What is your first car...memory ?

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My first memory of a car was having the door closed on my poor fingers, and the resulting scream, which apparently was one of those primitive,

YOU JUST CLOSED THE DOOR ON YOUR KIDS FINGERS!!!!!!!!!!

Audible alarm .

I think it was a 1950 Dodge, later a 58 Plymouth Custom Suburban that we rode across the country and saw Alcatraz when it was still opened and went to Disneyland when it had just been opened a short time. Route 66 with the Burma Shave signs.

regards
Mech

[California98Civic]

Originally Posted by Old Mechanic

My first memory of a car was having the door closed on my poor fingers, and the resulting scream, which apparently was one of those primitive,

YOU JUST CLOSED THE DOOR ON YOUR KIDS FINGERS!!!!!!!!!!

Audible alarm .

I think it was a 1950 Dodge, later a 58 Plymouth Custom Suburban that we rode across the country and saw Alcatraz when it was still opened and went to Disneyland when it had just been opened a short time. Route 66 with the Burma Shave signs.

regards
Mech

Hahaha! Got my fingers crunched in my Dad's 1972 Vista Cruiser once when I was 5. Your first car/Disneyland memory is maybe a little like this very well-made 1950s home-made documentary about winning a contest for a trip to Disneyland. Enjoy! Movie link: DISNEYLAND DREAM.

[rs14smith]

I don't have a picture of it, but it was a old blue Ford Mercury...the good oh days

[skyking]

It wasn't a car at all. I remember standing next to my dad, barely able to look out the lower window of one of these. (see attachment below) We were cruising down a gravel road he had built up in the mountains.

[larrybuck]

When I was 4-5 years old, my Mom had an executive job w the Girl Scouts in the Spokane, WA. area.

I clearly remember riding w her in her company 2 tone black/yellow Chevy 210 4dr. wagon!

[ron]

Mine was in 19and55 I was sleeping in the back window tray of an old 38 chevy I think, uncle Burke hit a deer I was superman for a few feet ended up watching my uncle argue with the cop ! what do you mean road kill is not legal in california. next car a brand new 1956 merc. sweet

[sparker10]

My family's first car was a Vauxhall Astra with the Olympic rings on the back. Was a great little car that lasted for years and hardly ever had any problems...was sad to see it go

[Frank Lee]

First car MEMORY (not first car): As a wee tot, cruising down a rural road with Pa in his early '60s MG (lil red convertible) with the top down on a sunny summer day. With such a pleasant first memory it's no wonder I became a motorhead.

Other memories from roughly the same time: struggling to stay upright in the passenger seat of a Microbus as it cornered... riding in a '47 Chevy Stylemaster... being recruited to "drive" the Microbus through deep, deep snow it was stuck in while Pa pushed; didn't work so then there was a long, long walk... well, my legs were much shorter then! And being recruited for helping to change a certain hard to reach spark plug on a Mach I Mustang because my hands were small.

[jtbo]

I remember how my fingers got between car door as father slammed door shut, it was Renault 4, I remember how I was crying but as that car had so much space between door and frame and as weather strips were quite thick, it did not even hurt a bit.

Of course that might been 2nd one as I do remember another case where moose run on road, slipped down on ice road and car spinned so that it neatly stopped side to side with moose that was not able to get up because of too slippery road, there was just inch or two between the moose and the car. Eventually moose managed to get up and nobody was harmed, but that was still at the time when wildlife was natural thing, today it would of been shot by police and we all would need to go trough psychological helping to meet such horrible trauma.

Every year I meet few mooses on roads, still have managed to avoid them, but as I have encountered them already at age of 3-4 years old I seem to consider them rather natural things that jump on road.

[larrybuck]

How I remember the pinched fingers situation.

Junior High School aged: met friend to play sports at the school on a Saturday. We were done, and putting things away in the back of my friend's Mom's station wagon.

I was HELPING to close the tailgate on it. All ten fingers full in, gate fully closed.
No one noticed. I remember calmly saying: "Phil, could you please open this again?"

To be young, and not have anything broken was amazing. I had my 10spd. bike there with a 1 1/2 mile ride to go home. Still remember the feeling of those fingers throbbing! I believe the car was about a '65-'66 Dodge Monaco

My 1st car was a '67 Chevelle Malibu 2HT, 283 w 4spd. bought at 18 years old
in 1972. Took my own 1st road trip w it to CA. about a year later.

Also went from OR. to Wisconsin in it with just my Mom, as her parents were soon to pass on, and my car was more suitable for making that trip than trying to go in her '56 VW Bug. She paid all expenses, and I drove, and drove!