I gotta bring this thread up again. I've been all week finding this shot..... I not only bought this car, but it was the first car bought via a LOAN. Yep, the begining of a long beautiful relationship with banker(s). "The Grey Ghost" was a great Land Yaught, complete with it's own back seat heater with the core assy mounted in the trunk for winter ops. Certainly a lot of sheet metal on the unit, it sported a 400 CU In and a black vinyl interior. That interior really sucked on my trips to Penticton when it was plus 30 by 10 AM. Had it a couple of years. It hit 100,000 miles and I decieded to sell it off.
At 16, I bought a 1965 Meteor Rideau 4dr sdn for $85, filled it up with bondo, painted it with a paint brush and sold it for $475 on payments. One of the very few I ever made money on, lol.
At 16, I bought a 1965 Meteor Rideau 4dr sdn for $85, filled it up with bondo, painted it with a paint brush and sold it for $475 on payments. One of the very few I ever made money on, lol.
Hey Doug, this was my earlier posting in this thread:
I bought 2 cars under the age of 16, on 2 different occasions, and when my parents came home to find them in the driveway, they made me take them back. First one was a '65 Rideau 4-door, and the second one (that had to be towed/pushed in) was a '39 F**d pick-up. My first official purchase was a '74 Honda Civic, which I made into a rally car (3 Webers/intake, functional hood scoop, header, flexible air dam, bush bar with 5 fog/driving lights, rear spoiler off a Safari wagon). Wish I had a pic.
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Love this bring back old stuff.My first car was a 72 Duster 340cu 4 speed ,was 17 still in hight sckool i was the man LOL.Whit that pioner stero tape teck we rockt man back in1977 it was so far out hahaha
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other cars 1941b Dodge Truck 1935 Ford 3 window coupe 65 Acadian Covertible on going 73 Challenger Ralley
15 years old, March 77. Licenced a few months later.
My uncle Gordon Ashton, the original owner recieved this car from Leggat Pontiac Buick on Brant street Burlington (now Acura on Brant) in Feb 69' as a company car from the TriDon Corp in the same town. He drove the car as a company car till 73 when it became the family truckster. As a note, the original 350 early in it's life threw a rod...yes..threw a rod on the Cabot Trail while pulling fairly large popup camper. The car was towed to Sidney and had a replacement engine installed, at which point they they completed the trip 3 days late.
We all thought this car to be "Done" at the time. My god...If only I knew how good it looked when I sold it...
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
First car was this 1940 Ford at 16. No, those are not wrinkle slicks just a flat. It had a souped up flat head. I had to change the tranny (cluster gear) about 10 times plus about 4 axle shafts and key ways. God, did I get in trouble with this car. Younger years.
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First car was this 1940 Ford at 16. No, those are not wrinkle slicks just a flat. It had a souped up flat head. I had to change the tranny (cluster gear) about 10 times plus about 4 axle shafts and key ways. God, did I get in trouble with this car. Younger years.
Beauty! Did you mold in the rear fenders, add the lip around the wheel opening and build the rear roll pan? Looks like it was a Standard. Those 2-doors sure had sweet lines.
A buddy had a 40 Deluxe Coupe with a Cadillac motor when I had my Model A - another buddy had a 32 pickup chopped/channelled/cycle fenders with a Chrysler Hemi - we had a last back then!
Dave
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1956 Pontiac Pathfinder 2dr sedan, 496 - dyno'd 545 hp, stick shift, 4.11 posi - Hot Rod
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!!!
Shoulda ordered a g 92 optioned 1le 5 speed camaro. No problem dusting the 5.0 fords.
I was 17 in 1970. I had quit high school and started out as an apprentice electrician. I bought a 66 chevelle ss396 for $1600.00. 4 speed 360hp. and like most young kids back then I drove the wheels off that thing. Geeez, I wish I could have that car back and treat it a lot better. I also remember my insurance for that car was $400.00 I had to make payments on that too. lol
I gotta bring this thread up again. I've been all week finding this shot..... I not only bought this car, but it was the first car bought via a LOAN. Yep, the begining of a long beautiful relationship with banker(s). "The Grey Ghost" was a great Land Yaught, complete with it's own back seat heater with the core assy mounted in the trunk for winter ops. Certainly a lot of sheet metal on the unit, it sported a 400 CU In and a black vinyl interior. That interior really sucked on my trips to Penticton when it was plus 30 by 10 AM. Had it a couple of years. It hit 100,000 miles and I decieded to sell it off.
i passed my licence in a brown one like that, no vynl top
my first car was an 85 monte carlo X cop car that i had given to me (took it to school and built it into a stockcar) then i bought a 86 monte carlo no motor and tranny to replace said 85 monte for $400 sold the pair for $600 but my first street car i bought myself was a 95 sunfire 4dr 2.2 for $1200 i was 14 when i got my 85 15 when i got my 86 and 17 when i got my sunfire
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Bought a 64 four door Falcon, 6 cyl, 3 on the tree in a sealed-bid estate auction for $101.01. It had 42000 miles on it. Next day, second place bidder called to offer me $200 (his bid was $100)
That was a lot of money to me back then. I was pulling chokers in a logging camp summers and school holidays for a buck-an-hour.
