Lew, my first car was a 65 Parisienne Custom Sport, metallic blue, black interior with the factory 4- speed and factory in dash tachometer, I loved it.

Sold it in 82, hard up for cash and I always regretted it.

2 years ago my Buddy out in Vancouver emails me a picture of his new car; its a 65 parisienne convertible in showroom condition. Took him 5 years to convince the older fellow who owned it to sell it to him! I guess he wore him down lol.

Last visit out, he let me drive it around, excellent memories!

cheers

When I met my wife she was tooling around in her Mom's brand spanking new '63 Parisienne C.S. convertible. Powder blue with blue roof and dark blue interior. Nice looking car. Nice ride for a 16 year old girl. Only one I ever saw in those colours.

JF

My first car was a piece of poop 79 honda civic which i sold and bought an amazing piece of technology 1980 dodge aspen and don't think my taste in vehicles has gotten much better

skipped out on the car for first vehicle

bought this instead cuz it seemed wayyyy cooler at the time

1972 Triumph - 750cc Trident






had the bike for many years, in the pic is my oldest daughter who is now turning 14 on the 7th,my how time flies

Still got the daughter , not the bike

divorced her mom 10 years ago,got screwed over ..had to sell the bike...wish I still had it cuz I had it since way before I met my X wife and started having kids....oh well maybe one day when the kids get older time for more toys..for now I am happy that I get away with having a trailer and a couple boats



as for first actual car...1980 Pontiac Pheonix, red with an ugly grey stripe..definately not as cool as the bike

Nice!

1981 GMC Sierra. Loved that truck, If you go down a certain road in Cambridge the holes are still in the asphalt from a little burnout I did about 7 years ago

Gas and tires were a lot cheaper then eh!

1972 Chevy Monte Carlo with swivel seats, and dingle balls across the windows ala Cheech and Chong.

My first car was a '79 Volare, silver with pinstripes and rust colored velour seats

Great little car

Maureen

1957 Ford Fairlane...Black/white like this one:

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My bro-in-law (fresh outa the pen in Kingston) had it so fine tuned it ticked like a clock and oh my how it could scoot away when the lights changed...

If memory serves me right It was repossed by the finance company because we were two months late in our payments...

Then started my love affair with Volkswagon beetles:

Oldest was a 1953 with the turn signals on arms that popped out beside the doors unless some mother's child had bent them enough that they stuck...

Brand new 1966 Bahama Blue with a gas heater...could get it up to 90 mph on the long grade coming south from Lindsay on hwy 35...my kids learned to drive it on the ice at Lake Simcoe before they were of age...

Ya and I didn't have anything else to pay for either!

Seems like you kept the right one........

Those early Saabs were hard to kill. Remember rallying them through the forests. Mum also had an Alfa Sud that we appropriately called "Alf". Great little car, but a pain to keep on the road...

Same car for me only mine was orange with black"racing stripes"

I always wanted one of these:

Can anyone ID it?

Studerbaker Hawk....


My first car was a 52 plymouth cambridge 4 door sedan, ( 2 door shown ) followed by a 59 studebaker lark.






I did go on to better cars later.

78 Silver anniversary L82


39 De Soto

We have a winner!!!!

I knew it'd take an ol' fart to ID it!!!

1961 model... and the right color too!

1991 For Escort hatch (black)

My first was a 1962 Chevy Impala standard with 3 on the tree.

1987 Ford Escort GT

My first love was a '52 Monarch . . . the ol' reliable 292, and a set of straight pipes on 'er . . . coppers used to sit and wait for me . . . wasn't hard to tell when I was around . . . could hear the beast long before ya saw it. The poor ol' gal tangled with a skunk, late one Saturday night . . . . damn thing got caught in the undercarriage, and banged around for a half mile before coming off!! I drove the car out in a field near the house, left it sit all fall & winter, windows down, doors open . . . in the spring it STILL stunk! Wreckers wouldn't take it off my hands . . . . finally found somebody who needed the rear end & rad to take it off my hands!

