I was not much newer than the Bomb. I was 17 in 1970.

1969 Fiat 124 Sport Coupe that I bought from my dad for $250.

In 1970 I bought a 68 Toyota Corona. It had alloy wheels with fake spinner hubs. A vinyl top that developed rust under it so ripped it off and just painted the roof white. Had a 4 speed transmission that really did not do much for the 1900cc engine but was still fun to drive. I kept it running for 150,000 miles but had to replace the starter motor and the water pump twice. Don't remember how many times the ignition points were replaced and carburetor rebuilt. My buddy and I sure made some awful fashion statements here.
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'63 Impala SS.

It broke down at the four-way stop where the service station I worked was located. A buddy and I helped the owner push it into our parking lot. Tired of the car, she offered it to me for fifty dollars. I had only five. She said that wouldn't do it, so I called home and got my dad. "I've got ten bucks" was his reply, so in the pre-ATM days of 1971 I was all in at fifteen dollars. She took it. I knew crap about cars but with the help of an old neighbor got things figured out. That Impala got me into cars.

After a couple months I sold it to Mike Heath for ninety bucks and thought I'd made a killing.

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I had a 72 Corona 4 door. Powder Blue except for the drivers door which was primer orange.

1969 Malibu, Chevy Blue, 307

Vespa P200E 1979.... rode in Utah snow storms to my awesome job at Mcdonalds and my polyester work suit maroon with yellow stripes

A yellow '73 VW Thing. I loved it and wish I never sold it.

A 1964 MG 1100 coupe, black/black 4 speed, hydrolastic suspension. $100!

71 pinto.. at the end it had cragars, white raised letter goodyears headers, offy manifold, carb'd up. 2000 cc .... could rip!

1963 Mercury 4 door midsize something or the other. It was a field car with the front doors missing, 6 cyl and automatic. I traded an old Kawasaki dirt bike that needed a rebuild even up but had to pay $25 to have it towed to our farm.

I was 14 and this was all unbeknownst to my parents. We had about 20 acres and Dad didn't farm that anymore so it was all trees, bushes and pasture. I hid it in the upper / back area where there were lots of bushes. Took a hand scythe and cleared basically a hollowed-out weed covered 'garage' tunnel that I would drive it into. You couldn't see it from any angle unless you purposely walked around back into the briars and bushes.

Then, when my parents were gone I would take it out in our neighbors adjoining field and just have a ball. I knew that if I started running around on our own property it would be too obvious.

I was able to pull that off for almost an entire Summer until I got bored with that and then started driving around the back dirt roads where I promptly ran it through a creek bed and got it stuck. Well it was really stuck to the point of needing a tractor to pull it out. This was about a 1/2 mile from our property back in the woods of someone else's place.

By that point I was bored with it and decided to just leave it. That thing sat there for almost a year before anyone discovered it, occasionally I would ride by on my dirt bike to see if it was still there. I don't know if anyone was the wiser including my father.

Run down 1968 beetle before I could legally drive (used to beat it through the woods when I was 13 and on), then a 68 Camaro (327) as my first real, road worthy car.

1986 Camaro (in 1996) T-Tops, V6, Auto. Added a boomin' system. Drove it until it died.
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1972 Cutlass. Paid $20 for it, came with full tank of gas. "Restored it" sold it for $1200.

'65 Chevy Corvair Monza.
Paid $500.

Great car until I got a ticket for excessive smog and it was more to fix than the car was worth..

‘69 Boss 302 Mustang. Low miles and nearly flawless. Paid $1,475 for it in 1975.


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1969 Austin Healey Sprite...

First I bought was a 1974 bmw Bavaria, at least that’s what the label attached to the rust on the back said. However it wouldn’t safety, missing most of the frame and all lol. So got a 1972 Datsun 510 two door with my brother, bought from a guy whose brother signed the safety. The next year I got the frame of the Bavaria “repaired” and had a good year and a half before she broke in half at the front of the drivers door. Well not fully in half, the roof just bent to accommodate the new front end rake lol.

69 Olds 98 - my parent's friend gave it to me. It was her dad's with 66k miles on it.

It had a 455 in it...I couldn't get it to do burnouts until my cool neighbor turned up the timing on it. :)


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First Car...........
 

