As per title, what's your first car in real life? I'm from Britain, we have extortionate insurance prices for new and young drivers. I was forced to get a car I hate, a Ford KA(k) with a blackbox monitoring my mileage and driving. Worst thing about it all was the black box. It was a 2002 on an '02 plate. I got it at 92,000 miles, put it up to 102,000 miles. I got it with 12 months MOT with the intention of scrapping it at the end of my insurance. Ford's over 10 years old have bad rust problems in Britain. This one had £200 spent alone on welding by the seller. By the time I scrapped it, it had oil in the coolant and a really stiff clutch with loss of power. Keep this thread clean, no conversations, just pictures of your car with a paragraph about it.
1988 Ford Mustang... that was my first "road legal" car... Bought it in 2007 a full year before I had my drivers licence, and I was still driving it up until only about 4 months ago when the transmission let go on me. Now I have another transmission that is going to be going into it once spring rolls around the corner. Should be fun. Now if we are talking about first car ever, road legal or not... technically, my first car ever I acquired when I was 12 as a restoration project off of my uncle. Sill in the works at the moment as I have yet to acquire the proper funding to do the restoration on it. it has been sitting in the same garage stall for 22 years and it still runs. It is a 1976 Corvette Stingray... really nice car... all that needs done to it is to replace the front and rear bumpers (the plastic they were made out of in the 70's could not take the cold temperatures of northern PA in the winter, so even in the garage they just crumbled away), new tires, check up on the brakes and replacement of necessary parts, same with the fuel system, electronics, and rubber engine components, and lastly, a new paint job, then it is good to go!
First "car" I owned was this: '80 Holden Gemini. It wasn't road legal though... This one was however: '88 Nissan Skyline
1999 Fiat Coupe 1.8. Bought it last September and have loved it since. It has close to no rust (light surface rust on the side skirts behind front wheels, gonna have that repaired next summer) and a few little dents and some scratches but I had the worst ones repaired already. When I bought it it had around 184.000km on it and now it has around 189.000km iirc. Interior is really clean besides the center console panel where the hazard light button is broken and the ashtray lid doesn't close and has some scratches. I'm planning to buy a replacement panel with buttons when I find one for reasonable price. But I'm not complaining because it's still a great car for the price.
My first car is my current one: As interesting as watching for 3 months a TV show where a man chooses a fake wife.
You want to play a game called "who have the more rust" ? You probably already know about, cause I can't stop seaking about it, But here you go my 403 :
Ranger was the first car I was given. (picture as it is now, my cousin bought it from us when I bought my Focus) First car I bought with my own money was the Grand Marquis. First car I bought on my own and is insured under my name (did my own negotiating and test drive alone, craigslist find) was my Focus.
It was a 2000 Mazda MPV given to me from my Dad because he had bought a newer 2003 Volvo XC90 and that the MPV was falling apart. (Ac was nutsz, causing it to run weird and eventually die. RIP 2000 Mazda MPV 2001-2012)
No car so nothing, I am planning on getting one either this summer or fall, but the problem I'm going to run into is that there aren't really any cars that suit my tastes on one hand I want something classic like pre 77 so I dont have to deal with smog checks and because I like classic cars but on the other hand I'd want a car mechanics will actually know how to work on so that means probably post 96. On one hand I want something comfortable and prestigious but on the other hand I want a cheap POS that will also be cheap to maintain. I want something with a manual transmission but none of the cars I really like ever came with a manual transmission, and the worst and biggest problem of all is that my dream car is actually within budget but I know it would be an incredibly stupid idea to get one but I feel like in the end my family is probably going to try to "force me to get what I want" which I can only see costing tons of money in the long run most likely and I would never want to drive it more than just for maintenance(for example to just burn gas so I can replace it before it goes bad and to make sure the tires aren't resting on the same spot all the time) for fear of damaging something that would probably cost almost as much as the car is worth the replace.
What do you mean? The car I like and might be somewhat forced into getting is a Lincoln Mk III or MK iv so yeah... probably going to be extremely expensive to maintain considering its a luxury car that nearly had the price of a rolls Royce when it came out. Edit: and they get a lot worse gas mileage than I expected at 10-11 estimated mpg I was expecting around 15 and also a lot more power than I expected(even if it is gross power).
Sometimes, but not always. Remember that a large amount of the parts on that car are shared with Fords. Do some research and look into how much a lot of the parts cost (fuel pump, power steering pump, starter, brake booster, radiator... you know... stuff like that) and then take the part numbers and just start looking them up by the part numbers only. Sometimes you can find the exact same part for another, much cheaper car, that in turn makes the part much cheaper than the one specifically labeled for your Lincoln. It's surprising how much cheaper you can get the same parts sometimes if you just shop around.
