First cars? (siblings)

[KatDiesel]

Just wondering, do the younger siblings always get better cars as they go?



My first truck was a 82 Dodge Ram w/slant 6 in it, cost me like $500! (I payed for it). Then when I moved to CO I traded it in and bought a 89 F150 w/351 4x4 ... while I was in high school, again I payed for it all.



My younger sister got a 89 Ford Probe when she turned 17... $3000 it was wrecked within a months time (hit two gaurdrails... single car incident). When she did that my parents gave her the 94 Escort they had. I wil admit she had a full scholarship to Concordia University for softball, so I could see where buying the car was no big deal. SHe dropped out of college after the first sememster.



Now my youngest sister (last one) just turned 17 and came home with a 99 Pontiac Grand Am... . w/25k miles on it. Up til now she has been driving my dads old 96 Oldsmobil Achieva (traded in on Grand Am). She hardly ever works... ... she used to play alot of softball... . but gave it up for a while, if she played she could prolly get a scholarship.



I just don't understand why you would buy this kinda car for a "new" driver. She never washed the Olds, so we'll see what happens to the Pontiac. She tries to take cornors like Mario Andretti... ... . I may drive fast but I do drive sanely. I have yet to have an accident (knock on wood)... shes had one already.



Now me being the guy... fine, I have no problem paying for my own vehicle... . and actually I think I am better off for it! I apprciated it so much more since I worked 32 hours a week while in highschool to pay for it.



This is not a rant, or gripe... just an observation.

 

[Doc Tinker]

Calm down Kat!



All my kids are adults now, but here is the run-down on what they have right now:



Son - 25 - 86 Jeep Comanche

Daughter - 23 - 99 Dodge Dakota

Daughter - 22 - 01 Saturn



Yep - I guess you're right. The younger they are the better they have it



Doc

 

[KatDiesel]

Well I am not talking about what they have now... I am talking bout first cars being bought by parents! Unless you bought them those cars?



Like I said I don't care really, I worked my tail off to have what I wanted back then... . just hope my sister realizes not everything will be handed to her on a silver platter in life.



It was just an observation is all... ... she said she knows better then to race me tho Its hard to get people to race ya around here.

 

[milehiscott]

Kat,

That is not always the case.

I'm the youngest of 2 boys.

When I turned 16 I bought a used '79 K5 Blazer. I paid the insurance and did all of the work on it. My dad helped me, but only when I asked. I drove it until my senior year of college.

Scott

 

[Doc Tinker]

There is one thing that I think parents consider about cars for the kids. Boys can deal with junker cars better than girls and we want to encourage them to learn how to fix them. We don't want the girls stranded though, so we insist that they have better cars. One of my daughters is much better at fixing her vehicle than my son is though, so maybe she should have had the junker.



My son got a hand down Horizon for his first car. Each of the girls got help with the purchases of their first cars, but they paid for the lions share. Yes, the girls got better cars for the first car, and now they obviously have better second cars.



Doc

 

[merryman]

Holy Cow!!



Its the dates that struck me.

I bought my first car (yes, I paid every dime of the $415. all by my self--at 16, I was working 40 hours+ in a grocery store), in 1950; it was a 1940 Chev Businessmans coupe. After two years traded it for a 1947 Buick. My Dad was entirely on his own at 15--working as an drifting cow hand on ranches in what was shortly before, the Indian Territory, so he thought at 16 I was an adult and pretty much told me he considered me a man and I was responsible for my decisions and my actions and for anything I thought I wanted. I was even contributing to the family income at the time.

Different times----



Vaughn

 

[Champane Flight]

Remember

I remember my first car. I was working for a farmer/rancher the summer of 64, he had a 57Chevy post under the hay shed. It had a blown engine ( a 230six). I asked him how much he wanted for it, and he told me $300 . I worked all summer for that car, then pulled it home (under protest from my parents) and it sat for a year. The next summer I helped with his hay to get an engine 427 porcipine out of 63-2 ton flatbed truck he had with a blown transmission. Then I drug the whole mess down to my auto mechanics shop at school that fall. I was so proud! My shop teacher was shall we say pi$$ed. I just everyone brought there own cars for projects.



He buckled under and helped me ( Its a wonder what a 15 year olds long face can acomplish). We rebuilt the engine (hotrodded of course) painted Canary Yellow, found a transmission which we traded stock blown engine and transmission for, and put her all together. I can still hear that engine when we fired it off. It is a memory I will never forget.



I kept the car for two years, it started to get a little valve train smoke. Joined the Army, sold it for $1800. 00 . It was my first duty station that I discovered MOPAR . Never looked back.