My first car was a '66 Dodge Valiant that I bought for $65.00. Put in a new water-pump ($25.) in the sellers driveway and drove it home. It had a push-button transmission on the dash and a rubber foot pump thing on the floor for the windshield washer. I drove it for two years and then sold it for $100.00.
My favorite vehicle tho' was a '69 VW van. Traded my stereo and two boxes of albums for it. In 1980, I drove it from Vancouver to London On. in the middle of February. The gas heater didn't work and the little bit of heat that made it up to the front of the van was quickly lost in the breezes. We drove all the way wrapped up in sleeping bags and a scraper in one hand scraping the inside of the windshield. Great van for camping and touring in the summer tho'. If I ever win the lottery, I'll get another one.

Hey Lew my dad used to own a corvair, he said it would go like stink... but couldn't stop for snot. Apparently most of his cars from the 60's shared those characteristics.

1st car was a '69 Buick Special (basically a Skylark). Got it off my Dad for free and drove the snot out of it. I had 300,000 MILES on it and it was still going strong when some donkey rear ended me and totalled it while I was stopped at a red light.

Once I recovered from the whiplash, I went out and got a '71 Impala. I remember the shock when I left T.O. in that beast to go to college in Thunder Bay and had to pay 70 CENTS A GALLON for gas somewhere around Wawa. I think that the Toronto prices were somewhere around 40 cents.

unfortunately it wasnt one of these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljyEyq5Aw4

but it was a ford rust bucket, ironically it had very little tempo

Jeez. Ya brought back a memory. I had one car before the Sprite. A bunch of us in high school pooled our money and bought a '53 Chrysler Something with a Red Ram Hemi in it. It was a very pedestrian sedan with the bottoms of the door posts rusted through. When we went around corners the bottom of the doors splayed out like wings (sorta). The driver's seat was a coke crate (the old wooden ones). We parked it in an alley and we met at the car every morning, drove it to school, then went touring at lunch time and after school. Our folks woulda killed us if they'd found out. Gas was $0.35/gallon then. We'd split on a gallon or two and drive till it was running low. The muffler was shot so we used to wire a metal oil can to the end of the pipe after we'd punched a bunch of holes in it. They usually lasted for a day or so. It sufficed. When the car finally appeared to be on the verge of total collapse we drove it to the town dump one day and abandoned it. Our folks never found out. Life was so much simpler then.

JF

My dad sold those things. There was an old Speedster sitting in a local junk yard back in the mid 60's, but the old guy who owned it wouldn't sell. Dunno what ever happened to it.

JF

1968 Mustang Fastback 302 4 Barrel with 4 speed. After seeing the movie "Bullit" I had to have one.
Second car was 1970 Boss 429 NASCAR Mustang!! 6 miles to the gallon was the BEST mileage I ever got. Man that one would pass anything .....except a gas staion!!

FT

'84 Caprice Classic 305 4brl Quadrajet.. Most comfortable car I've ever driven.

When I was at university I wanted a car with enough power to lift the front wheels off the pavement when accelerating from start.

Whe I got out of graduate school I realized that there was a problem in getting what I wanted - money.

So I looked at the British Epic at $1995.00. My father came with me shopping and he did not like British cars - at that time people liked American cars. My father would say - "for a little bit more you can get a XXXX." With this kind of logic, I moved up from the Epic and then to the Nova, Nova SS, Chevelle, Chevelle Malibou and then to Cutlass "S".

I finally settled on the 1968 Cutlass Supreme.

I found a PIC online showing exactly what my 1st car looked like - all colors, vinyl roof etc.

The front wheels did not lift off the pavement but it was fast - I love those V8's. Once in a while it felt really good to lay a strip of rubber on the pavement.

carp-starter

I had a 1991 mazda 323, tiny, no a/c , auto with power assisted steering. ugly brown/grey colour. Wish the tranny never went in it because i loved that car! My new car now i bought new, was an 05 sunfire, that i have had nothing but problems with it.

