What was your first car you bought with your own cash?

I got a job when I was 15 and saved every penny…bought a 1981 Pontiac Firebird Formula with a 4.3 V-8. Maybe the slowest V-8 ever made. Here is a pic of what it looked like except mine was dark red.

http://www.70-81.com/81blueffull3.jpg

well… my 88 cutlass was paid for by my pops… it got stolen and we got twice what he paid for it from the insurance…that money combined with mine paid for my SS… first car on my dime… my 83 hurst olds.

i got nothing

1991 blue civic dx hatch back 4spd picked it up to 300 bucks with 100,000 and a ton of rust… pretty much my favorite car to this day

01 Grand Prix GTP

1976 Grand Prix SJ - 400 4bbl with TH400. Bought it for $425 from a salvage yard & fixed it/reconstructed title. Drove it for about 7-8 years.

http://www.pittspeed.com/uploaded/1976_GrandPrix_LF_Feb1990.jpg
http://www.pittspeed.com/uploaded/1976_GrandPrix_LR_Feb1990.jpg

My uncle actually gave me my first car …a 1953 bel-aire 210 sedan. however I never did actually get it on the road. the first car I put on the road myslf was a 74 chevy LUV
http://www.pittspeed.com/uploaded/luv.bmp

Todd I had that same car except with white interior . Wish I still had it

302 2bbl less tq then the inline 6 that year though :doh:

Mine was the Red Denim/Red Velour bucket seats/console

1986 Ford Escort

1983 Ford Ranger

1981 Chevy Malibu, that thing was a tank!

1966 Chevy Impala 4 door hardtop with a 327 4bbl and a powerglide.
Looked just like this one, except mine was dark blue
http://www.chooseyouritem.com/classics/photos/894000/894022.jpg
That lasted about 3 weeks, and i sold it and bought a 67 Impala SS 2 door off of a buddy. Looked exactly liek this one
http://www.seven82motors.com.au/showroom/albums/nicky-stevens-1967-ss-impala/67%20Impala%20047.jpg

1987 Dodge Dakota rwd carb’d v6 5 speed long bed. Wrecked and beat the shiittt outta it all the time and took it all. Only year for the carb. Wish I woulda dumped a junkyard 360 or something in it.

1987 vw quantum

LOL I had a quantum wagon…easily the ugliest car ever

1962 Buick Special

89 integra

86 Mustang 2.3L

Bought it for 200 drove it for a year blew the motor and sold it for $200. Talk about an investment :slight_smile: