Your very first vehicle...

After graduating high school in 1976 I bought a 1971 Chevy pickup, 250 6 cyl., 3 speed on the column. I loved that old truck. Drove it until the Michigan road salt rusted it so bad it wasn't road worthy.
Very similar (same color) as this one I found a picture of.

What did you drive when you were 16......?

67 lemans

Ford Escort Mexico.

‘64 impala supersport. Wished I still had it!

My first car was a 1963 Triump Spitfire ....200.00 turn key and drive...was 16 years old

1970 amc hornet. Blue (not green)

Mine was a 63 1/2 Ford Galaxie. It was chestnut brown and beautiful. Had the swing away wheel and you could have a party in the trunk with a lot of invited guest lol. It looked just like this. Side note, I'm a Chevy man, there's a Ford in my driveway as I type this lol. I can't explain and have no excuse for myself.

Had a 66 in High School

Bought a used Subaru Brat in 1983 while I was in the Air Force. I beat the living tar out of that vehicle as it carried me from Denver to Michigan and finally to Alaska! I could not kill that truck and it would go places big trucks would never attempt as it was very narrow and surprisingly powerful in 4 wheel drive! Finally was totaled by a lady that turned into me in downtown Anchorage. Her insurance company cut me a check for more than I paid for the truck!

Chris

A Ford Catch...... I wish you a speedy recovery. I know speedy and Ford don't really go together but ..........

59 ford. Six cylinder with three on the tree. Just like this one, except mine was blue and white.

48 International KB1, flathead 6, 6 volt system and vacuum windshield wipers. I put in a 6 volt AM radio that I bought from J.C. Whitneys.
It was a real chick magnet.

Zim

I know I know.

My Mom's 1962 Chevy Impala SS

77 Chrysler New Yorker. That was in 1989. We called it the boat.

Cool Mom !!

1979 Ford Granada...piece of junk. But made from real steel, you could jump up and down on the hood without causing a dent

'48 Hudson from my grandfather and a '49 olds rocket!!!! Yippie.......jk

With permission from K-Zoo, another great question to add is, does anyone still have their first? I know most of us wish we did lol.

1949 ford rag top. Paid $300.00 hard cash for It.

My First was a 69 Mustang Coupe that I bought for $400, restored and souped up. I wound up rolling it back in my early 20's

Mine was a 1962 Ford Falcon Club Wagon. Except for the roof top carriers, mine looked very close to this, even the rust.

I remember one time in the winter we were having a snowball fight and the door of the van was open. The ignition switch was on the dashboard right by the door. Somebody threw a snowball and it went in the van and hit right on top of the ignition switch, filing it with snow. ("Man, I'm setting here laughing about it now".) Every time I started the van that winter I had to bend down to ignition switch and blow in it, to thaw it out, so it would turn. The comments were never-ending.

In wet weather, if it set overnight, I had to hang a trouble light by the distributor, to keep the moisture out, so the thing would start.

The first couple of years that my dad, and I, went deer hunting, that is what we stayed in.

I sure don't have mine!

Me neither!

Not the first car I ever drove, but the first one I bought. '67 Scout with the slant 4 and hydraulic wipers. Bought it in Belgrade Montana in 1978 and this picture was taken by my dad when I was a fishing guide in northeastern California and cowboyed in the winters. Rust finally got the best of the Scout but it covered a lot of ground between Montana, Colorado, Kansas and California.



Pete

67 MGB

Had a lot of fun in that car.

Pete, you looked like John Denver's brother lol. Great pic man!

'68 VW bug. Took me everywhere I asked it to!

'68 Dodge Coronet, slant 6, three on the column. It still had a snarl of old traps and wire in the trunk when I sold it a few years back

1964 chev Bisquane,bought it the week before I graduated.Just found the receipt for it last week.Bought it from a guy my dad worked with.
Then came a 66impala,then a 69 impala.First new car was a 74 Nova.
Tom

1970 Ford Galaxy 500. 2 door vinyl top with a 351 under the hood. Lead sled

1971 Plymouth Duster

My dad had a 64 Mercury Comet convertible stick shift on the floor four barrel 289. He had it in highschool. It sat in the barn my whole life being swallowed by groundhog holes and buried in coon crap. He passed in 04 and I sold it in 2015 probably when I was cleaning up the farm. He sold it to go into the airforce and bought it back from the guy when he rotated back to the states.

I still have his cushman scooter though.

My first car was a 1980 mustang hatchback in 1993. 2.3L 4 cylinder. It was a light blue car with a white hatch and rust through the floor boards.

I love it. Classic pic!

^^^^^
That pic was from 1980-81

Ha Ha,

My first vehicle was a 1966 Dodge Cornet with a Slant 6 cylinder engine.

