The car you wish you still had.

[bobcat]

1970 Challenger R/T, 383 slapstick auto with a factory 8 track, man, would that thing move back in the day when Montana had no daytime speed limit, but college costs & rising gas in 1977 meant the end of it for me. Sigh...

 

[Igiveup]

I really miss my first car, a 1948 Willys pickup, with a 1953 OH 4 cylinder engine. That thing would do sixty on a good day.

 

[Bullseye Smith]

.63 Chevy with a 409 and a 4 speed on floor. That baby could rock, took $5 in gas a day to drive to school - 10 miles at .35 cents per gallon. Heck it would cost $25 today

 

[feralmerril]

Dunno, this would be one of them.

 

[Ron H.]

Originally posted by feralmerril:
Dunno, this would be one of them.

Heck with the T/A--look at that Duo-Glide!

Cars are nice and all, but those old FLs ... mmm, mmm, mmm.

Semper Fi,

Ron H.

 

[feralmerril]

That harley was a 64. I bought it from a friend for $1,500. Didnt really need it at the time as I also had a 69 dresser, but it was a good deal. That was about 1981. A couple years later I sold it for $2,500. A couple years after that, I seen the guy try to sell it for $10,000!

 

[feralmerril]

Here is another picture of it, and another of a 63 I had years ago. Belive it or not, I think I put close to 150,000 miles on that 63! Also a picture of the 69.

 

[Ron H.]

Sir, good on ya--I've long wanted a four-speed FL. I still have my '81 FX (bought it for $3,500 in '87 and thought I was getting ripped off), but it's just not the same.

Semper Fi,

Ron H.

 

[Hamden]

1957 Chrysler 300C

 

[Revolver-time]

1965 Corvette convertible, 4 speed, 327, red with black interior and top.

 

[nh40ve]

the one vehical i wish i still had was my old 88 jeep wrangler,3" body lift,33x12.5 BFGs and desert camo paint job.was suppose to have 4cyl but had a 302 straight 6 put in by previous owner..
only problem it hd was sputter at idle and didn't like reverse(kept popping out)

 

[686_was_my_first]

I wish I kept my first car. It was a 1982 Chevy Monte Carlo loaded with T-Tops and custom wheels from GM. It had a 267 CI V8 so I got 18mpg. I kept my Monte Carlo for 8 years and put 175,000 miles on it. It only let me down once (some electronic module blew) and I had to change the water pump every 50,000 miles.

 

[mk70ss]

My 69 Chevelle 396 SS.

 

[Jerry N.]

My first Buick Grand National (1987) was stolen with 1500 miles on it. The second one (replacement) I kept until around 60K miles and it got stolen. Apparently someone wants these cars more than I did and outside of shooting someone with my S&W, I figured it wasn't worth the trouble of replacing it again. I did really like that car. It often caught people by surprise at how fast it was.

 

[Raider]

I miss my 1957 Alfa Romeo Guilietta convertible. It was well used when I bought it and I spent almost as much time wrenching it as I did driving it but it was a chick magnet supreme. Very fast and it cornered like oil in a pipe. It died of a blown engine and I had no money to fix it. Sorry, no photos.

Charlie

 

[DGNY]

My [bought by dad] first car was a 1931 Ford Tudor Deluxe Model A, late series with indented firewall. Learned to drive on that, learned to tinker and work on a car with it...

Or my wine-colored Sept '65 Mustang coupe with 289, 3-speed on floor, factory heavy duty suspension, which was traded in '68 for a station wagon to carry new baby!

Either car would do.

Regards,

Dyson

 

[David LaPell]

My 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger with the 318. I bought the car from an old timer who was a retired transit worker from NYC. It was originally Plum crazy purple that had been painted over in a blue. I was in the process of restoring it when some teenage kid rode his bike out in front of me. It was either take the ditch or hit the kid. I put the car up on its driver side. We rolled it over and drove it home. But the next time inspection came around, it looked like someone had taken the unibody by the left rear quarter and tore it like a sheet of paper. I just didn't have the place of the money to fix all the damage, so down the road it went.

 

[ladder13]

1972 Corvette ragtop, 454 cu in, 4 speed, steel city grey. Sold it for $3,300 in 74'.

 

[handejector]

When gas hit $4.50, I wished I'd had the Karmann Ghia I paid $110 for, and drove home!

I wish I'd bought the Ferrari the guy offered me for $2200 that I test drove, but it smoked a little, and had a cracked windshield.........

The one I would like to have back the most is a metallic blue 67 Fairlane GTA, 390 HiPo. Ah, memories......

Five of us kicked in $10 apiece, and bought a 57 Ford from a front yard dealer for $50 that I would like to have. We bought it for "Senior Night". My High School had a Senior Day toward the end of the year- kind of a costume party for Seniors. A bunch of the Seniors would usually stay up the night before at parties and bonfires, etc. The next morning, the principal always arrived to find the old orange and white saw horses that had flashing lights to warn of road hazards on the roof of the school, and various road signs and city limit signs decorating the grounds. (don' know nuthin' bout eeny of dat

) We used the 57 to hit all the parties/bonfires we knew of. The car suffered a lot of wear and tear that night.....the next day, we sold it to a junkyard for $20!

 

[Muddyboot]

The 1963 Impala that I had back in my high school days. A great car for dating and hauling around friends.