What was your first car?

POINTER94

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Re: What was your first car?

1974 Plymouth Sebring. Very cool car, but with the slant 6 it was a dog. But unbelievably dependable. With an 8 it would have been far more interesting.
 

lakelover

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I had an aqua 1969 Ford Custom sedan with a 302 and 3 speed on the column. I painted big old "Keep on truckin'" men on it.<br /><br />
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muskyone

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Re: What was your first car?

1967 mustang fastback had a 302 boss out of a 70 bulit to the hilt candy red that car holds bad memories but i still have whats left of it
 

bh357

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My first car was a 1981 Plymouth Horizon. I got it after my parents bet me they could find a car for $100, and succeeded. I got the car a couple of months before I turned 16, and then spent a couple of months of good quality father-son bonding time in the garage. The usual: some suspension items, brakes, wheel bearings, etc...<br />The car was about as spartan as they come. Crank the windows down to cool off, manual transmission, base single gerbil engine, no working radio (that quickly changed :cool: ). You could clock it 0-60 with a calendar ;) . Passing on a two lane road only happened once, and that was an adventure :eek: .
 

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'31 Model A Sedan. Drove it in HS until I got a Hemi put in my my '32 ford Sedan. After HS I fixed up a '55 Ponatic HT; '57 injected engine, B & M Hydro - was fast! And a '55 Chev. Bus. Coupe that I raced 'A Gas' (funny cars today) for a few years. After that just what ever provided transportation; decided to go to college.
 

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1954 Ford F-100 half ton pickup. Bought from me bro for 50 bucks, and drove it till it died.
 

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55 chevy 3 speed on the collum my parents bought it in 1956 with a few thousand miles on it<br /><br /><br />It became mine in 1972 and finaly died in 1974 when it sucked a valve with about 300,000 ? miles on it <br /><br />It was so rusted from the salt air and winters it really was beyond any rebuild at that point :( <br /><br /><br />I gotta say that its beyond me why people pay so much money for them know ya gotta love vacume windshield wipers that crap out on a long hill :) <br /><br />tommays
 

KnottyBuoyz

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Re: What was your first car?

'71 Plymouth Duster, metalflake blue, 340 Six Pack w/4Sp, posi, Hurst Ram Rod, Crager Classic rims, line lock, glass hood, fenders, door skins & bumpers. 0-60 in 4 sec. 1/4 mile in 10.0 sec @115 MPH. Celebrated a lot of "Firsts" in that car. *wink* Sadly the frame rusted out and sat forgotten for years before it was bought and parted out. If only eh?
 

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LMAO........I don't want to say, cuz it just shows how young i am.<br /><br />1)1993 Chevy Cavalier Coupe RS<br />2)1996 Dodge Dakota SLT<br /><br />I still have both in the driveway :) <br /> <br />
 

ColdFire

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A 1951 Ford v8 flat head custom. I worked for my g'ma all summer, and did she work me. it had sat for about 20 years and it took me a while to get her going but it was a fun car. I Still have it just wait for the funds to revive it.
 

demsvmejm

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1976 Datsun B210 Fastback<br /> Pictures, but not my car <br /><br />UGLY but it was mine. I was 16, had wheels, and thought I had the world by the tail.<br /><br />Bought it on Saturday :) , plated and insured on Monday :D . Totalled it four weeks later :( Rolled it over sideways three times. Went airborn once. Seatbelt saved my life.
 

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1955 nash metropolitan<br />Cool car!
 

KRS

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'67 Ford Mustang, saved up and bought it as a project car, had the original engine replaced by a '69 windsor (higer compression), but still had the junky FMX (?) transmission.<br /><br />Broke a rocker arm and it sat until I sold it.
 

ae708

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'36 Ford 4dr converible, '48 Mercury engine, dual smitty steelpacs, dual stromberg 97 carbs, Lincoln zephyr trans and columbia 2sp rear. My daddy bought it from a bootleger for me. Man that thing was fast for it's day. I was the happiest (and fastest) 15 y/0 in town. We could get a drivers license at 14 when I was a kid... full license.
 

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1965 Impala SS 396 4 speed white with a green interoir.....I bought 1975 for 400. and it was nice.....
 

smwa0001

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1971 Olds Cutlass S it was a sweet car, kicking myself for selling it, then I got stuck with a 1979 Olds Cutlass Salon, it was the ugliest car I have ever seen it was a fake hatch back with no headliner just foam the only good thing about it was it had a 260 V8 it went pretty good. We named it the Grey Goose!
 

deputydawg

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My first vehicle was a Kawaski 175. Ugly but it ran. Traded it for a Honda 350, looked better and ran faster but not very practical. Then to a Yamaha 400, then a Yamaha 750 Virago. <br /><br />My first 4 wheeled vehicle was a Ford F250 crew cab pickup. It was a dark yellow and white beast. <br /><br />Then I got a 1974 Ford Gran Torino Elite. That car took some abuse and still ran like a striped rear ape.<br /><br />Sold that for a 1970 Mustang, then to a 75 Cougar. <br /><br />Sometime in there I got my 1969 Cougar XR7 (my current restoration project). <br /><br />From there an 82 Mustang, 88 Mustang, 94 Mustang then a Ford Windstar minivan.
 

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My first car was one of these.<br /><br />
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<br /><br />An Austin 1100.<br />It had a transverse engine & the gearbox and engine used the same oil, it used to whine like a Banshee.<br />I was working in the navel dockyard in Plymouth at the time so when it came to needing a respray the only colour was battleship grey.<br />A real POS but at the time it was the best car on the road in my eyes.
 
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