What was your first vehicle....?

[yellowxj]

4 dr econo box dodge omni/ plym horizon. Looks like a puffed up vw rabbit. Sad little american economy car.

 

[seanR]

My first car was a 1948 CJ-2a. And since we are now listing all of them... (I am not making this up)...'48 willys, '72 LTD, '80 Mone Carlo, '84 Ramcharger, '74 GMC P-up, '87 Charger, '80 Malibu, '82 Reliant wagon, '80 GMC stepside, '90 VW Fox, '88 GMC P-up, '82 CJ-5, '79 FS waggy, '84 CJ-7, 92 GMC P-up, '84 Sub., '88 Sub., '88 XJ, '99 Yukon, '99 Serria, '99 XJ, '97 Expidition, '00 XJ. I am sure I missed a few and I have had quite a few that I never licesned.

 

[xjblue]

My first was a 1966 Mustang coupe w/ 289 2v vinyle roof C4 crus-o-matic tranny and a bench seat purchased in 92' for $900. Drove it for 3 years then parked it for restoration where it is still waiting paitently.

After parking the stang I got around in an 86 Olds gutless Cierra, for those that remember the commercial, it was my fathers Oldsmobile. I shouldn't have bought it from him however I replaced that clunker with the XJ!

In Highschool it was either my parents baby blue 80' Murcury Bobcat or the custom Ford Econoline 100 cargo Van.

 

[Fletchs90xj]

well in 2001 I went on tour with the superdogs for two weeks then did the prudential insurence confrence when it came to vancouver for 10 days. and then I bought my 90 xj from the pay cheques from that, it cost me 5500 CDN and I've been playing with it ever since. i thought that was pretty good money for a 19yr old to be making

 

[ILLXJ]

First car I drove legally was a 78 VW Rabbit diesel. First I owned was a 77 F-250 2wd, but it did have the 460 Police Interceptor Package.

 

[Glenn B]

Learned on a 57 VW, among many other gadgets..... my first car I had was a 67 VW Baja Bug. All downhill from there. Did a few years in the Street Performance scene in Europe (only 10 years or so), then back to the off road stff here. Our roads are not much fun....so off road is where it is.
Glenn

 

[Matthew Currie]

My first was a 59 Peugeot 403 station wagon that looked like a hearse.

Actually, my VERY first was a 41 Chevy, which i bought from a neighboring farmer when I was 8 years old for my entire life savings of 6 dollars, pooled with a gift from my parents of another 6. We parked it in the woods and I happily played in/disassembled/demolished it for the next few years.

 

[calvin]

1973 Datsun 240Z. Bright orange and full of rust. I was waiting tables and going to school at the time. I couldn't afford a 'real' subwoofer box, so I put one of my Kenwood home stereo speakers in the back....
I think I bought it for 2K, spent another 2K just keeping it running, and ended up selling it for around $250.

Calvin

 

[Sarge]

Got to drive a VW bug, an Olds Toronado (455 big block with a 4 barrel), and a Jeep Wagoneer (8 cylinder with 2 non-firing ones!). First car in my name was a 1962 Ford Falcon. Straight six running 50's for back tires. Surprising thing was it could turn them over too! First one I actually paid for was a 1956 Ford F150 with a 390 T-Bird racing motor. Oh man, the fun that thing was! Lots of different motorcycles in there for the most part.

Sarge

 

[WesternXJ]

1949 Dodge B1B 1/2 ton. Bought it in '77 and still have it.

 

[onyxeyes]

1989 red chevy calalier....got it when i was 15 and was convinced to buy it because the previous owner's parents told me she coined it her "babe magnet". back then i was just a sucker for gimmiks.

 

[JeeperJeff]

I learned to drive on a 1966 VW Bug. First car I bought was a 1975 Chrysler Cordoba. And yes, it had the Corinthian Leather! Surpisingly fast, handled well for a barge and looked pretty sharp.

The following is "the list:"

1 1975 Chrysler Cordoba
2 1941 Plymouth Sedan Deluxe
3 1972 Chrysler Town & Country
4 1973 Dodge Coronet
5 1981 Chrysler LeBaron
6 1978 Dodge Monaco
7 1972 Jeep Wagoneer
8 1972 Volkswagen Beetle
9 1979 Dodge Aspen
10 1983 Ford Escort
11 1988 Volkswagen Jetta
12 1979 Lincoln Town Car
13 1989 Pontiac Grand Am
14 1988 Dodge Raider
15 1988 Dodge Shelby Daytona
16 1979 Dodge Aspen
17 1977 Lincoln Town Car
18 1972 Jeep Commando
19 1986 Chevrolet Caprice Classic
20 1996 Plymouth Neon
21 1990 Jeep Cherokee
22 1999 Pontiac Trans Sport

 

[Steelerfan]

My very first vehicle was a 1938 Dodge panel truck that had an absolutely perfecy body. It had sat in a garage since early in WWII. I bought it for $50.00. I got this good of a price because the garage that it sat in was a auto radiator shop were all of us young guys hung around but instead of just hanging around I would help the owner. He was getting old so I would take the radiators off of the cars and put them back on for him. I didn't get any kind of pat for this just a couple of bucks here and there. Butr when he decided that He was going to close the shop and retire he wouldn't even listen to offers he was given on the truck he would only sell it to me.

