What was your first car?

my very first vehicle was a '50 ford 1/2 ton w/a '59 model OHV engine that i drove on our families ranch when growing up, due to not having a title for 1 reason/another i didnt drive it on the street though, only off road, never got stuck in it either lol.

my first real car was a '72 nova SS 350 i got in 11th grade which ended up having a HTC crank stroked 383/edelbrock torker manifold/holley 750 CFM double pumper/hooker headers/2.02 heads that were ported&polished/TRW pistons rings and valves, engle solid lifter cam and springs, accel ignition, B&M tranny and converter, 4.10 rear gears in a posi carrier, etc/etc, best time was 13.10 or so, needed some short slicks vs the very very tall ones i had. it was a lotta car for an 16 yr old lol, maybe 18 when completed.

wish i still had the nova.
 
1951 Buick Special similar to this one...
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BOK said:
Nothing in the 90's or beyond yet?

You guys are all a buncha old timers!
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Nah, it's you who is young ... junior :D :p

As fate had it, i'm vision impaired so I never could get a license legit. I think it's for the best anyway, couldn't live with myself if I ever hit somebody while driving. Drove a couple of cars in my life without blowing anything up, crashing or killing anybody though. None were really mine :(
 
BOK said:
Nothing in the 90's or beyond yet?

You guys are all a buncha old timers! :p


My first and current is a VW '01 Golf.
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Yep, got to admit I'm a bit passed the half centruy mark. I dont' think the older cars can stack up to the newer cars other than on the nostolgia scale; but I do remember paying as little as 18 cents a gallon for gas when I was in high school.
 
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!957 Ford Fairlane 500 2 Dr. Hdtp.,bought in 1964 for $750...(not this
car but same colors...Light Blue and White w/Gold spear trim on side)
Car looked like new when I bought it.....this car is currently for sale at
$14,500:barf:
 
I'm not sure it was my first but the first one I remember was a '72 Plymouth Fury II. What a tank! I used to crash through snowbanks and drive offroad through the woods, mowing down small saplings. There wasn't a square foot of that heavy guage steel body that wasn't dented. It finally burned up - catching fire as I was driving it. I drove it as far as it would go and then abandoned it.
 
Bought it in 1976.

289 V8, 4 on the floor

Didn't exactly 'hug the ground' on turns.
 
not what you'd call a cool car but I surprised a few kids in the lowered Honda crowd when I opened up the 302.

Frank
 
1973 Dodge Coronet 440. Big-assed 4-door party barge. Seated 7 or 8 with no problem. Paid about $500.00 for it in '81. Got hit by a drunk driver & the insurance company "totalled" it out on me & cut me a check- drove it wrecked for 3 months until I bought a '74 Matador- a worthless waste of raw materials.
 
'69 VW with 1000 dollars of custom fenders. I bought it from a guy that used to race it. It came with a blown engine. Dropped in the 74 engine from by brothers car with wrecked front end and drive it like there was no tomorrow. 16 inch mag wheels, straight pipes, t-shifter, frenched in headlights and tail lights, and 2/60 AC, 3/60 if the sun roof was open :D

Cerberus
 
I graduated high school in 1967. My father, who was pretty well off, bought me a new, 1967 Porsche 911-S as a graduation present. This model had 6 Weber stacks, not fuel injection, which were a bear to keep "balanced". But when they were, it hauled @$$.

I drove that car through college, and through law school, and for a year after I graduated from law school. I should have kept it. But at the time, I thought trading it in for twice what Dad had paid for it eight years earlier was a good deal. A great car. But I was a kid, didn't know any better, and at the time really didn't appreciate it for what it was. I thought of it as an eight year old car, and wanted something new. Damn, that was stupid.
 
Geezer said:
I graduated high school in 1967. My father, who was pretty well off, bought me a new, 1967 Porsche 911-S as a graduation present. This model had 6 Weber stacks, not fuel injection, which were a bear to keep "balanced". But when they were, it hauled @$$.

I drove that car through college, and through law school, and for a year after I graduated from law school. I should have kept it. But at the time, I thought trading it in for twice what Dad had paid for it eight years earlier was a good deal. A great car. But I was a kid, didn't know any better, and at the time really didn't appreciate it for what it was. I thought of it as an eight year old car, and wanted something new. Damn, that was stupid.
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Just to annoy you even more, if you still had that car and brought it to Oz today you could sell it for around $30,000. That's about $23,000 in your money! :)
 
My first car was a 1969 Buick skylark. The driver door never stayed closed so I had to use a rope and tie the door shut!!

The car lasted a year and then blew up! My next car was a 1972 powder puff blue Ford Gran Torino. My Grandmother's new husband [her fifth] bought it new and died a week later. Grandma hated the car so she gave it to her number one 17-year old grandson [me]. The car had 187 miles on it.

I drove that car for almost 200,000 miles and if the back seat could talk:eek: :eek:

What a ride:D
 
several of my friends had cars which were just "old cars" which are worth a lot of $$ today, ie '70 SS chevelle 454/460HP LS6 engine ($2200 then, $100,000 or so now) "70 BOSS 302 mustang w/the shaker scoop, slats, spoilers ($2500 then $50,000 now) '70 cuda AAR 340 6 pack (he sold it for $1800, worth $75,000 or so now) '69 Z/28 camaro ($2000 then $50,000+ now) and the best example a shelby cobra 289 that was for sale for $8000 then, a lotta money in the '70s, but worth $250,000 or so now.......the big block 427 versions are close to a million dollars........
 
Had two "first cars" when I was 16. First was a 1977 Ford LTD 2-door with 177k on it when I got it, a gift from my Uncle. Heater\air didnt work and got about 8 miles to the gallon I think, and froze bad on the inside in the winter. About a week after that I was given a 1978 Trans Am from my grandfather, mint condition, 24760 on the clock when I got it. I sold the 77 Ford after the first winter of being frozen inside, etc. I still have the Trans Am and love it more every day.
 
Danbo said:
1967 Pontiac Catalina.
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My first car too! 400 c.i. V-8 producing about 350hp really moved that big behemoth! Could fit 8 people in relative comfort, and had a kickin-est stereo I could afford. Actually paid more for the stereo and speakers than I did for the car. I had it until my Sr. year of undergrad, my parents made me sell it for some piece o' crap Buick. Man, I miss that car! :(
 
'64 Chevy Impala 2-door, tan with white vinyl top, white interior. V8, 4 barrel carb. Paid $300. for it. Talk about fly. Lots of room in the back seat (hee hee).
 
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