POLL: * The Official * What happened to your very first car? thread

[Jerboy]

Okay people please list the following infos:

The year model and declared value of the vehicle at the time of purchase

Your age then

Your age now

How long you had the car for

how did your ownership of that vehicle ended

Your gender

 

[Rallispec]

93' civic sedan, stopped driving it after it stopped working
i was 19 when it stopped working (male) got it when i was 16

 

[CraigRT]

Sold it in march 2001 and got my new car...

it was a 1988 LeBaron GTS and i traded it in and got $300 for it towards my new car.. (not even a month's payment)

it still ran fine........

I was 17 when I got it, 19 when I sold it, and now I am 20, going on 21 in May. =phew=

 

[ohtwell]

91' Ford Escort (Black)

I flipped it over into a ditch. Caved in the roof and busted the windshield.

I was 16 at the time

I am 22 now.

I hadn't had the car very long.

Female

I miss my car.

 

[spanky]

early 80's buick regal... had a motor oil leak and pretty much the engine melted while i was driving on the garden state parkway (in NJ).

 

[punkrawket]

1981 BMW 320i

I was 17 (I am 18 )

bought for $750... value little over 1K

she's still running strong.... had her for almost 2 years now

 

[samgau]

You should add a got towed category... cause thats what happened to mine... got towed and was never seen again... granted it barely ran by that time and had been sitting in the appartment complex parking lot of at least 4 months... was an 82 dodge charger bought for $400 when I was 22, am now 27 and had the car for a year or so...

oh yeah I'm male...

 

[Cheesemoo]

ok, its a 1984 toyata corrola i got it when i was 15, woth prob around 2500, only paid 500 for it. my sister cut me a deal.. i am 2 now, and male

EDIT- oops i forgot to say the transmission stopped working a few years later. it wouldnt go into 3rd gear or reverse. i had to stick my foot out the door and back it up flintstone style. the tranny was gonna cost me 600 to fix. i figured i only paid 500 for it so i sold it to some guy for 450 who only had a tranny .

here is a pic of it. it was infront of my high school parkking lot.

memories........

 

[Trader05]

I was 17, had a 1985 LeBaron GTS with 107k on it, drove it for 4 months parked it, then a couple months after that drove it for 2 months as a winter car, and the transmision is basically pouring out fluid (111k). Oh well ditched it in the backyard for now, driving my 89'Stang now and again. I'm 18 now, male.

 

[MistaTastyCakes]

I'm still driving my 1995 Dodge Stratus, my first car. In real good shape too.. low mileage for the age. (60k)

I'm lucky though. One of my friends' first cars was a $50 Hyundai that he bought and we wrecked out in a field. But.. it wasn't exactly daddy's Beamer if ya know what I mean.. so nobody really cared. One of my friends is on his 3rd car so far, just cause his parents think he "needs" a new one every year and a half or so. I don't quite get it, but whatever. Mine's still faster than his Jetta.

edit: I'm a guy, got it when I was 16, I'm now 18 in about 2 weeks.. no damage, new dings, accidents.. go me.

 

[luvya]

I had sex with it :Q:Q:Q
AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

 

[Atrail]

You mean my yellow 1973 Buick GranSport.
It is in my grandparents front lawn wasting away.

THEBEAST

 

[Brutuskend]

It was a 1960 Corvair I owned in about 69-70. (Paid $50)...worth?? Probably around $50!

I made the mistake of having the High School Auto Shop "work" on it. (my age at the time..16) Age now....you do the math!

After the "repair" (and it no longer ran) I left it there and it eventually got stripped. (owned it about 6-7 months)

Wish I still had the motor. I'd drop it in my second car. (VW Squareback)

I'm a GUY

 

[AreaCode707]

<< Okay people please list the following infos:

The year model and declared value of the vehicle at the time of purchase

Your age then

Your age now

How long you had the car for

Your gender >>



'99 Mercury Sable - roughly $12,000

Age: 16
Age now: 18
Had the car for a year
Female.
An F350 happened to it, driven by a 17 year old male who was "looking at the Corvette that was going the other direction" when I stopped behind another car at a light. Didn't scratch his truck, totalled my car.

You need an option for, it was totalled by SOMEONE ELSE, I didn't total my car.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Camaro (laugh all you want )

Sitting at a red light. Big van on my left (5 lane street (2 each way and a turn lane)). Light turns green. Pull out, can't see on the other side of the van. Gentleman (well that's a nice word. Let's call him sorry fvck) with a car full of kids runs his light (across 5 lanes? are you insane?) and hits me where the door closes doing about 45. Threw one of his kids from the car, and really messed up his back. He of course didn't have insurance. I had uninsured motorist so I was good. Car held up like a champ. I really wish I had pics of it.

