Your first car.

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Hey us old geezers are full of stories, mot true too!
My first carat 16 was a hand me down '49 2 door Chevy 3 on tree wore out. Mom had just got me an afternoon and Sat. job at the A & P Supermarket (if you can call a store in a town f 5000 SUPER)? Do I have any love for such? NO. But I always wonder what it could have been if my Dad was not set on keeping me from killing myself with high speed?
I have had the hots for 10 years to attempt to build a real 40's hot rod. I think I a now too old and wore out and ani't gonna pay for such anyway!!!
I will have to tell the story of the lady back home that owned a piece of the Mopar dealership and would let me and this girl take her almost new '64 Sport Sat , her trailer, horses and off we went to some horse show!!! Thats a fact.
 
74 Challenger 318 auto 2bbl. Went to Johns auto parts in MN, found a R/T challenger, got it's hood, console, slapstick "T", ralley gauges and wiring harness for $100. Pulled a 4bbl intake and t-quad in another yard further out for $20. Those were the days....
 
1975 dodge dart the same car im working on right. Now. I bought it in 2000 when I was 15 with my mowing money. I paid $400 worke on it for about 4 or 5 months until my 16th birthday then drove it for 3 years till I locked the motor up. It sat until now! But I'm im bringing her around again!

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1971 340 auto 391 8 3/4 duster for the summer time and a 1978 225 super six aspen for winter ill see if I can find pics
 
71 Honda AN600. Exactly like this one, color and rims all the same. $200 in 1984 and it lasted about 3 miles before it jumped time and stopped running. I bought a second coupe model my next paycheck for $300 and that was the other one. A little fuzzy back then. Could chirp the front 10s into 2nd and it topped out at about 73 mph. 35-50 mpg I'm guessing because we drove it Tijuana and back (~200 miles round trip) on about 5 gallons. Never bought tires for it as they were special order. Didn't have it long enough to wear them out anyway. Bought another when this died and pirated parts from either to keep one going. Dad got fed up with me fixing it every month so he went halves on my first 65/340 Barracuda.
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Drove it to Vegas and had a blowout on the way home. Drove that 1971 original bias ply spare all the way home on the back (hell no on the front!) and that thing was shaking its *** the whole way home. Good times. Baker grade was climbed in 3rd!
 
So my Roadrunner I got in 1987 for 100 dollars and some mushrooms.
Lol
Not the kind you eat in salad !
Well you could ?
Those days are long gone in so many ways !
Keep the cars and stories coming !
Ah the way it used to be and the old days!
 
My first car was a 1966 Ford Custom 500. Black with a red interior and 289 V8 auto. I bought it with my Summer lawn mowing money in 1978 when I was 15 years old. Paid $295 for it.

It looked exactly like this one...

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1953 Plymouth 2 door coupe, L- head 218, three on the tree, painted Mopar plum crazy by my Dad so it was called the plum. Learned to drive and work on cars with it and restored it in high school. I stripped it down and painted it midnight canyon red (GM color) my senior year because my sister was doing fire retardant studies on a burgundy colored auto upholstery fabric and she gave me enough to redo the interior. Drove it for thirty years and still have it up on blocks in covered storage 20 years later. My plan is to get it back on the road this summer.
 
Well, 1st car was a 77 honda civic. Parents bought it for my graduation present new. Blew that up in 10 months. Had 64k miles on it by then. Lol. Pop said next car is on me so I found a 67 olds delta 98. Big boat. I had loads of cars after that one but ended up with the 71 Demon 340 auto in 1980. Still have it and next on my resto list. For some reason I have built 6-7 other mopars while never finishing the Demon. That car scared the hell out of me, or anyone that rode in it, along with all the neighbors and most of the towns people. Buckets of citations occured as well. Couldn't even get my license till I was 16-1/2 yrs old due to a few driving issues before I was of age. I was the prodigal son.
 
My first car was given to me by the Manager of the finance co that financed all my Father's used car lot cars. It was a 46 Ford 4dr which had bad bearings. I spent $39 on it sold it for $50 and immediately bought a slick 48 Ford Coupe for $200. It just grew from there. Since my Father owned a used car lot it was easy for me to buy wholesale drive them for a while and sell retail. By the time I left home after college I had had 35 cars. My senior yr of hi school I was driving a one yr old car that was paid for, a 56 Ford Customline Hardtop. There were not many of those I've only seen 2 in my life counting mine. Many, many stories about bought and sold cars.
 
Bought this '72 Duster (318, auto) when I was 14. I added the dish mags and scoops

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In 74 I got a 66 Fairlane 2 door hardtop with a 6 and three on the tree. While that car didn't stick around I've had many more Fairlanes over the years the last I've had for 20 years.
 
My first car given to me on my 16th birthday was a 1967 Chevelle two-door post 283 two barrel and power slip transmission 400$ But I tell you I could not kill that thing reverse to first rev it up slam it in the low and downshift till the valves floated I think I put in three transmissions but that 283 was bulletproof LOL
 
1964 Oldsmobile F-85, $1600 off of Harris Oldsmobile used car lot in July 1966 just after I graduated from HS. It was my college commuter car. 330" V8 with a 2bbl.

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Same color as the one in the pic but I put baby moons and beauty rims on black-painted stock rims - I couldn't afford anything else. Put a Muntz 4-track in the glove compartment and 4-speakers and thought I was on top of the world.
I got married in August '69 and my wife was rear-ended driving to her work one morning about two months later. We decided we needed a 2nd car so bought my first Mopar, a very slightly used '69 340 Swinger for $2500. I've been hooked on A-bodies ever since.
 
First for me was a low mileage 72 Dister with a slant 6 it wound up with a hot 340 as I was working at a speed shop. I was blowing the doors off everything including a 70 454/465 hp chevelle the guy couldn’t believe that I whipped his ***
I was showing my *** one night and wrapped around a palm walked away without a scratch
 
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Accept the wrapping around a pole part !
Been there unfortunately!
 
SLOPAR72 said:
What year did you buy it?
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That would of been 1978. The duster was 6 years old with 48,000 miles on the 340. My neighbor was at Skyline college and had shop class. He rebuilt the 340 and got a A in shop class. Sold the Duster to me after.
 
My second car was a 1966 Chevy Impala 4 door. Light blue inside and out with a 250 straight six. I bought it because it had a massive back seat with easy entry. I was a High school senior with a hot girlfriend (now my wife) and had different priorities on my mind. Looked exactly like this one and I paid $200 for it in 1980.

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My third car that I went to college with was a Citronyella 1971 Demon /6 with a black and white houndstooth interior. I bought it from my older sister for $100 in 1981. She had bought it used as the second owner from the Dodge dealer in town when she got out of college in 1976. This is the actual car during my freshman year at school.

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After that, there were too many to count!
 
My first car was a 70 cuda, but I learned quick how a sexy looking car was just not practical because it got too much attention. I did not fit in the car because E bodies are made for very tall people. I could barely see over the dash.

That didn't last long and my first real car was a 72 dart swinger. I love that car ..... so comfortable and easy to drive with a bench seat and slant six. Perfectly balanced car.

I will dig up pics soon.
 
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1988 Ram 50. My Dad gave it to me because it was given to him. I worked all Summer building a building for the money to buy a Weber swap for it because the Mikuni carb wouldn't run right after sitting for so long, even with multiple cleanings and rebuilds.
 
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