What was your first CAR?

my 1st car should have been a 65 Corvair convertible 140 HP 4 speed, guy wanted $125 and Dad said I could only give him $100, this was 1972 and I was 14 years old, so didn't get it

next was a 67 Barracuda notch slant 6 auto with AC & PS, dad took me to see it at the car lot, still 14, said if I buy this will you keep it clean and if so I will sell to you for 1/2 of what he paid for it only I couldn't tell mom what he paid. He bought the car, then my older sister said, "I want it" so she got it and I still didn't have a car.

A few months before my 16th Bday dad said let's go look at a car he had seen on the board at work. It was a 67 Barracuda notch with 273 2 barrel, vinyl top, buckets, had bald tires and been thru a fence. $400 and it was MINE. Plan was to take it to my uncles body shop and stripe it down and paint it. It was light met. blue, I HATE light met. blue so plan was for midnight blue (had a dark blue interior)

My brother and I took it to Columbus, Indiana to my uncles shop and started to disassemble for paint and color change. Got a job before I was able to get the car finished, so brother and uncle finished it. When I talked to my uncle to see what color he painted it he told me "you'll find out when you see it, I painted it what I wanted" He had a habit of mixing whatever paint he had to paint cars that didn't matter.

I didn't know until it got to the house it was the color I LOVED.

Before I was done with it it had a 273 HIPO (my 1st engine build) out of my OLDEST sisters Formula S 67 Barracuda fastback (yes we all had 67 Barracudas at the SAME TIME) also got the 8 3/4 out of Rita's "S"

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even trade for a 69 Roadrunner in the fall of 1975 got to keep my cragers and tires off the Cuda. runner was a 383 4 speed car that had a 440 auto in it PLUS green Shag carpet

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Had to LOVE the 70's