Plan B Forum

This came tied to an automotive website I frequent.

http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/11 ... s-tony-dow

I don't have to worry about someone returning my first car to me. I still have it. My MGA is my fourth car.

My first car that I bought (in 1976) was a 64 dart, 4 door, 225, push button tranny.
First car I drove was a 64 VW beetle (dads commuting car).

First car I ever drove (and used to get my license in 1971) was my dad's old 1965 Chevy Impala 4-door.
First car I ever bought was a 1969 Plymouth Fury III in the summer of 1976.
Since then, I've moved up about 31 model years; I'm rolling around in a 2000 Mercury Villager now.
Hey, if it ain't broke, why replace it?

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10-15 years is usually the max I keep a car for. Unless an accident totals it.
My wifes first brand new car we bought in 1999 (buick century) then a lancer in 2009.
My first new car was a 82 dodge charger (what a dissapointment to the name Charger) then in 2001 I got a PT Cruiser LTD. That got totalled in 2007? and I went and bought the almost exact same car (only in gold, my original was blue) and 60k less miles on it. Had that til 2014 when some electrical problems cropped up. Bought my current car, 2015 subaru forester. Was going to fix the PT but never got around to it. Someone bought it for $500 (150K+ miles on it) with the electrical problems still there. He did get a bunch of spare parts that I took from the totalled PT.

The first car I ever drove was practicing backing up in my Mom's '73 Datsun pickup (which she still has). My Mom bought me a '78 510 Station Wagon which I used to pass my driver's test in, but it was totalled when a woman ran a red light and T-boned it 6 months after we got it. It's replacement, another '78 Datsun 510 Station Wagon, I still have. My Mom bought it from a family friend in 1991 and transferred title to me in '93. The first car I bought on my own was another '78 510 in the summer of '92, but a hatchback. It was a wreck when I got it but I fixed it well enough to re-title it and used it for a few years. Ended up becoming a parts car and disposed of. A lot of parts, including the engine, ended up in my third 510 Hatchback, which I also still have.

I've never owned a new car. Youngest was a '91 Corsica I bought in 2000 and sold to my folks 6 months later. My Pathfinder is also a '91, but it was well over 20 years old when I got it in 2014. Mostly I drive a '76 Datsun King Cab pickup that's more rust than metal.

First car I ever bought;

So, where were you in 1960? The Ford Anglia -- star of the movie "Never Let Go." BTW -- Richard Todd was great in this Brit flick.

I'll bet yours couldn't fly, Gob.



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Nope, but it would be worth a mint now if I'd hung onto it!

Gob wrote:Nope, but it would be worth a mint now if I'd hung onto it!

I've had several cars that I'd put in that category...including a 1957 Packard, a 1963 Land Rover 109 station wagon, and a 1969 International Scout 800A (the first new car I ever bought). Oh jeez...I guess even my 1964 VW kombi would be worth a lot now.

First car I bought was a 64 Chevy 2 (the forerunner to the Nova) with a straight 6. Two years later I traded it in for a 66 Dodge Coronet (the Plymouth Satellite twin as I recall) with a 318 V8 and a two barrel carb. That lasted me through college, but was constantly plagued by cooling system (I replaced the water pump twice), exhaust (always the center pipe--I still recall the rust that rained down on you when you replaced it), and ultimately transmission problems--but I still remember it fondly (even if it made me hate working on cars).

First car I drove was a 64 beetle (dags commuting cara).
First car I baught was a 64 dodge dart slant 6 225 with push button tranny.
Had a single chamber master cylinder and a brake line broke. So did the emergency brake cable. Came to a stop by rubbing the curb with my tires then throwing the lever that put it into park.

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I always wanted a '61 Valiant with the spare tire stamping on the trunk lid. I think the stamping was eliminated in 62.

My dad had a Corvair Turbo, first US car with a turbocharger. He hated the clutch spring, which was really heavy, but drove it all through residency in pathology and forensic pathology. Often came home with the trunk (in front) full of tupperwares and jars of formalin and different people parts.

The only notable vehicles I drove early on were an Oliver tractor and a Massey-Ferguson tractor with a loader.


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My first car was a 1967 VW Squareback.

Paid $350 for a car exactly like this:



Explored Death Valley on a search for Barker Ranch.

First car was one of these...same color, different wheels:



Had the 200ci (3.3 litre) six and the rare 4-speed MANUAL transmission.

rubato wrote:My dad had a Corvair Turbo, first US car with a turbocharger.

I had a brown Corvair Spyder (That's the turbo.) a couple of years ago. Barn find sort of thing. Deceased owner. Widow wanted it gone. The last tag was 1991. It took me a couple of days to get it running. Drained the OLD gas, added fresh to the tank, took the top off of the single carburetor and poured it full of gas, and it fired right up. We called it the brown recluse as it had hidden itself so well for years. I sold it to the president of the local Corvair club.

rubato wrote: The only notable vehicles I drove early on were an Oliver tractor...

An Oliver 70? Man that's an oldie. My dad made do with an aged Oliver 88, successor to the 80, for MANY years. Finally got an Oliver 770, and later an Oliver 1650 which he used until retirement at about 75. Yeah, he was stuck in an Oliver-Nash-AMC rut.

The first car I ever drove was my mother's 1957 English Ford Squire station wagon. A Squire had REAL wood trim on the sides. An Escort didn't. My uncle, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco in 1960, spent a couple of weeks visiting us. He thought it would be funny to teach me to drive in a wheat stubble field. I was nine. I'm sure the underside of the car got a good polishing. As far as I know, they never had to replace the clutch on that car while it was in the family, but I'm sure it took a beating.

It was very similar to this one, but it was black.

Econoline wrote:Oh jeez...I guess even my 1964 VW kombi would be worth a lot now.

Strangely, the Kombi would probably be worth more than the others on your list, although it would not be my first pick. I'd like that Packardbaker.

I wouldn't mind another Fairmont wagon.

347 stroker dressed to look like a 302, either a column-shifted Lenn-Tech AOD or a Tremec 5-speed, looking like a stock Fairmont except for a set of Bullitt wheels.

MY FIRST CAR WAS AN 87 mustang that was somehow invisible ro radar. My next car an 89 mustang wasn't

My friend's first car was a 92 Mustang, that wasn't...because he painted the once-white car electric key-lime.