My First Car: Anthony Bourdain and 17 Celebs Tell Us About Their Wheels

Before your favored actors and famous personalities could make down payment on spruce convertible , they rode around townsfolk in honest-to-god rust fungus buckets just like the rest period of us . Some even got their start on motorcycles ; others could n’t even remember the first vehicles they aviate , presumably because their shining new car memories overwrite the old ones . Here ’s what they had to say about their first ride .

Anthony Bourdain

Best known for : the best - sellingKitchen Confidential , Travel Channel’sNo ReservationsHe says:“I just get my first car a few years ago . I did n’t even get a license until I was 30 . I was drive on a forged permit for a quite a little of it – when I ’d go on vacation , I ’d rent . I got a four - doorBMWfamily car , suitable for a child posterior in the back , in 2012 . That was my first elevator car . I did n’t even have a beater – my parents did n’t give me a auto [ and ] I did n’t buy a used railcar as a teenager . So I ’m still a ludicrously happy car owner . I ’ll drive my daughter four cube to schooltime given the chance . Any opportunity , I love labour . "

Colin Farrell

substantially roll in the hay for : Miami Vice , True Detectiveseason twoHe says:“A little 20 - yr - oldMGB Roadster , a little convertible . I ’d just drive it around Dublin . Was n’t too many spot to go . No preciousness . "

Ray Liotta

Best sleep with for : Goodfellas , Field of DreamsHe says:“It was an orangeCyclonethat was my dada ’s car . I was a senior in eminent schoolhouse , and it was orange , literally an orangish Cyclone . And the dashboard – anybody who knows me – the splasher was hold in on by a clip , and the clip was break up , so when you stepped on the gas , the dashboard would start falling forrard . And I would get so pissed off that I ’d hit the dashboard to get it back into its clipping . I mean , I was grateful for the motorcar , but an orangish Cyclone . With me all through college . It was great I had a car , but it was tatty . I ’m not an orange guy . "

Rick Ross

easily known for : the albumTeflon Don , the tap recording label MMG , Wingstop wingsHe says:“My first car was a'76 Caprice . I loved it . "

Christian Bale

well known for : American Psycho , The Dark KnightHe says:“I drive a pickup [ now ] , but my first automobile was like an old tank that I shared with my pappa , which was some … I do n’t even know what model . I think it had been ripped off the back . I do n’t bang what it was – but some Buick . Bounced around the road all over the office . "

Vincent D’Onofrio

Best known for : Full Metal Jacket , Law & Order : Criminal IntentHe says:“My mother actually drive a lime green Nova with black stripes going up the bonnet and down the back . And as soon as I was older enough , she let me start driving that , and I just lie with to drive that . And then when I got a little older , my stepdad , who I loved dearly , who elevate me , he had an El Camino that was really debauched . I used to leap into that as much as I could . And then when I left home , I traveled the country on my own for a while – my friend and I , we buy a Toyota Corolla and drove from Miami to California . And it broke down in Stinson Beach , outside of San Francisco . And then I ended up in Colorado and I got a Willys , 1942Willys Jeep , and it was painted purple . And I ran that into the ground , until the engine freeze up . And then I did n’t buy a railroad car again until I did a movie in Argentina once , and they give me so much per diem that – because the country had just switch over and the economy changed drastically – I terminate up coming home with like $ 30,000 with the per diem . And I bought aToyota Land Cruiserfor cash , like a drug dealer would . "

Mario Batali

well have intercourse for : Eataly , Babborestaurant , wearing CrocsHe says:“My first auto was a'61 Impala . I bought it for $ 1,000 when I subsist in Santa Barbara . We shaved the roof off and made it into a convertible that could n’t be converted back . You could fit 10 people in it very comfortably . "

Eric Bana

well known for : Hulk , MunichHe says:“Oh , well , that ’s a 30 - yr - one-time story . I ’ve still got it . It ’s a car that I bought when I was 15 , and I ’ve still arrest it today . It ’s a ’ 74 XB Falcon coupe . [ I found it ] in the newspaper … [ I paid ] $ 1,100 . Still get it . "

Jorma Taccone

Best known for : The Lonely Island , explaining Justin Bieber ’s InstagramHe says:“I’ve had three capital cars in my life story – four great car . These are cars I purchased myself . Each of them was $ 500 , except the last one was more expensive . The first one was a1977 Plymouth Volare , which was a mammoth gravy holder of a railcar that was described to me as ' doja green ' inside and out . Doja is a slang word that was only used for about a yr in the Bay Area in 1993 for weed . So it looked like locoweed inside and out . It was owned by an 80 - class - old char who had two pillars at the ending of her driveway , and she was doddering , so she would crash into both slope , so both sides of the car were completely dented up and down . I had two bumper stickers on it that were from a group scream the Whoridas in the Bay Area , and they had a Sung call " Shot Callin ' and Big Ballin ' , " and so I had one bumper sticker on one side that said " Shot Callin ' " and one that said " Big Ballin ' . " Very ironically . "

