In 1979 I turned 16 and my dad bought a 1972 Ford Mustang - from a JUNK YARD ...for $500!! It was rusted in several places & the junk yard was the proper place for it! - but! - my dad worked at a prison, & he got the car into the prison work shop & the inmates worked on the car from headlights to tailights... and after a couple months, it came out looking BRAND SPANKING NEW! It was a light metallic green with dark green interior. Man, I loved that car!
Until some B**** in an R/V crashed along side of it & tore it all to ****. And the b**** didn't even STOP to see if I was OK or anything!!! (I was, but the car was completely totaled! )
To this day, I hope the car gods curse her every single day of her life with dead batteries and broken cables and irreplaceable parts!
2000 gold Toyota Corolla (used). When I turned 16 my dad got if for me with the condition that I paid the $180 car payment and I wash it once a week. I loved that car so much! I was the only one of my close friends to have a car so young so it was used and abused. lol Back when it only cost me about $15 to fill up the tank. Sadly, the day after my 17th birthday, a huge F-350 truck plowed through a stop sign and ran over the front of my car. (the car was the only thing hurt)
In 8/1979 (when I got my first real full time job after college) I bought a 1975 Datsun B210 2 door hatchback manual trans, no air conditioning, AM/FM radio with lousy reception, in red with a white stripe down the middle. It got about 35mpg and a real rattletrap. I think I paid $2000 for it but I know my car payment was $75/mo. Funny that I can remember these details. I guess you never forget your first!
She drove off a cliff and survived? Must not have been a high cliff. I'm glad she didn't end up paralyzed or worse.
The car still drove. I'm originally from California and there's a road called Decker canyon. It's quite steep but she was very lucky to land into the poison oak trees growing on the side of the mountain. If the trees hadn't been there, she wouldn't have been so lucky. She had a seat belt burn and some rashes from the oak, but that's it. Very lucky.
A 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass who I named "Fred." Have no idea why! LOL!
It was a greenish gold with a black vinyl top and the gear shift in the middle with bucket seats! It was COOL!!~ I got it from my dad my senior year in high school which was 1972/73 school year. I couldn't take it to college though until my senior year there. Dad knew with the car I wouldn't be studying as much as I should! Everything worked out.
A maroon '94 Nissan Altima I got when I was 17 (in 1999). I drove that thing into the ground and she was still so good to me! She gave out in '07 with 228k miles. I went without a car until Tuesday- I got a 2009 Nissan Murano. Some lady talking on her cell Phone almost backed into her today and I freaked out. Her name is Donna Reed because it's a mom car, but I love it. Can't imagine not buying a Nissan now.
My first car was a '67 Mustang which I bought in '69 when I was 15 1/2 with money I had saved up from working construction clean-up/drywall on week-ends and summers.
I paid $2,200 for it, white with a red racing stripe, big tires and rims. I believe it had about 20,000 miles on it.
It was a chick magnet......or maybe it was me
probably was the 8 track stereo in it rockin' Iron Butterfly
I had a green '69 Mustang my parents bought for me when I was a sophomore in college. I had two older brothers so parents said I didn't need a car in high school (since they could drive me anywhere and I was a girl)l. Very embarrassing to have to have them take me everywhere. The Mustang's heater/defroster quit working. (Not good in Iowa in the winter) and the driver's side window kept falling inside of the door, so I wasn't sad to see it go after graduation. But I did like the V8 engine in it. Lots of get up and go!
probably was the 8 track stereo in it rockin' Iron Butterfly
I'm sure it was you EZ! Iron Butterfly - one hit wonders!
I remember the old 8 tracks. After a while they would get warped or the tape would get stuck in the player! Our version of the Ipod!
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And the b**** didn't even STOP to see if I was OK or anything!!! (I was, but the car was completely totaled! 
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Given to me as a graduation gift from high-school in 03...Thanks to my mom 
(the car was the only thing hurt)
