What was your 1st car? - Page 12

**427freak** · #**111** 03-22-2010, 08:10 AM

Tex
I hope you are happily reliving your first Vette.

I answered an ad for a 56 Chevy 210 post car. Lady said if I could get it out of the garage before her husband got home I could have it for $500. because she was cleaning out the garage. I feel bad for the guy now, but I was only 15 and didn't see the big picture. I never kept the good cars in the home garage. :-) Think that guy stayed married long...Might have a pic of the 56, somewhere.

**Steve Shauger** · #**112** 03-22-2010, 04:38 PM

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CONGRATS STEVE! That is a cool cool story. Enjoy and keep us posted on your day two-ing process!

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Thanks. I just missed out on purchasing a K&G Speed Associates/Havertown, PA sticker. This was where I purchased the Day 2 equipment for this car.

I am replacing the headers(with ceramic coated) and exhaust next.

Dean P. · #**113** 03-23-2010, 07:30 AM

'70 Buick GS 350.
Still driving Buicks to this day.

Sportyworty · #**114** 03-23-2010, 07:07 PM

67 Mustang bought when I turned 16 in Victoria B.C. Drove the car across Canada to New Brunswick UNB in Fredericton 5 times and back for summer break. Eventually drove her here to San Diego after graduation. Stupidly the grass was greener on the other side and sold her. Now part of the group " Wish I had my first car" nothing special but oh if she could talk lol

NewportNic · #**115** 03-30-2010, 07:02 PM

64 Plymouth Savoy

A couple of weeks later

**Jack_Tar** · #**116** 06-01-2011, 04:49 AM

I know this is an OLD thread, but i have to add mine. My first car was in 1989, I bought a 1970 Malibu 307. Gold with black stripes and would burn the tire off of the right rear. I paid $100 for it and drove it home. I rolled it over on a dirt road about 6 months later. That was the end of that one and I have been hunting another one since.
I finally got my Mom's 1966 Mustang 289 Coupe that she bought when I was 6 (1980) and have been s l o w l y working on it between customer's cars.

**CanCOPO** · #**117** 06-01-2011, 08:26 AM

1969 Meteor Montcalm 2 dr hardtop. Turquoise. Bought when I was 16. My father had a 69 351 Cougar and a 69 Chev 1/2 ton with a 350/4. I then bought a 73 442. I bought a 69 Hugger Orange RS Camaro whan I was 18. This turned out to be the COPO that I am restoring today.

RAIIIT/A · #**118** 06-01-2011, 06:58 PM

I bought my 1st car in 1983 when I was 15..... It was 1966 Pontiac 2+2, 421/338 turbo 400. It was silver with black interior and a black vinyl top..... I only paid $250 for it..

AutoInsane · #**119** 06-01-2011, 09:56 PM

1976 Datsun B210 - Cost me 100 bucks! There was more rust than steel! My dad and I put one hell of a lot of bondo on that car [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif[/img] It would backfire ever time I wound her out a bit and then shifted.

Every once in a while the seat would give way and the seat back would drop backwards.... that was interesting.

The night I bought it my buddy, who knew how to drive stick, took us for a crazy ride through a wooded lot near my house. Nearly wet myself from laughing so hard!! How we didnt slam into a tree is still a mystery. There were also some backfire flames seen from the muffler as we came up the NJ Turnpike.

I decided to drive it to school after a stick driving lesson from my dad..... I got stuck during rush hour in the middle of an intersection! I kept stalling.

The antifreeze was turning a bit frothly and brown. Got to replace a head gasket for the first time! A great experience.

This was also the car that I taught a buddy of mine to drive stick in a snowy parking lot... damn that car would do great donuts in the snow!

Sold the car a few years later when I bought my 1970 Camaro SS... sold it for $100 [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif[/img]

Shevelle · #**120** 06-03-2011, 06:59 AM

1970 Dodge Coronet R/T 440 Magnum auto. Bought it in June of 70 off the showroom floor of Lynn Hickey Dodge in Oklahoma City. This is the only photo I have of it taken in April of 71 when my daughter was 11 months old. Had to let it go not long after the photo was taken. Couldn't afford the huge $124 a month car payments, not to mention the insurance. Traded it in on a 72 VW Bug with $76 payments...and no air conditioning. Funny, I would absolutely die driving around Oklahoma with no air now days, but it didn't seem to bother me back then. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

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