Your first car

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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited August 2014
    damn hand me down 1966 Beetle or was it a 65 ? and a 6 volt to boot .... but it gave me a way to escape and travel to many a fun place
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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited August 2014
    dang butcher ...... we almost posted at the same time and kinda the same car wow
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    edited August 2014
    First Vette, still got it.
    Always wanted a "tear drop" hood Z28.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,545
    edited August 2014
    1973 Ford LTD. Bought it off my Dad for $500 bucks.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,545
    edited August 2014
    muncybob wrote: »
    61 Buick Lesabre...cost me $25. The thing would burn rubber with no problem but it was so heavy(needed both hands to lift that hood!) it could hardly get out of it's own way. Next car was a 65 Impala...engine had no dipstick hole. My dad and I spent what seemed like a long time searching for the dipstick and could hardly believe our eyes when it had no stick or hole! Would not want that Buick back but sure wish I had that Chevy.

    The Love Boat! LOL
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  • dbKiller
    dbKiller Posts: 316
    edited August 2014
    1979 Pontiac T/A, Black with gold birds, T-Tops, and Honeycomb wheels. It even had A/C and power windows.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,927
    edited August 2014
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  • D'prived
    D'prived Posts: 191
    edited August 2014
    1974 Plymouth 'Cuda 360 cu in V8. Bought it brand new in October of '73. Three years later I got married and the wife didn't like driving the car so it got replaced with a 1976 Honda Civic.
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,149
    edited August 2014
    I'll tell you about my 68 Park Lane convertible later . . .

    First car purchased was a 74 Charger 2 months prior to getting my license. The seller was a 20 something and well, I really didn't get my monies worth on that deal. But there were a ton O' funs times in that bad boy.

    Here on the international boarder we would head South to Canada. The drinking age was 19 in Windsor, CA and kids will be kids. We would liberate cases of beer into the US for personal consumption. Fairly innocent times, so who would think to pop the hood to check for contraband? The hood was so long that the distance between the radiator and grill conveniently held 2 cases. All I needed to do was place a black colored trash bag facing the grill so it looked normal as the cat approached customs
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited August 2014
    Porsche Boxster!!!!!!
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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,804
    edited August 2014
    1972 Oldsmobile 442. Bought it in 1980 from my Grandfather's car dealership. Had a fresh coat of paint put on it, and re-chromed the bumpers before even driving it home.

    Someone offered me what seemed like an awful lot of money for it in 1982...I should have kept it, could have got 5 times more money, less than 10 years later.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 9,088
    edited August 2014
    '68 Ford Mustang 428CJ, fastback. I was 18. It looked like this one. Ford Toploader 4 speed with large input shaft. Ended up putting a Detroit locker in it as the traction lock case would split on the ring gear side where the housing was thin due to where the friction plates were. Sadly I don't have any good pics of it. One pic from an old magazine printed on crappy paper.

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  • Tornado Red
    Tornado Red Posts: 939
    edited August 2014
    Cool stories! I like Z's Chevette. I had a friend who owned one, told everyone "Yeah, I got a 'Vette"

    My first was a more than used 1966 Meteor. 289, auto. Paid $400 for it. My wife-to-be lived 2 hours away, used to go on my days off, quart of oil there, quart back. Had a coat hangar holding up the rear bumper as I recall.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,066
    edited August 2014
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    Was the engine in your Riv swapped out? Buick did not get the 455 until 1970, so your car would have been the 430.

    My bad, your right John, it was the 430. What a ride though. Also had a Delmont 88, the precursor to the Delta 88, that had the big engine too, 425 I believe, but was a rust bucket. A silent screamer though, blew away many a Camaro at the lights.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,066
    edited August 2014
    Ya know, if any of us old farts had the brains to keep some of these cars, we'd be retired by now.
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    edited August 2014
    Very nice. My daughter works with a guy that has one almost identical to that pic.
    SCompRacer wrote: »
    '68 Ford Mustang 428CJ, fastback. I was 18. It looked like this one. Ford Toploader 4 speed with large input shaft. Ended up putting a Detroit locker in it as the traction lock case would split on the ring gear side where the housing was thin due to where the friction plates were. Sadly I don't have any good pics of it. One pic from an old magazine printed on crappy paper.

