First Car

[budnate]

'78,305,4spd,...man life was grand!!!

[Chevy454]

GREAT thread, Andy! I'll try and dig up some pictures of my first car, which was a truck...I think we gave $100 for it...'63, 2wd, step-side...thing had been a farm truck since birth, had a blue cab and a green box/bed, and looked like someone had beat it with a mallet all over...I threw about 5 pounds of Bondo and a couple gallons of red paint at it, and thought I was in tall cotton! The tall rear gears and truck 4-speed took it's toll on the 283, so I put in a 305...

[Verne_Frantz]

You guys are all too young!!! All those cars are too "new". You'd never believe what my first car was in '66 when I was 15......
I paid $15. for it, running and driving, nice shape....

[Belair62]

Mine was in 1974..65 Impala SS 327/300 PG...pad 325 for it...Verne I'm going to guess a 53 Chevy

[BBIGG BLOCK 396]

I have no pictures but it was a 49 Chevey sedan Deluxe! My Dad gave $50.00 for it from Uncle Buddys Used Cars on North Main St Houston Texas.It was faded red but ran like a singer sewing machine,That jewel stayed in our family for 5 years without a dimes worth of trouble.Only thing ever replaced was tires and battery.Those were the good old days,regular 19.9 per gallon,flat's fixed for 50 cents,hamburger and a coke for 50 cents.We even had a local hang out called Prices Burgers where you could get 5burgers for a $1.00,man talk abou tgetting full! LOL

Bobby Dodson

[Xplantdad]

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Mine was in 1974..65 Impala SS 327/300 PG...pad 325 for it...Verne I'm going to guess a 53 Chevy

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I'll guess a 52 Chebby...

[olredalert]

------I know someone will do better but at this moment I seem to win the oldest 1st car award. My long suffering Mom bought a neighbors 38 Chev 2dr.cpe. for $75.00. It was actually in pretty good shape until I tried to back it out of my grandfathers garage and hit the wall. Oh!!! I was 13 and didnt have a beer-gut yet!!!..........Bill S

[Xplantdad]

Bill, That's funny and reminds me of the first time I drove a car. I was 13 also...and it was in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
at my best friends grandma's farm...

She had a huge corn field...and a 1968 Caprice siiting in the barn (this was 1972). She told us to "go have fun" and "not to tell". Like she said "what could we possibly hit...except the corn stalks".

God that was fun...and we never told anyone until now...

[GOAT72]

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Mine was in 1974..65 Impala SS 327/300 PG...pad 325 for it...Verne I'm going to guess a 53 Chevy

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Mine was in '72, and was close to yours.
My dad bought me a '63 Impala SS 'vert 283/auto for a buck! My uncle was going to trade it in, but my father talked him into transferring the title to me for one-dollar.

I roasted the trans, so it sat for a year. Then, my mother had it junked!!!

Wish I had a photo, but more so...wish I had the CAR!

[370454s]

My first Car was a 1963 Impala SS. Car was a 409 340hp with a powerglide. My Buddy that Owned it was Building a Thames wagon with an Injected Small Block and needed to sell the Imp to finance the Thames. This was Oct of 76. His Dad was A Sergeant with the Seattle Police Department,he sold me the Car for $225. I had that Car excactly half hour before Breaking the Rear end doing a Block Long Burnout. The nice thing about Jeffs dad being a Cop, all the Cops knew the Car so they would not bother me. Heck they even helped me get it home when I broke the rear end.
Mike