1951 Plymouth Cambridge 4 door with 3 on the tree and a flathead inline 6. It was built like a tank and had enough room in the interior to sleep 6...Seriously, it was quite a car. I learned alot about 6 volt systems and all the ins and outs of maintainence. I drove it 'til it refused to run...rings just wouldn't give enough compression anymore...parked it in a rented garage and told my younger brother he could have it if he got it running. We lost the garage and he sold it for scrap.
I had a 1979 chevy big 10 half ton truck that my grandpa gave me. Had it a month and somebody stole the damn thing, never did catch the prick!
In 1963 My Dad gave me his 1951 chevrolet 216 ci.3 on the tree 2 door fastback.The same year I learned how to replace babbited rods ....
1974 Chevy Monza that pop's and I stuffed a SB 400 with TH350 and found a 5 lug rear with 373's car ran it @SS off until head cracked. Sold to "friend" after it sat a year, basterd still owes me money for it. Oh well live and learn. Working on a '58 Anglia 100e now.
1953 Pontiac 2 dr hardtop. My Dad won it in a legion post poker game. He had a choice of the car or $25. It needed a new battery which doubled its value. Being a stupid kid I got a buddy to help me change the oil in its straight 8. Pulled the plug and nothing came out of the hole. Pan was filled with so much sludge the dipstick showed full. Once cleaned up it cost more in oil than gas to run. A 2 gallon can of re-refined oil every three days for a 60 mile round trip to school. Sold it 6 months later for $25 and considered it a lesson learned. I wouldn't mind having another one. Especially if the lighted hood ornament worked.
48 ford coupe drove to high school then got the urge to really go fast. Built a 27 ford roadster and sold the coupe as insurance rates went up i whished i still had my sled
My actual first one was a '69 Camaro originally from New York that proved to far gone and rusted out to bring back to the road. My first runner came 3 years later, a '72 Skylark, a well kept car (with 55K on the clock in '94) from my aunt's grandmother who hardly took it anywhere. Great, great car, the Kramer car.
Ford Maverick's didn't have torsion bars so I think you had another problem. (Maverick front end is the same as early Mustang and Falcon)
Mine was a 1938 Plymouth coupe.I was 15.Still have it,hope to get it "finished" one of these days.............. The day we brought her home: And her current state:
Mine was a 49 Ford Delux 4-door. I gave $20.00 for it without an engine. Aweek later I bought a 50 4-dr for the engine. Drove it from 65 to 67 when I went into the USN.
My first car was a 1951 Ford Victoria. It was a shop car that was supposed to be used by the shop class that year (1963) then junked out. I got the shop teacher to let me have the car (he got the pink for me) and I had a great year working on it. That was a great auto shop teacher, none better. I got a Flat head V8 from the advanced shop class from a coupe that had been rebuilt, storke of luck. What a year that was. Family was pretty poor back then and didn't have a camera. So never took a picture, have regretted not borrowing a camera to take a snap shot ever since. Simpler times good memories...
1983 corvette.. only one in existence. umm yeah ok 1974 orange mgb.. put a head gasket on it, got it running the body was so rotted I could barely open the doors.. I didn't drive it for long lol.
1986 Chevy Suburban. Ex-country truck from the state and highway orange w/rust two tone. I loved that truck.
My first car was a 1956 Ford Failane 2dr.It was the cleanest one in my small home town until my neighbor got one that was absolutely brand new.But he rolled his and mine was nicest once again.The richer kids had nicer Chevys but Fords weren't too popular there so I was sort of an outsider with mine.At least that is how my memory of it is.
First vehicle was a '49 Chevy 3100 P/U that was given to me by my father. The first car I bought with my own money was a '54 Buick Super 2 dr which I paid $50.
Hell, none of the guys had cameras when they left home! (None of the guys I knew). Had those little Brownie cameras, or the Kodak Instamatics when you were a kid. But turn 18, leave home, camera was not on the list. Great story.
67 ford fairlane 500 hardtop with a 390. 150 bucks + 5 dollar junkyard fender. Dark green-cept the red fender--in '71
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