And what was your first car?
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marymc says,
1974 VW Beetle, metallic blue, in 1983. Tire and muffler blew in the first month. I loved that rustbucket.Sagacious says,
A 1964 EH Holden station wagon.ba_miracle says,
67 RS Camaro it had a 400 small block balanced and blue printed, 6pt roll cage, 5 pt racing harnesses and I got into a lot of trouble in it.jl333 says,
1988 (or 89) Mazda. Car was awesome and never should of sold it.Bevvie says,
75 Toyota CorollaMO_Thoughts2 says,
79 Camaro. Bright red. My 18th birthday present to myself. Didn't matter it was 5 years old.Steve__Anthony says,
Never beleived your first car said anything about a person. - But the second car...Steve__Anthony says,
Was a EH Holden????Mourningdove says,
A huge black 4 door boat. Not sure what kind, back when gas wasn't so pricy.Mourningdove says,
A huge black 4 door boat. Not sure what kind, back when gas wasn't so pricy.canadafreeze says,
VW Beetle, blue-grey in colour. My first, real love:-)KharisJo says,
Electric blue Merc sports convertible.(this is a creative writing site, right?)
truthfully it was a Datsun Bluebird station wagon, four on the floor, had to be in first gear always to get up a hill.
MsKillie says,
A red Plymouth Horizon that started on fire my last day of HS. This forced me to share a station wagon with my grandma the summer before I moved away to college. I spent a lot of time chauffeuring her to Wal-mart and getting yelled at for leaving the radio turned up too loud...Believe says,
Chrysler lebaron. Dad said it was "rosewood". It was pink.BanjoDan says,
Souped up chevy i boughtvfrom a friend un high schoolTheProsperousArtist says,
Lucy. White '82 Corolla.Sagacious, my second car was Goldie the Golden Holden (gold '75 sedan) when I was an Aussie ('91-'94). She was supposed to be a station wagon, but I let the father-out-law talk me into taking a test drive, and I fell in love. She was a sweet car - automatic, air-conditioned, smooth ride - they last forever because they don't rust out there.
I sold her to an aboriginal guy before I left Tennant Creek (very small town, 3500 people). Suddenly, my car started showing up in strange men's driveways, and rumors flew. News of my presumed liaisons apparently spread a lot faster than news she was no longer my car. (Now, having seen the Big Bang Theory episode "The Herb Garden Germination", I finally understand why. :-)
(Steve, Holden is the Australian-made GM make. Think old Chevy.)
Meanwhile, I'd moved on to Elsie ("LC") the (enormous, large-wheel-base) Land Cruiser, who, while parked outside my house, got hit at 2am and (almost but not quite) totalled by a drunken birthday celebrant, before I ever really got a chance to drive her. The sound woke me up, screaming "NO!!!", because I knew instantly what it was. Insurance rebuilt her for me, over a period of months, delaying my return to Tennant Creek from Darwin. Awesome off-road vehicle, if only I'd been qualified to drive one. Got stuck in the mud up to the chassis in the middle of nowhere in northern WA - took two other 4WD's to finally pull us out. She had a second petrol tank (150 liters total!) for long trips and a full-length roof rack you could walk on. We kept two giant spare water jugs up there.
Current car is Sally - "electric green" '2000 Mustang: www.GreenMustang.com. I've loved all these cars, but Sally is the automotive love of my life.
Loon says,
65 Mustang, tits car of the centurySteve__Anthony says,
Loon, my brother's first car was a 65 Mustang (got it in '78) with a Pony interior and flowers painted on the hood. It was orange. Nowadays, he drives a mini-van.TawnyPort says,
1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass (my parents bought it for me in '78). It was gold with a black vinyl roof, black leather interior, and one of those long, long antennas that would whip around in the wind.Bullitt says,
'72 Chevy Malibu, kelly green, and she was fast.Steve__Anthony says,
My '72 Montego was a used brown lemon.accidentaltourist says,
The first car I owned was a 68 Dodge, big as a house, mom's cast-off. The first car I bought myself was a 69 Ford Fairlane. Damn thing never really ran right, and I spent a lot of time coaxing it to start in the school parking lot. But the sweetest compliment I ever got was from a guy who stopped to help me and said, "you're way too pretty a girl to drive a piece of shit car like this."TheAngstyPoet says,
Pink Barbie convertible :)(...still need my license)
TheProsperousArtist says,
They don't make kelly green cars anymore. Or electric green. Shame.Glad I got one of the last, before color apparently went out of style.
Amapola says,
I've never owned a car. But I loved my dad's first: a Peugeot 404