First car stories

[FODTony]

Just got a 2003 Camry SE and I'm pretty stoked. Do y'all have any interesting first car stories? Any of y'all get anything crazy as your first?

 

[SolidStateSurvivor]

My first car was an early 2000s Saturn Ion. The AC didn't work and the speakers were blown out. I live in a hot state, so pretty much any drive guaranteed I'd sweat a ton. On extended drives, it'd get so hot in the car that my phone would give an overheating warning and shutdown (which up until that point I didn't even know that was a thing.) The power steering went out on it within a week too. It was the definition of a shitbox, but fuck me it was still a fun car to whip around.

 

[menace]

congrats on the toyota!
i got lucky with my first car 5 years ago which is a 00s lexus es 330 that i still have now.

 

[bnuungus]

My first car was an '02 camry actually. That thing was amazing and would've lasted forever if it wasn't for the awful road conditions where I live. Had it until junior year of highschool where the rust accumulating in the car would've made it cost more to upkeep than to just buy a new car so my dad and I took it to a dealership and let me pick out a new one. I went with an '09 toyota corolla. Me and that car had many adventures and mishaps including numerous deer attacks, gravel cracking the windshield, and getting a skateboard hurled into it on an interstate. None of those things were avoidable and the car got battered to hell but it kept going. The thing was a fighter that would not stop until killed. Had it up to january of this year where literally as I was thinking about how this car would run forever, a deer jumped into me on the way to work and completely smashed my drivers side light, pushed the entire front of the car inwards, and bent the frame. I was going around 50mph and it hit me almost square on in the front so I have no idea how the airbags didn't deploy. I limped the car over to a body shop and learned that all body shops in the area were completely booked for months out. I briefly looked into trying to keep the car even though it had been totaled bc insurance only gave me a little under $4k for it and the used car market was still fucking crazy (glad that it's FINALLY starting to get back to normal now). Decided to just let them keep the car and buy a new one. I bought a 2017 toyota camry which was kind of pricy but I was willing to spend the money on a car that I was proud of after running on my high school junk car for so long.

I felt good about the purchase even though I had to take out a somewhat substantial loan but only a week after I bought the camry some idiot completely disregarded a red light (he wasn't running it, it had been red for a while) and smashed into my wife in her 2012 toyota rav 4 which we had bought only a year prior. Airbags deployed, substantial frame damage, it was fucked. Thankfully the insurance on that one paid out a lot higher but seeing as we had just taken out an auto loan we didn't want to buy another car. So we put that money towards the camry and figured out how to live with one car for a while. It was annoying and it made planning anything at all much harder to do but we made it work. A few weeks ago we found a 2013 Kia Soul that a scrapyard was selling that they had got at an auction. The car had been totaled but literally the damage was just to two bumpers on the car. No frame damage or anything, the insurance company must have just decided it was not worth it to fix so they auctioned it off. The most ironic thing is that the car had been totaled by a deer so a deer started this half year of car issues and a deer finished this half year of car issues. The scrapyard guys fixed it up and then listed it on facebook marketplace with a rebuilt title for $6k. Went to my bank, grabbed the cash, and bought it the very next day. Hopefully this is it for a while because despite both me and my wife being very good drivers (if you don't believe me come on over and visit and I'll trounce your ass in karting), we've been very unlucky with things out of our control and have spent way too much money on car related things.

 

[Haswell]

I wanted an F750 with the 6.7L turbocharged diesel. Needless to say, I did not get it. I ended up getting this.


Yeah, it's a VW Beetle. And I'm a dude. Not a good combo. My dad said because it's not pink it doesn't matter... but I've started to realize that people on the road don't think the same. I've had people ride my bumper for like a mile, trucks honking at me for seemingly no reason, people trying to hide their gossiping at traffic lights, yada yada yada. Also people do NOT respect you at all in these things. You'll get cut off like crazy.

But I love my little Beetle. As der Führer would say, it's the people's car!
Crazy how a car once associated with Nazis is now the ride of teenage girls and homosexuals everywhere.
Apologies for the necrobump, I didn't want to make my own thread.

 

[Pangolin]

Honda acc

I wanted an F750 with the 6.7L turbocharged diesel. Needless to say, I did not get it. I ended up getting this.

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Yeah, it's a VW Beetle. And I'm a dude. Not a good combo. My dad said because it's not pink it doesn't matter... but I've started to realize that people on the road don't think the same. I've had people ride my bumper for like a mile, trucks honking at me for seemingly no reason, people trying to hide their gossiping at traffic lights, yada yada yada. Also people do NOT respect you at all in these things. You'll get cut off like crazy.

But I love my little Beetle. As der Führer would say, it's the people's car!
Crazy how a car once associated with Nazis is now the ride of teenage girls and homosexuals everywhere.
Apologies for the necrobump, I didn't want to make my own thread.

Sweet ride. I don't think its a necrobump I love cars like yours and I think its impressive how well they hold up over time. They definitely made things better back then. Another awesome car I saw was the PT Cruiser.

My first car was a Honda Accord 1996 year in sky blue and it was excellent all the time I owned it. Never left me stranded. Took well to having its oil changed when I remembered to and the transmission was buttery smooth despite never having any maintenance on it. AC didn't work but I think it just needed refrigerant, and everything worked on it except for the cigarette lighter on this 26+ year old car.

It even did well during an accident where it took out an SUV and left me unharmed. I drive a late model Mazda 3 now, but every time I step on the gas I think back of how awesome that Accord was and how smooth its gear changes were and I definitely do miss how it was a little sluggish to get off the starting line but otherwise the gear changes were excellent. My Mazda requires for me to take the foot off the brake, pause a second for things to re-engage, and then press the gas. Its a different transmission technology, I think it may have been developed in-house for Mazda.

 

[K0WLOON]

I wanted an F750 with the 6.7L turbocharged diesel. Needless to say, I did not get it. I ended up getting this.

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Yeah, it's a VW Beetle. And I'm a dude. Not a good combo. My dad said because it's not pink it doesn't matter... but I've started to realize that people on the road don't think the same. I've had people ride my bumper for like a mile, trucks honking at me for seemingly no reason, people trying to hide their gossiping at traffic lights, yada yada yada. Also people do NOT respect you at all in these things. You'll get cut off like crazy.

But I love my little Beetle. As der Führer would say, it's the people's car!
Crazy how a car once associated with Nazis is now the ride of teenage girls and homosexuals everywhere.
Apologies for the necrobump, I didn't want to make my own thread.

haders gonna hade, this one had a friend with Vdub Bug in the days of HS that it called the Mystery Machine cuz the ones got the tech kids (it was like a vocational tech program that ones went to, I dunno if they do that in other places; ones did stuff like learn nursing or masonry or auto mechanics etc rather than school stuff like Calculus or whatever...ones would come to the HS, then get bussed off to the Vo Tech as it was called at a different site that was shared among several school districts...anyways, I digest) to cut out big vinyl stickers like the Scooby Doo Wagon.

Once, as the ones were beginning to take some stupid standardized test the state had instituded for jr/11th grade, we managed to squeeze in like 5-6 ones into it (ones were still held onto the youthful physique...fewer oreos had accumulated in the gas tank as would happen as we grew up) in the parking lot and we hotboxed shitty ditch weed all week beofre class (one passed the english part but flunked all the nerd shit like math....they made it retook senior next and passed lol)