How much was your first car?

[black roadster]

How much was the first car you bought?

Mine was a 1974 Ford Capri I bought for $318.00

It ran fine. It just needed a clutch and valve cover gasket.

[TurboDuane]

1968 Land Cruiser, $1,800.00 in 1982. I had to have a 4x4.

[Dave04]

I think I paid about $1500 for a used 1978 Pontiac Sunbird back in about 1985. It was the 4-cylinder 4-speed manual one, but I drove the crap out of it until I went to college.

[Magma]

1990 Ford Probe, cost $0.00. My grandfather bought my uncle a new car and gave me the Ford

[cone-cerned]

In 1964, I paid $150 for a 1949 Ford V8 two door sedan.

[Monkey of Death]

Paid $1,500 in '85 for a '68 Cougar. The sequential turn signals were awesome!

My second car was a '78 Honda Civic wagon that I got for $25....

[POS Racing]

First car was willed to me in 1974 but I didn't pick it up till 2003.

But the first one I actually spent my own money on had $100 payments for 12 months!

Looked just like this, and it had the fuel efficient 403 Rocket V8 with a Turbo Hydramatic 400 and a Posi-Trac rear end. It was one fast moving land yacht!

[sammm]

My first car was a '77 Toyota Corolla willed to me in 1978 by my grandfather. He had bought it brand new just before he passed away.

Looked just like this one

[altiain]

My first car was a poop brown 1982 Saab 900. Paid $2500 for it in 1989. 5-speed, non-turbo 4 cylinder with no a/c. Promptly blew the motor out of it three months later.

[Kestrel]

$1,200 in 1977 for a bondo and orange 1972 VW Beetle. Looked like crap, but it was indestructible. I really enjoyed that car, and if I won the lottery, I'd have a fully restored 1972 Beetle in my 10 car garage...

[MadMerv]

My first car was a Christmas present in 1967 - 1964 Comet Caliente conv with a 260 V8. The first one I purchased was a 1963 Caddie 4-door hardtop with a 390 V8 and a 4-speed overdrive automatic, for $900! Fun car for a bunch of Gi's to go to the dirt track races on Saturday nights. Oh yeah, it had a six-way power bench seat that was fun for dates with Debbie Lester

[HudsonHawk]

First car I bought was a 1984 LTD Crown VIC for $1500 in 93. It was right after I totaled my CRX HF (<--dad bought it for me in 88 ) and had to have a car and it was all I could afford.

Great road car. 302 V8. hummed right along.

[CosmosMpower]

Around 16K for a 00 Civic EX in 2000.

[Nexus Flux]

My first car was a 1986 Mitsubishi Cordia L and it cost me $10 and another $50 in tax when I went to register it. MA has been pulling that "fair value" thing for a long time.

[bnordin]

First car was a 1957 Pontiac Chieftain with a 347 V8 with 3 on the tree. $75 and it ran like a bat-out-a-hell.

[Bacon]

About 9,000 for an '88 RX-7 back in 1997.

[boisking]

$100 for a 1964 Chevrolet 1/2 ton pickup. 290 inline-6 and a three in the tree. The entire bed floor was gone (formerly oak). Sold it less than a year later (in boxes) for $800.

[gabkwong]

$250 for 1969 Ford Galaxie station wagon with 3 rows of seats. It had original faded yellow paint w/o a/c or heater (in Minnesota!). The doors were so rusted out that I could see the ground through them while driving. It helped great deal in parallel park The best MGP was 12! I changed oil only once in 2 years of ownership. I sold it 2 years later for $200!

[Jeff_nc]

I inherited my first car in 1994, it was a 1966 Chevy Corvair. Some douche rear-ended me at a red light and totaled it just 4 months after I got it. I got about $5,000 in insurance money for that car. Used most of that money on my first automobile purchase, which was a 1966 Ford Mustang. Got it for $3,000... then spent the rest on a paint job and a set of Cragar SS wheels.

[trickyrix]

$4700 (half from my old man) for a '78 Camaro that looked like a honey (we bought it at an auction). However, it ran like crap, and underneath that slick red paint it was worn out and rusty... Sold it after about a year and took a little beating on it, but was able to trade up to a stealthy '89 Mustang LX 5.0 notchback that had previously served as a Budget rent-a-car in Oklahoma. It was a year old, had 30K miles on it, and came with a pencil-scrawled note in the owner manual: "BALD TIRES" - woo hoo! Great car...