 

[XJTripp]

A bright red 71 Nova with a 307 2bbl. My dad got it for me used for 1150 in 1978 for helping on the farm. The paint and body was perfect and it ran so smooth that my grandaddy sometimes told me to "cut it back on" at stoplights because he couldn't tell it was running. That was before I got the cherry bombs.

 

[FatXJ]

A 1988 Olds Delta 88 Royale. I got it when I was 17 after spending my Spring Break working at my grandparents house for a week My grandpa gave it to me and my brother as our payment for spending our vacation working our butts off. It needed work and so did I so I wasn't allowed to drive it until I got a job. 5 days later I found one and had it for 5 years. The car only lasted 4 until the tranny lost the ability to shift. The XJ is my second 4 wheel vehicle I bought my first motorcycle just before I bought the XJ.

 

[Ed A. Stevens]

My first purchased car was a forthhand 64 Comet, a leftover $100 steal from one of my brothers who moved up to a Tempest T-37. I rebuilt it before I was 15, and learned to R&R the transmission in less than an hour, by myself, before I was 17 (my father scrambled the trans six times while he was driving, never once with me driving).

A 200 cid six, with three on the tree and $20 whitewalls driving through a peg-leg pretzel rear axle. I once substituted a filed nail for a u-joint needle bearing to repair a dropped driveline (and when I last saw the car, about four years ago, it was still probably intact).

My closest neighbor had a 62 Falcon with the 177 six and we would race home nearly every day. A powerslide with the six, on the dirt roads close to home, was the best we could do (but it was fun). I had a flat track burned in on five acres of my fathers yard. Top speed in 2nd was 65 mph, where it would float the valves and run all day long climbing every grade without missing a beat, with an 80 mph peak in 3rd wheezing to get 1000 rpm past the torque peak. The car would overheat after you turned the engine off, and puke the coolant out to promote overheating when you got underway again (coolant overflow bottles were a high-tech addition). The underdash Pioneer FM radio & rear seat deck 6x9's would drown out all the drama (until the power wiring burned).

I traded the Comet for a 350 Honda, to begin a long line of trades (Comet, Honda, Javelin, Pinto, Yamaha, Triumph). The Comet was not a keeper.

 

[Slip Kid]

87 XJ

dad bought it for me, I offered to save him the cash by driving the 42 MB we've got in the garage, but he said the XJ would be a better daily driver. And I must admit it still is a better DD even after I've had 3 years to ruin it

 

[Rob Mayercik]

4 dr econo box dodge omni/ plym horizon. Looks like a puffed up vw rabbit. Sad little american economy car.

Hey, now. Be nice to the little L-Bodies - some of us still have ours, and are more than a little fond of them.

Got my '84 Omni back in 1992, shortly after getting my license - was, and still is, my first ride. Still street-legal, and while a little rough around the edges, can still hold its own on the highway.

Whatever else you might say, the little devils can be tough to kill. The last time I DD'd the Omni, I was getting 30mpg, on the 2.2L with 3-spd auto trans. Looks like I might be getting that again now (2 carbs later) - can't wait to find out. I get a sort of perverse satisfaction from knowing that my 20-year-old hatchback seems to be managing mpg ratings that are nearly competitive with current-model Neons.

Rob

P.S. There seems to be some debate going on as to which came first - the Rabbit, or the Horizon(or its Simca ancestor) - head over to ALLPAR and look up the Omni - there'll be a link to the "history of the Omni/Horizon" that will mention this.

 

[kthrash]

80 Ford Escort

My first was an 80 Ford Escort that I could actually call my own.. had a number of other vehicles

The first one I bought on my own without a co-signer or anything was a 95 YJ Sahara.

I have had or still own the following Jeeps

84 XJ 2.5L 5speed (sold with 254000 Miles on it)
95 YJ Sahara 5 Speed
95 YJ Sahara Automatic
00 TJ Sport 5 Speed
01 WJ Laredo V8
04 WJ Laredo SE V8 (Still Have it)
97 XJ 4.0 5 Speed (Just Bought it)

 

[LRRH]

78 caprice......350 4bbl.... =)