[Rap]

Green 1970 Dodge Dart with smiley face. Car was under 13 ft. of water before i got it. It was cleaned but still had a musty mud smell with chunks of flood mud coming loose into the footwells.

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[968Syncro]

1962 Austin Healey Sprite:  Bought for $130.00, not running, we towed it home with a rope.  The owner lost interest, it came with many boxes of parts.  All the parts I needed to get it running and past inspection were in those boxes (except a gasket and spark plugs).  Just heavenly, used for a summer and first half of my senior year.

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[robadams56]

70 Volkswagen Beetle in 1971, Dad financed it for me and my brother and we paid it off in 6 months working in a grocery store.  Kept that car through two Trans Ams, and two 60's Corvettes and resumed driving it after too many tickets caused my insurance to be cancelled.  

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[jimham968]

1975 VW Scirocco. Silver. The first of 4 I owned through the years.

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[Langley968]

1976 VW Rabbit - bought in 1983 - "died" in 1989.

Had Porsche "Phone Dial - look" hubcaps, which was the factor that made me first aware of the P-brand!

 

Great vehicle until I put my foot through the rear floor trying to get my son in the car seat! The floor board had rotted out, but after putting some plywood under the rear mat , it still served us for a couple more years (not great when it was raining). When the control arm for the front strut assembly fell off the body (also rotted through), it was time to sell it to the scrap metal dealer.    

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[Bulti]

2001 Opel Astra (G) Coupé 1.8. Dark blue with black leather interior. Styled by Bertone, it was a beautiful thing. Not so much anymore after I parked it in somebody's front lawn...

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[Big Carl]

1980 Porsche 924.

I bought it when I was 15 and spent the next year working on it- waiting to be old enough to drive it "legally".

I still own the car 15 years later, although it certainly has taken a back seat to the 968.

 

If the wife will let me take up her garage space without protest; I hope to pass it on to my kids for their first car.

 

Who knows... maybe by then the market will have appreciated and it will be worth multiple thousands of dollars ​ 

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[flash]

first car i drove was a 1969 datsun 510 with a pumped 2 liter stuffed into it

first car i owned was a 1970 daytona charger with a supercharged 440

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[Rap]

Did you crash that one?

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[flash]

the charger, yes.  looked like the tin foil after you pull it off the baked potato

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[ds968]

First car I drove was a '64 mustang

First car I owned was a '71 Fiat 124 coupe

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[flash]

lol - i've owned both

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[ds968]

Guessing you had the convertible versions of both ? And you had my 440 'cuda engine in your daytona also, but yours was supercharged ..

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[Waylander]

First car was a Ford 2.0 Capri V4 GXL, I can even remember the Reg number

 

JMD 508K

 

wish I still had it, one just sold for $72K

 

rare car now with the V4 engine

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[Bulti]

Cool car! Ford Capri Vs Opel Manta... Good times :-)

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[flash]

lol - no on the convertible.  didn't get into that until after the charger wreck.  then i saw the wisdom and advantage of the ragtop and never went backwards again.

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[ds968]

lol - no on the convertible.  didn't get into that until after the charger wreck.  then i saw the wisdom and advantage of the ragtop and never went backwards again.

Now there is an explanation ; you must have seriously hit your head in that crash , lmao.


As I recall the story, you were well north of 150 mph at the time of the crash ? Had you been in any convertible, you would have become a permanent part of the pavement or ground where that car rolled .

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[94SilverCab]

First car, 1968 GTO, bought it from my brother and continued to pay it off it off after I wrecked it 6 months later. Not exactly sure what I would classify as car #2, because we had a driveway full of cars in various states of repair, always buying and selling. 1970 Ford Galaxy 500, 1965 Mustang Convertible, 1968 Nova, 1965 Buick Skylark Convertible, 1973 Volvo 240 wagon....

 

Jay

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[Ryan]

First car was a bus....1966 VW Microbus. Paid $350 for it and drove it for years. I think this was in 74. A lot of good stories to go along with this one.

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[flash]

not sure who stuck it in dan's mind that convertibles were significantly more dangerous than a hardtop, but it's just not true.  in fact, the roof of the car i flipped was what nearly killed me.  i was much safer when i flipped the mgb.  you have to flip a car to have the roof come into play, and that's pretty rare.  now, dan drives 150mph, in a car not designed to be safe at that speed, and on roads that are not safe at that speed, so maybe it's a concern for him, but for most people, it's just not a factor.

 

not nearly as bad as one might think, and something to chew on:

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/42/6/3

 

back on topic - what followed the first car was a string of about 40 cars, many of which were classics or collectibles, almost all of which were convertibles.  i was all over the map, from a ragtop 67 vette to a fiat spyder, to a 64.5 mustang, to a pantera, to a ragtop 440 challenger.  some i had for a week.  some for a couple of years.  a couple for a couple of decades.  a couple i never even saw.  lots of influences over the years, all of which had an impact on my subsequent choices.

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