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My first was a Yellow bottom/black top two tone '57 Chevy Bel Aire 2 door hardtop. 283 c.i.d. V-8 w/ 4 bbl carburetor, dual exhausts and (I think) 220 hp. Turboglide transmission. It would get out of it's own way.
 
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In late '73 I bought my first, a 1966 Opel Kadett wagon for $25.00. Replaced the timing chain tensioner and drove it until I bought a '69 Chevelle SS in 1975 for $800.00.
 
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Mine was a Bel-Air wagon in Emerald - Turquoise and terminal rust! 327 engine with powerglide... what a boat!
 
Myt first car was a 1950 Chevrolet 2 door sedan. That was the "fastback" body style with a straight six and three on the tree. I wish I still had it.
 
'64 Wildcat and it only had 23K miles on it when I got it in 1996!

Paid $500 for it. Claimed hail damage for $3k and sold it for $2500. And I wish I still had it.

The guy I sold it to still drives it around town.

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Well mine first was a well used 74 Buick Eletra( bought from my uncle in '88).

It's not in those pages, but is very close to the 75 one: 1975 Buick (pages 47-53 in there).

It was a beast... Full power everything... And a 455 under the hood. Massive car and engine. If I pressed hard enough to open the back barrels I swear I couldn't have poured gas into it any faster by hand!

Amazing looking at the specs... My current car has 1/4 the engine displacement, is over a foot narrower and well over 4 FEET shorter!!
 
Brand new with 289 engine and front bench seat , otherwise exactly as pictured , approx $4000 , 2/3 rds of my salary . Course , I had to get a better looking 2 legged model too .



1964 Ford Mustang
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My First was the 1965 fastback (same red color) then my fourth was a 1970 Boss 302 (with rear wing, shaker hood scoop and rear window slats) Wish I had kept this one. Seemed I was always at the gas station:mad: My wife always said it seemed like I had a new car everytime I came to pick her up:rolleyes: What can I say, I liked cars. Had a 1970 Charger R/T with I believe it was a 308 HP engine. I remember racing down the highway about 160 mph against a 1969 Z 28 Camaro. I must have been crazy!!! A Firebird 400 TA and the list goes on. I think I had twenty some cars over the years.

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Keith "mrburls"
 
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Glenn McCullough said:
Find your first car brochure and / or ads, here, Then post them here.
Mine was a 63 Dodge Dart with a push buttin transmission. I loved that car, wish I still had it.
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Well, this was my first car also. It was beige with a beige interior. I learned to be an auto mechanic on that car. The slant 6 engine was so easy to work on and I could almost sit inside to work on it. The push button transmission was easy to use. I never had any trouble with it.
Drove it for years and would love to find one to restore.
 
This was mine about that color also. Of course it was in 1988 when I was the proud owner of it. I paid $75 for it, I could stop and fill it with oil and check the gas. I am certain it burned more oil than gas as I purchased it by the case and gas by the gallon. I topped out down hill going 77 in a 45 the day I graduated high school, which was my 1st ticket also.

Good times,

Phil


 
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Learned to drive in a 1969 Ford Galaxie 500 2 door with a 302. Lime green with black interior. UGLY car but you could put a refrigerator cart in the trunk sideways and close it.

First car I owned was a 1977 Buick Regal with a 350 4 barrel. It was the last year of the big Regal.
 
65 GTO Turqoise 389 w/3deuces...4 on the floor Hurst and big ass Craeger tires...fastest ride I ever had and wish I'd have been mature enough to take better care and still have:redface:
 
1927 A Model Ford Tourer. I bought it in 1955, loved it however It had plate glass windscreen, the transverse springs gave a sideways shudder on corrugates and the brakes became difficult due to wear on the eccentrics.

Reupholstered the seats with a WW2 Army Blanket fitted new side curtains and a wheel cover for the spare wheel. The only time I had to hand crank it was out with SWMBO outside the Movie Theatre.

Economic and totally reliable however after a few years gave up on the brakes and sold it for 160.00 same price I paid for it. Advance and retard spark lever on the steering wheel.

Top memories.

Also memory kicked in with the Chrysler Newport bought one in late 60,s from the American Defence Attache here in Canberra but I got 6 mpg Aussies Gallons being LHD my wife always felt she was in a suicide position way out wide on the right no steering wheel, man that was a monster sized car, loved it as well and those days petrol was the cheapest aspect of car ownership.

Good memories for me. Peter.
 
