What was your very first car

I also drove a VW, but it was a Rabbit. A 1984 diesel VW Rabbit. She was my 17th birthday present after I conceded to learning how to drive a stick shift.  She was tan and my dad put a decal across the top of the windshield that looked like eyes with eyelashes, lol. I honestly didn't know he did it. I thought the previous owner had done it. I didn't find out it was him until a few years ago.


Jen 

A forest green 1969 Volvo (in the late 80s). Very boxy sedan that was built like a tank. I developed great arm muscles because it had no power steering.

The speedometer was like a horizontal thermometer. Had an orange plastic arrow that you could move along an elastic band that ran below it to set your "cruise control!"

1974 Subaru---bright orange, think safety cone orange. It broke down all the time too!

I got a 1967 Ford Mustang I bought from a family friend right before HS graduation.

Let's see if I can remember my other cars!

1979 Camaro Berlinetta I bought right after college. Bonus, it made my dad mad.
1988 Chevy Corsica - the engine blew at 100k miles, so I replaced it sooner than I would have
1993 Chevy Corsica - bought used, shared it with my own teens
2001 Chevy Malibu - DH insisted I replace it, because it had 160K miles. My niece, then brother drove it another 100K miles
2013 Ford Edge - I still have it, grandson drives it
2018 Chevy Tahoe - I started driving it after DH passed. I'll drive it until I can't get up into it any longer

A total of 7 cars in 48 years. I tend to drive my cars a good long time.

1985 Dodge Diplomat. It was a wreck rebuild, that we later found out was a police car. It had blood stains on the steering column.

That thing would fly! I got a speeding ticket going 140.🤣

It was a Nissan Altima. It was 2 years old when I bought it and had previously been a car rental. Sadly the car broke down a lot. It would just stall on me and they could never figure out what was wrong. After putting in money to fix it multiple times, I gave up and bought a new car.

1974 Pea green Plymouth Gold Duster

My very first car was a white Mazda Z3. Was a beauty! Crapped out in the first month! LOL!
Next was a green Ford Mustang. Not the cool Mustangs from the '50s or '60s. But was a good car until I loaned it to my brother. Went downhill from there. Never loan out your car!

1983 Buick Regal. It became mine in 1991 and I drove it until 1999. It was a great first car - it could hold me and all my friends. And some of their friends. It was a tank (and the color of a tank) and well built, comfortable, and full of features for its day. My grandmother bought it for me, and she wanted me surrounded by metal.

This is as also my first car. But it was very used. I got it in 1989 and I think the car was an 81.

Mine was an '83.  I saw them around for at least 20 years, probably 30.  Mine was a stick, was yours?

A Chevy Monte Carlo in the ugliest green color you could ever imagine.

I don't drive but we still have DH's first car from 1989- 1981 Ford Mustang (currently a future project to restore).

After that?

Ford Thunderbird when he was in Germany in the early 90s (his Mustang stayed stateside)

he traded that for a 1993 Mustang in about 1996 maybe and drove it until it was totalled in about 2002

we were given (by FIL) an old conversion van then and traded that a year later for an older Dodge Caravan

traded the Caravan in on a 1-yr old Town and Country in 2005

added a pickup truck that was FILs around the same time (1996  S-10)

added a 2012 Mini Cooper in 2014

traded the Town and Country in on a 2014 Ford Flex in early 2017

That's it.

I had a 1985 Renault Alliance. it was like driving a tin can. LOL