History OK - This will be Fun - What was your very first vehicle ?

'62 International PU. Former shop truck from my dad's company. Painted it myself.

As a quick follow on, I bought this '36 Plymouth sedan:

 

my first car was a 61 Falcon, my dad died at 44 and it was his work car. I was 15 Mom said it was mine along with a brand new pair of work boots. I loved that little car, passed my drivers test in it and then like a fool traded it in on a 70 Maverick, still have the boots though.

 

...Good story. So sorry that you lost your Dad at such a young age.

 

55 Nomad, in 68.....very nice car....sold it to a guy in 71 that still has it....SNIFF

 

No fun for me .
My first HAMB appropriate ride is my 59’ Rancho, purchased when I was 39. My first car was a 72’ Chevelle, at age 16.

 

38 Dodge coupe. Got it from a friend for $300 in 72. Almost finished restoring it. With some updates. 883 4 speed, 8 3/4 rearend.

 

1940 Ford tudor deluxe . Cherry socal rusfree $65. A couple of years ago!

 

Man, I love your 41!

 

1954 Pontiac DeLuxe (Canadian). Mild custom.. nosed (big job on Pontiacs) & decked with black diamond tufted interior and American Motors Burnt Orange metallic enamel:


The dumped in front stance was typical for the day..!

-Dave

 

Here's my first car, it's also my avatar. A 1932 Austin Seven Special. I bought it from my eldest brother in 1971 when I was 16. My brother didn't want to sell the car it to me as he said I would wreck it. I said I'd have to sell my motorbike to find the deposit for the car -the price was 120 GBP, and that resulted in my mother persuading brother Ian to sell me the car, a\s she always said that I would kill myself on the motorbike.

Here the car is then -photo must have been taken in 1973 as the car doesn't have the UK's 'L' (Learner) plates on it here. I learned to drive and passed my driving test in this car. The driving test date was early in January, and I don't think the examiner was best pleased with my choice of transport for the test -in fact, my family all said that he only passed me so that he did not have to ride in the car a second time!


And this is what it looks like now, this photo taken on an old car rally in the south of France.

 

This is my first car I built some 25 years ago thinking I needed some sort of street rod thing. Then the HAMB came along so I got rid of the front end and wheels. I sold this about 15 years ago. Drove it everywhere, loved it.

 

My first vehicle was a 1938 International pickup , I paid $150.00 for in the fall of 1974 . Towed it home on a chain , overhauled the engine, transmission, and brakes , drove it like that till 1985 when I put a 304 International v-8 and torqueflite in it . Traded it off in 1987 .

 

my first car was a 1956 chevy, I put primer grey on it (1980). Black primer (2008) Primer grey and blue is how it looks now, my brother Radical56 owns it now.

 

From 1960, age 15, my 1936 Buick, $45 earned mowing lawns.

 

Thanks 5150 4bat for turning my photo !

 

58 years ago i bought a 1940 2 door sedan no engine or trans had a studebaker rear. i bought it for 50.00 .my dad put in a 221 with 260 heads and a c-4 before they were manual valve body and a 57 ford wagon nine inch. white primer with chrome reverse and baby blue seat covers from jc whitney. put a nice revereb in the trunk

 

....Sure wish we had some pictures of this.

 

Neato

 

My first vehicle was a '63 C10. SWB had a 400 olds in it.

I bought it when I was 14 (2000), made a deal with may dad that I would keep my grades up if I could buy it. French class and my teenage brain not taking that deal seriously enough caused a for sale sign to show up in the windshield before I turned 16.

It was low geared and my dad would fold his 6'6" frame into the cab (still had the tank behind the seat), and he would get cramped waiting on a light that when he took off on green all he heard was tires and laughter from the passenger seat.

A kid at school bought it and the last time I saw it he was sandblasting it bare, including the inside of the engine/cylinder walls. It will always be the one that got away.

 

1939 ford 2 door sed, bought it for 25.00 grass cutting money i was 13 years old.

 

My dad told me I couldn't get a car until I graduated from High School. When I was 15-16 I talked him into letting me trade my go kart for a 29 A standard coupe, got it running put hydraulic brakes on it, fiber glassed several rust spots and painted it with a Sears compressor. The paint ran better than the car. Drove it in the fields and country roads next to the farm, never got it licensed. My dad bought me my first street driven car after graduation (since I kept my grades up). A 1963 Ply Sport Fury.

 

1969 Chevelle Malibu.

350, 4-speed, 12-bolt rear.

 

I bought my first car ( a old Plymouth ) for $50.00 when I was 12. It had a 440/4 speed with a cracked block. I grew up in a gas station in the suburbs of Detroit always riding in the wrecker with my dad . We were always at a dealership for parts. I was telling one of the mechanics about my new car. He says " I have just what you need " he sells me a short block they had pulled from something for $20.00 ( I have no idea what was wrong with it, I was like 12 or 13 ) . Over the next year or so my dad rebuilt the motor , we had a family friend who worked at Ramchargers he charged me $50.00 to go through the trans . In the photo with all my buddies that was a year or two down the road , there was no motor in the car and we had pushed it a couple blocks through the neighborhood to have one of those guys dads make and braze on a lower patch panel on the left rear quarter. I did get the car running and made a couple trips around the block but sold it and thus began my journey with the machine. This all took place in the early to mid 70's

 

1000005957 by NoSurf posted Jan 4, 2024 at 7:55 PM

My first HAMB friendly car. Bought for $300. 283 2bbl pg. Primer black in 1991. This pic was taken the night before I left to drive back to Manhattan Kansas from Connecticut my sophomore year of engineering school. I still own it.

 

I got my first car in 1964. It is the one in my avatar which I still have and drive. It was on the way to the wreaking yard with a blown motor and transmission. The motor was so bad that it was not rebuildable. I got another poly 318 and rebuilt that and added a rebuilt torqueflite. The picture is from the summer of 66. I had just painted it and that is me on the left in the picture. The wheel covers are from my older brothers 59 Sport Fury. The 318 had an Isky cam, hedman headers and 2 four barrel carbs. The first big block came along in 1967.

 

Still got it almost half a century later. Yes, my FIRST car, not just first HAMB friendly car. It didn't look like this back then. A bunch of teenagers put it together. '39 Standard Tudor. Been updated w/ a "59" flathead, bored, Merc crank, 3 carbs, aluminum heads, Sid's dropped axle, dual exhaust w/no mufflers.

 

54 ford customline with 80k original miles, bought it at 14 and drove it through highschool

 

Here is what my first car looked like when I bought it in 1963.
I was 17 at and working part time in a body shop in Margate, Florida.
I had already started to customise it by putting the rear side chrome trim from a 57 Ford 4-door police car on it.




This is how it looked when finished.
The 56 Pontiac was a car I fixed up to sell.