What was your first car?

My first car was/is the 63 valiant that I'm still working on and driving today. Well sorta.

We had the 63 4 door sitting in the driveway for a while and was always told "that's going to be your car." We also had a '64 2 door valiant with 3 on the tree that was just a hollow shell of a car that my mom drove around town, and used it to take me to and from school. The '64 had the flinstone braking kit and leaked water so badly my mom would fill the radiator before going anywhere and carried 2 giant plastic containers full of water. She used to watch that temp gauge like a hawk. The muffler was also rotted out and the backfired horribly. She would purposely rev up the engine and let off to make it backfire on command, she found it hilarious. The engine block was cracked because the freeze plugs didn't pop, and there was a list of other issues. I don't remember the details but there was some part swapping from the 64 into the 63 because at that time the 63 was in far superior condition (if only I knew then what I do now, I would have so much less work to do on the body :sad:). We dumped the 64, and kept the 63, which ran for a while longer than was left to sit again, At which point i was the official owner of the car at 12 years old. Since then it's continued to be my pride and joy and my curse.

-Greg