Carl Weathers

Best known for : Predator , theRockymovies , Happy Gilmore , getting a stew goingHe says:“I was maybe 16 , 17 , and my grandmother purchased this car for me . And it was aStudebaker , and it was a piece of junk – but I loved it . It was one of those sort of heater on each end , you know ? And it was old , it was a joystick switch – but I had wheel , baby ! … But over the track of like two and a half yr , I had three unlike cars . But that was the first . It was that ugly brownish - green Studebaker . You know , it was ugly . But human being , I loved it … This was in about 1966 . Before you were deport . ”

Noah Emmerich

well jazz for : The Americans , The Walking Deadseason oneHe says:“Yeah , I ’m not a auto person . I grew up in New York City , I did n’t have a car until I got to college . I got a secondhand motorcycle , was the first vehicle I possess . It was aYamaha Seca . I just looked for it – there was like an ad posted at the college bulletin card and I thought , That sounds like a lot of fun . So I bought a flash used bike … [ My family was ] not happy , but I did n’t tell them . I inquired to how they would finger about it , and they were very electronegative , so I just make up one’s mind to leave it at that … I think I bear like four or five hundred dollars . Yeah , it was pretty cheap . "

Samantha Bee

Best sleep together for : The Daily Show , Full Frontal With Samantha BeeShe says:“I have owned the bad elevator car , I ’ve never had a cool car in my life sentence . I literally labour aToyota Sienna minivan . It has milkshake all over the inside of it . I ’ve never know a single car that I ’ve owned . "

Marlon Wayans

well be intimate for : theScary Moviefranchise , White ChicksHe says:“My first car was – well , after I crashed my sister ’s Ford Taurus . I ’m going to let you know I gutted the whole bottom and I thought it was a paper purse I was run over , and I actually ran over a cement statue . That was n’t good . I was like 14 . I had no business driving . But , attend – I ’ve been taking care of her for 30 years , so we even , Devon . All right , and then the other one I did , my first railcar was a Honda Accord EX that I bought from my brother , Shawn . He bought it for $ 12,000 , he sell it to me for $ 14,900 . What an ass . And then I gave it to my nephew , who crashed it and left it on the side of the street , abandoned . Yeah , it ’s sad . I told you , it ’s not a sound tarradiddle . Ask a dissimilar question . Now I ’m in a bad modality . I just mislay $ 14,900 . "

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Best known for : Death Proof , Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,10 Cloverfield LaneShe says:“Mine ’s dumb . I was already acting a lot , so I in reality had … I think it was like anAudi A4or something . I feel dense . I wish I was like , ' It was like a hand - me - down from my friend . ' I bought my own first auto at 16 with my own money , and it was an Audi A4 . "

Dylan Baker

Best known for : The Amazing Spider - Man 2and3,Happiness , SelmaHe says:“Well , there was aToyota Tercelalong the way that was handed down to me in my family , and I take that thing into the ground . It was such a great car , and I finally sell it for a hundred dollar to this new child who was like as emotional as I was the whole meter … I was only about 22 [ when I first go it ] , I mean . And I was not in New York yet , so it still made some sentience to actually have a car [ chuckle ] … Yeah , we sell it for $ 100 , and I mean that was a pretty good deal . [ Laughing ] I could n’t believe I suffer $ 100 for it . "

Eric André

Best known for : The Eric André Show , Man seek Woman , giving bad dating adviceHe says:“A Honda Civic that was banged up . I took a Xanax and I push back into traffic . "

Raúl Castillo

Best know for : LookingHe says:“I gauge in my family , we only had one car growing up , always . And when I was in high shoal , going into college , my parent corrupt this blackCherokee– was it a Wrangler ? Was it a Laredo ? It was a Cherokee . It was a mordant outside with a cherry-red interior . And I grew up in Texas , which , as you know , is ridiculously hot . And that car was so honest-to-god , the radiator was busted , and it would get overheat all the time and the melody conditioning did n’t work , and you burned yourself on the seatbelts if you were wear underdrawers . [ I ] sort of [ inherited it ] . It was n’t my railcar but it was , like , the motorcar I shared with my siblings . "

Jordan Peele

well known for : Key & Peele , KeanuHe says:“I just got my licence to repel about four calendar month ago . I still have not corrupt a car . That ’s true New York for you . I ’ve lived in L.A. for 13 years and I just fundamentally , I looked at a map and carved out a Manhattan - sized island out of Hollywood , and I just take the air around there and taxi from here to there and Uber . I ’m go to be getting a railway car soon . "

Interviews conducted by Thrillist Entertainment writers Matt Patches and Dan Jackson , along with contributorsJenna Marotta , Anna Silman , andKeith Staskiewicz .

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