First car? Ford Fairmont 1981, bought in 1994....

Saturn. Forget the year, but it was white. Despite being sold to me (my dad) by a mechanic, it needed serious work, which my lovely hometown mechanic figured out and fixed for us.

Totaled it a few years later, unfortunately, while driving to college. I had a fuckton of bruises and could barely move for the next week, but my CD player, stuck on the dash with Velcro, never skipped a beat. Gotta love that anti-skip technology.

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The_Inertia_Kid@reddit

1991 Nissan Micra. Red, 3 door. 1 litre engine. Manual windows, no air conditioning, cloth seats. Gearstick fell into the transmission tunnel one time. But it just wouldn’t die. That thing sounded like a few coins rattling around inside a tin can but it was built ridiculously tough.

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Aught_To@reddit

1988 Olds Delta 88 Royale Brogham

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LadyLoki5@reddit

I had one of these too! Gods I miss it! Most comfortable ride ever.

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Maleficent-Web2281@reddit

I can hear those shocks squeaking as you roll down the road, nice and slow.

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Aught_To@reddit

Shocks.. hell no this thing had leaf springs. It did not turn so much as bank.

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LaZeBonez@reddit

What a beaut.

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Aught_To@reddit

oh those bench seats..

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Left_Maize816@reddit

I had a 1978 dodge colt that my parents used until they gave it to my grandmother who used it until she died.

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theluzah@reddit

my first love, my Chevette. not actual picture of mine, sadly I don't think any exist.

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paintedwoodpile@reddit

I had 3 first cars! Two of them I bought and didn't see the road before I started driving. 1977 Mustang II Ghia coupe (rusty junk, bought off a friend so he could buy a guitar), 1973 Chevelle Laguna (my dad's work car, he passed and no one else wanted it, title issues), then I got my 1986 Plymouth Reliant 2 door. Not even a Reliant K package! Front bench seat. AM/FM stereo. hubcaps. It was a great car for what it was.

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post_obamacore@reddit

1989 Mazda 626. bought it for $1k in 2001, straight up.

the front two engine mounts were cracked, so if you revved the engine with the hood up, you could see the front end flexing upward. very safe, i'm sure.

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Kiethblacklion@reddit

Mine was a blue '97 Ford Taurus. I got it in Sept '99, one month before my 18th birthday. Loved that car. It lasted me until around 2014. Had some major engine issues. Ended up selling it for scrap.

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-Crimson-Death-@reddit

First car I ever worked on when I was 8. That was about 1990.

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-threefeetoffun@reddit

My mom gave me her 1987 LeBaran in 1997.

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sgrams04@reddit

Did she change her name from Kitty to Karen?

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Aught_To@reddit

where's your LeBaron Freddy?

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Resident-Device-2814@reddit

Hey, me too. 1980 Ford Futura, got it in '93.

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pick_up_a_brick@reddit

1981 GMC El Caballero

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sexwiththebabysitter@reddit

‘88 Acura Legend acquired in 2001 (was late getting my license due to being away at college and underage drinking suspensions)

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AcanthocephalaOwn258@reddit

Someone from Europe had to join the conversation. (Italy).

My first car: Renault 5 Alpine Turbo 1984

The 1984 Renault 5 Alpine Turbo is a front-wheel-drive "hot hatch" featuring a 1.4L turbocharged inline-4 engine producing 110 hp and 164 Nm of torque, known for significant turbo lag, sharp handling, and a 0–100 km/h time of approximately 8.7–9.0 seconds. It was the final, refined evolution of the front-engined R5 performance models.

Glorius machine.

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Zsirhcz1981@reddit

1984 Cutlass Supreme Brougham.

Cost $3000 and had it until a guy ran a red light and totaled it.

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JPhrog@reddit

Beautiful! My very first car was an 85 Cutlass Supreme in royal blue that my parents handed down to me, it was a junker l, but it was my junker for about a year until I saved up to buy my own.

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Zsirhcz1981@reddit

I went through a lot of old “on their last leg” cars. Lost 3 to accidents. Not my fault, but all preventable with some defensive driving.

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JPhrog@reddit

My 2nd car was a 79 Fairmont that was shit brown. I paid $400 for it back in 1997. Yours looks so much cooler than mine did!

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TravisVZ@reddit

1994(?) Plymouth Voyager. It was my parents' car before they gave it to me as I headed off to college (all the way across town).

It wasn't "the cool kid's car", but when it came time for a group of us to go out somewhere I was the go-to guy for transportation. On hot/sunny days you could still smell the rotten ice cream from the back from when a pint of ice cream had been forgotten overnight one time, and every once in a while a shard of glass would work its way back out of the carpet under the middle seat from when a bottle of sparkling strawberry cider was forgotten on a mid-winter trip to the local hot springs.

