The first car I made payments on was a 1937 Buick Century 4 dr with side mounts. I had a 1931 Buick that had a rod knock ,and found the 37 for sale by my Aunt's house for $175. I borrowed the money from my Dad,and payed him back at $25 a week. I was a junior in high school at the time ,so it was 1949-50
'88 TurboCoupe purchased 6 mo. old in earlt '89 W/ 27K on it - someone did ALOT of highway driving those 6 months !!! I landed my first real computer-job as a field tech / trouble-shooter and they gave their employees fleet cars ('88 sunbirds) but when I started they didn't have any. I asked "How much do pay for the fleet rentals ? Give that to me and I'll find my own car !!" ....So, for the next 2 years, every month they paid my $206 car payment, my $91 insurance (plus we had company gas credit cards that no one ever checked usage on....) and I walked away with $3 in my pocket for free.....plus I was driving a WAYYYY cool car compaired to all the other guys :bglasses: I really didn't like the Co. but I bid my time until the car was paid off and I had a solid job offer, then said "Thanks for the free car !!" :moonu: :moonu:
1982 Dodge Charger 2.2, 2 Door hatchback, 4 speed, rear window slats, silver black stripes and Eagle GT tires. That was my first car payment but not my first car, I was 20 years old and just married. I had 6 cars before that and 2 motorcycles
1st car My 1st car, a 65 lesabre is currently the vehicle I am restoring.:Brow: I still own the 1st car I bought almost 30 years ago. It is undergoing a frame-off restoration with addtional modifications. I hope to have it completed within a years time, money permitting.
Hi Guys, My VERY first car was an emmaculate 1972 GS455 w/41,000 original miles bought June of 1985 for $2700 from the original owner's wife after he passed away. She told me that in '72 he went to the local showroom and told the salesman that he wanted the "top-of-the-line" Skylark that had to have plenty of passing power and that the wife could also drive with no problems.....and he wanted to take it home that day! The color had been changed from bamboo cream to a stunning metallic charcoal grey to go along with the back vinyl top and black bucket interior. Other than that only the battery and the tires had been upgraded to Firestone Super Sports, 60-series in the rear and 70-series up front. It was a very beautiful car that I truely miss. In February of 1988 I hit a patch of "black-ice" at roughly 90mph and promptly kissed a huge telephone pole.:ball: :stmad: :ball: The frame suffered a direct hit in line with the passenger side rail and buckled it in seven places down it's length. The hood was literally folded in half to where the front lip came back to be in line with the air cleaner. I managed to kiss the windshield and leave my eyebrows embedded in the glass. My face is now nicely scarred from all the glass fragments that had to be extracted afterwards but that was my only injury! I guess I was kind of lucky in the fact that the guy who owned my current '70 GS455 4-speed convert. lived not too far away and had been bugging me for some time to trade but I wouldn't because my '72 was MUCH faster as the convert. only had a 150,000 mile '73 smog'r under the hood! I ended up buying it from him for the sum of $4000 later that year after I saved up a few bucks. I can tell you that I do take much better care of it than I did my hardtop. Oh...many parts from my '72 still live on in my convertible!:TU: Have a great day everyone.....
Lets see.... Started with a $500 '72 Ford full size "Ranch Wagon" 351C with a single glasspack and oh so easy to spin snow tires. Then the '75 Volvo for $800, my parents paid for both of those. The first car I bought, and had to borrow money on, was my sweet '77 Trans Am. It was silver with blue chicken and a black interior. It had a '71 455 HO and a super T-10 four speed, damn that was a fun car. I had to replace four sets of rear tires before the fronts ever wore outo No:
72 ford pinto wagon white rust with wood stickers and a mashed up door. :gt: even though it was free that might have been too much for it. at least I don't have any pictures to post. It was a 4 speed - it had that. when it was starting i would crank it and count the cylinders as they statred to fire. chicks dug it.
First car I made payments on was my Regal in the Avatar. It was the summer of 1986, I was 16. Payments were $140-something/per month. Cooked chickens for the Colonel to pay for it.
First car I bought was a 1970 GS Stage-1 in 1987. I was 17. Payed $6500. Took a loan from the local bank at 13%. Worked in a Grocery Store for three years at $3.45 and hour to pay it off. It was a good car. Ended up selling it 10 years later for $6500. I will see if I can dig up a pic. Mark
And here it is after I got it painted. Fireglow Orange with Saddle Brown top and interior. Bench Seat column shift. Mark
My first car was a 68 GS 400 Conv. Bought in 1983 from a guy down the street for $1,800 sold in 1989 for $7,000. Got the loan all by myself. Car is in Michigan now being Strip raced
First car was 1990 Chrysler New Yorker, 4 door blue with 3.3 L V6. Ran great and put over 60k miles on it in lil less then 3 years. Guy i think still has it (sold for $800) and i sold it with 160k miles on it. Since we have a car lot i drive everything for dailys but my toy is my GN which i have kept since i was 17 (21 now) and have only put about 3k miles on (22k miles currently) and plan on keeping for good. I had an '88 lesabre, really nice limited with t type dash, ran great sold it to have some more pocket money. We have cars basically for driving in summer but i only come home during winter basically for xmas break so i just drive a pos off the lot. Cant wait to see whats in store this winter:ball:
First car purchased 1974 Gran Sport was the first vehicle I bought brand new. It had the "fall off" drivers side molding and I see this pic was taken on one of it's off days despite repeatedly having it put back on!
My first car was a 69 Pontiac Strato Chief 4 door that I paid $325 for and blew the engine that night racing up town:ball: Lloyd 1977 Buick Regal 2dr
Didn't have payments until ~`92 when I purchased this `89 Mustang LX 5.0 After a little tinkering it ran 9.2's at 77.5 mph with an AOD
first car was a 72 Olds Cutlass 4-dr no post with the Hi-Comp 350, paid $300 and it was one of the smoothest running cars I've ever owned. Unfortunately, lost a battle 6-months later with a drunk driver behind the wheel of a Toyota p/u while parked in front of my house at 6am on a Sunday :ball: On the bright side, Insurance company paid me $900
My first car I had to make payments on was a 1997 Pontiac Trans-Am WS6. It was a forest green color with a 6-speed and t-tops. I got it just above dealer cost at $26,000 as my mom was an employee and we're friends of the owner of the dealership. Man, I miss that car! I only put 1500 miles a year on it and sold it in 2000 with 5700 miles.
geez Rob, are we related? I bought a 97 WS6 Formula six speed brand new, paid 29,000.00 canadian, put about 10,000 well pampered miles on it in two years and then sold it...was going to get an LS1 car but moved to start new job and bought a house..... I miss that car, it looked awesome in white with those big fat tires and it ran pretty hard, lots of bolt ons... later Tim
