1981 Mazda 626 with a blown head gasket. Taught myself to drive stick with it. In the middle of the night. On the interstate in Milwaukee. At 14 years old!

Junior in high school, 1977.
Got my dad's old car, a 1970 Ford LTD 2 door.
That car was perhaps my least favorite of all the cars I've had over the years. But on the positive side, it did motivate me to learn how to work on cars.

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I could not afford a car until I was a junior in college.

Same with me. Money was tight in my family, I had priorities. I bought stereo equipment and LP records with my earnings (plus clothes, entertainment, college tuition, etc). Got my first car in college.

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'71 Ford Pinto. I delivered pizzas in it.

That was my first car too! No pizza deliveries though. I’d love to find one now.

A 71 pinto. Those little 1600 motors were made in Germany and pretty awesome.

Man. After seeing your responses and all the beautiful American muscle I am envious.
I graduated in ‘04. My first car was my mother’s old ‘94 Saturn sl2. My father charged me $1500 because nothing in life is free.
Looking back I had been working 3 years and saving every penny and that life lesson was worth more to me than that car.
The car lasted me 3 years before the motor went.

‘64 Ford Falcon 2dr

1994 mitsubishi Eclipse. hand-me-down from my sister after she left for college.

None--I rode a city bus to high school. I also rode a city bus to college until my Senior year, when I bought (1959) and used 1953 Ford coupe for $300 (it had only 25,000 miles on it--my dad found it for me). When I graduated a year later, I sold the coupe to a cousin for $300 and bought a new 1960 Ford Falcon for about $2000 (financed through my dad's credit union). I drove that car 9 years.

flashguy

1980 Ford Mustang in 1987

I was a poor country kid working on the family farm and working pipeline construction with my Dad in the summers. Rode the school bus and in my junior year I shoveled horse crap down at the fairgrounds race track to buy a Cushman Eagle motor scooter for $200. That lasted me through high school and my first year of college where I worked as a janitor to help defray school costs. The Vietnam war was starting to heat up and I enlisted for flight school and bought a '65 Mustang

It's really great to see how memories are so close to our hearts.

re: "1938 Chrysler 4 door sedan. I bought it for $65 dollars while a Junior"

Me & my buddy bought a real classic, even in the early Kennedy days....we bought a 1948 Cadillac convertible, all leather seats, real spoke wheels, and hydraulic windows/seats/top. It was the last the Caddy flat heads, rode like a tug boat & leaked a large pool of fluid when you had to help the roof up or down.

A LOT of fun as we had to hide it out. After a month we sold it for an incredible fortune: 3x what we gave for it. I'd guess each of those wheels alone would bring considerably more today.

What fun!

1986 Lincoln Town Car 64" stretch limo.

81 Chevy Malibu in '02. $1200 and some time and it lasted thru 2 years of daily abuse. Sold it when I was a Junior in college and work was slow for tuition. Shoulda kept it and quit school. Still kick myself for that bonehead move. If I could lay hands on it again, I would probably over pay stupidly to have it back.

One of these

I owned a 1963 Chev Bel Aire Station Wagon with a 6 and 3 speed on the column. I played Rock and Roll and hauled my gear in it.

As the band got more gigs, I Pulled a small trailer behind until I moved up to a Chev Greenbriar Van.

It was all junk then.
Mike

Couldn’t afford a car on my own until 1991. My senior year, bought myself a new Mitsubishi Eclipse GS turbo. A year later traded it in for a GSX, same car, same color, but AWD.

1957 Chevy 2 door w/post model 210. 265 c.i. V-8. Only $ 350.00
Bought to commute to local Jr. college.

'68 AMC Javelin. Followed closely by a '70 Opel GT.
Class of '76.

A 1982, powder blue Ford Fairmont. God I hated the look of that car, but it belonged to the elderly Mom of my Dad's co-worker. 1 owner, garage kept, super low miles & in pristine condition. I totaled it 1 month to the day after getting it. Passed out from low blood sugar while driving around a corner & hit a tree head on. That was before I had been diagonosed.

I'm another guy who didn't have a car in high school so I walked a little over a mile each way, but this thread reminded me of an incident --

A friend of my brother had a Honda Cub 50 for his daily transportation, winter and summer, and lived about 3 miles or so from school.

One winter morning, it was so icy that my mother drove my brother and myself the one mile. We were stopped at a light, just behind my brother's friend on the Cub 50, he was holding it up against the slippery ice, having made it two miles already, but it was just too slick. Slowly, he lost traction with both feet, and he and the scooter fell over onto the street. Nobody hurt, the image of that slow fall remains with me today!