What was your very first car

A 1981 Mercury Lynx.

ETA: That was the first car my dad fixed up for me when I turned 16 in 1989. At other points I had a Chevy Citation and a Chevy Corsica. Buying cars with issues and fixing them up was my dad's hobby, so I was lucky with that.

The first car DH and I bought after we were married and moved to Texas was a red Chevy Beretta. I was so proud of it. I drove that to work and DH drove the Corsica I still had because it had no A/C and his commute was about 10 minutes vs. my 40 minutes commute.

1968 Ford Mustang, pale yellow with a black vinyl top. 🥰

A 1977 Chevy Nova, when I was a junior in high school in 1987. 

1976 Orange Toyota Celica GT - loved the independence of driving my very own car!

New Red Toyota Tercel hatchback.  I was 22 and we paid for it with wedding gift $.

I can list all my cars…I have had so few…pretty sad for an almost 60 year old.  Hahaha.

74 Chevy Malibu- old used family clunker car
82 Chevette  - bought used.  My first “my” car.
88 Chevy Nova hatchback.  My first new car I bought.  I loved that car.
98 Ford Escort.  New.  I never really liked that car.
07 Mazda3 hatchback.  New.  I really loved this car.
16 Subaru Forester.  New.  I really liked this car but I went from my little zoom zoom zoom to a safe and practical 
21 Subaru Forester.  New.  First time I ever got any significant trade in value for trading in my old car.
25 Subaru Forester.  New.  Got a great deal and now I have all the options I want and can revert to my keep for about 10 years way.  😄

 

I didn’t get my first car until I graduated college and was 22.
It was a brand new, loaded gold Honda Accord. Leather seats, it was fly. I had some money from graduation and a full time job.
I had it 2 years then it was stolen off the streets of Oakland

1980 brick red diesel Volkswagen Rabbit. It was a manual and had those glow plugs that had to warm up for 20min to start in the cold. Yeah, that was fun in the New Jersey winter. It was 1987 and I was 23 and had just gotten my license the year before. It cost me $800. 

I still have anger over my first car . A Plymouth Horizon, I was SO excited to buy my own car!
BUT, it put me into so much debt! I was single, living on my own, and that damn car interfered with my
finances.

I actually wrote a letter to Lee Iacoca (LOL!) knowing he'd NEVER see it, but it made me feel better, I guess.
I had a TINY shred of hope that they'd reimburse me for the MANY repairs due to the car being such a piece of crap.

*sidenote.....our parents didn't give us cars, nor were we allowed to drive theirs, so I rode with friends, took the bus/ subway/ and walked a LOT.

Went to a high school in a very high-income area, and so many of my 16-year-old classmates were gifted amazing, new, expen$ive
cars for their 16th birthday.

Plus, many also had rhinoplasties (nose jobs) as TEENAGERS. Which, looking
back, how SAD that parents would pay for cosmetic surgery because they wanted their SIXTEEN year old to look prettier. (sad!)

A green 1974 Chevy Vega.  it was a stick shift with three gears plus reverse of course. I was a senior in college so it was 1980 and I needed a car to be able to get back-and-forth to student teaching. It cost $400 and my dad paid for it and then I paid my rent for that semester.  I lived in a house with six other women, boy do I have stories.

I drove that car into the ground, but it served its purpose until I got a full-time teaching job a little over a year later.  

We had always had manual cars in our family, which my dad mostly drove along with my brothers and I had never driven one. Well my dad brings this car home. We had to go get it inspected and he made me drive it. I knew the mechanics of the clutch and all that, but he looked at me and said get in it and drive  lol. 

A blue 1989 Pontiac Lemans.

My first car was a 1973 Ford Pinto. My dad bought it for $600 for my 16th birthday. It had no radio, no AC but I loved it anyway.