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Author Archives: First Car
My Monte
Reprinted courtesy of Axel Hoogland at Mywheellife.com. My first car ever was a 1987 Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe. My uncle found it in the for sale section of http://www.montecarloss.com when I was 15 and a half years old. At the time the … Continue reading
They Just Don’t Make Them Like That Anymore
In the fifties Dad worked in automobile sales, as a Manager of the New and Used Car Department for an Oldsmobile dealership in Rochester, New York. He taught my brother and I the names of all the trucks and automobiles. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1955 Super 88 Holiday Oldsmobile hardtop, First car, Oldsmobile
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Michelle Fredette’s Volvo 240 Wagon
My first car was my second car, a white Volvo 240 wagon that mattered to me the way my actual first car, a tinny Subaru wagon with a troubling oil leak, never did. My dad bought me the Volvo when … Continue reading
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Mike Derman’s 1964 Pontiac Lemans
A person’s first car usually holds a special place in their heart. Mine is no different. As a senior in high school having a means of transportation meant a certain element of freedom. My first car was a 1964 Pontiac … Continue reading
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Keith Crossman’s ’69 Camaro
For most folks, the big questions in life are “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?”, and “What do I want to do with my life?” To a fifteen–year old red–blooded male in the South, one of the big questions … Continue reading
Regina Tracy’s First Car was an Opel Kadett
My father bought me my first car when I was in a college. I felt I didn’t really need a car because I had something much better—which was boys. But my parents, uncomfortable that I skewed toward a cohort of … Continue reading
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Lori’s ’62 Ford Falcon
From the get–go it was a money pit, but I loved that car. Driving my new purchase home from Reno to San Jose, she blew a transmission gasket and had to be towed from Vallejo. I didn’t care—I had my … Continue reading
Sarah’s Scottsdale Truck
My friend Adam helped me to negotiate a deal on my first car, which was a full–sized yellow Chevrolet Scottsdale truck. I bought it in Missoula, Montana with a loan to buy it for $1,700. I think it was a … Continue reading
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Alan Kren’s Working Man’s Truck
My first car was a truck. I bought it after getting my first job with a contractor; I had worked for him for about two weeks and figured I had as steady a job as I could find in 1976. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1959 Chevy long bed pickup truck
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