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So as not to steal the other Cach for Klunkers thread….What was your first car?
I owned a black 1977 Buick Skylark. V8 and two doors….what more does a kid need. I replaced all the quarter panels, both doors and the grill due to various crashes…..it even survived a reverse drop at 45 miles an hour…I believe it was the 350 turbo trans that save me that day.
Cost….$500A 1956 Chevy Bel-Air tutone. Bought it in 1964 for $150. A year later I upgraded to a 1959 Impala for $300.
1995 Toyota Truck 🙂
A 74 Mustang II, this was a fun car to drie but didn’t fall into the Muscle car version of the mustangs. Hey at least it wasn’t the Pinto Wagon.
Well what 16 year old kid in 1982 would not want a 1972 AMC Hornet hatchback, V8, Aqua blue in color. All that for $50 bucks.
My first was in 1986. It was a 1969 Buick GS400 convertible. Fire red with black racing stripes, black top and black vinyl interior. 400ci dual carb V8. Air shocks and mag wheels. I blew the motor within a week. Thanks Dad, but what were you thinking???
Next car was a 77 Malibu classic 4 door.
1971 Mercury Monterey
A nice big boat!
Never had one of my own, but when my grandma was pushing 80 and had quit traveling all over the country, she turned over her car to my parents. It was a 1961 powder blue Mercury Comet. She had stored it at our place during the winters, and it was the only vehicle there that wasn’t a stick, so I drove it up and down the driveway all the time to practice and then took my driver’s test on it. Had it for the last few months of college and for one year at grad school. Smaller car but still roomy. Could haul all sorts of stuff in it, even my bike when its front wheel was taken off. Learned how to change a tire and jump a battery with that car. Heater didn’t work at the end.
The first car I ever owned was the same make as Hemi’s–1974 Mustang II, which my husband bought new only two months before we were married. Car came with him along with the debt. 😉
@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
. It was a 1969 Buick GS400 convertible. Fire red with black racing stripes, black top and black vinyl interior. 400ci dual carb V8. Air shocks and mag wheels.
Sweet ride! I have always wanted a late 60s Grand Sport….
Well I’ll repost it here and expand on the story.
So I’m in college and in need of some wheels. I know nada about cars so I ask my dad to look for one for me, buy it, and I will pay him back. He asked what I was looking for and I said I didn’t care as long as it wasn’t a station wagon with wood paneling.
A few weeks later he calls me up. Good news, son, I have found a car for you, low miles, good condition, low price of $750.
Get home and in the driveway is a 1978 Ford Pinto station wagon, copper color (ok, let’s call it “rust”) with…wait for it…”wood” paneling.
I got a picture of it here somewhere…I’ll look…
On the Left Side of the Road...My first car was a 1984 Plymouth Horizon.
I loved that vehicle even though it had the annoying habit of stalling at high speeds during the summer months. I used to have to have the heat going at full blast all summer long to prevent it from overheating.
1972 Pontiac Lemans
Purchased for $300 with money I earned from BabysittingMy brothers used it as a “project” for their shop class and repainted it to a bright robin blue color.
It finally met it’s fate when one of my brothers got into an accident.
My first car was a 1985 or 86 Chevy Celebrity. I inherited from my father. Ran great, no problems in snow, but with most Celebritys, the body stared to rust out pretty bad. Got T-boned on my way to work. If the lady hadn’t hit me, I would have ran into the police station trying to avoid her hitting me. She NEVER looked my way. A Ford Tempo, after that. A Lumina van after that, followed by 2 Chryslers mini-vans till what I’m driving now. A 95 Chevy Tahoe that’s JUST over 96,000 on it.
Bought it about 4 1/2 years ago for $10,000 and only 50,000.
Still runs goods and starting to rust some, but it bounces through the woods just fine.I had a hand me down ’76 Chrysler Le Baron. The car was huge but hauled a lot. At one point my dad was junking a Dodge pick-up and I took the 2 tires off of it and put them on the back of the Le Baron. It raised the car and was funny seeing it look lifted in the back.
@lostby7 wrote:
@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
. It was a 1969 Buick GS400 convertible. Fire red with black racing stripes, black top and black vinyl interior. 400ci dual carb V8. Air shocks and mag wheels.
Sweet ride! I have always wanted a late 60s Grand Sport….
Love em too. After my dad started to trust me again, he let me get another. This time I had to pay half so I’d “appreciate” the car more. So my third car was a 67 GS 400 convertible. This one was burgundy, black top and int. 400ci but with a single quadrajet this time. It was a much larger car than the 69 and not near as “muscle car”, but the ladies loved it! I had it for two year until I gave it too my sister to go to college. Bought a 76 280Z to replace it. Yup, red again!
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