First car memories

by Karen Cruz

My first car was a 1951 Ford. It was not want I wanted but it was what I could afford. But I kind of don't look at that as being my first car memories. I prefer to think I was in a transitional phase - not really aware of ...read more

by Sarah Williams

It was 1995 and I was a Junior in High School. The day that I got my driver's license was shadowed only by the fact that I knew I had a car waiting for me at home...not a new car, not a pretty car, not a fast car...simply...read more

by Tabitha Hergest

My personal folklore is populated by some very wonderful people. But perhaps one of the most wonderful people from my early life was my grandfather. "Islwyn" (a Welsh name, pronounced iss-luin) was a fascinating man. ...read more

by William Stephens

Summer break was here again. I walked up the hill daily to the neighbors house. I climbed in back of his Chevrolet pickup and off me and the other guys went. Off to bail hay in the hot sun. After the summer of bailing ...read more

by Elizabeth Stroik

When people ask me what my first car was I reply with pride, "I had an '86 'vette with a manual transmission." "Corvette?" they reply, jaws dropping to the ground. "No. Chevette." I exclaim and then cackle like a loon beca...read more

by DeBorah Pendleton

My first car was the car I dreamed of since the day I was born. My first car was my grandmother's 1974 Ford Maverick. It was Ford Showroom Blue (powder blue, for the layman!) and it had dark blue vinyl on the roof. The vin...read more

by Miss D Charnia

First Car Memories Do you remember being a teenager too young to drive, but longing for a particular car you had seen? Well, I do. Back around in 1971 I can remember saying to my father, "Dad, when I start driving, ma...read more

by Matthew Soo

SW9 W6E...the license plate number to my first car and was it a car to remember. It was a faded, teal-blue 1988 Dodge Omni and I cannot tell you how many hours I slaved away flipping burgers and boxing chicken to buy th...read more

by Vince Capece

My First Love As I write that title, my thoughts go back to the Diana Ross/Lionel Richie classic "Endless Love." And that connects well with the idea of the first car I ever fell in love with. I must have been about ...read more

by Elizabeth Mackay

Growing up with five brothers I was a bit of a tomboy. My early car memories are of my brothers working on Dad's Holden Station-wagon. Of course I tried to help, but the inner workings of a car remained a mystery to me a...read more

by Alissa Mcrae

My first car was a rusty old blue 1981 Hyundai Pony. It was as old as I was and it was my wheels in grade twelve. This car had been my aunt's, but she hadn't driven it in years and had given it to me and my brother to us...read more

by Cyn Bagley - Memoirs Steward

It was the early 1980s. I had my first job as a typesetter and I was making a decent amount of money. Being about 19 years old, I was ready to buy a new car. My parents were a little reluctant to help me out. They were jus...read more

by Bill Whitney

I got my first car just before Christmas of 1958. I had turned 16 on Thanksgiving Day. My parents had told me that if I wanted a car, I needed to save the money to buy one so I had been selling greeting cards and Christm...read more

by Edward Malone

I purchased my first car when I was twenty years old. It was a Gray 1966 4 door Chevy Impala. It had a V8 327 cubic inch motor with a two barrel carburetor. The car also had air conditioning and AM radio. I was a young ser...read more

by Bob Wainwright

My first car...a reflection of note! For most individuals over their lifetimes there will be certain "reflections or memories" that will never fade. The first girlfriend, pet, car, whatever! For me it was my first ca...read more

by Janet Flynn

I was 17, still living at home and my Dad always helped me find things. He worked in a bank and therefore knew just about everybody who was in business. So, if we needed a service or something to buy, Daddy always could ...read more

by Michael Collet

My Corvette Story I was just eleven years old when I first fell in love with Corvettes. Our neighbors, Phil and Alice Small, had just bought one of the three thousand six hundred forty Corvettes made in 1954. It was ...read more

by Natasha L. Kohlhoff Polak

Ahhh, my first car. The one I received after graduating high school would be it! I got to pick it out at the dealership, and boy was I excited! There it stood, the 1998 Chevy Cavalier sedan in hunter green. Oh, how I l...read more

by Angela Russell

My dad pulled in the driveway and I ran out on the porch to see what he got. He had just brought home my first car. He pulled way down beside the house and I couldn't see the entire car. I did see that it was a four door ...read more

by Mark Hoier

For my 16th birthday my Grandpa gave me a 1973 Chevy Vega. And not just any Vega either. It was a Vega GT! I don't know but I think he gave around $50.00 for the car. It had around 80,000 miles which was a lot for a Vega. ...read more