A Mercedes c200 1997 that I sold it for graphic cards before Eth was released. :3

Haha... who would have thought that Mr. Slobberchops was actually your real name!

Anyway, my first car that I've owned... is still the car that I have at the moment. I've never really had an occasion to buy one until recently. So, we have a shopping trolley with a motor... aka, Peugeot 107.

Haven't we been down this road before?  I had a 1964 Barracuda.  Bright Red.  It had 18,000 miles on it when I got it, and 280,000 when I sold it :)  

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That isn't MY car, just exactly like it.  I got a ticket for racing the day I got my license at 16.  I won the race.

Before that I had a Yamaha YG1.  I used it to get to work from the time I was 14.

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Again, not this bike.  I still have a scar on my right leg from a pipe burn when I crashed once.  It was a nasty injury.

Even before that, my dad gave me exclusive use of his '51 Chev PU.  It was this color but quite a little worse for wear and tear.  His thought was if he gave me the Chev I'd leave his good stuff alone.

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And I learned to drive in one of these.  If you could shift that square jawed transmission you could shift anything.  '48 Ford.

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Very nice! My first car wasn't much better it had been my grandma's then my sister's then mine. Don t worry about your post not being a work of art. We all have those days and honestly I think we are entitled to them sometimes.

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My first car was a 1991 Honda Accord DX, burgundy, five on the floor, nothing fancy. I did a bunch of stuff with it that I probably should have gotten pulled over for, but I never got pulled over. Karma, I guess.

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My first 'car', a Charly; 50cc and nobody takes you serious. Kinda made me go for a Chevy Van next.

![Charly](https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fup.picr.de%2F24616567vu.jpg&sp=5eb7d5b2679bcacd25cab83377191e5e)

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I had a 1996 VW Golf (4 door) for my first car. I called it Feivel, and it was red with a moon roof - which would leak constantly. I tried sealing the edges with duct tape, which worked for a bit, but I'd have to re-tape it quite often. I could tell when it needed re-taping because the wind would cause it to buzz against the roof whilst driving.

One day, I heard the buzz whilst driving on the freeway, then heard a RIP... *silence*. Immediately my eyes darted to the rear view where I saw the entire moon roof glass piece narrowly miss a (fortunately paying attention and dodging) jeep travelling behind me...  :| That could've gone a lot worse.

Needless to say I duct taped the entire hole because I was a poor high school student and it was the only way to keep out the rain... LOL

Love this post and the amount of interaction here too! Some awesome first cars! This was mine:

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A 5 door Vauxhall Corsa with the standard weathered plastic trim, damn that pissed me off. Everyone else at the time were buying body kits and trim and all sorts to show off. I had no chance to compete but it was a great car. Called Vera after meeting a girl on a job that worked her arse off (and was good fun).

My first car was a Renault 19:
![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmabm7H9zBuTCaxhQK95ffXFkHPyRyQJVzR9kJejUTnwD1/image.png)

I still remember how hard I used to work in order to earn money to get my driver license :D We took the lessons together with a friend of mine. We also worked together to earn the money. 

After I got my license, it was time to look for a car which I could afford :) And there it was, Renault 19 with a manual open roof. How much trouble I had because the roof was leaking hahaha. As it is quite rainy here in the Netherlands, it was not a good choice to get a car with open/panoramic roof. Lesson learned :)
But I had much pleasure with my first car, it was driving smooth, and I gained a lot of experience with it. Good old days :)

I'm glad you didn't nominate me, because I'm full of ideas for posts, but not enough time to write them! And also because my first car was an episode in my life that I'm not desperately keen to relive. I passed my driving test at age 17 and two months - I was so desperate to learn to drive that I came downstairs on my 17th birthday holding L-plates. My Dad taught me, after the grumpy driving instructor said it would take me at least two years to pass. A few years later, in the early 1980s, I worked all summer in a launderette during the day and serving drinks in a nightclub in the evenings, saving up enough cash to buy... a Honda 500cc (car, not bike). It looked just slightly bigger than @captainklaus's Charly contraption, and if I gave two big people a lift, there would be an ominous clunking sound at the back (the undercarriage bumping along the road). 
After a few weeks, it just ground to a halt. It turned out to have an irreparable hole in the engine. The couple who had sold me this piece of trash were kind enough to refund most of the money I'd paid (I think it was about £60!)

Technically this was my first car a citron AX10 that my father bought for £20 when i was 13. I used it for driving around the fields and taught my sister and a few of my cousins to drive. That car went into ditches, hit walls and had to be pulled out of hole with a tractor. We got great use from it for the price.
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My real first car I bought at 18 starting college. It was a Mitsubishi colt with 17" white alloys and a huge exhaust. Got me and all my mates up and down from college and multiple road trips around the country for two years. It practically fell apart on the road the day i was trading it into the garage for a new one. Good times.
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And we were not small lads. It's a miracle I never killed us all in that car.

Haha, I have some great stories about my first car. I need to think about it for a bit and then I'll write it down.

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Funny thing was I has an Escort from back then, I cant remember the exact year. They had an issue that if the timing belt broke, the piston would smash the valves. I got my Escort from a relation and it needed a new head which I bought and installed. I actually drove that thing for a while lol.

Man.... that's pretty crazy that your first vehicle was an escort van as so was mine! Different story though as although I also passed my test at 19, I didn't get my own vehicle until I was 30!

I'm gonna write a post about it tomorrow to meet the 'first car' challenge you've thrown down. I'm not averse to the occasional shtpost 🤣

I think if I remember right my van was a 2002 model. I'll have to find a pic online of that model for the post as I never photographed that van as it was a real roost bucket. Anyway, I'll tell all about that first motoring experience tomoz 🚗🙂