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RE: First Car - 6/15/2009 12:11:01 PM
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stamper_ben
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My very first transportation was a Montgomery Wards Moped. I was 13 when I first started driving that in the country during the summers to get to the swimming or fishing hole. The next was a 125cc Monkey Wards motorcycle. It had a KICK START! I shared it with my Dad and even drove it into town. Next was a Kawasaki 350 that I had in high school. By this time I had a license. Rain or shine I drove that thing. My girlfriend at the time complained that I spent more attention to that bike then I did to her.
But alas, I crashed it slipping in some spilled gravel on the road. Had a concussion and was out of it for three days in addition to losing my front teeth. (If you think that's bad, you shoulda seen the helmet I was wearing at the time!) So, my dear big brother gave me the vehicle he was driving at the time as he was getting another one. Well, he gave it to me after I gave him $300.  It was a 1959 lime green Rambler station wagon, flathead 6 with three gears on the column. It got 100 miles a quart! Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea... Finally gave that one away to a guy I knew who need a car after I stripped the threads in the head putting in spark plugs.
Last I heard of that ol' Rambler was a notice from the highway Patrol that it was found abandoned on the side of hwy 101 in Northern Calif....
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RE: First Car - 6/15/2009 12:23:17 PM
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1966 red and white Ford Mustang
$12,000
16 years old
What year was this, that you were paying $12,000 for a '66 Mustang?
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RE: First Car - 6/15/2009 5:12:52 PM
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In 1979, I paid $4,000 cash for a brand new red Mazda GLC hatchback. I drove it from the midwest to California for my senior year of college and was glad for the 30+ miles per gallon it got during the energy crisis at the time. I took out student loans for $3,300 to pay for my last year of college at 3% and 5% (when money market accounts were earning 10% and reached close to 18% during the time I was paying off the loans) so I paid them off as slowly as possible.
I drove it for six years and then my dad bought it to give my sister. By then I really wanted a car with air conditioning and cloth seats. It's been 30 years since I bought that car and I have only owned three other cars, all purchased brand new. I paid cash for all but the second one, which I paid off in less than 18 months. I plan to drive my current car at least six more years.
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RE: First Car - 6/19/2009 8:27:23 PM
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ORIGINAL: Harvie
1966 red and white Ford Mustang
$12,000
16 years old
What year was this, that you were paying $12,000 for a '66 Mustang?
1981. (It needed work.)
Trying with all my might to obey the eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's '66 Mustang.
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RE: First Car - 6/19/2009 11:24:39 PM
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'66 Mustangs get special dispensation.
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RE: First Car - 6/19/2009 11:25:12 PM
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SavedByGraceMD
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What was the make and model of your first car? How much did it cost? How old were you?
I bought a Toyota Tercel wagon for $2250. It was a great car! I was 22.
Woah. Mine was a 1986 or 87 pontiac 6000 station wagon. A clunker to say the least. But it was free, outside of the $1100 it cost me to get fixed just in order for it to pass inspection. The car had been sitting so long that it had a mouse nest in the engine.
I was 18
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RE: First Car - 6/21/2009 7:31:56 PM
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crankius
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ORIGINAL: stamper_ben
My very first transportation was a Montgomery Wards Moped. I was 13 when I first started driving that in the country during the summers to get to the swimming or fishing hole. The next was a 125cc Monkey Wards motorcycle. It had a KICK START! I shared it with my Dad and even drove it into town. Next was a Kawasaki 350 that I had in high school. By this time I had a license. Rain or shine I drove that thing. My girlfriend at the time complained that I spent more attention to that bike then I did to her.
But alas, I crashed it slipping in some spilled gravel on the road. Had a concussion and was out of it for three days in addition to losing my front teeth. (If you think that's bad, you shoulda seen the helmet I was wearing at the time!) So, my dear big brother gave me the vehicle he was driving at the time as he was getting another one. Well, he gave it to me after I gave him $300. It was a 1959 lime green Rambler station wagon, flathead 6 with three gears on the column. It got 100 miles a quart! Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea... Finally gave that one away to a guy I knew who need a car after I stripped the threads in the head putting in spark plugs.
Last I heard of that ol' Rambler was a notice from the highway Patrol that it was found abandoned on the side of hwy 101 in Northern Calif....
Yikes about the concussion and lost teeth.
As a kid, I had a Honda 70 that could only be started by running it along with your feet and then letting out the clutch (also called a push start, right?).
Then during college I had a red Honda scooter that I bought for $50.00 from a friend. I miss the red scooter. After college, someone pushed it down an embankment and it met a sad end. 
"1959 lime green Rambler station wagon"--Hilarious!
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RE: First Car - 6/21/2009 7:45:13 PM
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But I had $15K in the bank that I had saved up from mowing lawns since I was in third grade. I took that money and used it to buy a two-year-old Mustang. After that, the kids who made fun of me got laughed at for driving Lexuses. Still, it was a foolish financial move. Had I put the money in the stock market, or a Roth IRA, I'd have been able to pay for a semester or two of grad school.
Well, I've got you beat on the foolish financial moves.
I drove my parents' '95 Geo Prizm for a couple years during college (great car, btw). About 3 months out of school, I fell asleep and drove it into a ditch.  Then I purchased my first car, which was an '01 Dodge Durango (this was in 2002; it had about 13K miles). Total price was somewhere around $23K. The $10,000 I got when my grandfather died earlier that year was the down payment. Payments on the remainder were ~$400/mo. Insurance was about $300/mo.
2 years later, I was laid off, so I traded it and $900 cash for an '02 Hyundai Accent, which I still drive. 
-Dan.
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RE: First Car - 6/24/2009 9:15:13 AM
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1969 Chevy Malibu. Not a Super Sport, but was a 2 door coupe. I was 15 and the car was a gift from my Uncle as his mother died, we are the only family left on that side. When summer was over and I turned 16, I was embarrassed to drive it to school. I didn't know much about cars. But on the second day, other kids at school saw me driving it and went nuts over it being a 69 Chevy. From then on, I was the coolest geek.  It lasted just over a year; the engine was so bad it one of those where you stop to fill it up with oil and check the gas.  I wanted to fix it up, but Mom wouldn't let me spend any $$$ or turn it into a "redneck car". The guy that bought it built it into a street legal Super Sport racer. It looked cool... oh well, Moms just don't understand. Then I got a Jeep CJ7, think we paid $7500. Boy I wish I had THAT back! I keep seeing old junkers for sale, just might buy one soon to rebuild my old Jeep as I remember.
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RE: First Car - 6/30/2009 12:46:46 PM
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jod78
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91 Mitsubishi Eclips, $6500. I'll never own another Mitsubishi
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RE: First Car - 7/1/2009 1:41:42 AM
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Peloton
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My sisters first car was a '59 Studebaker Lark S/W with a flat head 6cyl. and an automatic trans.
Myself, first was a '64 Ford Fairlane 500 with a 289 4bbl carb. Bought it for $700. Drove it till I got rear ended by an insurance brokers daughter. Then I had a '63 Ford Falcon Sprint conv., V-8, w/ a 4 spd. Clean. Also had the 3001 Ford Pinto, actually built in 1970, w/ a 1.6L 4 cyl. from England. Bought a Cortina GT and built a new 1.6L that dynoed at 120 hp. That was a fun car with less than 100 cu inches.
My little sis's first was a Chevy Impalla SS conv. with a 454.
Gas used to be cheap here with 4 refineries, now it's higher than most of California. Go figure...
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