Car Brochures...Check out your first car

[DeathGrip]

Here's mine. It was a 3 on the tree 240. It may have reached 70 mph downhill with a strong tailwind, but I still miss it.

My Dad bought this one new in '66 in Atlanta.

It had a 352 and 3 on the tree but now has a '69 390 and a 4 speed top-loader. Later model power disc, power steering and AC. and lots of rust.

We have another cab in the garage that we got from Az.

He's unable to do anything with it and I don't have the place to do it. I'll hate to sell it but just might. I grew up in that truck.

 

[Mydogmax]

Not my first but certainly my favorite when a teenager. 1968 442 olds. Wow is that thing big.

 

[labworm]

Great thread with lots of eye candy.

My first was a 57 Chevy, but I did get to cruise the highway in this bought used 1965 Riviera for I think 4 years.

Had a buzzer setting on the odometer which you set for speed, warning you, otherwise you wouldn't know if you were going 50 or a 100 MPH, one smooth ride.

 

[max]

Found mine, 1965 Sport Fury.
http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/plymouth/65fu/bilder/3.jpg

 

[perrazi]

mine was 62 corvair. I don't want it back.

 

[sureshotbob]

Not my First but my first New car that I ordered new at 18 years old was a 1973 Dodge Challenger Rally Sport.Not a very good picture but it's all I have.

 

[Smitty357]

My dads first when he was younger and my weekend driver to this day. The 1967 Camaro RS with a few goodies. Nothing can compare to driving around town in this with my dad next to me in the passenger seat. Great father/son times that I will forever cherish. He and my Niece drive it around occasionally. It brings a smile to my Niece's face every time her paw paw reaches over and holds her hand shortly before he spins the tires. My Niece has decided she will drive this to her Senior prom (when the time comes).

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Found it! 67 Pontiac Catalina. Bought it off my grandparents. Only car I wish I still had. Miss them both.

 

[BobC357]

They didn't have mine -- a 1967 Ford Fairlane 500
But, I have the memories of that car. I would probably be driving it today if a drunk kid hadn't T-boned it. 496,000 miles on it and it had never been in the shop. 28 MPG of regular gas with a 289 HP engine too.

 

[Old TexMex]

Both my firsts.
From the ridiculous: 59 Chevy in pea soup green
To the sublime: 66 Pontiac Bonneville in Marina Turquoise. Magnificent Mamacita Magnet.

 

[shouldazagged]

First new car--didn't bother looking for the used ones before that--a 1960 Falcon wagon, mint green. I was newly married and making ridiculously little money, so a fancier ride was out of the question.

 

[wbraswell]

My first car looked better than the ones in the brochure.

 

[GKC]

I found mine:

http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/ford/fr53d/bilder/3.jpg

1953 Ford Mainline Tudor Coupe, with a flathead V-8 (that made a whopping 110 HP!) Mine was 12 years old when I got it in 1965, and had been rode hard and put away wet. It had a cracked cylinder and no floor board on the driver's side...but it was my car.

 

[LVSteve]

My first car was a British GM model so no luck on that page. However, I did find this on the 1966 Valiant like my Dad had when posted to the US. This one is a two-door like ours and in the same colour.

Big B Gill's 1966 Plymouth Valiant

I wanted Dad to get a Barracuda so bad I could taste it.

I think we rented one of these. http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/dodge/do68/bilder/4.jpg At the time, Britain had smaller aircraft carriers.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

My first Ford was a '29 Model A. Didn't find the body style in the brochure that I had. Mine was a Panel sedan. Solid steel where the rear windows were. Single door in the rear. Mine was owned by a flower shop in Oakland, Ca. But I did find a pic of a '39 Ford convertible I owned later on.

 

[gfy1960]

Not exactly "cool". But it was mine.

 

[RonJ]

Big B Gill's 1966 Plymouth Valiant[/URL]

Steve, I had an identical car except in light green. Mine had the smaller engine (IIRC 170 CID)). It could barely outrun a VW Beetle. Yea, I tried it once and we stayed fender to fender.

 

[LVSteve]

Mine had the smaller engine (IIRC 170 CID)).

Yep, I'm pretty certain I recall a conversation about taking back a "huge, 2.8 litre car" to the UK when the posting ended.

 

[4506517]

Found my 1986 Cavalier RS

I thought I was living high on the hog

 

[rimfired]

Didn't have my Willys 57 Overland. Sad but true.