My first car was a 1952 Buick Roadmaster, Maroon and white that belonged to my dad. The first car that I bought new was a white 1964 Chevy Corvair Monza. Still had it when Ivan and I married in 1970 and for another year when it finally died.

57 Chevy

54 Chevy.

With money saved from a part time job and with help from parents, while in high school I bought my first car, a new 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle. Not only was it the first American car I'd ever owned, it was also the last American car I owned. They're just not for me, I learned that lesson quickly. I sold it after 3 years, bought my first foreign car while in college and foreign cars have been my preference ever since.

I remember the Isetta. Design and size wise, it was perhaps an inspiration (as a handy urban vehicle) for the Smart cars of today, though with the door in front.

My first car was a red VW bug. I've forgotten now what year model it was but from the price you know used, not new. It cost $600 in the year 1969. I had saved $300, and my mother very reluctantly cosigned a loan for 6 more $50 payments which I made ;0) So, so finished with sharing a family car, I'd have driven anything with wheels that started when turning the key.

A 1956 Ford station wagon....blue and white, but it belonged to my dad, really. When I got married in 1966, my husband bought me a '66 Mustang fast back. It was red.

My first car was a red 1974 Ford Pinto. As a shorty, it was one of the only cars available that I could touch the pedals in. LOL

Mine was a 1962 Mercury Comet. Wanda, my dad had a 1956 Plymouth with that push button transmission

A 64 blue VW Beetle. Loved that car.

Toyota Camry and inherited an old VW bus that my grandfather restored. I still have it and have had it custom painted it like the hippies did in the 70's. It has flowers and hippie stuff on it like the piece sign. It is very hard to drive and it is not an automatic transmission. So I have it stored in N.C. at my brother's house in his closed in garage. I gotta go get it as he is wanting to convert his old garage into a woodworking shop. I will probably have to get new tires and have it toned up. I have not had the money as I had a really bad wreck last Nov. livin' with mom right now..

I had a 57 Chevy my mom gave me when I graduated high school. When I was earning my own $ I bought a 1967 GTO. I loved that car. It was my last American made car, except for always having a Ford pick-up auxiliary car. Switched to Audi, then VW, then BMW, now back to Audi, lol. But I think I loved that GTO more than any other. Once in a while I see one all fixed up, being driven by some old guy, and it makes me swoon. Not the guy, the car!

69 Fairlane in powder blue

$500.00 ten year old 4 door chevy junker!

I learned to drive on my mother's 1956 Chevy Bel Air station wagon. It was red and white. The first car that was mine to drive was a hand me down from my MIL, a 1952 Buick nicknamed Chug. It had a hood that opened from either side or could be removed completely. The antenna was controlled with a knob on the inside so you could lower the antenna by twisting the knob. It did not have power steering and sometimes I had to ask the passenger to help me turn the steering wheel to parallel park. It was dark green. It finally only ran in reverse, so we backed it to a junkyard. Wish I still had it.

A Ford Torino about a 1970? Manual transmission. White.

Like this.

A used Studebaker which looked like a pregnant roller skate.

1963 Corvair loved that thing! White with blue interior and a hole in the backseat floor to drop beer cans out of! OMG, that was terrible!

Well, the first car I ever drove was my then-boyfriend's 1974 Ford V-6 Capri. The head of Ford had formerly run Ford Europe and the Capri was developed as the lower-cost Porsche 914 competitor. He brought it to the US and for a while it was sold side-by-side with the Mustang.

No power steering or air conditioner. Parallel parking that car meant fogging up the windshield on cold nights! Dang, it was heavy. Got a whopping 14 mpg, and when gas shot up to $1.50 we practically had a heart attack - remember the "oil shock" days?

On the good side, once underway the Capri handled and braked beautifully. It was a great driving car. I was still on my learner's permit when I got a speeding ticket. I was going 80mph and the CHP kindly wrote it down for 70 so I wouldn't pay so much.

As we drove away, I remarked to my boyfriend, "Guess it's a good thing he didn't catch us when I was going 90+ a while back."

LOL!

(It was actually my boyfriend's suggestion I rev it up, since the highway was completely empty and straight. He wanted me to experience what it was like to be driving really fast, just for a short distance. After about 2 min we went back down to 80.)

I had a 4 on the floor Chev pickup my dad put together from a 1964 and a 1965 pickup.

