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First cars?

#41
My first car was 63 Dodge with a 318 V-8 and push button automatic tranny. Great fun for doing giddy tire squealing neutral drops. Needless to say my lack of maturity as a youth in the early 70's, common among every generation of young teen males even to this day, put that Mopar into an early grave.:rollno:

Then I went on to a 63 Pontiac Star Cheif with a honkin 389 in it that had been my mom's car. It was a four door land barge! From there I sold it to my brother after a few years to get into a 74 Chevy Nova with a 350. The insurance company loved me for that, as I'm sure I helped the top CEO make the payments on his Caddy and keep his country club membership up to date.;) I went on to enjoy some other nice cars over the years, but now I worry about fuel economy, durability, and cargo capacity versus the coolness factor.
 
#42
Sorry I'm not very good at posting pix.........

http://imcdb.org/images/074/138.jpg

^ Not actually mine,but close.

In 1982,my dad gave me my grandfathers old 1973 Dodge club cab.It was dark blue and white,except for the right front fender panel which was a lighter blue and had been replaced after an accident.

I called it Godzilla.My dad used to have talks to me,explaining that it wasnt normal to go thru a new set of rear tires every year. :rolleyes:

We also used to have talks where he would try to figure out how I could go thru ten dollars worth of motor oil every few weeks,at a time when a quart of oil was maybe 50-75 cents.He didnt know about the Texaco station that would sell me(not old enough to drink legally) beer and put it on the credit card as motor oil.............

"Boy,how the hell do you go thru 10 dollars worth of motor oil in a week.Truck only takes 5 quarts!" :scowl:


Edit: 360 C.I. V8 with an automatic.
 
#49
1979 GMC pickup. 2wd, 3/4 ton, 350, 4 speed. The engine was tired and using oil, so I rebuilt it (with help from step dad and friends) plus new clutch and had the trans rebuilt. I learned so much from that experience :cool:.

Put a killer (for them days) stereo in it, and cherry bomb mufflers... sounded great inside and out!!! :D
 
#52
She was a low mileage, 14 year-old when I paid $600 for her in the 70's...

A Black, 1963 VW Bug with all the chrome, and named for a 100 year-old teacher in HS. 'Thelma' rocked with a polished-looking interior, and cold-aftermarket A/C.
 
#53
My first car was a 1995 Geo Metro. It was the 4-door sedan (not the hatch back) with the big engine (the 4cyl). The guy I bought it from used it as a hunting and fishing car so it smelled like fish and there was deer blood all over the trunk. The body had SEVERE hail damage (my friends called it the red golf ball) and the dash had horrible sun damage. But let me tell you, it was fun as hell to take sharp corners really fast. Turned on a dime. I ran that car into the ground. Now I wish I wouldn't have, I got almost 50mpg with it. Oh well, the 30-35mpg I'm getting with my current car isn't bad either.
 
#54
1997 Saab 900SE. Bought it at the beginning of this summer. $1000, 114,000 miles, bought from a friend. great condition, needed NO work to be my daily driver. fast as hell, terrible on gas mileage but damn it holds a lot of stuff!
 
#55
1977 Cadillac Sedan de Ville. Bench seat in front, a true six passenger vehicle. had a 7.5 liter V-8, if I recall correctly. You could put 2 10-speed bikes in the trunk. Not great on milage, but hey, gas was cheap back then. I had it for a long time, then sold it for $400 to a friend of a friend who accidentally drove it off a cliff. He survived, the car did not.

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It looked just like this one.
 
#56
Hawaii Islander said:
1966 Pontiac LeMans. I bought it from a hardware salesman that my dad used to buy from for the tractor trailer shop we worked at. I paid $1.00 for it. Note: Not the actual car, but its the same (even the color).

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My brother and his friend borrowed it and drowned the car in the ocean! :mad: They parked on the beach too close to the water and the tide came in. :eyebrow:
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Sweeet! I had the same year and color of a GTO somehwere around car three or four or five. Sold it when I went to Vietnam and bought a 72 GTO convertible when I came back! When I got married in '77 she made me sell it:crying:
 

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