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I recently asked Westchester County readers, via Facebook, to submit their "first car" stories.This was the prompt: Do you remember your first car? Mine was what is now referred to as a "previously owned" 1969 Dodge Dart, with safety features that included a steering wheel that occasionally fell off at inopportune moments (such as when I was driving). I was 18 years old and loved every ugly brown inch of it, and was terribly proud when I put my purple "Kenyon College" sticker on its bumper. The car never made it as far as Ohio, but it lives on in my memory.
Please keep your stories and photos coming. You can email them to me at jcurtis@mainstreetconnect.us.
Robin Goldberg Altman, of Dobbs Ferry writes: "When I first got my license and throughout college, I shared with my dad for a few years, drove a Cutlass, a Dodge Dart and my grandfather's hand-me-down repainted taxi cab. But the first car I ever purchased for myself was a 1979 bright yellow Volkswagen Rabbit. I bought it from a Brooklyn used car dealer in 1983 and sold it to a gas station on the corner of Route 22 and Popham Road in Scarsdale, in 1986. That's me in the car, and the picture was taken in front of my parents' house in Brooklyn."
Roberta Lasky, of Chappaqua: "Mine was a Honda Accord, when I was 25. I grew up with and was brought home in a Dodge Dart. I now drive a VW Jetta and Honda Pilot."
Carol Dorado, of Ossining: "A 1980s, candy-red Chevy Chevette."
Paula Belanich-Tonich, of Cortlandt: "A '68 Corvair !! Lol..."
David A Morrison, of Ossining: "Mine was a1984 Honda accord, saved from a wreck by my uncle, and bought by me for $1. I was 18. It didn't last long: I "upgraded" to a 1986 Renault Alliance shortly after."
Heide Rowe Shilstone, of Bedford: "My first car was a Buick Skylark, which my dad sold to me for $1. It had a V8 engine and used gas like crazy, but it had some 'get up and go!'"
Jonathan R. Zuckerman, of Daily Dobbs Ferry: "A 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass, a sort of gold/brown color that would start about 75 percent of the time and got at least eight miles to the gallon. One time it was stolen, driven around a few miles and then abandoned in Forest Hills, Queens. I eventually sold it for $10."
Katharine Sweeney Bolender, of North Salem: "I learned how to drive on Cat Ridge Road when I was 13, in a 1960 yellow Volvo."
Michael Wells, North Salem: "In 1972, my grandfather stopped driving. I became the proud new owner of his 1957 VW Bug that he had purchased new in 1957."
Hope Mazzola, of Somers: "I learned to drive in a 1969 Triumph Spitfire and repeatedly put the car in reverse instead of first gear. The first time I took the car out without a parent, I put the top down, loaded up the girlfriends and headed out to our local Dairy Queen. Whenever I needed to back up, I would put the car in neutral and the girls would hop out and push me backwards!"
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