What was your first car? What happened to it?

[jaak]

My first car was a 87 Dodge Daytona... POS! I sold it for 500 bucks in 1996, after I was fed up with it.

One truck I used to have I really liked was a 97 Dakota Sport, it was a single cab with a 318, 5 speed. I liked that truck, I bought it around 1999 and it had 30k miles. I drove it a while, then traded it off before my first daughter was born. The reason I mention this, is I just found out what happened to it the other day. For shits and giggles I googled the VIN number. I found an archive for a newspaper from a city about 35 east of where I live. The date on the paper was 9/25/12, it was in the legal section of the paper, It was an abandoned vehicle, and It was a notice that if the vehicle wasn't claimed within 30 Days, it would be disposed of by a towing company. Makes me wonder what it looked like when it was abandoned.

Jason

[keith88]

My 1st three cars were 70 chargers (because i couldn't find a 69 like i own now) The very 1st one was a basket case drove it home 40 miles with almost no brakes,sold it to upgrade to one that i actually put a plate on than again for the 3rd ...sold that because of a rotted frame.

[TUFCAT]

1974 Duster 318 in 1983.  Sold it for $1,800 in the fall of 1984 to a kid in high school, who then sold it to another kid, who quickly began to destroy it.

About two years later a different buddy told me it was in a junkyard. I went over there, and sure enough...it was the same car, but literally beat to death.  

Btw, great thread 66FB.  

[Charger-Bodie]

Gold 68 Charger. Sold it after owning it for shy of twenty years. Used the money to pay for part of the house I live in when my 2nd wife and got got hitched.

[TUFCAT]

Gold 68 Charger. Sold it after owning it for shy of twenty years. Used the money to pay for part of the house I live in when my 2nd wife and got got hitched.

2nd wife?  We all make mistakes.....of all the things I miss, my first wife isn't one of 'em!    

Hey speaking of gold Chargers...you should be all over turbans ass for changing the color on his mostly original 68 gold Charger!    

[Charger-Bodie]

Gold 68 Charger. Sold it after owning it for shy of twenty years. Used the money to pay for part of the house I live in when my 2nd wife and got got hitched.

2nd wife?  We all make mistakes.....of all the things I miss, my first wife isn't one of 'em!  

But your aim is getting better right?

[paironines]

My very first car was a 70 Charger 500 318 AT with a 360 in it. Green with white interior and one black drivers seat. Very rusty car but it was mine and I drove it alot. I sold it to a kid and his dad from Ft Wayne IN in about 97 or 98. and I'd like to know what happened to it or maybe get it back. I don't have the VIN and contacts with my insurance agent and DMV have produced nothing.  

[69bronzeT5]

First car was a '69 Charger.  It now resides in my avatar and 'sig space on dodgecharger.com...

Same here.....my first car was my '69 Charger. Still have it.

[lloyd3]

Like the original poster here, mine was a '70 Roadrunner (a Limelight 383 auto w/ the black and silver interior). Western Pennsylvania was hell on 60s and 70s Mopars because of all the salt they used on the roads. My car was purchased from the original owner (who had bought it locally, all of his maintenance records came with it) in the summer of 1978 for $500. I believe it had something like 51K miles on it and was so original that the front fenders had daylight showing through them and the exhaust system leaked like a sieve.   I remember it so fondly because I've obviously forgotten all of the things I had to learn how to fix.  It was shockingly fast compared to all the other cars I had driven to that point (mostly my parent's cars).  When I think now of how remarkably it changed my life, I have to shake my head. Think of all of the money I'd have saved over the last 35-years or so if I'd only bought a Chevy truck?

Sex and drugs and rock & roll seem to take their toll on just about everybody that goes down that road. God knows I wasn't the exception.  That was a tumultuous period in my life (as it is for most 20 somethings). Hard lessons learned in the school of very hard knocks. A slightly older women (that I happened to work with) ran me through the wringer of early relationships, and I fear that the Roadrunner took the brunt of it (ah! young love!). The car ended it's life (and, thankfully, not mine) on a hot summer night in rural Mercer County. The road was dirt, the driver was impaired, and the turn exceeded the ability of the tires to stay between the poles.  I wasn't cited (hell, it wasn't even investigated!) and my attitude at the time was that it was only a $500 car and I'd get another, even better version. Reality was that it took several years (and lots of very Plain Jane drivers), a college degree, and lots of hard work  to find something that had even comparable performance.  

[RallyeMike]

69 Charger bought for $150. I had $500 into it and a new paint job when someone offered me $1k in front of a 7-11 store, and the rest is history. I thought I had hit the lottery - doubling my investment!

The guy ran it into a bus a few months later and totaled it. One piece of it was saved from the junk yard is bolted onto my current 69 for old time's sake.

[Cooter]

67 Plymouth Belvedere II. 2dr. Hd.top
owned it about a year and totaled it. This was in 87.
Replaced with 65 Satellite.

[A383Wing]

first car was a 66 Charger, got it in 1974, still have it today

the black one below

[c00nhunterjoe]

My 69, paid 2000 for it in 98' @ 15 years old, ran and drove with a 400/727. Drove it like the dukes all through high school all the way up until present day.

[Brass]

A maroon and black 68 Charger.  I paid $250 for it in 86 (before I had a license).  I dropped a 400 into it, and had the 727 rebuilt with a shift kit and a small block converter.  It already had a dual point, double pumper, a sure grip, and slots.  That car was a roach - but it was aggro, hella loud, and a lot of fun.  I got hit on the way to work and it needed a quarter panel and rear bumper which I couldn't locate at the time.  That damage, along with perennial wiring problems, and the need for school money made me decide to let it go.  I think it was eventually stripped and salvaged.  It would be great to have something like that today as a hard-driving, devil-may-care street pounder.

