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What was your first car? Mine was an '82 Buick Electra 225. The deuce and a quarter drunk gas like it was water, but it got me to and from school fairly quickly.

BlazerJoe Wrote:What was your first car? Mine was an '82 Buick Electra 225. The deuce and a quarter drunk gas like it was water, but it got me to and from school fairly quickly.

1968 Chevy Impala pos, followed by '74 Camaro POS

1990 Bronco II

1989 Mazda B2200 5-speed

0-60 in 3 miles. And shook to pieces when I hit 70 mph.

1972 Plymouth Valiant (sp?), 3-speed on the tree, slant-6, 1 barrell.
No heat, no A/C, bread box air vents. Cost me $300. The car stereo in the car cost me $600.
On a funny side note about the car, by the time I was ready to sell it (err give it away) the car would stick in 1st gear if I happened to foget and put it in 1st geat at a traffic light. The only way to get it out of 1st was to pop the hood and physicially pop it out. Owning that car has made me really appreciate any car I own now.

'72 Austin American. Little British front wheel drive, close cousin to a Mini. 1197 cc engine. It wasn't fast but it was cheap to run and hella fun throwing around the twisties. It didn't survive my 16 year old driving skills very long though.

1966 Sport Plymouth Fury III Hardtop, with a 318 V-8. It would go from 0-60 in under seven seconds. I know that because the Trussville Police Department confirmed it with a nice ticket.

My nephew now owns that car. It has 467,000 miles on it. I'm not kidding. You can't kill that car.

76' Olds Cutlass. 200k miles +. I would guess less than 10 mpg. Could rarely afford enough gas to get the thing out of Leeds, so me and my friends used to use my lunch money for enough gas to see how long we could keep it sideways while driving around in my neighborhood. I was drifting before drifting was cool. In a junker at that. When I did get it out of town, we used to take out shopping carts with it in the Irondale Wal-Mart parking lot. Eventually the transmission went out and it would only go in reverse. The excitement of driving around in reverse wore out pretty quickly.

1993 Saturn SC2. Everything on that car was falling apart except for the engine and transmission. Odometer stopped, A/C stopped, interior falling apart, speedometer gets stuck at 0 sometimes, burns about a quart of oil every other week, but somehow that Saturn engine just keeps running with no problems. I even forgot to check the oil for a few weeks and ended up having to put in 4 quarts in to fill it up, but it still keeps on running. I still have it now in case I need to drive something when my current car goes to the shop.

'89 Ford Tempo with the automatic seatbelt. was mom's car. Lived in IN, moved to TX and drove it there, only to drive it back to IN when i was a soph at Ball St. had 110K on it by the time i got it at BSU. made plenty of long road trips in it to MI and OH. (I know, not nearly as long as the trip to and from TX) only thing i ever had to replace on it were brakes, since the clutch went out while my younger brother drove it when it was still in TX. wasn't fast at all, but i beat all the SUV's off the line with that manual. ended up donating it to charity, since i could claim more $ on taxes than if i sold it.

1978 Pontiac Sunbird

My dad talked me out of the '73 Mustang Mach I I was on the verge of buying. He convinced me I'd be better off buying the new Sunbird than inheriting someone else's problems with the 'Stang.

Smart man. Not because of the stated reason (that Pontiac was a piece of crap), but because his sales job probably had the intended purpose of keeping me alive.

My first 3 were a Plymouth Scamp ( I am not good with years, so early 70's model), a used Alabama Power Station Wagon, & a Ford Escort.

That Plymouth Scamp would haul tail! Outside of only having an AM radio, it was a great vehicle.

The Ford Escort was the first car that I paid for. Mom & Dad selected it & brought it home for me. I took up the car payments.

After the escort, I had a Ford Mustang (can't remember the year), a '97 Honda Accord, 2002 Honda Accord (still have) , & still have a 2007 Honda CRV.

1984 brown Dodge Colt.

A POS Piss Yellow 1973 Ford Maverick 3 on the tree.

A 1972 blue 4 door Datsun 710; it went uphill, downhill, and cruised at about 60mph. I got it in 1985. It wasn't great at 13 years old but everything still worked and it got 25 mpg.

Candy Apple Red, 64 1/2 Mustang. It is truly amazing I did not kill myself in that car. I sold it my freshman year at UAB.

1977 Oldsmobile Toronado. Absolute beast. 403 under the hood, sky blue, every conceiveable option for 1977, and about a third of them still worked in 1987, when I got it.

1965 White Straight Six (Cleveland Block) Mustang. My Dad was the original owner, so we kept it in the family. Of course, it took me 2 years (starting when I was 14) to get the car in driving condition. Including: new master cylinder (brakes), new paint job, a valve job, re-machining the head, new exhaust, new transmission bands, new motor mounts, etc.

1974 Chevy 1/2 ton pu. It had 350 taken from a smashed Camaro topped by a 800 CFM Quadrajet. I could stomp the gas and smoke the tires all the while watching the gas guage noticably run toward empty.

I would hit 100 easy on I-59. Got it up to 140 coming down Straight Mt on night on hwy 231...Damn sure glad I didn't hit a deer or blow a tire.

BTR Wrote:Candy Apple Red, 64 1/2 Mustang. It is truly amazing I did not kill myself in that car. I sold it my freshman year at UAB.

Awesome car.

97 Chevy Lumina.
Ugly and had a messed up suspension that squeked everytime you hit a bump.
Thus earning its nickname, "Flipper"

Smaug Wrote:1977 Oldsmobile Toronado. Absolute beast. 403 under the hood, sky blue, every conceiveable option for 1977, and about a third of them still worked in 1987, when I got it.

