Let's Get Nostalgic Remembering Our First Automotive Loves

We all have those cars we just can't forget. No matter how terrible we learn they are, or how unattainable, or even how right we were all along, we're still going to love them with all our hearts.

Last week, I asked y'all what cars were your first loves. I had a feeling the answers would be good, and I certainly was not disappointed. So many of you sat down at the keyboard to wax poetic about the beauties you fell head-over-heels for that I couldn't resist compiling them into one big post.

Sit back and enjoy, Jalops. This is the start of the story of how we all got here.

Any car is a Jalopnik car if you love it enough!

Forgotten cars need love too!

I think you made a good compromise here.

Pssst: sometimes you should meet your heroes.

This is the kind of special kid-like wonder I wish I still felt

When we're young, it doesn't matter if it's terrible. We'll still love that bad boy, anyway

This is committment

I love hearing stories of people falling for cars later in life!

Sometimes our best loves find us in the most unexpected chassis

Family passions are rare but beautiful things

Take me back so I can experience this moment firsthand

This is the pinnacle of the beauty of passion

I think there are plenty of us (i.e. me) in the same boat

I would love to get behind the wheel of any of these cars

The magic of a new car is something you can't deny