The first car that I bought was a Hyundai something or other. I was just starting out and didn't have much in the line of credit. The car place had just one car on the lot that I could get a loan for. The trouble was that it was a standard shift that I didn't know how to drive. Young and determined, I bought it anyway and by the time I drove it home I had pretty much gotten the hang of it. I felt very cool and important! Loved that car. I've driven a standard shift ever since.

RavenCajun, my second car was a Gran Torino, 73 in coppertone :-) That baby was a fast little beast!

MGB-GT. British racing green. I loved that car, but everything cost twice as much to fix and I was earning a pittance. I still dream about driving that car.

'83 mustang. Special ordered, two tone paint, interior up grade and sun roof..dad wanted me to get power steering I wanted the sun roof. When I got married and kids with car seats came along, it got traded off for a four door something something. :(

1975 Toyota Corolla. I paid for it, my insurance and the registration thanks to my first grownup job. Loved that little car. I later sold it to buy a better car and was really sad when I learned it had been abandoned on the streets of Los Angeles.

jakkom, I don't think your Mercury Capri story is very accurate, especially not the part about it being intended to compete with Porsche.

I had a friend that had one in the early 70s, maybe a 1972 model. It was a pretty standard import for the time (made, I think, by Ford in Germany). It wasn't sporty at all and was also not particularly peppy.

I checked with wikipedia - the Capri in the early years was made with Ford Cortina engines and other Cortina components. I had another friend with one of those too, it was boxy and smaller than a Capri but equally slow and with pretty pedestrian handling.

The first car ever registered to me was a later 70's-something Buick. The first car I ever bought was a 1986 Nissan Sentra...an Energizer bunny, per Frik and Frak (sp?) I named her Testuko, LOL. I was 25- loved her.

Red MGB.

I bought a 1960 Ford Falcon with my own money...brand new car, color was called Mediterrain Green, just barely a tint. I loved that car! It had a standard transmission and I drove it to get my drivers license. My monthly payments were $33.00.

As car wonderful and all as this thread is... I’m gonna be a bummer and remind folks that quite often this is a security question to access personal accounts.

I didn't own my own car as a teen. When we married I married his vehicle also. A Chevy van, panel truck style, no windows. Then we bought our first family car, a Toyota Corolla. He still drove the van. That was fine with one child but when I was pregnant with DS we bought a new Chevy Caprice station wagon. DH meanwhile had a series of used vehicles also. Mostly trucks. I drove that for almost 10 years. Drove it in a destruction derby. Then I had a series of used cars. Then we bought a new truck which I pretty much took over. DH bought another used one for himself. I always got the nicer car even if it was the nicer junker. LOL

So this is a long answer for a reason. All my cars (even the ones I hoped to restore) until my present one had to take other people into consideration. Could tall DH fit, could the kids be comfortable in the back seat etc. NOW I finally have MY first car. It's a Santa Fe Sport. It fits me. It fits my dog(s). It fits my life. I chose the color for me. I chose the model for me! I am the only driver with rare exception. DH bought his first post marriage personal just what he wanted vehicle last year. A new GMC truck. I like it too. ;-)

That old Chevy Van is still going. We sold it to a friend 40 years ago and now the son who was a baby at the time has it.

A lime green 1973 Volkswagen Beetle. I still remember the license plate. UGT 370. I remember it because we used to call it the Ugly Green Turd!

I learned to drive on a 1947 Ferguson tractor and Dad's 1927 Model A Ford, 2 door, sedan. The first car I bought was a 1928 Ford Model A, 4 door, with window shades on the rear passenger side windows. These shades were like regular house, roll up window shades. The interior was green felt. The window shades were color matched to the interior. Because the car was old, the green interior had darkened. Tools, tire pump, jack, and inner tube patching material were stored under the back seat.

@bees needs...nice to hear from someone who thinks like me, as in all the things that can go wrong. I don't know how others do it, but if I was answering a security question, I sure wouldn't use anything "discoverable". I.E. the name of your best friend in grade school? Answer: oranges or better yet, xcvbtez.

My first car was a 1968 Austin Cambridge standard used. I loved that car and it got my through 5 years of university.

I'v never seen this fact as a security question. Just don't ask me my favourite animal or the name of my first favourite animal however.

