Throwback Thursday: post your first set of wheels.

[QuickSilver2605]

I don't have any pics of mine

'95 Chrysler LHS - parents extra car, loved it, big and smooth

'86 Mercedes Benz 190E 16v 2.3L, had the famous cosworth engine.

'92 Honda Del Sol - Red, slammed, white 17" wheels, and a **** can

'04 Volkswagen GTi - Black and lowered 2"

'07 Toyota FJ Cruiser - Silver with a paint matched roof, not two tone like most are. Just some AT tires.

 

[Commando]

not the actual but looks similar

nice glossy red
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I traded my ranger for a 96 civic and did hekka mods to it. Loved that car! Slow, but it looked like it would run 200 MPH LOL

 

[MikePro]

1996 Chevy Blazer.
great ride, and I kept it pristine until the day my grandfater decided that he could park one of our cranes in the lot... looked a lot like this after he backed right into it. Was never really upset with him, damage was done, but that's why we've got insurance. All we could do was laugh

 

[InstantOneMedia]

First Car I drove and learned manual trans. on: 79 MG - Metallic Orange
First Car that was "mine": 86' Dodge Omni
First Car I bought: 86 Saab 900 (Still miss that the Slaaab)

 

[Billct2]

First car I bought '65 Peugeot 404 Blue, red leather, sunroof, 4 speed on column and a total piece of cr*p. Lots of other cars I've had I wish I could get again ('63 Nova, '64 Malibu ragtop, '65 Chevy PU, '72 BMW 2002, '70 Travelall...) but this one deserved the junkyard.

 

[OldPaint]

boy what a bunch of yougins......hehehehehehehe i dont have any of my original cause had a house fire in 1980.....lost everything from both my parents/grandparents photos on tin type....but pulled this off the net...close as i can get.in order of owning 1st , 2nd and 3rd....may as well ad #4........
1. was originally maroon, painted it gunmetal gray. kept the sunvisor)))
2. was close to pic.tea/turquoise top, door trim, and bottom.
3. was white hood, trunk, middle, blue metalic roof, fins & bottom
4. was copper bottom white roof.

 

[SIGNTIME]

1998 dakota 5.2 magnum got her in 06 when I turned 16 loved the truck but blew the transmission. I only had it for 3 years but had to change the right rear tire 3 times which also explains the broken transmisson. I still remember the day I was racing down the highway with a v6 mustang doing 115 and a cop pulled out behind us and I slowed down when I noticed, was probably still doing 85 when the cop went by and pulled over the mustang. Got her stuck in a field so bad one time one truck couldn't pull it out so we chained another truck to the truck pulling to get it unstuck. And I lost my ... nevermind. Wish i still had it sold it for $1100.

 

[gnatt66]

not my actual car in the pic. but its damn close. 1986 escort. ive had maybe 40 cars in my time..none worth much but the last few.

 

[nikdoobs]

I don't have a photo of mine, but this is the same model and color (sea foam green!). The color actually looks way better online than it did in real life. I didn't have the xbox sticker or rims. I had hubcaps.

I dreamed of putting some bling-blingin' chrome 20's and putting a bumpin' system. Thank God I grew out of that stage once I graduated high school.:ROFLMAO:

 

[Mosh]

1998 dakota 5.2 magnum got her in 06 when I turned 16 loved the truck but blew the transmission.

I had the same truck (not my first) and the same thing happened.

 

[nikdoobs]

not my actual car in the pic. but its damn close. 1986 escort. ive had maybe 40 cars in my time..none worth much but the last few.

Cheers to the ford Escort.

 

[Laz0924]

I was 16, 1974 first car was a 1969 International Travelall cost me 600.00 bucks even had the wood grain vinyl on the side like in the pic.

 

[TammieH]

67' Pontiac Catalina, white with bluish grey interior...a true land yacht

...I think it belong to some old dude or something, definitely an old dudes car LOL

Before that a vintage 1970 Thoroughbred/Quarter Horse mix, she was an ugly horse but she was mine

 

[OADesign]

Sorry no photo...

73' VW Super beetle.
I was 17-18. I bought it from my cousins friends Mom for 400 bucks. It was barely running.

I was determined to prove a point to my dad that I didn't need his help to accomplish anything.

