Hot Rods lets see pix of your first "rides"

Maybe a slight bit offtopic car,I guess I live so far away from everyone else that I'm safe. At least it was made up in a traditional way. Slotmags, bigs and littles, rake, flames, pinstriping, and a name 'The Curse'



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I didn't know that Ethiopia was in Alabama?....LOL!!!

 

<----- 1953 Ford (my avatar). Purchased in 1966 for $35. Rebuilt flathead V-8 from Sears, Olds tailights, '54 DeSoto grill, '56 Ford wheelcovers, de-chromed hood and decklid. Wish I still had it today.....Don.

 

wasn't big enought to start the damn thing had to have my mom do it, but i sure could drive the wheels off of it!

 

opps, slide in backwards, really was left hand drive!

 

My first "pedal" car

 

56 Mercury Montclair, two tone green and white. Clean as a whistle. I was a teenager living at home. My old man was a******. He didn't want my car taking up space at his house. A handicapped lady two doors down asked me to park the car in her driveway. Yep, she asked me. She was affraid of criminals thinking no one was home and figured it would look like there was a man in the house. I went away for a weekend and my old man went down there and sold the car. He said I was taking advantage of the crippled lady. The old man didn't have the****le to transfer ownership, I did. So I went to get the car back and the new non-owner had already torched all the wheel wells out to make a dirt track car out of it. AAaaarrrggghhhh!!!!!

 

I can just hear ya now... Mom! Mom! Pull harder, you can doi it!! Come on Mom.... Dad
is taken the picture while Mom is trying to start the Go Cart. Your dad was a lucky man.

 

Yes he was!
Thanks

 

Me on the left.

 

sorry, don't have a pic of my stick horse !

 

Your Hot Rod is just like the one I had.

 

Thanks.Wish I still had it.

 

when my dad retired from the army in 62, we gave the go cart away when we moved to wichita, then i got the coolest midget, chrome nerf bars and all. Had to push start no clutch, blew up the motor sat in my folks garage for couple of years when my mom had a garage sale and sold it (without me knowing) for next to nothing!Man was i pissed

 

I was very proud of this in 1969

 

The first ride I owned was a 1959 Ford Galaxie with a 292 and 3-speed. Bought it in June 1965 after graduating from high school. Soon added a 4 barrel intake/carb and dual exhaust from a '57 312 found in a junkyard. Next came traction bars and cut-outs. Six months later traded the '59 in on a '63 Galaxie 500 boxtop powered by a 406.

 

Thats kool!

 

1954 Chevrolet 210.

My old man made the mistake of telling me I could only spend 1500 bucks but if I would stay out in the garage and help him we could fix whatever I bought up.

10 months and his money spent. I got my first ride.

To bad a drunk driver at 2 in the afternoon ran a stop sign and I tee boned his POS. He was fine and I got a bruise around my whole chest in about a 18 inch circle from the steering wheel.

Oh the memories... Good Thread

 

My 1964 Fairlane 500 the day I brought it home in February of 1987. It was purchased from the original owner who was Mrs. Lena Hale of Countyline Road, Marlow, Oklahoma. I gave her $500 for it and it's mileage was about 87,0000 original. I traded it off in '88, bought it back in 1996 and hope to have it back on the road before the end of summer. Every time I think about trading it off I remember Pat Ganahl's love hate/relationship with his first car, a four door 1946 (I think) Chevy.

 

<---- The red nova is my first car. Bought it when I was fifteen and put all my hard earned paper route money and a lot of time with dad into it.

 

My first car on the road and legal. A rotted out 56 Nomad I paid $30. for put a 283 in it, came with a six. Had a 3 speed trans. Drove it out to NY National speedway and claimed it was a 265. The tech guy was a lot sharper than me and put me in some class where I got my doors blown off. I wound up junking the car and put the engine in my first MG.

Pat

 

Never fixed her.some ashole in vegas has it now....have you seen her???

 

not ot but i rode it for years like his

finally brokedown afew months ago and fixed it up nice.

i never actually drove my truck, so i guess it doesnt count.