I think kids loose something when they don't have to work for there first wheels.

 

[TPCDrafting]

When my older brother (of three years) turned 16, my dad gave him a '69 Nova 2 door he'd been driving. I thought that was a pretty cool car, he ended up driving that through high school and till he dropped out of college. When I turned 16 Dad helped me buy a '68 VW bug. (I payed 2/3, he payed 1/3 The only babe I could pick up with that thing turned out to be my wife (she drove one too! and we still have it) I had to work on that thing every weekend just to keep it on the road. We lived in the mountains and those roads just tore it up, that and I had a need for speed.



So I think the tables were turned for me, I ended up with the crappier of the two crappy first cars. I hated that car, but it beat taking the bus.

 

[Pit Bull]

Originally posted by KatDiesel







Like I said I don't care really, I worked my tail off to have what I wanted back then... . just hope my sister realizes not everything will be handed to her on a silver platter in life.

Kat, You say you don't care but it sounds like you really care a lot. Can't blame you. You should tell your parents that it hurts your feelings and that they are not doing your sisters any favor. I can relate to what you are saying, except I am the youngest and my sister is 4 years older than me. I had to work for a year before I could afford to buy my first car out of a junk yard. My sister had things given to her. Well the bottom line is, I retired at 49 and she will never be able to retire, unless she wins the Lotto. Money can be a friend or an enemy, it all depends on how you are trained to use it or have it use you. Having expensive things given to you at a young age is not the right way to learn about money.

 

[BV]

First cars/trucks

I was the only one out of all my friends that had to buy their own wheels and insurance and I was the only one that appreciated it the most. My Sister was the same way.

We got to use Mom's car during the learning stage and was carried on their insurance but we didn't borrow their car unless they were in it.



First set of wheels was a 1966 F100 2x4 w/i6 and 3 on the tree - that was in 1980. It lasted 2 years then I traded up to a 68 Mustang which I drove, repaired and restored for the next 6 years then sold it to a man who wanted to buy his boy a car for high school graduation and that is the one he wanted - - - 7 weeks later it was totaled into a telephone pole.



I have 10 more years to think about my 1st born driving but I have a feeling they will feel like the minority when they have to buy their own ride. I will help them but I'm not going to do it for them. Seems like a good lesson in responsibility.

 

[TPCDrafting]

well said Pit Bull and BV. I agree knowing that I had to buy my ride, that if I broke it, there would be no ride until I paid to fix it. That's a good way to bring up kids I think.

 

[Cummins4Life]

I didnt have any siblings, but my first rig was an 87 dodge 1/2ton 4x4 with 360. I bought it from my dad so it was still his "baby" so I tried to take good care of it, and parts arent cheap. That was the biggest determining factor on the way I drove the truck.

 

[TomGolden]

First vehicle: 1976 Volvo 164e 4 door sedan (bought it while I was in the Army, in 1986).

Second: 1980 Toyota 2wd reg cab P/U (also bought while in the Army).

Third: 1987 Ford F250 4x4 6. 9 diesel w/ATS turbo

Fourth: Godzilla - my first ever brand new vehicle



Tom

 

[RBrunson]

First car

My first car was a brand new 61 Corvair Monza coupe that I bought while I was in the Army. Didn't handle too well till I installed some EMPI parts and a Paxton blower

 

[RustyJC]

My first car at age 14 was a 1956 Ford Fairlane 2-door (292-4V automatic) purchased for $350 in 1962. Since then (all purchased new) -



1965 Mustang 289 4V 4 speed

1970 Mercury Cyclone GT 351C-4V

1975 Ford Granada 302

1976 Ford Pinto

1978 Ford Fiesta S

1983 Volvo 245 Turbo Wagon

1986 Mercury Sable LS #@$%!

1990 Ford Aerostar AWD 4. 0L

1993 Volvo 850GLT

1996 Dodge 3500 V-10

1999 Honda Civic Si

2000 Dodge Durango SLT+ 5. 9L

2002 Dodge 3500 ETH/DEE

2003 Acura 3. 2TL Type S



Rusty

 

[Pit Bull]

I don't think I can remember all of mine.

1st- 1958 Ford Thunderbird - junk yard $400. 00 rebuilt engine and a lot of body work, brakes, etc.

