Remember your first car?

Wingnut · Mar 25, 2002

first?
I remember the first, second, third, fourth, etc
First was a '62 Pontiac 6cyl .... blew a rod after a lousy 3 months ... paid for another year on a car I didn't have ...
second was a '62 Impala ... nice hot car, learned about lending to friends ... "rear axle seized" ... didn't bother to pick it up, it was towed to the wreckers ... I paid for another 15 months after the car went bye-bye ... walked most places ...
started learning how to keep them repaired myself.
Third was a '68 Plymouth Fury ex-pursuit car .... 318 ... it did 90+ in first gear ... after a brake job (mechanic left grease on shoe ... seized ...), kissed a tree, broke a tooth, and the Fury ... miss that car! Tooth too!

Chuck52 · Mar 25, 2002

'56 Chevy, black and yellow four door. I think I paid $250 for it in 1968. Straight six automatic. The automatic transmission was why I traded it for a '66 VW in about 1970. The shift positions were just suggestions to the car. When it felt like it, it would go. My favorite part of the car was the gas cap hidden behind the tail fin.

Chuck

Bird · Mar 25, 2002

My favorite part of the car was the gas cap hidden behind the tail fin.

That hidden gas cap was a nice feature once you learned to fill it without having the gas shoot straight out the back when it got nearly full./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

TerryinMD · Mar 25, 2002

My first was my brothers 69 Ford 500. Nice car except for the rust. Replaced the rust with bondo and aluminum.

The next was a 77 Vega..... I will not say anymore. /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif I'm embarrased....

Terry

Chuck52 · Mar 25, 2002

Bird,

That hidden gas cap was a nice feature once you learned to fill it without having the gas
shoot straight out the back when it got nearly full. 

I was in college at the time and solved that problem very effectively....I never had enough money to come close to filling the tank!/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

Chuck

PitbullMidwest · Mar 25, 2002

'72 Ford Torino, black vinyl over red. It had a 351 Cleveland that really moved it down the road or as my dad used to say "it was the fastest car between gas stations".

Sold it to a friend to drive to collage who blew the engine a month after he bought it. The oil pump was going out but since the dip stick showed full, he kept driving it. He finally unplugged the idiot light (hence the name) because he got tired of looking at it. His dad still doesn't speak to me.

s1120 · Mar 26, 2002

Needed a bit of work. Went to pick up my girlfriend (now wife) and she wasn't impressed when she had to hop in thru the drivers door as the passanger one wouldn't open.

/w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif Uh.. My cars still do that......./w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif "Hay I need to open the window. Can you pass the door handle?" /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

s1120 · Mar 26, 2002

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. 

Ya, and if you look at them, they are in worce shape. I work at a dealer, and I see these cars come in all the time. I call them "daddy cars". They come in one, or two years old, and they are TRASHED!!!! Thats what happands when you are just given something, and don't have to work for it.

s1120 · Mar 26, 2002

The next was a 77 Vega..... I will not say anymore. I'm embarrased....


Don't feel bad. I had a 74./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Realy, this car was not bad. It was a 74 GT wagon. I put 100k on it the first year I got it. Traded to my dad for a 80Rabbit that we got recked and we rebuilt. Put 100k on that the next year.[did a LOT of driving my first 2 years/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif]

ewoss3 · Mar 26, 2002

76 dodge warlock pickup blk with gold trim. Dumped in a 440, 5 speed gearbox, narrowed ford 9" and mickey thompson sportsman series tires...wish I still had it