Find your first Car :)

[Mongo]

Check out this link to find  Brochures of your old cars.


http://www.lov2xlr8.no/broch1.html

[Mongo]

[Hogg]

Never did nothing but obey the law, to the letter, in that car   

Oh, small detail, mine had the slant six, not quite the 340 V8, but same color with same black vinyl roof,  remember vinyl roofs .............(?)

[Strider]

[hubcapsc]

Me and Carolyn got a cherry one of these about 10 or so years ago with less than 26,000 miles on it...

We put another 30k or so on it (it was a blast) and sold it for $5,000 to put towards the mini
cooper... I felt compelled to work on the Safari, I don't recognize anything under the hood (bonnet)
of the mini cooper...



-Mike

[Oss]

371 cu inch 277 horses 4bbl rochester carb   took a mile to stop from 130

http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/olds/57olds/bilder/1.jpg

[Big IV]

I don't see the 77/78/79 Toyota Corolla hatchback that I bought in the late '90s. Must have been overlooked. Oh well. I paid cash for it. Never really drove it. Sold it so I could buy a Ford Ranger which I used hard and then crashed.

[Mongo]

[NITRO]

Drove her to over 200K miles before my little brother smashed her...

[98 T]

This wasn't my first car but probably my most memorable...  A 1980 Old Regency 98 - I got it 12 years old with less than 10,000 miles on it in beyond mint condition... a great old car...nothing computerized on it... 350 Old engine, 4 bbl carb...crushed velour interior...
the good ole days!

[X Ring]

Got it in 1980.  My parents loaned me the money for it and I paid it back $25 a week.  That was a big chunk of change out of my part time grocery bagger paycheck.

[highcountry]

Very cool!

This was my first car - - '41 Buick.  Bought it from a neighbor when I was about 15, paid $50 for it.  It was truly a beast.  Had a straight 8 OHV engine (s-m-o-o-t-h) with 3-on-the-tree and a 4.88 rear end.  It actually had turn signals but as that was something new in the car industry and Buick put lever on the same side as the shifter.  Sold it for $50 about a year later and bought a '57 Chevy.

[Willow]

They didn't have the '53 Ford wagon that I owned, but this is the family car in which I took my first test.

[Dogg]

Mine was solid blue tho. Loved that car. drov eit 30 miles with a bad water pump gasket. motor(318) locked up. towed it home, put 90w in the cylinders for 3 days. fresh plugs and it started right up. burned a lil oil after that but still ran good. Miss that old car...

[Dogg]

And if I ever find one of these, itll be ok to part from this world knowing I had a chance to drive a 51 hornet convertible...This is my dream car...

[John Schmidt]

They didn't have any brochures on my first car....a '48 Dodge. We lived on a hill and that fluid drive sure made a difference in winter. I had picked up this old Model T truck engine and transmission from my uncle in the Fall, left the engine in the trunk all winter and with the snow tires and fluid drive I never got stuck. They did have a brochure on my next favorite Dodge....a '69 Charger R/T. I wish I still had that baby, 375hp in stock set up, didn't stay that way for long. My oldest daughter loved to drive it, couldn't get anybody in her high school to take her on....strange!! My wife worked at a finance company at the time and they repo'd the car for an affiliate in Pennsylvania. They needed at least three bids on it but couldn't get it because of the type of car and no a/c. I lowballed and got it for $100 w/40k miles on it. You could smoke the tires when you shifted in any gear except fourth...had the four speed with a Hurst straight-H pattern. It would pass anything but a gas station, probably a good thing I don't still own it, wouldn't be able to afford to drive it in today's inflated prices.

[hotglue #43]

Went to work at 9 year old...... after I bought my first 2 motorcycles.... I save up and bought a Triumph TR3A at 14 years old....
This is not the one I had... but just like it... FUN CAR!!!!!!  had to rebuilt the motor to get it on the road.... but hey.... it was a Cool Car!!!!!!

1961, Triumph TR3A

Triumph TR3 Roadster - 1961 - Out of Hibernation	powered by Aeva

[Ghillie]

In british green

[R J]

Close as I could come.     Mine did not have a trunk on it.   The spare was mounted on the outside on a little pedestal......

Dad's brother had put a GMC 270 cube in it.........

Ran like a scalded dog.

Jammed on the brakes with the right leg and hung the left one out the door sliding it on the ground to get it stopped.......




