My First Car........

[Stanley Steamer]

.....a 1973 Dodge Dart Swinger......318 V8......cost me $550.....had borrowed $500 from 1st Franklin Financial......Daddy paid the other $50....which I had to pay back......He and my oldest Sister went and picked it out for me......but she came and picked me up from school early and let me drive it home.....i never rode a school bus again after that day.......

I was responsible for my own insurance, gas, maintenance......I added the air shocks to the back....and eventually had a new cloth top put on it......it would bury the speedometer past the 120mph mark and just lay there.....went to many a fire at the VVFD in it.....it floated at those speeds and this was back when recaps were "ok" for cars....... ......

Had a LOT of good times in it.....spent a lot of $$ on repairs there towards the end, but I think it had 220,000 miles on it when I sold it to my Brother......

My Daddy was really ticked off when I spent the same amount of $$ on a Trek mtn. bike a couple of years later when I attended UGA.......

[R J]

This is an exact copy of my 1st car.

[Stanley Steamer]

This is an exact copy of my 1st car.

How much more for the rest of the hood??.......

[solo1]

This is not an exact copy of my first car a 1929 chevy.

No fond memories of this car.

[MacDragon]

I had one of the Coronets back then with the same 318 in it... Ya couldn't kill it and it was a great motor.  would light em up easy.   but it was what we did back then.

[old2soon]

1954 Ford 2 door was MY 1st car. I sure learned a lot on car maintenance owning and driving it. Tags ins upkeep were all my responsibilty. RIDE SAFE.

[Oss]

not mine but I wish

[Jess from VA]

[art]

My first was a 1950  6cyl.chevy my fastest was a 1963 jaguar XKE

[KSDragonRider]

my first was a 1972 Dodge Demon with the slant 6.  I miss that car...

[tank_post142]

one of my first



a couple of my favorites being repainted



one of the fastest



one of the funnest

[flamingobabe #44]

 bought my 1st car at age 14...   of all the cars i have ever had, I wish I still had this one!
1961 Triumph TR3.... like the one in the pic, but mine had black leather interior...  I had FUN in that car!!!!
BTW.. this is hg posting on FB's computer....

[solo1]

Here's one of my bests. 1999 Mazda Miata.   Two years gone and I still miss the best golf cart that I've ever had

Ahh, the memories

[solo1]

Here is the best one of the first cars that I've had.  49 Olds Rocket 88.  54 years gone and I still miss this one.

[Stanley Steamer]

I saw one of those little cars laying upside down just a mile or so from the Store at the Dragon......on the Hwy 28 side a few years ago...... .....I bet it was a fun ride right up until that moment.......

[Stanley Steamer]

bought my 1st car at age 14...   of all the cars i have ever had, I wish I still had this one!
1961 Triumph TR3.... like the one in the pic, but mine had black leather interior...  I had FUN in that car!!!!
BTW.. this is hg posting on FB's computer....

Now it's VERY clear.......the whole "pinky" extended while drinking thing and all!!!.........

[Stanley Steamer]

Here is the best one of the first cars that I've had.  49 Olds Rocket 88.  54 years gone and I still miss this one.

That is a sweet looking ride Wayne.....it looks like it had a high gloss finish??.....Did the engines back then have enough "ooomph" to push those heavy cars around?

[Lil D]

My first car.....aka the rust bucket.  Had to use the passenger door because the drivers door was about to fall off....
datsun 210

Luckily pop borrowed a lot and we often switched... Mazda rx7

....

[solo1]

Here is the best one of the first cars that I've had.  49 Olds Rocket 88.  54 years gone and I still miss this one.

That is a sweet looking ride Wayne.....it looks like it had a high gloss finish??.....Did the engines back then have enough "ooomph" to push those heavy cars around?

Stan.  The 49 Olds 88 was the first car to have an ohv 303 ci high compression V8  and was the hottest production car around with its 4 speed hydramatic tranny.  It was the number one in production road races then.
It would lay rubber throughout 1st gear and partially in second.  Not much today but back then I could beat ANY production car in acceleration until the 56 Chevy came out.  Maximum torque was at a low 1600 rpm.

Yeah, you could say that the paint was high gloss.  I was working part time in a body shop and we prepped with two coats of primer followed by 6 coats of lacquer on it, hand polished by me, between each coat. A lot of work.

