If you could, would you buy your first car back?

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I'm not sure if there's an old thread for this but I couldn't find one on my phone.
So if you had the chance would you buy back your first car or trade your current one for it? What would you do to get it back?
I'd have my trans am back in a heartbeat, dumbest thing I've ever done was sell it.
 
I think if I was wealthy enough to own every other car I wanted I'd probably buy my first car back as well, for the nostalgia value. Haven't owned it for six years or so now though - not sure it'd be in a fit state to be bought back!
 
One of those first cars will do.

The first car I ever drove on a regular basis was a B13 Sentra.

Wandered like a drunk on the highway. Had the rear seat space of a suitcase. Snap-oversteered every time you sneezed.

I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
 
I'd buy my 1969 Mini back in a heart beat, I adored learning how to be a rally driver in that old girl.

My stepdad apparently still has it, it could actually be possible to re-obtain her... hmm.. that's some food for thought
 
First car I ever drove regularly, or the first car I ever bought with my own money?

The car I had in high school and part of college was a '98 Ford Escort. Slowest car I ever drove and handled terrible, but it was a lot of fun. I like it back.

First car I ever purchased was a '97 Grand Prix GTP. I still have it, sort of. It's in pieces in my garage and being de-modded and parted out. Wish it still ran.
 
My first car was a 95 Plymouth Neon that didn't have a working second gear. It was awful but given the chance I would want it back.
 
I bought my 1st car in 1985, it was a 1973 Hilman Avenger. 9 months after I bought it (for £75) and with a couple of accident scars and a blown motor, it took a final trip to the scrap yard and I got £25 back.

Would I ever want it back? No thanks :lol:
 
Perhaps we should clarify that "your first car" =/= your parents' first car.

My first (and only) car died about a year ago, and was torn apart for parts. I'll miss it, especially as it's actually getting surprising hard to find a clean DC2.
 
Joey D
Don't you not have a license? Not sure how you have a car that you can't drive.
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I have my permit an in the process of getting my license which I should have soon. The vehicle is in my fathers name on the registration but he gave it to me to use since its an extra vehicle no one drives. It's the Dodge van I have.

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Would buy it instantly if it wasent crushed.

I actually worked super hard over the summer for my first car. I cried myself to sleep everyday when I lost it. ={
 
My first car was a '89 Dodge Ram 50 4x4 I loved that truck in its badged engineered glory and would buy it back in a second. It has been 16 years since I owned it so odds are its no longer running.
 
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My first car had many faults and gone through several owners. But it was part of the family. Been with us for years ever since my dad's boss, who liked him so much that he even adopted a Vietnamese girl because of my dad, had sold us the car. It went to my uncle when he came to live in the US and wasn't taken care of that well in the city. (Several hit and run accidents just parking on the side of the street). Then my brother had it during his high school senior year when my uncle went to live in Texas. After that, my uncle took it back for a little bit, then gave it back to us. Which was finally passed down to me... With several issues. Only lasted about 4 months or so for me, before my parents sold it off for parts. The car was a 1997 Subaru Legacy Outback.

I'm happy with the car I currently have, but I would love to have the old Outback back in my life. Good times were had with it's short time in my hands. Wish I could have saved it then, but that was when I didn't have as much knowledge and connections with mechanics as I do now.
 
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I still own my 1990 998cc Mini... sort of. It's a diminishing pile of bits in the garage and a logbook in my room.
 
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Been with us for years ever since my dad's boss who liked him so much that he even adoped a Vietnamese girl because of my dad had sold us.
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There really needs to be some editing in this sentence.

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Absolutely yes,I would love to have my 1975 Ford LTD back.460 ci 4bbl under 6ft of hood,room for 6,and a trunk big enough to stand a keg of beer up in,with ice.;)

(it was 1985 then :cheers:)
 
Stotty
I bought my 1st car in 1985, it was a 1973 Hilman Avenger. 9 months after I bought it (for £75) and with a couple of accident scars and a blown motor, it took a final trip to the scrap yard and I got £25 back.

Would I ever want it back? No thanks :lol:
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HAHA those are old aye!:cheers: I have seen a few for sale, ebay ect..but never seen one on the roads over here:odd:
 
What I consider my first car (handed down, not bought with my own money) is a '85 Mercury Grand Marquis. Yeah it was a land barge, but it was my land barge. A great big Ford V8 under the hood (a Windsor, I believe) provided 125, maybe 150 hp and ~200 lb. feet of torque to push along two tons of Detroit's finest steel and fake leather. Also roughly fourteen hundred pounds of horrible fuzzy gray carpeting. It sounded pretty good to my inexperienced ears that time the muffler fell off because of rust. At one point the rear end went out...we swapped in another one along with the rest of the rear suspension from a slightly newer Lincoln Town Car and it jacked the back end of the car up about three or four inches. That and the spraypainted hood and roof (the gray paint Ford used on those cars absolutely sucked and would start to wear away in a slight breeze) certainly made it stick out...especially if you parked it on an incline with the front end facing downward, as often happened due to the layout of my school's parking lot.

Definitely the car of a semi-poor college kid.