Bought this exact same car, color, model and everything when I got home from Korea the 1st time.....   It had 900 miles on it.   This was in Sept 1951.   The gentleman had bought it new, drove it for 3 weeks and died of a heart attack.   His wife was going to keep it.    I finally talked her into selling it to me.   

Changed the oil and other fluids in it, put in a new battery, with some fresh gas and she fired on about the 20th twist of the crankshaft......    I added dual exhaust, with headers and made several trips from California to Iowa, to Swamp Lejeune, NC, back to Camp Pendleton, to Barstow and finally to 100 Harrison st, San Francisco, CA.    Traded it for a 50 Merc, and traded that for my 1st Corvette in 1955.      Then I let California supply my cars for a while.

[Tundra]

[Jack]

[Charlie]

My first car was a kit car made back around 1960.  It was called a LaDauri.  The frame was from a Studebaker, and the engine was a Chevy 265 V8.  The body was all fiberglass and it had electric solynoids that opened the doors and trunk.  It was a two door convertible and I didn't have a top for it.  I was told that there were only eight of my model made before the factory burned to the ground.  My family didn't have a camera in those days, so we never had a picture taken of it.

The guy that owned it before us was trying to customize it and made a mess of it. The front end looked like a Jaguar and the rear like a 58 Corvette.  It was a two seater.  As a young lad who liked messing around with cars, my mom thought it was the perfect project for me.  I did most of the repairs, but never got to the paint job.  The car weighed in at around 1,900 lbs, and had a 455 rear end in it.  With that small V8, it ran like a bat out of he**, and I blew the rear end out playing around. 

When I was 18, I bought my first home.  The car was parked in the side yard in front of the house.  A drunk lost control of his car and smashed into mine.  I came out of the house to see if he was alright,and he told me he was.  I went back in and called the police.  When I returned he was gone.  It wasn't plated at the time and did not have insurance on it.  I ended up selling it to a friend.  Wish I hadn't now.

[Bob E.]

I had always wanted a Mustang since I was a little kid.  I remember watching Dukes of Hazard when I was about 10 or 12 and seeing this yellow car racing all around...I think they even jumped it.  And I was like, "Man...what kind of car is that???!!!"  It was pretty much the same kind of moment when we all saw that first Valk commercial with the guy powersliding through the desert.  When I found out it was a Mustang, that was the kind of car I had to get when I turned 16.

So in 1986, when I was 15, I found one in the paper for $1000.  It was a total rust-bucket with over 200,000 miles on it.  But we bought it for $700 and drove it home.  6-cyl, 3spd.  My dad and I totally rebuilt it in the back yard when the weather was nice...no garage or anything.  Heck, we didn't even have a welder...just a set of oxy-acetelene torches.  We welded everything with torches, using steel coat hangers for welding rods.  We replaced the floor, rear quarters, both doors, bumpers and even the left front frame rail.  Then we set up a tarp and painted it hot-rod yellow.  It came out nice for a backyard job by a couple of amatures...lol!  It only had a top speed of about 85mph because it ran out of gear.  But since it was geared so low, it would smoke the tires in 1st and chirp 2nd.  I had alot of fun with that car and drove it to college.  I really wish I had more pics of it.

[Trynt]

In black.

[thewoodman]

My first car wasn't on the site so I had to look it up since there were only a few of these in the states in 1964. Got it from fiends of my folks / where they got this thing is a mystery to me, but it was a 1958 Vespa 400 that I used to beat the snot out of blasting around the fields in the area. It had a 393 cc 2 cyl 2 stroke engine, 12-14 hp, 3 spd std, gull wing doors and a roll back canvas top. At 14 years of age, it was a pretty cool ride. Check it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa_400

[fudgie]

Got this 1961 Chevy Apache like the top blue on in the pic. 3/4 ton with a 232 straight 6. 4 on the floor. I was 16 or so in the early 90's when dad got it for me. It had been redone and looked great. Steel dash and no seat belts! Gas tank behind the seat. Top speed was about 65 and 1st gear was a real granny gear. Maybe 2 mph. That thing could haul a load tho. Backing out of the garage one day and the bed dropped to the ground. The trailing arms that held the axle to the frame rused out. The drive shaft was the only thing that held the axle on. Glad I wasn't on the road. Lot of memories with that truck of cruising the towns on a friday and sat night.

[Varmintmist]

First one I bought for me that I wanted instead of what I could bolt together and get by with.