When he hit it pushed the car into a traffic light pole, those things are pretty sturdy. Car looked like a V from the top. Totaled the car. Never found out what happened to him, didn't really care at the time. Unfortunate that his kids were with him and not buckled up :|

 

[Alienwho]

I'm still waiting for Jerboy or Don Nigera to happen to my car. (Me running their asses down)

 

[Maetryx]

Okay people please list the following infos:

The year model and declared value of the vehicle at the time of purchase: 1965 VW Beetle, $400

Your age then: 16 in 1987 (obviously a used car)

Your age now: 30

How long you had the car for 8 years, but most of the time it didnt' work:

Your gender: male

I finally traded the car for a boat in 1995. I gave the boat to my father-in-law when I moved back to Alaska. I understand he disposed of it somehow.

 

[glenn1]

The year model and declared value of the vehicle at the time of purchase: 1976 VW Rabbit Custom, $1,800

Your age then: 16

Your age now: 32

How long you had the car for: 3 years

Your gender: Male


What happened to your very first car?: Totalled by my sister. I came back from a two-year stint in Korea for the U.S. Army, and after hugs and greetings, my father said, "Hey Glenn, do you remember your car?" Not exactly the words i wanted to hear.

 

[Supermercado]

-1989 Chevy Cavalier (not even Z24...)
-We actually bought the car 3 months before I turned 16. Had to have time to learn to drive a stick before I turned 16.
-19
-I've had it for a little over 3 1/2 years (it's still the car I drive)
-Male

 

[vi edit]

The year model and declared value of the vehicle at the time of purchase
1990 Pontiac Grand AM. Value: $3500

Your age then
18(in 1996)

Your age now
24

How long you had the car for
3 years(Kept till 1999)

Your gender
Male

I kept the car till it hit about 110 miles(Got it with 56k). I ended up trading it in for $900 twords a '97 Monte Carlo Z34 w/ 11,000 miles on it. I've still got the Monte Carlo, but my fiancee drives it.

The only damage that the Grand Am incurred during my possession of it was during a nasty storm when a piece of awning was ripped off the apartment building that I was living in and landed on top of my car. Put a nasty scratch and a small dent in the roof of the car.

 

[HappyGamer2]

I was 16 in 1979, I bought a 1970 ford maverick with a 170 six cylinder for 115 dollars, it was in good shape but the motor was tired. later i put a 200 7 main bearing six in it. I drove it almost 4 years and beat the crap out of it every day. it slowly got tired thou...it was a good car.

 

[Squisher]

1964 F85 Oldsmobile, man, I can't believe I ditched that car for what I found out later were very repairable problems.

 

[Time2Kill]

1994 GMC Sierra short box step side 4wd with custom paint job and stuff

16 then

17.5 now

Mom had it since '94, I've had it since I was 16

Male

Still drive the truck, but also have a Camaro, the truck is my winter automobile

I've caused no accidents, but I've been rear ended by my stupid friend twice, and he wonders why I wont let him drive any of my cars
The only good part is it caused my truck no damage both times, and he tore his hood and smashed up his quarter panels in is Cutlass Supreme

 

[notfred]

The year model and declared value of the vehicle at the time of purchase: 1986 GMC sierra pickup - $250

Your age then: 16

Your age now: 20

How long you had the car for: 2 years

Your gender: male

Death by cross country road trip. Had 147k miles on it when I left Santa Cruz CA. Drove to Las Vegas, Boulder CO, Palm Beach FL, Washington DC, NYC, Back to Colorado, and back to CA.

When I got back the heat didn't work, the driver's side window wouldn't seal, the grill was taken out (by a giant fricking tumbleweed blowing across the freeway in CO), the CD player was broken, the parking brake didn't work, and the truck was 10x over the limit to pass smog. Still ran great, all 4 speeds worked great

Would have needed a new motor to pass smog though, so I sold it to the scrapyard for $50. Was a good truck while I had it.

 

[Demosthenes]

The year model and declared value of the vehicle at the time of purchase: 1995 Nissan Sentra.. worth around 6k, I think

Your age then:17

Your age now:18

How long you had the car for:almost 1.5 years

Your gender:male

Wanna hear about how it got totalled? See, I ran head first into this semi..... actually, I hit a median at about 35 mph. Normal median... normal curb, and it TOTALLED the car! christ! Oh well, at least I got a much nicer one out of the whole deal..