Remember your first car?

[Von]

Remember it,... Heck I still own it!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif (see attached photo) Paid $700 for a 59' Austin healey 100-6 when I was 15 yrs. old (now 42). That was all the money I had. The tranny was in broken in two, and it needed a ton of work. Got it running by the time I was old enough to drive at 16. Had no top or interior for the first year, just two seats. I restored it while in college twenty some years ago, and its ready to be done again, as the wiring harness went up in a puff of smoke a few years back. Now they will sell for over $35k all restored so I guess it was worth hanging onto!

 

[Jeff396]

Your post reminds me of my second car.....a 1976 Ford Pinto Pony in baby blue....manly! Anyway, I went to pick up my then girlfriend and current wife at her parents house. I'm driving down her road and started hearing this terrible banging and after a few seconds it stops. I stop the car and get out and look back down the road. Turns out my bumper just up and fell off! The banging was the license plate light wire which kept it attached to the car for a bit until even it gave way. Real romantic driving around in a car with a bumper in the back seat/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.....Michigan salt!

Jeff

 

[MossRoad]

71 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40. Still have it. Doesn't run, but I still have it, and isn't that what's important? /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[kbarrett]

Von,

That's a mighty fine car. I love those classic lines. It seems as though we've been plaqued with the Jelly-Bean era of late. However, there is a little glimmer of style coming back. It's about time.

You've got a nice investment there!

 

[Egon]

Austin Healy 3000

To me that's one of the nicest looking cars made. Do you still have the " King of Darkness " electrical system?

Egon

 

[TonyC]

1962 Chevy Nova. I got it it 1968 when I was 15 1/2 for $450.00 and waxed it for six months until I got my license. Fond memories. I wish I still had it. Hmmm...now I remember...I totaled it! Oh well.

 

[Thomas]

Never own a car.

My first own was 1956 Ford pick..yep fill the oil and check the gas..but had some good ole times w/her.

 

[Mark_in_NH]

Have any of you ever noticed that when you drive by the Highschool parking lots, you don't see any cars or trucks older than maybe 5 years. most of them a newer and more expensive than what I can afford today.

 

[Thomas]

Indeed your right!!

Also..some of the cars and trucks when you pass by the high schools etc..sometimes you hear them before you see them..boom..bang..boom..bang <--radio blasting. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

 

[RobS]

'66 Dodge Polara. Paid $50 to a neighbor. Got it running but never plated it (I was only 15 at the time) It was pretty shabby so I ended up parting it out and made decent money. Then came a '61 Triumph Herald. Got it running but again never plated it. Odd little car, ended up selling. My first plated ride was a '68 Ford F100 Ranger XLT. Nice truck, but a very serious case of body rot. Fond memories, but I'll stick with my current truck /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Von]

Egon, Yea,.. thats why it won't run right now. I need to replace the wiring harness. I figure I will do a full restoration soon so I will do everything at once.

 

[jhburke]

My first car was a 1941 4 dr ford. The first of many cars and trucks.

 

[cowboydoc]

My first one was a piece of junk Camaro RS/SS that my Uncle bought for me when I was about 13. We spent three years restoring it. About four years later my sister wrapped it around a telephone pole. It had been sitting for about 15 years now in a shed. Little known to me my Uncle has been slowly restoring it and he finished it a few months ago and brought it out when they came to visit. I was shocked and overwhelmed to say the least. Never thought I'd see that car driving again!

 

[Mark_in_NH]

Thomas,
Don't you find that heavy base music coming from these kids cars to be the most annoying sound you have ever heard ?
It hurts my ears, I can only imagine what it's doing to theres! There are some days when there is one beside you at a stop light, that I just want to reach in and RIP that stereo out of the dash.
I think most of them drive around thinking, I'm Cool !! and eveybody I drive by thinks, I'm Cool !!
Hopefully someday soon, they will realize that 99.9 % of us think there Pompass Butt Heads.
In case you couldn't tell, this is just one of my pet peeve's.

 

[kbarrett]

Hearing aids will be a high growth industry in about twenty years. My prediction is that the makers of these devices might be good stock picks for your portfolio.

It's unfortunate that young folks rarely consider the long-term ramifications of their decisions made today.

 

[Bob_Trevithick]

Mine was a baby-blue '63 Ford Falcon with three speed on the column. This was a great car for impressing women. (They weren't favorably impressed, mind you, but they were impressed.)

My finest moment came on a date when I shifted and the big chrome shifter knob flew off and gave my date a black eye. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif

Hey, but it was wheels! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[beenthere]

Very interesting thread.
First car was a '51 Nash Rambler, with a straight 6 flat head, and over drive. Went on to a '52 mainline Ford with a v-8 flathead, and then a 54 mercury with a v-8, and then a 57 4-dr hardtop Chevy Bel-air with v-8, robins egg blue top (wish I had that today, but can't afford one). I would like to go back to a class reunion driving a 57 Chevy (graduated in '57 from HS). Enjoy reading about all these cars. What a great life.

 

[looch]

Mine was a rather humorous 1981 Toyota Starlet. I bought it for 500$ in1989 to get to college. Not only was it a standard - but it was rear-wheel drive /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif. Man did that thing ever take a beating. I sold it 5 months later - for 500$!

 

[rdln]

I had to wait until somebody posted with a later model car than my first, a 1978 jeep wagoneer that my mom was done using.
First one I bought was a 1979 jeep cj-7 with 304 AMC v-8 it had bad tires which led to a rollover on snowcovered winding road as I was taking my mom to a hair appointment. We were both wearing seat belt and not hurt. This was two weeks after I bought it and continued to drive it after installing new top, windshield and windshield frame.

 

[Inspector507]

Mine was a 1957 Pontiac Chieftain. Pink and white with a pearl steering wheel. Paid $200 for it in 1974. Had it towed away for $25 in 1979, and it's worth major bucks today if restored.