1985 Ford Tempo. My poor dad was so proud that he bought this car for me (this was in what....1994ish? He prob paid $2000 for it) and I was just horrified by it. I'd park as far away from school as I could and walk so nobody would see it. I was such a brat.
Eventually it broke down and when I was a sophomore in college, he bought me a 1987 VW Jetta Wolfsburg from a friend of his for $1500. That car I LOVED. Learned how to drive stick on it, drove it back and forth to college. It was my "beach bunny" ride, as my friends called it. It had a sunroof w/a crank. lol I still miss this car!
1994 light green Toyota Camry. It was really my mom's car and she loved it. I totalled it in less than a year. Opps.
First car that was really mine is my 2005 Honda Accord which I love and still drive. It's still under my parents name because they had excellent credit score for financing. We never bothered changing the title because we're giving it to my sister to drive in a couple years.
First car I bought all on my own was a used 2007 BMW M6. I traded it in a year later...I'll never buy used again.
Good lord it was a piece of shit. It did not help that I was the third teenager in the family to drive it.
LOL, I can honestly say that my piece of shit car saved my life. The police told me after my accident that had the car rolled over, I might have been squished. But since that sucker weighed a ton, it stayed upright. Thank you, Chevy!
Good lord it was a piece of shit. It did not help that I was the third teenager in the family to drive it.
Mine was a 1987 gray Chevy Celebrity affectionately named Booger. It had power nothing but it didn't break down too often in the 2yrs I owned it. My brother bought it off me when I went to college and he said it was a piece of shit...lol.
My first car was a Toyota Celica, a hand me down from my uncle. I don't remember the year but it was mid 80's I think. I didn't have it long because I was stupid and wrecked it.
The first car I ever bought on my own was a 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse. I loved that car but it was a piece of crap.
In the late 80's, I had a hand me down 1979 Mercury Grand Marquis from my grandma. It reeked of cigarette smoke. It was HUGE and could fit me and about 12 friends inside.
Post by dragonfly08 on Dec 5, 2014 15:39:32 GMT -5
The first car I drove regularly was my dad's Datsun Maxima. Not Nissan, Datsun. Yes, I am old, but in my defense the car was already about 12 or 13 years old before I ever got my license.
The first car I owned myself was a Chrysler LeBaron convertible.
Post by laurensmomma on Dec 5, 2014 16:00:08 GMT -5
My first car was a mint green Mitsubishi Mirage. No power anything. My dad bought it for me brand new my senior year of high school because I was supposed to go off to college and he wanted me to have a reliable car. I didn't go outside of my hometown. Oops.
I'm loving all the Ford Tempo responses. Mine was an '84 in a lovely burgundy shade. Okay, it used to be burgundy. By the time I got it looked like it had a bad case of plaque psoriasis.
My nickname in HS was "Pint", so it was dubbed the Pintmobile. To get the radio to work, you had to connect the wires directly to the car battery. If you forgot to disconnect them when you parked, the battery would be dead when you came back out.
Not too long after I started driving it, I scraped the front corner backing out of the garage. Basically the whole front headlight unit came out. I drove that car with its dead eye for months until one day my dad said he fixed it. Hooray! I ran out to see the amazing fixed car...only to see that he had duct taped the headlight back on. And not carefully. I was even more mortified to drive that thing to school...
Post by maddiepaddy on Dec 5, 2014 17:01:31 GMT -5
Mine was a crappy 1991 Subaru Legacy bought in 1999 or 2000. It lasted about a year and half before the engine totally crapped out. I was on a trip to the mountains and it ended up coming home on top of a flat bed truck. I got a Honda Civic after that.
86 dodge aries k, it was only 3 years younger than me! it only had 44k miles on it when i got it! bought for $1300 and sold it 2 year later for $500. 2 door with bench front seat, roll up windows, i really loved it. loved it more than what i replaced it with (94 ford taures)
86 dodge aries k, it was only 3 years younger than me! it only had 44k miles on it when i got it! bought for $1300 and sold it 2 year later for $500. 2 door with bench front seat, roll up windows, i really loved it. loved it more than what i replaced it with (94 ford taures)
An '82 here (but I am older), lol. Bench seat too. Seeing I am only 4'10", no one wanted to sit in the front with me. They called the back seat "a dance floor." It has "4 on the floor" and was more reliable than my parent's new cars!
I paid $800 for it. It was the best!
ha! a few times my friends and i did 3 across in the front row, they didnt want to have to get out to let the person in the back out! it was like sitting on a couch, it was such a puffy seat!
A 1988 Plymouth Horizon inherited from my grandparents. Ugliest car ever with red cloth/velour interior.
It was such a pile of crap. No passenger mirror because that was an option my grandfather wouldn't spring for. I still drive without using that mirror much. It also needed special attention just to start. There was this whole routine you would have to do to get it to start. I guess it built character. When I got my 1997 Geo Prism, I was thrilled. lol
My parents bought a 1974 Maverick in the baby shit brown color pictured. Complete with shag carpeting and corduroy like seats. They replaced the AM stereo with an FM stereo and tape deck. I then bought myself a converter so that I could play play my disk man. I drove it for several years and then both my sister and brother drove it to high school too.
It was actually a very well maintained car when my parents bought it in 1994. They literally bought it from the little old lady that only drove it to church. It had low miles and was very clean. By the time us 3 kids got done with it, now that is a different story.
1987 Volkswagen Jetta. It was 5 years old when I got it. I had totaled it before I was 18 and that wasn't my first accident in it. My parents' poor insurance. I shudder to think about that now.
I felt bad for my parents too. I totaled my mom's Camry just before I turned 17. They replaced it with a 1998 Honda Accord but only let me drive it occasionally until I left for college. I totaled car #2 a week after I left for college...soon after I turned 18. I think insurance was ready to drop me for good.
First car I got to drive regularly, 1979 Delta 88 2-door. We called it the Triple B (for Big Black Boat). I have to say I miss that car since I could fit 7 of my friends in there. I think at one point, we fit something crazy like 12 people in that car.
The first car that was all mine was a 1991 VW Passat. I kept that thing forever.
I felt bad for my parents too. I totaled my mom's Camry just before I turned 17. They replaced it with a 1998 Honda Accord but only let me drive it occasionally until I left for college. I totaled car #2 a week after I left for college...soon after I turned 18. I think insurance was ready to drop me for good.
Yikes, I can't imagine. Our car insurance has tripled since adding DS and his car, and he had one accident. We told him that even though we understand that accidents happen, we would really have to evaluate whether him driving is worth the cost if another one happened. Sometimes it's just not worth it.
I agree. I think some kids just aren't mature enough to drive yet and should wait. But if they aren't given a chance to make mistakes, how will they learn? Catch 22 lol.
There are driving schools that are hands on and really teach a lot and can be a lot of fun too. I did one a few years ago and really learned a lot about driving conditions and how to handle a car / how a car can handle in certain situations. One thing we did was a brake test to see how much distance it took to stop a car at different speeds. Another thing was driving in the rain and learning how to use traction control.
It can get expensive but it's so worth it. I wish my parents had put me through that before handing me the keys. Some insurances will even reduce your rate if you've done the school