.....;Posted on 05/31/2014 7:27:43 AM PDT by virgil283
My first car was a Belair, four door with the big six. It might have been rusty but I waxed and polished it just the same......
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Wow! You owned a Beetle with the old “mox nix sticks”. By the time I got to Germany in 1968, those signals were ausser betrieb (banned) & cars with them had to be converted to blinkers. At autobahn speeds the semaphores would extend out by themselves.
IIRC the fiftie’s engine was 36 hp, then in 1960 upped to 40 hp, later 50 hp, and in 1967 a “ferocious” 53 hp.
Lots of Beetle fans on this thread, BTW.
1964 Pontiac GTO hardtop w/ tri-power & 4 speed. The car was 3 years old when I bought it and had been driven hard, but it was fast as hell. Then I got drafted into Sam’s Green Machine and had to sell it.
I still dream about that car.
Probably. The Army’s M151 Jeep had a filler cap there; because the driver sat on top of the gas tank. After awhile, we got used to it and didn’t pay it much mind. Not too much, anyway...
Actually LOL'd at the 'Lucas refrigerators' comment upthread.
The politics make me need to shower off the slime, but stuff like this is one of the best parts of FR, imho.
1958 Impala. Anniversary Gold. Bought it in 1961. Got drafted in 1964. My father sold it and gave the money to my sister who just got married.
I’ve been “car broke” ever since.
1948 Chrysler New Yorker Club Coupe Straight 8 Fluid Drive. 8 Miles Per Gallon on a good day.
“wow, so many nice cars people had. Mine was a white 1985 Ford Escort. Nothing to tell stories about, unfortunately.”
Mine was a $50 1972 Ford Maverick with three different colors of body panels, that never had an exhaust system the entire time I owned it.
Starting in the morning was like fogging for insects, it burned so much oil. The radio was wired through the light in the floor shifter, you had to turn the running lights on to listen to the music. Drove it all through High School.
followed by…
My first was a Rolls Can’ardly...
(Rolls down one hill and can ‘ardly make it up the next.)
But seriously folks. It was a 1964 Corvair Monza, deemed by Ralph Nader as unsafe at any speed. Of course when I totaled it, the lack of an engine in the front meant it absorbed the shock and prevented my girlfriend and I from exiting through the front window. No seat belts, just a mild bump on the head. Sorry, Ralph.
Hmmm. I believe that should be "my girlfriend and me." We are not longer together. I don't think she was a big fan of my driving. Or my grammar, for that matter.
1961 Bugeye Sprite here with a romping stomping 43 hp. Always hated you guys with the high hp sports cars!!! LOL
Not the first, but the best car I ever owned was a 1985 Audi 5000s (non-Turbo Inline 5) that I bought for almost nothing in college, just after leaving the AF. Drove it for several years after, too. The older woman that owned it was terrified by the “Sudden acceleration” media nonsense of the time, and was happy to be rid of it.
Other than the perpetual air-conditioner problems, it was the car you simply could not kill. Drove it cross-country three times, to Florida from Indiana numerous times, to weekend drill over 100 miles away at least once a month, and everywhere else.
My best memory of it was driving on I-64 in Eastern Kentucky during the 1993 “Blizzard of the Century”, and waving at the State Trooper with chains on as I passed him. It started every single morning during that record cold winter, even at -35.
Got married shortly after that, and the wife wanted a car in which the AC could actually be predicted to work, when you needed it. I put new injectors in it once, a wheel bearing, brake pads, and a few sets of mis-matched used tires over the course of 240,000 miles.
1977 Jeep CJ7, except not this fancy. Inline 6, 4-speed standard shift on the floor.
Beat the hell out of that thing.
1974 Monte Carlo.
(sorry for the double post. I “had” to)
Austin Healey 100/6 or 3000? Ex husband & I had a 1959 100/6- red & black. I still miss the sound of that exhaust.
‘62 MGA 1600 MKII.
Now you’re talking.
Personal responsibility!!!!!
That was so darn funny I can hardly breath from laughing!
HOW DARE YOU!!! Who do you think you are?
Yeah, I can see why.
Ouch.
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