I was working at Costco at the time so I was making decent cash (for a kid in the 90s). So I bought a Chilton's guide and a bunch of tools from my job.
Pulled the thing in the garage and went to work. Between my Chilton's guide and VW Magazine, I was able to pull the engine and disassemble every thing. Scrubbed and cleaned every part I could touch.
But after opening the engine and realizing that I needed big boy tools for boring out cylinders and resurfacing stuff, I figured I would take it to some pros. I bought all new stuff from JC Whitney. Chrome everything.
Took it to a machine shop in LA some where. I lived in San Clemente at the time so it was a journey. Driving my buddy's car (91' Honda Prelude) with the back seat and trunk full of the engine and innards of my love bug. They took a month to do nothing. I found out that they had not even touched my engine. I went back to pick it all up and ended up at a shop in my neighborhood. Shadetree Automotive was awesome. They dialed it in and got it right.
I had them paint the block and all the odd parts Ford Blue. Looked great to me with all the chrome. Got it home and manged to put it all back in with out dying. There is no way to describe the feeling I got when it actually started up.

Moved on to the interior. Went back to JC Whitney and bought all new molded flooring and carpets. Floor mats, OEM Seat covers, Dash and gauges, one piece side windows, chrome exhaust tips, the whole nine (even a blaupunkt stereo). At this point my dad was fuming. I think A) because I did all of this with out his permission. I didn't think I needed his permission to spend my hard earned cash. and B) the VW was in the garage blocking access to his stuff. The stuff the he had not touched since the early 80s with the ecosystem of spiders and wildlife living in it....

Once the inside was done I had to take it for a spin. Found out the hard way that the emergency brake cable was not tight... On the hills of the back roads of San Clemente... But I managed to survive and get it back home safe.

So. Now that the thing is running. I wanted to make the outside look as pretty as the engine and inside. Registration and all the legal mumbo jumbo could wait. Bought a tub of Bondo and went to work. The end result was some where between a case of the mumps or lupus. But I did it. And it was mine.

I went to see the guys at a near by body shop with the hopes of getting this high quality $99 paint job I has been hearing so much about on the radio... Figured since I did and the proper "prep work" I was sure to get this deal. The guy takes a look at my car and believe it or not was able to keep from laughing at my bondo job. So after some inspection the guy come back and hands me this crusty reddish brown pancake shaped thing. He informed me that this was from near my gas tank. He proceeded to point out that the body was so rusty that the metal work/fixing of the bondo would cost a few times more than what the car was worth and pretty much not worth it. I was destroyed. Now imagine that feeling I had when it started up reversed and an amplified a thousand times over. yeah, I was ruined.

So not wanting to admit failure. I sold the engine to a buddy of mine for a grand! Bought my second first car. A Mitsubishi Precis (aka Hyundai Excel). I cant write what I did with the VWs carcass. It might get me in trouble. So I still succeeded where everyone thought I would fail (success in my own mind at least.) Soooo sooo many good times in that car. WOW I could write a novel on the adventures in that car. But that would probably get me in trouble too. Glad I grew out of those years. Whew...
There is my story. Its late. Why am I still at the shop?

 

[signguyms]

78 Ford Courier for me, you could pull up the edge of rubber mat and see the ground.

 

[SuncitySigns]

First car or truck ( ute ) as us Aussies call them was my first vehicle... I was the 3rd owner and it was stock as a rock 1983 model Holden WB ute, 6cyl, three speed manual column shift. Owned it for years and after giving it the hot rod treatment including a wild small block V8 transplant out of a mates sprintcar I sold it :/ IDIOT!! Anyhow found the ute as a stripped out rolling chassis years an years later an purchased it back. In the process of restoring it to a show car standard atm.

 

[Graphic Destruction]

'72 Plymouth Fury III. The lead sled.

Nice, '73 Plymouth Satellite here. From the back seat you could see the road through the rust holes in the rear 1/4's.

 

[Graphic Destruction]

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76 Bronco, 302 V8, check out the license plate...took this pic today. It is waiting for me to put a new transmission in. Someday project.

Very sweet. I still have my 71 I bought right out of college in 92 for $2400. Been doing a full resto on it and actually thinking about selling it just to get the garage space back.

 

[synergy_jim]

Mom and Dad bought me this motorcycle for the Christmas of '82

I believe this photo is 1984.

I still have the motorcycle. Its a Suzuki JR50

 

[2B]

very first vehicle was an old electric golf cart, the ones with a dozen plus car batteries, that thing was so dang heavy!!
not the exact one but same body style


first road legal was a 76 Chevy bonanza, again not this but same color and body style even had the monster hauling side mirrors