Your First Ride

[Maindrian Pace]

'62 Biscayne coupe, six/'glide, metallic blue. Like this one.

 

Edited November 28, 2015 by Maindrian Pace

[Erik Smith]

November 1971 - pretty sure I would have come home in this:

1968 Mercury Cougar.  Sold in 1974 and a yellow Volkswagen Dasher replaced it...ugh

 

Edited November 28, 2015 by Erik Smith

[oldcarfan]

Sadly I don't have any pictures of the first vehicle I bought,  but Revell's releasing of the 1982 F150 has made it possible for me to start on a model of it. 

[Howard Cohen]

When I was born my Dad had a '49 Dodge, which he used to tell me he won in a poker game for a dollar  Our next car was a '57 Plymouth, which met a sad end. Driving out of Montreal in '58, the car hit a bad bump, the transmission shifted into reverse while we were going forward and that was it   A few days later Dad showed up with a 2-tone green '58 Biscayne. That was followed by a '59 Impala, a '63 Buick LeSabre, a '68 Biscayne (which I drove), a '74 Mercury, a '78 Chevy ( my Dad complained the high beams didn't work until I showed him the switch was on the stalk, not the floor ) and then an '84 K-car, the last car he had when he passed away. 

My first car was a '65 Corvair, followed by a '72 Fiat 128, a '74 Fiat 128 that I rallied for 5 years, a '75 Nova ex-cop car (lots of top end), '80 Impala, '89 Nissan Sentra, '91 Dodge Spirit company car, '95 Caravan company vehicle, '99 Concorde company vehicle that I bought, '02 Impala and my current ride, '04 Buick Regal.  

I also drove several other cars including some race cars, rally cars, show cars, hot rods, etc. The most famous of all the cars I drove was this single seater Dodge  This thing just would not idle smoothly, it rumbled and shook and didn't even have a radio  My friend Gerry bought it from Austin and we toured it on the show car circuit in Ontario and Quebec before Gerry took it to Europe. 

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Came home in a '91 Volvo 240 (GL?) sedan. First one I remember riding in was either a '67 VW Karmann-Ghia we restored for a member of a philharmonic orchestra in Spain or Dad's '88 Audi Coupe GT.

[Longbox55]

1971 Chevrolet C20, Huggar Orange and white w/black interior. My Dad had bought the truck about a month or so before I was born. He had that truck until '78, when he decided he wanted a 4x4. Sold it to my uncle in Georgia, and he traded it for a '64 Chevelle Super Sport. To my knowledge, the body shop he traded it to still has it.

[THarrison351]

My parents had a red 2 door hardtop 1960 Dodge Dart Phoenix when I was born, but that was not what brought me home from the hospital. That car was in Germany with my dad and my mom was in North Carolina with her folks, so I came to my grandparents home in Granddaddy's 54 Plymouth. After about six weeks we were flown to Germany and reunited with my dad.

[wrecker388]

I was brought home in what is now my 90 Chevy Astro. When my mom told me I came home from the hospital as a newborn in it I couldn't let it be scrapped when it blew a head gasket. Then I had the option between rebuilding the body on it or mom's 01 century for my first car.Needless to say, the  Astro won. It was the only vehicle I really ever rode in for the first 12 years of my life.

[1930fordpickup]

Being number 8 of the 12 the children they had it all blends together for Dad. Mom passed so I can not ask he. She could have told me. Never thought to ask.  My brother told me we had a 55 or 56 Pontiac red over black back then. 

[Mr Stock]

I was bought home in a 1969 Ford Cortina Mk2 1600e in Jade Green, I was born in 1977 so this car was a few years old even by then. 

 

[HomerS]

1973 Plymouth Duster......$450.  A dent in every panel but that slant six would never die!  Option list:  Power steering. 

[High octane]

At the time I was born, my parents didn't have the money to own a car. I believe my first ride was in a taxi cab.

[FordRodnKustom]

I was bought home in a 1969 Ford Cortina Mk2 1600e in Jade Green, I was born in 1977 so this car was a few years old even by then. 

 

Sharp. Looks like that Mk2 could have got you home rather quickly.

[Lunajammer]

This car, this color, only a standard 4-door wagon. Loved that car.

But in '66 we upgraded to a car exactly like this. Loved that car.

[Tom Geiger]

I came home from the hospital in a 1954 Studebaker 4 door sedan.  My father loved the Lowey coupe but couldn't afford one so he got this instead.  Probably a better choice for a family.  I don't remember this car, the first family car I remember was the '62 Lark that replaced it.

My first car was a '66 Valiant V100 2 door sedan. My father bought it used in 1968 and it was a family car up until I got my license in 1975.

Here's a photo of my '66 Valiant circa 1970 in Switzerland. The man in the photo is my grandfather.  My father was a US Army officer so we lived abroad, in Germany from 1969-72. We took the Valiant there with us and again back to the USA.

[DR JAY]

1969 Coronet R/T. Blue with a white bucket interior. Sadly, Dad has no pictures of that car but he assured me it was a handsome machine that went like a scalded ape and chewed through fuel like it was free. He sold it to a kid (Who apparently grenaded the 440 while Highway Racing outside our rural community and it became a yard ornament...) and replaced it with a new Chevrolet wagon with a 454 and a chronic overheating problem that he fixed after a few months with a brand new loaded big block Royal Monaco Brougham.

[Dann Tier]

My first car was a 1979 mustang with a 302

[Deathgoblin]

My parents had a 66 Olds F-85.