I might still be driving it if I hadn't drove it into a deep ditch and totaled it

screwing around while burning rubber on wet pavement.

w

1956 VW beetle, no I do not still have it.

59 rambler. Guy came into the dorm griping about his car and wanting to get rid of it. I offered him $25 and he said sold. Drove it for about 6 months and then decided to rebuild the engine. As soon as it was all in pieces my buddy left for a forestry job. 45 years later I still bring up the time he walked out on me in my hour of need. Learned a valuable life lesson from that car - that there was zero chance that I would become an auto mechanic.

In the 1990's I heard some young guys talking about buying a pair of tennis shoes for $125. I shook my head and told them that was 5 times what I paid for my first car.

Starbits

57 Pontiac Chieftain
63 Chevy Impala
68 Camero
73 Monte Carlo ( Bought new, still have, 50,000 mi)
74 Vega
82 Blazer
82 Silverado PU
88 S10 Blazer
88 Suburban
90 Cavalier
91Cavalier
91 Suburban
94 S10 Blazer
99 Pontiac Gran Prix
99 Suburban
02 Tahoe
05 Colorado
09 Colorado
88 Grand Marquis
09 Tahoe
17 Silverado
I don't mean to hijack thread. It's just when you talk vehicles I couldn't help myself. I may have forgotten one or two.
Sometimes the yard looked like a used car lot. Most Saturdays were oil changes and washing vehicles.

'79 Thunderbird that had belonged to my great uncle. He had taken really good care of it and I bought it from him for $900 in 1993. Worked all summer, saved up enough to buy it and put new tires on it.

Had all the bells and whistles that one could get in 1979. Had a 351, but was geared for the highway... An old lady with a walker could beat me off the line... But I would run out of nerve before I ran out of top end. She could pass anything but a gas station.

Thing must've had 90 feet of hood in front of it. Lol

Mike

1964 Olds dynamic 88. 394 cubic inch for $75. Was working at the Elks country club in Kankakee Illinois for $1.50 an hour in 1975.

1986 F150 2wd 302 v8 had over drive and dual gas tanks , Fords first year fro multi port fuel injection it got 20-22mpg a friend had a 1987 it got 15mpg at it's best

with both tanks full it had a range of almost 800 miles , oh to be able to drive to the UP and back without stopping to fill up.

One of my high school buddies had a 64 Impala, (not the SS). 283 with 2 speed PowerGlide automatic. The faster he went the smoother the ride was. I can still remember the steel dashboard and the huge steering wheel with the chrome bar and leaping impala in the center.

Mike

I got a 67 ford f250 4x4 in 1987 with a 352 oil bath air cleaner and 80000 miles on it took over 2 hours of using a flat file to open the metal dasy enough to install a fm tape player stereo. Wish i still had that rig

Only thing it needed was power steering lol

1969 Ford Mustang just like this but gold colored. 302 V8. My dad has leased it through his company for 3 years when I bought it. 3 spd stick shift. Sure wish it had been a 4 spd but I guess dad didn't think a 4 spd was the right thing to do for a business lease.

1959 black ford prefect.

63 GMC 1/2 ton. Then a 71 Chevy C-10

Mine was 65SS convertible. White on White, 327 with a power glide trans
I work a whole week splitting wood, and $10 dollars out of my pocket.
I was 15.
No I don't have it anymore.

1970 Plymouth Duster, green like the truck in the first picture, bought in 1984, when I was 19

Came with a 225, but we put in a built 360 w/340 J heads, and a custom reverse pattern manual 904 transmission a couple of years later.
Lots of fun tearing it up in Brooklyn NY with that baby during the mid 1980s !!!
Bench seat too, always fun shifting with a girl sitting in the middle

*as a side note, I still have that drivetrain to this car, along with a 1971 Duster body - which I've owned since late 1986 after I wrecked my 70 on the BQE, but the shop I was working at in Bay Ridge [G.C. Performance] lost it's lease, so I kept the 70 going for as long as I could, till 93 where between the twisted unibody and another broken torque converted - I had enough and bought a brandy new 93 Jeep, which served me well till it had to be junked due to severe rust among other things... maybe not quite two years ago.

I keep saying I'm going to put the 71 on the road, but I'm figuring at least $25k to make that happen - probably closer to $35k... because everything needs to be done over, as my drivetrain has been sitting since 1996....

Problem is i just bought a new project car, a 2002 Monte Carlo SS that's black with the checkered flags on the sides, along with some cool options.
That one should only cost about $10k to get where I want it.

I love these threads, because the older cars - and trucks - were just so much better and easier to work on than what's made today.

