My first car was a sweet 1986 Toyota Tercel 5 door hatchback. So bad ass it had an extra “door.”

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

An 85 LeBaron like this one. Idled at 40 mph and barely made it to Albany live. The car kicked the bucket before I went to college!

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donttrustthesoup@reddit

I had a celica of the same generation! You had to wedge a leg under the wheel and jack it up like you are trying to break it to get the headlights to work.

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Just_Another_AI@reddit

I had a Chevette. I was so excited when my dad took me to get it because I didn't even know what a Chevette was - I thought I was getting a Chevelle. Boy was I let down...

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I got an 89 Cavalier. Got it right at the end of my junior year, so I got to ditch the car pool for a couple weeks. It lasted just shy of three years, succumbing to a cracked heater core in 2000, on my birthday no less

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BichezNCake@reddit

‘86 Chevrolet Chevette 5 door was mine 🤌🏻🤌🏻

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BoredPandemicPanda@reddit

Yo. Save some ladies for the rest of us!

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Low_Visit_5917@reddit

some of us are just trying to keep our options open here, you feel me?

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MikeOxsaw@reddit

Beige bandit! 1983 Toyota Corolla baby. Had a cord running from my Discman to the tape-deck. Did donuts in reverse on dirt. So good.

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C001H4ndPuk3@reddit

Mine was an '85 Honda Civic, in the color shown above. Purchased for $300!

It blew a head gasket, and from that point forward, it burned oil and had to be regularly topped off.

Total piece of shit, but it was a car, so life was good.

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senorgonzo2@reddit

My first car. 1988 Chevy Nova. Ugly as sin but had a lot of great times in that car.

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bistro223@reddit

1982 Honda Civic. Bought in 1995 with just under 120k miles. Loved that car. Wish I could find one now.

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thelizardlarry@reddit

My dad had the two door Tercel hatchback. No power steering, and permanent banana smell. It luckily died a year before I got my license.

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larryb78@reddit

81 Civic - silver & rust. 286k miles she was still running strong but the muffler fell off, one of the fatal flaws in this car was that it happened a lot bc of crappy materials. Normally this wouldn’t have been an issue as dad had purchased one with a lifetime warranty at Sears years before, whenever it happened we went and they replaced it no questions asked. This time they said no, not because of how many they’d replaced but because they’d stopped making them and none were available. At that point it was time to say goodbye

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S_A_R_K@reddit

81 Accord. Garage door yellow with rust holes everywhere. You could lift up the floor mats and drop your weed thru the floor if needed.

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larryb78@reddit

It truly amazes me how they managed to design such amazing engines and such abysmal chassis to mount them in simultaneously. The damn things literally decomposed around an otherwise fine motor.

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bgva@reddit

My aunt had the Tercel wagon, gold, same year, 5-speed and very similar to this one. I loved that car and miss that particular era of "crossovers".

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Atom1419@reddit

My parents had this exact one (same year too) in red. I loved that wagon.

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Pnmamouf1@reddit

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Nottheadviceyaafter@reddit

Toyota corolla in Australia, minor differences.

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FnordRanger_5@reddit

I drove a red 3 door for a while, lost it once on a drunk night out, found it 3 weeks later driving with a friend

Always had a vague vomity smell from the day I boight it to the day I sold it. I drove it all over the place for 3ish years and never did anything but put gas in it and never had a single mechanical issue, I don’t think I ever even checked the oil

Great car, 10/10 would recommend

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Beezel_Pepperstack@reddit

1981 Chevy Citation. It handled like a brick wall and it purred like a mule. It also left me stranded on the side of the road. A LOT.

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maggie320@reddit

Oh my god. My dad had one of these suckers in the early 90s. It had a dent in the drivers side rear quarter panel from when a tire shredded on him. If you went over a bump or pothole the heat would kick on or off. My mom called it the “blob”. I don’t think she ever drove that she hated it so much.

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