Yellow with white ragtop, saddle interior.
Base engine, M22 Rockcrusher 4 speed, and had a insane top end and didnt give much on the bottom. Never went over 135 indicated..... sober. I took a built nova on one evening at a light and the next day when he caught me he said it went a lot faster than that.

Sold it so I could eat in college. I should have gone with more Ramen noodles.

[fudgie]

First one I bought for me that I wanted instead of what I could bolt together and get by with.


Yellow with white ragtop, saddle interior.
Base engine, M22 Rockcrusher 4 speed, and had a insane top end and didnt give much on the bottom. Never went over 135 indicated..... sober. I took a built nova on one evening at a light and the next day when he caught me he said it went a lot faster than that.

Sold it so I could eat in college. I should have gone with more Ramen noodles.

What year, 68,69, 70? Dad had a 70 Vette, like the picture. Love how it handled. He hardley drove it. Always had vac problems when he did. Mostly with the wiper cowl.

[NiteRiderF6]

This is the first car that I'm going to admit to owning.... My Dad was a used car dealer so I had about 20 cars leading up to this one. I loved this car and wish that I still had it.... She was a beauty... Until ME! 

[sandy]

Got it in '66 a week before graduation. I did own a motorcycle before that though. 1964 Ducati 125cc street bike.

[mattfidaho]

man you guys are old. LOL JK mine wasn't listed.

[Dag]

1962 Rambler Classic
4 door sedan
RED (it didn`t come in yellow)

[Varmintmist]

First one I bought for me that I wanted instead of what I could bolt together and get by with.

Yellow with white ragtop, saddle interior.
Base engine, M22 Rockcrusher 4 speed, and had a insane top end and didnt give much on the bottom. Never went over 135 indicated..... sober. I took a built nova on one evening at a light and the next day when he caught me he said it went a lot faster than that.

Sold it so I could eat in college. I should have gone with more Ramen noodles.

What year, 68,69, 70? Dad had a 70 Vette, like the picture. Love how it handled. He hardley drove it. Always had vac problems when he did. Mostly with the wiper cowl.

69, 68-69 had gills, the 70 and up had a chrome screen behind the front wheel. The wiper cowl would work on its own a lot, for the most part it would stay open, headlights worked all of the time, left was faster so I could wink it.
It was pretty well used when I bought it in 82, but it was a vette and it was mine. When I sold it it was a barn queen. Those things cost $$ to keep on the road and I didnt have any.
I was told when I got a motorcycle that I was having a mid life crisis. I told them that I was reserving my mid life crisis for another vette, the bike is a second childhood. The wife, without missing a beat, asked if that meant that I was done with the first one.

[Jack]

I had always wanted a Mustang since I was a little kid.  I remember watching Dukes of Hazard when I was about 10 or 12 and seeing this yellow car racing all around...I think they even jumped it.  And I was like, "Man...what kind of car is that???!!!"  It was pretty much the same kind of moment when we all saw that first Valk commercial with the guy powersliding through the desert.  When I found out it was a Mustang, that was the kind of car I had to get when I turned 16.

So in 1986, when I was 15, I found one in the paper for $1000.  It was a total rust-bucket with over 200,000 miles on it.  But we bought it for $700 and drove it home.  6-cyl, 3spd.  My dad and I totally rebuilt it in the back yard when the weather was nice...no garage or anything.  Heck, we didn't even have a welder...just a set of oxy-acetelene torches.  We welded everything with torches, using steel coat hangers for welding rods.  We replaced the floor, rear quarters, both doors, bumpers and even the left front frame rail.  Then we set up a tarp and painted it hot-rod yellow.  It came out nice for a backyard job by a couple of amatures...lol!  It only had a top speed of about 85mph because it ran out of gear.  But since it was geared so low, it would smoke the tires in 1st and chirp 2nd.  I had alot of fun with that car and drove it to college.  I really wish I had more pics of it.

I thought that was a Dodge Charger?

[fudgie]

First one I bought for me that I wanted instead of what I could bolt together and get by with.

Yellow with white ragtop, saddle interior.
Base engine, M22 Rockcrusher 4 speed, and had a insane top end and didnt give much on the bottom. Never went over 135 indicated..... sober. I took a built nova on one evening at a light and the next day when he caught me he said it went a lot faster than that.

Sold it so I could eat in college. I should have gone with more Ramen noodles.

What year, 68,69, 70? Dad had a 70 Vette, like the picture. Love how it handled. He hardley drove it. Always had vac problems when he did. Mostly with the wiper cowl.