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My first was a 1959 Chevrolet Impala, Red and White with Red and Gray Plaid seat covers... I had a Hirsch conversion to a 3 speed on the floor, still had the cover for the automatic on the column, but the shift lever had been removed... the stick on the floor was short so I had to lean forward to reach 2nd gear... could just put 2 fingers over the knob and set it in gear, then 2 fingers to pull down into high... when I got off the bus in Chandler AZ to visit my mom, she was talking about the car and being the smart mouth I was in those days, I piped up "I'll buy it"... so I did and drove it on back to San Francisco where I was stationed in the navy.... it had an "Okie" rake on it, dropping the rear end about 4 inches (crossing the San Joaquin valley on highway 99 I learned that high speed, cross winds and a dropped tail that had 12 inch fins out to the side made for some interesting driving... sometimes my rear end wanted to come around and go first or at lease alongside the front end - I think in an airplane that call that a Yaw).... red fender skirts, which I promptly removed and "lost"... I became a very popular sailor when I got back to the ship - until I figured out why.

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I had it two week when the President of the American Filipino Association ran off a freeway exit, crossed two lanes of traffic and bashed in the driver's door... still had that bent door when I traded it 3 years later for a 1964 Corvette Hardtop convertible.
 
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My first car was a BMW Isetta = 300cc motorcycle engine, 5-speed (on the left), 1 door(the entire front end), sun roof, 90 MPG.
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Great Post Glenn!!
Lot's of memories here....had a 64' Plymouth Fury it was old but in good shape, haven't thought about it for a long time.
Thanks!
 


1970 Mercury Comet - 4 door. My brother got it from our great-grandpa in 1979. I got it in 1981 after he put black fur/fuzz on the doors and dash. And yes it was the snot green color, but it got me through college very nicely.

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A blue 1971 Ford LTD station wagon. That was the great land yacht I learned to drive in and used to take my drivers license test. My younger brothers loved to ride in the pop-up seats in the back. Those were the days!!!
Thanks for starting this thread Glenn!
 

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55 Chevy 2 dr hardtop with a reworked 283 that no one could touch in my hometown. Sure wished I had that sweetheart!

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Bucurestean said:
A blue 1971 Ford LTD station wagon. That was the great land yacht I learned to drive in and used to take my drivers license test. My younger brothers loved to ride in the pop-up seats in the back. Those were the days!!!
Thanks for starting this thread Glenn!
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Hey I had one of those once--it was a fake green "woodie". Big 428 c.i.d. V-8, my first car with factory air, and got 12 mpg down hill with a tail wind. My kids (6) loved it.
 
A Black, 1965 VW Bug. One month to the day after I bought it some lady ran a stop sign and T-Boned me.
 

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1963 Ford Fairlane, 2 door hardtop, red. I paid $100.00 for it, blew the engine three days after I purchased it. I replaced the engine with a 289 V8 out of a 1964 Ford Galaxy that I paid $150 for.
 
1970 something Fiat 126. Paid $150 (in English money). 600cc air cooled engine. Would get to 60mph only if pushed over a cliff. Came fully loaded with Fiat's proprietary air conditioning system; better know as several large rust holes.

Still, I was the first one at my high school to get a car.... so I was the Man!!!!!!! :biggrin:
 
67 Chevelle SS. It was Viper Red and had a 427 with a four speed in it. I grew up in a very small town, and that car got me in lots of trouble with my dad. I did tons of work on it over the years and sold it 8 years ago for $30,000. I really wish I still had it, but needed the money at the time

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Mine was a '94 Viper..........Then I woke up, mine was a '89 GMC S15 Stick shift, my grandfather was convinced everyone should know how to drive a stick.
 
1962 Caddy convertible. Top wouldn't go down when the sun was out, the top wouldn't go back up when it rained. A friend "borrowed it" one day and ran it out of gas down the street from my house, walked over to get my Dad's gas can, and we heard a large screech and bam. We run over to where the car was and found someone had just plowed into it with a brand new 1972 Hurst/Olds Cutlass and totalled their car and on mine a minor dent. The police towed my away as being abandoned by the side of the road. My father was pissed as he didn't even know I bought the car.
 

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I got a 1972 Mercury Capri. Boy that thing would drive great and really fly. It lasted only about 3 months. The guy we bought it from had rebuilt the transmission and he didn't do a good job.
 

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My poor kid is gonna answer this some day saying:

His first 2 cars were Jeep Grand Cherokees that his parents got him on purpose for the safety, but to keep him close to home as the trucks both had close to 200K on them and the gas mileage was so bad, he couldn't afford to go far.

And why 2 Cherokees? The 1st one he blew the transmission, the 2nd one he blew the front transaxle. The kid really didn't have much luck...
 
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