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1987 Toyota Cressida @ 16 years old (handed down) now 22 with the same car :frown:
 
first was a ford explorer that i financed, next was a jaguar xj6 paid cash. Also a handful of motorcycles inbetween.

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Hand-me-down "not-too-bad-for-a-17-year-old-kid-box." It was a 7 year-old, clean, well-maintained '86 Dodge Omni with 107,000 miles that my dad had bought new and drove to work every day. He actually didn't give it to me, but sold it to me for $550. ($150 down, 4 more $100 payments.)
 
a hand-me-down probably worth 1100 at the time, maybe around 800-900 now. Say, 4 years of use (1st my older sister, then me).

But I would call it a sh!tbox. I mean, sure, it has a spot of rust by the passenger side door, massive hail damage, a dent in the trunk (put there my my mother), mismatched taillights, and fading paint in places . . And sure the tachometer swings around randomly, and the temp gauge stopped working entirely (yay! half my gauges work!) . . .

But it drives smoothly, accelerates well enough for me, goes fast enough for me, fits an ungodly amount of people comfortably, is (in my opinion) a good looking vehicle (if you don't get too close), handles OK, has a good sound system (i put one in), etc. etc.

Power windows and locks. Power driver seat. A 1991 Sable. One of the best cars Ford ever made, I think.


My next car . . well, I don't think my Sable is gonna do well on a Saint Louis-Houston drive multiple times (i'm going to school down there next year), so I will probably buy a used car in Houston in a year or two.

I saw a big black convertable that may have been a lincoln. That would be a fun car to have.

I like big, domestic sedans.
 
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My first car was a 1987 Pontiac Bonneville that I got for free from an elderly lady who lost her license. It had fairly high mileage (150k), but was in excellent condition. It ran well, was extremely nice and served me well. It had a few incidents, like when the engine blew up three days after I bought it (courtesy of it's first ever high-speed road trip from NJ to upstate NY; it had never been drivin over 35mph before) and when the timing chain went, but other than that she was very reliable. Then the transmission blew last October and I had to junk her. 🙁 I loved that car...
 
I bought a used POS small car from my moms friend. I friggin hate small cars. My second car was a used slightly larger car with an underpowered v6, this I bought used from my aunt. My current car is 1000000 times nicer, and I bought it used as well, however this one was a bit more expensive so I did have to finance it.
 
Used 1982 Honda Prelude that I paid cash for.
Exterior was a little rusty but it was very clean inside.
Ran great, loved the stick. It had roll down windows but a power moonroof. Decent little car for the time.
 
Well, mine was half bought, half hand-me-down. I bought my mom's 91 Dodge Shadow off of her in 2000 for $500 and I paid all of the registration insurance fees, so the only hand-me-down part was the break in price. My second car is/was much more fun than that one 🙂
 
1982 Ford EXP

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2nd car was an '86 Scirocco

I miss that car often.
 
I got an 11 year old 1985 Buick Century hand me down $hitbox when I turned 16. The car was so badly rusted out that whenever you slammed the doors, rust chips would shower out of the bottom :Q. I don't even know where they were all coming from, but it did that EVERY SINGLE TIME the doors were closed hard.

There was a rust hole the size of a baseball in the trunk - we once played a joke on my friend with it. We walked by my car with another buddy of mine in the trunk, and when we got close, my friend reached out through the hole and grabbed his shirt 😀. He jumped about 10 feet and screamed like a little girl.

Other than the horrible rust problem, and the pansy 3.0 V6 w/3 speed automatic, the interior was in really nice shape, and all the gauges and power options worked. Of course, the engine blew up 6 months after I got it because my parents don't do any maintenance on their cars
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. They let the car go 15k miles between oil changes if not more, let alone changing other fluids/filters, etc.

My next car was an 89 Lincoln Continental (bought used) in awesome shape. Huge lemon though.

I also went through an 83 Olds Regency 98 (another hand me down - Grandfather bought it new, gave to my dad, dad gave it to other grandfather, grandfather gave it to me, I drove it for a bit then sold it for $1100)

I also had a yellow 77 Coupe DeVille for a few months. I only put about 5 miles on it before selling it (brake line blew on the way home from buying it :disgust: )

Then I got my 88 Trans Am in 1999, then my 92 Mustang in 2001 and still own both today.
 
Used. A 1979 Datsun 210 wagon. I shared it with my sister for two years and by the time we got it in 1993, it had been through at least 3 owners, and several wrecks. I sold it 4 years later for $800... I hated just about everything about that car, except its ability to hold a metric TON of stuff.... it was very handy for moving into and out of the dorms...

Dave
 
1973 Saab 99 4 spd manual with 100k miles on it. That car was a tank. If the damned thing didn't overheat and crack the cylinder head at least once per summer it would have been a great car. Ah hell, it was a great car anyway. Loved those heated seats in the winter and it was the best car in the snow EVER!!!

Edit-that was back in 1983...I was 16 years old! I've owned 6 different cars since then. Some very fast and some just to get comfortably from point a to point b...I miss the fast ones.
 
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