LVSteve
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Apparently this is why your car rusted out. Physics can be a real curse some days.
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Apparently this is why your car rusted out. Physics can be a real curse some days.
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I don't have a picture of my first car but it was a 1950 Ford 4-dr with a V-8 and overdrive.
It was just like this one and even the same color.
This was my second car, a 1957 Ford Fairlane. It only lasted 3 weeks.
My third car was a 1962 MG 1100 2-dr sedan like the one n the picture. Front wheel drive with a "liquid suspension".
Great minds think alike, this was my previous hot rod project. 1951 Ford Tudor, I called it Mallard Green, it was not the original color but close.
BigBill
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Car. 55 Chevy 210 with the post, 2dr.
Truck 54 Chevy 3800
Truck 54 Chevy 3800
'53 Chevy, $25.oo. A man on my paper route had it parked in a field behind his home. I got a friend to help me tow it home, and Dad helped me rebuild the motor and had it ready to take my drivers test in '63.
Tom B.
Tom B.
My first car with my name on the title was a 1967 Olds Toronado in 1974, I then sold it in 1978, bought it again in 1996.
Previous owner that I bought it from the second time said it ran when he parked it, but apparently push rods, rocker arms and lifters fall apart while just sitting and not being run. Bought a second '67 Toronado that had a good drive train and bad body to make one out of two, but then found a third 67 Toronado that runs and drive and has a solid body so the other two are just sitting and waiting......
My first Toronado circa 1975 and again in 2020 buried in the back of the barn on the right.
KO
Previous owner that I bought it from the second time said it ran when he parked it, but apparently push rods, rocker arms and lifters fall apart while just sitting and not being run. Bought a second '67 Toronado that had a good drive train and bad body to make one out of two, but then found a third 67 Toronado that runs and drive and has a solid body so the other two are just sitting and waiting......
My first Toronado circa 1975 and again in 2020 buried in the back of the barn on the right.
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Snapping Twig
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1964 Renault Dauphene with a stolen 1961 Caravelle engine. Had no bumpers, face painted on the front, eyelashes on the lights - like that.
Bought it for $10 when I was 14, parked it around the block, my Dad pretended he didn't know I parked it around the block.
Different times.
Bought it for $10 when I was 14, parked it around the block, my Dad pretended he didn't know I parked it around the block.
Different times.
ancient-one
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My first car was a 1937 Ford 2 door that had been a 60HP but was changed to a 85. Everything that could be wrong with it was. The mechanical brakes were like no brakes, the right front fender had a crack in it and kind of flopped, the hood was damaged, the engine used a lot of oil, in the winter the manifold heater provided little heat(cured that with a Stewart Warner gas heater), the tires were terrible(no tires available, ran a pair of ribbed tractor tires for about 30K mikes on the front).
My Dad had a friend who ran a garage and he completely rebuilt the engine and it ended up good. He rebuilt the brakes also but I had to keep using the Ford brake wrench my Dad gave me or I would have had no brakes at all.
Trying to replace and set points was horrible with the distributor on the lower part of the engine with hardly enough room between the cap and the radiator to get the cap off.
I know that Ford makes good cars but the Fix Or Repair Daily that I had was not one of them.
My Dad had a friend who ran a garage and he completely rebuilt the engine and it ended up good. He rebuilt the brakes also but I had to keep using the Ford brake wrench my Dad gave me or I would have had no brakes at all.
Trying to replace and set points was horrible with the distributor on the lower part of the engine with hardly enough room between the cap and the radiator to get the cap off.
I know that Ford makes good cars but the Fix Or Repair Daily that I had was not one of them.
Thanks for the link. I really liked the car but it made me walk home more times than anything any other car I ever owned.
My first car was a 1950 Chevrolet Fleetwood (fastback). I spent a lot of time having fun with seeing and doing everything I could to make it a LOT more powerful. It was my car during most of my college time. Here is a pic of me as a college freshman together with it. With a 4-11 rear end, it had a lot of low-end torque, and I could pull the teeth out of about anything for about the first 25 yards. Beyond that, not much going for it. But it was fun and I learned a lot about cars in the days when you could do almost anything on them by yourself.
