Most likely everyone at least in North America, if not the world, will remember their first car.
In my case, I managed to buy my first car as a bold teen, under the legal age for a driver’s license. It began when I joined an RCAF Air Cadet summer program located at the former Vanier Park station located in Vancouver Kitsilano district. There were several different programs scheduled, but when we began, the Intelligence course, I had chosen had been deleted. Cadets for that course were redirected to the Secretarial course!
My disappointment resulted in short stay, after some friction with instructors.
Before a rather tumultuous departure, I had made a few teenage friends, and managed to convince them to invest in my plan to buy a car! Surprisingly, they agreed to contribute some of their early Air Cadet paychecks, in return for my promise to provide regular transportation from the base to their homes during the summer course. This actually did make a certain amount of sense given the travel distance they had to travel daily, with limited bus transportation in the 1950’s.
I think I had already identified an Vancouver Sun classified ad for the 1937 Plymouth I bought. And thanks to my older sibling brothers I was already quite competent to handle a four speed transmission stick shifter. Hence the deal was done!
Having then departed company with the RCAF, I was free to show up at the base as the cadets were marched military style, in uniform, to the main gate of the base each day where I picked up investor friends in my ‘new’ prize. Although it was only a three passenger coupe (as shown), however many we were somehow crammed in. Therefore I fulfilled my promise to deliver them to their homes daily. The fact I was unlicensed was simply no obstacle.
Yet another memorable teenage experience in 1950’s Vancouver.