Damn. That's like my car on steroids. This is what I dad. But in much better shape than mine was.

When I turned 16 in 1957, my mother announced she would no longer drive, and I got her car--a 1955 Chevy Bel Air with power windows, A/C and small V-8 engine. I became her driver whenever she had any place to go. (Actually, that continued until her death in 1973) 100+(leaded) 0ctane premium Amoco gasoline cost about 35 cents per gallon. A major tune-up could be gotten from a "service station" for less than $40. The minimum wage was $1 per hour.

Suede27 Wrote:

Smaug Wrote:1977 Oldsmobile Toronado. Absolute beast. 403 under the hood, sky blue, every conceiveable option for 1977, and about a third of them still worked in 1987, when I got it.

Damn. That's like my car on steroids. This is what I dad. But in much better shape than mine was.

I think the Toronado was Oldsmobile's El Dorado. It was front-wheel drive and had no "hump" in the floorboard. If a buddy dropped his empty drink bottle in the floor, it would soon be under the driver's feet.

1982 Toyota Celica hatchback. Brown w/ gold rims (that's how it came) and leuvers (sp?). 5 speed and that little thing would whip around dirt roads!

1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Had about 120,000 miles on it when my parents handed down to me. God I gave that car hell on the way to work when I was in high school, don't know how I never got a ticket. Now I drive a 07' Civic Si, which was my high school graduation present.

1996 Mazda Protege- still running and sportin' a Blazer flag!

1993 Nissan Altima GXE. That machine happily helped me tool around Alabama [at UAB and at home] and northwest Florida for years, until that engine rattling that a Jiffy Lube guy told me was no big deal finally ate the engine a few years ago. (Note to self: Don't trust the Jiffy Lube guy so much.) Sits in my sister's backyard, body and interior still pretty fair--they say they'll get it fixed but they've been saying that for years.

BlazerUnit Wrote:1993 Nissan Altima GXE. That machine happily helped me tool around Alabama [at UAB and at home] and northwest Florida for years, until that engine rattling that a Jiffy Lube guy told me was no big deal finally ate the engine a few years ago. (Note to self: Don't trust the Jiffy Lube guy so much.) Sits in my sister's backyard, body and interior still pretty fair--they say they'll get it fixed but they've been saying that for years.

Note to BlazerUnit: Don't trust the Jiffy Lube guy AT ALL.

blazertke Wrote:1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Had about 120,000 miles on it when my parents handed down to me. God I gave that car hell on the way to work when I was in high school, don't know how I never got a ticket. Now I drive a 07' Civic Si, which was my high school graduation present.

Awe man I love the SI's. Those things are sweet. My mom drives a Vdub GTI and that little thing freakin boogeys

What a car ! ! No air, but a wonderful drive with all the windows down ! !

I got it in 1958 ! !

Still drive GM. They've been great to me!!!

BlazerFromMD Wrote:

BlazerUnit Wrote:1993 Nissan Altima GXE. That machine happily helped me tool around Alabama [at UAB and at home] and northwest Florida for years, until that engine rattling that a Jiffy Lube guy told me was no big deal finally ate the engine a few years ago. (Note to self: Don't trust the Jiffy Lube guy so much.) Sits in my sister's backyard, body and interior still pretty fair--they say they'll get it fixed but they've been saying that for years.

Note to BlazerUnit: Don't trust the Jiffy Lube guy AT ALL.

I only learned such wisdom five years ago, at 23.

tigertom Wrote:

What a car ! ! No air, but a wonderful drive with all the windows down ! !

I got it in 1958 ! !

Still drive GM. They've been great to me!!!

Great car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1994 Dodge Ram 1500. It had the 318 c.i.d. engine option, 4 wheel drive, manual windows/back sliding glass. Dad bought it new and drove it 150,000 miles before handing me the key on my 16th. I had a head-on on the way to school that morning and all I had to do was use a coat hanger to hold the battery tray and windshield washer fluid in place and took it to a local mudhole after school that day. Man, I miss that beast of a truck...

1982 Honda Prelude - Dark Blue, with a beige leather and velour interior. Wrecked it in Dalton Ga. when some 80 year old guy, (no exaggeration, dude was 80 something) pulled right out in front of my GF and I.

93 Pontiac Grand Am.

I got a dime caught in the cigarette lighter and it set the wiring on fire.
Drove it for another year with no interior lights, no heat, no air, the windows wouldn't go up or down... and I usually tried to drive at night to help keep it from overheating

'92 Buick Skylark. Drove that until a few months after graduation. My parents just got rid of that car a couple of years ago, at which time it had around 240,000 miles. My next car after that was/is my '97 Ford Taurus, which currently has right at 229,000 miles and still going strong.

BlazerFromMD Wrote:

BlazerUnit Wrote:1993 Nissan Altima GXE. That machine happily helped me tool around Alabama [at UAB and at home] and northwest Florida for years, until that engine rattling that a Jiffy Lube guy told me was no big deal finally ate the engine a few years ago. (Note to self: Don't trust the Jiffy Lube guy so much.) Sits in my sister's backyard, body and interior still pretty fair--they say they'll get it fixed but they've been saying that for years.

Note to BlazerUnit: Don't trust the Jiffy Lube guy AT ALL.

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When I first moved to Hueytown, I went to the Jiffy Lube for an oil change. The guy working there looked at my mileage, went back to his computer, came back and told me about 4 or 5 different services that their records were showing were due. I questioned them on how their records could show that considering that I'd never been to a Jiffy Lube, and because I'd had all of those services done within the previous 6 months to a year.