yer first car...and or hotrod...

[purplepickup]

My first car was a ’57 Chevy sedan delivery that I bought for $150 without an engine, in 1964 when I was 16. I put in a used 327/4 speed so it was sort of my first hotrod too. In 1968 when Chevy came out with the 302 Z28 Camaro, I got a 302 crate motor with 2 fours and put in it. It was way too fast for the suspension and brakes but I lived thru those years. I think this picture is 1965 when I was 17.



I drag raced (both street and strip) during those years and in ’66 I raced a ’57 Vette with a 364” Chevy (327 with stroker crank). I raced a ’55 Chevy 2 dr sedan with a pretty hot 283 too but don’t have any pictures of that one. I wish I still had all three of those cars.

I had a job in a gas station so I wasn’t rich and I paid for everything myself. I just liked to work on stuff and being from farm country we had lots of tools and a shed or two to work in. The Vette had been wrecked. I got it cheap and pieced it back together. I still like to play with cars.

Here’s the vette in 1966. The ’61 Corvair in the pic was mine too. There's a home made pickup camper in the works there too. That was an Explorer Scout project.

[cracker39]

My wife gave me this beautiful '55 T-bird for my birthday a few years ago.



But, last year she dropped it on the floor and broke it.

[Steve Frederick]

First car was a '63 Corvair that my Grand-Dad gave me. At one point I broke the tranny. I was about 15-miles from home and it would only work in reverse...So... I drove it home backwards! I guess it wouldn't matter, since the Corvairs of that vintage looked the same comin' or goin'
At one point I had 4 cars in the yard, one running, three for parts..'Til the town said "get rid of them, or get a used car lot license!"
Also had a '67 Barracuda, and a rare (now) Cosworth Vega GT. Funny how when you're a kid, you didn't see how valuable your cars would become! I wish I still had that 'Cuda!

[Laredo]

'Cuda.

Damn. The night I bought The Duster That Would Not Die, sitting right next to it on the same lot for the same money was a '73 'Cuda. Baby blue. White vinyl top. White interior. 318 with a floor-shift automatic.

Let's see ... that was 1980. I'm still kicking myself for not going with my gut.

The Duster was the second one. Screaming yellow trimmed in black -- over, I found out when I got it home, red where it had been straightened out after a wreck. That one, (slant six three-speed tree-mount auto; damn things are bulletproof) and the next one (a '73 Dart Swinger) I hope forever stay gone.

The brown Duster, though ... I'd like to have that one back. It ran like a bat out of Philadelphia. Killed half a dozen master cylinders and burnt up more back tires with that thing, listening to the Eagles, Creedence, Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels and the rest of the 'outlaws' ... good times, good times.

[emiller]

My first car was a 1960 thunderbird my first lowrider was my 1965 chevy malibu with hydrualics and my first real hotrod is my 1939 chevy coupe.

[s4son]

I don't have any pictures of my first car. I was 15 and my dad called me at work and asked if I was interested in a 55 Chevy. He was going to a farm auction and they had one. Having seen American Graffiti about a thousand times I said heck yes I was interested. So my folks pick me up from work and my dad says he didn't get the car but when we turn the corner there she sat. It was a four door and my dad got it for $80. Like everyone else I have a million stories about that car. Let me tell you, 1955 Chevys rust! That thing had rust holes in the rust holes. It sure was a blast though!

Scott F.

[Bigwoods]

Mine was a 55 VW. It had 36 horse engine and a sunroof. It was one that was made for German roads and had the turn signals that pop up from the side when you used the turn signal. The arm was about 6" long and had a 1" strip if light plastic. Un-be-knowst to me a buddy had written something on the signal that a policeman took exception too.. This was back in the hippie days.. I found that cop not very understanding of my situatuation. Loved that little bug.

[DoWopBox]

My first car was a '55 Ford Ranch Wagon. It was actually my dads work car. The girls I dated hated it because the seats had all kinds of ranchy looking brands patterns in the vinyl that would leave the imprints on the backs of their legs. I guess they didn't like being "branded"

It ran OK, as it had a 292 V-8 with dual "smittys" and you could hear it coming for a mile.

[Rick Sheerin]

My first car was a 70 Plymouth Fury Sport. It had a Mopar Super Commando 440 with a Holly 4 barrel, posi-traction. I bought it in 78 for 200 bucks and all it needed was new brakes and a new exhaust. It had a set of snow tires on it when I bought it and I burned 'em bald in one summer

[TRAIL-OF-TEARS]

Here is my first ride. 1975 Mustang II with a 302 V8 with factory ac. I paid $900 When I was 14 (1988). I did all the body work on it and stripped it down for paint, replaced the carpet and headliner and I did it with a broken collar bone. I won second place in a 25 anniversary mustang show at Sea World in 89. This is how she looked a week before someone backed into it while I was at work a hit and run his bumper went through my grill wasted a 4 core radiator grill bumper water pump and front clip $3500. My insurance covered it so I put a for sale sign on it and sold it in 3 hours for $1350 as is. so not that bad of a story.

[Archer_1]

My first was a '64 Mercury Comet 202; 289 V-8 w/a four barrel Holly carb. "The Duchess". Ugly as sin but fast, 'specially when the secondaries opened up. Used to blaze the back roads of South Dakota in the thing, as long as I had a can of Stop Leak to put into the seive it had for a radiator.

[Joanne]

I don't have pictures of any of the cars I've had. Never really thought much about taking pictures of cars.

1st car: 65 VW bug

Fastest car: 69 Camaro with a 350 (Dad took that one away. Too fast & too much gas)

Slowest car: Vega GT station wagon

Nicest car: never owned one

Joanne

[weasel]

First one '65 Valiant for $300. The best and still own '69 Chevy 1/2 ton SWB, 350 bored 40, 350 Turbo built, 373 Posi. Owned for 19 yrs. Almost ready for spring. Thats why I want to build a weekender for. Think it be cool to cruise to shows with one behind the '69.

[Hardin Valley Magic]

Well this is a sad story for those muscle car lovers. I was 16 my father gave me this car on the condition that I bought him a big block to go back into his 4 wheel drive 77 Chevy truck.In return we would reinstall the 396 that he transplanted out of the Chevelle and into the truck. so I drove the truck for a short time while in high school and saved what I could and bought him a 402 bb. Around the same time taxes came due and, well,this is where the story takes a dive and goes fast!! We swapped out the engines I drove the car three times and he sold it to a guy he worked with for $1000.00. (1990)This was to cover his taxes owed. Specs. on the car numbers matching 69 SS 396 coupe 375 hp 3 speed munsie. posi. rear all original except the spare tire. Well I must wipe the tears.

[madjack]

Well this is a sad story for those muscle car lovers. I was 16 my father gave me this car on the condition that I bought him a big block to go back into his 4 wheel drive 77 Chevy truck.In return we would reinstall the 396 that he transplanted out of the Chevelle and into the truck. so I drove the truck for a short time while in high school and saved what I could and bought him a 402 bb. Around the same time taxes came due and, well,this is where the story takes a dive and goes fast!! We swapped out the engines I drove the car three times and he sold it to a guy he worked with for $1000.00. (1990)This was to cover his taxes owed. Specs. on the car numbers matching 69 SS 396 coupe 375 hp 3 speed munsie. posi. rear all original except the spare tire. Well I must wipe the tears.

I think we all feel your pain, brother .........................................