :roll_eyes:

Now I drive a plush minivan and listen to Patrick Madrid, country music and oldies. 😃
 
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The first car I bought new was a 1973 VW Bug that I had for around ten years.
 
64 ford falcon. If I kept it below 50 mph, I could get 30mpg. $2.60 per fill up.
 
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Back in my day, the Egyptian Chariot was my choice of transportation.
 
Mine was a 1951 Dodge Coronet, with a flathead 6 cylinder engine and fluid drive (an early semi-automatic transmission). It was my grandma’s car, and I got it in 1978. Grandpa and Grandma had kept it in good condition for 27 years, but within two years of my acquiring it as a knuckleheaded 16-year-old, I had pretty much destroyed it 😠😥. Plus, replacement parts were almost impossible to get for it.
 
Chevy Nova.
Avocado green
No power steering.
Would go 100 in a heartbeat.
nuff said.
 
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Mine was a light blue 1968 Dodge Charger. It was HUGE and it was a gas guzzler. Like a lot of older cars with power steering, there was a lot of play in the steering wheel and the ever so slightest delay between turning the wheel and the car responding. When driving on winding roads you had to anticipate the curves. But that car got me and my stuff back and forth from home to college.

I sold it when I got my first real job and bought myself a new 1981 Honda Accord, also light blue.

I later found out that the guy I sold my Charger to drove it for a while and then sold it to the crew of the Dukes of Hazzard television program.
 
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I got a '91 Volvo 240 last November. It’s fairly reliable, but I recently had one trip to the mechanic’s on top of another. It gets pushed around when it gets windy, and it loves gas (even after fixing a major gas leak I was unaware of, it still only gets about 100 miles before it needs to refuel). But it’s either this or a car payment.
 
That was a particularly bad day… But I survived to fight another day 😁
 
1972 Buick Skylark. I LOVED that car, would still drive it to this day if someone did not hit me head on totaling it.
 
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My dad bought me my first car out of a junkyard. It was a little Volvo that didn’t reverse. I embraced the little rebel car with zeal and stuck a Sonic Youth sticker on the back. :roll_eyes:

Now I drive a plush minivan and listen to Patrick Madrid, country music and oldies. 😃
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I love my Volvo, but it makes me nervous lately. I had the exhaust pipe leading to the catalytic convert snap while I was making a turn (that’s the first time I took it in for repairs), and that repair disturbed the fuel line somehow, causing it to start sucking air instead of gas when I got off the lot.

They’re old cars. I love them, but the second something goes wrong, it costs a fortune to repair.

EDIT: Wait, it didn’t reverse? How did you manage?
 
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A 2-door Honda Accord!

It was given to my parents by a family member. They gave it to me. It was nine years old when I got it; it was eighteen years old when I got rid of it.

It was an awesome car. I think I had about 325,000 miles when I got rid of it-- I was sad I hadn’t gotten it up to 350k. But I was having my first baby, and my husband convinced me I needed a four-door vehicle (with newer safety features) for the car seat, etc.

The only sad thing was the cup holders. They made your drink rub right up against the stereo, and if you had something in a larger cup, it wouldn’t fit, because the bottom would go into the cup holder, but the upper diameter was too wide to fit against the stereo.

When we went shopping for a new car to replace it, the first thing I looked at was the cup holders. The darn people at Honda had almost 20 years to fix the problem, but the cup holders were still in that same inconvenient location.

So that’s the “cup holder test” that I always do whenever we need to look at new cars. I have my water bottle that I use, and I try out the door and console cup holders to see how they work. A surprising number of vehicles fail the cup holder test…
 
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When we went shopping for a new car to replace it, the first thing I looked at was the cup holders.
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I think a lot of us look at the cup holders when we buy our cars. My first two cars didn’t even have cup holders. Our first new minivan did (1996 Mercury Villager) but they were still not all that great.

The closet thing to cup holders my first two cars had were two shallow indentations in the glove box door when you folded it down. I think those were supposed to be for drive-in restaurants and movies.
 
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Mine was an ancient, mechanic-prone Fiat Uno that I didn’t need and that my dad gave to me expecting praise for his charity.
I sold it within 12 months, once I found a buyer.
 
The falcon still had a manual choke. One of my sisters thought the “C” stood for coat hanger, and pulled it out to hang her purse on. She wondered why it ran so rough.
 
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