My first car was a nine year old '61 Bonneville. What a boat!! The steering column fell into the street when the universal joint broke. What a happy day when I was able to get rid of that beast!

In 63 bought a new VW beetle which we traded in for the brand new Ford Mustang with racing stripes and bucket seats and is now a highly desired collectors car. The sweetest car was traded in on a brand new Country Squire Ford Station Wagon, the ugliest and most hated car I ever had bought to accommodate two kids and a big dog. Hated it. From that lemon on we bought all German , Japanese , Swedish cars, never bought American again.

'65 Mustang convertible.

1971 cutlass supreme... that car was awesome!! second car 1970 442, that car was a beast, love that one!!

>>I had a friend that had one in the early 70s, maybe a 1972 model.>>

Most people bought the Capri with a V4 engine. It's a dog. The V6 was much better but it was, as stated, a gas hog.

My friend lived in the Hollywood Hills so there were plenty of opportunities for higher speed, curvy roads (like how Laurel Canyon used to be with no traffic). I'm not sure what engine he had in it but whether going uphill (when sometimes the HP might matter) or downhill (when it never would matter), that Capri cornered like a truck hauling a heavy load, leaning too far and losing road control/feel. You can have your recollection as I have mine, they don't need to be the same. But to call it a Porsche competitor is more than a stretch. Is that what your boyfriend told you at the time?

And as far as recollections are concerned, when you said

" for a while it was sold side-by-side with the Mustang."

I hope you remember that the Capri was branded as a Mercury, not a Ford. Mercury was a division of Ford but Lincoln/Mercury dealerships were separate from Ford dealerships, so I don't think the two would have been sold "side by side".

My husband bought me my first car. We were newlyweds in 1975 and didn't have a lot of $$ at the time, so he got me a used light green '67 Mustang with a V8 engine for 600$!. I loved that car! It was all mine and I drove it like a maniac everywhere...until I totaled it. Oh, I miss that car.

Elmer, I really dislike getting into pointless disagreements with you. However, you can check this site which details WHY the Capri was in fact part of both Ford and Mercury lines for 1974, sigh.

The photo is identical to that old Capri, except ours was blue. Jeez, that black interior was roasting hot when we visited my mom in Sacramento in the summer (remember, no AC!).

https://jalopnik.com/5378561/1974-ford-capri

Here's the Wikipedia article on the Mercury Capri. The thing about Wikipedia is that it's open to the public to correct. If you think this information is wrong, you can change it. But if others disagree with you, they'll change it back. I just read its articles when I have an interest. I think it's an obviously more authoritative source than what you cited, more people scrutinize it for accuracy.

It happens to be consistent with my recollection. I'd still consider it to be authoritative if it suggested my recollection were wrong. You maybe should too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Capri

a 63 corvair convertible - I loved that car, it was my first (we didn't have a car when I was growing up). none of my sisters got one until they were married.

it cost 400.00 $.

Chevy Monza. It was horrid and scary in the snow. SO I didn't keep it long, living in hilly regions of CT at the time.

An AMC Matador from my father. When he got it he was going to a local dealership with a stated plan of getting some small, foreign car with good mileage for driving back and forth to work. When he came home in the Matador, a full-size American car, and ugly as heck to boot, we thought he was joking.

In the end the joke was on me. After being given the car to take to college, it was endless problems.

The first car I bought was a used Nissan Sentra Hatchback, which I bought in December, long ago, and while driving to visit my brother in northern Ohio a couple of weeks later in mid-January I encountered freezing rain, and black ice, and slid off the road, hit a telephone pole broadside, and totaled the car.

Immediately after that a work friend was leaving for a better job, and wanted to sell his 190000 mile Toyota Corolla. When I asked how much he wanted he said "I was hoping to get $400 to $600", so I offered $400 on the spot.

bob, your coworker didn't know what they had on their hands. I bet that $400 car lasted you at least another five or more years! That's not high mileage, at all, for a Toyota.

My car is listed here

Our first car was a beautiful black and white 57 Chevy..,with a black and white leather interior....glass pack V8! What a car! Sure wish I had that car now....loved it.

My father and I shared a 1950 Chrysler Windsor. I drove him to work and then to high school during the week, he had the car for trips to the country for shooting on the weekends. Parking that big heavy battleship was quite something. No power steering! It had "Fluid Drive", a combination of sort-of automatic and manual transmission.