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I have been meaning ask a question to all of you, but I am really busy reading and responding as well as I can to your posts, and then I forget.

Do you remember your first car? I was born 1952, and my first car was a 1952 VW Beetle. I love that car. IT had kilometer speedo, an 36 hp. I had purchase a fire extinguisher that looked like a can of shaving cream for about a dollar, for just in case.

Wouldn,t you know, but had fuel line leak, and I looked in my mirror and could see flames. I thought "O" know! But I remember I had a fire extinguisher. The fire was out of control, and just barely opened the engine hood, and sprayed under the hood. To my amazement the fire went out, and I opened the hood, and spayed it some more just to be sure the fire was out. I tightened the fuel fitting with tools I always carried, and fired it up (pun intended), and drove home.

A little bit of wiring replacement, some sanding and spray paint on the hood and she was as as before. I am glad I was an Eagle Scout and was prepared.

At least I did one thing right🙂

Leutrelle 7 May 27
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1969 Plymouth Belvedere three on the tree! Love that car but the brakes kept going out so we had to get rid of it LOL I guess safety was An issue!

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That's a good story! My first car was a 1965 Dodge Dart. That car was awesome. So much room but didn't look like a boat. And I could actually tell what everything was under the hood, not like now, where it looks like your going into an autopsy!

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Here is the check for my very first car -- a brand new 1983 Renault Alliance -- Sky Blue, Sedan, Automatic. Paid in full -- tax, tags, title included.

My dad had to write the check and sign the contract because I wasn't 18 yet.
But I earned all the money working and saved it all -- also from 4-H and FFS projects...and permiums I won at fairs, etc.
I busted my butt and saved for 5 years to buy that car. 🙂
Driving it home was a great day. I was very proud.
Drove it to college a year later. 2 years after that, my college roommate totaled it...so I bought another one with the insurance money and more money I had saved.

all told I've had 6 cars and 11 trucks.

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1973, I had a 1972 Dart. Loved it.

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I was 5 when my dad got his first car a black morris minor 1000 with little left and right signal hands on the doors love it we had the biggest car in the neighbourhood.

Rosh Level 7 May 28, 2018
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I've never even driven a VW beetle, wanted one but never got round to it. My favourite car was a '67 mini, that was like driving a go kart. First actual car was a VW scirocco GT mk 1, 1978 bought in 1990. Motorbikes dude, simple, light, can fix them on the roadside. Can't sleep in them though...

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