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greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit

I drove a voyager after my divorce (it’s all I could afford and needed room for kids). I loved my Voyager, called it Babe after Paul Bunyan’s big blue ox.

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greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit

Mine had different wheels but the rest was pretty damn near the same. 1980 BMW 320. Bought in 2000. Passenger seat frame was broken. Heater blew leaves on our faces the first time we used it, the sunroof handle disintegrated in our hands so for the whole summer the damn sunroof was partway open, hood wouldn’t close properly so we had to rig a toilet paper roll just so in order for it to latch properly, the trunk was rusted out so bad I couldn’t store anything in it, and 3 months after I got it the head gasket blew, 6 months after that I hit black ice and it died

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lunicorn@reddit

My first car is a lie, just in case anyone goes for that security question.

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kingoflimbs_us@reddit

84 Buick Regal. It was a tank and I loved it. The most comfortable car to fit like 8 people...I couldn't go over 55 mph otherwise it would start shaking...

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WideLight@reddit

1981 Plymouth Reliant. It was not, as the name would suggest, reliant.

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Mike9797@reddit

A nice reliant automobile

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Firebolt164@reddit

I was the youngest so I always got the hand-me-downs

1977 Buick Electra with an enormous v8. My grandfathers car and it had loose steering and wobbled around the road
1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera - great little car
1992 Ford Taurus wagon - great fnr camping trips

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SashimiRick@reddit

Not mine, but I had a silver 1976 300D as my first car. When you look good, you didn't need to go fast. The bonus smoke screen when getting onto the freeway was always fun.

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sevalle13@reddit

84 VW GTI Rabbit manual

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Ill-Complaint-6634@reddit

I love this so much!

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Hntrbdnshog@reddit

Mine was an ‘88 Chevy S-10 standard cab with a manual transmission. This thing was the most basic vehicle you can imagine. It didn’t even have a tape deck just an am/fm. It was my dad’s commuter vehicle with an unbelievable amount of miles on it already. It had over 350k miles on it when I sold it. I loved that thing. The only pictures I have of it are on film somewhere.

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CelticSith@reddit

81 Monte Carlo. I loved taking “the boat” out

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urubecky@reddit

Blue Beretta GT 89 I believe

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Mammoth_Mixture4735@reddit

My first real car was my 1991 Thunderbird supercoupe.

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cybah@reddit

haha I had a similar car as my first car... was a hand me down. A 1978 Mercury Zephyr, which basically was the Ford Fairlane. Your car (the fairmont) was the 'replacement' for the Fairlane. Even thought it was basically the same car.

Thing was a fucking tank. I think I rear ended two people. Never a scratch on my car, but plenty on the others.

Also got like 12 miles per gallon tho. But that was when gas was like 75 cents a gallon so we could afford it.

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Collapsonaut@reddit

For $300 I got myself a 1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser wagon. The power steering column leaked badly and I was an irresponsible young person who didn't fix it. That led to my arms getting pretty toned after a couple of months.

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Nikkianne617@reddit

Way cooler than my 1989 Honda Civic Hatchback with no speakers and half the backseat torn up

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crazycatlady331@reddit

I learned to drive on my grandma's old 1991 Ford Escort wagon. I wasn't allowed to drive that car anywhere but work.

I ended up buying a Ford Escort (in retrospect, I should have gone with a Civic or Corolla) in 99. That was MY first car, not the first car I had use of.

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TheLastGenXer@reddit

my uncle had one new.

it was perfect for almost 20 years.

then it got totaled while parked on the street.

he bought the fairmount to replace his previous car, which was also totaled while parked on the street.

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sdcasurf01@reddit

93 Mazda Protege I bought from a Neighbor in 2000. (Not my car but same year and color)

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PilotC150@reddit

When I turned 16 in 1999 I got a 1993 Ford Probe GT. Man that car was fun to drive. Exactly like the one here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/13epkki/ford_probe_future_classic/

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Koalashart1@reddit

Beauty

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TraditionalTackle1@reddit

97 Ford Escort my parents gave me when I went to college in 99. I didnt want it but it was almost brand new. I drove it for 8 years.

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stavago@reddit

1980s Volvo station wagon of some kind that we shared. I then got a 1990s Dodge sedan when I went to college

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herp_de-derp@reddit

Mine was a white 1980 4-door Fairmont. It was an unwritten rule that the passenger was to exit the vehicle and chase after the metal hubcaps if I were to take a corner too quickly. I also had a 10” kicker subwoofer in the trunk that would kill the alternator while sitting at traffic lights. Good times…

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

I live in greater Boston, so it was great in the snow!

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