I think everyone has a soft spot for their first car. Mine was my 70 Buick Skylark I purchased at age 17. Many a class was skipped while I scoured the auto wreckers looking for parts. There was no internet So everything had to be purchased locally. I'm sure I've told this story before but I'll repeat it anyway. I paid $700 for it which was about $500 too much. She was pukey brown with a trashed whitish cloth interior. 

I would lust over Buick GS Stage 1 articles in "Guide to Musclecars" and "Musclecar Review". Well one day my drunk neighbor backed out of his driveway in his full sized Bronco and nailed the drivers fender. He gave me $400 which allowed me to buy a 70 GS parts car that was a treasure trove of parts (frame was rotted and it was a 350 car -the engine long gone) .

I couldn't wait to bolt on that hood and GS grille! The trunk lid was in better shape too. 

The auto wreckers yielded a decent pair of front fenders. I remember this photo like it was yesterday.

I remember hitting "Andy's Auto Wreckers" the day they opened after New Years 1987. They had just received a 71 Skylark with a MINT black interior. I got the front and rear seats, door panels, rear 1/4 trim panels and a pile of other bits for $75. Sure, they weren't buckets, but a split bench was almost as good. The steering wheel and dash pad came out of the GS parts car. A little bit of dye and the dash pad looked like new. 

Mechanically I swapped the transmission (and installed a shift kit) in my driveway. I remember ordering a dual exhaust from Canadian tire. I installed that in my driveway too. In fact everything was done without a garage and with hand tools. I remember swapping out a starter on my back in the driveway and doing a water pump replacement in the middle of January. I remember running into the house, running my hands under hot water to "thaw" them and heading back out to work. 

I eventually got the car painted Corvette yellow. I scored a nice set of Buick rally wheels from a neighbor and got some nearly new "Mach 60" radials from another neighbor. Life was good! 

Sadly the idiots I worked for didn't take enough tax off my pay and I got hit with a $1200 tax bill. I had to sell the car to pay it. 

I wonder if it survives? I did a VIN check on it a few years back and it was apparently painted Burgundy and was last registered in Stratford, Ont in 1989.

my 67 SD 396 325 auto was my all time favorite car - but I do have some 'warm water' and 'waterpump' stories too

I drove a 1960 Morris Minor of my mothers (did my drivers test in it) and a 1961 Pontiac Strato Chief 4 door of my Dads (1965-67)    neither were my first love

Bought a "new" 1968 VW in fall 67   was not my first love...  

From 1967 to 1979 I had a new car "every year"  (every year)   non were my first or any loves      

My first love was not my car  

It was a older friends in University  (I was in grade 11-12)  

 William (Will-Willy) Campbell ordered a new Pontiac    

It was my first love...  all through 1966 and 1967....  I was able to drive a "clone " of it on the same streets in 2006    

In 2011 the second love was lost.....

A love, never to be found again

In quick succession from age 18 I had a 64 Datsun, 64 Valiant, 68 Mitsubishi, 70 Hillman and 72 Toyota. I was 23 when I bought a used 75 Audi 100GL 1.9 litre 4sp manual. It was seriously uncool, an old man's car, but I loved it! Drove all over eastern Australia in it and kept it for 7 years until it got too badly sun damaged. (Our summers are the problem for car paint and interiors if you don't have a garage, though not as bad as your winters.) The few pics I have are small and blurry so I found some on the net of a similar one - though mine was RHD of course, and had a black interior.

My first car love and only. Had to sell it to go to College.

A '68 Olds 442 convertible, aqua/black ... like this one:

67BBSD wrote:

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thats a sad storey Carl - I was surprised you sold it - but on the bright side you got to have it

 

I'll check my lotto tickets tomorrow and let you know if we should go looking for another

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         Excellent     I have no concerns building another out of a Southern shell    Just need cash  

Those hood ornaments were always going missing, and damned expensive to replace...

First car was a 1956 Chevy Bel Air sedan with a 235 six and stick on the tree that i bought with money i made working the summer in 1975. I was 17 and very very green. The car ran but was a rusted mess. I never got the car on the road because it was way way over my head. I bought the car on sheer emotion and very little brains. The car came with a trunk and back seat full of extra parts that i used on other 55-56 Chevs i had owned latter and some parts i sold. I sold the car one year later for almost double what i paid and i kept all the extra parts. When i brought the car home i was in shock when my parents did not kill me over my madness. My dad had bought a new 1956 Chev 150 model sedan the last year that he was single. Maybe that was one of the reasons i was not executed for bringing home such nightmare. The other reason i am sure is that, playing with this vintage mess was better than smoking dope, beer drinking and getting girls into trouble. Cheers. George.

Mine would be my 69 2+2 that I got off my aunt in the spring of 77. $400, as it was "done" at 100k according to her.

Bought new in 69 as a company car for Tri-Don industries in Burlington, where my uncle worked. Came through Leggat's on Brant. Car pulled a trailer around the Cabot trail in 70, and blew the 350 climbing a hill. Engine replaced by GM in Sydney.

I was 15, turning 16 in July 77. My dad got everything certified at the local garage, needed an alignment, one wheel cylinder and the headlights aimed.

As soon as I got my beginners, I was on the road, usually with my best friend as my co-pilot. 

For two years, drove it everywhere. Added factory pre bent duals for $180. Flipped the breather for more power and had a riot with it. The car ran really nice. I remember the interior as being huge, as I was just a little guy then!

Sold it when I could no longer afford it. Had a big bad fine to pay. Saw it around later, totally trashed. Heard it was crushed.

Still dream about it, the dream has me going to see it in the barn I've stored it in all these years. I wake up pretty dissapointed.

I'd love to own another someday. Never saw a silver on black one with my own eyes again.

Thanks for reading.

Nice set of wheels. My friend's mom had one just like that (early 80s), got into an accident, then towed for scrap.

He got another one a few years later, same colour, beautiful car.

He had it for a few years and finally sold it. Didn't think he could restore it as perfect as he wanted.

I bought my 66 GP from him, same colour scheme.

Love the 65/66 model, the 69 is my second.

Of course, the early 60s are right up there too.

Hmm, ok, maybe anything Pontiac full size from the 60s. That's my final answer.