Here's the only other pic I have of it, taken a year earlier when I had painted it a different color. That's my future wife sitting on the back bumper. We had just returned from a day at the local drag strip.
John
Here's the only other pic I have of it, taken a year earlier when I had painted it a different color. That's my future wife sitting on the back bumper. We had just returned from a day at the local drag strip.
John
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Kenny—I take it you are not a fan of Lucas Electric either. I have fond memories of my mother’s MGB because it resulted in one of my earliest memories of the fine art of cursing. My father was an Air Force pilot so he did not rise to the level of say a Marine or Sailor—who I think are without peer in cursing—but mom’s MGB and the opening of dove season brought out the best in him.
When I went to a little pre-school and tried out some of the new words I had heard from my dad, all the while kicking the side of a tricycle like my dad kicked the MG, Miss Paula, our teacher, turned white and called my mom.
The MGB got traded shortly thereafter for some solid Detroit iron, an Impala.
1st car was technically a very used by useful K2 in 1976 made in West Germany by Audi when I was in the service in Germany follwed by a VW Bug I put 2 engines in.
My 1st real car I bought was when I transferred back in 1979..
A 1975 Red Camaro
My 1st real car I bought was when I transferred back in 1979..
A 1975 Red Camaro
ancient-one
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One of the cars that I had was a 49 Chevy Fleetline 4-dr., dark blue with wheel skirts(the skirts were really a PITA). PALADIN's reminded me.
Back in 1972 a new (rebuilt) alternator for that car was $113.00
That was more thn I paid for the car. LOL
hemiram
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My dad had one of the first Toranados in the Toledo area, he and his two brothers ordered them as soon as they opened the order book. Only one problem with the early ones, absolutely terrible brakes. Drum brakes do not belong on anything after about 1950 and were the Toranado's weak spot. My dad didn't keep his cars long anyway, but after a panic stop where we ended up over 90 degrees off course, the Toro was soon to be gone, sold off to the old guy who bought all my dad's cars. It was replaced with a '68 Imperial, first car we had with leather, and it had a modified 440 in it with upgraded exhaust. My dad liked them fast.
My MG also had the 1275 twin carb. 2 SU HS4. It was only capable of 100 mph, but got there really fast and handled very well on windy roads.
78 Camaro still own it today! Had I know that I would have bought the Z-28 model. 5100.00$
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Bet you wish you still have that car...!
2 door hard top 1957 Chevy's are highly sought after these days...
Would love to have one, for that matter many of the old cars we've owned and sold over the years....
Oh, darn, it's not healthy to think about the values of many of the cars we've had over the years...!!!!
When I was a youngster and Loudoun County Va was still country, I wanted a car that I could use to play with on the twisty country roads.
I got myself a 1975 Toyota Corolla SR5 as a starting point. I did some suspension work, sway bars, alloy wheels, sticky tires and full ground effects. For the engine I removed the a/c compressor and smog pump, adapted a Holley carburetor with a mini velocity stack and 10 inch open element air cleaner that sat inside an open hood scoop. I fashioned a custom exhaust with a straight through glass pack "muffler" that exited right in front of the drivers side rear wheel.
Had it painted with dark grey Imron and made a custom floating grill.
I called it "my little race car" and had lotsa fun with it. Unfortunately, I have only one picture of it. I miss that car, it'd be a lot of fun of these West Virginia mountain roads.
I got myself a 1975 Toyota Corolla SR5 as a starting point. I did some suspension work, sway bars, alloy wheels, sticky tires and full ground effects. For the engine I removed the a/c compressor and smog pump, adapted a Holley carburetor with a mini velocity stack and 10 inch open element air cleaner that sat inside an open hood scoop. I fashioned a custom exhaust with a straight through glass pack "muffler" that exited right in front of the drivers side rear wheel.
Had it painted with dark grey Imron and made a custom floating grill.
I called it "my little race car" and had lotsa fun with it. Unfortunately, I have only one picture of it. I miss that car, it'd be a lot of fun of these West Virginia mountain roads.
