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What color was your first car?

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FelixDeCat

Lifer
Aug 4, 2000
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Can you come pick me up? I love free candy!
 

69Mach1

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Red and white 1966 ford F100. Still have it, one of these days I'm going to restore it. My Dad bought it brand new, gave it to me when I was 14. He'd kill me if I sold it.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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Geo Tracker. Hated it. But my parents gave it to me for free and unlike modern teenagers I know better than to complain about a free handout.
Black, squat, ugly. But it was enought to get me to school.

I believe that if a vehicle has to be butt-ugly, painting it black helps reduce the annoyance quite a bit.
 

hanoverphist

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Dec 7, 2006
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i got a 74 dodge coronet with a 383 in it when i was 14. the stock gold color, piece of crap. i worked on that thing relentlessly, got the engine all pretty and running well, tried to fix the suspension as much as i could. never could get it titled tho, asshole i got it from screwed me. luckily it only cost me 20 bucks, some weed and a 10 speed bike. my next car was one my bro and i shared, a 70 maverick custom painted midnight blue. that was an awesome car. i let my bro take that over (he was slowly killing it with tantrums and wrecking it) and got me a 80 datsun 210 hatchback. red car with a green door. it had gotten t-boned by a t-bird, i had to do a ton of body work to straighten the posts and get the door to hang correctly. kept that car until i was 19 tho. next vehicle was a 79 honda cb750 motorcycle from a salvage yard. flat black paint, a little bolt on chrome. great, fast bike but very ugly.i had that as main transpo until my first kid was born. 6 years i rode that thing as a daily driver.
 

imported_Champ

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Mar 25, 2008
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blue with white side stripes 1996 ford F150...with 2 tanks and a 5.8L

it ate the environment for breakfast!
 

Patt

Diamond Member
Jan 30, 2000
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White 91 Honda Civic 4 door ... best car I've owned so far (except I suppose the brand new mazda).

Followed by:
95 Chev Cavalier
90 Nissan Sentra
91 Chevy Scottsdale
05 Mazda SportWagon
02 Dodge Grand Caravan Sport