Mine: 1966 Pontiac Tempest
The
one I had was white with a red vinyl interior, prompting my smart-ass
friends to call it the Pontiac Tampax, which they shouted from
the windows of their Camaros and Corvettes.
I
didn't care. I was a 16-year-old high school kid with wheels. And it's WAY
easier to make out in the roomy back seat of a 1966 Pontiac Tempest than in a Corvette.
Trust me.
When I was 18, my boyfriend bought me this nifty 1972 Pontiac LeMans convertible (actual
photo). This was a direct result of having made out in the back seat of my 1966
Tempest.
What
about you?
16 comments:
When I was 18 I abandoned my Oldsmobile Cutlass in the mid west in favor of the New York City Transit Authority. I never regretted it.
My first car was a 1990 Geo Prizm. Small but sturdy. Survived until 2001.
My first car was when I was 15. it was a 1964 vw bug
SINCE I CANT DRIVE ANY MORE, IT HARD TO DEBATE REATHER I CAN TO SAY WHO THE BEST ONMY FIRST CAR IM 44 BUT THE DMV TOOK MY DRIVERS LICENCE AWAYSINCE I HAVE BLACK OUTS A GOOD REASON I LIKE THE66 TEMPEST ID'E GIVE A A 10 HIGH FOR THAT YEAR OF CAR,LOL NICE BACK SEAT TO FOR U KNOW
My parents bought me a new 1976 powder-blue Mercury Comet when I was 16 (could any color be more 70s?). I was grateful for the gift because my mom and dad worked very hard to get it for me. However, being that it was a 70s car, it was an absolute piece of shit rendered in metal. That said, it did allow me to get laid (when I was 18) for the first time.
My best high school friend (who I had had a mad crush on all throughout or time at the all-boy's Catholic school we attended; we hadn't discussed gay issues) and I were getting high and drinking in the car (typical 70s behavior that no one thought about back then) when we saw a guy we'd recently met on our orientation into community college. We'd also met the guy's girlfriend, but she wasn't with him on this day.
Of course, we asked him to join us on our journey. We got some more beer, drove around all night, and then continued to get high. We ended up on a dirt road near a farmer's field. We three were 18, drunk, and horney. Needless to say, my first sexual experience was a three-way, literally on the hood of a 1976 powder-blue Mercury Comet. When it's your first time, dick tastes great, but two dicks taste even better!
I'm 47 now, and I still like to have sex in my car on occasion.
My first car was a 61 valiant v200,with the 170 slant 6.no power but loads of great lines.
My first car was a 1972 AMC Gremlin X - white, with black and red interior. I bought it in the spring of 77 (my senior year in high school), and drove the wheels off of it. That car didn't look like much, but it would FLY!!!
I know a lot of people think Gremlins are ugly cars, but I think they were just ahead of their time. Yes, that chopped-off back end and hatchback were pretty radical at the time, but I see a lot of the same concepts on the cars of today.
I miss that old car - I wish I knew what finally happened to it. I last saw it sitting on a used car lot in a town about 30 miles from my home about a year after I traded it in.
1970 Plymouth Grand Fury Coupe..........Great car..................two door Limo like back seat hehehe.........Loved that car.....even had a Pasiley type vinyl on the roof LOL...........Glass pack mufflers hehe great time...and no i am not THAT old....had the 70 car in 1980.......when i was about legal to drive
my first car was a '68 vw bug. i bought it for $500. it had no backseat and i laid out pillows all in the back seat area. the inside was finished in wood paneling and i had to shove a towel under the sun roof panel to keep out the rain. my radio was a portable AM/FM cassette player i had hanging from the passenger side dash board "OH shit" handle. great memories in that old car
mine was a 1991 niassan maxima bought it at 199,000 miles still running today at 240,000 sold it
my first car was bought used at 72,000 miles. Mom's first, then Dad's then mine. 1971 Olds Vista Cruiser Wagon. Light Green Metallic, Green Vinyl interior, wood paneled sides and the windows in the roof. AM radio, AC and wheels that got me going. It was a hoot! 9 MPG city 18 highway. I loved that car.
Sold it while it would still make it to a junk car lot for $150.
mine, a 1972 Pejot, cant even remember how to spell. Sun roof, added a bug screen and would drive into some private field and make out. thoes were the days.
Parents gave me a'78 Honda CVCC (not a Civic), basically Japanese Yugo. So what, I was only 15 (no liscense), and we had so much fun in that little car. That was long before todays current restrictions on kids in cars.
My first car was an early 70's Ford Pinto that my parents had got for my 16th birthday for 300.00. Well the 'loan' was the present, not the car, even though I had nothing to do with it. It was a nasty brown, had been in a hail storm and had dents all over it with the whole hatch back being one big thick window that I propt open with a 2x4. It was so bad a freind was riding and the passanger seat fell throw the floor board. One day during dinner we heard a loud blast in the yard, went to the front door, the hood was laying on top of my father's new truck and smoke was pouring out from the engine area. The battery had exploded and it was now on it's way to flames. Boy, I loved having wheels to go out with friends, but had a smile big as all get out when the tow truck towed that thing away never to be seen again I wasn't even bothered that much that I didn't have a car for 6 months, I had to finish paying off the Flaming Pinto.(But I did miss the new speakers I had just paid 50.00 for, didn't even get to hear um!)
Myfirst car I bought and paid for myself. My parents didn't think I'd learn any value if i didn't do it myself, so I did without a car until i was 19 and in the military.....but it was mine. I bought it used with 74,000 miles on the 1970 Chevy Chevelle, and like the editor, spent a lot of time in the back seat with my buddies.....my buddies were all motor heads driving 69 super bee's, ford mustangs and challengers.. miss those cars............Today I drive a 2006 Charger.. still has a great back seat, but leather.. there's a lot to be said about getting what you want.
A 1978 Lincoln Continental Mark V. Within the first six months of having my license, I wrecked my dad's brand new 1987 Mercury Merkur XR4Ti while I was on my way to school - the 30-day tags had just been removed from it the Friday before the Monday that I wrecked it. Dad didn't let us near the car while it was "that new." I got my driver's license on June 2, 1986... and wrecked the car on November 24th, 1986. It was misting outside and I hydroplaned into oncoming traffic when I slammed on my brakes to avoid hitting the car in front of me, who slammed her brakes on to avoid hitting a squirrel. I spun across traffic, hit a phone pole, landed the car half way onto the sidewalk while the rear end of the car was still on the roadway and got slammed from behind by a woman driving a Volvo 240 Wagon. Needless to say, that was not a fun phone call to make... in fact, I was such a coward that I called my MOM from school, instead of my dad... knowing that she'd be far more empathetic. When all was said and done, I had taken away my *own* driving privileges because I was terrified to drive again, but once I had regained my confidence my dad handed me the keys to our 20 foot long 8 year old Cordovan Brown Continental Mark V and said, "Now you can hit anything you want... any damages sustained will be to the other poor bastards out there and not you. Enjoy!" I could haul everything and everyone in town in the backseat of that car... all in one trip! Dad got a newer and nicer Mercedes E300 shortly thereafter that I wasn't allowed to drive until I turned 21.
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