1986 Buick Somerset. All digital dash, beautiful interior, and a birch junk keeping the rear strut from comming through the strut mount.

1994 pontiac sunbird steer clear of this car my friends.

My first car was a 1952 ford 2 door coupe. Good thing my brother taught me how to drive a standard in his Morris Minor before he sold me the ford. Of course I had to pay him for the lessons.

Tom.

1973 Plymouth Cuda w/ 318 auto, followed by a 1966 Dodge Charger- still have the Charger- since '85, my 16 year old son and I are working it back to street shape! Check it out in pic to the left.

73 Maverik Drug it back out of a wreckin' yard ... Only had to rebuild the Carberator every 50 miles ... Rust in the Tank ... Strong car though ! ! then I got a 74 Pinto ! ! ! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Got pulled over and ticketed for 110 Miles Per Hour .... Took it to court and the Judge said ..How did you make a ford pinto go that fast? ..... Dropped the ticket ..LOL... Finally got a real car .. 69 cutlass supreme .. Then Well Then I lost my licence for eight years ... Bought a Bike !

My first car was a 67 Dodge Dart GT. I never drove it legally though. I fixed it up over the summer and sold it. Sorry, no pics. Shortly after I came to my senses, followed the family tradition and became a GM man. I then My first cool car I legally drove was a 1969 Nova SS (high school).I drive a HUGE Buick Roadmaster Wagon now. I must be getting old because I think they're cool now. My last really cool car was my 1969 Camaro. It had a nasty small block in it. It ran low 11's street trim. That was about four or five years ago now. The car I wish I had back is my 1972 Vega GT, mint,straight,black,tubbed, 406 small block. Also ran low 11's street trim. I had this car for about eight or nine years. I miss it. I just found a pic of my 69, just after I sold it (with new paint ... same exact drivetrain, wheels, etc. ... he added a little spray and ran 9.70's with the car).

My first car was a 1974 Javelin with a 360 engine, air shocks, crager rims and Bobby Unser tires...man was I cool with the girls back then

Lotsa "Detroit Muscle" on this thread! Sweeeeeeet!

thats what im talkin about....

NICE RIDE!! 426??

1979 Chevy BelAir hand me down. Was still running when I paid some guy $50 bucks to drive it away.

'69 Camaro Z28, blue with black leather - 350 hp - Borgwarner T10, traction bars and tiny little chrome bumpers ... very high maintenance but a beast on the open road - and it looked almost EXACTLY like this ...




Now if TJQ could help me with the embed .... theres a cool utube for ya



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89 Dodge Shadow I think it was. Only took me about 6 months before I blew it up. Really blew it up.

Man. I remember when those came out. A couple of my friends got 'em. They were in my NSHO one of the niftiest cars Detroit ever produced. There've been faster, fancier and prettier cars, but the Z28s were just plain cool. They could be drag raced or road raced almost decently right outa the box without spending an arm and a leg. Of course, I was 23 at the time. They may not make such an impression on me now in my doddering decrepit years. I loved those cars. Some of them came box stock with just about the prettiest sounding exhaust outside of a Ferrari.

JF

My best buddies had the cool cars
69 Belair
mid 60s Z28
Duster ( not sure what year )
TR6

But if we were crusin Princess St or Queens University campus ( Kingston in late 70s) it was my car we used most often

1974 VW bug ,orange with two blue front fenders , painted "mags" and snow tires on the rear .
It was really a blast on back roads as it could handle the odd off road excursion.

More for the laugh factor really , 4 big guys all jammed into what was then a small car . The stereo and two four was worth more than the car.

Never had a cool car my self and now.... two mini vans

TB

That was mine!!

A Minibrick.

JF

'63 AMC Rambler, given to me when I was in high school. I couldn't afford the $2.00 worth of gas it took per week. Geez. Am I that old???

We all are gettin' old, together!

Cheapest since I've been driving was 60 cents/liter