Your first car??

Very first: 66 GTO - $150 @ age 15. Took interior out, bought roll cage, forgot to learn how to weld first.

First car I drove everyday: $25 77 Firebird Formula. Flat black rattle can paint with lazer blue shag carpet and open headers.

I added studded snow tires to the back. That was a fun summer!

One day the back window popped out at 70 miles per on the NJ Turnpike.

 

mine was a 65 comet cyclone, and have it still

 

My old man picked up a '53 Chevy 210 four door in the mid-80's as a father/son resto project. We never got around to starting it, so I convinced him to let me have it before I got my license in '92. By that time the frame had rotted out from under it from being parked in wet grass for years. I ended up parting it out and saved some more money for a '73 Mustang. It was a rag ass primered coupe with a tired 302 that sounded like a can full of marbles, but it had a cool Mach 1 hood on it and would still smoke the BFG's off the Centerlines. Had a lot of fun with that car...lots of good memories...can't say I miss the car though.

 

Me and the old man bought a 52 chevy in 86. Got it goin good enough to drive to school. Car I'm gettin ready to dig into........drum roll same 52, 20 years later. Thanks for keepin it Pop!!
Charlie

 

'60 Falcon in about 1983. Something like 50k original miles, then I thrashed on it (good off-roader) for another 40k miles and then I let it set for close to 10 years. I'm still puttin' miles on it; turned the odometer over about a year ago.

Thanks,
Kurt

 

'67 Mustang fastback. 289/C-4. Didn't win many races, but loved her to death. Twenty years later I now understand why Dad wouldn't let me put a big block under the hood.

Chris

 

Mine was a 1960 Bug powered by a 2110cc motor with dual webers. Motor was dynoed at close to 200 ponies paired up to a 4:11 positrac rearend. Car would run mid 13's in the 1/4 mile. What wicked fun making guys with poorly tuned small block chevy's cry when the got ate alive doing some stop light to stop light draggin.

 

1963 continental

 

'66 Chevelle SS396(365 HP, solid lifter, Holley carb) ,M-21 tranny, 3:73 posi.

 

1974 AMC Gremlin 258CI six, three on the floor

 

A '65 Studebaker Daytona 2 door, which was a Lark body with a little nicer trim, bucket seat interior, GM 283 mated to a B-W automatic(think Cruiso) and 3.31 rear. Lots of fun. I didn't do much more than maintain and repair it, but it would have been a good car to hotrod...if I'd had some extra cash.

 

68 CHEVELLE YANKO THE DAY I WAS BORN (THANKS DAD) still havent driven it!first driver was a 61 buick 4door john deere blitz black spray painted wide white all way back in 1996!

 

'39 Ford Standard coupe and I WANT IT BACK!!!!

 

28 FORD Tudor at 16!!

 

A 1964 Thunderbird that was given to me by my father back in 1973. I kind of miss that car.

 

A 1953 Merc. Mom told dad she wanted a tank for me to drive. Still have it 20 years later.

 

1965 Chevy Impala 230 glide 2 dr. Painted limegreen metallic,black interior. Got my first piece in the back of that ole chevy. Slow as hell but it got me back and forth to Colorado when I attended Denver Auto and Diesel college back in 1975/76.Shaved .060 off the head when I was in high school. Put a cherry bomb muffler on it. Then the ole 230 started using oil cause I ran it with no aircleaner too long. I swapped in a 250 that ran O.K. then sold it to another kid when the frame got weak....GAWD I miss that car....

 

The year was 1968 and I was 15 it was a 57 Fairlane that someone had torched the Continital bumper off of.

 

Am I one of the few that had a import as my first car. It was a 94 Nissan 300zx twin turbo.

 

1965 VW Beetle when I was 15 yrs old in 1997....I've moved on to bigger and better things

 

64 1/2 mustang. Straight six. Still had alot of falcon parts. I remember the emblem on the horn cover came off and it Falco underneath. My dad and I pulled the motor with a comealong and a tree branch in the medical school housing parking lot where we lived while he was in Med. School. Coolest thing my dad has ever done for me. It still makes me smile when I remember the housing manager asking us to move the car and my dad's only response was; How?



Hotrob

 

62 corvair, I'm 29

 

In 1969 when I was 12 I bought a 59 Ford 2 door sedan for $1( cool field car).First registered car at 16 was a 66 Olds 442.Both are long gone.

 

My first car was a 1950 Pontiac Convertable that some kid had abandoned at Bob Stiers Repair Shop for the $10. He owed on it so I paid the $10 and had my dad tow me home and with his help we replaced the starter and the rear end and I drove the bejesus out of it until I was showing off to a couple of girls in the back seat and my buddy let out a blood curdling scream and when I looked back at the gravel road: it wasn't there and we were air born end over end into a field full of cows. As far as I know the Pontiac is still burried in that field and believe it or not, not one of us was hurt other than my feelings when I had to explain it to Dad. He is why it was left right where it landed. Gumpa

 

72 Monte Carlo, I paid half my dad paid half but my dad got to do the choosing.

 

65 Mustang notchback. Bought for $80 in '75 from my sister who had seized the engine on the freeway. She's pretty much killed every car she has ever owned. I got a 289 from a yard and my buddies helped me put it in. Over the next two years it got a toploader, Fairlane disks on the front, Konis, GT350 springs and steering arms, relocated the upper arms, export barce, sway bars, BFG Radial T/A's and some really ugly homemade fender flares. I grew up in Studio City over the hill from Hollywood. Spent lots of nights up on "The Hill", Mulholland Dr. Still like the twisties. Sold the car to a buddies cousin in Ojai who stuffed into the side of a mountain trying to lose the cops.

 

It's like high school all over again. My dad made a deal with a friend of his for 100 bucks and a rebuilt alternator and I got a 1977 Ford Grenadathe guy used to drive back and forth to his job at the dump on the weekends. I had to sit on two phone books to see over the steering wheel and all my friends teased me about sitting in the steering wheel and swinging my hips to steer. I was only 5'2" at the time. 16, 1991 and everyone else had something cooler. Oh well, the first time one of them wrecked I was glad to have my tank. I may not have had the driving ability but I had the armor.

 

1971 I was 16 and bought a 427 65 Impala SS and never even got to drive it.Why?? My dad was alot smarter than I was and down the road it went

 

my first ride was a hand-me-down from my older bro. 85 cutlass with 13" supremes back in 1995. i was 15

 

1969 Pontiac Lemans Custom S similar to this one picured except I had a GTO Ram Air hood.