'64 Olds 88....just like this one but red with a black interior.Didn't have it long,though....stupidly,I figured that I should sell it before reporting for BCT.Had lots of fun in that car!
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..
Ahhhh shucks, it was a 1973 Volkswagon.
1980 Ford Mustang my dad gave me when I got my DL in 1986. I drove the you-know-what out of it, and sold it in 1992 for $800 with a completely busted motor
'64 Olds 88....just like this one but red with a black interior.Didn't have it long,though....stupidly,I figured that I should sell it before reporting for BCT.Had lots of fun in that car!
1971 Olds Cutlass Supreme-loaded. Dark Green with a tan vinyl top, bucket seats, cruise control and an 8 track. WOW!
I brought mine new. It was a stick. Believe it or not the transmission went at 60,000.
1963 Corvair pick-up truck (orange in color) with a blown engine for $75. My dad had me buy this so we could pull the engine out and overhaul it together. He did this with all 5 of his sons. This is how I learned how to work on engines and every thing else mechanical. Shoot I even overhauled an automatic transmission with him a few years later. Anyway, I sold the Corvair a couple years later for $200 even, to an old couple that loved those trucks.
I remember gas being 29.9 cents per gallon back then.
The 1963 Chevrolet Corvair 95 Rampside Pickup offered a 105-inch truck bed. My first love.
1959 Ford Galaxie 500 (352 cdi/4-barrel, Purchased it in 1962 for $650.00. Gasoline was about .29 to .34 per/gallon.
A two door 1958 Chevy Biscayne. My Grandparents gave it to me . It was copper colored and I named it “ Harold “ after a boy I had a huge crush on in High School.
I drove it into the back of a station wagon stopped in the left lane at a green light waiting for a Fire Truck to pass the intersection. I had KFWB on full blast so I didn’t hear the siren. Station wagon probably saved my life, but not “Harold”
Gas was 35 cents at Shell in 1970 in L.A. County. What a joy that sweet car was.
62 Chev Bubble Top, 327, Honduras Maroon body, White top, Fawn interior. Bought it new in 62 for $1600.00. Light body and very quick.
1957 for me as well. But it was a Dodge that my dad had driven into the ground. Had the old push button automatic...but the interlock was broken--it would start in gear as soon as you turned the key.
Made for some wild accidental take-offs when I forgot to push the neutral button and turned the key in Drive or Reverse.
You can see the push button pod to the left of the steering wheel.
1953 Plymouth...gas was 29.9, followed by
1955 Ford
1959 Chevy Impala
1965 Mustang 2+2
1965 Impala SS396
1969 Camaro SS396
1967 El Camino SS396
1968 Camaro 327 RS
1972 Datsun 510
1988 Porsche 944
1979 Chevy Van
1989 VW Golf GTI
1967 Camaro
1980 Dodge
1984 Buick
1986 Mercury
1990 GMC Suburban
2000 Honda Passport
2005 Chevy Trailblazer
2007 Chevy Trailblazer
It was a car that I just HAD TO HAVE, and didn't even bother to test-drive it before laying out the two-hundred bucks.
It was on the way home that I realized the four-on-the-floor shifter wouldn't shift out of first gear.
Although I was 17, I cried like a baby...and learned my first "caveat emptor" lesson.
Boy, did my dad cuss that push-button shifting. Ha!! It was always fouling up.
A ‘67 Cougar, yellow with a black vinyl top. Gas across the border, in Texas, was as low as .14 a gallon.
‘67 Mustang convertable... Don’t remember the price of gas, but it went through alot of it.
‘42 Chevy Coupe. Paid $35 for it in ‘60.
The price was already on the way up then
1954 Morris Minor, purchaesd in 1964. Petrol was 3/6 a gallon (that's a real gallon, not the little US version)
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