What was your first?

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What was your first?

Reply #45 – February 23, 2009, 03:40:51 PM

Quote from: Chuck W;258235

1973 Volvo 145 wagon....green.

Chuck were you queer back then. LOL. kiddin with ya.

Mine was a nice 57 chevy built pretty good, hand me down from my older brother. I was to young to know what I had at the time.
I dented it and sold it ,gave the money to my bro. ended up wit a 63 chevy 3 on the tree strait 6, with wood boards between the the frame and axle to jack it up, real bad, but they fell out some times.

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Reply #46 – February 23, 2009, 04:11:55 PM

1978 Oldsmobile 98 Regency 2 door with the Olds 350 (gas -- not diesel)

The only difference appearance-wise between mine and the one below was that I had a light blue interior and Landau top....

Paid $800 for it in High School. Bought it knowing it needed a cam (wiped intake lobe) and radiator (had a slow leak). Swapped in a cam and new lifters with just a wee bit more grunt and a radiator for a Caddy Coupe DeVille with the 500 C.I. motor. Fattest radiator EVAR and I got it NEW for $40.

They came with 750 CFM carbs. Considering engine output was rated @ 170 HP in stock trim and the redline was 5000 RPM's, looking in hindsight it was a bit much....8 MPG!!!!

Leaded fuel at that!! In 1993 there were only a handful of gas stations left around by me that had leaded gas.

I drove it for about 3 months and it was trouble free. Coming down a road I knew well the dreaded oil light came on one day. I had checked the oil less than a week before and the level was full. Luckily I was within walking distance of a parts store because somehow in that time period more than 3 quarts had managed to find their way out of the crankcase and oil pan and apparently disappear. I never noticed any leaks, drips, odd smell, or smoke....That's not to say there weren't any....I was 17.....

That was the death knell for the car; the Olds developed a horrendous rod knock. My parents had just bought a brand new 1994 Toyota Camry and only needed one car. They decided that an under 50K 1987 Cougar LS 3.8 was most likely MUCH more reliable than a 1978 Olds.....especially considering that the history of the Cougar was well documented and known.

The Olds sat in the driveway for two months as I developed a budding relationship with the Fox body Cougar that eventually made me seek out the one I own today. I finally conceded and called the local salvage yard to haul the old girl away. They gave me $50 for her.

I still miss that car....

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Reply #47 – February 23, 2009, 04:50:31 PM

88 thunderbird (hence my user name) in light blue and 140K on it back in 2004 with the usual options and 5.0. Bought it for $150 and rebuilt it with junkyards parts. Ended up junkin it due to severe rust in places you really dont want it to be. Hated getting rid of it and vowed to find another. Then I came across the red one in my sig for $250 back in late 2007 with only 104k almost no options, solid body and a v6. Nobody had any faith in it but it proved everone wrong when I put 1500 miles on it within a month lol

I started driving it in late April of 08 and put 10k on it by November of 08. Then of course I got the Cougar off of Crusher $650, loads of options, solid as can be and only 104K on it aswell.

Oh wait this was supposed to be first car lol oh well. So I posted all the fox bodies I've owned lol. I had pics of the blue 88 bird back on EZboard but they've long since disappeared.

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Reply #48 – February 23, 2009, 05:37:48 PM

i still have my 1st CAR its the 95 bird

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Reply #49 – February 23, 2009, 05:55:21 PM

Quote from: lakenheath24;258242

i had a gold 73 plymouth duster with the snakeskin top and straight 6. it was so rusty that as i was going around a bend the jack fell out of a hole in the trunk.

That happened with my Trans Am, too. Not the jack, actually... the jack handle. Good job nobody was behind me :hick:

Paul: Those Buick pics, are they off Kijiji? Looks like New Brunswick plates on it...

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Reply #50 – February 23, 2009, 06:32:48 PM

My first car was given to me by my parents. It was a two tone green 1963 Rambler Classic. It was nicknamed "Sweet Pea" by my Aunt when she owned it.

Straight 6 with 3 on the tree.

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Reply #51 – February 23, 2009, 06:48:09 PM

Quote from: beej8508;258290

My first car was given to me by my parents. It was a two tone green 1963 Rambler Classic. It was nicknamed "Sweet Pea" by my Aunt when she owned it.

Straight 6 with 3 on the tree.

did you give it back???

jk sorry i had to
my mom was given a 69 camaro SS but it was a stick and grandpa didnt teach her to drive it so he sold it and got her a rambler

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Reply #52 – February 23, 2009, 06:55:23 PM

This is a fun thread. My first car technically is my '88 T-bird but it was procedure in my house than when you turned 16, you had to prove that you were a good driver for a year by driving a hand-me-down car before getting a "good" car. The car we all (I have 3 siblings) had to drive was a 1981 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight 4 dr. It was maroon with (cracked) maroon vinyl top and maroon interior. My grandparents bought it when it was fairly new and then my parents bought it off them when my mom's '84 Olds Cutlass 2dr became too small for a family of 6. It had originally had a diesel motor in it but at some point had a 403 Pontiac motor swapped in (I believe that was actually a factory option on those cars though).

It was the most solid, best riding car I've ever drove. It was great for loading up your pals, a bunch of girls and just cruising. The interior was luxo as can be. The exterior was getting on the rougher side (paint was thin and one door had rust) but it really was a good car. We just called it "the 4 door". Sure it handled like a barge and looked like a grandma car, but if you stood on it it would burn one tire as long as you wanted.

One good story is when my mom was driving it and a lady ran her off the road. She was running around 50 mph and had to swerve off into a used car lot. She hit a post and threw my little brother out of the back seat and into the passenger side floorboard. All it did was put a dent in the bumper...the car was that solid (no wonder everyone uses them for demo derbies).

