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JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Your First Car

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

well, I was a little young to drive in the 80's (got my lisence in Feb '96), But I got to use my dad's '92 Mitsubishi Eclipse when I was able to drive...I didn't own my first car til 2000, a 2000 Nissan Xterra

I seem to be of the wrong generation...But I love the 80's I swear !!!! Honest!!!!

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

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Originally posted by: JD The Jazz Doctor
"If you were coming of age in the 1980's, most likely you dreamed of the freedom of owning your own car. What was your first car? Mine was a Green '74 Granada with mismatched tires and a torn leather top. Burned as much oil as gas! Pure freedom at its best! "

Wait, I know where this is going, let me save you some time J.D.

"As great as my first vehicle was, the experience wasn't complete, because internet radio didn't exist yet, and even if it had it wouldn't have been accessible in my car. So I never knew the joy of listening to the Underground 80's (7 PM - 8 PM Central Standard Time every Sunday night on Freeze-Frame Radio) or Jazz 101 (Immediately following Underground 80's from 8 PM to 10 PM Central Standard Time on Freeze-Frame Radio)."

Did I make you proud J.D.?

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

brilliant RIGGS LOL!!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Aw MO see that's the NICE thing about the 80's! Everyone's invited!

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

My first car was the family grocery getter. It was a 1985 Chevrolet Celebrity. Woohoo! You could fit 8 people in there and it was awesome for chinese fire drills. I got it up to 100 once and it dang near shook me to death.

Date: Wed Nov 17 09:43 2004

Oh, this one is great for me. I had a 1976 black, anniversary issue, with t tops and a gold bird emblem Firebird. It was my graduation present. I was the envy of all!

Unfortunately when we moved from Chicago to SC, I had to sell it. I only had it for three months, but those were the best. I buried the speedometer one time in the streets of Chicago.

thumperglh · Thumptastic: Chef of the Stars

I went back through the archives!

My first car was a 1984 grey Ford Thunderbird 2 door. with velour seats. took that car to 3 proms,Dallas, yellowstone,Mexico and to many other places.

ray925 · Darth Raydar

My first car was a 1972 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, jet black. We called it the Mafia Staff Car. A gas guzzler but at 50 cents a gallon it didn't matter in 1976. The car was a boat. The back seat was big and roomy, how do I know, do you have to ask? I was the first of my friends to get a license so I drove everyone everywhere. Those were great times. My second car was a puke green Ford Maverick with a black hard top. Talk about contrast.

Molly · The Mediator

Mine was a 77 Buick Century. I named it the USS Slug, because it was a boat and the color was slug gray. I bought it for $200, and my stepdad worked on it forever to get it in running condition (it was my first car, it felt like forever). He fixed it in time for my 17th birthday, and me and my friends drove to the movie theater. Apparently it overheated on the way there and I didn't realize it, then it overheated on the way back, water got mixed in with the oil, and the engine seized. I call it my car that lasted an hour.

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

I had a 1971 Datsun pick up. California style with turquiose paint and a white stripe. 10 ft whip cb antenna and a light up swan hood ornament. The craco stereo had the tunes cranking right out of that one speaker right in the middle of the dash. It also had the musical horn under the hood.

Star · Super Star of Spice!!

I got to drive the family van it was like an aerostar or something had to be an 80 something - huge ass dark blue and tan. the best was the lound speaker it had. It was like a cb - except you could announce things throught it and it would project outside. Just imagine the fun a bunch of 16 yr olds had w/ that!!

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

My first was a '75 Chevy 1/2 ton pickup. I bought it in '83 with money I had saved up. I remember it had 54k miles on it and I gave $1,800 for it.

It was blue with the big white band down each side and chrome trim. I'm sure you've all seen those two-toned paint schemes that Chevy pickups had in the 70's. I took the tailgate out and replaced it with a board that I had routed "Chevy" in it and painted it up to match. I put a tool box in it and then made some side boards that started as high as the tool box and then swooped down from there. A little later, it got white spoked wheels and big trucker mudflaps.

In tech school, I took an auto upholstery class and rebuilt the seat which came out really nice. I had wired lights behind and under the seat so that at night, a soft glow came out from around and behind the seat. It also had the Sparkomatic underdash cassette player.

The crazy things we did.

I drove the wheels off that thing through college, and then about 70 miles/day while working in Omaha. I think it was about 1988 when I traded the pickup off for a '79 El Camino Super Sport . . . but that would a story for "Your Second Car".

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

I had the family car - 82 chevy malibu station wagon. Affectionately nicknamed the Bomber. For the most part it got me here, there and everywhere I needed to be. It gave me issues evry now and then and it got cursed. We did some crusing in college in it. Mind you, it was truly a college town and was small. I would drive and a friend would lay back, put her feet out the window and then tell me when to toot the horn. Ah, the innocent days when we still didn't know anything but we thought we knew stuff.