* Nostalgia ~ Your first car ! *

[UncleBuck01]

Re: * Nostalgia ~ Your first car ! *

63 Chevy Belair
Handed down to me in 72
4dr with a straight 6 cylinder
All memories are personal /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Buck

 

[Jagmandave]

Re: * Nostalgia ~ Your first car ! *

MODEL YEAR 1956
MAKE Pontiac
YEAR YOU GOT IT 1965
DESCRIPTION 4dr sedan Pink over cream
OPTIONAL How old were you at the time ? 16
ADVENTURES

How I got it was a bit of an adventure..........
I was working about 100 hours a week at the neighborhood Standard Oil station, pumping gas and doing lube and oil jobs when they let me - the perfect job for an aspiring gearhead. It was fairly late in the evening (we closed at 11 pm!) and a fellow came limping in with this dirty, nasty looking, noisy old Pontiac. He said his wife had run off with the kids to Omaha, from their home in Oklahoma, and he'd gone and gotten her back, but that he didn't think the Pontiac would make it back to OK, and if someone would give him $10, they could have it. I handed him a $10 bill before anyone else could speak, and he handed me the title and the keys - and I was an owner! I drove it home that night and my dad hit the roof, he didn't think any 16 year old should have his own car, so he took the keys. A little later after they had gone to bed I snuck
out the back door with the extra set of keys I still had in my pocket, and since it didn't have any mufflers to speak of, I pushed it out of the driveway and rolled down the hill. I drove down to my girlfriends house and hung out with her for a while and then decided to cruise around a bit before driving home. By now it was about 1 am, and most of the stop lights were flashing, and there was very little traffic - which turned out to be my savior. I was heading down a backstreet - a long but gentle downhill, doing about 30 mph. The street "T"d at the intersection of a very busy road, and of course the light was red for me. I eased on the brakes - nothing! I tried the "e" brake - nothing! I tried pulling it down into low gear, and it felt like it went into neutral and sped up! By now my heart is really thumping and I'm getting really close to the intersection when all of a sudden the transmission hits low gear and about throws me thru the windshield, I make it around the corner - barely, running the red light, but there are no cars coming, so I'm OK. I drove home the remaining three blocks and crept into the driveway, but since it was uphill I had to run the motor all the way there - I couldn't coast in like I did when I left. Of course my dad was there watiting for me, and without a word he took the extra set of keys too.
It was about three months before I got them back - you think it isn't hard for a 16 year old to see his car sitting in the drive and not be able to even start it? When I finally got the keys back, I took it to work at the gas station and put on some mufflers, topped up the brake and trans fluid, put on a couple of new tires and cleaned it up and I had a nice car all thru highschool. It was loaded - even had A/C that worked!
Total investment - about $150................sold it for that same amount to a neighbor who's wife promptly totaled it. Nobody got hurt, but the car was gone.............. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[RobertN]

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I want one! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[beagdog]

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I only wish I still had it!

 

[Nasty135]

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Hmmm, First car was 67 corvette coupe , I was 19 years old and found it in the newspaper for $2850.00 of course this was 1978 or 79, It had a 327-300 4spd and 3.70 posi rear it was quick...and yes I paid for it myself, there is a picture in my gallery ....

Now that was my first car, My first vehicle was a 14,000 mile datsun pick-up truck, It was almost like new, great little( I mean little)truck , great mileage fun to drive, I used to drive it like I stole it /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif But it kept on running great had it for awhile after I got the vette, The truck seemed to lose in the desire to drive anymore area after the vette came along... Hindsight should have kept both of them at least a little longer...

 

[JDgreen227]

Re: * Nostalgia ~ Your first car ! *

First car I got in 1967, it was a 1962 Mercury Meteor 4 door, 221 V8 with three on the tree. What I remember most about it was the unreliable gas gauge, being only 16 years old I never had much money for gas and I ran out countless times because I didn't have the means to keep it fueled up.

After about a year of that, I decided to remove the fuel tank and replace the sending unit. Tanks still had drain plugs back then, and I drove the car until I figured it was low on gas, and got my two gallon can and removed the drain plug. Of course the plug fell into the open can, but I thought no big deal, there won't be that much to drain. WRONG !! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

It would have been interesting to have a video of me keeping a thumb on the tank drain, while trying to transfer the full fuel can into another empty one to get the drain plug out, without spilling any of my precious gasoline in the process. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Good thing I had the car parked on a dirt surface and not pavement, because all the shifting around of the metal cans could have created a spark. NEVER AGAIN did I try to drain the gas tank.