Posted on 07/17/2008 1:06:26 PM PDT by Raineygoodyear
And do you remember what you paid for gas at that time?
My first car was a 1972 Pontiac Parisienne my dad gave to me in 1975, I have no idea how much I paid for gas but I do remember driving it for weeks without having to stop and put gas in it..
Yep. I was never a real mechanic, but I’ve replaced a lot of thermostats, spark plugs, belts, hoses, distributor cap/rotors and even adjusted a clutch or two. I had buddies who really knew what they were doing if I ever needed anything serious, but now, you hardly have to raise the hood any more, and if you did, you couldn’t do much under there without some special equipment.
65 Corvair with a push button transmission on the dash.
I had a 50cc motorcycle to get around on then, it held 1 gal. Gas was 29.9¢ and I filled the tank for a quarter and drove around all week.
A 1962 MGA.
It had a siezed-up enging and I bought it for $150.00. I took the engine apart, the piston rings had corroded to the cyl walls. I put on new rings and I was in business.
Here are some MGA pics. Mine never did look this good.
http://www.classic-british-cars.com/mga-car-pictures.html
Mine was a 1971 Ford Torino 500 with a 302. I paid $660.00 for it and had to buy a car if I wanted to drive.
I had a 1977 ORANGE AMC Gremlin. It looked like a rolling high top sneaker. It had a picture of a little Gremlin painted on it. (An AMC touch.) I drove it for the next 9 years. Straight shift...used to scare my friends on hills when the car would roll back. I wasn’t scared of anything in that car at the time. Now I’d probably be terrified to drive it.
If you can get your hands on one, and the body and chrome is in good shape and it has all the interior knobs, etc. it’d be worth having.
Mechanical parts to fix up that old GM stuff is dirt cheap. It’s the accessory type things, emblems, decals, mirror, trim that they charge an arm and a leg for.
When I redid the dash on my Impala, I took the whole thing out, had it sanded, then primed and repainted it myself. There was a decal on the inside cover of the glovebox that had weight limits, passenger recommendations, etc on it. I covered that puppy VERY CAREFULLY when I repainted, then uncovered it after the reinstall. New paint, original label. Very kool!
1986 Buick Century. Ol’ Blue was a good car.
I drove my VW 50+ miles to work one way. Never thought anything of it. I was earning about $400/month at the time. Lived at home. I traded it in on a VW convertible, but then went off to the Army & my mom drove that until I retuned home. I then traded that VW and bought a new AMC Javelin.
Some days I 'think' I recall it, lol.
My friend had one of those same cars in Blue with the White PinStripe, I think the Cops knew that Car all over the City it had some serious foot power!
1974 Mustang II. Bought it for $1700.00 after graduating high school.
Oh, and gas was around 50 cents a gallon back then.
Yeah, I paid $0.14 for regular at a place called Thonies on US 40 Hwy in Kansas City..
LOL!
Lovely grocery getter!
Is that the MKII version?
It was a sixties model- the story was it was bootlegged from Germany, hence the sidearm turnsignals. Still kind of wish I had kept it...
My first car was a 49 Mercury. I was a teenager, and bought it from my friend Joe Gibbs of NFL and NASCAR fame. We named it ‘My Blue Heaven’, it was Joe’s first car as well.
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