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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 3,134
    edited August 2014
    1959 Ford Consul. Like this one, but had two wing mirrors (!).


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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,883
    edited August 2014
    tonyb wrote: »
    My bad, your right John, it was the 430. What a ride though. Also had a Delmont 88, the precursor to the Delta 88, that had the big engine too, 425 I believe, but was a rust bucket. A silent screamer though, blew away many a Camaro at the lights.

    Rivieras are kind of my thing... I have owned one of every series except the glorified Somersets that come out in 1986...

    I learned how to drive in a 455 '76 Electra Limited 4dr, and the family had a 455 powered 68 Delta 88 sedan.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,681
    edited August 2014
    Mine was a 1960 Chevy Bel Air. Sold it When I joined the USMC.
    The brother of the guy I sold it to still has the car!
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited August 2014
    Obviously one of the poor ones here i had a '66 Chevy Impala 327 with a Ltd slip rear.It was banana yellow where it wasn't rusted out which was a LOT of it.
    Transmissions were $35 bucks at the junk yard if you pulled it.I will never forget this since i pulled at least 4 of them.
    It would Sh%t and git but was hell to look at.
    The other thing i'll never forget is during the summer i worked for a plumber being a grunt.
    I always had mud on my feet and with the regular use of the noble weed and picking seeds out and tossing them on the floor i actually had pot plants growing in the car.Many of them.
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    edited August 2014
    I had a Bronze 68 Olds Cutlass! trade it for 71 Chevelle SS and trade it for 69 Z28. I don't have any of them anymore :(
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited August 2014
    A Plymouth Duster '72, same color and style as the one below. I opened her up on a NEW highway at the time. 112 mph and she started to shake, rattle and roll. lol

    I backed off the pedal at that point! STUPID teenager!

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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited August 2014
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    1959 Austin Healy Bugeye Sprite
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    edited August 2014
    Pics of cars GREAT, the stories Priceless!!

    Ah 71 Duster, my brothers dream car. Told my parents he would not ask for any other Christmas presents if he could have one.
    He ended up with a Gran Torino not sure the year..
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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,907
    edited August 2014
    '64 Ford Fairlane for $300. Later traded it straight-up for a '65 T'Bird
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,499
    edited August 2014
    In 85 when I turned 16 bought 2 1978 Toyota Corolla for $600 swapped the best for the best to build my first car with my lawn mowing money, and scrapped the leftovers.

    Kept the corolla for years because you could not kill it, but it wasn't a chick magnet. So I saved my money and thought I upgraded by buying a 1976 Firebird (chick magnet party car yes) big frigging money pit double yes.

    Corolla was my daily A/B Mr. Reliable driver, '76 Firebird weekend warrior....fun times
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 10,204
    edited August 2014
    1973 Plymouth Duster bought new for $2300
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,066
    edited August 2014
    pumpkinman wrote: »
    1973 Plymouth Duster bought new for $2300

    Was it available in burnt orange ?
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,066
    edited August 2014
    No Super Bee owners....Road Runners ? GTO's ? 69 Road Runner, not mine but in the family. 440 six pack could scream in a straight line but god forbid you had to do any quick changes in direction. One of my uncles loved Vettes, but he was a broke ****, so he bought an Opel GT. Looked like a mini vette, drove like a go cart.
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  • Irrenhaus
    Irrenhaus Posts: 1,098
    edited August 2014
    My first car was 1982 Datsun B210 2dr basic model. No A/C manual everything. Loved that thing. At one point had an audio system that was more expensive than the car. Remember Rockford amp, Pioneer head unit, Altec Lansing speakers and 4 T62 Bazookas in the trunk.

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