Was a 1952 Ford 2 dr sedan Mainline model. It cost $100, came out of an estate where it had set parked in a shed/chicken coop for several years. It had the flathead V8 with a 3 speed "on the tree". I drove it for a year or so until the old flathead gave up the ghost. I went to a local junk yard and bought a nearly new 1965 289 out of a wrecked Mustang for $125 and did an engine swap. The hardest part was changing the electrics from 6 volt positive ground to 12 volt negative! A bit later, I had it painted a dark green metallic color and got the seats recovered in a two tone green. Because the car originally had the overdrive option it had a 3:90 or 4:10 rear end that made it faster than it should have been. I drove it for about 3 years and swapped it for a Triumph Spitfire. Those were the days!

'55 Ford

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Started up with a vintage Chrysler. Ended up with a Polo 1.2. What a disgrace. :D

My dad paid £30 for my 54 Ford Prefect, in 1966. 1172cc flathead 4 making 36 BHP, 3 speed with no synchro on first, vacuum wipers.
Drove it to university. Surface ground head to raise compression. Repaired rocker panels with glass fibre, then painted them with orange emulsion paint left over from decorating sisters room : it creates a sort of bubbly finish , and I thought that together with the light blue bodywork it recreated the Gulf Ford colourscheme. Sold it for £60 6 months later and bought a Ford 105E Anglia which was a revelation in comparison.

1978 Cutlass Supreme Brougham. It was a great car at the time. Paid $900 for it and never had a problem.

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1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Dark green with vinyl top, 350 auto.

The first car that was truly mine was my Sentra SE-R, which I got new in 1993 when I graduated from high school. Still have it:
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I also have a Fiat Spider (2L Turbo) that my dad and I got when I was 14, but that wasn't technically mine until later.

'72 240Z. Total rust bucket. Bought it the day I turned 16. I think I paid $1,600 for it and sold it a couple months later to a junk yard for $400. The last straw was when I realized there was a street sign welded in near the front suspension. The car was only 11 years old at the time but had lived a hard life. One of my more valuable life lessons.

1969 Triumph GT6+

1966 Chev Malibu...but not an SS
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1970 Impala Fastback in light metallic green. My Dad's hand-me-down. Went to my younger brother after I bought a '72 Camaro.

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1992 Geo Storm.

Parents paid $1600 for it in 2000 when I turned 16. 5-speed, 90HP, and no AC.

Started from the bottom now we're here.

1971 Ford Pinto sporting Firestone 500 tires. And lived to tell the tale.

Was a 1971 BMW 2002. Early 80's paid $700 for it needing some work, what a fun car.

That makes two of us.

I was a junior in high school.

First vehicle was a Honda Super-Sport 400four but first 4 wheel vehicle was a 1971 F100, a perfect transporter for the 'Wild West'-days of North Brooklyn. Everything has a story ...this one has many, starting when I was visiting my brother in Vermont, and had missed my train back to NYC, my brother pointed out to a field behind his house and said why don't you take the Ford? Consumed by tall grasses, it appeared to have been put out to pasture, and claimed by nature. With a bit of coaxing it fired up and I commandeered it back to the big city, no easy task. I don't think it even had power steering. No one ever tried to steal it but it provided shelter to a few bums & was eventually claimed by rust. Great truck all around. F 100 with '3 on the tree' converted by my brother to a Hurst floor shifter. Never had a problem merging into any kind of traffic, sometimes I really miss that truck.

A Ford Comet, I don't remember the year exactly but it would have been '61 or so and was 3 speed on the column.

1965 Pontiac LeMans 2 door coupe, dark blue exterior, blue interior, with a 326 V8 and 3 on the floor; got it in 1968 for $1500. AC was roll all the windows down and go fast. Got rid of it when we had the first gas shortage in 73-74. One of my many dumb moves over the years.

When I was still 15 and only had a drivers permit to drive with a licensed driver with me I was looking for a car. Dad said one of his co-workers was selling his 1960 VW bug that he had bought new. We looked at it, test drove it and dad gave me a $600 interest free loan. I had to pay 100% of all other costs, from tires to gas, to maintenance. The only exception was the insurance. Dad did pay my insurance bill, and yea, the room and board and free food and all other costs of a teenage kid.

With 36 HP when new it was likely 25 after many miles. Zero to 62 on a calm no wind day, dead flat road was 72 seconds, and 65 was flat out as fast as it would go unless you found a downhill section, and it would get to almost 70 but it was terrifying and the engine sounded like it was going to come apart. From a dead stop a fully loaded 18 wheel semi was too fast for me to out run. He had to shift 12 or 14 times, but I could not get in front of it, I had to drop back and get behind. There was one road that was a stop light, and the road ahead was 55 MPH limit, and I never could outrun the semis.

I had the car paid off in 6 months.

1962 Chevy II Nova stationwagon
Rebuilt it before I could legally drive it and wish I still had it.

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