Harrumph harrumph harrumph! You kids get offa my lawn!



So as to not hijack the other "Kids driving big trucks" thread and give this one a life of its own ...

What was your first vehicle? Car or truck, beater or new, doesn't matter. Let's hear it.


Mine was a junebug green 1973 Chevy Impala 4-door with a trunk big enough for a Mafia hit man to hide several bodies. Loved it. I got it in 1982 and it was my grandmother's and, literally, she drove it about two miles a day from her home to our store or the church. I think it had about 10,000 or 11,000 miles on it and was in pristine condition.

My second one was my cousin's 1979 Firebird (I got hand-me-downs, which was fine). I drove it like I had robbed a bank with underage chicks beside me and a pile of coke in the back seat with cops, CIA, FBI, DEA and someone's mad daddy on my tail.

Then I got married and have driven more sedate adult cars ever since.

92 toyota 4x4 single cab with 131000 miles.

'75 f100 with a crushed in passenger door..loaner from my folks. Bought my first truck in '87 after i started working part time while going to a&m. '84 f150...351W and that would get it.

85 trans am Had to fix up to drive it. Turned into a show car 671 Blower on it with 500hp Nitrous kit. Drove it to High school.

67 Camero Bought to fix and flip in high School

69 Camero Bought to fix and flip in high School

98 Dodge ram would get stuck on gravel

95 Z71 One of the Best trucks, towed a boat all over the country

2003 Avalanche Another great truck Still drive bought used

2000 Tans am Still drive

69 Corvette Another Bought to fix and flip

Still haven't ever owned a New vehicle.

In 1970 , my first vehicle was a 1948 willis jeep , with flat head 4 cylinder. I sure wish I still had it now, I would restore it.

77 International scout II to high school...but for a short time before drove a 76 Ford pinto wagon 4sp in baby vomit green color

'65 F-250 4x4

It was passed down to me in '95 and was my dad's first truck as well back in '73.

(Currently sitting parked in the garden awaiting it's next revival.)

85 Toyota 4x4 with no power steering...still wish I had it.

97 maroon Toyota Tacoma 4x4.... Wish I never would of got rid of it

1972 Chevy C10 stepside pickup with a 327cu smallblock. It still had the original 3-speed manual transmission, but the shifter had been moved to the floor. Couldn't keep rear tires on that thing.

1978 Toyota pickup.

1988 Toyota 4x4......similar to this one

73 Plymouth Duster. It was baby blue with a long white strip down the side. Rocker panels and some of the floor board were rusted out. Inside smelled liked what I imagine Troy smells like after he lathers down with Ben Gay and dabs a little High Karate on.

I saved for 2 summers to get that car...$700 bucks. Drove it with my head held high like I was a rich snob in a Bentley.

I drove a 77, long wheel base chevy bonanza pick up truck. It would not pull a greasy string out of a cats a$$. Got stuck on dry dirt one time. One of my more embarrassing moments.

1970 Chevy Nova. Looking back it had lots of potential but I had no interest in fast cars in 1979.

'65 chevy swb truck. Tan, four different types mud grip ties (not 4wd) four different hub caps and an AM radio that only worked with a metal fork stuck thogh the dash vent to ground it. 1976, I was 14 and on top of the world.

1970 chevy cst/10 long wheel base. Bright green with white top. 350, V8, factory air. Cost was $1500 in 1996. It was the best deal I'll probably ever get on a vehicle. It was a one owner. I put a tree in the dead center of it. Took me 10 years to live it down.

1984 four door Buick Regal

First car that was mine I obtained when I was 17 years old in '94, a ''81 toyota 2wd long wheel base pick up with no a/c and no power steering. I did have a motorcycle from 15-17 that I was able to get 4 tickets before I turned 16 on. I'm lucky to be here for sure.

1986 Chrysler Laser Turbo...

Bought a 1956 Olds in 1962, boy was it a running son of a gun.

1985 Chevy Cavalier, 5 speed, 4 cylinder. Me and BrentM hauled the first buck I ever killed from Princeton to Bridgeport on the hood of it when we were 16.