[Stanley Steamer]

My first car.....aka the rust bucket.  Had to use the passenger door because the drivers door was about to fall off....
datsun 210

Luckily pop borrowed a lot and we often switched... Mazda rx7

....

Those Datsuns would run forever it seems.........I always wanted one of the old style 380Z's?......had the sport suspension with T-tops......

[Stanley Steamer]

Here is the best one of the first cars that I've had.  49 Olds Rocket 88.  54 years gone and I still miss this one.

That is a sweet looking ride Wayne.....it looks like it had a high gloss finish??.....Did the engines back then have enough "ooomph" to push those heavy cars around?

Stan.  The 49 Olds 88 was the first car to have an ohv 303 ci high compression V8  and was the hottest production car around with its 4 speed hydramatic tranny.  It was the number one in production road races then.
It would lay rubber throughout 1st gear and partially in second.  Not much today but back then I could beat ANY production car in acceleration until the 56 Chevy came out.  Maximum torque was at a low 1600 rpm.

Yeah, you could say that the paint was high gloss.  I was working part time in a body shop and we prepped with two coats of primer followed by 6 coats of lacquer on it, hand polished by me, between each coat. A lot of work.

Ok......those cars just looked as heavy as tanks......glad it had some get up and go in it!!......

I kind of wondered if new cars off the line back then had such a shiny/deep gloss to them......I bet it was a lot of work but looks great even in this old photo

[Stanley Steamer]

My first car.....aka the rust bucket.  Had to use the passenger door because the drivers door was about to fall off....
datsun 210

Luckily pop borrowed a lot and we often switched... Mazda rx7

....

the pic didn't come through..... .......I see it's in the post here but don't know what to leave out to view it

[Stanley Steamer]

http://nytuls2images.gabriels.net/UploadedImages/6486/0_1_FullSize.jpg

This is the style I liked......wouldn't have been able to afford it back then....

[solo1]

My son, Chris (Psychotic Bovine) had a Datsun 260z.  I drove it.  That was a great sports car to drive but it was rusted all over badly. He got rid of it after having the body shop patch it for the third and last time.
Except for power, the Miata was a much better sports car. IMHO,

About the upside down Miata.  It takes real stupidity to flip one, driving 'way beyond the car's capability.  I drove my Miata behind 98T and my son Mark riding their Valks at Maggies Valley and I could easily stay with them except in the straightaways and this was before I modified with Koni shocks and bigger stabilizer bars.

[Fritz The Cat]

My first car was a 59 Pontiac. Didn't have it long enough to take a pic. The morning after I bought it from my uncle for $50, I took it out on the Interstate to see how fast it would go. I blew the engine up.  My mom made my uncle give me my money back and take the car back. 

[Stanley Steamer]

This is a sweet looking 240Z.......would love to have one like it......

http://www.uniquepiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/1187777bh2.jpg

[Stanley Steamer]

My first car was a 59 Pontiac. Didn't have it long enough to take a pic. The morning after I bought it from my uncle for $50, I took it out on the Interstate to see how fast it would go. I blew the engine up.  My mom made my uncle give me my money back and take the car back. 

That's terrible!!.......

My folks wouldn't buy us a motorcycle......one of my Uncles bought this Yamaha 100 and let me ride it......I played hooky from school one day and went with a cousin to ride it on some fire roads.....he had a bigger dirt bike.......it sure was fun, but Mama made him get rid of it before I got hurt....

[MacDragon]

My first car was a 59 Pontiac. Didn't have it long enough to take a pic. The morning after I bought it from my uncle for $50, I took it out on the Interstate to see how fast it would go. I blew the engine up.  My mom made my uncle give me my money back and take the car back. 

That's terrible!!.......

My folks wouldn't buy us a motorcycle......one of my Uncles bought this Yamaha 100 and let me ride it......I played hooky from school one day and went with a cousin to ride it on some fire roads.....he had a bigger dirt bike.......it sure was fun, but Mama made him get rid of it before I got hurt....

  Steamer.... What happened to that skinny guy in the pic???

[Stanley Steamer]

My first car was a 59 Pontiac. Didn't have it long enough to take a pic. The morning after I bought it from my uncle for $50, I took it out on the Interstate to see how fast it would go. I blew the engine up.  My mom made my uncle give me my money back and take the car back. 

