Your first car

My first car was purchased from my sister's BIL, when I was 16, for $900 bucks. It was a 1969 Chevelle Malibu with a mighty 307 CI V8. That sucker was loaded for '69. It was light green with a black vinyl top and rally wheels. (not mine in the picture, but identical)

Had a 2 speed powerglide floor shifter, power windows, power seats, A/C and was only 5 years old at the time. Of course it was the 70's, and I had to have some air shocks, wide tires, Cherry Bomb pipes and that lovely white angel hair in the rear deck with my triaxle Jensen speakers, ripping out the Doobie Brothers from my 8 track tape deck.

Oh how I mistreated that car, I wish I had been smarter, but i was just a dumb kid. Dad would just look at it and shake his head. Mom would say, "Well you're Daddy had to have his back bumper dragging the ground to look cool in our day." Which I still think looks good on the proper aged car.

The weird little rice burners that came after the muscle cars got phased out didn't make any sense to me. Wide but low profile tires that were pushed to their limit with spacers, those were odd looking to me. I'm stuck loving the old iron, like the '69 Mach I 428 CJ, 4 spd I got later in life, but sadly don't have anymore. Those days you could see a car's tail lights way out in front of you, and you knew what it was, year make and model.

Can't do that with many these days. Cool thread, making me wish I had that Chevelle again, in the condition it was in when I GOT it, not after I was through with it. Poor baby.........
 

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1957 Chevy

2door hard top , 283 .
She was 13 yrs old when I bought her off a soldier on his way to VN .
Sold her when I enlisted and gave the $700 to my Ma .

After thinking about it , I sold it for $400 not $700 .
 
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My first was a 1970 VW Beetle.
Only had it a few months before I was hit from behind while stopped at a red light. Don't have any before pictures.

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Bought a 1954 Chev Belair when I turned 16. Three on the tree and in great shape. Me and my buds went every where in that thing. Worked as a package boy in a grocery to afford gas and insurance. A friend of mine came up with the idea for us to drive to El Paso one weekend to see his girl friend. Lucky we didn't go because I had no idea how far it was and driving 8 hours one way was something I had no clue about. Another friend borrowed it one evening to go on a date He totaled it.
 
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56 chev belair with six banger, three on the tree
Dad got it for me to drive to hi school
We lived 18 miles in the country
First car I bought was a 1974 Chev Luv pick up, four banger, four speed
And a 74 Datsun 260 Z for my wife, six banger, four speed stick
 
'47 Chevy Fleetline

Jet black fastback with 12 miles of chrome.

99,000 miles when I bought it for $150 in August '69.

216 c.i.

3-on-the-tree with vacuum assist shifting -- not worth a darn first starting out when it was 40 below zero.

It had an auxiliary heater under the front seat that made the "living room couch" back seat mighty comfy at the drive-in movies!
 
57 Ford 4 door six in 1963. A real dog. The trans died on a Chicago expressway.
The shocks were so bad I couldn't go over 40mph. When I got the money, I upgraded to a 61 Pontiac LeMans Convertible. Nice little car. Many since then, some good, some bad.
 
1971 Olds Cutlass with the “Rocket 350” engine. 800 bucks. It served me well and faithfully through most of college, a year spent flunking out of USAF navigator training, then three years in Why-Not Minot.

I left it with my soon-to-be ex-wife, who gave it to my soon-to-be ex-mother-in-law. I never saw any of them again. I did miss the car.
 
Mine was a 1964 Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint. A 2600 cc twin cam, 6 cylinder, 5 speed transmission, Brown exterior, Cream color all leather interior, and front discs with finned aluminum drums on the rear. Mine had steel wheels while this one has wire wheels.
I learned how to swear in Italian real quick!
The only color photo I have of it and why I learned to swear in Italian while doing repairs to it.
 

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The year was 1960, my mother co-signed the note. The car was a 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk, gold and white in color, 160mph on the speedometer, 289 V8 with McCullough supercharger which was actually a blower that forced air into the carburetor. That car remains my favorite till this day.
 
1959 Ford Custom 300 tudor sedan. 144cid six-banger, 3 speed column shift. rubber mats, no headliner, bare bones. Had to install my own radio & clock. Wasn't much to look at, but it did have a manual choke. Started every morning, regardless how cold.
 
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