[chargerman69]

Can't  remanber my first 6 cars were farm beaters all gone to the junkyard

My first car that i dr7ve not junked was 79 trans am 403 se still have it

[lloyd3]

Talking about my "first car" has made me replay the mental tape of those years, probably for the first time in any real focused detail. A couple of things have been striking for me. The biggest one is amazement that I lived through that period, and then right after that, is remembering just how much fun that Roadrunner was when I first got it licensed and on the road .  What comes back to me was how all-around balanced that car was (compared to the other cars of the period that I was driving, both before and then, after it).  It really handled fairly well, had decent brakes (for drums), and darn good acceleration (a healthy, stock, 383 Magnum is no-slouch!).  It was a low-miles original car and I'm sure that was a big part of it. God....it was so loud (Cherry Bomb glass-packs!). I'm finally figuring out why all my neighbors acted like they hated me. Things went south fairly quickly after that (hard use, bad winters, and bad roads take their toll). I'm thinking it lasted about 2-years...so 1980 was likely the end. What followed was so kaleidoscopic for me, it's a little hard to sort it all out (that sex & drugs & rock & roll thing again).

[tan top]

First car was a '69 Charger.  It now resides in my avatar and 'sig space on dodgecharger.com...

Same here.....my first car was my '69 Charger. Still have it.

  mine too , first car I bought 

[tcs69rt]

1973 Monte Carlo in 1983. I miss the swivel bucket seats. They would be great in an old coupe with suicide doors 

I blew up the 350 in it and 6 months later I was in the USAF in Okinawa, car was sold in Radford, VA back then.

[Charger_Dart]

My first car was the older style 2 door Jeep Cherokee with a 360 and 3 speed on the floor. Put BFG all terrains on it and had lots of fun off-roading in it. Beat the snot out of it till one day I snapped a front leaf spring. Looked just like this one:

 

[6spd68]

1973 Monte Carlo in 1983. I miss the swivel bucket seats.

I'd always wondered how they were received by the driver.  Were they practical?

[nvrbdn]

my first was a 68 dodge charger B-5 blue white top and interior. 16 years old in 73. bought for 600.00 with 64000 miles on it. traded it off when I was leaving for the air force. since it went to a car lot, there is no telling what happened to it.

[bill440rt]

My first car was a '68 Charger, originally a 318, bought in '86 & restored it with my dad. Still own it today as a cloned 440 R/T. 

Now, my SECOND car was a '71 Satellite (cloned to a RR), Lemon Twist with black strobe stripes and a go-wing, with a white/brown 2-tone interior, hi-back bench seat, 440-auto on the column. It had fat 50-series tires on it with Cragar SST wheels. I sold it to some local kid who was the son of a Chrysler/Plymouth dealer who promptly put a 6-pack on it. He shortly sold it afterwards, and I never saw it again. I always wondered what happened to that car. 
I should try to find and scan a photo of it... 

[TUFCAT]

My first car was a '68 Charger, originally a 318, bought in '86 & restored it with my dad. Still own it today as a cloned 440 R/T.  

Now, my SECOND car was a '71 Satellite (cloned to a RR), Lemon Twist with black strobe stripes and a go-wing, with a white/brown 2-tone interior, hi-back bench seat, 440-auto on the column. It had fat 50-series tires on it with Cragar SST wheels. I sold it to some local kid who was the son of a Chrysler/Plymouth dealer who promptly put a 6-pack on it. He shortly sold it afterwards, and I never saw it again. I always wondered what happened to that car.  
I should try to find and scan a photo of it...  

That's very cool Bill.  I didn't know you had the '68 that long.  You told me it was restored with your Dad but I didn't realize you were just a little runny nosed kid at the time!  Wow... the Senoir Mann must really know his stuff.     The car turned out great for being done so many years ago.  

Do you realize that in 5-10 years you're going to have to repeat history for your own little guys? 

[bill440rt]

My first car was a '68 Charger, originally a 318, bought in '86 & restored it with my dad. Still own it today as a cloned 440 R/T.  

Now, my SECOND car was a '71 Satellite (cloned to a RR), Lemon Twist with black strobe stripes and a go-wing, with a white/brown 2-tone interior, hi-back bench seat, 440-auto on the column. It had fat 50-series tires on it with Cragar SST wheels. I sold it to some local kid who was the son of a Chrysler/Plymouth dealer who promptly put a 6-pack on it. He shortly sold it afterwards, and I never saw it again. I always wondered what happened to that car.  
I should try to find and scan a photo of it...  

That's very cool Bill.  I didn't know you had the '68 that long.  You told me it was restored with your Dad but I didn't realize you were just a little runny nosed kid at the time!  Wow... the Senoir Mann must really know his stuff.     The car turned out great for being done so many years ago.  

Do you realize that in 5-10 years you're going to have to repeat history for your own little guys? 

Yeah, my dad taught me a thing or two.     
I sold the RR clone in '89 to buy my '70 R/T. Although it was totally the right move, I always wondered what happened to that RR. It was such a fun car! 

[TUFCAT]

Yup!  I think you learned more than a "thing or two" when you were little Bill.     It's amazing how much we learn from our Dad's when we pay attention.  We might even become like them... if we're lucky.