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'77 4 door Chevy Nova. This thing was a tank. It survived all of the fender benders, off roading, hood surfing, and Duke's of Hazzard jumps over railroad tracks. I gave it to my sister when I joined the Marine Corps then she gave it to my brother who killed it on some ice.

I'll see your tank and raise you a battleship of the street. My first car was a 1973 4 door Chevy Impala (picked out by my step-dad). I wanted a car so bad I did not raise a stink, as my folks were paying for the car. Sporty it was not, but with 400 cubic inches under the hood and my lead foot, I will say it passed whatever I wanted to pass, and kept me steeped in moving violations during my tender youth. AND....I never lost an argument with another car....ahem, there were a few.

Mine was a 1980 Ford F350. It was a monstrous truck, with a 461 V8, and it got 6 miles when it was coasting down hill towing a trailer.

Being 16 and having that big of an engine in a small town where backroads ARE the roads, let's just say I should have died several times.

I loved that truck.

My dad bought two '73 Volkswagen Beetles new when my big brother began driving so that his three sons could make their mistakes on inexpensive cars. It worked. My parents loaned me the yellow one during my last year of undergrad school in '79 and my future wife and I dated in this car. By that time, both bumpers, all four fenders, the trunk, and hood, were all mashed from accidents. We called it "the rolling paper wad." The first time I brought my beautiful, classy little date down to the school parking lot and rounded the corner to hop in my car, it occurred to me for the first time that this car didn't inspire much confidence or admiration. Somehow this particularly tolerant girl soldiered on. I still cringe at a memory of her a few months later in a white formal gown and heels, helping me push the car to the edge of a hill in the rain so I could roll-start it. Are there still girls out there like that?

At the end of the year as I looked forward to marriage and more college, my parents sold me the car. As my then-fiancee left for the summer at her home out of state, she laid down the law and informed me that she would not be seen in that thing until it was repaired. It cost me as much as the car to get the front-end aligned and have the body repaired and repainted. The elderly and earthy owner of the small body shop where I took the car for body work, pulled me aside, put his hand on my shoulder, gave me a serious look through his paint-speckled glasses, and pronounced, very carefully,

"A man ought not to drive a beat-up car or people will think he's a sh** bum."

My dad (a church elder) and I still laugh about that line but it has stayed with me verbatim. I replaced the clutch and repair the brakes myself, tuned it up, and restored the interior so that the car looked very nearly new by the time my fiancee returned from summer vacation. A year later we honeymooned in the car.

Good memories.

A side benefit of the car was that the rubber floor mats sounded exactly like a well-recorded kick drum and the spring-mounted horn button on the steering wheel sounded like a snare when you slapped it lightly. You could boogie along with your favorite tunes well in this car.

Bob

If there is a prize, I win for the oldest car!

Mine was a 1950 Chev 4 door sedan! My then boyfriend, now husband, sold it to me for $1.00! He then bought a 1958 Chevy Del Ray, 4 door sedan! They were in great shape, and used! I'm not THAT old!

My first car was a 1966 Mustang Coupe. It was metallic red with aftermarket spline wheels. I had to drop a new 302 into it over the 289 that was too tired to move it. When I went to college I sold it for college money.

My plan is to buy a 1966 fastback and restore it someday... someday...

Not the oldest..but I think I win for ugliest 1978 Oldsmobile StarFire a.ka. "The Roach".

This pic is close, but not the same distinct brown color as mine was. This one looks much nicer...$500 cash baby!!! I sold it for $1 to the sister of a girl I was dating...a few weeks later it caught fire just sitting her driveway...that was the end of that relationship Oh yeah, although the car cost $500, I mowed enough lawns to put in a $600 stereo system Sony's first CD deck...I wrapped it in foam, but it still shot CD's out whenever you hit a bump.

1989 GMC 3500 with a 454 engine. Thanks for yet again making me want a truck again Sam!

Ugly? That thing's a Ferrari compared with my first 'car':

Mine was a 1968 Ford Pickup Truck, tan and white and the brakes didn't work... NOT a beauty at all... haha

This was in 1985