Like, my 70 Duster has a mechanical dual point distributor, and a Holly carb with mechanical secondaries - so no vacuum lines !!
Brakes were manual, so was the steering... you opened up the hood, and it was a dream to work on.

My old 79 C-10 truck was/is the same way, but that's off the road - probably for good.

I envy those posting here, all of the older rides were/are so much more beautiful than what I started with !!

1978 Ford 2wd

1974 Impala....

67 VW beetle

66 VW fastback, that thing would go about anywhere.

After reading some of the commments about 3 speeds on the column, does anyone think if you left a 3 speed on the column parked on a city street with keys in it would anyone know how to steel it?

71 camaro . Still own it 28 years later

88 LX Mustang fastback 5.0. Man do i miss that car, had a lot of good times with her. Eric

No way!

Chris

Anyone trying to steal it under 40 would scream oh (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman), and then run lol.

63 rambler six cyl, three on the tree plus overdrive

1972 chevy c10
got it from my dad, paid him 800 bucks for it and drove it for years. rust killed her tho
lol wanted to just make payments to mom and dad but he wouldn't have that deal, sent me to the bank with mom reckon i have owed some body ever since.

67 fairlane gt 390. Boy did I go through the tires.

1979 ford fairmont sport. Was useless in the snow so I bought a Kia Rio lol
That thing cut through the snow. My first truck was a gmc sanoma high rider Manuel
Regular cab. Me my wife and German shorthair barely fit in that thing.

'51 Ford Victoria. Had a brand new flathead V8 engine in it when I bought it.

Moosetrot

My first was a 68 Cougar... I was good at blowing up engines!















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1932 Ford, 3 window coupe.

76 dodge pickup Slant six, 3 on the tree with a diamond plate bed. That truck was overloaded with 2 bales of straw on it! Drove that thing till the wheels fell off. Painted it Plumb Crazy Purple!

67 Dodge Coronet with a 383 automatic and posi rearend. Would lay 2 of the prettiest black marks. White with black interior. Paid $260 for it in 1976. Came off of a ranch, they used it to check cows in the pastures.

'74 Nova 2dr. 3 spd. on the floor. I was 14

69 Dodge D100 318 brown in 1990. Don't have it but once again wish I did.

1956 GMC half ton, bought it 37 years ago when I was 15. It's sitting in the shed right now as a "someday" restoration project.

I just got my first one 3 weeks ago!!! 99 Ford Ranger. I can't legally drive it by myself till April, but it's my trapping rig on the farm and neighbors till then! I love driving! And I'm proud to say it's a standard tranny.

68 Ford F100. Sure like to have it back too!

76 ford half ton 4wd sold it to my brother in law a couple of years ago shot a lot of coyotes out of that pick up in the mornings before school it was customized with a whiskey dispencer hooked to the windshieldwasher pump for weekend back roading and blue interior lights under the dash that was back in the days when about every pick up in the high school parkin lot had a coyote rifle in it and there were no issues

56 Crown Vic without the Continental Kit

I do not have a picture of the actual car but it looked like this one. I bought it Used with around 50,000 miles on it for $600.

1950 Studebaker. Bought it in October 1954 at the end of my Air Force enlistment. A couple of months later while replacing the heater motor I found dried mud inside the heater box. Obviously it had been in a flood.

I had a 57 Triumph TR-3. Sure wish I had it now.

I had a 63 spitfire....took my driving test in it. The driving instructor weighed about 300 lbs....my driving test didn’t last long...lol

1970 VW squareback...had a bad VW addiction at a young age! My first real love however was a 77 chev shortwide, slammed with a hot 350..allll the ladies wanted a ride in “el chorizo”!

recently took my dodge 3500 6 sp. in to have a front end alignment, some kid goes out to get it, started it up, stalled it twice, then went back in and got another guy to pull it on the alignment frame! my first was a 68 formula 400 firebird.
RR

1951 Chevy sedan

66 rambler field car when i was 14,then 318 dodge coronet also field car...these were only field cars on the farm. I didnt have a license yet.

trapre: Lesson to be learned from these is don't ever get rid of it. Park it somewhere when you are done and you will someday thank yourself.

1986 Isuzu trooper

Used Roadmaster bicycle.
Then 55 Pontiac

This is the old 1957 Ford I bought upon my graduation.

62 Chevy Bel Air

Thanks guys, this post has been a lot of fun. So cool reading all the replies and experiences you've had. At 62, 16 sometimes seems like so long ago yet just like yesterday!

