Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler What was your first car? Favorite car?

Hay I owned a white '75 Corvette with a red interior for several years and I absolutely loved that car, seems like the faster it went the better it handled ... I remember driving to Daytona from Orlando and doing over 135 mph on I-4 with the tops off, I don't know how we ever made it past those days.

I bought my first car when i was 17. This was in 97. The car was an 82 camaro with the 5.0 v8. It was abviously abused by the previous owners...who knows how many owners it has had before me. I later discovered someone played with the odometere. I htink it had 240K miles when i got it. I drove it for a year before selling it and getting a firebird.

Ford, that's a nice-looking Ford!

My first was a 1965, powder blue MGB just like this one.




Below was my second car shown in my driveway. 1971 MGB in British racing green purchased when I was in Vietnam.

Dang Jack, you didn't get started with driving until later in life I guess, huh?
(I kid because I care!)

My neighbor has a couple of those MGB's, even has rare MGA Coupe ... very slick cars!

My favorite car I owned was a 1983 Volkswagen Camper van. My dad bought it for me in 1999 when I was a junior in highscool.

It had a sink, a fridge, a table, a two burner stove and two beds. (The back seat folded down into a bed, and the top popped up to form another bed.) Here are some pictures of what the van looked like: (non of these are the actual van, but the first pic is the same color... the ugliest brown color you can imagine )






Here is a link to an image that shows the inside:
http://www.freewebs.com/ourwestfalia/P5090012.JPG

I got into more trouble with this car then you could ever imagine. You can imagine the look on the face of the father of any girl that I had a date with when I rolled up in a vehicle with two beds in it

Lots of camping, lots of road trips, and lots of fun.

Sadly, I went to visit my girlfriend in Oklahoma city one night (about 130 miles away) in the middle of a snow storm. I hit a slick spot on the turnpike and lost control. I distinctly remember flying off the road at about 60 miles per hour and going air born into a several foot drop-off. I had skillets, pots, and pans from my stove flying all around my vehicle and past my head at incredible speeds and making incredibly loud noises as they slammed around the interior of my van. My vehicle landed on two wheels and tossed, turned and rolled onto it's side where it finally came to a stop. My windshield was gone... so I got out of my car through the void where a windshield once kept the bugs from smacking me in the face during many-a-memorable road trips that would never happen again in that same wonderful van.

I am seriously thinking about getting another one of these though! Some people still call me "V-dub" from fun we had in my VW camper van.

Kidding or not, you're right. I didn't buy my first car until I was 21 or 22. The first car I drove (that I can remember) was a two door, stick shift, 6 cylinder 1959 Chevy Biscayne (the cheap model) in the most bilious two-tone combination of what GM laughingly referred to as "Aspen Green" & "Classic Cream." I saw them as "barf green" & "baby-poop yellow." BLECH!





If I remember correctly, the body was yellow, including the hood over the engine, while the roof, trunk lid and top of the fins were green. Nauseating!!!

However, it was a really good, reliable, car.

The MGBs were really a lot of fun. They were a PITA mechanically, always needing something, but they were a ball to drive.

I'm boring. I got my first car from my sister in 1997. It was a 4-door 1989 Honda Civic. I unloaded that car onto Ken in 2000 and then bought a fully-loaded 1997 Nissan Maxima SE. I still drive it today.

Buzzkill!

Although, I hear the Maxima is the car of the enlightened.

<--- drives 2001 Maxima...

Nice! your dad must be the coolest dad in the world... Glad you were able to walk away from that crash.

My first car was a pretty lame brand new Geo Metro (not exactly this one, but looks pretty cool huh?) my dad bought me when I was at junior high.