69 CHEVY

88 Camaro Z28

1990 Acura Integra

73 CJ5, 304 V8 , Whoa Nelly!

1980 Honda Civic. 5 speed and front wheel drive. Hauled my first 5 deer out of the woods in that car. Lifted the hatch back, laid down the back seat, moved the speaker box, loaded em up! That car would go through things my 4wd wouldn't make it through.

Dr. B

1977 Honda Civic CVCC. 4 speed, no air, AM radio. I did mount a Pioneer Super Tuner 8 Track under the dash. Top speed 82 mph, but if you put two good size boys in the back seat, it would bark the tires in all 4 gears.

76 Vega GT. Can you spell F R E E D O M? I had some fun in that car!

1976 Chevy pickup. Three speed on the column with no power steering and a bunch of slack in the steering wheel. Learning to back a boat trailer with this was a joy.

57 Chevy Belair, bought a 70 Dodge Challenger when I got back from Vietnam

Damn thats a good lookin truck!

79 Honda Prelude

1964 Chevelle , started life with a 265hp 283, converted to a 300hp 283.....

90 2dr Silverado with a 350

87' Chevy s-10 blazer 4x4

I had a '78 Jeep Honcho. It had full-time/auto 4wd and a gas guzzling engine that would pass everything on the road except a gas station. It had an exhaust leak and you could hear me coming from a mile away! I wish I had that old truck back.

1967 Mercury Montclair, white, like that really mattered. Taking off from a stop was like shooting the juice to a bulldozer. On the top end though look out, that is if you could handle the floating, you would have thought that thing was about to take flight.

First ever was a 1960 Chevy Apache Stepside. 235 6 cyl and 3 on the tree.
Sold that and went to Tennessee to stay with my brother one summer. After bus fare there and some party money I used the rest to buy a fire engine red 1966 AMC Rambler 4 door with a 265 6 cly 3 speed auto. That son gun weighed as much as a small APC !! Sold that after a month and bought a Harley Davidson Fat Boy. Drove that thing around the rest of the summer...well actually I drove it a mile or so, stopped and fixed it and then off for another mile or so...etc
Sold that to a PFC on Ft Campbell and moved back home after summer and bought a 1970 GMC Stepside 4x4 with 3" Lift and 14.50s Monster Mudders. Jet Black. Drove that thru high school and for the first year after until I got a job working offshore La Oil. Them big old Monster Mudders would beat the eyeteeth outta your head at highway speeds and I just couldn't stand the noise for that 4 hour drive to Morgan City.

1974 Ford Courier.

I was 15 and it was a brand new at the time Honda 250 Nighthawk, just like this one:









I still to this day dont know how my dad pulled that one off with my mom and her 15YO son. I drove it to school and work and I paid the notes and insurance. It was sold when I was almost 17 for my first vehicle, an 87' Suzuki Samurai hardtop. Loved that little truck and spent almost every weekend at the West End of Dauphin Island fishing.

In 1988 I inherited my Dads old mine truck. 1972 Ford Courier. Floor boards and the bed was rusted out and no matter what you did to fix it you had to pump the brakes to stop. I loved that P.O.S. all I saw in it was my ticket to freedom.

A baby blue 1972 Chevy LUV truck.

1988 chevy 1500 truck.

'66 Chevy LWB pickup I bought when I was 15 for $300 250 inline six and three on the tree.

1994 Ford Ranger 4x4

1970 vw bug. been many a deer hauled on the hood of that thing. it would go in many places get stuck pick the rear end up and move it over then go on.

scott

In 1985 I bought my first vehicle for $400:

1972 Suzuki LJ20 4x4 "jeep"
2 cylinder, 2 cycle, oil injection, water cooled engine
Large Super Swampers tires
Top speed: 35 MPH down hill with a tail wind

Similar to this one but it was well used, bright yellow and named "Suzy"

1981 Datsun 210 station wagon

1955 chevy hardtop with racing stripe, $400

1988 Chevy S-10 Blazer...red with grey on the bottom...4.3L V6...my mom bought a brand new ford thunderbird about 4 months before I turned 16 and the blazer was her ride before that...they kept it for me and gave it to me with the understanding that it would be washed and kept as clean as my dad kept it, and I kept my grades up...very nice ride for a 16 year old I thought

