Anyone interested in a "Your first car" thread?

[jbarn]

I am dating myself, but this was my first car. Got it in 1976, my Sophomore HS year. 1968 model. 289 2bbl and auto. It also had hang down air.

[RoyGBiv]

'72 Chevelle.
New-to-me in '81

307CI, a whopping 130 ponies hauling 3,400 pounds curb weight with mighty (bad) 4-wheel drum brakes.!!

[anygunanywhere]

1967 Camaro. No pics. 327 3 speed stick. When finished had a juiced 327 with 2.02 heads, 4 squirter and 4 speed. Used to hunt Cougars to wax them on the quarter mile.

Anygunanywhere

[TheCytochromeC]

I'll be the first "youngster" to ruin this streak of awesome cars that you guys should have never gotten rid of.



Behold! The 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix GT. Those were the same options my car had that are shown in the picture. That color was absolutely awesome. The pictures don't do it justice.

[OldGrumpy]

1966 Plymouth Satellite. Dumbest move I ever made was getting rid of that car. List price for it was $3600. Few years ago saw one on one of the old car sites listed for about $10K.

[Jaguar]

My first car was a bike, 1979 Suzuki 400. I will look through old photos and see if I can find an actual photo, but this is pretty close. I used to ride it to high school everyday rain or shine, but mom let me use her truck when it really nasty.

[LeonCarr]

1976 Chevrolet El Camino, 350 2-BBL, drove it from 1987 to 1990. When I sold it for 900 bucks in 1990 it had 175,000 miles on it and did not burn a drop of oil.

No pictures, two tone brown and yellow, second to last year of the big "Malibu Classic" body style. I hit a deer with it at 70 MPH and it just bounced off with no damage.

I miss that truck.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

[The Annoyed Man]

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A 1956 Dodge Cornet Lancer with the D-550-1 Daytona homologation special motor. The motor was a 315 cubic inch hemi with 2 giant 4 barrel carbs mounted over a cross-ram intake, with tuned race headers and dual exhaust terminating in 36" glass packs. It was homologated for Daytona. It was a truly fast car. Mine looked exactly like this one:


The original owner was my ex-FIL's father, who drove it to church on Sundays....or something like that. When he died, my FIL inherited it with 40,000 original miles on it. My FIL worked at White Sands Missile Range, and this was the car he commuted in from El Paso to White Sands, as I recall about a 90 mile round trip. But it was all highway miles, and this car would just lope along nice and easy at highway speeds. The car had 90-some thousand miles on it when he sold it to me (for $100), and something over 100K on it when I sold it back to him a few years later. He later gave or sold it to my ex-BIL, and I have no idea what has happened to it since.

It ran tight and leaked nothing, was comfortable, and strong like a bull. I loved that car. Hard to believe that, until then, I had never actually owned my own car. I always used someone else's.

[LSUTiger]

1984 Pontiac Sunbird 4DR Sedan. This one not actually mine but its pretty close.

[Purplehood]

I had a 57 Chevy Model 210 and a 53 Mercury with a flathead in it. Neither really ever got road-worthy.

My first functional car that I paid for as a young Marine was my 74 Plymouth Duster with a stock 318 in it. Automatic, 2 bbl carburetor. But I really liked it.

[gemini]

1954 Buick Roadmaster. 4dr sedan. I could get 4 or 5 guys in the trunk to sneak into the drive-in, easy.
This (pic) is not my ride but very close.

[scokill]

No pic, but had '69 Dodge Charger in 1981. Had more rust than metal.

[OldGrumpy]

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A 1956 Dodge Cornet Lancer with the D-550-1 Daytona homologation special motor. The motor was a 315 cubic inch hemi with 2 giant 4 barrel carbs mounted over a cross-ram intake, with tuned race headers and dual exhaust terminating in 36" glass packs. It was homologated for Daytona. It was a truly fast car. Mine looked exactly like this one:
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The original owner was my ex-FIL's father, who drove it to church on Sundays....or something like that. When he died, my FIL inherited it with 40,000 original miles on it. My FIL worked at White Sands Missile Range, and this was the car he commuted in from El Paso to White Sands, as I recall about a 90 mile round trip. But it was all highway miles, and this car would just lope along nice and easy at highway speeds. The car had 90-some thousand miles on it when he sold it to me (for $100), and something over 100K on it when I sold it back to him a few years later. He later gave or sold it to my ex-BIL, and I have no idea what has happened to it since.

It ran tight and leaked nothing, was comfortable, and strong like a bull. I loved that car. Hard to believe that, until then, I had never actually owned my own car. I always used someone else's.

Hey Annoyed, my Dad bought the same model when they came out in late 55. His was Coral Pink and Charcoal Gray which if you lived in the 50s you know how popular those colors were. Man would that thing fly!


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[AlaskanInTexas]

Mine was similar, but not as nice as the one in the picture. I went a whole Alaska winter without a starter. Push starting a car solo in -10 weather builds lots of character. The floorboards had rusted out, which made for some wet driving during breakup when the streets were flooded.

[fishman]

73 nova, no pics. It was a very fast car. I took a lot of money from people who drove corvettes, and such. Wish I had never sold it.