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Mine Was a Truck

Steve got me thinking about my first car, as important as my first love.

My first car was a 1965 Chevy pickup. It was Massey Ferguson yellow (similar to a Caterpillar bulldozer) because my dad had a tractor dealership at that time.

My second car, the one I had in college, was a 1967 Chevrolet pickup, a classy dark red or maroon. It was better looking than this one here.

Now I have a 2000 Chevy Silverado pickup that I inherited from my dad. It's gray with a single cab like this one, and and a short bed. (This photo is of a GMC Sierra, but they are close to the same thing.)

posted on Jan 11, 2013 10:54 AM ()

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I didn't love my first car, a Pontiac Bonneville, but I had boyfriends who had some pretty cool cars, some of which would be worth a lot!

comment by maggiemae on Jan 20, 2013 6:24 PM ()

I like them all!

comment by kristilyn3 on Jan 20, 2013 8:33 AM ()

My first car was a 1973 canary yellow Chevy Camaro. A V8 â€” what a rocket!

comment by marta on Jan 12, 2013 6:03 PM ()

And they are all museum pieces today, definately collectors cars

comment by kevinshere on Jan 11, 2013 10:38 PM ()

My first vehicle was a 1978 2 door, green, Ford Bronco. While pregnant with my third I found I couldn't hoist myself into the back seat to buckle up car seats so I got a temperamental, beige, Ford station wagon that didn't like to start in cold weather. When it refused to start in warm weather I traded it in for a white Plymouth Acclaim. Then after being without a car for a few years I got that ancient piece of %^^&$^@# 1987 blue Toyota Camry station wagon that is STILL sitting in our driveway. Now I drive a black Ford Fusion. Don't remember what year it is but I know it's from this century.

comment by nittineedles on Jan 11, 2013 8:08 PM ()

Still got that Camry? Saving it for parts?

reply by troutbend on Jan 11, 2013 9:04 PM ()

You might as well have been a guy ... you never heard of a chick car? My first and only car was an Austin that a friend gave me and it had been in a flood and it never worked right and I finally junked it. It was that or get killed driving on Third Avenue in New York during rush hour and the motor died. I managed to get to the curb. Now, of course, I drive our Isuzu SUV and Ed is thrilled that it is a truck chassis, but it is nowhere as smooth a ride as a regular sedan.

comment by tealstar on Jan 11, 2013 5:51 PM ()

One time I saw where women buy blue-red cars, and men buy orange-red cars. We never go by color, we take pot-luck, but I would avoid light blue because I think they are hard for other drivers to see from a distance.

reply by troutbend on Jan 11, 2013 9:13 PM ()

My first car was a Renault, I loved it. My husband replaced it with a red
Kharmin Ghia that vaperlocked so much that I had to carry a coke bottle
full of water with me. I learned to hate Volkswagon.

comment by elderjane on Jan 11, 2013 5:29 PM ()

Those old VWs were really something - the heater and windshield wipers barely worked. Mr. YouKnow had a VW beetle in college.

reply by troutbend on Jan 11, 2013 9:14 PM ()

My first was a 1971 brand new Caddy convertible---my last was a 1973 Chevy Cap[rice Classic convertible---get a theme here?????

comment by greatmartin on Jan 11, 2013 4:19 PM ()

You strike me as a convertible type of guy - dramatic and classic.

reply by troutbend on Jan 11, 2013 9:08 PM ()

I love your first car there the Chevy.It looks great.Nice pictures

comment by fredo on Jan 11, 2013 2:33 PM ()

Thanks, Fredo. Hope you are doing well. It's going to be cooold here in the west this weekend, and we heard it is 50 degrees in New England.

reply by troutbend on Jan 11, 2013 9:08 PM ()

Pickup truck woman... sounds like a hit country song.

comment by steve on Jan 11, 2013 12:35 PM ()

I sure do like my truck, and am also fond of tractors and riding lawn mowers. Cars? Not as much.

reply by troutbend on Jan 11, 2013 9:05 PM ()

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