We’ll heck. My first vehicle was a 1989 ford ranger, I’ll love her till the day I die. If I could own another I would

My first was a 1967 gmc pickup, been some good times in it. Back in the 80's it hauled in a few coon's. Still miss it. So a few years ago i found a 1969 chevy, slowly fixing it up. 2nd car was a 1967 chevy chevelle, was told it needed a engine cause it over heated. But a thermostat and a good used radiator and the way we went. That one was hard to keep tires on lol. It to wish i still had. Till i find one of them i got ol' red to keep me young ( picture if i can). [img]http://chrome [/img]

I was 17 in 1964 when I bought a 1955 Ford Crown Victoria from my 2nd cousin that had 121,000 on it for $100. All the tires were bald and blew two of them driving it to the farm I lived on. Retreads were about $5 each and $1 to mount so I bought 3, two to put on the car and one for a spare. The car was in pretty rough shape but it allowed me to get around for about a year. That was the first car I owned and did not own another one until I was 25 after graduating from college and getting out of service.

Bryce

Frankenstein truck. 55 chevy engine and chassis, 71 Chevy cab , some international front end,box was 3/8 sheet metal with toolboxes welded in on both sides. Some loggers built it for skidding logs and traded it to my grandfather for doing some welding we did for them. Grandpa told me if I could get it running I could have it. Straight 6 with 4 on the floor and granny low. Thing was a beast buy 45 was top speed going down hill with a back wind. I was 15 and self taught myself a Lot about working on engines. Sure wish I had still had that thing.

That sounds like a good idea! Based on all of the people I have heard talk about their first vehicle they all wish they kept it!

1974 Dodge 4wd with a 4barrel carbed 340 dart engine. Gosh it was a beast. Wouldn’t be able to afford gas for it as a 16yo now.

Mine was a 52 Chevy.


Dan

Now since you didnt specify road cars Ill go from here. First road car was a 1966 chevy impala ss.,396 375 hp turbo 400 tranny with portable a/c....bought it in va with 28000 miles on it for 400.00 Wrecked it and sold it for 225.00 then bought a 1970 mach 1 fastback 302 built ,balanced and blueprinted by the national drag record holder at that time in ohio. 4 speed,only thing stock was rearend...high 11 second quarter mile but unlimited top end. Got in too much trouble with that one so i sold it.






















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Mine was a 68 Jeep Wagoneer, this same color before I started in making it the ultimate cruise vessel, with a custom paint job, big tires and wheels, 8 track, you know all the cool stuff. I would get up in the middle of the night and drive all the back alleys when we had a big snow storm just to find deep fresh snow to play in. Seems like nobody had 4 wheel drive back then. It had a 350 buick engine in it right from the factory.

66 mercury cyclone. 289

'55 Willy's flat-bed. Sure wish I had that beast now. Would sure beat my 06 Taco.

Jack

1986 Jeep Cherokee 4x4, great vehicle! Wish I still had it, it would be the perfect trapping vehicle. That thing went anywhere, was just the right size, and was easy to work on!

1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88 455 Rocket " It would pass everything on the highway but a gas station "

This picture tells you really all you need to know about me in my late teen years. This is in front of a farmhouse that I rented for $60 a month. Caught a ton of coon on that property.

59 Rambler push button auto. It looked like it had been shot in the rear ended with a shotgun. My best friend and I were stopped once for doing 70, I looked at my buddy and said wow I didn't think it would go that fast. The cop almost fell down laughing, told me to slow that hot rod down and drove off chuckling. Ah the good old days.

1985 Ford F-150 in 1993 nice truck

1964 Chevelle Malibu.

'68 Mustang, 3 spd. 289 2 bbl... top end 108, exactly.

1976 C-10 long wheel base, 350 with a 4barrel, 350 turbo long tail shaft, top end was 131, clocked by a state trooper.... OUCH!!!! Lol

Mine was a new 1965 Ford Mustang with floormats passenger sideview mirror undercoat tax on the road $1995.00 sure wish I HAD IT BACK.

88 Nissan pickup. I put in a sound system that pushed over 150db's with a 100w 2 channel amp, 2 10" subs, 2 tweeters, 2 6.5" door speakers. You could hear the music perfectly (not just bass or rattling) a block away

Mine was a 1965 International Scout. Lifted it by mounting spring perches above axles and made the front bumper myself also.



It was the perfect trapline vehicle for when I was 17

1989 ford ranger. New to me when I bought it in 2000 when I was 17 for $800.

I bought it off an Airman who was being stationed in Germany and wanted to sell it.

Learned to drive a manual transmission that day.

Just like this one.

1965 Jeepster commando. When I was 16 it was 14 and I got it from. My dad's friend who said if I could get it running I could have it. Be said it just quit on him one day and he parked it. After a quick look over I put a coil wire off my dad's truck on it and fired it up. The guys eyes got pretty wide but he gave me the title. Body was Michigan rough but I loved it.