Your first car?

[high-speed]

1971 or 72 Datsun B210. Damn near froze to death in that pos more than once. I had it in 1981 and used to have to add a litre of oil every time I put gas in it. Once or twice a week it wouldn't start and I would have to adjust the points to get it going. I was getting damn fast at setting the points, especially when it was twenty below.

 

[Gentleman First]

A dodge 2 wheel drive short box truck.

It was a limited edition with wood side boards and fllor...bright red paint.
Called a "Little Red Express" even had dual stacks like a rig, instead of underfloor exhaust.

I thought i was so cool in that thing at 16 yrs old....looking back i looked like an idiot

 

[luckydog71]

Holy shit, I must be a real old fart.

When I bought my first car, many of your first cars had not even come off the assembly line.

I bought my first car in 1963 and it was 10 years old when I bought it. A PoS, but it was my PoS. I could drive around on $.75 worth of gas.

They use to have submarine races in the waters off Stanley Park, and I remember parking close to Prospect point and waiting until well after dark hoping to catch a glimpse of the submarines that surfaced after the race was over. Never did actually see them, but my date and I were watching from the back seat.

Oh, the car was a Pontiac.

 

[Azcanuck]

1972 Dodge Satellite Sebring

 

[vancouverman]

Fiat 126. This thing had 650cc engine

 

[check]

First car

my first car was a 1927 model T ford. Had no top for it. Was not in B C at that time thank goodness.

 

[Kev]

1976 Corvette.......i bought it in '81 and drove it for 5 years. And then i bought another Corvette.

 

[stryker]

1965 Pontiac Parisienne was CDN named for, I believe, what was the American Pontiac Bonneville. Amusing, since both names are French and female gender, the first meaning "a female living in Paris" and the second "a beautiful town". Geez, cannot remember the number of times I did it in that car.

Thanks for the correct spelling Sonny,,Ya,,I loved that car

 

[Random]

1969 Dodge Dart GT....good times

 

[iropony69]

1982 Mazda 626:

Bought it used at Don Docksteader in 1988. It turned out to be a major lemon. Even the sales man apologized "I'm so sorry you got a lemon, really I truly am but we cannot take the car back"after I tried to give the car back. Good learning experience for me at 18, (spending my entire earning that summer on the vehicle). Good learning expereince for me (trying to look at it positively), I have not been "ripped off" buying a vehicle since.

 

[Ray]

1972 Dodge Charger.
Got it for $100 in 1985. I was 18 at the time. Huuuge back seat!

 

[dick9994]

OK can't resist...here's one for a good laugh!!!

1972 AMC Gremlin......who ever owns one, nothing personal

Never had one, but I would like to claim I did for a good laugh

Second choice would be the Yugo.

 

[Avery]

1965 Pontiac Parisienne was CDN named for, I believe, what was the American Pontiac Bonneville. Amusing, since both names are French and female gender, the first meaning "a female living in Paris" and the second "a beautiful town". Geez, cannot remember the number of times I did it in that car.

Bonneville means "good city", but the car was actually named for the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where world land speed records are set.

My first car was a 1965 Rambler American. I bought it in 1968, and by the time I got rid of it about 15 months later, I had probably spent more on repairs than I originally paid for the car. What a POS!!!

 

[kokanee_68]

OK can't resist...here's one for a good laugh!!!

1972 AMC Gremlin......who ever owns one, nothing personal

Never had one, but I would like to claim I did for a good laugh

Second choice would be the Yugo.

My first was a 72 AMC Javelin..I loved the car!

by the way...seems to be alot of 72`s as first rides.

 

[sdw]

Blue 1954 Plymouth Station Wagon. Paid $75 for the car in 1966 and it cost $115 for the insurance. Flat Head 6 and 3 on the tree. The car was a tank and took all the abuse that a teenage male could deliver. Second car was a Dodge Superbee with a 426 Hemi. Bought new in 1969 and went across Canada and the USA numerous times.

 

[Sonny]

un peu francais

Bonneville means "good city", but the car was actually named for the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where world land speed records are set.

Ville has several meanings: town, city - basically a place where people live. Sometimes a petite ville, sometimes a grand ville. While beautiful is primarily translated as "beau" or "belle" as in the city of Belleville in Ontario, "bonne" is not infrequently used also as "nice" or "pretty" as in Bonneville.

Now as to the use of French in the USA, one goes back about 250 years, when the French had large control of North America. This included Louisana (after King Louis (I forget what number)) which was most of the USA west of the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers. Quebec and the Maritimes were French and the northern parts of Vermont ("green mountain"), New Hampshire and Maine. Just look at a map to see French names of places and lakes. When the Brits came into the Maritimes, the folks known then as Acadians, moved south to the deep south in Lousiana and their name got mangled into Cajuns by the Americans. So even the Bonneville Flats is from this history, and is the basis of naming the Pontiac Bonneville. Of course, the USA obtained Louisana from the French for a song in what is known as the "Lousiana Purchase".

Now if Americans could ever pronounce French correctly - the French car Peugot (pronounced "peeu - juo (soft 'j' & long 'o') is called a 'poo-gott' by the car dealer in Idaho.

And yes, one side of my family is from France.

 

[BDAClub]

'79 plymouth horizon 4 dr. standard. Had it 2 days flying down a dirt road calf comes out of the ditch ....BOOM....destroys the front end. Put it back together lots of fun in the winter on icy roads pullin the E-brake!!

 

[rcw]

oh god!

Blue 1977 AMC Gremlin - even had an 8 Trac Player

 

[necko]

first car

62 corair then 60 chev impala 4 dr hrd top

 

[Oldfart]

1956 Nash Rambler