The First Three Cars You Owned

[CajunBass]

1964 Ford Falcon, 4 door.
1969 Ford Mustang
1970 Chevy Bel-Aire, 4 door.

I don't know that I ever had any pictures of them.

 

[CW Spook]

1959 VW beetle, 1953 Ford Victoria, 1962 Chevy II Nova Convertible. Lots of good memories in the last two...

 

[medxam]

1928 Ford model A, 2 door sedan
1940 Plymouth, 2 door sedan
1960 Renault Dauphine, 4 door sedan

medxam

 

[LTC]

Well, I haven't seen one listed older than my first one;

1929 Chrysler 75 Royal 4 dr Sedan with dual side mounts (1963)


This is the actual car, two owners and 50 years later. It didn't look this good when I owned it.

#2 was a used 1958 MGA 1500 roadster (1964)

#3 was a 1955 Jaguar XK140 MC 3.4L coupe with overdrive (1965)

 

[Marshwheeling]

1957 MGA roadster.

1958 Ford Galaxie, with a dago rake, 352 Interceptor motor, good set of snows, a 5-tone paint job, Town and Country tuning on the radio, 4-way power seats that worked, a chrome shift knob, and bodywork that said "nothing left to lose". I just looked like I wanted to change lanes, and a space appeared.

1967 Volvo 122s.

 

[galena]

1949 Plymoth, 1955 Chevy 1/2 ton PU, 1958 Ford Fairlane. Story on the '49 Plymoth: I got it for $75 during my Junior year of HS (1960/61). My best buddy had a '49 Mercury. We lived a little over a mile east of town. We would start for town and he could come up behind me, put his front bumper against my back bumper and push me faster than I could make the Plymoth go...............that really chapped my cheeks!!!! All three vehicles are long gone, best buddy is long gone. I wish he was back and the '55 Chevy PU.

 

[Bert Man]

1. 1956 Chevy Belaire with Power Pack ( used two qts. of oil a week)

2. 1956 Ford Fairlane

3. 1965 Chevelle SS

 

[foxeye]

My first car was a 47 Packard with straight 8 engine, 2nd car was a 50 Mercury Club Coupe and the third was a 56 Caddy Sedan de ville with the gold trim I bought from the local undertaker cheap. Very low mileage on it. Then in 67 joined the army and got a 56 Oldsmobile with about 1,000,000 miles on it, and drank oil like crazy, but it burned MOGAS jusst fine in that V8 and made many many trips from Ft. Knox to Louisville and back most every weekend.

 

[sheepdawg]

66 289 Ford Mustang coupe, automatic, blew the motor up

71 340 Dodge Demon, 4 speed, how I lived is beyond me, that thing would scream. To much trouble with alternators and the police.

71 350 Olds Cutlass Supreme, automatic, not as fast as the Dodge but a beautiful car that would run pretty decent. Kept it for at least 30 years till someone came up with a nice chunck of money to buy it. Lots more than I paid for it.

 

[brucev]

1st... 1974 Nova. LOVED that car.
2nd... 1976 Pinto. Gave the Nova to my wife.
3rd... 1985 Madza GLC. One of the best cars I've ever owned.

 

[pharmer]

1960 Rambler American-junked it.
1964 Chevy Impala-nice-wrecked it.
1963 Chevy BelAir-paid $125 for it drove it 2 years/50K miles, got stolen, got it back, sold it for $125. Joe

 

[deadin]

'49 Plymouth Coupe, '59 TR-3 and a '63 MG 1100.

 

[arjay]

51 Ford pick up (1970),68 VW bus with shag carpet and plaid curtains (1973),79 Toyota pickup (my first new car)

 

[Toyman]

In 1965 when I turned 16 I was allowed to buy a 1960 Rambler Classic 4 door 6 cylinder 3 speed on the tree and no radio. My grandparents traded it in on new Rambler Ambassador.
Then a 1965 Comet convertible and a 1968 Chevy El Camino.

 

[JcMack]

'60 Pontiac Catalina
'63 Pontiac Catalina
'66 Pontiac Catalina

 

[Vegetaman]

Since I ain't old enough to have had 3... yet...

1996 Pontiac Bonneville

She lasted well past 215,000 miles.

 

[David LaPell]

1965 Chevy Biscayne 2 door with a 250 inline six
1976 Plymouth Duster with a 318 that had been redone, an ex drag racing car.
1971 Dodge Dart Swinger with a 318 and an automatic, was originally plum crazy with a black vinyl top and black stripes before the previous owner repainted it. I loved driving it and it was quicker than it looked.

 

[rags]

'65 Buick LeSabre (Grandma's, Trunk slept 6 comfortably. Blizzard of '78....No wories!)
'76 Pinto (Baby Blue hatchback)
'75 Nova (the year they boxed the body. 3 speed on the tree. Unleaded!)

 

[foxeye]

Actually I had cars long before I was of age to legally drive. The ones I listed previously were all street legal, and I obtained from age 16 on. But my first cars were an old Hupmobile, a Star, and a Maxwell. They had narrow 4" tires and wood spokes, and inline 4 cylinders with flathead. Used to use them on bush roads etc. and with the 36" high or 42 inch high tires on them were just about unable to get stuck. Could not afford tires on the old Maxwell so I used old tire pieces inside the tires and filled with sand, no air and no flats ;-) If you ran the Star too fast it would knock out the main bearings. THen you just pulled the oil pan and main caps and placed them in a jig and repoured the bearings and reinstalled them. Used to use babbit, and the Star came with the bearing jig, a bar of babbit, resin, wrenches and scraper to scrape the newly poured bearings and a melting pot. Was told this was a common sight in the old days of people along side the road with a fire melting babbit for their bearings in their Stars.

 

[portejw]

#1 1989 Grand Am SE
#2 1993 Grand Am
#3 2002 Firebird

(Followed, incidentally, by 3 more Pontiacs. See a trend?)