My dad ended up selling the car to one of my friends. One of the valves was making noise so he sold it to my friend cheap so he could fix it. I remember him telling my friend not to drive it "all over hell's half acre". But my bud ended up doing exactly that without fixing a thing. It ended up blowing up on him going around 465 in Indy at about 90 mph. After that he found a wrecked early 70's Olds with a 350 "rocket" and swapped the motor into the 4 dr. He drove it for a few years like that but I've kind of lost track of it since.

I still think it would be cool to find one like it and put 18" wheels on it for a "cruiser".

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Reply #53 – February 23, 2009, 06:56:28 PM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;258281

Paul: Those Buick pics, are they off Kijiji? Looks like New Brunswick plates on it...

The pics are from Kijiji, but they're an Oldsmobile, like my first car ;)

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Reply #54 – February 23, 2009, 07:04:33 PM

87 Ford Ranger. I really wish I still had it.
It had a 2.3L with 11.1 compression, KB pistons, Crane Cam, Crane valve srings, over sized Ferra valves, ported and milled head, indexing cam gear, MSD dist. and box, Headman header, 2.5" magnaflow exhaust, Offy intake, 450cfm 4 barrel Holley, and 4.11 gears with spool. It dynoed 207HP to the wheels. That was with 116 racing fuel and the timing jacked up.

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Reply #55 – February 23, 2009, 07:35:40 PM

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87 Ford Ranger. I really wish I still had it.
It had a 2.3L with 11.1 compression, KB pistons, Crane Cam, Crane valve srings, over sized Ferra valves, ported and milled head, indexing cam gear, MSD dist. and box, Headman header, 2.5" magnaflow exhaust, Offy intake, 450cfm 4 barrel Holley, and 4.11 gears with spool. It dynoed 207HP to the wheels. That was with 116 racing fuel and the timing jacked up.

Oh my god that's bad ass. I love Rangers, I wish I had my '87 Ranger 2.3/5spd back (or my '97 for that matter).

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Reply #56 – February 23, 2009, 07:36:12 PM

Quote from: Kitz Kat;258246

Chuck were you queer back then. LOL. kiddin with ya.

When you're given a car to drive and you're 16, you drive it. I was one of the few sophomores driving...so I had no worries

Actually had my license at the beginning of the school year (had gotten one @ my dad's in SC), but wasn't given a car until I got this.

So I guess having a Volvo now makes me queer? Yeah...right...

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Reply #57 – February 23, 2009, 07:43:10 PM

Quote from: V8Demon;258301

The pics are from Kijiji, but they're an Oldsmobile, like my first car

Oops

Guess I was too busy lookin' at the plates. I coulda sworn I saw the word "LeSabre" in your post

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Reply #58 – February 23, 2009, 07:54:46 PM

I had a 1987 Plymouth Voyager as my first car. My parents gave it to me when they bought a new Dodge Caravan when I turned 16. I got it in 2001 with 59,000 miles on it (we bought it new). It was Metalic Ice Blue with a Misu 2.6 I4 with a 2bbl and a 3 speed auto. It was slow as hell (probably the best thing for a 16 year old sophomore

) as it wouldn't go much over 75mph. It was great when a bunch of people wanted to go somewhere as we would all just pile into the "Van" as it seated 7. I got rid of it 4 years later when it had no rust because I blew the engine at 75,000 miles. It didn't like the 80 mph trip to visit my buddy at Urbana in college:hick: . Oh well. I do miss it at times because when I went some where with a bunch of people it was great to have the space for everyone. I actually only had the van for 3 months before I bought *my first car* (one I actually paid for with my own money), which was the 88 T-bird, which I still have

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Reply #59 – February 23, 2009, 08:17:38 PM

Well if I go ALL the way back.. the first was a 65 Ford Wagon, Bought it from my dad for $200 for the drive train (352ci with a C6 Auto) to put in a 56Ford PU a friend of my dad's had for sale with a bad motor.. Pulled the motor from the wagon and he changed his mind about selling the truck, decided he was going to put an updated motor in it (last I saw the truck was still sitting in his field)
So if we don't count that one... (never drove the thing... except it's what I learned to drive in when my mom still drove it)
http://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/1965_Ford_Country_Sedan.html

Next, I stacked a cord of wood for this old timer and he told me I could have his wagon with the cracked 390 block that was behind the pile of wood
http://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/1974_Ford_Country_Squire.html
Got the wood stacked, gave it a jump and it started squirting oil... Never saw a cracked block cause oil to squirt on the fender well so got to looking and pulled the oil sending unit of this old 352 I had laying around (see above) switched it with the one in the in the 74 wagon and it ran like a top. Showed the "old timer" and he said "well I'll be dammed... deals a deal.. you just got ya a hell of a deal on a running car"

Drove that for a day.. and A divorced mother of three who's boyfriend had just wrecked her 1970 428 CJ Torino (she got from her husband in the divorce) seen me in it and offered a straight across trade.. she had three kids and needed transportation and didn't know how to fix the Torino (and had already kicked the BF out)

http://www.diecastmodelcars.com/1970-black-ford-torino-gt-p-130.html
Black on Black leather, Hideaways, Factory rally rims, only thing not stock was the addition of chrome side pipes. Body was straight, ran like a top, only problem was a crooked front tire... Turned out to be a Bent Lower Control arm. $15.00 for a used arm and a free alignment from my buddy who's dad owned the service station (training his son to use the alignment rack) and I had me the fastest car in the town of Yacolt Wash. (population 500 or so) for the price of $15.00 and stacking a cord of wood.

This one I drove for a while.. Plus Followed it by 2 other Torinos having three at once for a time
This GT
A Small Block 4Speed GT
and a Torino Cobra