1990 Hyundai accent. Bought it for $600, didnt really have a first gear and had to speed up to make it up a big hill. Power nothing and didnt even have a tape deck. Had it for one summer and by the end I didnt have reverse and it would overheat anytime I wasnt moving. I cant even believe they made those fucking cars.
First car I ever bought new...I got a job working for Federal Express back in 1990, at age 22, I still lived at home and I lived about 3 miles from the Federal Express warehouse.
At the time this was like hitting the lottery, I think I was getting paid 13hr to start, but we coud only get about 30 hours a week, I had just quit college because all I wanted to do was be an indoor soccer player and really had no direction other than playing sports....So I get this great job.
I rode my bike to work for two straight years, the rest of the workers probably thought I was crazy, occasionally I would get a ride from my friends wife who happened to work similar hours,but most of the time I rode my bike in, and through snowstorms even,lol..
I saved every paycheck for two years, saving money has never been a problem, because I'm a miser...When I got to about 25 grand I went down to Annapolis Mitsubishi, and bought a brand new 1992 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 ($34,000) , at the time this was a brand new model car that looked even fancier than it was....now being a relatively poor kid my whole life this was like dying and going to heaven.... I remember riding that car back from the dealer and going 120 mph back up I-97.
Sure wish I saved that money looking back ....I would never buy a new car again.
At the time this was like hitting the lottery, I think I was getting paid 13hr to start, but we coud only get about 30 hours a week, I had just quit college because all I wanted to do was be an indoor soccer player and really had no direction other than playing sports....So I get this great job.
I rode my bike to work for two straight years, the rest of the workers probably thought I was crazy, occasionally I would get a ride from my friends wife who happened to work similar hours,but most of the time I rode my bike in, and through snowstorms even,lol..
I saved every paycheck for two years, saving money has never been a problem, because I'm a miser...When I got to about 25 grand I went down to Annapolis Mitsubishi, and bought a brand new 1992 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 ($34,000) , at the time this was a brand new model car that looked even fancier than it was....now being a relatively poor kid my whole life this was like dying and going to heaven.... I remember riding that car back from the dealer and going 120 mph back up I-97.
Sure wish I saved that money looking back ....I would never buy a new car again.
chiefssth said:
I had a '77 Malibu Classic. My dad gave it to me in '79. He was a traveling salesman and got to buy his old company car for dirt cheap.
I drove that back and forth to the West Coast a couple times. Every GM car I owned was a Road Warrior. The only bad thing about them is the generator went out in every one of them.
Insiders said:
1957 Chevy 2 door hardtop. $15 out of a farmers field, was rusty but ran ok. Some sand paper and 6 cans of spray paint it was a cool car. Ran it for 1.5 years til it got stolen. Then traded a leather jacket for '59 chevy, pulled the trunk off and had an elcamino. AH, the good ole days.
1984 Buick Skylark for $450. Got it when I was 16 years old and two years later drove it cross country when I graduated. Took it through mountains in Washington state, through the desert of Nevada and northern California. It was a tank, I was gone for a month and a half and right when I got back it died. Everybody told me I was going to be taking a greyhound back when it dies. But I proved them all wrong.
Never needed a car, but I got this beauty for $300 in 2004, 72k kilometers (18 year old car!) and no rust (18 year old car in Quebec!), off an old suburbanite lady who used it to commute to her job about a mile away from her house... I give you this most magnificent 1986 Mazda 323, aka The Beigemobile:
The remaining 3 hubcaps were gone within an hour of driving through downtown MTL, the exhaust broke 3 times during the same month and the 3-speed auto transmission almost died twice after the fluid pipe thingies leaked all said fluid.
It lasted half a college semester and I never considered buying a car again. Hertz is my friend when I need a ride.
The remaining 3 hubcaps were gone within an hour of driving through downtown MTL, the exhaust broke 3 times during the same month and the 3-speed auto transmission almost died twice after the fluid pipe thingies leaked all said fluid.
It lasted half a college semester and I never considered buying a car again. Hertz is my friend when I need a ride.
