| Your first car ever...
Posted: 4/14/2008 5:41:18 PM | Genegem: Had no clue what a Terraplane looked like so I googled it. That was a big car. Made me think of The Waltons. Parked in shady places, huh...I bet the Walton kids behaved.
I'm soooo jealous of you guys that had super cool Mustangs as a first car. Why didn't you hold onto them...think how cool they would be now. But isn't that what a lot of people say about cars they use to have..."I wish I still had that car".
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| Your first car ever...
Posted: 4/14/2008 5:50:52 PM | | My second car was a 68 mustang and third car was a 67 mustang that I fixed it up to a nice racing muscle machine. Yeah, that's the car I wish I still had. | |
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| Your first car ever...
Posted: 4/14/2008 6:50:27 PM | 1965 Ford Galaxie 500. Dark metallic blue, bench seat, 289 C.I. V8...
Gas was cheap back then (Jurassic period) :P
Yeah, I'm kinda old.
I miss that old barge sometimes. But then, I wouldn't want to have to relive the poor gas mileage at today's prices either. :) | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 7:19:35 PM | Well, I've owned lots of cars over many years... I have to laugh thinking about what the one guy said. For me it wasn't a car I grew up on dirt bikes even raced supercross with the big dogs there for a while.
But, if Iwas going to lay claim to an actual first car then it had to be the old non-AC, 3 speed on the column 74 Chevy long bed truck. It was never actually owned by me but I drove it everywhere from about 13 to 17 when father sold it. It was a piece of work, it would back fire like a cannon and had burned out glass pack mufflers so it was very loud.... Boy could I share some stories about that crazy red monster as my friends and I called it...
Nevertheless, this thread is about first cars and My actual first car that was my own was a 76 white with black rally striped Camaro, I got at 16... It didn't stick around too long as I was serious lead foot and desired something with more Muscle. That's when I fell back on a love my father once had which was Pontiacs. I remeber as a small child at least two of the several Pontiacs the family owned one being the 67 GTO ram air triple carb 400 and later the 69 GTO Judge with the 455... So when the Camaro went a Blue Firebird 6.6 T/A took it's place. Wished I still had that car and someday I will own another or maybe even a 67 or 68 Firebird those are my favorites... Just have to hope I win the lotto soon | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 12:52:03 PM | My 1st car was a 1965 Ford Fairlane 500... blue & white..my Dad helped me buy it for $500 as a graduation present. I drove it for years till the tranny went out... then my brother took it, fixed the tranny & drove it a few more years... sure don't make them like they used to.... | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 1:39:25 PM | 1983 Canary Yellow, toyata Corolla 4 door that I got from my mom so she could get herself another car... let me tell you, I looked pretty cool tooling around town in that car! till I wrecked it 3 days later...
Sigh | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 7:44:08 PM | | I had a maroon, two door, 1989 Buick Century. I loved that car and miss it... | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 10:12:18 PM | well, for my first car i WANTED a two door camaro.......but my folks decided that it was "too much car" for a 17 year old.......sooooo they helped me buy (matched me dollar for dollar) buy a 1972 cutlass supreme........which evidently my dad didn't realize had a much bigger, FASTER engine......a 350 4 barrel........lol............they REALLY should have gotten me the camaro.... i don't recall giving "her" a name, but i did refer to her as the "gutless supreme"
thanks for the tread naghtical.........!! Wolfie  | |
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Posted: 4/19/2008 3:34:31 AM | | My 1st car was a white 1990 Chevy Caprice. I called her Betsy. The a/c was always so cold, my friends called Betsy "the boat." I loved that car. I am in the process of getting a 2008 Impala. I just have a thing for Chevy's. Both cars that I have owned so far have been Chevy's. I miss good ol Betsy. | |
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Posted: 4/19/2008 7:58:48 PM | | I had a ‘72 Oldsmobile Cutlass, got it for $400. Drove it until I could afford a new Camaro. | |
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| Your first car ever...
Posted: 4/23/2008 2:08:27 PM | I was 19. It was 1979.
It was an old beater that I kept when my Dad passed away.
It was a gold 1970 Plymouth Fury wagon with a broken back gate window that would not go up and a broken gas gauge.
I was either freezin my arse off in the winter with those cold vinyl seats or running out of gas because I was only making like $2.90 an hr working retail.
Soon after that I met my future husband and purchased a 73 Dodge Challenger.
Cherry red with a Black vinyl top.
Now that was my Baby!
I am absolutely in love with the 09 Challenger. OMG the Hemi alone is enough to make me moist. I can't wait to test drive one!
I am going to have one some day!
Red with Black Racing stripes. | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 3:48:53 PM | First car I ever drove was my mom's 1973 Chevy Vega wagon. My sister and beat the crap out of it. First car I ever bought myself was a 1973 Gran Torino Supersport. That was a sweet car and it sure could plow through the snow. Wish I still had it. It was bright red just like Starsky and Hutch's without the white stripe.  | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 4:14:22 PM | ^^^^^ OMG girl I was in love with that car when it fist came out, I was 14 and totally in love with Starsky...or was it Hutch?
Ah, now I forgot which one was the blonde?
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Posted: 4/30/2008 2:59:37 PM | I want more car stories and I am going to cry until I get them...
