[Shaffer]

The topic about the "1970 gas prices" made me think of this.
Does anyone remember the very first car they rode in, or what car their parents had when they were born? Perhaps the ride home from the hospital was your first ride? (for those born in a hospital). My dad told me that the first car I rode in (from the hospital in March 1976) was in a 10 year old 1966 Plymouth Fury sedan. It was my mothers car at the time, as well as a 1966 Mustang convertible that my grandfather bought for her. I think my dad had a 1969 Chevrolet. One set of my grandparents had a nearly new 1974 Oldsmobile Toronado, with the airbag option (grandmother) and a 1975 Chevrolet truck (grandfather). My other grandparents had a 1967 Camaro 6-cylinder coupe, with A/C (grandmother) and a 1972 Chevrolet 3/4 ton truck (grandfather). I had to find all of this out by questions and old photographs.
Thank goodness, all four of my grandparents are still living, although one grandmother can no longer drive.

Here is what they have now:
First ones listed:
1995 Buick LeSabre 4dr
1987 Isuzu truck
Second ones listed:
1990 Mazda 929 sedan
1984 Toyota Van
1965 Lincoln Continental convertible
1928 Dodge truck
This grandfather still has some neat old cars/trucks. He did have a 55 Buick Special until last summer.

Can you tell I have always been a car buff?

[brad54]

My ride home in '70 was either in a ratty red '64 Ford 4x4 pickup truck (doubtful) or a Diesel Mercedes 4dr sedan. My parents traded dad's '66 383 4-spd Charger for that car. Ouch.
I clearly, clearly remember my first ride in a hot rod/muscle car: black '72 AMC Javeline AMX, 401. Dad was watching it for a buddy who pulled the keys from his son. Once around the block like we were bank robbers with the law right behind us!
-Brad

[Mrbuick714]

Circa 1918 Overland(it was cold) second car Grampa's 1917 Buick,Third car,1923 Ford,Next car,our BRAND NEW 1930 BUICK !

[Steve B]

I was born in 62, and my first ride was in my Dad's 52 Buick Super. That was followed by the 59 electra 225 (he still has that). My first car was a 67 Skylark, and I still have the front clip from that car.

[my3buicks]

My first ride home was in a 50 Chevy in 1960. After that was a 61 Chevy II, the first car I really remember riding in was my parents 63 Chevy Impala Sport Coupe. it was a looker, Red with a white top, fairly loaded up with options, BUT, the kicker was it was a 6 cyl.

[72electra]

I believe My first ride in a car was in a 1958 Chevy Delray 4 dr. This was in 1961. My parents kept that car until about 66-67 when they bought what I thought was a much cooler car, a 64 Olds Jetstar 88 2 dr hdtp. Their choice of cars went downhill from there, 64 dodge 340 4 dr., 73 Pontiac Catalina 4 dr. My dad had a lot of cool cars before he got married. 30 something Plymouth convertible, 47 Chevy sedan delivery, 49 ford 2 dr. My son should have a lot of good memories about old cars when he was young, since I have had several since he was born.

[Skyking]

Good Topic!...My first car, born in 1946, was my dad's 38' Buick Special 4 door slant back with side mounts...I still remember that car like it was yesterday. I was 4 before he traded it in for a new 50' Super. I still remember sitting in the middle of that 38' while he let me shift that huge floor shift into gears....No seat belts or safety kids seats back then, and we survived!

When I was born in 1943 my dad was overseas in the navy so I likely came home on a bus. My father owned a 29 Plymouth at the time but my mother couldn't drive.

I was born October 3, 1953.

My parents bought a new 1953 Buick Special 2 dr Sedan Model 48D on May 1, 1953, so I assume that, that is the car I rode home in from the hospital, since both of my parents are now deceased.

That is the car I first remember riding in until 1958 when my parents traded it in on a new 1958 Chevrolet Brookwood 4 dr wagon.

When my mother passed away in 2002, I found a file folder with all the bills of sales and most repair order records from most of the cars they owned from a 1947 Pontiac to a 1988 Buick Park Avenue.

The Bill of Sale for the 1953 Buick is attached to this post. I previously published it to members of the Minuteman Chapter on May 1, 2003 as a fifty years ago today email article to begin our Buick 100th celebrations.

The other two most likely cars I rode in early on and remember are my paternal grandfather's used 1950 Chevrolet Bel Air 2 dr coupe (later traded in on a used 1953 and 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air coupe and 2 dr hardtop) and my maternal grandfather's first new car after WWII, a 1950 Buick Special Deluxe Touring 4 dr sedan Model 41-D.

The 1950 was traded in during January 1957 for a 1 year old 1956 Buick Super 4 dr Riviera sedan, Model 53, in hardtop style. The 56 Super was traded in early in 1964 for a 1 year old 1963 Buick Electra 225 4 dr Hardtop Sedan Model 4839. When my grandfather retired in March 1969, he ordered his retirement car a 1969 Buick LeSabre Custom 4 dr Hardtop Model 45439 with 400 option which I believe was the 350 c.i. V-8 4 barrel with the 400 Turbo Hydramatic. His last Buick was an ordered 1977 Buick LeSabre 4 dr Custom Sedan Model 4BP69, which was his last car when he died in July 1984.

Can you guess which relative I take after? Pepere!

[geno]

I was born in 1948, and my aunt brought my mother and I home from the hospital in a Kaiser. I don't know the year though. I believe at the time my dad had a 37 Ford. The next year he got his first new car, a 49 Chevy. I don,t remenber the 49 (only from pictures) But I do remember picking up a new robin egg blue 53 Chevy in the Fall of 52. He also had a 60 Corvair, 63 Nova, 71 Nova, and a 71 Pontiac Lemans.