I'm a bit torn on this one because this discussion more or less depends on what the definition of my first car entails. Is it the first one I drove almost exclusively as mine, or the first one I actually owned and drove outright?
One might think that the latter would be my car of choice, the one I look back on with fond memories
through rose colored glasses and lament that I ever let it slip away from me. One might think that, but one would be dead wrong in my case. I hated that thing. That 1975 Buick Century perfectly embodied everything that was wrong with the American automotive industry in the later 1970s: heavy, underpowered, and unreliable. I did have quite a few memorable (née, nostalgic) adventures in that old Buick -- from an epic road trip from the mid-west bound for the west coast to a delightful summer on an island with a nicely attractive young blonde -- but I still hated it then and hate it now. No matter how much of my hard-earned money I spent on it (which was to say, $1; I "bought" it from my parents).
But then, I always considered "my" 1975 Hornet to really be My First Car. Yes, in many ways it was much
like the Buick: same model year, same rust-proneness, iffy reliability, etc. On the other hand, it didn't have quite so many issues as the Century and certainly didn't have a proclivity to stall out 15 minutes after starting. That was also the car I used while in undergraduate school and all the high times that experience entails, so I know context has something to do with it.
But it looked decent, ran pretty well, and never gave me quite as many problems as the Buick did. I daresay that if someone offered me a well-preserved Hornet of similar vintage I'd grab it in a heartbeat; not something I would say about ye olde Century.
Come to think of it, I could probably even toss in my old Bronco II as My First Car as it was the first 
automobile I really did purchase with my own hard-earned money. And although it turned out to be an unmitigated disaster of a vehicle, I actually do harbor some fond thoughts of it these days. Go figure.
--Anthony Cagle
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