What was your first car?

[big kim]

It took me a few cars before I got something decent. My favourite was my 1970 Vauxhall Cresta once I mastered the manual column shifter. Close second was my 68 Ford Zephyr 6.
Worst ever was a1975 Sunbeam Rapier fastback automatic. In 3 years I rebuilt the engine when a rod let go,replaced the automatic gearbox,radiator,starter motor and the rubber diaphragm in the 2 carburettors. Like the Vauxhall Victor I fought a losing battle with the rust monster and it went to the scrap yard at only 8 years old. It was also slow and thirsty

[Stottie Girl]

Totally get the hair dryer thing lol. Unsurprisingly I blew the head gasket on the AX at one point!

My first nice car was a Honda Civic 2.2 diesel that I had mapped! It was so comfy and nice to drive.

Now got a 2.0 petrol Volvo V40 mapped to 230hp. Being a small car it shifts now but looks very unassuming and cheap to insure!

Love Volvos, Scandi cool with reliability. I'm not changing brands now I think.

[Stottie Girl]

It took me a few cars before I got something decent. My favourite was my 1970 Vauxhall Cresta once I mastered the manual column shifter. Close second was my 68 Ford Zephyr 6.
Worst ever was a1975 Sunbeam Rapier fastback automatic. In 3 years I rebuilt the engine when a rod let go,replaced the automatic gearbox,radiator,starter motor and the rubber diaphragm in the 2 carburettors. Like the Vauxhall Victor I fought a losing battle with the rust monster and it went to the scrap yard at only 8 years old. It was also slow and thirsty

You see that's more like it Kim, slow rust buckets that breakdown all the time. Not these beautiful supercool muscle cars that the rest seemed to own. We're doing it properly!

[Dawn Kellie]

My current vehicle is a 2015 GMC 3500Hd 6.6 liter diesel.
I know typical American. We gave animals to feed

[Jillian-TG]

My first car was a red Alpha Romeo Giulietta. It don't remember the model but it was an older car with high mileage at the time. It gave lots of mechanical problems but I loved the look of it.

[Stottie Girl]

My first car was a red Alpha Romeo Giulietta. It don't remember the model but it was an older car with high mileage at the time. It gave lots of mechanical problems but I loved the look of it.

Ooooh, now you're talking, a fellow Alfa Owner. The Italians really know how to style cars, shame they can't make them reliable!

I was in love with the Alfa Brera. really wanted that car. Apparently it wan't even that good but lordy, that thing was beautiful.

I really do like the little Fiat 500 remake too, I would really fancy one but they're too small to be practical. lovely little things though, so cute.

[Courtney G]

The Alfa Gtv shares blood with the Scirocco (Italdesign) and I think the Sport Sedan (US name?) was a lovely machine.

But I think "beautiful and unreliable" describes every 1970s Alfa!

[Pema]

I'm not a car person at all, but my father was, so he hooked me up with my first car - a 1974 Buick Century Gran Sport with a 455 (7.5L) engine.

It was... not fuel-efficient.

[KathyLauren]

Believe it or not, it was a 1938 Packard Super-Eight 7-passenger sedan.  The one in the photo isn't mine, but mine was almost the same as this one.  Mine didn't have the low-mounted fog lights or the fender-mounted spare tires, but otherwise, this was it.  It had a big straight-8 engine, and got 8 miles per gallon on the highway.



My first sensible car was a 1977 VW Rabbit.

[Lori Dee ✅]

Believe it or not, it was a 1938 Packard Super-Eight 7-passenger sedan.  The one in the photo isn't mine, but mine was almost the same as this one.  Mine didn't have the low-mounted fog lights or the fender-mounted spare tires, but otherwise, this was it.  It had a big straight-8 engine, and got 8 miles per gallon on the highway.



My first sensible car was a 1977 VW Rabbit.

I love the old Packard styling with the Suicide Doors in the back.

[Stottie Girl]

That looks so much like my dad's first car, the Armstrong Siddeley Whitley (pic not his actual car). He called it Nelly and had to sell it after the police pulled him over and discoverd a 6"hole in the footwell due to rust! The garage told him £50 or you can have that tandem bicycle. He chose the tandem much to my mothers horror! Always eccentric my dad!

[Tig58072]

1967 Chevy C10. I put slot mags on it and stack pipes. Covered the door panels and dash pad in red crushed velvet and got my mom to sew covers for the visors as well. Miss that pickup.