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Used teal ’93 Plymouth Colt Vista… Unique little car…
I was forced to buy a car in college after “killing” my parents car by somehow blowing out the timing belt or some thingamabob by “allegedly” forgetting to check/add oil. I still claim that there must have been a big leak and all the oil dripped out as I was driving that day. To LaCrosse. From where they had to drive 3&1/2 hours to come get me when the car suddenly died in the middle of the road. Oops. 😳 Other people in the family used the car. Why didn’t THEY check the oil? 🙄
My first car was a 1972 Plymouth Duster, with the 340 engine. Bought it for 2 grand of inheritance money . Wish I still had it!
My first and last NEW car was a ’79 Mustang Cobra…the first year they uglified the Pony. Paid $5895 for it. I’d like that one back, too!In the last 13 years, it’s been 4 LeSabres and one Park Avenue. I guess I do more driving in my current job than at any other time. Might as well be comfortable! 🙂
My dad has owned several cars and I think was excited when I was getting close to getting my license because he could buy more cars. 😆
My first car was a Pinto, though he sold that shortly before I got my license. I did learn to drive on it and thought the push button on the floor for the headlights was the coolest thing.
My first REAL car that I drove for a long time was a 1987 Buick Skylark. I LOVED that car, it was perfect for me to haul around my friends and it was just a great high school car!
Primer Gray 1980 (or was 81 or 82…) Chevy Citation 4-door with bright green neon windshield wipers and 6×9’s in the back. It had a push button stereo tuner for the presets. Best 300 bucks I ever spent.
Drove it all through high school. Then I bought a Camaro. Then a Dodge Daytona, can’t remember the year. Then a 1979 Cutlass. Then a lincoln Mark something. Then something else that looked like a boat. Then a grandpa looking car which I totaled geocaching. Then my current vehicle a 1998 Tahoe.
Always had a taste for the finer side of automobiles 😉
You could say I’ve always had a “clunker” and that will probably never change..
On the flip side my wife has owned not 1, not 2, but 3 new vehicles in her lifetime.
thepharmgirl wrote:Used teal ’93 Plymouth Colt Vista… Unique little car…Unique? You better look up the meaning of that word.
I started driving just before the era of muscle cars. All of my friends eventually had one.
Some of the cars I owned in the 1960’s
1955 Chevy Bel-Air
1956 Chevy Bel-Air
1957 Chevy Bel-Air
1959 Chevy Impala
1963 Chevy Impala convertibleIf I still had all of them I could pay someone to find geocaches for me.
’67 Mustang coupe, 302 v8 Auto.
Ibought it from a guy who had used it in his high school shop class. It had 50 series tires on the back and extensions on the rear quarters that came straight out from the side so that all of the tires were covered.
Il State police made me take it off of the road because the front suspension was collapsing. Used parts of it to make my second car, a 67 Mustang coupe, drivable.
I just recently sold the second one. The first one was cut up for scrap but I still have the title.
’73 Pontiac Catalina – $200
That thing was a boat. I had a 2X4 holding the front seat up. I went from that to a ’78 Chevy Sprint (Geo Metro). That little piece of crap was a 3 Cyl 1.0 Liter. I think I could run faster.
’85 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale
That was a boat
Back in ’88 I got my first car for $100, it was a ’72 Pontiac Ventura (Same body as a Chevy Nova) It was a 4 door with a 262 under the hood, best part was it was a 3 on the tree stick shift and won quite a few drag races at it did better than 55 in first gear. After a couple of years of driving the collum shifter broke inside and had to put a hurst on the floor, good thing I was tall as the front bench seat needed to be all the way back to get it into 1st and 3rd. Traded it in on a Ford Ranger my senior year of high school and got $500 for it. Loaded my Ranger with all Hot Pink accessories: wipers, light covers, tailgate net, 10″ steering wheel Petal covers…..
Ah the 90’s were a great time
Barry of sweetlife
My 1st car was in 1976. It was a pretty baby blue 1972 Mercury Cougar with a dark blue roof. It was an automatic with a “T” handle on the floor.
Remember when cb’s were a big thing for the cars???? Well I took my cb handle (blue_cougar) from that car……& it has stayed with me ever since 1976.
When I got married in 1984 the NOW ex hubby said we didnt need 3 vehicles…….so he said we should get rid of the Cougar. Well now knowing what I know now………..I should have gotten rid of the ex hubby then & kept the car…………lol
@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
@thepharmgirl wrote:
Used teal ’93 Plymouth Colt Vista… Unique little car…
Unique? You better look up the meaning of that word.
I started driving just before the era of muscle cars. All of my friends eventually had one.
Some of the cars I owned in the 1960’s
1955 Chevy Bel-Air
1956 Chevy Bel-Air
1957 Chevy Bel-Air
1959 Chevy Impala
1963 Chevy Impala convertibleIf I still had all of them I could pay someone to find geocaches for me.
The ’57. My dream car. Was it a hard top Bill?
I start thinking of the Bel-Air and I forget what I was going to post.
My first car was a 1980 Ford Fairmount station wagon. Off white w/woodgrain sides. I totaled it on a deer while passing someone on highway 51 north of Merrill in ’87. It was the deer or all of us. Nothing fancy but it treated me good. 😀
@furfool wrote:
@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
@thepharmgirl wrote:
Used teal ’93 Plymouth Colt Vista… Unique little car…
Unique? You better look up the meaning of that word.
I started driving just before the era of muscle cars. All of my friends eventually had one.
Some of the cars I owned in the 1960’s
1955 Chevy Bel-Air
1956 Chevy Bel-Air
1957 Chevy Bel-Air
1959 Chevy Impala
1963 Chevy Impala convertibleIf I still had all of them I could pay someone to find geocaches for me.
The ’57. My dream car. Was it a hard top Bill?
2 door hardtop, red and off white tutone. Bored 283 with a Holley 4-barrel and a rare 2 speed automatic.
The first car I ever drove was my grandpa’s Stuedebaker. The first car I owned was a 1980 Pinto Pony. Funny thing is I took a Bobcat for a ride and was prepared to buy that, but the salesman said he had something just like it for less money. I bit… and bought the brand new Pinto Pony. Since I lived in AZ at the time I had to get license and insurance before I could drive it off the lot. After getting all that done and the loan papers signed (around $5,000) brand new. I hopped in the front seat to drive it and it was a stick shift. Let’s just say I learned how to use a clutch pretty quickly after a short lesson from the salesman’s son.
Mrs. TEA 1964 Chevy Impala with a straight six, three on the tree, standard stearing, standard brakes. The front end was smashed, so I had to replace that. The interior was perfect, probably due to those funky plastic seat covers. After getting it painted, it was a pretty nice car. Just not too high on the “cool” scale in 1978…
I had a lot of cars during the next few years, but some of the more memorable ones were:
1964 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88. This was a HUGE car.
1970 Dodge Satallite (like a Road Runner) with a 440 Magnum
1970 Dodge Challenger (like a Barracuda)
1969 Chevelle SS 396. Had this car for almost eight years. I really regret getting rid of it.
I even had a 1972 Olds Ventura like Sweetlife. Wasn’t green, was it?
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