The thing I remember most about my first car......
 

70 Dodge Challenger. Driver's bucket seat was broken, a metal craftsman toolbox wedged between it and the back seat prevented spontaneous reclining.

Going about 130 MPH in a 74 Cougar with a warmed over 400. Hit a wet patch amd began hydroplaning. Several 360’s on the highway and through the ditch. Took out a road sign, and wound up with the front bumper on the shoulder and the back bumper on the berm on the other side of the ditch. Nobody hurt, no body damage that I can recall (what about that road sign?).

Pushing it to get it started.

No gas gauge. It was optional in a 1960 VW bug and mine came with no gauge. Drive until I ran out, flip to reserve and go to the gas station with a gallon left. Then be 100% sure to put the lever back in normal mode and not in reserve mode or I was screwed if I ran out.

A 0 to 60 of 72 seconds only if there was no headwind, and no hint of a hill. Otherwise 0 o 60 was infinite. 36 MPG no matter what.

I remember many times pulling into "Sarge's Service Station" and they came out, filled up the car, washed the windshield, checked the tire pressure and oil level, gave me green stamps that I gave to mom. Sometime they had a glass tumbler as a special promotion. And the first time I had to pay THREE WHOLE dollars to fill up I was outraged. It was often under two bucks when it was 18 cents per gallon with full service.

I often dug into the couch and found a quarter and that was enough to drive around on Friday night. My buddy would bring a quarter and we could go cruising until late.

1972
Watching the custom agents tearing out the seats and all of our camping gear on the parking area.
Going into Canada, one of them had reached into the back seat cushion area and pulled out a couple of seeds. (long hair didn't help)
My 66 Chevelle was gutted while we were getting strip searched in the building.

They never found anything and an hour later you couldn't even tell they did it.

Glen… you old!

My ‘60’ beetle has the no gas gauge option too.

77 Camaro, in HI, holes in floorboard.

Flintstone car.

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The fun had while driving it or driving around with buddies. It wasn't fast by the musclecar standards of '65-72, but it was faster than a lot of the stuff that was running around in the mid 80s, like the Monte Carlo SS.

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Thing I remember most about my first car is that Dad was right. He said it smoked like a destroyer laying down a smoke screen and told me so when he called from the bank when he was getting money out of my account to pay the guy for it on a Saturday morning while I was at work.
Should have listened to ya Dad. Really sorry I didn't, but I learned my lesson well.

I had, as we have discussed, pretty much the same car, Glen...I bought it for $156 bucks from a friend of my father's who was transferred to DC. It was has daughters car.

This was in 1972 when I turned 16.

What I remember most was two fold: It was mine and it got me off the ranch: Freedom, baby.

65 mustang convertible.....rusted out so bad whenever I turned to the left, the right hand door would swing open due to the body flex......needless to say, the passenger always wore a seatbelt. :)

Bias ply tires and drum brakes on my 68 Mustang...oh boy!

Girls!!!

But seriously, did a frame swap on this car about 2 months after I bought it. The frame had some bad rust, bought a parts car for 600 bucks and took it apart, sandblasted the frame, primered and painted black. I miss that car, it was a lot of fun. I still remember the VIN, CF51849U. Pictures were taken in Destin, Florida on what used to be scenic hwy 98, and at a place near the Sandestin Beach Resort called "Tango Mar" in the summer of 1987, best summer ever!!!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4d4d68250b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ef0e0f2e18.jpg

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My under dash Lear Jet 8 track player. And the heater core leaking.

Taking my friends on a road trip to San Francisco in my '68 VW Bug that had no brakes. No big, we'll just use the parking brake - it worked.

All the fires.

I put a full set of 4 tires on my bug for 29 bucks. Mounted, balanced and out the door from Sarge's Service Station.

They were bias ply recaps. With the mighty 36 HP (when new) and likely 25 HP after 100,000 plus miles it could not spin the tires in the wet, in a hard corner in 1st gear with those skinny tires. Top speed downhill was 65 and the engine was at max RPM.

I sold it for more than I paid for it after a couple of years and moved up to a new 1973 Super Beetle. Man that thing was fast coming from the 60 model bug.

Mine couldn't pull greasy strings out of a cat's butt. 1978 Mazda GLC with about 50 hp. Top speed of about 75 mph with foot to the floor.

In addition to a length of 2 x 4 to prevent the auto recline function on the driver side my '63 Chevy Biscayne had a cooling feature on the passenger side...no front floor.