what was your first car and how much did you pay

[Jack E/NJ]

My early 38 21-studder. Paid with setting doubles ~25 times at my favorite Domm's alleys 3 & 4.

[paul2748]

First car I bought from money picking tobacco and as a grocery clerk was a 49 Ford Tudor, pea soup green, about 1957. A back lot car, it served me well for about 4 years until the B pillar separated from the floor.

[rjlester]

My story is not as cool as the rest of you, but my first car was a 69 Beetle. It had a custom interior, and I paid a bit too much (1200). Had lots of problems with it, it was a lemon. Second car was a (don't laugh lol) mildly used 1981 Escort. Well, it ended up being my second car for many years and I sold/gave it to a buddy when it had about 450000kms on it. He drove the crap out of it for two years, it had WAY over 500k on it when he drove it to the junkyard. That car I can thank for most of my basic and advanced automotive knowledge as I did lots of mods/add-ons (factory options, better exhaust/intake/larger engine. It was VERY quick when I was done with it. Best sleeper ever haha.

The best car I bought years ago I picked up 25 years ago for super cheap. Still have it: 1968 Mercury Cyclone GT. Great car that I really should repaint. Its about a 40 footer right now lol.

I'm on this forum because I now own 2 - 54 Meteors, a four door I'm the second owner of, and a 54 Skyliner I bought a short time ago.

[34fordy]

Originally Posted by Jack E/NJ

My early 38 21-studder. Paid with setting doubles ~25 times at my favorite Domm's alleys 3 & 4.

Ya know Jack that we gotta be old farts to know what yer tawkin about. LOL I remember sittin up on a little perch waitin to pull the chain to drop the rack and pick up pins. I hadn't thought about that for ages. Thanx for the memory!

[Newc]

'40 Buick from an estate for $65, drove it two yrs, sold it to buy a boat. 1964 Newc

[TagMan]

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My first car was a '56 Chevy 4-door, bought in 1962 when I was 16 for $15.00. Needed brakes & brake lines. I bought a set of tires from a junk yard for $20.00. It was painted flat black & had a 235 6 cylinder engine, 3-speed with a floor shifter that the previous owner installed.....backwards (the shift pattern was backwards). Drove the car though the rest of high school and only got rid of it to buy a better car, to impress a new girl friend, who I married ( and am still married to), 56 years ago.

[Daves55Sedan]

In 1972, I was 15 yrs old and bought my first car for $525.00. I tried to negotiate the price down a bit but they wouldn't budge. I coughed up the cash by breaking all my childhood piggy banks. Didn't have a driver license yet and didn't have enough money for insurance so it sat thru the winter till next spring. By that time I had enough saved for insurance, license plates and a tank of gas and had my driver license before the school year ended. The car was a '55 Ford 4-dr sedan (see avatar). Still driving it daily, although it has since been rebuilt a few times and has gone through rocker panels 3 times and rear quarters twice. Major body off frame restoration was done between '92 thru '96 and that is when I replaced all floor panels and made major repairs/replacements to inner rockers and some floor support gussets. Drove the car to work (60 mile round trip) 5 days a week for over four decades.

[nelsb01]

The year was 1969.... I was 19 and a college student who got the hand-me-down car. A 1966 Ford Custom Fordor. Purchased new by Dad in 1966 as his business car. In 1968 it moved to Mom's grocery getter when Dad purchased a new 1968 Ford Galaxie and then, for $700 dollars it became mine. Of course, it was the installment plan and when I could I paid the parents for the car. I didn't know it at the time, but they took my payments and opened a savings account for me. In the winter of 1971, while exiting a liquor store parking lot, I stopped but the car approaching from the left slid on the icy street and crashed into the drivers front fender. It was damaged, and as soon as the snow melted, I bought a used 1969 Mustang Mach 1 with 21,000 miles and finished college with a cool car. The Mustang was only $2100 and with the 1966 traded in for $400, it was a good deal.
Of course the Mach 1 is the one that I should never have sold.............

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by nelsb01

The year was 1969.... I was 19 and a college student who got the hand-me-down car. A 1966 Ford Custom Fordor. Purchased new by Dad in 1966 as his business car. In 1968 it moved to Mom's grocery getter when Dad purchased a new 1968 Ford Galaxie and then, for $700 dollars it became mine. Of course, it was the installment plan and when I could I paid the parents for the car. I didn't know it at the time, but they took my payments and opened a savings account for me. In the winter of 1971, while exiting a liquor store parking lot, I stopped but the car approaching from the left slid on the icy street and crashed into the drivers front fender. It was damaged, and as soon as the snow melted, I bought a used 1969 Mustang Mach 1 with 21,000 miles and finished college with a cool car. The Mustang was only $2100 and with the 1966 traded in for $400, it was a good deal.
Of course the Mach 1 is the one that I should never have sold.............

[HDowse]

In 1963 when I turned 16, I bought a used 57 VW bug with a lot of help from Dad. It was tan, with the oval window, no rust, for $750. I drove that car all year back and forth to school with summer tires and it never got stuck in the NE snows we used to have. I reluctantly sold it to my younger brother when I got a 63 Volvo four door with unseen (by me) rust in the fenders. But Volvos were cool back then. Or so I thought. I graduated to Fords twenty years ago and keep wanting another one…

[1934]

1936 Ford standard 4-door slant back sedan. I bought it in 1969 when I was 15 yrs. old. I Paid 400$ Everyone thought I was nuts. 29000 original miles. Sold it in 2014.

[Jim B]

1954 Ford Customline $325.00 April 1958 I was 15

[ronn]

Good stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chuck Kuntz]

In 1955 I bought a 1930 Model A Fordor with a 41 V8 installed for $95. I sold it a year later and bought a 1930 Coupe for $112.50 . I fixed it up and drove it shortly after I was 16.

[mfirth]

1950 Ford 2 door, 6 cyl overdrive. Had to rebuild the 6 a year after purchase and was mad cause Dad wouldn't let me put an available V8 in it. Well, after the rebuild, it outran some V8s and surprised a couple of 265 Power Glide Ch___s. Wish I has it today.

[mfirth]

Opps, 4got, I paid $100 for it in 1960.

[Robert/Texas]

I bought my first car, a '37 Ford Fordor Touring Sedan in 1950, two weeks before my 16th birthday. I paid $175 for the car, a lot of money back then but new and used cars were still in short supply. My father paid $100 just to jump the line to get his new Chevy. My Ford was in good condition except that it needed to have the brakes relined. I did that myself and passed my drivers exam in it on my birthday. I traded it in for a '48 Mercury two years later and traded that in for a brand new red '53 Ford convertible. This car had whitewall tires, a radio but no heater, dealer installed dual exhaust and I paid about $2020 for it.

[Gene1949]

'40 DeSoto business coup. $25 dollars 1959. Neighbor's (wreaked) 55 Desoto hemi and transmission $300. Rolling death but damn that car was fun and bad ass for it's time. Dad should have exercised some parental supervision allowing a high school sophomore to created a highspeed accident waiting to happen..

[38coop]

My first car was a 1954 Olds 88 4dr. I paid $325.00 for it. It really did belong to a little old lady who's family would no longer allow her to drive. This was in 1964.

[oldandtired]

The first car I paid for myself was a 64 Beetle with a sunroof. I bought it in 1966, the year after I graduated from High School. I quit work in January of 1972 to go to college, by which time I no longer had the Beetle but owned 14 vehicles all but one of which disappeared over the next couple of years to pay college expenses.