2nd- 1962 Olds Cutlass

3rd- 1965 Corvair Monza

4th- 1967 Comaeo Rally sport convertable 327 auto

5th- 1972 Grand Prix

6th- 1973 Corvette

7th- 1978 280ZX

8th- 1983 944 Porsche

9th- 1984 Mercedes 380SL

10th- 1985 Porsche 911 Carrera

11th- 1987 Porsche 928S4

12th- 1992 Lexus SC400

13th- 1991 Acura NSX

14th- 1992 Mazda RX7 twin turbo

15th- 1994 300ZX

16th- 1994 Lexus LS400

17th- 1995 Toyota Landcruiser (still have this one)

18th- 2000 Dodge CTD (still have this one)

I'm sure there are another 18 or 19 that I can't remember and would include the wifes cars. This is why she now at me whenever I think about getting another car

 

[Un-Hemi]

64 Plymouth Fury 383 4-sp (first car in 1967!)

57 Chrysler New Yorker 392 hemi (weak transmission)

57 Plymouth Belvedere (leakiest car I ever saw!)

69 Dart Swinger 340/4sp (1st and last new car)(sniff!)

64 Plymouth Belvedere 426 Max Wedge SS/EA (double sniff!)

51 Dodge 3-ton ex army

64 Dodge 2dr sedan 6cyl std converted to 318 auto

64 Dodge 440 station wagon, 318 to 413 auto

70 Duster 6cyl std converted to 4-speed/Hurst Super Shifter

77 (?) Plymouth Arrow auto (Yuk!)

78 (?) Plymouth Sapporo 5sp (Double Yuk!)

77 Dodge B300 maxivan

69 Plymouth station wagon 318 auto

77 Dodge B200 Van 360 auto *

78 Dodge Aspen ex-cop car 360 E58

85 Dodge Diplomat ex-narcmobile *

91 Dodge Caravan ES AWD (weighs tons, sucks gas)*

99 CTD*

87 GMC 3/4-ton FS. (it was my Dad's til he died. )*



* still got 'em



Had others as well, but they were parts cars and not driven. Mostly '64s.

 

[DarrellB]

I paid for it

When I turned 16 I bought my own truck. I had to, my dad had past away when I was in gradeschool and mom was working hard just to pay the bills. Worked the hole summer of 94 on my uncle's farm and made $2,500, bought my 82 1/2 ton chevy for $2,200 and still had a little left over. That was the best feeling I ever had knowing a paid for that truck myself and all my friends had thier parents buy thier's. Drove that truck till 98 when I bought my 99 Dodge with "MY" hard earnd money. It's nice to know you worked for what you have, it also makes you appritiate it more. I have friends that mom and dad bought cars a trucks for and they trashed those vehicals because they didn't care, mom and dad would just buy them another one. I'm 24 now and have owned my truck now for 4 years, it still looks like new, and I'm proud of that. I think thats pretty good for a poor country boy that mom and dad tought to work for what he wants. I also know it makes my dad proud to look down and see his boy working for what he has instead of someone giving it to him. Parents need to make thier kids understand you don't always get what you want, and if you want something you need to work for it not just ask mom and dad for it. It sure worked out good for me and my sisters.



Thanks mom and dad, you did a great job

Darrell

 

[mimprevento]

First car was a 1970 Duster 340 that I bought in 1976- put Doug Thorley headers and glasspacks and it was loud- gave it to my brother and he broke it and drove it to junkyard- wish I had it now- a partial list over the last twentysomething years:



1972 Chevy Impala 400 ci sedan

1982 Toyota PU Diesel 5 speed

1976 Chevy Blazer 400 ci 4wd

1984 Honda Civic

1987 Jeep Wrangler 258 six-5 speed

1988 Eagle Premier

1993 Ford F150 300 Big Six 5 speed

1989 BMW 635 Csi 5 speed

1994 Chevy Impala SS LT1

1993 Chevy Corvette LT1

1996 Ford Bronco 351 HO 4x4 in OJ White

1999 Pontiac Trans Am WS6 LS1

2001 Mercedes Benz E320 Wagon

Big Green

 

[RedRam1]

I'd love to have my first car back. It was a triple black '66 Chevelle, 396-375 4 speed. I paid $1650 for it in '75, the car was cherry, I got it from the original owner. It had around 50K on the clock.

I'll admit my dad loaned me $500 that probably never got full repaid, but I earned the rest, primarily by repairing/buying/fixing/trading on dirtbikes, and bushhogging (OK, I used dad's tractor, but I bought the fuel and repaired/maintained his equipment).



If dad had any idea how that car would run, he would never have let me get it at 17. Dad is verrry mechanically saavy, but he is not a car guy. He figured since his '67 Galaxy with a 390 2bbl ran OK, but was no hotrod, then a Chevy with just six more cubes wouldn't be too much for the kid!