(I'm turning 40 in January. The wife has gotten the car out of storage and is having my brother get it road worthy again, but I'm not supposed to know, okay?)
This one is pretty close to it in it's heyday, but I think this is a GTX.
Posted on 12/13/2005 11:29:16 AM PST by laney
I thought this would be an interesting thread, finding out the first car freepers ever had.
If you have a picture of it post it as well!
First car I was loaned to drive at my teenage leisure-
1973 Opel Stationwagon (in 1982). It had AM radio, no AC, a swinging rearview mirror that would fall into my lap as I was driving down the road, the frame squeaked LOUDLY, and the horn sounded like a dying cow!
First car I ever purchased-
1987 Honda Accord LX.
I LOVED that car and drove it to death!
(I'm turning 40 in January. The wife has gotten the car out of storage and is having my brother get it road worthy again, but I'm not supposed to know, okay?)
This one is pretty close to it in it's heyday, but I think this is a GTX.
Metal-flake blue 1971 Dodge Demon with white vinyl roof
That 327 was a hell of an engine. I had a Jeep (Kaiser) with a Chevy 327 in it. Strong, strong motor.
My first was a '53 Plymouth 2 door Businessman's Coupe with 3 on the column, holes in the floorboard (which was neat if a girl was sitting there and the wind would catch her dress!), ugly battleship grey, but ran like a top. I bought it from a old man for $50.00, put on new tires (blemished tires from Sears @ $8.00 a piece), and drove it for seven wonderful years, put on 175,000 miles, and sold it to a fellow for $200.00. He still has it, and has 387,000 miles on it and only rebuilt the engine once. I smile a lot when I see it going down the highway.
'71 Toyota Corolla. Bought it from this college girl. Had one of those gay rainbow stickers in the rear window. I didn't know what it meant. Drove that d*mn car for three years with that sticker on the back. Explains a lot of weird looks I got back then. :-)
I was so cool! :)
Oh, the stories. ...like two speeding tickets in 5 mins.
Got a speeding ticket leaving a speading ticket. ...the original was 85 in 55 with 96 circled on the side.
1967 Chevy Impala Coupe - tan. Three on the column, steel dashboard, horn ring, bench seating front and rear...and built like a tank. 283 short block V-8 that averaged about 15mpg; but who cared as gas was about $0.399 per gal.!
'89 Ford Probe
1976 Ford F-250 pickup
Little tiiiny 4x4. It did pretty well in the snow!
LOL... Frankenchrist!
Thanks!
That was a once-in-a-lifetime find.
I was 15 years old when my dad saw it in a lady's garage in Enfield, NC.
She was the original owner, and the car had 71,000 documented miles.
My first car was a used, 1975 Ford Pinto stationwagon, brown with fake (peel & flake) woodgrain panels down both sides.
I was still on active duty in the Navy and had very little money for a car. I bought it in late 1979 for $1500.00 ($500 down and financed $1,000 for one year through the Navy Credit Union) and it had 75,000 miles on it at the time.
A year and a half later, it had 148,000 miles on it and I got $1000 trade in on a new car. Yep you guessed it, another Ford, (An EXP) which at the time was quite the chick magnet!
'66 Newport
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