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The first car I´ve been in is not ascertainable any more... 
You must know I´m the first and only one (to date!) who considers a car more than a mean of transportation... It´s not even recorded, which cars my parents ever had! Can you imagine that? Incredible!!!
So I can only provide the first car I remember to have been in: A 1975 (?) Opel Rekord Caravan with three doors, painted in beige. This was in 1978 and I was three years old. I guess, this was the initial spark of my soft spot for the Opel Rekord.
I know, the following is far above the question, but I simply have to tell you this anecdote: In 2003 I started to work in the office of a junkyard for about 2 years and got in touch with their truck driver Martin, who was into cars and automotive material in the same way I am (Collecting scale cars, brochures, owner´s manuals, badges, registration documents of wrecked cars etc.)
Well, we talked a lot in these days (or better: long nights in the office) and one evening we talked about the cars our parents have had in earlier days. I told him about the beige Rekord Caravan and Martin replied that his father has had a very similar car years ago and that he still owned the registration document ("Fahrzeugbrief" in Germany, "title" in the US) of this very car. He asked me if I wanted to have it, for my collection.
OK, I thought: "Why not?", but it didn´t seem that important to me owning a registration document of an old Rekord Caravan which had been scrapped years ago... On the other hand, I was sure: Martin will forget his offer and I´ll never see the document he promised me. But... I was wrong.
A few weeks later, Martin entered my office and put the mentioned papers of this car on my desk. I took it and read it: Last owner (before the car was dismantled in the late 80s) was Martin´s father, as he stated. The pre-owner, before Martin´s father had acquired the car in the early 80s, was... my dad!
The first car in my life had as well been the first car in Martin´s life.
Now I knew where the first recorded car in my life had gone and what happened to it. And much better: For the first time of my life I had it´s "passport" in my hands - 25 years later! I really can´t put into words how I felt in that moment.
I still have this paper (can´t find it right now, though) and I´ll keep it forever!
You must know I´m the first and only one (to date!) who considers a car more than a mean of transportation... It´s not even recorded, which cars my parents ever had! Can you imagine that? Incredible!!!
So I can only provide the first car I remember to have been in: A 1975 (?) Opel Rekord Caravan with three doors, painted in beige. This was in 1978 and I was three years old. I guess, this was the initial spark of my soft spot for the Opel Rekord.
I know, the following is far above the question, but I simply have to tell you this anecdote: In 2003 I started to work in the office of a junkyard for about 2 years and got in touch with their truck driver Martin, who was into cars and automotive material in the same way I am (Collecting scale cars, brochures, owner´s manuals, badges, registration documents of wrecked cars etc.)
Well, we talked a lot in these days (or better: long nights in the office) and one evening we talked about the cars our parents have had in earlier days. I told him about the beige Rekord Caravan and Martin replied that his father has had a very similar car years ago and that he still owned the registration document ("Fahrzeugbrief" in Germany, "title" in the US) of this very car. He asked me if I wanted to have it, for my collection.
OK, I thought: "Why not?", but it didn´t seem that important to me owning a registration document of an old Rekord Caravan which had been scrapped years ago... On the other hand, I was sure: Martin will forget his offer and I´ll never see the document he promised me. But... I was wrong.
A few weeks later, Martin entered my office and put the mentioned papers of this car on my desk. I took it and read it: Last owner (before the car was dismantled in the late 80s) was Martin´s father, as he stated. The pre-owner, before Martin´s father had acquired the car in the early 80s, was... my dad!
The first car in my life had as well been the first car in Martin´s life.
Now I knew where the first recorded car in my life had gone and what happened to it. And much better: For the first time of my life I had it´s "passport" in my hands - 25 years later! I really can´t put into words how I felt in that moment.
I still have this paper (can´t find it right now, though) and I´ll keep it forever!