The cars we drove in the '50s and '60s.

[PALADIN85020]

Here's a pretty well done trip down nostalgia road! Only hiccup was playing a song about a Nash Rambler while illustrating a Nash Metropolitan. But I'm picky! You'll enjoy this one.

The Cars We Drove In The 50s & 60s

 

[RonJ]

I don't get to say this very often but I was a little too young. I remember my Dad and his brother talking about my uncles '57 Chevy Bel-Aire with V8 engine. My Dad claimed his '53 Lincoln Cosmopolitan would out run it. We never found out.
I bought my first car in 1970, a '64 Corvair Monza with three on the floor. Far from a speed demon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HSgVOCBld4

The car in the link is exactly like Dad's, but Dad's car was like new.

 

[Raider]

My first car was a crapped out 1957 Alfa Romeo. I really didn't know any better and I just had to have it. Spent almost as much time wrenching it as I did driving it but it was a chick magnet supreme. I miss that old car.

Charlie

 

[PDL]

Only have two questions - Hey buddy, how do you get this car out of second gear.
And what ever happened to that little old lady from Pasadena.

 

[michael thornton]

well 100,000 miles and they were ready for the junk yard

 

[deadin]

Only had one car in the '50s, a '49 Plymouth coupe.
In the '60s it was a '59 TR3, then a '62 MG1100 (Got married and had a kid, the TR3 just didn't fit anymore.)
Also in the '60s had a '47 Jeep CJ2, a '64 Sprite and a '67 Pontiac Executive.

 

[cp1969]

1957 Ford 300 business coupe with McCulloch-supercharged 312, two four barrels, 3 speed overdrive. Very, VERY rare car. Then, a brand new 1969 GTO.

Nothing like that since.

 

[n4zov]

Two stand out. A '57 Ford Fairlane 312 CID 4V that I put 130,000 miles on and then a '65 Mustang 2+2 fastback 289 4V with 4-speed and disc brakes. The first 2+2 anywhere around and it really drew a crowd. The good old days!

 

[feralmerril]

1942 studebaker commander was my first.

 

[model70hunter]

57 Ford Fairlane, 312 T-Bird motor, 3 on the tree with over drive. Later a 67 Chevelle 396 SS followed by a Cuda with a built 340. Also about 10 jeeps.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

First car was a 1929 Model A Ford. In 1954 I bought a new F-100, V-8 & overdrive, $1988.00 out the door. Now 1988 won't make a down paytment.

 

[cowboy117]

My first car was a crapped out 1957 Alfa Romeo. I really didn't know any better and I just had to have it. Spent almost as much time wrenching it as I did driving it but it was a chick magnet supreme. I miss that old car.

Charlie

1957 Alfa totally tricked out.Was at the Medford Or.car show this weekend and took a pic of this great car.He races it at Thunderhill in Willows Ca.Enjoy.

 

[cowboy117]

Two stand out. A '57 Ford Fairlane 312 CID 4V that I put 130,000 miles on and then a '65 Mustang 2+2 fastback 289 4V with 4-speed and disc brakes. The first 2+2 anywhere around and it really drew a crowd. The good old days!

I had the same car['65 Mustang]Dynasty Green,new,but without the disc brakes.The first fastback in K.C.


I just watched the video.Fantastic!!!!!!

 

[SWID]

Hey Paladin it's also a long way from San Pedro, with an awful lot of LA in between, to the Grapevine, and the real Grapevine is not I-5. I'm not recomending anything but doing it with a Coors in one hand and the steering wheel in the other was adventure.

The good old days, when cars came out of the factory so bad that improving them was easy and cheap. My first was a '52 Pontiac that an older friend talked me into buying (for I think $100.00) so he could put an Olds engine in it. How I'm still alive I don't know.

 

[mgo]

One of my cars in high school was a '48 olds torpedo back with the straight 8 motor. It was green, and very slow and really large, so my classmates called it the "dinosaur".

This was the last year before Oldsmobile came out with the overhead cam V-8, as I remember.

Calling performance from this car "leisurely" is being kind.

 

[rlsbee]

I've never been able to give up those old cars. I've had a bunch of 'em. Some of 'em weren't so hot 'cause they were 'fixer uppers' and I didn't have much to do the 'fixin up' with, but I still enjoyed 'em. My only one now is pretty nice, though. A '68 Dodge Super Bee with a warmed up 383. Only has 63K original miles.

 

[Marksman]

My first car was a '57 Volkswagon Beetle with a 36 hp. engine, drove it back and forth to college spent the grand sum of $2.00 a week for gas. The car was the last of the classic VW's with the small oval rear window, it was a deluxe model as it had a fuel gage. The standard models required the driver to gage the fuel in the tank with a little wooden stick. Not to worry if you were absent minded though as it had a reserve tank you could actuate with a lever on the firewall giving you just enough fuel to make it to the filling station.

 

[Raider]

I'm jealous. No, not really. I would love to see the car in person and maybe drive it.

Charlie

1957 Alfa totally tricked out.Was at the Medford Or.car show this weekend and took a pic of this great car.He races it at Thunderhill in Willows Ca.Enjoy.

 

[cowboy117]

Raider,here's the interior.

 

[JcMack]

I had a '65 Corvette that was the first year for them with 4 wheel disc brakes. Calipers were a two piece deal with 2 pistons per side. Total of 16 pistons for four wheels. What a nightmare to rebuild. Girls loved the car. No A.C. though, and to keep the car low to the ground they ran the exhaust pipes in the drive shaft tunnel. This made the interior extremely hot in the summer. Girls would not allow me to put the top down as that would mess up "bubble" hair do. One little lady actually passed out from the heat. I always wanted a '55 Nomad. Closest I got was a '56 Safari.