My first car ever is a 1937 Dodge Brothers 2 door when I was 11, my first driver was a 1983 Ford Escort with an 82 EXP nose on it when I was 12! Drove the Escort from the time I was 12 till 16, got my license when I was 17...LOL
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If it's one-off, unusual, or just plain wierd, I probably own it!
I was 16 years old, 91 S-10 brand new for $7000 (car loan from bank of Dad which was paid back in full!) kept her for 10 years and 200,000k. 2.5 4cyl (iron duke) and a 5 speed.... bullet proof!
-- Edited by goushdds on Monday 24th of January 2011 09:22:39 AM
I had the exact truck minus the box thing, black and all, 3 yrs old 3300.00, and deffinitely tuff. Slammed to the ground with Iroc mags. I loved that truck.
I was 16 years old, 91 S-10 brand new for $7000 (car loan from bank of Dad which was paid back in full!) kept her for 10 years and 200,000k. 2.5 4cyl (iron duke) and a 5 speed.... bullet proof!
-- Edited by goushdds on Monday 24th of January 2011 09:22:39 AM
I had the exact truck minus the box thing, black and all, 3 yrs old 3300.00, and deffinitely tuff. Slammed to the ground with Iroc mags. I loved that truck.
you guys got a real deal. Mine cost me $37,500 back in 96
58 ford four door sedan, six cylinder standard with a tooth missing in first gear. Bought it for $50.00 from my shop teacher in 1969 when I was 15. The one thing I remember most of that car is how bleak the instrument cluster was. Next car was a 50 Chevy and has been GMs ever since with the odd ford or dodge here and there.Kept a record of cars till 1992 when I built a tow truck and just stopped keeping track. Last recorded purchase was at 177 cars, usually bought broken or dead, fixed, driven for a while then sold to buy the next project. Cars were cheap, Gas was cheap, Fun times indeed.
When I was 17 I bought a 1966 Chevy 2, 2 door post L79 for the princely sum of $1800 . Marina Blue, with 29,000 or so miles. It got 6 miles to the gallon (high test only at .42cents a gallon)with 4.56 gears! Was a 1/4 mile terror, blew off a '69 Hemi/auto Roadrunner in Kincardine one night by 8 lengths!
-- Edited by ARCADIAN on Tuesday 25th of January 2011 08:46:18 PM
The first car I bought was a 72 Ventura, but before that a relative gave me a 65 Buick Special 4 door sedan with a 231 V6 - this long before the rest of GM embraced the V6. The car was a really good looking aqua on teal, and my father and I fixed it up a bit (brakes, exhaust, etc). After I started to use it I ran into 2 problems. 1. it sucked gas (just a few mpg), and 2. it had a hole in the gas tank that only allowed me to fill it up with a few gallons. Bottom line was I couldn't afford to drive it (this was just after the first OPEC price spike in 73/74)
The gas tank I could handle but I had no idea how to make the engine run to get any better than a few miles to the gallon. In hindsight I should have bought the abandoned 67 Bel Air next door an put its 250 6 in the Buick. But I was 16 and knew nothing about cars - didn't know where to start and my father didn't have the time.
I ended up selling it for $100.00. Later the same night I got a visit from the police as the car was in my name. The car was impounded; the buyer was a hard ticket who they picked up speeding back and forth across a residential street. I never got in trouble over it as I had a bill of sale, but other than visiting the car at the impound yard that evening I never saw it again. Always regretted that my lack of knowledge let this one get away from me.
1967 Chevelle, 14 years old. It took an couple of years to make it presentable. Did lots of learning with that car. 3 motors, 3 trans, 3 diffs, lots of tires and.........the good old days...
I was barely 16. I remember the color of my first car - Black and that it was a HUGE station wagon. 400 something engine. could spin the tires like crazy. Traded my ten speed for it! got to keep it all of three days (iver the weekend) 'cause my dad made me trade it back!!
I had a bit of a laugh reading these posts. Non of you guys real piece of ...... like me. I had an ex BC hydro K car. 1981 2.6L HEMI. It even had the hemi emblem on the fenders. Green on green with no options. The rear windows didn't even roll down. I was 16 and it kept me from walking in the rain or taking the 32 window coupe.
My first car was a 1954 chev 210 2dr at 14, but didn't pay for and never did drive it so doesn't count. First one I could drive was a 78 Ford Courier pick up, hand me down from my Dad, fix it you can drive it, so still doesn't count. Sold the Ford and bought a 78 Pontiac Phoenix 4dr for $300 when I was 18.
I was 16 years old, 91 S-10 brand new for $7000 (car loan from bank of Dad which was paid back in full!) kept her for 10 years and 200,000k. 2.5 4cyl (iron duke) and a 5 speed.... bullet proof!
-- Edited by goushdds on Monday 24th of January 2011 09:22:39 AM
I had the exact truck minus the box thing, black and all, 3 yrs old 3300.00, and deffinitely tuff. Slammed to the ground with Iroc mags. I loved that truck.
you guys got a real deal. Mine cost me $37,500 back in 96
-- Edited by 70 SS ACADIAN on Tuesday 25th of January 2011 07:18:03 PM
Ya but yours made 3 times the power!! SWEET, I still love those trucks...I guess you never forget your first eh! I'd love to come across a syclone or typhoon that is unmolested to add to my fleet. Or better yet a S-10 to put a LS series small block into!
-- Edited by goushdds on Wednesday 26th of January 2011 01:43:37 PM
I was 16 years old, 91 S-10 brand new for $7000 (car loan from bank of Dad which was paid back in full!) kept her for 10 years and 200,000k. 2.5 4cyl (iron duke) and a 5 speed.... bullet proof!
-- Edited by goushdds on Monday 24th of January 2011 09:22:39 AM
I had the exact truck minus the box thing, black and all, 3 yrs old 3300.00, and deffinitely tuff. Slammed to the ground with Iroc mags. I loved that truck.
you guys got a real deal. Mine cost me $37,500 back in 96
-- Edited by 70 SS ACADIAN on Tuesday 25th of January 2011 07:18:03 PM
Ya but yours made 3 times the power!! SWEET, I still love those trucks...I guess you never forget your first eh! I'd love to come across a syclone or typhoon that is unmolested to add to my fleet. Or better yet a S-10 to put a LS series small block into!
-- Edited by goushdds on Wednesday 26th of January 2011 01:43:37 PM
the picture of my Typhoon was taken last summer, It has 26,000 original miles on it.
56 Chev bel-air, 2 dr post. 260 6cyl, three on the tree. $125 1974 I was 15. Dropped a 327 in, broke lots of trans/diff's until I crashed it at 17. Bought a 55 2dr hardtop, and still have it.
Mine was an '88 Mustang LX 5.0L I turned 22 during the summer of '87 and I had just got my first full time job. Didn't want something used so I turned down a 1969 Boss 429 that a friend offered to me for 11,000$!
Looked at a few cars, Olds 442, Monte Carlo SS. The Camaro had just come out with their 350 TPI motor but it only was an automatic and I wanted a stick. Until my Dad and me went to City Buick/Pontiac on Vic. Park where we found a row of at least 10 Grand Prix 2+2's. It was love at first site but the more I looked at it I realized it wasn't that fast. So back to Ford we went.
Ordered my LX in Midnight Blue and was supposed to take delivery in 6-8 weeks. Well low and behold the car comes in and since we ordered it through the fleet manager someone else snuck in underneath us and sold it to someone else. So we ordered another one with a few different options and took delivery Dec. 16, 1987.
Still one of the fastest cars I've ever driven or rode in. I took it to Cayuga the next summer and went 14.16!!!
