my first vehicle
Posted by Intelligent_Arm_7186@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 21 comments
im with you. i dont have the pics though. it was a 1980s something ford escort. i had the african bead seat covers [yuck!] that matched the tan car. then another car i drove was a shenault or genault or i dont know what kinda car it was.
Fancy_Average5440@reddit
1982 Plymouth Horizon TC-3, bought from my older brother in 1990. (Amazingly, it made sense to me at the time that a 9-year-old car would be on its last legs. Sad.)
I loved that piece of crap car. The driver's side floor board was rusted through (our mom was not aware of this). I had a piece of cardboard under the floor mat and just had to avoid puddles! It was a manual, which I LOVED. It died after about a year and a half, and I sold it for parts.
That car was so low to the ground. No way I'd be able to get in or out of it now. 🤣
doghouse2001@reddit
My first car, the one I learned to drive in, the first of the series, the OG, the 1974 Honda Civic (it was 6 years old when we got it)
cbrworm@reddit
Gold ‘84 Mazda 626. It was a decent car. I got it with ~12k miles on it for a steal. It had cigarette burns in the seats, but that was fine.
Gomertaxi@reddit
1982 Dodge Omni. Blue with tan interior. 4-speed manual. I had to replace the fuel pump once, but other than that, no issues, amazingly.
avidliver88@reddit
Maroon Ford escort. Hit a deer and really messed up the car. Hood came unlatched while driving and broke the window.
Dead stickers. Had to get engine rebuilt after driving with a broken head gasket / low oil / no oil.
Kind of oblivious until I had to pay a lot of money to get it fixed. Ouch life lessons
Invasive-farmer@reddit
Same. 80s something Ford Escort L. White with blue interior.
RVAblues@reddit
I feel like cars didn’t last for shit back then. My first car in 1993 was an ‘83 Mustang that could maybe go 10 miles before overheating and crapping out. Everything in it was busted and the roof leaked.
My next car was an ‘85 Nissan Pulsar that had constant engine trouble. I think I’d bought it for like $700 anyway.
Now our best car is 15 years old and still runs like a champ.
meat_beast1349@reddit
A 1962 ford falcon with 3 on the tree and a straight six under the hood. Paid a whoppin $50 bucks for it. I overpaid.
Put a loud stereo in it. Took my grandma's purple crush velvet bedspreads and a sheet of foam rubber and apolstered the seats. My dad showed me how to rebuild the fuel pump with a piece of leather.
It got 18 mpg on gas and 30 miles per quart on engine oil. The year I owned it, we had very few mosquitos out at our place. The car was named the mosquito killer because every time I started it a grey cloud would billow from the exhaust.
ImmySnommis@reddit
Nice! '63 Nova here, 194 straight six and three on the tree. Two door, no post. Loved that car!
Intelligent_Arm_7186@reddit (OP)
awesome!
RalphWastoid319@reddit
My first car was older than me, a 1965 Mustang. I way overpaid for that rust bucket, but it was a fun ride.
SomethingFerocious@reddit
1980 Chevette. Orange with black hood.
plathrop01@reddit
1976 Ford Pinto station wagon, light blue. We put it up on blocks at my grandparents' house for about 18 months when my parents bought a 1983 Buick Skylark (what a terrible car) and I worked with my grandfather for a week to fix it up and remove all of the rust in the floor and sides before I could drive it home after getting my license. My friends called it the Joan of Arc mobile, but I was one of the few in my class with a car of my own. Manual transmission, AM radio, no A/C. Could shift it from first to second and sometimes into third without the clutch.
sarah-vdb@reddit
1981 Mercury Lynx. It was an oxidated silver (so kind of gold-ish) with a red interior. I kept a cheap red boombox in it so I could play cassettes.
I taught myself how to drive stick in it, because my mom was too stressed every time we'd go out and my dad was deployed. I grabbed a friend, lied to my mom that she knew how to drive it, and went to a fairly deserted part of post to practice.
It got squished when I was 18. My next car was a 1983 Firebird that I eventually had painted green (because it had also started life silver), and put a tape deck in it so I could finally ditch the little boombox.
Absotivly_Posolutly@reddit
1972 Chevrolet Chevelle, bought in 1987
Backsight-Foreskin@reddit
1971 Beetle convertible. It had a hole in both the floor and the roof.
onearmpaperboy33@reddit
1984 Honda Civic 4 speed with aftermarket fog lights screwed to the hood to replace the headlights.
Intelligent_Arm_7186@reddit (OP)
lol :) cool beans!!
ManyLintRollers@reddit
1977 bright yellow Chevette. AM radio, no a/c.
OldBanjoFrog@reddit
1984 El Dorado with touring suspension and white wall tires
SunShineLife217@reddit
1984 Chevy cavalier. Not a Z28 either 🤣