69, 68-69 had gills, the 70 and up had a chrome screen behind the front wheel. The wiper cowl would work on its own a lot, for the most part it would stay open, headlights worked all of the time, left was faster so I could wink it.
It was pretty well used when I bought it in 82, but it was a vette and it was mine. When I sold it it was a barn queen. Those things cost $$ to keep on the road and I didnt have any.
I was told when I got a motorcycle that I was having a mid life crisis. I told them that I was reserving my mid life crisis for another vette, the bike is a second childhood. The wife, without missing a beat, asked if that meant that I was done with the first one.

I liked the car but like you said it took $$ to keep it on the road. We spent many awinters working on it. But it could fly. I took it to work once when I was 16. Coming home on a straight away I would get it up to 120 mph with no problems. Didn't have the guts to go faster! He ended up selling it up in Auburn at Krue Auction for half what he paid and had in it.

[Bob E.]

I had always wanted a Mustang since I was a little kid.  I remember watching Dukes of Hazard when I was about 10 or 12 and seeing this yellow car racing all around...I think they even jumped it.  And I was like, "Man...what kind of car is that???!!!"  It was pretty much the same kind of moment when we all saw that first Valk commercial with the guy powersliding through the desert.  When I found out it was a Mustang, that was the kind of car I had to get when I turned 16.

So in 1986, when I was 15, I found one in the paper for $1000.  It was a total rust-bucket with over 200,000 miles on it.  But we bought it for $700 and drove it home.  6-cyl, 3spd.  My dad and I totally rebuilt it in the back yard when the weather was nice...no garage or anything.  Heck, we didn't even have a welder...just a set of oxy-acetelene torches.  We welded everything with torches, using steel coat hangers for welding rods.  We replaced the floor, rear quarters, both doors, bumpers and even the left front frame rail.  Then we set up a tarp and painted it hot-rod yellow.  It came out nice for a backyard job by a couple of amatures...lol!  It only had a top speed of about 85mph because it ran out of gear.  But since it was geared so low, it would smoke the tires in 1st and chirp 2nd.  I had alot of fun with that car and drove it to college.  I really wish I had more pics of it.

I thought that was a Dodge Charger?

Yes...of course the General Lee was a Charger.  But there was an episode where one of their cousins or something came into town...it was a single episode where this most awesome yellow car (later identified as a 60's-era Mustang) was blasting around.  Tough to remember that long ago...but it was not the GL...it was another car in that episode.

[ChromeDome]

All black, seat was proped up by 2x4's, no reverse, no radio and only cost me a couple hundred bucks in 1971

[BF]

This wasn't my first car...it was my second car.  However, it's my first car that I had a job and saved all my money for one summer and bought and paid for totally myself.  So yes, in that sense, it was my first car. 

My first car was home built.  A chopped '58 Plymouth frame, a 4 cyl Hilman Husky motor and trans, and a home made plywood body.  It was street legal but was more of a beach-buggy type of vehicle.  I'll post a pic if I can find one. 

[R J]

I had always wanted a Mustang since I was a little kid.  I remember watching Dukes of Hazard when I was about 10 or 12 and seeing this yellow car racing all around...I think they even jumped it.  And I was like, "Man...what kind of car is that???!!!"  It was pretty much the same kind of moment when we all saw that first Valk commercial with the guy powersliding through the desert.  When I found out it was a Mustang, that was the kind of car I had to get when I turned 16.

So in 1986, when I was 15, I found one in the paper for $1000.  It was a total rust-bucket with over 200,000 miles on it.  But we bought it for $700 and drove it home.  6-cyl, 3spd.  My dad and I totally rebuilt it in the back yard when the weather was nice...no garage or anything.  Heck, we didn't even have a welder...just a set of oxy-acetelene torches.  We welded everything with torches, using steel coat hangers for welding rods.  We replaced the floor, rear quarters, both doors, bumpers and even the left front frame rail.  Then we set up a tarp and painted it hot-rod yellow.  It came out nice for a backyard job by a couple of amatures...lol!  It only had a top speed of about 85mph because it ran out of gear.  But since it was geared so low, it would smoke the tires in 1st and chirp 2nd.  I had alot of fun with that car and drove it to college.  I really wish I had more pics of it.

I thought that was a Dodge Charger?

Jack, I think he is referring to one of Daisy's car.

[fudgie]

Nah I think bob is right. I do remember a yellow looking car the cuz'es drove. Maybe I'll search it, I'm bored at work.