Drove the daylights out of that thing for 4 years, then my brother tried to do it in for another 3 years. He finally cracked the block - no antifreeze, 30 below...
Went halfers with a buddy on my first car, a '54 Ford sedan delivery. I was 15 he was 14. The car had some serious rot and and a a non running flathead 8, but we had dreams. I dont think either one of us really wanted the car but we had picked a hot southern Ontario summer day to walk from Aurora up younge to the far side of Holland Landing to look at it, and we didnt want to walk home. We figured if we bought it the guy would give us a ride. He did. This was back in the summer of '77.
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The first car I bought was in 1978, a 1957 Chevrolet 150 4 door sedan. Bought in Leader Saskatchewan, and drove it back to Calgary. It was a 283 2 bbl, 3 speed standard. Surf Green, with the cobblestone interior.
I drove the Chevy for a while that fall, before parking it and drove my mom's 1970 454 Parisienne as a daily driver. The following summer I sold the Chevy I bought the Parisienne. I still have the motor from the Parisienne, it's in my 70 2+2 convertible.
1956 Chevrolet Belair four door sedan, 235 six cylinder with 3 speed stick on the tree. Bought in 1976 when i was 17. Car was rough but it ran. I was really green and bought the car on sheer emotion. I soon realized i had bought a body mans nightmare and sold it a year later. Drove the car around the block a few times and never got it on the road. It was a start to a long road of many old Chevys. Cheers. George.
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1957 Pontiac Pathfinder Deluxe sedan restored 261 six
1974 Chevrolet Caprice Estate wagon low mileage original 400 V-8
my first car was a 1954 pontiac 2dr post went by it every day on the way to school,it was covered in green slime and 4 flat tires but managed to talk the owner into selling it to me for the pricey sum of $40 bucks and he towed it home,I was 14 and so it began.
My first car at 18 was a '67 Chevelle SS 396 4spd that I paid $3000 for.I had the choice of that car or a '57 Chevy 210 that had been cloned to Project X look-a-like.I had no idea what it was so I bought the Chevelle instead.The '57 was a 6-71 blown small block.The Chevelle lasted only about 2 hrs as I blew the motor up that same night.I was working in the coal mines and money wasn't an issue so I scrapped the car and sold the M-22 for $20(2 cases of beer back then).The 12 bolt I got $175 for.I then bought a '71 Chevelle and put an LS-5 in it that I found in my home town.Couldn't get the motor to run right so I gave the car to my buddy.Young and foolish......Looking back I should've bought the '57.The fella I bought the '67 from was a Buick Stage 1 collector-'70-'71.Had quite the collection and I heard he passed away a few years back due to having a hole in his heart,cocaine I heard was the result.Don't know where they ended up!
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"No matter how much you change, you still have to pay for the things you've done".
My first car was a royal blue '67 Acadian two door. In retrospect, it's a cool car today. Back in the day it just didn't measure up to the chevelles, torinos and GTOs of the day. It had a 307 (which I could not kill, and I tried very hard.) Two-speed powerglide transmission (I could drive about 60 in first gear) Bench seat. Typical kid back then I wanted something else. I was 19 or so. No real desire to buy another but when I took my friends '69 GTO for a drive now that was smooth car. Later, the Beaumont bug got a hold of me and I ended up finding a '69 two door 307 again somewhere and I had it for a year or two. I didn't seem to be attached to cars back then like I am now. If the motor blew up, a salvage yard motor was put in, if the muffler broke, one was welded on, holes were fixed with pop rivits, sheet metal and welding coat hangers. My personal favorite was "black undercoat" Today, we have emissions testing, composite body panels and four-banging sewing machines engines in cars the size of golf carts. As a result, we are supposed to be happier, safier and more effiecient. We probably are better off each and every day, but it's still not the car I WANT to drive everyday, it becomes the car you drive everyday.
Ha, ha. You've had a lot of odd dealings with many "1st." cars Carl! What about the Moonshine Runner you bought at age ten?
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
My first car was a 1975 Olds Cutlass S with a baby V8 260 at the age of 22 years old back in November 1986, I was a late boomer because I was boozing and smoking too much weed in my teens, dad wouldn't let me get a car I thank him to save my life ...
1956 Pontiac Pathfinder 2dr sedan, 496 - dyno'd 545 hp, stick shift, 4.11 posi - Hot Rod