Anyone interested in a "Your first car" thread?

[RPBrown]

1955 Chevy 2 door post with a 265 CI engine and three on the tree.

[OldCurlyWolf]

1967 Ford Custom 500 with 390 Interceptor. Lasted me about 9 months before the tranny blew and left half of the casing on the centerstripe of the highway. When all was said and done the whole drivetrain was gone.

[jimlongley]

'49 Plymouth wagon, field car, drove it to work on the farm up the railroad right of way a few times. No exhaust system, no floor boards, seat tied to the frame with baling wire, ran on 3 cylinders most of the time, and I could roll it over out in the field almost at will. I demonstrated the roll over for my girlfriend once, and she instantly became my ex-girlfriend, and she wasn't even in the car.

'66 Ford Custom 500 right off the showroom floor.

I miss both of those cars.

[jmra]

1974 Dodge Dart 3 speed column shift standard.

[Pawpaw]

1955 Chevy 2 door post with a 265 CI engine and three on the tree.

My first was a '55 Chevy 4 door with a 235 6-cyl and three on the tree.

My second car is the one I really miss. '65 Mustang 2+2 with a Hi-Performance 289 and 4-speed. 271 horsepower pushing a 2600 lb car could really scoot! It's a wonder I didn't kill myself.

[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:
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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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You're darn tootin' it could fly. It was burly and really fast....a genuine factory hotrod. During my freshman year of college at UTEP, there was a guy in my calculus class who lived on the NE side of town, like I did, and he had the 1956 homologation special Buick (same body style as the 56 Chevy, but slightly different trim), with a 347 V8 with a 6-pack. His car was a little quicker out of the hole, but mine was better on the top end. We used to race each other home practically every day.

Good times.

His looked like this one, except it was a solid aquamarine blue:

[Oldgringo]

I looked, but couldn't find a picture of a black 1960 Austin Healy 3000 that I could copy and paste. I bought it in 1962 with my own money when I was 20. My new wife of 5 days and I worked on opposite sides of Nashville in 1963. I was on my way from Old Hickory to Hillsborough to pick her up after work when a '56 Chevy coupe pulled out in front of me on Shelby Avenue. I T-boned the Chevy and totaled my Healy.

(How can I remember these details when I can't remember what, or if, I had lunch today?)

[The Annoyed Man]

I looked, but couldn't find a picture of a black 1960 Austin Healy 3000 that I could copy and paste. I bought it in 1962 with my own money when I was 20. My new wife of 5 days and I worked on opposite sides of Nashville in 1963. I was on my way from Old Hickory to Hillsborough to pick her up after work when a '56 Chevy coupe pulled out in front of me on Shelby Avenue. I T-boned the Chevy and totaled my Healy.

(How can I remember these details when I can't remember what, or if, I had lunch today?)

I have a nice scar on my left forehead acquired while riding shotgun in an Austin Healey 3000.

[Oldgringo]

I looked, but couldn't find a picture of a black 1960 Austin Healy 3000 that I could copy and paste. I bought it in 1962 with my own money when I was 20. My new wife of 5 days and I worked on opposite sides of Nashville in 1963. I was on my way from Old Hickory to Hillsborough to pick her up after work when a '56 Chevy coupe pulled out in front of me on Shelby Avenue. I T-boned the Chevy and totaled my Healy.

(How can I remember these details when I can't remember what, or if, I had lunch today?)

I have a nice scar on my left forehead acquired while riding shotgun in an Austin Healey 3000.

This was before mandatory seat belts. I hit the windshield....but it wasn't my time to die. I walked away unscathed - but without a car.

[WildBill]

I looked, but couldn't find a picture of a black 1960 Austin Healy 3000 that I could copy and paste. I bought it in 1962 with my own money when I was 20. My new wife of 5 days and I worked on opposite sides of Nashville in 1963. I was on my way from Old Hickory to Hillsborough to pick her up after work when a '56 Chevy coupe pulled out in front of me on Shelby Avenue. I T-boned the Chevy and totaled my Healy.

(How can I remember these details when I can't remember what, or if, I had lunch today?)

I have a nice scar on my left forehead acquired while riding shotgun in an Austin Healey 3000.

This was before mandatory seat belts. I hit the windshield....but it wasn't my time to die. I walked away unscathed - but without a car.

Like this one?

[Oldgringo]

I looked, but couldn't find a picture of a black 1960 Austin Healy 3000 that I could copy and paste. I bought it in 1962 with my own money when I was 20. My new wife of 5 days and I worked on opposite sides of Nashville in 1963. I was on my way from Old Hickory to Hillsborough to pick her up after work when a '56 Chevy coupe pulled out in front of me on Shelby Avenue. I T-boned the Chevy and totaled my Healy.

(How can I remember these details when I can't remember what, or if, I had lunch today?)

I have a nice scar on my left forehead acquired while riding shotgun in an Austin Healey 3000.

This was before mandatory seat belts. I hit the windshield....but it wasn't my time to die. I walked away unscathed - but without a car.

Like this one?

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YES! Except that mine had big Lucas (?) running lights on the bumper. Flip that switch and oncoming cars most definitely dimmed their lights. Thank you!

[WildBill]

YES! Except that mine had big Lucas (?) running lights on the bumper. Flip that switch and oncoming cars most definitely dimmed their lights. Thank you!

You're welcome. I am sure they were Lucas running lights. I don't think the Brits used anything else on their cars.

[Pawpaw]

YES! Except that mine had big Lucas (?) running lights on the bumper. Flip that switch and oncoming cars most definitely dimmed their lights. Thank you!

You're welcome. I am sure they were Lucas running lights. I don't think the Brits used anything else on their cars.

In the motorcycle world, or at least where Nortons were concerned, Lucas was known as the company that invented darkness. You couldn't keep the lights working on those old double-thumpers.

[WildBill]

YES! Except that mine had big Lucas (?) running lights on the bumper. Flip that switch and oncoming cars most definitely dimmed their lights. Thank you!

You're welcome. I am sure they were Lucas running lights. I don't think the Brits used anything else on their cars.

In the motorcycle world, or at least where Nortons were concerned, Lucas was known as the company that invented darkness. You couldn't keep the lights working on those old double-thumpers.

I had a friend who owned a Norton Commando. He couldn't keep it running long enough to worry about the lights.

[Dan20703]

My first car was an old Ford but a very unique one. I had a 1970-1/2 Falcon. It was considered to actually be the first model Torino. It was a two door with a basic 6-cyl. engine. I bought it very used and owned it for a couple of years before giving up on maintaining it. I found an old picture. The young man is my friend's younger brother.