Your first car?

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Seven-year-old Toyota Corolla, bought when I was 18. A tougher little car I cannot imagine. Only went to the shop for regular maintenance and after I’d done something stupid like run it up an 8" high curb at 55mph… 😊

After a second Japanese model (different make) followed by fifteen carless years, bought another used Toyota in December. Three cup holders :+1:t3:
 
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I bought a new Subaru Brumby ute (kind of a small pick up?) I sold it a couple of years later to travel O/S again.
 
My volvo doesn’t even have cup holders. Makes it interesting whenever I need to drink something on my way to class.
 
I bought my first car in 1973,it was a green ford pinto,with bright green interior😱 Sooo seventies!
It was a stick shift which I had to learn to drive,thankfully the roads weren’t as congested back then as they are now.I remember jerking and stalling my way as I learned and I never really got very good at driving a stick😳
 
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A Ford Escort.
Without AC or radio.

I kept that baby running 13 years.

With gum and duct tape, but still…
 
I still own mine, but I’m young. My car is a 98 Chevy Malibu. It is broken down atm, but overall, it is reliable.
 
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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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I was a 16-yr-old girl with nothing to compare it to, and I still don’t understand what you’ve just explained LOL! It cost $100, so I think we must have thrown the car out when it needed to get fixed or something. It was like a mini Jeep. I always made sure to park way far away so I could drive fw instead of backing out. Otherwise I had to pop it into nuetral and push it out, then hop in. Have you ever seen The Gods Must be Crazy?

I wasn’t very cool in high school for a number of reasons. 🤣
 
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I was 20 when I got mine (just turned 21). I have no idea what I said either 😄 just repeating what the mechanic told me.

Mine cost me $1,000. I’ve spent almost as much on tires and repairs- but it’s still better than a car payment.

I figured you would’ve put it in neutral and pushed it- sounds like a lot of trouble to go to, though.
 
Hello.

Didn’t he call his car “The Anti-christ” in that movie?
 
It was a humber, a tank.
It had prob been hidden in a farm shed for decades. Just as tiger moths are found. Imagine opening a farm shed and finding a tiger moth
 
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I don’t remember that part!

Guess it’s time to re watch
 
Toyota Corona. (I forget the year)

I paid $200 for it. It didn’t go in reverse and the driver’s side window didn’t work.

Cute car.
 
1949 Studebaker that I bought for $75 dollars. My brother ‘borrowed it’ and turned it upside down. I suppose that dates me a little, but it was old when I got it.
 
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1949 Studebaker that I bought for $75 dollars. My brother ‘borrowed it’ and turned it upside down. I suppose that dates me a little, but it was old when I got it.
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That was a beautiful car. I wish some older looking cars would be put back on the market with modern electronics and such.
 
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It was a humber, a tank.

It had prob been hidden in a farm shed for decades. Just as tiger moths are found. Imagine opening a farm shed and finding a tiger moth
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Would it surprise you to know that I (a Yank) know what both Humbers and Tiger Moths are?

Mine was a red '61 Ford Falcon 2-door sedan with a manual choke and a two-speed automatic transmission, purchased for $300 in the summer of '67. Cold wet weather made it hard to start. I gave it away when I went into the USAF at the end of '68.

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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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Back in the day I read in TV Guide that every time they jumped one of those things, it was totaled on landing. They had scouts scouring the West for replacements.

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