what was your first ride?

hmm, pinto owners are a special bunch.

I owned an 86 BMW 528e for my first. That "e" made the car very slow and in fact it was dubbed the inertia car by many. It was recently doanted to a non profit org, with body damage and only 4-5 of the six cylinders working. Never the less I had many fond memories in that car, high school stuff, girls and some things I can't  mention.

Mercedes 190E

With lots of mods.

Had a black 86 cavalier hatchback RS, called it the hell raiser hatch back. Had temp tags on it when I slid it sidways into a stop sign and put a huge dent behind the door. Awesome system though, a pioneer 2 knob cassette deck with pyramid 4in plate speakers in the dash and stock rear speakers and 2 Orion XTR DVC's in a home made uncarpeted box with a giant pyramid 4 channel amp both channels bridged powering those Orions.  Stupid kids we were stole a keg from a party one time, threw the keg in the back seat, ran the tap up to the front seats and drove up the back roads holding the doors open with our feet drinking from the keg jamming to the superman theme song. How I lived to 30 I'll never know.  Really small town (<400 people) and a different time.

DISCLAMER- This is a story, just a story and if anyone is stupid enough to try this DON'T as we were very luck to not get pulled over or worse.