That was the first car I drove that I truly considered mine. Unfortunately another car I didn't like anywhere near as much but got better mileage was handed down to me a couple years later, and the Marquis was given to my older sister who had just ruined her latest car...she promptly put a huge wobbly antenna on the back (so she could listen to police band radio or something like that), did everything she could to kill it through sheer hubris and meanness, and then wrecked it and sold it for scrap. Yeah...I'm not too fond of her.

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In short, that car had the most personality of any car I've ever driven, it couldn't be killed by anything short of a bridge abutment, and while it looked like something put together out of spare parts, it could carry six people with ease and was very comfortable to drive, not to mention the fact that the air conditioner could freeze you half to death and the heater would get as hot as you could stand. If I could have it back, I would in a heartbeat if only to go all Dukes of Hazzard with it.



[edit] It also had vent windows! Vent windows...!
 
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I never wanted to sell my E30, but life thrust me into the situation with no other reasonable option -- it needed more work than I could afford to give it. I feel guilty about it. The Legacy is a good car; with the winters here and the work I do I would hesitate to trade back. But if I were gifted the money to buy my 318i back and give it the restoration it deserved, and told where I could find it, I would be out the door with my coat on before clicking "Post Reply."

Realistically, I'm happy that I had a chance to create wonderful, lasting memories in the time I owned it, including some "firsts" (driving out to meet my wife for the first time), and some "lasts" (taking my childhood dog for a ride before he passed away). Not to mention the tens of thousands of miles we covered together, which included besting a few sportscar/ponycar drivers in the autocross I attended for my 21st birthday, and divebombing the backroads of the Appalachian mountains in the last year I drove it. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect first car.

I sold it to a friend, who ended up selling it on because it was more than he could handle, too (he discovered he likes BMWs though, and has a nice '91 318is now). After some google-ing about a year ago, I found someone who picked up the same model and year, with the same problems, around the right time, possibly in the right area, who listed his plans to give it a nice full restoration. I'm going to pretend I know that's what became of it.
 
skynyrd
What I consider my first car (handed down, not bought with my own money) is a '85 Mercury Grand Marquis. Yeah it was a land barge, but it was my land barge. A great big Ford V8 under the hood (a Windsor, I believe) provided 125, maybe 150 hp and ~200 lb. feet of torque to push along two tons of Detroit's finest steel and fake leather. Also roughly fourteen hundred pounds of horrible fuzzy gray carpeting. It sounded pretty good to my inexperienced ears that time the muffler fell off because of rust. At one point the rear end went out...we swapped in another one along with the rest of the rear suspension from a slightly newer Lincoln Town Car and it jacked the back end of the car up about three or four inches. That and the spraypainted hood and roof (the gray paint Ford used on those cars absolutely sucked and would start to wear away in a slight breeze) certainly made it stick out...especially if you parked it on an incline with the front end facing downward, as often happened due to the layout of my school's parking lot.

Definitely the car of a semi-poor college kid.

That was the first car I drove that I truly considered mine. Unfortunately another car I didn't like anywhere near as much but got better mileage was handed down to me a couple years later, and the Marquis was given to my older sister who had just ruined her latest car...she promptly put a huge wobbly antenna on the back (so she could listen to police band radio or something like that), did everything she could to kill it through sheer hubris and meanness, and then wrecked it and sold it for scrap. Yeah...I'm not too fond of her.

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In short, that car had the most personality of any car I've ever driven, it couldn't be killed by anything short of a bridge abutment, and while it looked like something put together out of spare parts, it could carry six people with ease and was very comfortable to drive, not to mention the fact that the air conditioner could freeze you half to death and the heater would get as hot as you could stand. If I could have it back, I would in a heartbeat if only to go all Dukes of Hazzard with it.



[edit] It also had vent windows! Vent windows...!
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I wouldn't say a 302 or 351W is a great big V8 haha. Also vent windows need to come back. Lord do I miss those things.
 
Slashfan
I wouldn't say a 302 or 351W is a great big V8 haha. Also vent windows need to come back. Lord do I miss those things.
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V8: It was compared to almost everything I've had ever since, lol. It sure filled up that engine bay nicely...again, compared to almost everything I've driven since then

I really do miss those vent windows. Sure, the little knobs you would use to move them popped out or came apart after a while and water would get in, but they were very useful if you didn't want to run your air conditioner or just wanted a little fresh air with your windows rolled up.
 
skynyrd
V8: It was compared to almost everything I've had ever since, lol. It sure filled up that engine bay nicely...again, compared to almost everything I've driven since then

I really do miss those vent windows. Sure, the little knobs you would use to move them popped out or came apart after a while and water would get in, but they were very useful if you didn't want to run your air conditioner or just wanted a little fresh air with your windows rolled up.
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It came with both the 302 and 351W which are now considered rather small compared to the Modular V8's Ford has now. I know what you mean when you say it fills the bay, but in reality it physically wasn't that large. But who cares. Plus they sound oh so nice.

That's one of the things I love about our truck, the vent windows. I've never had an issue with the knobs coming off though. My truck was a "non air conditioned" truck, so my interior is a bit different from the rest. I don't have the heater vents at all in my dashboard. I can get air in from the vent windows, the rear window slider, or a neat little feature where the A/C would be, I can slide a slider and open a vent and air coming at the front of the truck will come into the cab from under the dashboard much like the heater would. Open that, with all 5 windows and you didn't need A/C.
 

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