That's terrible!!.......

My folks wouldn't buy us a motorcycle......one of my Uncles bought this Yamaha 100 and let me ride it......I played hooky from school one day and went with a cousin to ride it on some fire roads.....he had a bigger dirt bike.......it sure was fun, but Mama made him get rid of it before I got hurt....

  Steamer.... What happened to that skinny guy in the pic???

He was killed off by eating good meat, seafood, and Pepperidge Farms cakes

[musclehead]

1972 pontiac lemans it was maroon, got totalled by a station wagon running a red.

[MacDragon]

My first car was a 59 Pontiac. Didn't have it long enough to take a pic. The morning after I bought it from my uncle for $50, I took it out on the Interstate to see how fast it would go. I blew the engine up.  My mom made my uncle give me my money back and take the car back. 

That's terrible!!.......

My folks wouldn't buy us a motorcycle......one of my Uncles bought this Yamaha 100 and let me ride it......I played hooky from school one day and went with a cousin to ride it on some fire roads.....he had a bigger dirt bike.......it sure was fun, but Mama made him get rid of it before I got hurt....

  Steamer.... What happened to that skinny guy in the pic???

He was killed off by eating good meat, seafood, and Pepperidge Farms cakes

Well there was no better way to go.  I've got the same affliction.

[tank_post142]

1972 pontiac lemans it was maroon, got totalled by a station wagon running a red.

my younger brother had one that was rootbeer colored

[Stormrider65]

!965 98 Oldsmobile.  Red with a white top.  I put a great stereo in her.  Pioneer KP500 supertuner, FM cassette player.  I went everywhere with that car, off road, hiway, dirt roads.  With it being a land yacht, she came with her own fog horn .  Bought it in '78 at my first duty station outside of Clovis, NM.  I think she got about 5 gallons to a mile.  But that was when gas was cheap. 


Walt

[solo1]

Here's another one.  Mark's first good car, a 1970 Pontiac Bonneville with a rare 455 HO D port engine. It appeared in the August 2000 issue of Pontiac High Performance magazine. I knew the original owner who we bought it from.

Mark has done major work on it as noted but now needs to find the time (and bucks) to put a California unrusted body on this badly rusted Indiana car. He has the California Pontiac.  He's had this unusual Pontiac for over 20 years and is quite attached to this high horsepower low mpg big car.  The car looks great and it still looks like the picture.

[musclehead]

second car, 1959 olds 'rocket 88' I wish I still had both of them

[3fan4life]

1972 pontiac lemans it was maroon, got totalled by a station wagon running a red.

That one is a 73.....................


This one is a 72:

[Stanley Steamer]

This one is a 72:

That second one looks a LOT like the '73 Chevelle.....my GF in HS had a green one.....with a 350 in it.....

[3fan4life]

My first car was a 1964 Rambler:



It had a flathead 6 cylinder that almost used more oil than gas.

I paid $50 bucks for it, while spending the summer in Fl with my brother.

I bought it from a Puerto Rican that had painted it RED, WHITE and BLUE.

Its best feature was the folding full bench seat.



My second car was a 1972 Gran Torino Squire Station wagon:




It took me everywhere that I wanted to go, but usually broke down on the way home.

Its best feature was the fold down rear seat.


My favorite vehicle ever was my 1975 GMC Sprint:

 


I still have it, but it is need of a lot of restoration.

Maybe someday................

 

[3fan4life]

This one is a 72:

That second one looks a LOT like the '73 Chevelle.....my GF in HS had a green one.....with a 350 in it.....

Did she have a 73 or a 72 ?

The 73 Chevelle will look more like the first one:




The 72 Chevelle will look like the second one:




BTW:

They are all some good examples of some NICE American muscle.

[Stanley Steamer]

This one is a 72:

That second one looks a LOT like the '73 Chevelle.....my GF in HS had a green one.....with a 350 in it.....

Did she have a 73 or a 72 ?

The 73 Chevelle will look more like the first one:




The 72 Chevelle will look like the second one:




BTW:

They are all some good examples of some NICE American muscle.

Yeah.....you're right.......hers WAS a '72.....it was a year older than mine.......and it was forest green