1967 Plymouth Barracuda

1972 VW bug. Drove that sucker around the track at BIR.

I turned 16 in 95. In 94 mom and dad bought me a 88 or 89 Mazda mx6 for about $1500. Said I could drive it for a year and they would upgrade a little bit. It was a 5 speed and I wrecked it about 2 months after I turned 16 just as dad predicted. After that he gave me a budget number and told me to go find what I wanted in that price range. I think the budget was $4k. So I went out and got a jeep Cherokee 4x4. Over the next 2 years I would sell and buy the following:
jeep cherokee
ford probe gt
Chevy s10 blazer 4x4
jeep grand Cherokee

these never cost dad any more than the initial budget. Once I landed my athletic and academic scholarship dad went out and bought me a new ford ranger extended cab 4x4. Loved that truck and drove it for many years. My college didn't cost him a dime and I lived at home through school so. That was the deal we made my senior year of high school and we both lived up to our ends of the agreement

1963 Ford Fairlane

A 1978 dodge diplomat that was a hand me down from my mother in 1986. Leather seats and an 8 trac .....

1967 Ford F150 Army green with headers this was in 1988

1986 Mazda 626 that was handed down from my mom. It was a 4 door. Even though it wasn't a hot rod, girls didn't seem to care to much. I had lots of fun in that car. Kept it for 2yrs and dad bought me a 93 Nissan 4x4 regular cab.

My Dad was a car dealer and had his carlot on hwy 431 north of Anniston, so I had the chance to drive hundreds of different cars over my teenage years. I turned 16 in 1981 and the big trend was to have a Camara, Firebird, or anything 4WD. I wanted something a little different. Hey, my dad was a dealer so it was normal for me to trade a lot of them. The first vehicle I ever bought for myself (to keep) was a 68 Mustang. It had a couple of unusual features like a bench seat. That was cool to me and great for having my sweetheart of the month in the car with me.(no serious girlfriends back then) It also had a pedal in the floorboard next to the dimmer switch that would make the wipers cycle one time. I guess it was the predecessor to intermittent wipers. It had a 289 and the five hole rims. I bought it for $800.00 and then spent about $1500.00 more putting in new carpet, windshield, tires, wheels, paint, air shocks, traction bars, cam, carbeurator, intake, and a few other things. It was really sharp when I got done with it, and not real slow either. LOL

1980 Datsun 210. Hated it.

1963 Ford Galaxy 500, 390, 4 barrel, 4 speed

First vehicle was a bike. 1982 Honda CB750F Super Sport. Bought that in high school to ride around. Sold it the day before going to boot camp, then I bought a 1991 Dodge Daytona Turbo Shelby when I graduated boot camp. So I guess that was my first "car".

1976 canary yellow Ford bomb (uh Pinto) station wagon,could fit
9 people in it,so it was appropriately named "The Party Wagon".

1976 dodge work van. Ran for one month.

1969 dodge supper bee. 383 magnum 4 speed hurst. If I had it today it would pull about 60 k. I know because my buddy just sold one for that.

1976 Brown Pinto.

Chick magnet

1994 Dodge Shadow ES, kept it for 3 months and realized it was tough deer hunting out of a car. Got a 1995 Ford Ranger then

My personality won them over....along with alcohol and drugs.

Mine was 85 Isuzu P'up long wheel base. I had to add oil every couple days. I forgot about the oil for a few days and on the way the school one morning and KABOOM. The P'up was dead.

1973 Ventura Pontiac

1966 Renault rear engine body tough as a beer can faster than the speed of smell totaled it on rear of a Pontiac tempest not a scratch on tempest

1972 Ford LTD 4 door. Thing was big as a air craft carrier

90 Mazda b2200 single cab swb.I immediately put me some split 5 star wheels on it,camper shell with the back window of the truck taken out and the bed full of speakers,slammed it on the ground and put a homemade tilt bed on it with airshocks.It was a panty dropper.

1990 Toyota Supra that I bought from Milwaukee Brewer's catcher Charlie Moore. That was one sweet ride back in the day. I have seen the car once since I sold it. Wished I could find it....I'd buy it back in a heart beat!

1962 Chevrolet Impala. Cost me $500. It was a great car and I could get about 8 or 10 more people in the thing.

Very First was 1976 Chevy Van with full size bed in the back Very good for passing out on....man the camping trips we had in that thing!