Is it working? | |
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Posted: 5/1/2008 7:35:52 AM | Don’t cry Naughty. Please don’t cry.
My first car at 16 was a 1962 Mercury Comet.
She had red vinyl bucket seats and a silver metal floor console between the front seats. I’ve still got a half-inch scar on my right leg because when the top of the console was closed too fast and hard it scraped my thigh. (hey naughty, wanna see my scars?)
It only had 170 cubic inches but even for a six cylinder it had a lot of pep. The interior held either 5 drunk and stupid high school kids or 4 drunk and horny stupid high school kids (couples of course).
That car is the single reason I failed all my junior year classes (except for Spanish, the Spanish teacher was too hot for me to skip that class) and had to retake them all to graduate from high school on schedule.
It was really the family car but since my dad drove a truck and my mom didn’t drive it was all mine. I always thought my popularity in high school was my charm and wit but the truth is that having a cool car was 99% of it.
When I went to the service I asked my parents to keep it for me but when I returned they had sold it and got a '66 Comet. I was crushed.
I did love that car. If I found one now in running order I'd sell my first born to get it. | |
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Posted: 5/1/2008 9:14:56 AM | | I posted about my first car, but, I'll put down my first car (family) when I got my driver's license. It was a 1959 Ford Fairlane. Had a 390 engine. Got about 15mpg. But, it would burn rubber (glad my dad is not around to read this LOL). Automatic with only the standard AM radio. 4 door and we all would jam in and take off for a lake or something. Big trunk that could hold even more people. And, the most important thing. It had a real bumper that if needed, could push another car to jump start it. First driving lesson was in a 1954 Dodge pickup with a 3 speed on the stearing wheel. Turned key and pressed a peddle above the gas peddle to start it. Had electric heater installed aftermarket and no defroster. Carried a towell to clean the windshield. Boy, the things we did back then and never complained LOL | |
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Posted: 5/1/2008 1:28:52 PM | I grew up in the family junk yard (auto recycling and scrap metal) My first car at 12yrs old was a 59 chevy 4-door 3 on the tree. I ran the crap out of that thing around the back of the junk yard all day long. I Had to find junk cars with gas in them, siphon it out to keep it going. Absolutely loved it when it rained and I could go "muddin' ".....
Then at 16 it was motorcycle year round, in Ohio, now snow and rain was a total ****........lol.......I think my guardian(s) angels where trying to kill me......lol... | |
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| Your first car ever...
Posted: 5/1/2008 4:12:25 PM | | a quite sporty Vauxhall Astra in 1990..................................... | |
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Posted: 5/1/2008 5:39:14 PM | Thanks guys...I really didn't want to have to cry.
I love these stories, they are so interesting and for us "older" folks it's like a trip down memory lane.
The first car I ever drove, the one I learned with, was my mother's '63 Valiant station wagon (this was in 1977). It had push buttons instead of a gear shift. The back doors wouldn't latch so we had a rope connecting them to keep the doors shut, more than once the knots slipped and the doors would come flying open in traffic. Also...it was three cars later before I drove a car that you did not need to give it gas while holding the break at traffic lights...I thought that was normal. | |
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Posted: 5/2/2008 7:06:35 AM | My first car I owned was a 1969 Volkswagen.
A buddy of mine in Alaska moved to California and bought it new and promptly wrecked it. The whole car shook and rattled after getting past 20 mph. I moved to Cali a few months later and bought it for near nothing and all I had to do was tighten one nut on the steering box. Fixed all her problems.
Her name was Agatha and I drove her for the next 7 years even though I always had two cars at a time. I don’t think there is a beach on the West coast that Aggy and I hadn’t been to.
She never let me down. Aggy was consistent and dependable and never promised me anything I didn’t get from her.
I had to rebuild her engine three times (once in a church parking lot in Florida and once in a Howard Johnson’s parking lot in Virginia ) but she always gave me all she had.
She’d climb ice covered hills in West Virginia and pass all the other cars that were stuck in the snow or sliding back down hill.
I even found that the back seat was big enough for a guy my size to have sex in and still retain some dignity. | |
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Posted: 5/2/2008 12:46:47 PM | My 1st car was a 1970 Datsun 510. It was actually 2 cars put together, by me, to make 1 car. The good thing was that when it broke down, I had the other to rob parts from. Damn I miss that car.....
L8TR | |
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Posted: 5/2/2008 4:08:05 PM | It drives me crazy when I misspell a word or make a typo and then catch it too late to correct it, grrrrrrr......
So...I just have to say that I meant brake instead of break in my last post.
Fluke: Maybe you should have married Aggy, what a greal gal!
Danny: My first boyfriend had a 1970 Datsun. *blushing at the memories* | |
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Posted: 5/2/2008 5:16:11 PM | naughtical- I'm blushing at some of my memories from that car too. Her name was Sandy.
I hate misspelling words too, I usually re-read it after I post it, then go back and change it where required. Had to on that "other thread" with all the ZZZZ's.
L8TR | |
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Posted: 5/2/2008 5:45:28 PM | | My first car was a 1967 m.g. midget, bright red with a removeable black hardtop. It was a 2 seat "sportscar". The engine was small. I bet riding lawnmowers today are more powerful. lol I was changing the rear tires one day and our neighbor came over and just picked up each side instead of me using the jack. Thanks for the memories! | |
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