So how old were you?

How old were you when you got your first hot rod? Im not talkin about ridin shotgun in your dad's car i mean your own hot rod or custom. Did you build it yourself or buy it?

 

Well, im 17 now, i got the body when i was in 8th grade so that would make me..........13. And in about 3 months i should be driving it. My dad and i built it. I payed for almost all the parts for it too.

Nick

 

30-18 years ago. still have it.

 

I was 16 when I bought my '57 Bel Air. I'd probably still have it if it wasn't hit. I'm 20 now and show no signs of ever kicking this addiction.

 

Not old enough for a driver's license, but tall enough to reach the pedals...

 

I'm 28 and she is a 28 and I got her last Friday.

 

ditto...

I was 15- and bought the 49 Ford that I chopped, dropped and still own.

 

i was 14 when i got my first car, a customized 51 ford victoria....i foolishly sold it when i was 17, and just bought it back 4 months ago, 16 years later.. i'm happier than a pig in ****.........

 

i was 17 when i got the merc, now im 20, and lovin it. Hey bob i remember when i first saw u, i was driving my merc for like the first time i was goin down sylvan and saw u going left out of an intersection, then u saw my car and made a quick right, i thought i was gunna crash it the first time i had it out lol

 

I was 16 when I bought my first car,

a '56 New Yorker with a 354 hemi and a Torqueflite,

I thought it was a hot rod,

but chopped it up trying to make an "El Camino" out of it.

Paul

 

jay, yeah i remember....i never expected to see anything like that coming towards me, i was a little startled....NOOB!!!!!!!!!!

 

I was 8 years old when I got my first (and only) "pro" built hot rod...it was a '40 Ford hood fashioned into a two-seater pedal car...built by my "pro" bodyman father...silver body with red wheels and blak vinyl seat...it featured a three spoke steering wheel, chain drive and pedals for two-person power...Hmmmmmm, that'd have been about 1951!


R-

 

14. It was a '55 Chevy 210 2dr. I emptied my savings and bought it for $550. I then spent the next three years getting it fixed up... I worked my *** off at a local burger stand, I bought and sold cars... and built it into a show winner, doing most the work myself. Talk about dedication... that car almost killed me mentally several times... but I learned a lot. Here's what it looked like in 1987 when I drove it to high school for the first time. The car had a 327 that I built in it... and later had a 383 that I built in it that pushed it to 12.90's on street tires through the mufflers... I sold it ten years ago... and miss it...

 

BTW, if anyone down around Madera, CA knows of this car... I'd love to buy it back. The guy who ended up with it was a pa****ligic and put hand controls in it to drive it. Kinda cool... but I'd still like it back.
Sam.

 

I got my shoebox out of a junkyard when I was 14. I still have it!!

 

I just got my first 'old car' this year. It's not a hotrod by any stretch of the imagination.. I was 26 at the time.

Grew up with a dad who doesn't know anything about cars (or care) and always told me they were dangerous.. Didn't get my first Vespa until I was 20 because I was never allowed to have a street bike of any kind when I lived at home.

He was pissed at my grandfather for giving me my first motorcycle for my 10th birthday.

Have had over 10 street bikes since then.

So I purchased/wrenched on/got running/drove it all in 2004... If the ebay millionaires would quit bidding up hop up parts I might be able to snazzy it up someday.

 

i got my first "old" car when i was allmost 17. was a 74 lemans that did wicked *** burn outs . sold that and got into lowriders for some time. but i would consider my first custom to be my 61 coupe deville i got when i was 20. still waiting for a "hotrod"

Bryan

 

For my 16th B-Day, my father got me a 73 Mach 1. I wanted a 73 since I was about 12 years old, knowing a 71 or even 72 would be better performance wise, but it would not matter. Making $3.35 @ hour, it took 13 months to finish the engine. Other than the rings and rods ***embled to the pistons, and cam bearings installed, I built the motor myself. Drove it like I stole it until I sold it when I was 20-21. Still miss it, but feel fortunate to have had it.

Greg

 

I was 15 when I got my first car. It wasn't really a hot rod but I thought it was cool. Yanked out the 221 and 2spd and dropped in a 289 w/ c4. Still have it 18 years later.



Forgive the chrome wheels, they haven't changed in 18 yrs. either.

 

21...bought an A 2-door body and frame, then found the back 1/2 of an A Vicky, chopped 2 1/2", LOTS of steel welding later, Buick V6, Mustang rear, ....total investment $4600. ......50,000 miles in 3 summers then sold it for a business investment. Can't complain 'cause the investment turned out good, but still wish I had it.

 

My dad bought my 36 when I was 2. I started on it when I was 12. I finished it(if you wanna call it that) when I was 17. Still have it.

 

Technically I bought my first hot rod last year,my 40 dodge, I'm 33, will be 34 this year. I got my 31 when I was 32, but I didn't buy that. later shawn

 

Bought a junkie 49 Merc 4dr when I was 12. Had to keep it at a friends house, parents wouldn't let me have a car, til I was 16. Paid $40 for it.......OLDBEET

 

I was 18. I drove about a year and blew the 318. I replaced it with a 383 with an Isky 310 cam.

 

I bought my first toy at 19. It was a '69 Rambler Scrambler, with a 401 4spd.

 

First car when i was 15 - 71 firebird espirit - 3 on the floor. bought it for $700 bucks. the floorboards on the p***enger side were rusted out...so i put plywood under the carpet and kept driving. Still one of the fastes cars i've driven.

As for hotrods - I got my 30 roadster project two years ago......and i hope to be driving it in another year.......or two. - i'm 40

 

First rod to hit the road was when I was 21, 22 years ago. '37 Ford 2 door humpback, Flathead, dual carbs ran it without the hood side panels. Original mohair interior with a car seat in the back for my daughter.
Daily driver at the time as it was the only car I had on the road at the time. I thought I had the world by the tail.

 

12 years old in 1985. Bought a '51 Ford Tudor for $200 earned mowing the gr***.

 

i was 13 when i bought a 63 galixie 2dr post from a neighbor for 35 bucks!! it had no reverse but i drove it like that until i let it roll down a hill backwards with the motor off and my neighbors dog was asleep under it and i ran over her!! she lost a eye out of the deal and went and had the ****** fixed, man did i feel bad!! then i got a 50 ford p/u flathead 6 three speed, put a flathead v-8 in it a week later i blew it up so it sat for 15 yrs and then i sub framed it and its still goin and still flat black with whitewalls!!! im now 46 yrs old!!